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

LEECH BOOK. 11. 257
or too cold. Again, it is good to let blood in early jiouk ii.
lent 07' spring from the loft arm.
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xliv.
Again, a leeclidom whicli draweth out the evil from
the milt, and which is efficacious for many other disorders.
Take green rue one day before it is uned,
collect it and a moderate quantity of pepper, so much
also of cummin, or more., put the cummin one day
beforehand, or two or three, into vinegar, dry it and
rub to dust all the worts, mingle iliis with honey
strained, then put tliem into a glass })itcher, and so
give the maii a spoon full. This is good against \ipblowing
of the maw and of the inwards ; it raaketh
neshthewamb; it thinneth the corrupt gastric juices,
it doth away breakings, and breast disease, and side
])ain, and liver disorder, and loin pain, and milt pain :
all that it lightenetli,
xlv.
Leechdoms and strong drink for a swollen milt ; cool
thou a fiercely hot iron, when it is just withdrawn from
the fire, in wine or in vinegar, give the man that to
drink. Thou may est also give that to them who liave
a hard body : notwithstanding, this drink shall not
be given in the early stage of the ache and the disease,
but after
many days.
xlvi.
Here are leechdoms for sore of either side, and tokens
how the disease approaches, and how a man may understand
that, and how a man shall treat it. These leechdoms
shall be done for sore of side, and these are the
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