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XXX. Leeclidoms if tliou will that tby wamb Ix; al- pook II. 

 ways sound, and of disease and sore ; and of disease of ^^^■^^''• 

 the wamb and • sore of the intestines, and foi- the 

 moderation ' of the wamb ; sixteen receipts. 



xxxi. Leechdoms and symptoms marking of the ro])e 

 gut and small gut, and of the ftocal discharge ; how 

 they suffer unbounded thirst and loss of appetite; and 

 of their complexion or hue, and of the navel, and the 

 dorsal muscles, and rectum, and pit of the belly, tvnd 

 milt, and share or puhes, and how bad leeches ween 

 that that is loin disease or milt wark, and where the 

 warnbsick suffer the disorder, and how it is with them, 

 and how a man shall treat them : four methods. 



xxxii. Leechdoms how a man shall cure one so 

 afflicted, Avhether with bloodletting, and salve, and 

 baths, and Icoiv to send curatives into the belly. 

 And these leechdoms are efficacious against loin ache, 

 if a man mie sand, for dysentery, for diseases of the 

 maw, and gripings, and womens tendernesses, and of 

 the disease where a man would evacuate and is not 

 able (tenesmus), and if the discharge be windy, and 

 watery, and bloody. Twelve methods. 



xxxiii. Leechdoms for the perilous disease in which 

 a man casteth from him and speweth, as they sa}^, his 

 excrement through the mouth ; and for wounds of the 

 inwards, and sore of the small guts, and for laceration 

 of the inwards, and for inward spasm ; and for the 

 wamb which digests late, and the man who is not 

 affected by the leechdoms ; there cometh on him 

 dropsy, pain in liver, sore of spleen, retention of urine, 

 inflation of belly, pain in loins, sand and stones wax 

 in the bladder. Thirteen receipts. 



' The " temperies " and " commoderatio vcutri;-," that it be neither too 

 hot nor too cold. 



