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easily procured, beet, and mallow, and brassica or cab- l^ook ir. 

 h'Jbge, and the like to these, sodden together with young »-'^^- 

 flesh of swine ; let the, man swallow the broth : and 

 also nettle sodden in water and salted is good to 

 swallow ; and also leaves of elder and the broth in 

 the same wise. Some give leaves of aloe, when a man 

 willeth to go to sleep, as much as three beans, every 

 day to be swallowed ; and drinks like these, and more 

 powerful ones, if need be, are to be administered ; 

 especially in early spring, before the evil humour, 

 which is collected in winter, spread itself through the 

 other limbs. Many men have not attended to this, no, 

 nor do yet ; then there cometh of the evil humours, either 

 hemiplegia, or epilepsy, or tlie Avhite roughness, which 

 in the south bight lejDrosy, or tetter, or headroughness, 

 or erysipelas. Hence one nuist cleanse away the evil 

 humours before the mischiefs come and wax in the 

 winter, and run through the limbs. For wamb sick- 

 ness and sore ; a bowl full of linseed, rubbed or beaten, 

 and two bowls of sharp vinegar ; boil together, give 

 to the sick man to drink after his nights fast. 

 Again, lay chewed pennyroyal on the navel, soon the 

 pain will be still. Again, rub a small (juantity of the 

 seed of dill into water, give it to be drunk. For 

 wamb sickness and sore of the bowels ; when from 

 much cold the wamb is not under control, do to it 

 the things which we wrote above ; then if there be a 

 subversion or irritation of the stomach, take three 

 bunches of laurel flowers, and separate spoons full of 

 cummin and of parsley seed (?), and twenty pepper- 

 corns, rUb all together, and dry three membranes which 

 are in the wambs of young birds ; after that take water, 

 rub dill into it, and heat these things ; give the man 

 this to drink till the sore is stilled. For the same, 

 take bread and seethe it in goats milk, sop it in a 

 southern drink, such as Jtydroinel, 'p'^rhaps, or uxijmcl. 



