LEECH BOOK. II. 24!) 



For ill juices and wavy movements and yoxing, or luc- P.ook ir. 

 keting, which cometh from the spleen. A southern wort ^''" ^''•'"■''• 

 hight gith, which is good to eat on bread, and seed of 

 marche and of coriander and of parsley kneaded up 

 into bread or rubbed Ji^ie into wine : and also that is 

 beneficial for inflation of the milt. If however the 

 distention from the vv^ind cometh suddenly, then these 

 things cannot help, since that will turn into dropsy. 

 If one applieth the warming leechdoms to that, then 

 one eketh or augmentetk the disease. For a miltsiek 

 man, one must give him vinegar in the southern leecli- 

 dom which hight oxymel, which we wrote of against 

 the half dead disease and disease of the bladder. Take 

 rind of laurel, and dry mint, and pepper, and seed of 

 rue, costmary, and Ao7'ehound, and centaury, that is 

 herdwort, or by another name, earthgall, chiefly the 

 juice of it, add these worts to the before named leech- 

 dom into the ooze. Thou mayest see where we have 

 spoken of the before named diseases, how thou shalt 

 prepare the oxymel. Seethe in water rind of alder until 

 there be of the water a third part unboiled away, and 

 then give a good jug full of it to be drunk at three 

 times ; leave always a days space between the doses. 

 This same is beneficial for a loinsick man. Again, of 

 the black ivy, first three berry bunches, next five, then 

 seven, then nine, then eleven, then thirteen, then fif- 

 teen, then seventeen, then nineteen, then twenty-one, 

 give them so, according to the days, to be drunk in 

 wine. If the man have fever also, give thou him the 

 little grains of the ground ivy in hot water to drink. 

 This same is good for a loinsick man. Again, give 

 him to drink earthgall sodden in wine. Again, boil 

 betony in wine, give him that to drink. A salve and 

 a plaster for milt pain, work it up of honey and of 



■ As followB : II. lix. 



