apple; form a slop of water and of ashes, take fennel, boil it in the slop, and foment with egg mixture, when the man puts on the salve, either before or after. Sing the charm upon each of the worts; thrice before " he " works them up, and over the apple in like manner; and sing into the mans mouth and into both his ears the same magic song, and into the wound, before he applies the salve.
47. If the worm or the bleeding " fig " turn downwards,[1] delve round a plant of celandine root and take it with thy two hands turned upwards, and sing over it nine Paternosters; and at the ninth, at " Deliver us " from evil/' snap it up and take from that plant and from others that may be there a little cup full, and then let the man drink it; and let one beathe him at a warm fire; it will soon be well with him.
48. Again, for the same; have a great quern stone taken and heated and laid under the man, and have walwort and brooklime and mugwort gathered, and laid upon the stone, and under it, and apply cold water, and make the steam reek upon the man, as hot as he can endure it.
49. If foot or knee or shanks swell, take the netherward part of betony or lupins, pound them thoroughly mingle with small wheaten meal; clap it on the swelling.
50. For elephantiasis and epilepsy, work a salve thus; boil in butter these worts, roots of helenium and the upper part of heyrifFe and savine and centaury and feverfue and pellitory and brownwort; wring through a cloth, then have some powdered burnt salt and a pennyworth of brimstone.
51. Write this along the arms for convulsions or against a dwarf, three crosses, T for the Trinity and- ↑ Expressions of this sort are frequent in the medical treatises of the age; even the viscera move up and down in the cavities of the body.
