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disease. Work him a salve thus, against wamb dis- 

 orders ; from live brimstone, and from black pepper, 

 and from oil ; let them be rubbed small and mingled 

 together ; and wax also; of all equal quantities, of 

 wax however least. If the disease be to that decree 

 strong that it will not accept these leechdoms, if the 

 man be young and strong, let him blood from the 

 inner arm, from (the mickle vein of) the middle vein. 

 Work a salve thus, and smear the sore places ; seethe 

 rue in oil, add parsley, if thou have it, and roots of 

 rushes, and poppy ; after all is sodden, then add wax 

 to the oil, in order that the whole may become a 

 nesh waxen cake,^^ that it may be however a highly a ^ ccrote. 

 approved salve ; smear the places, so that soreness 

 may come with it, especially the fundament. Baths 

 for warnb disorders ; they must be wrought for them 

 of salt waters ; if none can be had, let their {the sick 

 mens) meats be salted. For wamb disorders again ; 

 put into sharp wine a swines claw burnt and rubbed 

 to dust ; give the raan this to drink. For wamb dis- 

 order ; a goats liver burnt, and rubbed somewhat small, 

 and laid on the wamb, it will be the better for him. 

 For wamb disorders again; to send medicine into the 

 belly : take three heads of garlic, and green rue, two 

 handfuls of it, and four pints of oil, or as much as 

 seemeth good to thee ; beat the leek and the rue, rub 

 together, wring out or strain, add to the oil a pound 

 of clean butter, and four ounces and a half of clear 

 pitch, i^erha'ps naphtha, and three ounces of clean wax ; 

 mingle all together, put into a glass vessel, then first 

 cleanse the wamb with the simple onpouring of a drink : 

 then if the sore be greater, add more oil, then mingle 

 the things which I before named; apply lukewarm. 

 These things are valid either against loin ache, when 

 a man pisseth sand, or for diseases and pain of the 

 lono- p-ut, or of the wamb, or of the small gut, and 

 for dysentery, or for diseases of the maw, and gripings, 



