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[xix.] xvii. Leechdoms against nausea. Two noble Contents. 

 ones. 



XX. Leechdoms against shoulder wark. Three re- 

 ceipts. 



xxi. Leechdoms for sore of the right side and of the 

 left. Six receipts. 



xxii. Leechdoms for loin ache. Four. 



xxiii. Leechdoms for thigh ache, two ; and one in 

 case the thighs be benumbed.^ 



xxiv. Leechdoms for knee wark, and if the knee be 

 sore. 



XXV. Leechdoms for sore of shanks, and if shanks be 

 broken, or another limb. Four receipts, and how a man 

 shall apply splints to it. 



xxvi. Leechdoms if a sinew shrink, and after that be 

 sore or swell, or if a mans foot shram ^ to the hams 

 and shrink, and if a sinew have pulsation and quake. 

 In all four receipts. 



xxvii. Leechdoms for foot ache or swelling of another 

 limb or of the feet, by reason of much travel. Six 

 receipts. 



xxviii. Leechdoms for leg ache, and a salve, and a 

 drink. There are three receipts for it. 



xxix. Leechdoms if a mans tools be sore or swollen. 

 Three receipts. 



XXX. Leechdoms against chillblain, and in case that 

 for a man the skin of the feet be chilly. 



xxxi. Leechdoms for every hard thing or swelling 

 or tumour, and for every evil swelling humour and 

 tumour purulent within, such as groweth of a fall or 

 of a blow or of any crick, and for very sudden swellings 

 and for dead swellings without sensation, and salves 

 and drinks and swathings and baths for all swellings 

 of the body. Of all these leechdoms thirty less by two 

 {tiventy-eight). 



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