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scarify and lay on cerote and oil, and give such drinks Book li. 

 as thou knowest are suitable for side pain. If ixmUd <-''• -'^''^• 

 wort drink do not sufHce, give a strong one. Let the 

 laari take light meats and juicy broths, and juicy peas, 

 and beaten eggs, and bread broken in hot Avater, and 

 periwinkles removed from the shells, with [leas. 



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Again, for sore of side, seethe in oil leaves of bctony, 

 and bruise them, lay them on the side. 



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1. Hereinafter are set forth the loathly tokens of 

 lung disease, and whence it cometh, and how one must 

 work leechdoms against it. The breast is npblown, 

 and the thigh and muscle is sore, and the onmis maw 

 distendeth much, and his legs and his feet swell much 

 with evil unfeeling swellings, and a drier cough vexes him, 

 and in the cough at whiles his voice is gone. Smear . 

 the man with oil, and also warm the sides and the 

 ribs with new wool, and between the shoulders, a little 

 before evening, then let the oil remain on him ; and 

 after that let him blood from the sound elbow " in an 

 oven, where the fire cannot harm him;" if thou lettest 

 him too much blood, there will be no hope of his life. 

 Work him a brewit from roots of wall wort, and from 

 Heath wort, and horehound, and dill seed ; seethe these 

 in butter ; give him this breiuit to eat cold in a 

 morning ; and at night dress his meat Avith oil, and 

 let all his drink be cold. In many a man the lung 

 decayeth. Let him drink some emetic drink, and 

 beat up many hens eggs into a vessel, all raw, then 

 let him curdle it and eat it, and previously mingle 

 with curds, and let him take no other milk diet. 

 A light drink ; take gagel, or siueet gale, boil it in 

 wort of beer, then let it stand a little, remove the 



