LEECH BOOK. 11. liOl 



xviii. IU)ok II. 



Ch. xviii. 



For swelliug or puffing up of the liver ; if the out- 

 going ^ lodge, fltG hian must first be let blood on a 

 vein, on tlie left side, then work him a bathing thus, 

 and a salve of oil, and rue, and of dill, and of marcho 

 seed, as much as may seem good to thee, seethe all 

 with the oil, and then bathe with nesli wool witli 

 the wash for a long time the right side, and then 

 (.)verlay with wool, and swathe up fast for about 

 three nights ; work him again an onlying salve, and 

 lay barley groats soused with wine, and then sodden, 

 and tJtls all triturated with vinegar and with hone^', 

 and sodden again, lay on the thickest cloth or on a 

 skin, swathe up therewith so warm, and bind upon 

 the sore, and at whiles draw with glass oj- horn, as 

 with cuppliKj glass. If tlie secretion lodge, draw it 

 out Avitli wort drinks ; work sucli of wormwood and 

 of herdwort, and of seed of rue, add enough of strained 

 honey ; give the riiayio a spoon measure after his nightly 

 fast. 



XIX. 



Tokens of a swollen and wounded liver ; leechdoms 

 for that ; and of the hardening of the liver. He who 

 is wounded in the liver, if he be not sooner cured, then 

 arriveth at the disorder in which a man speweth 

 purulent matter. If the man swollen in tlie liver, or 

 the Idoated one, abideth so swollen until the five and 

 twentieth day, so as that the swelling bursteth not, 

 then beginneth the liver to harden ; if it bursteth, 

 then is there a wound in tlie liver. Tokens of the 



' Se ucgans would be presumed liainis, -n-fihs ifirppa^iv ViTraTos, the 



to be ffcce.s, the outgoing of the 

 intc.'.lincs ; but, since this chapter 

 must be based on Alexander Tinl- 



writer ought to mean, the outgoing 

 ol' bile from the liver. 



