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3. A leechdoin for a leprous body, delve up dock and 

 silverweed, pound them, then boil them in butter, add 

 a trifle of salt. For deadness of the body, rub in ale 

 staithwort, marche, give to the patie7it to drink. For a 

 leper, boil in urine ^ rind of quickbeam, the netherward 

 part of elder rind, ash rind, and woad, elm rind, hem- 

 lock, then add butter and honey. For a leper, pound 

 with lard waybroad, leechwort, leek, mint, may the, 

 helenium, sulfur, put of the sulfur two parts to one of 

 the worts. 



4. For a leper again, take fat of a horse, mingle 

 thoroughly with salt, smear with that. A bath foi- 

 a leper, boil in water ash rind, quickbeam rind, holly 

 rind, the foultree or black alder rind, rind of spindle 

 tree, sedge, ploughmans spikenard, hapife, marrubium, 

 bathe therewith, and rub the body with the hayrife. 

 Work a salve of marrubium in butter, of worm" meal, 

 of vipers bugloss, hayrife, take half the salve, mingle 

 with pounded helenium, smear till it get better, then 

 smear with the other half. A bath for the mickle 

 body or elphantiasis, boil in water thoroughly helenium, 

 broom, ivy, mugwort, enchanters nightshade (?), hen- 

 bane, mallow, everlasting, pour into a byden, and let 

 the iKitient sit upon it. Let a man drink against that 

 disorder this drink ; betony, churmel, hove, agrimony, 

 springwort, red nettle, lupin, sage, singreen, alexanders, 

 let it be wrought out of foreign ale, let the sick man 

 drink it in the bath, and let him not allow the vapour 

 to reach it. A salve for the mickle leprous body, 

 helenium, wolfsbane, dock, groundsel, field gentian, 

 waybroad, everlasting, ontre, hove, comfrey, celandine, 

 mallow, boil all in butter together, let half the salve 



Book I. 

 Ch. xxxii. 



" Cf. Aetius. I. ii. 108. 



- Thus in later times : " Fair 

 large Earth-worms gathered in May 

 when they couple ; put them into a 

 Pail of Water at night till the next 

 morning, so will they have cleansed 



themselves, then dry them before 

 the fire, or in an Oven, which when 

 through dry, beat into Ponder.'" 

 Salmon's English Physician, p. 

 G97, ed. 169.3. He adds the cures. 



