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wash it out by those lueaus ; after that, hiy thereon liook ii. 

 what may cleanse the wound. If it turn oft' very im- *"''• ^^" 

 pure, cleanse it with honey and draw it again come 

 together. Again, when the insensible hardening of the 

 liver is of too long duration, then it forms a dropsy 

 which cannot be cured. But one must soon at the 

 outset emplo}^ the before named fomentations ; let him 

 drink nothing new, and if the liversick man have too 

 much blood, then one must, before all other leechdoms, 

 let him blood from the right arm on the nether vein. 

 If that may not easily be got at, then shall n man 

 let blood upon the middle vein; they who do it not, 

 come into mickle difficulties. 



XXlll. 



Herp we treat of what a onan must forego in Vwi-v 

 disease, what he must hold by, whether in leechdoms 

 or in diet. For as much as there is much need that for 

 a man who has much blood one should employ neithei- 

 salves, nor baths, nor external applications, ere he be 

 let blood ; after the body is cleansed through the blood- 

 letting, the mans diet is to be examined : first must 

 be given him what may still and soothe the inwards, 

 what is neither sharp nor too austere, nor rending, nor 

 caustic ; all broth ' must be foregone because it is in- 

 flating and worketh evil humours ; eggs must be fore- 

 gone because their liquor is fat and worketh more 

 heat; crumbs of bread, if they be moistened or sodden, 

 may l)e eaten, but not in excess ; other wet [Avheaten j 

 meat-preparations, and cookings up must be forbid- 

 den, and all the moist things and greasy, and 

 oyster patties,^ and all sweet things which work in- 

 flation. Yea the sharp austere things'^ must be 



'■ Zs'juo. I ' Tix TTV(povTa; but just above 



-' boTTpaKiZtptia, shell fish. | afO)» translated Spiixv, 



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