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leeches ken to do it; then it removes the sore. If r-.okir.
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however the disease still vex, add spittle and
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laurelled
oil, that is to say, juice or blossoms of laurel mingled
with oil, and if need be, let also other things be
sougfht
out.
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In case a "mans" meat doth not well digest, and
turneth to evil humour and to excrement, it is good
for those " men " tliat " they " should spew, if it be
not too uneasy to "him," irritate him to spew by a
wort driniv. If there be extreme need that he may
be able to spew before meat, let him manage that
with sweetened wine. Let him flee the meats which
work him mucus, and burnings, and heat in his inside,
and which too readily digest : let him take those
which work a good juice, and make the wamb nesh.
At whiles it is good for him that one should give
him light wort drinks, such as are aloes Avell prepared.
The humour, if one doth not get rid of it,
worketh not easily cured diseases, that is to say, foot
pain, joint pain, loins pain ; and often a strong fever
Cometh on the men who have that disease.
If thou wish that
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thy wamb be always sound, then
shalt thou thus treat it, if thou wilt. Look to it every
day that thy fsecal discharge, and thy mie, be of sound
aspect as right is. If the mie be little, seethe marche
and fennel, work a good broth, or seethe juice of
. . . and of other sweet worts. If the fsecal discharge
be too little, take the wort which in southern lands
hight turpentine tree, as much of it as the size of
an olive ;
give it the sick when he will go to bed.
These worts are also very good for that, and more
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