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

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xxxii. Leeclidoms against the evil lilotcli, how a man Contents.
shall work salves and baths and drinks against it, and
for a leprous body and for a deadened body, a bath
and salves for them. Baths and salves and drinks for
the mickle body, elephantiasis, and swelling. In all
fifteen
loechdoms.
xxxiii. Leeclidoms and drinks and salves and applications
for pustules, either deadened or undeadened.
Eight receipts.
xxxiv.
A leechdom if a nail be off a hand, and against
angnails, and against warty eruptions.
XXXV. Leeclidoms mickle and excellent for a swarthened
and a deadened body, and whence the disease
Cometh, and how a man shall treat it, if the body be
deadened to that decjree that there be not feelinsf in
it ; and how a man shall wean the dead blood away,
and if it be desired to cut off a limb from the sick
man or apply fire,^ how it shall be performed. Brewits'-
and drinks and salves for the disease.
xxxvi. Leechdoms for the disease which is called
circle addle or shmgles ; brewit and drinks and salves.
This is a very troublesome disease, and here saith
(our book) what meat or drink a man shall in this
disease
xxxvii.
forego.
Leechdoms in case a man may not retain his
mie,* and have not command of it, and if he may not ^ Urine,
mie, and if he mie blood ; and if a wife (woman) be
tender in that respect. Fourteen leechdoms.
xxxviii. Leechcrafts and wound salves and drinks
for all wounds and all cleansings {discharges) in every
wise, and for an old broken wound, and if there be
bone breach on the head, and for a tear by a dog ;
and a wound salve for disease of the lungs, and
a salve for an inward wound ; and a salve if thou
wilt cure a little wound quickly, and if a man be
wounded with iron, or struck with wood, or with
The cautery.
- See viii