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To turn ye Child right in Labour [labor]
A medicinal recipe for a paste to be used in childbirth, possibly using agrimony, to turn a breech birth.
[text loss; top of page N125 stained and torn; may be continued]
Appears to be a recipe for a poultice or plaster, using beeswax, pitch, mace (pepper), and turpentine, spread on a sheepskin and worn on the stomach.
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