LEECH BOOK. r. 19 



1. In these first leechcrafts are written leechdoms for Book I. 

 all infirmities of the head. 



2. A wort has been named mnrra,* rub it in a mortar "" Scaiidix 

 as much as may make a pennyweight, add to the ooze 



a stoup full of wine, then smear the head with that 

 and let the patient drink this at night fasting. For 

 head wark, take rue and wormwood, pound them and 

 mingle with vinegar and oil, strain through a cloth, 

 smear the head with it ; or work a paste of the same, 

 lay it on the head and swathe it up well, when thou 

 will to bed. 



3. For the same, take betony and pepper, rub them 

 thoroughly together, let them hang one night in a 

 cloth, smear with theon. For head wark, pound some 

 roots of beet with honey, wring them, apply the juice 

 to the face, and let the patient lie supine against the 

 sun, and hang the head adown that the juice may run 

 all over the head. Let him hold before that in his 

 mouth oil or butter, and then sit up and lean forward 

 and let the matter flow off" the face. Let him so do 

 often till it be clean. 



4. For head wark, take the lower part of homewort,'' '• Sempen-iimm 

 pound it, lay it in cold water, rub it hard till it be ''^^^o''"'"- 



all in a lather, bathe the head with it. 



5. For head wark, take elecampane ° and groundsel*' '' /«M?a //e/e- 

 and fen cress ^ and gitrife,^ boil them in water, T^^^QTseneciovul- 

 them steam upon the eyes, when it is hot, and rubi/ar/s. 

 about the eyes with the worts, so hot. 



6. For head ache, take willow^ and oil, reduce to 

 ashes, work to a viscid substance, add to this hem- 

 lock^ and carline^ and the red nettle," pound them, 



' Nasturtium officinale. I ■• Conium maculatum. 



- Agrostemma githago. ^ Carlina acaulis.. 



^ Saliz. I " Lamium purpureum. 



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