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for every, even for deep wounds. Some teacli us against Book I. 

 bite of adder to speak one word, that is, Faul;' it Cii. xlv. 

 may not linrt him. Against bite of snake, if the oiian 

 procures and eateth rind, which cometli out of paradise, 

 no venom will damage him. Then said he that wrote 

 this book, that the rind was liard gotten. 



6. If one drink a creeping thing in water, let him 

 cut into a sheep instantly, let him drink the sheeps 

 blood liot. If a man be "restrained" with worts," give 

 him springwort for him to eat, and let him sup up 

 holy water. Incase that a man be "withheld;" if he 

 hath on him Scottish wax, and the small atterlothe ; 

 or let him drink it in boiled ale, he may not be 

 " restrained " by worts. 



xlvi. 



1. If 0ns worm ^ grow in a man, smear with the " See Glos- 

 l)lack salve. If tJie worm eat through to the outside ^^'^^' 

 and make a hole, take a drop of honey, di'op it on the 



hole, then have broken glass ready ground, shed it on 

 the hole, then as soon as the worm tastes of this he 

 will die. A salve against an 0ns worm, thus shall a 

 man work it : take cinquefoil, that is five leaved grass, 

 and rue, boil them in Ijutter, sweeten with honey. 



2. A drink; administer in ale cinquefoil, that is five 

 leaved grass, or 'potentilla, to drink for thirty nights. 

 A drink for that ; rub ' down into ale or into wine 

 seed of radish and of colewort, let the man drink that 

 long and frequently against 0ns worm, till that Ids 

 case be bettered. A plaster for the same : pound to 

 dust a red tile or hrick, mingle with groats, bake a 

 cake, ky it on the wound ; work another ];>laster if 

 need be. 



' Cf. " Duo," to drive away scor- I - From hajnieb)niis. See yoiibe« 

 pious, Plinius, lib. xxviii. 5. | jian in Glossary. 



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