LEECH B(K)K. 1. 133 



5. For a burn, pound up woad, boil it in buttci-, ■^^'jok I. 

 •smear therewith. ^^- '"• 



Ixi. 



1. Against racking pain iu the joints, pound lith- 

 wort with honey, or chew it and lay it on. Again, 

 burn thoroughly the head bone or skull of a wolf and 

 pound it small, sift it through a cloth, put it on the 

 wound. Against pain in the joints, pound w^ormwood 

 with tar and fen cress, wring out the juice, mingle 

 together, stick the residue upon the joint where the 

 sore is, bind it on fast. For the synovia of the joints, 

 silver weed, brown Avort, and the little harewort,^ it 

 oftenest waxeth in a garden, it hath white blossoms, 

 })0und tlie three worts, mingle them, that is a good 

 salve. With many men the synovia of the joints oozeth 

 out,^ wring on the spot the juice of an apple, and shave 

 very small some shavings of horn, crumble"^ them on 

 the wound within it, remove that and ever apply the 

 same anew. For the synovia of the joints, burn lith- 



wort,-'^ hound shead, and pound them up with roasted •■■ Samlmcus 

 apple ; mingle all that together, apply it. Again, take ^ " "*' 

 a sour apple, roast and lay it on ; ap|)ly groats over 

 above the apple. 



2. For the synovia of the joints, take maythe, mingle 

 it with honey, apply it to the wound and bind it fast. 

 For the secretion of the joints, take oak rind and dry 

 it and work it to a fine Jiour or smede, and further 

 sloethorn rind, the netlierward part of it, sift tlieni 



' Lepidium ? ! " siipincntiir, aut vicinis adfixi in- 



- " Tunc articiili tumcntesinflau- " cunibant, ct aliquanclo Immore 



" tui', ac cleinde durcscunt ft soli- | " piirulento vel miicilento collecto, 



" dati saxeam faciunt qualitatem ; " aut viscoso, gcnerent poros, quos 



" turn etiam nigriores cfficiuntur, ! " cos transitus dicere potcrimus.'" — 



" atque contort!, ut in ohliquas Cnrlius vV^.irclianus, about A.D. 230, 



" partes digiti vcrtantur, aut rcflexi Chron. lib. v. cap, 2. 



