110r

Old English
Modern English
spider bite.
xxvi. For cancer.
xxxvii. In case a woman cannot conceive a child; and if after the birth the natural [thing] does not go from the woman;10 and if a dead child is in a woman; and in case a woman bleeds too much after the birth.
xxxviii. In case a woman's monthly cycle is hindered and in case a woman's the monthly cycle flows too heavily.
xxxviiii. For a penetrating worm: an ointment and a laying11 and an ointment and a salve.
xL. In case a person is month sick.12
xLi. Against all temptations of the devil: a drink and a salve; against the same and how a person should cure the wit-sick person; and how a person should make a spew drink for diarrhea.
xLii. In case a strong drink settles on a person and it will not go out.
xLiii. For a drink of poison.
xLiiii. For lice.
xLv. In case a thorn or a reed stings a person on the foot and then will not come out.
xLvi. For æsmæl13 and against all eye pain.
xLvii. For paralysis, if the mouth is bent or bruised: a leechdom and an ointment and a bath [and] a salve and a ley and a blood letting.
xLviii. For fig disease: a drink and an ointment.
xLviiii. For shoulder and arm pain.
L. For sore knees.

10. Olds: "…if the woman is unable to deliver the afterbirth naturally..."
11. Perhaps another type of "smear" or lotion
12. Cockayne: "In case a man be a lunatic."
Olds: "In case one is moon sick."
13. Bosworth-Toller: "æsmæl, A contraction of the pupil of the eye."
Cockayne: "Against imminutions…"
Olds: "For imminutions…"
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