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 use when need be. Work moreover, a drink of these worts, take seed of marche, dry, and seed of fennel, of parsley, of fieldmore and earthgall, of dill and rue, of colewort and celandine and feverfue, and two mints, that is garden mint and horse mint, and seed of betony, of lovage and alexanders and sage and sclarea and wormwood and savory and bishopwort and elecampane and henbane and agrimony and stonecrop and horehound and nepeta and woodrofie and sanicle and carline thistle; put equal quantities of all these worts; then take of these worts, that follow, of each one as much as two of the others, that is to say, cummin and costmary and pepper and ginger and gum mastich; work all these worts to a very small dust; and put of the dust a good spoon full in a drinking cup full of cold wine, and give to drink at night, fasting; make use of this drink, when need be to thee. If a man must have mugwort for a leechdom, then let him take the red males and the green females for a leechcraft. This is good for foot ache; take roots of helenium, carline thistle root, and dock root, boil very well in butter; drain out through a woollen cloth; let it cool; afterwards smear the swelling; it will soon be well with the man.

112. For cough, how variously it cometh on a man and how one must treat it. The cough hath a manifold access according as the sweats are various; at times it cometh of immoderate heat, at times of immoderate cold, at times of immoderate humour, at times of