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Naught is better for Lini than that he take those ^^°^ ^}- 

 which digest late, and are notwithstanding not purga- 

 tive ; let him eat at undern, or nine o^cloek, loaf bread 

 broken into hot water, or apples peeled. There is also 

 good support in good wort drinks, as leeches work 

 them, of vinegar, and of fennels roots, and of its rind, 

 and of aloes, and of dumbledores^ honey; mix that up 

 and administer a spoonful of it or two, then that 

 maketh the wamb nesh and firm ; and it is efiicacious 

 against breast wark, and heart disease, and epilepsy, and 

 in case that a man be filled with inflainmatory hu- 

 mour in the maw, and that is valid against many dis- 

 orders which come of surfeit and of various evil 

 humours. If they are come of surfeit with spewing, by 

 that remedy shall they be lessened. If however they 

 come of other bitter and evil humours, which work 

 inflammations, then are the latter to be stilled till that 

 they become less strong ; chiefly if the humours be 

 thick and rather slippery.^ 



2. Of wamb disease, or if the evil humours come 

 from the wamb alone and do not overrun the whole 

 body, that case shall be treated with healing meats 

 alone. If moreover the evil humour from the wamb 

 overrunneth the whole body, this shall be dealt with 

 by means of the stronger remedies : at whiles one shall 

 let him blood from a vein, if there seems to be too 

 much of the blood and of the evil humour, and also 

 give a wort drink ; but he shall first be let blood 

 and after that have the wort drink given him. 



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1. For a sore and swollen maw ; take oil, and put 

 mastic, and dill, and southern wormwood into the oil, 



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