LEECH BOOK. I. 8i) 



next make a brewit of tliein in the butter, and shake Book i. 



it well up without fire, and add pepper, then let the 



patient eat first the brewit at night fasting. Further 



after that let him drink the draught and none other 



liquid for ten nights, for thirty if he can endure it ; 



then take mistletoe of the oak, beat it small and dry it, 



and rub down to meal, then weigh it against one 



penny, put that into the best wine ; let the sufferer 



drink this accordingly for nine days, and let him eat 



neither new cheese, nor fresh goose, nor fresh eel, nor 



fresh pig, nor augbt of that which cometh of a decoction, 



nor fishes without shells, nor web footed fowls ; if he 



eat any of these, let it be salted, and by no means 



let him drink beer, and wine and ale moderately. If 



this leechdom be followed then shall the man be hole. 



Against circle addle or shingles, take dock that will 



swim, beat it very small, boil in old inspissated wine a 



good handful, then remove the worts, afterwards add 



another handful of the same wort, boil again thoroughly, 



then remove the worts ; then take brimstone, beat 



it very small, then apply the salve, so that it may 



be as thick as brewit, then smear the specks with 



the salve till it be well with him, the patient. 



xxxvii. 



In case that a man may not retain his urine and have 

 not control over it, burn to ashes claws of a boar or 

 of another swine, then shed the ashes on the sick mans 

 drink. Again, burn to ashes the bladder of an unpro- 

 lific, that is a gelt, swine, put it into wine, administer 

 it to drink. For the same, fry a goats bladder, give 

 it to the man to eat ; some, when so fried, reduce it 

 to dust, and %vhen shed into wine, give it to the men 

 to drink, if they be without fever. Again, if a man 

 may not pass water, take of cummin as much as thou 

 mayst lift with three fingers, triturate it, and add 



