LEECH BOOK. I. 



105 



fennel, bishop wort, elecampane. A drink for a f'ellon; 

 boil in ale or in beer springwort. A drink again for 

 a fellon ; boil in ale cropleek, penny royal, wormwort. 

 A drink for fellons ; marclie, attorlothe, betony, rue, 

 sedge, " ontre," clote, bishop wort, work tlieim up in 

 ale. Again for fellons, take, to begin, a hazel or an 

 elder stick or spoon, write thy name thereon, cut three 

 scores on the place, fill the name with the blood, throw 

 it over thy shoulder or between thy thighs into run- 

 ning water and stand over the man. Strike the scores, 

 and do all that in silence. 



For fellon, catch a fox, strike oflf from him ivliilc 

 quick, that is alive, the tusk, or canine tooth, let the 

 fox run away, bind it in a fawns skin, have it upon 

 thee. 



Book I. 

 Ch. xxxix. 



xl. 



For pock disease,' use " onred," liouseleek, the nether 

 part of it, fieldmore, the nether part of it; of "onred" 

 an equal quantity, and of the two others Ijy half less 

 of the fieldmore or carrot than of the houseleek, 

 pound them thoroughly togetlier, add so much clear 

 ale as may mount above the worts ; let them stand 

 three nights, administer in the morning a cup full. 

 A drink for pock disease ; boil water in a crock, add 

 honey, skim continually the foam away till it will 

 foam no more ; then sip and drink oft and whilom 

 as thou hottest may, and smear with the honey where 

 it may be breaking out into the pock, soon there will 

 be no mischief. A salve for pock disea,se ; boil in 

 butter singreen, yarrow, githrife, the crop, or floiver 

 head, of red nettle. A drink against pocks ; bishop 



^Smallpox. The disease was un- 

 known in classical medicine ; it 

 appeared in France in 565, A.D., 

 and in Arabia in 572, A.D. The 



Arabic physician Razi treats of it 

 in a separate monograf about 92.3, 

 A.D., not long before this copy of 

 the Leech Book was ^Titten out. 



