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xvii. Wiþ linden wærce.
xvii. For loin pain.
xviii. Wiþ wambe wærce and rysel wærce.
xviii. For womb5 pain and abdomen pain.
xviiii. Wiþ blædder wærce.
xviiii. For bladder pain.
xx. Wiþ þam gif man ne mæge gemigan and þam men þe stanas weaxan on þære blæadran.
xx. For if a person may not urinate and stones grow in the bladder of that person.
xxi. Wiþ þam gif man sie se utgang forseten.
xxi. For if a person is constipated.
xxii. Wiþ utsihtadle: drenc and briw.
xxii. For diarrhea: a drink and a pottage.
xxiii. Wiþ þam wyrmum þe beoþ on mannes innoþe.
xxiii. For worms that are in someone's gut.
xxiiii. Wiþ lið wærce.
xxiiii. For joint pain.
xxv. Wiþ weartum.
xxv. For warts.
xxvi. Wið þam miclanlice: smiring and bæþ and drenc and briw.
xxvi. For "big body:"6 an ointment and a bath and a drink and a pottage.
xxvii. Wiþ singalum þurste untrumra manna.
xxvii. For the continual thirst of sick people.
xxviii. Wiþ innan fortoge and smæl þearma ece.
xxviii. For inner colic and an ache of the small intestines.7
xxviiii. Wiþ þam þe man sie mid fyre anum forbærned; and wiþ þam þe man sie mid wætan forbærned; and wiþ sunbryne.
xxviiii. In case a person is burned only with fire; and in case a person is burned with liquid; and against sunburn.
xxx. Wiþ þeore: drenc; and eft wiþ þære; and sceotendum wenne and eft beþing wiþ þam gif þeor gewunige on anre stowe.
xxx. For þeor:8 a drink; and also against that; and against a shooting cyst and afterwards an ointment in case þeor remains in one place.
xxxi. Wiþ wenne: sealf.
xxxi. For a cyst: a salve.
xxxii. Wiþ dolge: sealf.
xxxii. For a wound: a salve.
xxxiii. Wiþ þam gif man sie ufan on heafod wund and sie ban gebrocen; and wiþ þam gif sio eaxl upstige; and god dolh drenc; and gif gebrocen ban sie on heafde and of nelle.
xxxiii. In case someone is wounded on top of the head and has a broken bone; and in case the shoulder protrudes9; and a good wound drink; and if the broken bone is in the head and will not come off.
xxxiiii. Wiþ hundes slite and wiþ þon gif sinwe forcorfene and wiþ þon gif sinwe sien gescruncene.
xxxiiii. For dog's bite and in case the sinews are cut through and in case the sinews are shrunken.
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5. Womb or stomach, belly ↩
6. There is still some debate over what "miclanlice" refers to. It is often translated as elephantiasis, but Cockayne relates this specific remedy also to leprosy. See Olds' footnote, p. 98, n.1, for a discussion on the connection between elephantiasis, leprosy and "miclanlice." ↩
7. Cockayne: "For gripe and ache of small guts."
Olds: "For cramps in of the small intestine." ↩
8. An Old English word of indeterminate gender and meaning. Bosworth-Toller suggests it may be connected with inflamed or swelling ulcers. ↩
9. Cockayne: "in case the shoulder rise by dislocation"
Olds: "in case the shoulder is dislocated" ↩
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