To cure a dangerous disease or the illness of a full-grown man

was, however, a much more difficult matter
To cure a dangerous disease or the illness of a full-grown man
was, however, a much more difficult matter. Inflammation, for
instance, was the work of a stubborn demon, and stubborn,
therefore, must be the strife with him. Hence, dig around a
sorrel plant, sing three paternosters, pull up the plant, sing
'Sed libera nos a malo,' pound five slices of the plant with
seven pepper corns, chant the psalm 'Misere mei, Deus' twelve
times, sing 'Gloria in excelsis, Deo,' recite another
paternoster, at daybreak add wine to the plant and pepper
corns, face the east at mid-morning, make the sign of the
cross, turn from the east to the south to the west, and then
drink the mixture. Doubtless by this time the patient had
forgotten that he ever possessed inflammation.