LEECH BOOK. 11. 21." 



avoided, inasmuch as they have a bad etfect in clo.sini; Book il. 

 the inwards, and they collect the swelling, and it doth ^'''•-■^^'•' 

 not easily disperse,^ hence neither apples nor wine 

 must be given, since they have a hot breath or (ironia. 

 The man must take a not sharp wine ; one must also 

 give him some oxymel, which is a southern or Italkni 

 drink, wrought of vinegar and of honey : and when 

 the burning of the heat bcginneth to wane away, 

 chiefly through the mie, he must have lettuces and 

 the inward part of southern poppy. Tokens that the 

 swelling in the liver may not abate, nor run off; that 

 that man hath a heavy sore in the parts of the nether 

 liver, even as if he were weighted with something of 

 a burden in the right side, and he hath not a heat of 

 fever in these parts. To such a man must be given 

 the drinks and the leechdoms, which we taught one 

 should use for the insensible hardness begun in the 

 liver ; with them let him make the obstructive mischief 

 nesh. If any one applietli the leechdom Avhich unlocketh 

 and draweth out the obstinately lodged matters, before 

 he hath made nesh the badly hardened swelling, he 

 weeneth that he is amending it ; hut if there be aught 

 left of the hard inatter, he amendeth it not, but 

 harmethj and with the leechdom he drietli the hu- 

 mours, and the swelling becometh as hard as a stone, 

 and it cannot be dissipated nor be made nesh. 



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Wort drinks for all liver diseases : let one work for 

 drinks for a liversick man, seed of marche, of dill, 

 of wormwood, rub these fine into water in the manner 

 in which leeches ken hovj, ami give to drink. Again, 

 let the patient drink for three days dust of costmary, 

 and of pepper, and of other worts like these, and let 

 him lie on the right side for half an hour, and drink 



' Tovs uyKova dva(popi}TOvs ijiyaC^rm. 



