LEECH BOOK. II. 263 



take leaves of rue and bunches of laurel heads, beat Book ii. 



them small and seethe them in licmey, lay on a cloth • ^ ^ "• 



or on a skin so that it may overlie all the side and 



the sore ; lay on and foment with that mixture, and 



cover after the fomenting with hot wool, and bind on a 



cake of wax. Then if the sore be not the less, then 



draw with a cupping g-lass on the shoulders, and 



scarify where the sore is most, and scrape the blood 



off thoroughly ; and if it then be still more sore, do 



not thou then apply the bladder with salt, but do this 



in the early period of the disease, while the sore is 



least. Seethe rue in oil or in wine, and dill ; anoint 



the sore with that, of necessity, and foment with nesh 



wool and with oil, and then apply the bladder : add 



warm salt, put bran also into salt water ; put it on the 



bladder: Jay it on the sore, do this for tliree nights. 



xlviii. 



If these remedies are no help, then let blood on a 

 vein from the arm, hut not on the side on which the 

 sore is, and the wamb shall be cleansed with a smooth 

 wort drink. Again, melt in water the dropping of a 

 boar swine, which one findeth in a wood, sti'ain it, j)ut 

 it into his drink : or dry it, mingle and rub it into 

 his drink, that will heal the sore of the side. Again, 

 rub small sotne seed of coriander, and seethe it in 

 honey, till it be thick, then take of that, at morning 

 and at even, three spoon measures ; give the man this 

 to swallow. 



xlix. 



Leechdoms and wax salves and scarifyings for sore 

 of side, and what the sieJc are to take for diet. Also 

 thou shalt when thou drawest blood on the shcnilders, 

 draw it strongly on the side, and for about three days 



