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2. For wamb sickness seethe rue in oil, and let ilw. ^]^^ ^^■ 

 fiicJc swallow it in oil. Again, give him to eat a wild 

 pigeon sodden in vinegar and in water. For wanib 

 sickness, again, lot him chow leaves of laurel, and 

 swallow the juice, and let him lay the leaves on his 

 navel. Again, give melted harts marrow in hot watei- 

 to drink. For moderating''^ the action of the wamb ;" Note, p. 165. 

 take beet, delve it up and shake the mould off, do 

 not wash it, but seethe and boil it in a kettle so long, 

 that it be all sodden to pieces, and run thick, then 

 add a little salt, and of honey five spoon measm-es, of 

 oil one spoon measure, give the man a bowl full. 

 Again, give to the sick to eat, separate, the to}) of a 

 sodden leek, having a head to it. Again, give him to 

 eat some seed of the red nettle on bread. Again, 

 give him to drink juice of mulberries. Again, lot him 

 cat after his nights fasting plum fruits. Again, give 

 him to drink elder rind beaten, as much as may weigh 

 a penny, in a bowl full of cold water. 



XXXI. 



Of wamb sicknesses, and of tokens in the colon and 

 in the small guts. There is a kind of that ilk disease 

 in the wamb, and in the colon, and small guts, of which 

 this will be for a token ; that the sick suffer immoderate 

 thirst and loss of appetite for meat, and often they 

 have a flux with a mingled fsecal discharge, at whiles 

 hard, at whiles white, at whiles they discharge often 

 in the day and then little at a time, at whiles once 

 and then much ; at whiles a desire is upon them to 

 p-o to stool and to cast the burthen from them, and 

 gladly would they attend to it, but they are not able,^ 

 they have not the power of digestion, and they di'op 

 blood, very much like a broken vessel. Of their hue, or 



' Tenesmus. 



