LEECH BOOK. II. 109 



waiii]i or venter, and the maw or stomacJt, sobbing Book II. 

 and Avatery congestions which come from the milt, 

 and how the disease turneth into dropsy : in all ten 

 crafts. 



xl. Leechdoms for inflation and for hardening of the 

 blood in the milt. 



xli. Leechdoms for the hardness and sore of the milt, 

 and how a man may with a swines bladder lilied 

 with vinegar, make nesh the hardness ; and for all 

 its inward diseases ; three recipes. 



xlii. Leechdoms in case inflammatory blood and ill 

 humours in the milt are enlarging it : then shall the 

 sick be let blood in these ways which this Leech book 

 saith ; and of the hue of the blood. 



xliii. Leechdoms telling what during that disorder 

 is to be the diet, and what food is to be foregone. 



xliv. A leechdom, again, a very noble one, which 

 di'aweth out the evil out of the milt ; and this leech- 

 dom is also efficacious for puffing up of the maw and 

 of the inwards ; it maketli nesh the wamb, it thinneth 

 the hot secretions, it doth away bitter throat risings, 

 and breast disease, and side pains, 'pleurisy, and liver 

 disease, and milt pains, and wamb wind ; all them it 

 lighteneth. 



xlv. Leechdoms and a powerful potion for the swollen. 



xlvi. Leechdoms for sore of either side, and wondrous 

 tokens whence the disease cometh, and how it is 

 imminent, and how it should be dealt with. 



xlvii. Leechdoms which have the main or virtue of 

 thinning and smalling or small rnaJdng; for the bodies 

 which suffer a moderate or strong heat, and how a 

 swines bladder should be applied. 



xlviii. Better leechdoms if these others are not for 

 a help, how, also, the patient shall be let blood. 



xlix. Leechdoms, and wax salves, and scarifications 

 for sides sore, and a declaration what he, the sick, 

 shall take for diet. 



