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The Romans and all the people of the south wrought for themselves houses of earth against the ill air; and how a man shall forego bloodletting on each of the six fives[1] of the moons age in the thirty nights, and when best to let blood, and if the incision for bloodletting take an ill turn, and if thou will let blood on an incision or on a vein, or if thou may not staunch the bleeding incision, or if thou may not bind up the flowing vein, or if one, in bloodletting, cut down on a sinew.
lxxiii. A leechdom if any limb of a man be chapped.
lxxiv. A leechdom against warts and callosities on a limb.
lxxv. A leechdom for a scurfy nail.
lxxvi. A leechdom for itch.
lxxvii. A leechdom if thou will that an ill swelling and the venomous humour should burst out.
lxxviii. A leechdom if loss of appetite befall a man.
lxxix. A leechdom if a man tire on a long journey.
lxxx. A leechdom in case a man overdrink himself.
lxxxi. A leechdom against much cold.
lxxxii. A leechdom if suddenly too much watching befall a man.
lxxxiii. A leechdom for a mans voice.
lxxxiv. A leechdom in case a man eat something poisonous.
lxxxv. A leechdom in case a man try to fight with his enemy.
lxxxvi. A leechdom for much travel over land lest he tire.
lxxxvii. A leechdom if a mans hair fall off, a salve for that, and if a man be bald.
lxxxviii. Leechdom for swelled legs in a horse, and if a horse be galled, and if a horse or other neat cattle be elf shot.
- ↑ Though a sidereal revolution of the moon be but 27·321 days, yet the moon often attains the thirtieth day of her age.
