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2. For maw pain; give tho 'man to eat the green BooklH. 

 marrow which is in the head of a wood thistle, with ' ^^* 



hot oil. 



S. For hardness of wamb ; cleanse githcorns, rub 

 them Jine into cold water, give to the man to drink. 



Ixxi. 



Against carbuncle ; rub sage with honey, smear there- 

 with, soon he will be well. Agam, work a salve, take 

 a hand full of spring wort, and a hand full of way 

 broad and a hand full of maythe, and a hand full of 

 the netherward part of dock, that namely which will 

 swim ; boil in butter, clear off the salt and the foam, 

 add a little English honey, put over a fire, boil it; 

 when it boileth sing three Pater nosters over it, remove 

 it again, then sing nine Pater nosters, and boil it thrice, 

 and so frequently ; remove it, and after that cure 

 with it. 



Ixxii. 



1, For the yellow disease ; souse these worts in strong 

 beer, of ribwort a hand full, of quickbeam rind a hand 

 full, nine bits of the netherward part of ashthroat, and 

 nine of the lower part of helenium. 



2. Again, boil dill, coriander, most of sage, in strong 

 beer, that it may be thick and green ; take the nether- 

 ward part of helenium, cut it up into honey, let the 

 patient eat as many bits as he can ; let him drink after 

 it a cup full of the drink, as above ; and all the time 

 let him eat sheep flesh and none other. 



Ixxiii, 

 If a mans bowel be out, pound galluc, wring through 

 a cloth into milk warm from the cow, wet thy hands 

 therein, and put hack the bowel into the man, sew up 

 with silk, then boil him for nine mornings galluc, that is, 

 comfrey, except need be for a longer time, feed him with 

 fresh hens flesh. 



