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again in the evening. Let him withhold himself also K«>ok.ii 

 from vinegar, from the bath, from peas, and beans, 

 and navews, and from the things which work in a man 

 a windy vapour. Again, beat or rub up and sift 

 eostmary, fenugreek, pepper, hares treadles, equal quan- 

 tities of all ; put a spoon full of this into wine, and 

 give it to him who is without fever, to drink. To 

 him who hath fever, that is mickle heat and fire,' give 

 it in warm water ; then let him lie on the rio-ht side 

 and lay his right hand stretched out under his head, f(jr 

 half an hour. Again, wortdrinks for liver disease : to 

 two little bowls full of juice of clover mingled with a 

 little honey, add a bowl full of heated wine ; give this 

 to be drunk for three days, if anything of evil be on 

 the liver, the drink will cure it. Again, give to drink 

 for four days, three little bowls full of the juice of 

 wild mallow, mingled with two such of water . and if 

 fever disease be on him, the wort drink drivetli it 

 away. Again, rub together wine, cummin, and honey, 

 give him this to drink. Again, five and twenty bunches 

 of ivy berries, gathered in the month which we hight 

 in Latin Januarius, and in English the second Yule, 

 and of pepper as much, rub the-'<e up with the best 

 wine, and heat it ; give it to the sick man, aftei- 

 his nights fasting, to drink. A leechdom again foi- 

 liver disease : dry clean some twigs or stalks of cole- 

 wort with the flower heads, burn them to ashes, store 

 the ashes, and when occasion is, put a spoon full of 

 the ashes with eleven ground pepper corns into old 

 very clear vjine, then heat it, give to be drunk the 

 next time nine corns, the third time seven. A leech- 

 dom again for liver disease : rub small a bunch of bay 

 berries and twenty pepper corns, put them into a bowl 

 full of old wine, and mingle them together with a glowing 



' Properly fever; the 8axoii seems to interpret Fever, as 

 Latinisni, by pure English words. 



