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xxxiv. Leechdoms; and the leeclidoms which are Book II. 

 suitable to the case sliall be administered accordino- to ^^^'^'^^'^^- 

 the mans powers, whether in head, or heart, and of 

 wamb, and bhidder, and lynipli; ^ and according as 

 the time of year may be, in regard to heat and cold; 

 and for late digestion, or if the wamb be overgrown 

 and wounded ; and if a man be blown out inwardly ; 

 and for prurience, and itchings of the wamb ; nine 

 methods. 



XXXV. Leechdoms for the overfilling 07' surfeit of 

 children, and for their wamb, and if their meat digest 

 not well, and if sweat pass from them and stink 

 foully. 



xxxvi. Leechdoms of pain in the milt, and that 

 the milt is on the left side, and tokens of the disease, 

 how reckless the sick are, and how long the milt 

 is, and of the film or membrane of the milt on the 

 left side, and of splenetic laughter, which cometh of the 

 milt, how the milt suffereth everything of that which 

 other limbs suffer either hot or cold; and of the bath, 

 and of sexual commerce, and whence the heat cometh 

 and the cold of the milt : eight receipts. 



xxxvii. Leechdoms how a man shall tend the man 

 within and without with cold and hot leechdoms, 

 and what meat he is to take, and what he is to 

 forego. 



xxxviii. Leechdoms how a man shall cure the hu- 

 mours and the livid complexion by external applica- 

 tions, and of the evil humours of the milt, and of the 

 lubricity of the humours of the milt. 



xxxix. A leeehdom for a windy swollen state of the 

 milt, which cometh of eating of apples, and of nuts, 

 and of peas, and of honey, and which pufFeth up 

 throughout the rope gut, and the intestines, and the 



Gastric juice. 



