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1. xxxix. 



LEECH BOOK. I. 103 



take horchound, and everlasting, and alexanders, and ^P'*"'^ \ 

 betony, and celandine, and charlock seed, drink them 

 in wine. A salve : take blooms of elder, and the croi>, 

 or bunch or umbel, boil them in butter, and smear 

 therewith ; if it will, that is, if it shew a tendency to 

 form ratten or 2mrident matter, smear with yolk of 

 egg ; smear over with that, and dry it by gledes, or hot 

 coals, till that it be hard, then wash away and smear 

 again with the salve. For hot erysipelatous eruptions, 

 take dregs of wine, mingle with raw eggs, and with a 

 feather smudge it on, and wash not till the place he 

 hole. For oozing erysipelatous blains, take knee holly, 

 that is, butchers broom, much ere other meat, daily 

 for the wound, and put together bullocks gall, honey, 

 soot; cure therewith. For the same, that is, for the 

 disease called fig, take for a bath that sort of "lust- 

 mock " which bearetli crops or flower bunches, and 

 for a salve, burn a wolfs jaw, the left one, and the 

 teeth apart, mingle with honey and smear therewith, 

 and lay on fresh cheese, mingle the other ingredient^ 

 with milk, sup for three mornings nine sips. For leg 

 disease, that is hot red blains, take nineteen snips of 

 helenium, and nine of " ontre," and eleven of red sedge, 

 put them in ale and drink much ere than thou eat; and 

 seethe the helenium alone till that it be tender, pound 

 together, smear therewith where the disease may bo 

 striking out. A drink for fellons ; cummin, pepper, 

 costmary, seed of marche, seed of black hellebore, pound 

 well, put into ale. A drink or potion for fellons ; 

 pound in ale or seethe celandine, and elecampane, 

 bishop wort, githrife. A drink for fellons ; sigsonte, 

 onion, leek, the netherward part of waybroad, boil all 

 in water and sweeten with honey. A drink for that ; 

 take the netherward part of the small cloverwort, boil 

 in ale or in beer. A drink for fellons ; boil in ale 



' What other ingredient is not clear by the grammatical construction. 



