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throuo'h a cloth, and shed that on tlie wound. For ^"^"^ ^• 



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synovia of the joints, take kettle soot and barley halm, 

 burn and rub them together, and shed on. If the 

 synovia run out, take the nether ward part of marche 

 and honey, and the smede of wheaten meal, and the 

 bowels of an ear wig, rub them together, and lay on. 

 Again, take the netherward part of meadowwort, pound 

 it small, mingle with honey, lay on till it be mended. 

 3. If the synovia run out, take vinegar and sour 

 crumbs of a barley loaf, and earthworms, mingle to- 

 gether, and bind on ; wet the joint with vinegar or 

 with sour ale. If the synovia run ou€, take worm- 

 wood and pound it, put it on tar, plaster it on, and 

 bind it on fast. 



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1. For fever disease ; pound in ale lupins, githrife, 

 waybroad, let it stand for two nights, administer to 

 drink. For fever again ; let him drink betony much, 

 and eat three bits of it. Again, drink in clear ale 

 wormwood, githrife, betony, bishopwort, fen mint, rose- 

 mary, the clove rooted wenwort, marrubium, drink for 

 thirty days. A drink for that, betony, springwort, 

 attorlothe, vervain, everthroat, houndstongue, dwarf 

 dwosle, wormwood. For a tertian fever, let the sick 

 drink in warm water ten sups of betony, when the 

 fever is approaching. For a quartan fever, let him 

 drink juice of waybroad in sweetened water two hours 

 before the fever will to him. For a quotidian fever, 

 let him drink in cold water so much of the dust of 

 betony as may weigh a penny ; as much more of way- 

 broad. 



2. For fever again it helpeth, to drink marrubium 

 alone. For lent addle, or typhns fever, work to a drink 

 wormwood, everthroat, lupin, waybroad, ribwort, cher- 

 vil, attorlothe, feverfue, alexanders, bishopwort, lovage. 



