127. Fenugrecum: .i.e. fenugreek; hot in the second degree and dry in the first degree; it has the glutinous and maturing virtues. If meal of fenugreek and the yolk of a hen egg be put as a plaster on the apostumes, it will help them; if it be desired to burst a boil, take fenugreek, common oil, and turpentine, mix them and put them on he boil, and this will burst any boil in a day and a night. To reduce the hardness of the spleen, take fenugreek, boil it with oil and wine, and put it as a plaster on the spleen, and this will help with pain and hardness of the spleen. Item, if meal of fenugreek in warm water be put as a plaster on the stomach, this will help with the pain of the stomach and the intestines.