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the fowls which live on downs, and pigeons, that is. Book Tl. 

 the young chicks of culvers, and half grown swine and -"^xxvh. 

 goats flesh, and juice of peas with honey, somewhat 

 peppered : and all moist things are not beneficial to 

 the breast and the inwards, nor is such wine to be 

 taken as heateth and moisteneth the inwards. 



xxxviii. 



Here lue explain, how one must treat the humours 

 and the meagreness, on the outside, with sharp salves. 

 Mingle together pitch, and clear vinegar, and oil of 

 roses ; lay on tlie outside. For the evil humours of 

 the milt; take salt separately, or mingle it with a 

 wax cake salve, or cerote, warmed and put upon some 

 bladder ; that liealeth the milt. Again, take salt, and 

 wax, and vinegar, mingle together, that is of benefit. 

 Again, take a cinqfoil root, and dry waybroad, and 

 burnt salt, of all equal quantities ; soak them in vinegar, 

 and collect them ; add dry pitch, and wax, and oil ; 

 mingle all together and apply. Not merely doth 

 that remedy dry the humours, but it bettereth and 

 softeneth the hardened swellings,^ which come of 

 thick slimy wets or crass viscid humours. For viscid 

 humours of the mUt, take the water of carved salt, or 

 rock salt, that namely which passeth from it, mingle 

 with the things before named. 



xxxix. 



For a windy distention of the milt from eating of 

 apples, and of nuts, and of peas; they produce infla- 

 tion thi'ough the long gut, and small guts, the warab, 

 and the inwards, and the maw; for that is useful 

 pepper and cummin and salt, mingle them together. 



• Scirrhous. 



