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milk, if tliou have neither of tlie others; if tlioii work P.ook li. 

 it in wine or in milk, sweeten it with honey; let Ihc *''•'"• 

 man diink a good niickle cup full. 



2. Work a spew drink of beer, add costmary, and 

 aloes, and fifteen Hbcorns, of the others similarly. 



3. An emetic ; of homewort three pieces, and rend 

 up elder rind, the same quantity, twenty-five libcorns, 

 rub them to dust, and of honey as much as would l)e 

 one piece or 'proportion, then eat thereof with a sjioou, 

 sip some water hot or cold. If sucli a draught will 

 not 'pass from a mau, take marche and chervil, seethe 

 them thoroughly in water, add salt, then let the man 

 drinl'. If there is inward pain, take a jug full of new 

 ale, add a hand full of homewort, have the jug held 

 up and drink till thou spew ; then poke a feather into 

 thy mouth ; draw the bad matter out, drink again 

 soon. Take scammony, so much as may weigh a penny, 

 and rub it small, and half cook a hens egg, salt it 

 thoroughly, j^ut the wort into it, let not the egg coa- 

 gulate, but sip it. A wort drink ; choose scammony 

 thus, break it in two, put a bit on thy tongue, if it 

 bursteth out white as milk, then it is good ; I'ub it 

 then in a treen vessel, not in any other, with a spoon 

 or with a handle, remove what cannot be rubbed down, 

 that part is coagulated, add two or three drops of 

 xuoKixov,^ or boil together ivifJt it a stalk of olive 

 leaf: if it be good the dose will be one pennyweight; 

 if moderately good, one and a half or two penny- 

 weights; if bad, three; no more than that. A spew 

 drink ; hove, and onred, and elder rind ; pound these 

 together, ]nf^t least of elder, then add thirty -pepper- 

 conis, sweeten with honey, give the ma7i to drink. 



' " Est etiam mecllcamentum • • • I xiv. See the moiition fif 0-iifnaicuv. 



" quod KuAiKhf nominatur. . . magis I Book II. Ivi. 4. 



" prodest potiii datum." Celsns, IV. ! 



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