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

LEECH BOOK. 11. liOl
xviii.
For swelliug or puffing up of the liver ; if the outgoing
^ lodge, fltG hian must first be let blood on a
IU)ok II.
Ch. xviii.
vein, on tlie left side, then work him a bathing thus,
and a salve of oil, and rue, and of dill, and of marcho
seed, as much as may seem good to thee, seethe all
with the oil, and then bathe with nesli wool witli
the wash for a long time the right side, and then
(.)verlay with wool, and swathe up fast for about
three nights ;
work him again an onlying salve, and
lay barley groats soused with wine, and then sodden,
and tJtls all triturated with vinegar and with hone^',
and sodden again, lay on the thickest cloth or on a
skin, swathe up therewith so warm, and bind upon
the sore, and at whiles draw with glass oj- horn, as
with cuppliKj glass. If tlie secretion lodge, draw it
out Avitli wort drinks ; work sucli of wormwood and
of herdwort, and of seed of rue, add enough of strained
honey
;
give the riiayio a spoon measure after his nightly
fast.
XIX.
Tokens of a swollen and wounded liver ; leechdoms
for that ; and of the hardening of the liver. He who
is wounded in the liver, if he be not sooner cured, then
arriveth at the disorder in which a man speweth
purulent matter. If the man swollen in tlie liver, or
the Idoated one, abideth so swollen until the five and
twentieth day, so as that the swelling bursteth not,
then beginneth the liver to harden ; if it bursteth,
then is there a wound in tlie liver. Tokens of the
'
Se ucgans would be presumed liainis, -n-fihs ifirppa^iv ViTraTos, the
to be ffcce.s, the outgoing of the
intc.'.lincs ; but, since this chapter
must be based on Alexander Tinlwriter
ought to mean, the outgoing
ol' bile from the liver.