LEECH EOOK. 11. 281 



lix. ]?o(,k II. 



llic Mt^. i^ecvLS to have been turitteu about A.D. 1040. 



1. For the Iialf dead disease and whence in coincth. Hemiplegia. 

 The disease cometh on the right side of the body, or 



on the left, where the sinews are powerless, and are 

 afjiided with a slippery and thick humour, evil, thick, 

 and niickle. 



2. Tlie humour must be removed witli bloodlettings, 

 and draughts, and leechdoms. When first the disease 

 cometh on the man, then open his mouth, look at his 

 tongue, then is it whiter on that side on which the 

 disease is about to be ; then tend him thus : carry 

 the man to a very close and warm chamber, rest him 

 very well there in shelter, and let warm giedes be 

 often carried in. 



3. Then unwrap him and view his hands carefully, 

 and whichsoever thou find cold, on that cold vein let 

 him l>lood. After the bloodletting, somewhere about 

 three nights, give him a pui-ging wort drink, put in 

 as many githcorns^ as leeches know nmst be put into 

 a wort drink, and suitable worts. 



4. At whiles must be given him aloes after their 

 [)roper method, at whiles scannnony ; at whiles again 

 after wort drinks, when he is in repose, let blood 

 again on a vein as thou didst at fii-st ; at whiles draw 

 blood with a cupplny glass or a horn from the 

 sore deadened places. 



5. For the half dead disease. Warm at whiles the 

 sore place at the hearth or by giedes, and smear 

 with oil, and with healing salves, and rub smartly so 



Berries of the Dafnc Idurcvla. 



