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The Romans and all the people of the south Contents. 

 wrought for themselves houses of earth against the ill 

 air ; and how a man shall forego bloodletting on each 

 of the six fives ^ of the moons age in the thirty nights, 

 and when best to let blood, and if the incision for 

 bloodletting take an ill turn, and if thou will let 

 blood on an incision or on a vein, or if thou may not 

 staunch the bleeding incision, or if thou may not bind 

 up the flowing vein, or if one, in bloodletting, cut 

 down on a sinew. 



Ixxiii. A leechdom if any limb of a man be chapped. 



Ixxiv. A leechdom against warts and callosities on a 

 limb. 



Ixxv. A leechdom for a scurfy nail. 



Ixxvi. A leechdom for itch. 



Ixxvii. A leechdom if thou will that an ill swelling 

 and the venomous humour should burst out. 



Ixxviii. A leechdom if loss of appetite befall a man. 



Ixxix. A leechdom if a man tire on a long journey. 



Ixxx. A leechdom in case a man overdrink himself. 



Ixxxi. A leechdom against much cold. 



Ixxxii. A leechdom if suddenly too much watching 

 befall a man. 



Ixxxiii. A leechdom for a mans voice. 



Ixxxiv. A leechdom in case a man eat something- 

 poisonous. 



Ixxxv. A leechdom in case a man try to fight with 

 his enemy. 



Ixxxvi. A leechdom for much travel over land lest 

 he tire. 



Ixxxvii. A leechdom if a mans hair fall oft', a salve 

 for that, and if a man be bald. 



Ixxxviii. Leechdom for swelled legs in a horse, and 

 if a horse be galled, and if a horse or other neat 

 cattle be elf shot. 



' Though a sidereal revolution of I the moon often attains the thirtieth 

 the moon be but 27*321 days, yet | day of her age. 



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