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liands, it will soon be well with the man ; for twelve ^^^ m-
months after the beetle thou slialt have power so to
do.
xix.
For bladder pain ; wood marche and sauce alone
boil them strongly in ale ; administer to drink, and to
eat a roasted starling.
XX.
If a man cannot mie, and stones wax in the bladder ;
boil sundcorns ^ in ale, and parsley ;
give hirti this to
drink.
xxi.
If a mans excrement be lodged ; boil wormwood
in sour ale, and add butter thereto; it will soon be
well with him, if he drinketh it.
xxii.
For diarrhoea ; cinqfoil, brooklime, churmel, lupin
pound the worts, and boil them in milk ;
give this to
the man to drink warm in the morning and in the
evening. Work thus a brewit for the same : wild
cunila, brooklime ; boil in milk to a third part, remove
the worts from the milk, shed wheaten meal thereon,
and let him eat the brewit cold, and let him sip the
milk, it will soon be well with him. If the brewit
and the drink remain within him, thou mayst cure the
man ; if they flow away, it will be better for him, that
thou should not meddle with him, his death sickness
is upon him.
xxiii,
1. If worms be in a mans inwards ; boil green rue
in butter, let the man drink at night fasting a cup
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Saxifragia yranulata. Prescribed because saxa fraiigit.
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