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LEECH BOOK. T. 99 



drink a full draught to the sick caffcer his nights fasting.' Book T 

 A wound drink : pound small the netherward and up- 

 ward part of ribwort, carline thistle, and the netherward 

 part of ashthroat, put them into boiling water, rub 

 between the hands, and strain through a cloth, ad- 

 minister to drink. A salve for every wound: collect 

 cow dung, cow stale, work up a large kettle full into 

 a batter as a man worketh soap, then take appletree 

 rind, and ash rind, sloethorn rind, and myrtle rind, 

 and elm rind, and holly rind, and withy rind, and the 

 rind of a young oak, sallow rind, put them all in a 

 mickle kettle, pour the batter upon them, boil very 

 long, then remove the rinds, boil the batter so that it 

 be thick, put it ever into a less kettle as it groweth 

 less, pour it, when it is thick enough, into a vessel, 

 heat then a calcareous stone thoroughly, and collect 

 some soot, and sift it through a cloth with the quick- 

 lime also into the batter, smear the wound therewith. 

 Again for the same, take hove and silverweed and browai- 

 wort, and a bunch of the flowers of "lustmock," and 

 vipers bugloss, boil in butter and wring the worts off, 

 and put others in, ribwort, bishopwort, yarrow, atter- 

 lothe, put them into the same butter, boil again strongly, 

 wring these off" ; that will be a good wound salve. 



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1. Here are leech doms for erysipelatous inflammations 

 of every sort, and fellons, and leg diseases of every 

 sort ; eight and twenty in number. 



2. Take leaves of green marche, rub or bruise them 

 with the lees of vinegar, smear with that the sore 

 places. For erysipelas which hath broken into blains, 

 take sour curds, work them to a chalder, and foment with 

 the chalder. For erysipelatous inflammations again, take 



' Ne)t;i5 must be understood as najTrijum. 



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