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yng doune in his legge. After a tyme, forsof^, Jaer wex puscelez 

 brounysch and clayisch.^ ... At \)e last, forso|D, J^er grow 

 in J)at party of l3e legge a large wounde, and about JDe ankles J)re 

 or four smale woundez to ^e brede of ane halfpeny. And ]pe 

 legge semed of zelow- colour, medled with rednes, fro J^e calf to 

 })e ankelez. And J^e skynne kast evermore out many skalez, . . . 

 It come to a mormale; J)e which, when I had sene it, I affermed 

 it to be a mormale. 



'And I did sich a cure to it: l^is is Jdc cure to jje mormale — 

 ffirst sewe J)e pacient[s] legge strongly with a lynne clo]De. 

 After wasche wele .[jat legge so sewed with bote watre, after J)at 

 |)e pacient may suffre. And so after J)e waschyng lat it lye by a 

 naturel day, J)at is ane hole day & a nizt,^ kepyng J^e legge fro 

 aier and fro cold. Pe second day, forso]^, remove \)e cloJDe, and 

 mundifie l>e wounde, or J)e woundes if l^ai be many, and putte in 

 every wounde a litel pece of lynne clojje moisted in cold watre. 

 Afterward putte of l^e oyntement of Dyvylyne in J)e circuite of 

 ]3e wounde above J)e hole skynne, so |)at it touche no waiez \>e 

 woundez within, & cover it with a lynne clo|3e ywette. Do 

 J)us euery day tuyez, renewyng J)e oyntment, and mundifying \>e 

 woundez, and fyllyng |Dam of a lynne clol^e ywette, as it is seid 

 above. . . . 



'Per was dede flesch of bio colour, to f^e brede of a peny; J)at 

 dede flesch, forso]o, was mich J)ikke, and, ]Dat yse, I kutte with 

 a rasour a litel J)e over party of ]3at flesch. Afterward I putte 

 to larde, and so at Jje last, with larde & with cuttyng, I dissolved, 

 i.[e.] lesyd, it utterly. Pat flesch \>erior remove [d], eftsonez with 

 \)e oyntment of Dyvylyn aforeseid, and a dol^e wette in water, I 

 held J)e wounde opne to \>e brede of a peny. And l^an eftsonez 

 ]3er brest out a wounde aboute \)e sidez. and it bygan to large it 

 unto J)at it was almost of |De same gretnez as it was afore. . . . 



'And if Jdou se |3e bone mortified, witte j^ou |)at it is incurable, 

 or unnej) for to merowe [mowe?] be cured. If Jdou trow it be 

 curable, it is to be helped with some cure of l^e mormale in \>e 

 boke of Lamfrank. Also, as it is seid above, som tyme a man is 

 smytyn som party of |De legge violently without wondyng of l^e 

 skynne, as of ane hors fote, or of a stone or staife, or sich oJ)er, 



^ The margin reads : pustulcr fuscce et latcc. 

 ^ The 2 represents open (palatal) g. 



