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gctlier small in a mortal-, mingle with honey, and for pook I. 

 three clays, every day before meat, let tliG imtient take Ch. xvi. 

 three spoons full. 



xvii. 



For pain in the heart, seethe a handful of rue in 

 oil, and add an ounce of aloes, rub the body with that, 

 it stilleth the sore. For heart ache, if there be to him 

 within, a hard heart wark, then wind waxeth in the 

 heart for him, and thirst vexes him and he is languid. 



2. Work him then a stone bath, and in that let 

 him eat southern radish^ with salt, by that the wound 

 may be healed. For heart ache again, take githrife, 

 seethe it in milk, give to drink for six days. 



8. Again, boil together the netherward part of ever- 

 fern, githrife, and waybroad ; give to drink. For heart 

 ache again, take pepper and cummin and costmary, rub 

 them into beer, or into water, administer to drink. 



xviii. 



We here explain whence the mickle hicket^ cometh, 

 and how a man should treat it. It cometh from the 

 very chilled maw, or from the too much heated onaw, or 

 from too mickle fulness, or of too mickle leerness, that 

 is errhptiness, or of evil wet or humour rending and 

 scarifying the maw. If then the sick man by a spew 

 drink speweth away the evil biting wet, then the 

 hicket abateth. A spew then is good for the men 

 whom hicket teareth for fulness, or in case it scarifieth 

 them within ; and also the hicket which cometh of the 

 mickleness of the evil wet or humour, hath need of a 

 spew drink, which eke worketh mickle sneezing, and 

 amendetli the sick. When the hicket cometh of the 



' Rhafanus sativa. 



"^ Holland and old writers spell Hicket, the moderns " hiccup," " hic- 

 " cough," 



