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iron, y-ive to the ■j'^cttient to dv'mk, and let liiiii lie slill. Book 11, 

 For liver diseases ; put three bundles of rue into wiuc 

 in a crock, and three niickle bowls full of water, lioil 

 them down to the third part, and sweeten them tho- 

 rouglily with honey, and then again boil off; give tkis 

 to be drunk. Again, rub into the best wine the upper 

 part of the green twigs of a pine tree ; administer this. 

 Again, a harts lungs Avith the throat ripped up, and 

 s))read out, and dried in the reek; and when they are 

 full well dried, break them and rub them isDiall and 

 then collect them with honey; give tlds to the liver- 

 sick man to eat ; it is a healing leechdom. If tlie 

 liver wax large, let the man drink an emetic drink. 

 Again, for a week after that let him drink bean broth 

 and no other liquid, next week let him drink worm- 

 wood boiled in mashwort, and no other liquid, and 

 there is a wort called ealiver,^ boil that also in masli- 

 wort, let him drink that for the third week and no 

 other liquid. Let him drink after that an emetic drink 

 for one turn. 



XXV. 



Here are plain tokens of disorders and sicknesses of 

 tjje wamb, and how a man shall cure the evil humour;^ 

 of the wamb. When wamb disease is present then the 

 tokens are ; the wamb turneth itself, and is fevered, 

 and feeleth sore when the man eateth meat, and prick- 

 ings, and loss of appetite for meat. The knees are 

 slow, the loins are heavy, and there are spasms be- 

 tween the shoulders, and all the body by piece meal' 

 is heavy, and the feet are tardy, smd the muscles of the 

 loins are sore ; when a man observes these tokens, then 

 the first leechdom is a days fasting, that with that he 

 may cleanse the wamb, that it may be the lighter. Well, 



' Jack in the heclye ; Eri/simum I - citia occasionem,'' the modern 

 alliaria. I translation of the imprinted Greek. 



