LEECH BOOK. II. 171 



1, Leeclidoms again for sides sore, that is, pleurisy. Book ii. 



li. Leechdoms for lung disease and loathsome tokens CoNxi-NTfe. 

 oi' symptoms, whence the disease cometh and how one 

 shall cure it ; drinks, and salves, and brewits, bo it for 

 lung wound, or if a lung perish, or if a lung get dry ; 

 one and twenty crafts or recipes. 



lii. Leechdoms and spew drinks for men for their 

 health : and if a man strain himself above measure to 

 spew, and again a weak drink, or if a chink or draught 

 of medicine will not pass away from a man. In all 

 twenty drinks. 



liii. Leechdoms and light drinks for men for their 

 health, and unspewing drinks, or potions not emetic, 

 for infirm inwards ; eight crafts. 



liv, Leechdoms and drinks for an inward stitch, 

 and if there be a stitch outside the inwards. 



Iv. Leechdoms and drinks if a man be inwardly 

 bound up, and for inward disease, and sudden disease. 



Ivi. Leechdoms if a man be afflicted with painful 

 evacuation, and tokens of dysentery, either in the 

 upper part of the belly or in the nether, and whence 

 the disease cometh, and how a man shall cure it, and 

 what a man shall take for diet; and again in case 

 that a man evacuate with blood only, and for mickle 

 sore and upblowing of the inwards, or if a man, from 

 infirmity of the rope gut or colon, have diarrhcea, or 

 if one suffer a bloodrunning in the nether parts of his 

 body, or if any ones mie or urine be of blood, or if 

 it turneth,' or if a man have no evacuation, and 

 again an outrunning brewit for diarrhcEa ; seventy- 

 five leechdoms. 



Ivii. Leechdoms for outgoing of the gut, and if Prolapsus. 

 boils come on a man about the gut, and for outgoing 

 of the gut ; nine methods. 



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