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that the salves may sink in. Work into a aalve Book ii. 

 somo old salt grease, some horse marrow, some goose 

 fat or hens, and add good worts, and warm the sore 

 2:)laces at the fire. 



6. At whiles lay on and bind on pitch, and wax, 

 and pepper, and grease, and oil melted together. At 

 whiles lay on and bind on the sore swollen sinews 

 goats treadles, mingled with honey, or sodden in vine- 

 gar ; then the paralyzed and swollen sinews dwindle 

 to their -proper size. 



7. Work him a wort drink, which is not purging 

 nor yet emetic, but which driveth off and diminishes 

 the evil humour in the sick man, which is, as it were, 

 foulness, or rheum, or mucus. 



8. Take of honey this small pound,^ then add to it 

 beaten and sifted pepper ; then give it to the infirm 

 man to eat. Again, about three nights after, give it 

 him in the same quantity, or more ; and so about four 

 nights after that. 



9. For the half dead disease; at whiles, apply a 

 spoon measure of salt ; mingle with honey and pepper 

 besides. Try both in this leechdom and in others, 

 which I also write, how it will hold; if the body be 

 hard on the outside, lay on the leechdom that the hard 

 part hy it may turn to ratten, and may draw out the 

 mischief. Draw blood from him, if the face or the 

 head he sore, in the tender place ; and make use of the 

 leechdoms, which may draw the foul matter from the 

 head, either through tlic moutli or through the nose ; 

 and when he hath the power, cause him to sneeze often ; 

 give him the meats which are easy of digestion, and 

 have a good succulence, and that he by means of the 

 meats may grow slender ; that is to say, (jive hion 

 sodden worts ; boil them ; let the first and the second 



' That is, a pound by weight, not a pint by measure : see Leechbook, 

 II. Ixvii. 



