Leechdoms, wortcunning, and starcraft of early England. Being a ...

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LEECTT P.OOK. TT. Ml
Xll.
For spewing, and in case that a mans meat will
not keep down ; take sinfulle, rub it Jine into sharp
wine, give the man a bowl full to drink after evening
Book II.
Ch. xii.
work. Take, for tliat ilk, two parts of juice of fennel,
one of honey, seethe or boil dotvn till the mixture
have the thickness of honey, then give after a nights
fast a spoon measure fall ; that restraineth nausea,
that bettereth the lungs, that healeth the liver. For
mickle spewing, and in case a man may keep in his
stomach no meat; take one ounce of seed of dill, four
pepper, three of cummin, rub very small; then put
into water in which mint has been sodden and sour
apples, or the tender upper part of the twigs of a vine
if the man be not in a fever, eke it with wine, and
give it him to drink when he willeth to go to bed;
and lay outside on the maw sodden wood apples
{crabs), and crumbs of bread, and such applications.
of
xm.
Besides, this shall be good for Hux ^ of the maw
;
one sort of peas bight lentils, let the rnan eat of them
raw one hundred. Again, let him sip three spoon
measures of sharp vinegar, when he willeth to sleej)
at
evening.
XIV.
For all infirmities of the maw ; take of the outward
parts of the roots of fennel, what is there most
tender, remove from the fennel as much as may make
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For this translation I partly rely
on the guidance of Alexander
Trallianus, who has remedies irphs
ffrdfjiaxov pevnari^dfj-ei/ov ; lib. vii.,
cap. 8 ; p. 1 1 1, ed. 1548 ; p. 337, ed.
1556. Properly pevfiarifffihs is of
the wamb, or venter, not of the
maw ; and Aretajos says as much,
Chron. lib. ii., cap. 6. But other
authors have the same expression
as Alex. Trail ; for instance Cselius
Aurelianus, Chron. lib. iii., cap. 2.