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let them run as long as he will, and make the salve thus, boil in butter brownwort, marsh maregall, and red nettle, smear therewith and foment with the worts; again rub thoroughly up an earthworm, add vinegar, and bind this on, and smear with it. Again, rub savine to dust, and mingle with honey, and smear therewith.

58. Again, for that ilk; take roasted eggs, mingle with oil, and apply, and swathe up with leaves of beet. Again, warm and apply the sharn or dung of a calf or of an old ox. Again, take shavings from the fell of a hart, shiven off with pumice stone, and soak in vinegar, and smear therewith. Again, take gall of a boar or other swine, and smear therewith where it is sore. For that ilk, take a swallows nest and break all up together, and burn it with sharn all together, and rub to dust and mingle with vinegar, and smear therewith.

59. Again, heat cold water with iron and bathe therewith frequently. Against cough and asthma, boil sage and fennel in sweetened ale, and sup it up hot, do so as often as need be. For morning qualms, boil in water eavthgall, sweeten with honey, give the man a good bowl full of a mornino-. In case blood ofush throuoh a mans mouth, take three tremisses[1] a weight of betony and cold goats milk, three cups full of it, and let the man drink, then he soon will be hale. For any mans inward tenderness, let him take waybroad, let him put it into wine and sip the ooze, and eat the worts: it is valid for every inward disease. If a man have irritation in the inwards, there is a wort called galluc, comfrey, delve . . . . . . . . . . For tears of eyes; put ashes of hartshorn into sweetened wine, reduce " the roots " to dust, put in a good spoon full, an eggshell full of wine or of good ale and some honey, give it the man to drink early in the morn-

  1. A tremissis in the lower empire was a third part of a solidus, and its weight was twenty two grains.