LEECH BOOK. I. 37 



celandine, pound the worts much, mingle with wine, Book I. 

 l)iit into a copper vessel or keep in a brazen vat, let ^^' "" 

 it stand seven days or more, wring the worts very 

 clean, add pepper, and sweeten very lightly with honey, 

 put subsequently into a horn, and with a feather put 

 one drop into the eyes. Work a dry eye salve thus; 

 take beetle nut(?) and sulfiir, Greek olusatrum^ and 

 burnt salt, and of pepper most, grind all to dust, sift 

 through a cloth, put it on a fawns skin, let him keep 

 it about himself, lest it get moist. Introduce a small 

 quantity into the eyes with a tooth pick ; afterwards 

 let him rest himself and sleep, and then wash his eyes 

 with clean water, and let him look in the water, 

 that is, keep his eyes open under ivater. Work eye 

 salve thus; pound thoroughly cummin and a straw- 

 berry plant, and souse with sweetened wine, put into 

 a copper vessel or into a brazen one, let it stand 

 many nights, wring the wort through a cloth and clear 

 the liquid thoroughly, then apply to the eyes when 

 thou may wish to rest ; if the salve be too biting, 

 sweeten it with honey. For imminution of the eyes, 

 take olusatrum, mingle with spittle, anoint the eyes 

 outwardly not inwardly. 



22. For imminutions, the nether part of the herb Contraction 

 ashthroat^ chewed in the mouth and wrung through a " le pupi . 

 cloth, and applied to the eye, wonderfully healeth. In 

 case a man be blear eyed, take agrimony, boil it 

 thoroughl}'- doivn to the third part, wash the eyes 

 frequently with that. For a pock or pustule in the 

 eyes, take woad^ and ribwort* and brooklime,^ boil in 

 milk, in butter is better, and work a fomentation. 

 Boil brooklime^ and yarrow^ and wood chervil' in 

 milk. 



• Smi/rnium olusatrum. 

 - In Herb. iv. Verbena officinulia, 

 but in the gll. Ferula. 

 ^ Isatis tinctoria. 



' Plantago lanceolata. 

 '■" Veronica beccabunga. 

 '' Achillea millefolium. 

 ' Anthriscus silvestris. 



