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LEECH BOOK. II. 231
2. For wamb sickness seethe rue in oil, and let ilw. ^]^^ ^^
fiicJc swallow it in oil. Again, give him to eat a wild
pigeon sodden in vinegar and in water. For wanib
sickness, again, lot him chow leaves of laurel, and
swallow the juice, and let him lay the leaves on his
navel. Again, give melted harts marrow in hot wateito
drink. For moderating''^ the action of the wamb ;" Note, p. 165.
take beet, delve it up and shake the mould off, do
not wash it, but seethe and boil it in a kettle so long,
that it be all sodden to pieces, and run thick, then
add a little salt, and of honey five spoon measm-es, of
oil one spoon measure, give the man a bowl full.
Again, give to the sick to eat, separate, the to}) of a
sodden leek, having a head to it. Again, give him to
eat some seed of the red nettle on bread. Again,
give him to drink juice of mulberries. Again, lot him
cat after his nights fasting plum fruits. Again, give
him to drink elder rind beaten, as much as may weigh
a penny, in a bowl full of cold water.
XXXI.
Of wamb sicknesses, and of tokens in
the colon and
in the small guts. There is a kind of that ilk disease
in the wamb, and in the colon, and small guts, of which
this will be for a token ;
that the sick suffer immoderate
thirst and loss of appetite for meat, and often they
have a flux with a mingled fsecal discharge, at whiles
hard, at whiles white, at whiles they discharge often
in the day and then little at a time, at whiles once
and then much ; at whiles a desire is upon them to
p-o to stool and to cast the burthen from them, and
gladly would they attend to it, but they are not able,^
they have not the power of digestion, and they di'op
blood, very much like a broken vessel. Of their hue, or
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Tenesmus.