LEECH ROOK. I. 67 



also in addition, apple tree, thorn, ash, quick! )eara, Book I. 

 everthroat, ashthroat, helenium, bishopwort, ivy, betony, " ^^^'" 

 ribwort, radish, spraken,^ pepper, mastic, costmary, ' Mamnus 

 ginger, sal ammoniac, nettle, blind nettle, work this-^'""^" 

 to a drink. If thighs be paralyzed, delve up the 

 netherward part of sedge, boil it in water, make it 

 reek on the limb that is helpless, smear with a salve, 

 which a man may thus work ; from swines grease, 

 sheeps grease, butter, ship tar,^ pepper, mastic, beetle 

 nut, sulfur, costmary, vinegar, oil, cucumber, radish, 

 helenium, bishopwort, salt, ash, apple tree, oak, thorn. 



xxiv. 



For knee pain; pound together woodwax- and hedge- 

 rife, and put into ale ; let it lie for a night, give him 

 then that to drink, bathe with it, and lay it on. In 

 case that a knee be sore, take wallwort and doffing, 

 and red nettle, boil in water, bathe therewith. 



XXV. 



1. If the shanks be sore, take githrife and pellitory 

 and hammer wort and betony and bonewort and flax- 

 wort and wild marche and earth gall and brownwort, 

 seethe in butter, smear therewith. 



2. If shanks be broken, take bonewort, pound it, 

 pour the white of an egg out, mingle these together 

 for the shank broken man. For a broken limb, lay 

 this salve on the broken limb, and overlay with 

 elm rind,'^ apply a splint, again, always renew these 

 till the limb be healed ; clean some elm rind, and boil 

 it thoroughly, then remove the rind, and take linseed, 

 grind it for a brewit or paste with the elms drink ; 

 that shall be a good salve for a broken limb. 



' Fix navalis is frequent in Latin \ - Genista tinctoria. 

 medicine of the time. j ' Cf. Aetius. I. i. v. TrreAea. 



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