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xxxii. Leeclidoms against the evil lilotcli, how a man Contents. 

 shall work salves and baths and drinks against it, and 

 for a leprous body and for a deadened body, a bath 

 and salves for them. Baths and salves and drinks for 

 the mickle body, elephantiasis, and swelling. In all 

 fifteen loechdoms. 



xxxiii. Leeclidoms and drinks and salves and ap- 

 plications for pustules, either deadened or undeadened. 

 Eight receipts. 



xxxiv. A leechdom if a nail be off a hand, and against 

 angnails, and against warty eruptions. 



XXXV. Leeclidoms mickle and excellent for a swarth- 

 ened and a deadened body, and whence the disease 

 Cometh, and how a man shall treat it, if the body be 

 deadened to that decjree that there be not feelinsf in 

 it ; and how a man shall wean the dead blood away, 

 and if it be desired to cut off a limb from the sick 

 man or apply fire,^ how it shall be performed. Brewits'- 

 and drinks and salves for the disease. 



xxxvi. Leechdoms for the disease which is called 

 circle addle or shmgles ; brewit and drinks and salves. 

 This is a very troublesome disease, and here saith 

 (our book) what meat or drink a man shall in this 

 disease forego. 



xxxvii. Leechdoms in case a man may not retain his 

 mie,* and have not command of it, and if he may not ^ Urine, 

 mie, and if he mie blood ; and if a wife (woman) be 

 tender in that respect. Fourteen leechdoms. 



xxxviii. Leechcrafts and wound salves and drinks 

 for all wounds and all cleansings {discharges) in every 

 wise, and for an old broken wound, and if there be 

 bone breach on the head, and for a tear by a dog ; 

 and a wound salve for disease of the lungs, and 

 a salve for an inward wound ; and a salve if thou 

 wilt cure a little wound quickly, and if a man be 

 wounded with iron, or struck with wood, or with 



The cautery. 



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