LEECH BOOK. TIT. 333 



between the tliighs, up under the raiment, that the Book III. 



, 1 Ch. xxxviii. 



woman may sweat much. 



xxxix. 



1. A smearing for a penetrating worm; take swines 

 gall, and fishes gall, and crabs gall, and hares gall ; 

 mingle them together, smear the wounds thereAvith ; 

 blow with a reed the liquid into the wound ; then 

 pound hart bramble^ leaves, lay them on the wounds. 

 Work up a fomentation for that ilk ; take aspen rind, 

 and myrtle rind, quickbeam rind, sloethorn rind, birch 

 rind ; pound all the rinds together, boil them in cheese 

 whey, wash therewith and foment the limb on which 

 the wound is, and after the beathing dry and smear 

 with the salve, and blow the salve into the wounds, 

 and lay on the bramble leaves ; do so thrice a day in 

 summer, and in winter twice. » 



2. Work up the black salve, if need be, thus; collect 

 two buckets of bullocks mie, and a bucket full of holly 

 rinds, and of ash rind, and of aconite ; then boil in 

 a kettle till the liquor be boiled to two thirds, remove 

 the " worts " and the rinds ; boil again till it be as 

 thick as milk porridge and as swart as a coal ; after- 

 wards smear the wound therewith, and have a plaster 

 ready wrought of fine smede of malt, and of whiting 

 meal, and lupins; cleave, pound, and rub them together, 

 work them into a paste ; if it be too dry, add brew- 

 ing wort, a trifle of it; dab it on the wounds and 

 round about them. After they are smeared, the salve 

 will first enlarge the wounds, and eat ofi" the dead 

 flesh, and soften the swelling, and it will do to 

 death the worm therein, or diive him away alive, 

 and will heal the wounds. 



Rhamnus. 



