LEECH BOOK. T. 5 



V. Leechdoms if a mans moutli be sore or made Contents. 

 tender, and for a blained tongue, a mouth salve for 

 tlie same. For foul breath ; three leechdoms. 



vi. Leechdoms for tooth ache, and if a worm eat the 

 tooth, and tooth salves. Again for tlie upper tootli 

 ache and for the nether. 



vii. Leechdom if a man break up blood. 



viii. Leechdoms for a blotch on the face, and brewit' 

 for the same, and a salve. Four in all. 



ix. Leechdoms if blood run from a mans nose. Again 

 blood stoppings, either to bind on or to put on the 

 ear ; either for horse or man. Ten in all. 



X. Leechdom for snot and for poses.^ 



xi. Leechdoms for sore lips. 



xii. Leechdom for wry mouth and for swelling of 

 tlie gullet. Three leechdoms. 



xiii. A leechdom for hair lip. 



[xiv.] A leechdom for xx6dcuv;c, watery fluctuations.'^ 



[xv.] Leechdoms against host ;* how it variously 

 comes on man, and how a man shall treat it ; and 

 wort drinks for host and for oppression on the chest 

 and dry cough. Eleven receipts. 



[xvi.] xiv. Leechdoms for breast wark.^ Four re- 

 ceipts. 



[xvii.] XV. Leechdoms for heart wark. Five re- 

 ceipts. 



[xviii.] xvi. Leechdoms for the great hicket, and how 

 it arises from a chilled stomach, or a much too hot 

 one, or of too much fullness, or of leerness,^ or of evil 

 wet ' wounding, and how a man shall treat it ; against 

 each of them. 



' The lomeiituin of the Roman 

 women, a paste of pulse, generally 

 of lentils ; women used it to im- 

 prove their complexions, and it was 

 eatable though unsavoury. 



^ See II. xxxix. 



' Host, couyh. pronounced with o 

 short. 



• Wark is pain. 

 " Einpline-is. 



- Colds in the head. i ' Humour^ 



