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therewith. Again, a salve, boil in pressed sheeps grease, \'°"'^..i; 

 hawthorns blossoms, and the small stonecrop and wood- 

 rofic, then mingle mastic therewith and a little butter. 



IX. 



1. If blood run from a mans nose too much, take 

 green betony and rue, pound them in vinegar, twist 

 them together like as it might be a sloe, poke it into 

 the nose. A blood stopper; eat the netherward part 

 of bishopwort or drink it in milk. To stop blood 

 ao-ain, take hedge cleavers, bind it on the neck. 



2. As a blood stancher again, put springwort' into 

 the ear. 



3. To stop blood again, put way broad" into the ear. 



4. To stop blood again, poke into the ear a whole 

 ear of bere or havley ; so he be unaware of it. Some 



write this : either for horse or 



man, a blood stancher. 



For snot and })oses or catarrhs; take the nether- 

 ward part of stinking hellebore,^ pound it well with 

 water ; if it be green do not apply water to it, then 

 wring on the nose. 



xi. 



For sore lips, smear the lips with honey, then take 

 film of egg, scatter it with pepper, and lay on. 



xii. 



For distorted mouth, take dock and old swines 

 grease, work to a salve, set on the wry part. For 

 swelling of gullet, for that, everfern^ also shall come 



' Euforbia laihyris. i ^ Helleborus viridis. 



- Plantago maior. | ' Poh/podium vulgare. 



