LEECH BOOK. I, 



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shall one first in the early disease let blood from a 

 vein ; after that shall be administered a wort drink, 

 and the sore places shall be cm-ed. If the disease be 

 caused by mickle heat, then shall one cure it with 

 cold leechdoms ; if it cometh of cold causes, then shall 

 one cure it with hot leechdoms, of either shall advan- 

 tage be taken, and they shall be mixed, into a imAxturc 

 that may heal the body and have an austere efficacy 

 in it. It is well for him that one should drip for him 

 in his ear oil made lukewarm with " other " good 

 worts. 



14. For broken head, take betony,' bruise it and lay 

 it on the head above, then it unites the wound and 

 healeth it. Again for the same, take garden cress,^ 

 that which waxeth of itself and is not sown,'^ intro- 

 duce it into the nose^ that the smell and the juice 

 may get to the head. 



15. For the same again, take wallflower'^ and 

 attorlothe'' and pellitory and wood marche^ and 

 brownwort^ and betony, form all the worts into a 

 wort drink, and mix therewith the small cleaver^ and 

 centaury^'' and waybroad,^^ of all most especially 

 betony, and if the brain be exposed, take the yolk 

 of an egg and mix a little with honey and fill the 

 wound and swathe up with tow, and so let it alone ; 

 and again after about three days syringe the wound, 

 and if the hale sound part^~ will have a red ring- 

 about the wound, know thou then that thou mayest 

 not heal it. For the same, take woodrofie and wood- 



Book I. 

 Ch. i. 



' Betonica officinalis. 



- Lepidium sativum. 



^ Self sown ; but a garden cress 

 still. 



' "Eppivov, therefore ; but these 

 were used like cephalic snuff ; and 

 never for broken head. See Nicolaos 

 Myreps. xv. 



* Cheiranthus cheiri. 



" See Herbarium, xlv., to which 

 assent is not easily given. 



' Apium graveolena. 



* Scrophularia aquatica: see Herb. 

 Ivii. 



" Galium aparine. 



'" Erythrma centaureum. 



" Plantago maior. 



'- The sense of )e]i|je is doubtful ; 

 but see glossary. 



