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leeches ken to do it; then it removes the sore. If r-.okir. 

 however the disease still vex, add spittle and laurelled '' '^'^^"'" 

 oil, that is to say, juice or blossoms of laurel mingled 

 with oil, and if need be, let also other things be 

 sougfht out. 



XXIX. 



In case a "mans" meat doth not well digest, and 

 turneth to evil humour and to excrement, it is good 

 for those " men " tliat " they " should spew, if it be 

 not too uneasy to "him," irritate him to spew by a 

 wort driniv. If there be extreme need that he may 

 be able to spew before meat, let him manage that 

 with sweetened wine. Let him flee the meats which 

 work him mucus, and burnings, and heat in his inside, 

 and which too readily digest : let him take those 

 which work a good juice, and make the wamb nesh. 

 At whiles it is good for him that one should give 

 him light wort drinks, such as are aloes Avell pre- 

 pared. The humour, if one doth not get rid of it, 

 worketh not easily cured diseases, that is to say, foot 

 pain, joint pain, loins pain ; and often a strong fever 

 Cometh on the men who have that disease. 



XXX. 



If thou wish that thy wamb be always sound, then 

 shalt thou thus treat it, if thou wilt. Look to it every 

 day that thy fsecal discharge, and thy mie, be of sound 

 aspect as right is. If the mie be little, seethe marche 

 and fennel, work a good broth, or seethe juice of 

 . . . and of other sweet worts. If the fsecal discharge 

 be too little, take the wort which in southern lands 

 hight turpentine tree, as much of it as the size of 

 an olive ; give it the sick when he will go to bed. 

 These worts are also very good for that, and more 



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