LEECH BOOK. I. 



57 



into use, and boil cockle in milk, them sup some and 

 bathe with it. For swelling of gullet, boil in ale 

 bishopwort, the netherward part of attoiiothe, and 

 burdock. 



Book I. 

 Ch. xii. 



Xlll. 



For hair Hp, pound mastic very small, add the white 

 of an egg, and mingle as thou dost vermillion, cut 

 with a knife the false edges of the lip, sew fast with 

 silk, then smear without and within with the salve, 

 ere the silk rot. If it draw together, arrange it with 

 the hand ; anoint again soon. 



xiv. 



For watery congestions^ called KXvlmsc, a little 

 incense, some sulfur, beetle nut, wax, ginger ; let the 

 ixitient drink through a horn horehowa.^ and hawk wort ^ 

 in clear ale. 



XV. 



For host or cough, how variously it comes ujoon a 

 man, and how a man should treat it. The host hath 

 a manifold access, as the spittles are various. Whilom 

 it cometli of immoderate heat, whilom of immoderate 

 cold, whilom of immoderate dryness. 



2. Work thus a drink against cough. Take mugwort,'' 

 seethe it in a cojDper kettle, and boil till it* be very 

 thick, and let it* be wrought of wheaten malt ; then 

 take of everfern most, bishopwort, water agrimony,^ 

 pennyroyal,'' singreen,^ set all in a vat, give to drink 

 at the middays, and forego what is sour and every- 



' Bpo7xoKTiA77, perhaps. 

 - Hicracium. 

 ^ Artemisia vulgaris. 

 ' The gender of the pronoun 

 makes it refer to the wort, whereas 



the process seems to require a mas- 

 culine, referring to the potion. 



^ Eupatorium cannabinum. 



** 3Ientha pulegium. 



^ Sempervivuvi tectorum. 



