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43 



tJie 'pcitient liimself after a nights fasting, mix with 

 butter and pour into the ear. Again for the same, 

 drip into the ear juice of the rind of a nut tree made 

 lukewarm. 



9. For the same, mix with womans milk juice of 

 green coriander, and a drop of honey and of wine, 

 warmed together. For deafening of the ears again, try 

 alder ^ bunches triturated, wring out the juice into the 

 ear. Again for the same, take boars gall and bullocks 

 and bucks, mingle with honey or in oil, wring into 

 the ear. 



10. Again for the same, take a green ashen staft', 

 lay it on the fire, then take the juice that issues from 

 it, put it on the same wool, wring into the ear, and 

 stop up the ear with the same wool. 



11. For the same, take emmets horses^ and cropleek^ 

 and the lower part of alder rind or henbane and oil, 

 pound them together, warm in a shell, then introduce 

 into the ear the red emmets horses ; than take radish 

 and vinegar, pound them together, and wring into the 

 ear. If there be insects in ears, take juice of green 

 earthgall,* or juice of Aorehound, or juice of worm- 

 wood, whatsoever of these thou mayesb wish, pour 

 the juice into the ear, that draweth the worm out. 

 Work a salve thus ; pound sinfulP and latherwort** 

 and leek, then place theiin in a glass vessel with vine- 

 gar, and wring througli a cloth, drip the moisture on 

 the ear. In case that there is a dinning in the ears ; 

 take oil, apply it with ewes wool, and close up the 

 ear with the wool, when thou wilt sleep, and remove 

 it a^ain when thou awakest. 



Book I. 

 Ch. iii. 



' Sambucus niyra. 



"^ This talk of "emmets horses " 

 is merely a misunderstanding of the 

 ImrofivpfiriKes of Aristoteles. Hist. 

 Anim. viii. 27. The translation hy 

 Plinius, " formicse pennata;," that 

 is, male ants, is commonly ac- 



cepted as true, of course, but it is 

 both philologically and physically 

 unsatisfactory. 



^ Allium sativum. 



' Erythrcea centaureum. 



'■' One of the sedum tribe, or all. 



" Saponaria officinalis. 



