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be swines fat or horse grease ; tlien smear therewitli. Book l. 

 Against swelling, take the netherward part of way- 

 broad, pound with grease, lay and bind on the swelling. 



xxxm. 



1. Drinks and salves against pustule; springwort, red 

 hove, waybroad, feverfuge, abrotanon, maythe, pepper, 

 wine. If it, the inistule, be on an ear, beat waybroad 

 and feverfuge and pepper, wring tlie'm into the ear. 

 For a salve against a pustule, take pellitory, waybroad, 

 maythe, the netherward part of the broad colewort, 

 the netherward part of mallow, the netherward part of 

 dock, red hove, butter, and honey. A salve again, 

 meadow wort, tow,^ water agrimony, yarrow, butchers 

 broom, stichwort, agrimony. 



2. For a dead pustule; boil in butter the herb wild 

 oat, teferth, and springwort. For a pustule, maythe, 

 wood marche, work thesa into a salve, let him drink 

 good worts. For a pustule, take lupin, pound in honey, 

 mingle together, lay on the swelling till it be hole. 

 For a jDustule, pound springwort, chervil, and honey 

 and goose grease, heat them together, lay tliis on the 

 pustule. 



xxxiv. 



1. If a nail be off the hand, and against a warty 

 eruption,''^ take wheat corn, mingle with honey, lay on pro^ablv""'' 

 the finger. For an angnail,^^ brass filings and old soap, b xiapwvvxM, 

 and oil if thou have it, if thou have it not, add cream, 

 mingle together, lay on. 



2. For warty eruption, heat in butter bunches of 

 maythe and salt, smear therewith. 



' Understand, in ashes. " Lin- I medicina; est ; et einis spodii (h-orj/ 



teorum lanugo e velis navium ma- \ Jiliiigs) vimhabet." Plinius, xix. 4. 



ritimarum maxime, in magno usu I 



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