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Rh of ears, apply a goat’s mie to the ear: [it] relieves the sore. If matter be therein, it casts that out. Against kernels, mingle a piece of goat’s dung with honey; smear therewith; [it] will soon be better. Against thigh-pains, knead thoroughly a piece of goat’s dung so that it be as it were a salve, and smear the thighs therewith: they will soon be whole. Against swellings a piece of goat’s dung; smear the swellings therewith: it drives them away and cures them and brings about that they do not rise again. Against spasms, mingle a piece of goat’s dung with vinegar, and smear therewith: it cures the sore. A goat’s gall, drunk in wine, removes women’s afterbirth for them, and cures them.

Against warts and swellings a ram’s black wool dipped in water, and after that in oil, and then laid on the sore place: it removes away the sore and if it (the sore) is fumigated with [it], it contracts the lacerated wounds. Smear the warts and the swellings which are on a man’s hands, or on another limb, or about the anus, with the wet which drops from the half-boiled lung of a ram: it quickly removes them away. Against ulcerous wounds on the face, a ram’s lung carved up small and laid to the sore soon cures it. Against scurfs take a ram’s grease, and mingle therewith soot, and salt, and sand, and wipe it away with wool and afterwards smear: it will be smoother after this.

Against every sore, a boar’s brain boiled and worked into a drink in wine: it relieves all sores. Against sore of the testicles and of the yard mingle a boar’s brain with honey and bind it on: it cures wonderfully. Against flux of inwards boil together a new liver of boar and some sweet apple-tree rind mingled in wine and let [the man]