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

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and more heaviness than sore. And when the upblow- Book II.
ing is on the fihns, and on the veins which be in and ^ '
about the liver, then is the sore sharper than the sore
of the inflammation which is on the liver itself, and
thou mayest by that understand that the disorder is
on the lobes and margins of the liver. If moreover
the liver hardening, and the disease, and the upblowing
is kindled on the hulks and hollows of the liver,
then it soon seems to the doctor that the humour
descends downwards rather than ascends ; and the man
suffers swoonings and failings of the mind ; ' his body
cannot amend, but it is pale, and thin, and chilled, and
hence there falleth upon him dropsy.
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For the sensitive hardness of the liver ; it is to be
bathed with hot water, on which worts have been
sodden, wormwood and roots of wild maythe, a wort
that hight fenugreek, and earth gall ; when they are
all sodden, then bathe the sore places for a long time
with copious water fomentations ;
- leave it so for three
days ;
then work a salve wrought of wheaten groats
or of a brewit of wormwood, and of wine, and of
abrotanum, and of cummin, and of bunches of laurel
berries ; add thereto as much honey as thou needest
give the niutn that for three days; on other three set
on him a cupping horn or glass, draw out hy that,
ivhat comes out. Thou shalt treat the sick better if
thou settest rue in oil, and green or dry wormwood,
and gum mastic, witli all that bathe him, also lay
it upon him,; let it be for a whole day, and also for
many days these things are to be done, and to the
men must be given dim^etic drinks ;
give thou him
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Xeiirodvfjdas for the two.
- Medicated baths were well known, as to Oribasios.