LEECH BOOK. II. 18.3 



smear with the oil ou which the worts, which we ere Book ir. 

 named, have been sodden ; after that smear with hot ^^' "'• 

 honey, and sprinkle over with dust of mastic and aloes, 

 and somewhat of pepper; then overlay this with a 

 linen cloth or with ewes wool, and give him worm- 

 wood in warm water, ponred off the worimvood two 

 nights (days) previously, that it may still the inflam- 

 mation,' and then administer a peppered wort drink ; 

 and then one shall at morning and evening rub 

 smartly and squeeze the mans hands and feet with dry 

 hands, and if it be good weather let him at undem, 

 that is at nine in the morning, by Gods grace, go out 

 somewhither for a while ; if it be not fair weather, 

 let him walk about within liis house. 



IV. 



For a hard swelling of the maw ; give the sick salt 

 meats, and hares and boars flesh, roots of rue, and 

 cresses, and sheer {clear) wine, and easily digested 

 meats, and applications drawing out the hard swelling, 

 and baths ; work moist smearings, that is, lotions, of oil 

 and wormwood, and of mastic and wine ; bathe him, 

 then smear with that, then overlay with ewes wool, 

 and swathe up ; take also mild apples, put them for 

 the space of a night into wine and then seethe them ; 

 then sweeten the wash or infusion with virgin honey, 

 and pepper it with twenty peppercorns ; then give him 

 in the morning a little bowl full or a spoon full of 

 the thus wrought 'potion to drink. 



A leechdom for swelling of the maw ; one shall in 

 the morning hours squeeze hard the mans feet and 

 hands, and one shall bid him cry or sing very loud, 



' fK^jfiovr], I suppose. 



