LEECTT P.OOK. TT. 



Ml 



Xll. 



For spewing, and in case that a mans meat will 

 not keep down ; take sinfulle, rub it Jine into sharp 

 wine, give the man a bowl full to drink after evening 

 work. Take, for tliat ilk, two parts of juice of fennel, 

 one of honey, seethe or boil dotvn till the mixture 

 have the thickness of honey, then give after a nights 

 fast a spoon measure fall ; that restraineth nausea, 

 that bettereth the lungs, that healeth the liver. For 

 mickle spewing, and in case a man may keep in his 

 stomach no meat; take one ounce of seed of dill, four of 

 pepper, three of cummin, rub very small; then put 

 into water in which mint has been sodden and sour 

 apples, or the tender upper part of the twigs of a vine ; 

 if the man be not in a fever, eke it with wine, and 

 give it him to drink when he willeth to go to bed; 

 and lay outside on the maw sodden wood apples 

 {crabs), and crumbs of bread, and such applications. 



Book II. 

 Ch. xii. 



xm. 



Besides, this shall be good for Hux ^ of the maw ; 

 one sort of peas bight lentils, let the rnan eat of them 

 raw one hundred. Again, let him sip three spoon 

 measures of sharp vinegar, when he willeth to sleej) 



at evening. 



XIV. 



For all infirmities of the maw ; take of the out- 

 ward parts of the roots of fennel, what is there most 

 tender, remove from the fennel as much as may make 



* For this translation I partly rely 

 on the guidance of Alexander 

 Trallianus, who has remedies irphs 

 ffrdfjiaxov pevnari^dfj-ei/ov ; lib. vii., 

 cap. 8 ; p. 1 1 1, ed. 1548 ; p. 337, ed. 

 1556. Properly pevfiarifffihs is of 



the wamb, or venter, not of the 

 maw ; and Aretajos says as much, 

 Chron. lib. ii., cap. 6. But other 

 authors have the same expression 

 as Alex. Trail ; for instance Cselius 

 Aurelianus, Chron. lib. iii., cap. 2. 



