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maw are tokens, when it. is vexed witli inflammations, i^ook il. 



thirst is incident to the man, and oppression, and 



swoonings, and vacilkition of mind, and loss of ap})etite, 



and nausea. It is beneficial for liim that he should 



eat bread in cold water or in vinegar, and eggs very 



hard boiled or roasted, (at nine o'clock in the morning,) 



and worts, and lactucas, that is lettuces, and mallow, 



and hens flesh not mnch sodden, and the extremest 



parts of the limbs of goose, that is giblets, and fishes 



which have hard flesh, and periwinkles, and oysters, 



and others ; various sorts of peas, and mild apples, and 



a bath of sweet fresh waters shall be wrought; a hot 



bath will not suit him. Tokens of the overcold maw, 



that the men feel no thirst nor burning heat in the 



maw, nor is there any warm symptom incident upon 



them. But they yearn for meats more strongly than 



is proper, and if in their inwards there lodges any 



cold humour, then they spew up the filth and are not 



able to retain the meats which they swallow ; and after 



the spewing soon they pray that someivhat be given 



tJiem to eat. Those men thou shalt smear with the oil 



on which wormwood has been sodden. And the thick 



coagulated and the viscid humours in the maw, and 



the chilled humours, and the intractable thick viscid 



foulness, thou shalt warm and thin with the afore 



named leechdoms. Work then for the sick man a 



wort drink of the rind of the root of fennel, and let 



it be very tender, and such that it may weigh six 



ounces, and one sextarius of vinegar, and three ounces 



of aloes ; then seethe the fennel in the vinegar till it 



be well sodden, then wring the worts off" the vinegar, 



then add to the vinegar a pound of clean honey, tlien 



seethe these together, till it be as thick as honey, then 



shed the aloes into it, well rubbed up, and give three 



spoon measures with water ; that is good for heart 



ache and for epilepsy. 



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