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stone ; and further salves if for a man a limb be Coxtexts. 

 struck off from a limb, finger or foot or hand, or if 

 the marrow be out, and if a wound get foul. Of all 

 from the beginning four and thirty leeclidoms. 



xxxix. Leechdoms against erysipelas of every kind 

 and fellons, and bone diseases, for erysipelatous affec- 

 tions accompanied by external blains, and for the 

 bursting of erysipelatous cysts, and for excessively hot 

 erysipelatous attacks, and for running erysipelas, that 

 is the disease called "fig.' Drinks and salves for all 

 sorts of erysipelatous affections. Thirty less by two. 



xl. Leechdoms and drinks and salves for pock disease. 

 In all six. 



xli. Three excellent leechdoms for inward tubercles 

 and erysipelas. 



xlii, Leechdoms for the yellow disease,* and a stone ''•T^''i""'l'<^f- 

 bath,* and for the gall disease which cometh of the 

 yellow disease. This is of diseases the most powerful, 

 the body becometh quite bitter and turnetli yellow, as 

 good yellow silk. 



xliii. Leechdoms for dropsy. 



xliv. Leechdoms for the disease cancer, that is, " bite," 

 and smearings and a salve. Four receipts. 



xlv. Leechdoms and drinks against every poison, 

 against stroke and bite and rend of snake ; and in 

 case a man swallow poison, and a prayer of the holy 

 thane of Christ, lohannes, and an incantation and 

 also another Scottish approved incantation, in Gaelic 

 or Erse, either of them against eveiy poison, against 

 flying poison and swelling and deep gashes. If any 

 one drink a worm^ in water, leechdoms against that ; 

 and if a man be tied with a magic knot. In all 

 twenty receipts against poison. 



xlvi. Leechdoms if King 0ns worm wax on a man, 

 a salve, a drink, and a plaster for that. There are five 

 leechdoms of it. 



* A stone bath was a vapour bath, water being thrown on heated stones. 

 - Reptile. 



