LEECH BOOK. U. 159 



Book II. 



Book n. 



i. These leechdoms belong to all disorders of the Contents. 

 inwards. 



ii. Leechdoms for sore of the maw, in all ten, and 

 if the maw be distended, and what the patient shall 

 eat in that disorder. 



iii. Leechdoms for swelling and sore of the maw, 

 how one must let him, the patient, blood. 



iv. Leechdoms for hard swelling of the maw, and 

 smearings, or unguent'^, and what the patients diet 

 shall be. 



V. Leechdoms for puffing up of the maw, and what 

 the 'patient shall partake of in this disorder. 



vi. Leechdoms for want of appetite and for nausea, 

 which Cometh of the maw, and what the patient shall 

 eat ; four crafts, or skilful recipes. 



vii. Leechdoms for deadened maw, and if it have bad 

 lymph, and tokens of deadened maw, how that digests 

 not, which it eateth ; six leechdoms. 



viii. Leechdoms for sore and want of appetite of the 

 maw, which may be cured neither with meat nor 

 drink, and suffereth bitter risings in the throat ; four 

 receipts. 



ix. Leechdoms for an inward wound of the maw 



X. A leechdom for nausea, and to heat an infirm 

 maw. 



xi, A leechdom for windy inflation of the maw, and 

 for puffing up. 



xii. A leechdom for spewing, and in case that a 

 'mans meat will not keep down. 



xiii. A leechdom for flux of the maw. 



xiv. A leechdom for all infirmities of the maw. 



XV. A leechdom for imtation of the maw when there 

 is a bitter heart burn in the mouth, or there is belching. 



