LEECH BOOK. I. 



87 



away. The same 'process is advantageous for frogs ^ or ^^^^ I- 

 liounds bite, if one soon applieth it. And again, for 

 about three nights, smear with honey, that thereby the 

 more readily the scab or crust may fall off. 



xxxvi. 



Against the disease which is hight circle addle^ or 

 shingles, take quickbeam rind, and aspen and apple 

 tree, maple tree, elder, withy, sallow, myrtle, wich 

 elm, oak, sloe thorn, birch, olive tree, the lotus tree,^ 

 of ash there shall be most, and a part of each tree 

 which a man can get at (except hawthorn and alder), 

 the largest quantity of the trees which are here written, 

 and also gale and knee holly, that is, butchers hroom, 

 singreen, that is, house leek, helenium, radish, wallwort, 

 the great nettle, wormwood, earthgall.^ Take then 

 a kettle holding ten ambers, put therein a third part 

 of the rinds and the worts, boil strongly in mashwort, 

 that is, the unfermented luort of beer, if thou have it, if 

 thou have it not, boil strong in water, t hen remoth3 

 rinds, and put new rinds into that same decoction, do 

 so three times, then strain out clean the drink so hot, 

 and then add a basin full of butter so hot, and shake 

 them up together : let this stand two nights or three, 

 then remove the butter, and then take catkins of gale, 

 berry branches of ivy, tansy, and betony, helenium, 

 radish, bonewort, basil, beat together, boil in the butter, 

 then remove the butter clean off t]ie worts, as far as a 

 man may : then take fine barley meal and burnt salt, 



' No doubt//'0(/,Cod.Ex.p. 426-9. 

 Dioskorides Alexifarm. 31. has a 

 chapter on the ^pvvrj, or toad, and 

 the Barpaxos e\eios, or " marsh 

 frog," as poisonous. 



- luPlinius Valerianus. Circinus. 



*' Vesicae si homiuem cinxerint oc- 

 cidunt." 



^ Are we to suppose Carpinus 

 was read as Caprinus, and say horn- 

 beam for lotus ? 



' Erythrcea centmireuin. 



