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vinegar, add meal and linseed, and barley groats, and nook Ji. 

 seed of marclie ; lay on and smear •with this. Add ^^" -''^^'^• 

 also blossoms of dry wormwood. 



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Again, when the mUt becometh upblown, soon it will 

 harden, and then it is not easy to cure, when the 

 blood hardeneth on the veins of the milt: then treat 

 it with the before named worts, mingle the good worts 

 with oxymel, the southern acid drink, which we before 

 wrote of, they will cure the milt and will do away 

 the thick and livery ' blood, and the evil humours, 

 not by the mie only, but also by the other evacua- 

 tion passage or outgang. Lay on externally the 

 lesser herdwort beaten up. Take also roots of clover, 

 put them in vinegar, and goat treadles, then work them 

 to a salve, and add thereto barley meal ; give the man 

 also this in wine to drink. 



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For the hardness and sore of the milt; take a 

 swines bladder so new, fill it with sharp vinegar, lay 

 it over the hardness of the milt, then swathe up, 

 that it may not glide away, but may be thereon, 

 fast bounden, for three nights. After that unbind ; 

 then thou wilt find, if it be good, the bladder clear, 

 and the hard fart made nesh, and the soreness stilled. 

 Again, take leaves of ivy, seethe them in vinegar, and 

 boil in the same vinegar some bran, then put this into 

 a bladder, and bind upon the sore ; then soon after 

 give a wort drink thus wrought : for hardness of the 

 milt ; take earthgalls, beat or rub them to dust, so that 

 there may be three or more spoon measures, add three 

 spoon measures of dust of savine thereto, and three 



' Such as flows through the liver. 



