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

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LEECH BOOK. TIT. 333
between the tliighs, up under the raiment, that the Book III.
woman may sweat much.
, 1 Ch. xxxviii.
xxxix.
1. A smearing for a penetrating worm; take swines
gall, and fishes gall, and crabs gall, and hares gall ;
mingle them together, smear the wounds thereAvith
blow with a reed the liquid into the wound
; then
pound hart bramble^ leaves, lay them on the wounds.
Work up a fomentation for that ilk ; take aspen rind,
and myrtle rind, quickbeam rind, sloethorn rind, birch
rind
;
pound all the rinds together, boil them in cheese
whey, wash therewith and foment the limb on which
the wound is, and after the beathing dry and smear
with the salve, and blow the salve into the wounds,
and lay on the bramble leaves ; do so thrice a day in
summer, and in winter twice. »
2. Work up the black salve, if need be, thus; collect
two buckets of bullocks mie, and a bucket full of holly
rinds, and of ash rind, and of aconite ; then boil in
a kettle till the liquor be boiled to two thirds, remove
the " worts " and the rinds ; boil again till it be as
thick as milk porridge and as swart as a coal ; afterwards
smear the wound therewith, and have a plaster
ready wrought of fine smede of malt, and of whiting
meal, and lupins; cleave, pound, and rub them together,
work them into a paste ; if it be too dry, add brewing
wort, a trifle of it; dab it on the wounds and
round about them. After they are smeared, the salve
will first enlarge the wounds, and eat ofi" the dead
flesh, and soften the swelling, and it will do to
death the worm therein, or diive him away alive,
and will heal the wounds.
Rhamnus.