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3. For an old bruised wound, groundsel mingled Book l. 

 with old lard, and laid on : tend such wounds thus. '' ''''''""■ 

 For cleansing of a wound ; take clean honey, warm it 



at the fire, put it then into a clean vessel, add salt, 

 and shake it till it have the thickness of brewit, smear 

 the wound therewith, when it turneth foul. If there 

 be a bone breach in the head, pound maythe and 

 goutweed well in honey, then add butter, that is 

 a good wound salve. Again for that, a bunch of 

 " lustmock " is good to lay on a broken head, and also 

 if a hound tear a man. For tearing by a hound, take 

 the red nettle and attorlothe and some lard, of each 

 an equal quantity, seethe in butter, work to a salve, 

 soon the useless bones will be out. 



4. A wound salve for lung disease. A wort is called 

 hleraock, which waxetli in brooks, and is nov: hrool-- 

 lime, work it, that is, deal with it in a morning when 

 it is dewy, (some 'plaiits of it are undew}'), and sharn 

 of goose dropped when the goose eats not ; pound the 

 brooklime, mingle with the dung of goose, put in less 

 of the sharn than of the wort, boil in butter, wring 

 through a cloth, that will be a good salve. A salve : 

 take vipers bugloss, grovjii on an old tilth, and golden 

 lungwort,^ and a yolk of egg, with this shall one tend " Tlieracium 



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a man who is wounded m the lung. Jbor an mward ^„/„,t,„,,,.j„,„. 



wound, a salve : wine, oil, comfrey, honey. A wound 



salve : githrife and silver weed, and the broadleaved 



brownwort which waxeth in woods, and a bunch of 



the flowers of '' lustmock "; pound all these and boil 



first in a half proportion of butter, and wring through 



a cloth. 



5. Again, a wound salve: the groundsel which waxeth 

 in highways, that is good for a wound salve, and rib- 

 wort, and yarrow, and githrife ;b pound all ihe-woris,^ Agrostemma 

 boil in butter, and squeeze through a cloth. Again, a 9^^''^'9"- 

 good wound salve : oak rind ; dry the rind and pound 



it very small, and delve up the nethermost jpart of a 



