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lock seed ; worm meal in ale ; give him thai to drink. Rook ir. 

 If a man be badly wounded, and for pain in the breast; ^''- ^^'''^' 

 boil in ale, cliurmel and dill, Again, take green rue, a 

 little at a time, or in honey. If a man be over much 

 blown out, mingle with the white of an egg sea 

 periwinkles, burnt and rubbed up, smear therewith. 

 For hicket or hiccup of the wamb : throw dwarf 

 dwostle into boiling water, let it soak therein long, 

 till a man may drink the water. For worms of the 

 wamb ; take the mickle sinful or sedum, wring out 

 the juice, four little bowls full, in one bowl full of 

 wine, as mickle as the others ; that is good for worms 

 of wamb. 



XXXV. 



Of the wambs of children, and of overfilling, and if 

 their meat do not well digest, and if sweat come from 

 them, and stink foully. When a man understandoth 

 that, then shall not a single meat be offered them, but 

 various ones, that the newness or novelty of the meats 

 may be good for them. If one eateth meat over 

 measure, this case one tendeth the more easily, as one 

 the sooner bringeth about that lie spew, and be eUipty; 

 if one tendeth him when troubled with the evil 

 humour arising from overeating, then come on him 

 various diseases, breast pain, neck disease, disease in 

 the jowl, scurf of the head, purulence in the neck, 

 churnels not easy to cure, and the like of those. If 

 for these they may not sleep, then shall one give them 

 hot water to drink, it will still the -scour within, and 

 will cleanse the wamb. Let them employ the bath 

 moderately, and take meat and take drink mingled 

 with water. 



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