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xlvii. Leechdoms and drinks and salves lor " dry OoMEMt 

 diseases " ' of many a kind, the best ones for " dry " 

 worm on the feet. Twelve in all against " dry " 

 diseases. 



xlviii. Leechdoms for the worms which vex men 

 inwardly, and against worms which be in the inwards 

 of children, and children s inwards sore. In all twelve 

 receipts against them. 



xlix. A leechdom, single, separately, against the small 

 worm. 



1. Leechdoms again hand worms and dew worms, 

 and if a worm eat the head ; a wax salve against the 

 hand worm. Six receipts ; four sorts in all. 



li. Leechdoms against worms which eat mans Hesh. 



Hi. Two leechdoms against lice. 



liii. Two leechdoms against penetrating worms. 



liv. Leechdoms for a worm eaten body and a 

 mortified. 



Iv. A leechdom. for a stricken body. 



Ivi. Leechdoms for a paralyzed body, and a bath 

 salve. 



Ivii. Leechdoms and drinks and salves against tlic 

 disease called " fig." 



Iviii. Leechdoms for a wen salve and for wen boils. 



lix. Leechdoms for paralysis, that is in English, lyft 

 addle, and for " neurisn." ^ Three. 



Ix. Leechdom for a burn ; and salves. Eight in all. 



Ixi. Leechdoms for a pain in the joints, and for the 

 lubricating secretion at the joints, called^ synovia, and 

 if the synovia leak and the joint oil run out. Of all 

 (these) receipts fourteen. 



Ixii. Leechdoms for fever, to heal it ; drinks for that ; 

 against a tertain fever, and a quartan fever, and a 

 quotidian fever ; and against lent disease, that is 

 {typhus) fever, and how against the disorder a man 



' A sort of dry rot : see the glos- I ' Possibly vevpuv vipfffis ; a kind 



sary. Vlapa<Tn6s. \ of irapiXvais. 



