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LEECH BOOK. TI. 167
xxxiv. Leechdoms; and the leeclidoms which are Book II.
suitable to the case sliall be administered accordino- to
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mans powers, whether in head, or heart, and of
wamb, and bhidder, and lynipli; ^ and according as
the time of year may be, in regard to heat and cold;
and for late digestion, or if the wamb be overgrown
and wounded ; and if a man be blown out inwardly
and for prurience, and itchings of the wamb ; nine
methods.
XXXV. Leechdoms for the overfilling 07' surfeit of
children, and for their wamb, and if their meat digest
not well, and if sweat pass from them and stink
foully.
xxxvi. Leechdoms of pain in the milt, and that
the milt is on the left side, and tokens of the disease,
how reckless the sick are, and how long the milt
is, and of the film or membrane of the milt on the
left side, and of splenetic laughter, which cometh of the
milt, how the milt suffereth everything of that which
other limbs suffer either hot or cold; and of the bath,
and of sexual commerce, and whence the heat cometh
and the cold of the milt : eight receipts.
xxxvii. Leechdoms how a man shall tend the man
within and without with cold and hot leechdoms,
and what meat he is to take, and what he is to
forego.
xxxviii. Leechdoms how a man shall cure the humours
and the livid complexion by external applications,
and of the evil humours of the milt, and of the
lubricity of the humours of the milt.
xxxix. A leeehdom for a windy swollen state of the
milt, which cometh of eating of apples, and of nuts,
and of peas, and of honey, and which pufFeth up
throughout the rope gut, and the intestines, and the
Gastric juice.