173. Lilium: i.e. the lily; hot and wet in the first degree. If this herb be boiled with pig lard and applied to a burn of fire or water, it will help with it promptly. The same plaster against contraction of the nerves. Item, take lily, boil in common oil or in unsalted pig lard, press through a cloth, and rub on the baldness, and the hair will promptly grow. If the roots of the same herb be boiled in mead, it will relax the bowels gently. Item, if juice of the lily, a fourth part of vinegar, and a fourth part of honey, be boiled until it be thick, and it be pressed through a cloth and put in the wounds, it will help. If the juice of the lily be rubbed on the body before the fire, the person will perspire plentifully. Take roots of lily, boil