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the open scarifications, smear with tlie black salve, bo Book I. 

 it for a night, be it for two, as need be, and as they " ^'' 



be open. 



Ivii. 



For the disease called fig, a drink and a salve ; let 

 him boil worm wort in milk and drink it. A salve ; 

 pound glass to dust, add a drop of honey, leech the 

 wound therewith. 



Iviii. 



1. For a wen salve and for wen boils ; work the salro 

 of the netherward part of nettle and of hendock, and 



of the wenv/ort which has cloves or bulbed roots^'^ and =" Probably 



of the small moorwort, boil all four in butter and in f ""f"^"^"^' 



sheeps grease till there be enough, pound again the 



same worts in the salve, and ship tar, and garlic, and 



cropleek, and sedgeleek,^ and salt, mingle well, put i> AHium 



on a cloth, w^arm thoroughly at the fire, smear tliere- •'^fhienoprcmm. 



with. 



2. A salve for wens ; ontre, cress, I'ed nettle, worm- 

 wood, the two wenworts, elder rind, w^aybroad, sorrel, 

 bishopwort, the nether part of bulot, smearwort, salt, 

 shi]i tar,^ and sheeps grease. For a wen boil ; take 

 cropleek, ontre, helenium, the clove rooted wenwort, 

 ]iound all the worts thoroughly well, lay the stuff on. 



8. A wen salve ; harts marrow, ivy tar, and beaten 

 pepper, and ship tar. 



4. [Against the black blain, give to the man to eat 

 two bunches or three ofl:' the wort, wdiich is called in 

 three ways, the mix en plant.^] 



' Pix uavalis is occasionally prescribed by the medical authors, as 

 Nic. Myreps, 481, c, in the Medicte Artis Principes. 

 - Atropa belladonna. 



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