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and more heaviness than sore. And when the upblow- Book II. 

 ing is on the fihns, and on the veins which be in and ^ ' ^^^ 

 about the liver, then is the sore sharper than the sore 

 of the inflammation which is on the liver itself, and 

 thou mayest by that understand that the disorder is 

 on the lobes and margins of the liver. If moreover 

 the liver hardening, and the disease, and the upblow- 

 ing is kindled on the hulks and hollows of the liver, 

 then it soon seems to the doctor that the humour 

 descends downwards rather than ascends ; and the man 

 suffers swoonings and failings of the mind ; ' his body 

 cannot amend, but it is pale, and thin, and chilled, and 

 hence there falleth upon him dropsy. 



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For the sensitive hardness of the liver ; it is to be 

 bathed with hot water, on which worts have been 

 sodden, wormwood and roots of wild maythe, a wort 

 that hight fenugreek, and earth gall ; when they are 

 all sodden, then bathe the sore places for a long time 

 with copious water fomentations ; - leave it so for three 

 days ; then work a salve wrought of wheaten groats 

 or of a brewit of wormwood, and of wine, and of 

 abrotanum, and of cummin, and of bunches of laurel 

 berries ; add thereto as much honey as thou needest ; 

 give the niutn that for three days; on other three set 

 on him a cupping horn or glass, draw out hy that, 

 ivhat comes out. Thou shalt treat the sick better if 

 thou settest rue in oil, and green or dry wormwood, 

 and gum mastic, witli all that bathe him, also lay 

 it upon him,; let it be for a whole day, and also for 

 many days these things are to be done, and to the 

 men must be given dim^etic drinks ; give thou him 



' Xeiirodvfjdas for the two. 

 - Medicated baths were well known, as to Oribasios. 



