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not in tlje inwards, then take the red nettle and old B'>"k n. 

 soap, beat them together and smear therewith, and '' '^' 

 foment therewith at the fire. 



Iv. 



1. A drink, if a man be costive within ; jxumd hele- 

 nium, boil in ale it and betony, and the cloved wen- 

 wort ; give tlte man to drink. For inward disease ; a 

 good deal of costmary, and as much more of seed of 

 fennel, beat small and rub to dust ; take a spoon full 

 of this, put it into old wine, or wine boiled down one 

 third, let the ona^t drink tliis after his nights fast lor 

 three days. 



2. For sudden sickness ; bishopwort, wormwood, 

 betony, radish, march e, costmary, seed of rue ; work 

 these, into a drink. 



Ivi. 



1. If a man may not discharge his bowels ; take 

 " uman," and also a contracted hand full of it, and a 

 moderately mickle bowl full of ale ; boil strongly the 

 ale on the wort, then let tlie Tiian drink it after his 

 nights fast. Again, if one seetheth garlic on chicken 

 broth, and giveth it the man as a drink, then it removes 

 the sore. Again, seethe together and give him to drink 

 goats milk, and honey, and salt. Again, let him boil 

 yarrow in honey and in butter, let him eat the wort 

 with tJiOse. 



2. For painful evacuation ; the upper part of ever- 

 lasting, waybroad, elder rind, salt, rubbed up into ale. 



3. Tokens of dysentery either in the upper part of 

 the belly or in the nether. One may understand the 

 disease by tlie ftecal discharged, observing what like 

 it is in appearance : some is thin ; some is suffused 

 with thick humours ; some is mingled with fragments of 

 the inwards, and of the small guts ; some is nuich 



