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complexion, and of the navel, and of tlio dorsal muscles, ''"'"'^ 'f- 



and of the back gut or rectum, and of the lower belly, 



and the milt, and the share ; they are horribly pale, 



and all the body is glazed, and an evil stench hath 



not control over itself,^'- and the sore is on the right » Eutcuii.sni. 



side on the share, and on the wamb, much troubled' 



bij it, and again from the navel to the spleen, and 



on the left dorsal muscle, and it reacheth to the anus, 



and to the lower belly, and the loins are girt about 



with much soreness. Unwise leeches ween, that it is 



loin disease, or milt wark : but it is not so ; loinsick 



men mie blood and sand ; on the other hand those, 



who have milt wark, the milt distendeth in them, 



and is hardened on the left part of the side. The 



wambsick men suffer in the back gut, and in the 



lower belly, and their voice soon is lost, and they 



suffer chill, and sleep is taken from them, and strength, 



and it draweth the colon from within and upon the 



small cut. 



xxxii. 



One may easily cure the first stage of this disease in 

 the same wise as the outrunning disease, or relaxatioo 

 of the bowels, and afterwards less easily, if unwisely 

 it be too long neglected. In the first instance a man 

 must fast for a day or two, and foment the breast with 

 wine, and with oil, and work poultices of roses and 

 barley meal, mingled with wine, and sodden in honey, 

 and gathered up with oil in a mortar, lay these over 

 the share, as far as the navel, and over the loins as 

 far as the back gut, and Avhere it is sore. Let him 

 blood thus ; set on him a cupping glass or horn, and 

 draw the blood out, and smear with oil, and wrap 

 him up warm, in as much as cold is an enemy in the 



' It Roems best to consider seneajij'oh as for geneajij'obe, with termina- 

 tion dropped. 



