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put tliein then on the viscid stutt', bathe therewith. Book I. 

 Against head ache ; burn a dogs head ' to ashes, snip ^^* *• 

 the head ; lay on. 



7. For a head wark, talce everlasting,- }jound it in 

 cold water, rub it between the hands, and pound 

 cloffing,^ Ji^pply it thereto, bathe therewith. For head 

 ache, take hove ^ and wine and vinegar ; sweeten with 

 honey, and smear therewith. 



8. For head ache, take blossoms of dill,^ seethe in 

 oil, smear the temples therewith. For the same, take 

 ashes of harts horn, mingle with vinegar and juice of 

 rose, bind on the cheek. For the same, take a vessel 

 full of leaves of green rue, and a spoon full of mus- 

 tard seed, rul> together, add the white of an egg, a 

 spoon full, that the salve may be thick ; smear with a 

 feather on the side which is not sore. 



9. For ache of half the head," take the red nettle 

 of one stalk, bruise it, mingle with vinegar and the 

 white of an egg, put all together, anoint therewith. 



10. For a half heads ache, bruise in vinegar with 

 oil the clusters of the laurus, smear the cheek with 

 that. 



11. For the same, take juice of rue, wring on the 

 nostril which is on the sore side. 



12. For a half heads tiche, take dust of the clusters 

 of laurel, and mustard, mingle them together, pour 

 vinegar upon them, smear with that the sore side. 

 Or mix Avith wine the clusters of laurel. Or vubjine 

 in vinegar the seed of rue,'' put equal quantities of 

 both, rub the back of the neck with that. 



13. Tokens of the disease. The disease cometh of 

 evil humour flowing'^ or evil vapour, or of both. Then 



' That the plant called " hounds- | " Megrim. 



head " in Herb. Ixxxviii. is meant, ' ' liuta graveolens. 



1 do not think. " I hesitate to believe that njan, 



- GnaphuUmn. can mean^'/-o»i beloiv upwards; yet 



^ Ranunculus scelenitufi. Alexandros says Kara av/j.-Tradeiw 



'- Glcchoma hederacea. rod ffrofj-ix""- U)"an means from 



^ Anethum qraoeolens. above. 



