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xlvii. Leechdoms and drinks and salves lor " dry OoMEMt
diseases " '
of many a kind, the best ones for " dry "
worm on the feet. Twelve in all against " dry
diseases.
xlviii. Leechdoms for the worms which vex men
inwardly, and against worms which be in the inwards
of children, and children s inwards sore. In all twelve
receipts against them.
xlix. A leechdom, single, separately, against the small
worm.
1. Leechdoms again hand worms and dew worms,
and if a worm eat the head ; a wax salve against the
hand worm. Six receipts ; four sorts in all.
li. Leechdoms against worms which eat mans Hesh.
Hi. Two leechdoms against lice.
liii. Two leechdoms against penetrating worms.
liv. Leechdoms for a worm eaten body and a
mortified.
Iv. A leechdom. for a stricken body.
Ivi. Leechdoms for a paralyzed body, and a bath
salve.
Ivii. Leechdoms and drinks and salves against tlic
disease called " fig."
Iviii. Leechdoms for a wen salve and for wen boils.
lix. Leechdoms for paralysis, that is in English, lyft
addle, and for " neurisn." ^ Three.
Ix. Leechdom for a burn ; and salves. Eight in all.
Ixi. Leechdoms for a pain in the joints, and for the
lubricating secretion at the joints, called^ synovia, and
if the synovia leak and the joint oil run out. Of all
(these) receipts fourteen.
Ixii. Leechdoms for fever, to heal it ; drinks for that
against a tertain fever, and a quartan fever, and a
quotidian fever ; and against lent disease, that is
{typhus) fever, and how against the disorder a man
' A sort of dry rot : see the glos- I ' Possibly vevpuv vipfffis ; a kind
sary. Vlapa