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

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LEECH BOOK. I. 21
put tliein then on the viscid stutt', bathe therewith. Book I.
Against head ache ;
burn a dogs head ' to ashes, snip ^^* *•
the head ; lay on.
7. For a head wark, talce everlasting,- }jound it in
cold water, rub it between the hands, and pound
cloffing,^ Ji^pply it thereto, bathe therewith. For head
ache, take hove ^ and wine and vinegar ; sweeten with
honey, and smear therewith.
8. For head ache, take blossoms of dill,^ seethe in
oil, smear the temples therewith. For the same, take
ashes of harts horn, mingle with vinegar and juice of
rose, bind on the cheek. For the same, take a vessel
full of leaves of green rue, and a spoon full of mustard
seed, rul> together, add the white of an egg, a
spoon full, that the salve may be thick ; smear with a
feather on the side which is not sore.
9. For ache of half the head," take the red nettle
of one stalk, bruise it, mingle with vinegar and the
white of an egg, put all together, anoint therewith.
10. For a half heads ache, bruise in vinegar with
oil the clusters of the laurus, smear the cheek with
that.
11. For the same, take juice of rue, wring on the
nostril which is on the sore side.
12. For a half heads tiche, take dust of the clusters
of laurel, and mustard, mingle them together, pour
vinegar upon them, smear with that the sore side.
Or mix Avith wine the clusters of laurel. Or vubjine
in vinegar the seed of rue,'' put equal quantities of
both, rub the back of the neck with that.
13. Tokens of the disease. The disease cometh of
evil humour flowing'^ or evil vapour, or of both. Then
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That the plant called " hounds-
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in Herb. Ixxxviii. is meant,
Megrim.
liuta graveolens.
1 do not think.
" I hesitate to believe that njan,
- GnaphuUmn. can mean^'/-o»i beloiv upwards; yet
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Ranunculus scelenitufi. Alexandros says Kara av/j.-Tradeiw
hederacea. rod ffrofj-ix""- U)"an means from
^ Anethum qraoeolens. above.