LEECH BOOK. 11. I S7 



drink mint unci niue corns of pepper rubbed tutudt in Jiook li. 

 wine. ^^- ^'• 



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This shall apply for a deadened maw;^ take some 

 honey and vinegar mingled together, and pepper beaten 

 up, give in the morning a spoon full of it to the man 

 after his nights fast, let him employ sharp drinks and 

 meats; and at the bath let him rub and smear him- 

 self with mustard. Give him also, after his nights fast, 

 this : take vinegar mingled with somewhat of gladden, 

 and of long pepper ten corns or clusters, and mustard ; 

 mingle all together, and triturate; give him after a 

 nights fasting, one spoon measure. Then consider thou, 

 notwithstanding, that all the aforenamed leechdoms and 

 the after written ones, shall not be to be done at one 

 too long season, but must have space and rest between 

 them, whilom two days, whilom three ; and when one 

 lets him blood on a vein, on those days let none other 

 leechdom be done to him, except about five days later 

 or more. For a stomach troubled with hicket or puffed 

 up, take beeves flesh sodden in vinegar and with oil, 

 prepared with salt, and dill, and porrum, let the sick 

 diet on that for seven days, then that relieves the 

 labouring maw. These are tokens of a deadened 

 maw ; what he taketh, that melteth or digests not, 

 but the meat swallowed oppresseth the maw, and it 

 sendeth out the half digested food through the wamb. 



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For soreness and loss of appetite in that maw, 

 which may not be cured neither with meat nor with 

 di'ink, and for the bittei' breaking or retching ; take 

 centaury,^ that is fel terrse, some call it herdsmans 



Now called a torpid liver. | - Eri/thraa cantaureum. 



