- Recipes
Witlessness
Causes:
Unknown. Recognized by blank stares and inarguably stupid remarks.
Recipe:
The prescription for this ailment is "mandrake, as much as three pennies in weight, administered in a draught of warm water" (50).
Also effective is the following: "Put a pail full of cold water, drop thrice into it some of an herbal drink, bathe the man in the water, and let him eat hallowed bread and cheese and garlic and cropleek, and drink a cup full of the drink; and when he hath been bathed, smear with the salve thoroughly, and when it is better with him the work him a strong purgative drink" (51).