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tokens of the disease, like unto the tokens of Inng Book ii. 

 disease, and the tokens of h'ver pain. 'I'he men are ^^- ^'^''• 

 afflicted with very strong fevers, and miekle sore on 

 both sides. At whiles the sore striketh' upon the ribs, 

 at whiles the sore is over all the side; at wliiles it 

 coineth up on the collar bones, and again, after a little, 

 the sore greeteth either the shoulders or the lower 

 belly, and they cough frequently, at whiles they break 

 up blood, they suffer a constant wakefulness, the tongue 

 is dry, they cannot lie on the left side if the sore is 

 on the right side, nor again can they lie on the right, if 

 the sore is in the left ; they feel that their viscera by 

 their weight shift place, and fall upon the side on 

 which they lie. These tokens are before the disease. 

 Theie is also cold all through their fingers, and power- 

 lessness of their knees, their eyes are red, and red is 

 their hue, and their discharge ^ is foamy, their mie 

 is turned yellow,^ and the digestion of the inwards is 

 little, and /i«rcZ the pulsation of the veins, the breath- 

 ing is sorelike, the face twitched, and there is a dewy 

 wetting of the breast, as if it sweated, a delirium of 

 the mind ; a spasmodic action, and roughness of the 

 throat, sounding chiefly from within, whistleth from 

 the part on which the sore is ; the disease is unfavour- 

 able to a leaning posture and to laughing. If these 

 tokens continue long, then is the disease too dangerous, 

 and one can do nothing for the man : notwithstanding, 

 ask the man, who endureth this, whether he ever were 

 stricken or stabbed in the side, or whether he long 

 before had a fall, or got a breakage ; if it were that, 

 then will he be easier to cure. If it is come of cold 

 or of inward evil humour, it is so much the harder to 

 cure. If further the man have been before troubled 

 with soreness in the liver, or in the lungs, and the 



Nwo-o-ei, doubtless. I ' Thus the Saxon. 



■ Expectoration ? | 



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