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milk, if tliou have neither of tlie others; if tlioii work P.ook li.
it in wine or in milk, sweeten it with honey; let Ihc
man diink a good niickle cup full.
2. Work a spew drink of beer, add costmary, and
aloes, and fifteen Hbcorns, of the others similarly.
3. An emetic ; of homewort three pieces, and rend
up elder rind, the same quantity, twenty-five libcorns,
rub them to dust, and of honey as much as would l)e
one piece or 'proportion, then eat thereof with a sjioou,
sip some water hot or cold. If sucli a draught will
not 'pass from a mau, take marche and chervil, seethe
them thoroughly in water, add salt, then let the man
drinl'. If there is inward pain, take a jug full of new
ale, add a hand full of homewort, have the jug held
up and drink till thou spew ; then poke a feather into
thy mouth ; draw the bad matter out, drink again
soon. Take scammony, so much as may weigh a penny,
and rub it small, and half cook a hens egg, salt it
thoroughly, j^ut the wort into it, let not the egg coagulate,
but sip it. A wort drink ; choose scammony
thus, break it in two, put a bit on thy tongue, if it
bursteth out white as milk, then it is good ; I'ub it
then in a treen vessel, not in any other, with a spoon
or with a handle, remove what cannot be rubbed down,
that part is coagulated, add two or three drops of
xuoKixov,^ or boil together ivifJt it a stalk of olive
leaf: if it be good the dose will be one pennyweight;
if moderately good, one and a half or two pennyweights;
if bad, three; no more than that. A spew
drink ; hove, and onred, and elder rind ;
pound these
together, ]nf^t least of elder, then add thirty -pepperconis,
sweeten with honey, give the ma7i to drink.
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