leech-craft

“Nay, thou shalt not need,” said the traveller; “if it indeed be as thou sayest, I will follow thee of free-will — the rather that I am not wholly unskilled in leech-craft, and have in my scrip that which may do thy friend a service — Yet walk more slowly, I pray thee, for I am already well-nigh forespent with travel.”

The Monastery 2008

Mador was had to leech-craft, and Sir Launcelot was healed of his wound.

Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table 2003

Thus Sir Gawaine lay sick three weeks in his tents, with all manner of leech-craft that might be had.

Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table 2003

Every means with which the leech-craft of the times was acquainted for the recovery of the apparently drowned, was applied in the case of

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 348 Various

And seem'd, as the pride of thy leech-craft e'en tried

The Modern Scottish Minstrel , Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century Various

Then we gathered and stroked our dead -- twenty-and-three; we put our wounded in the governor's house, and gave them the rough leech-craft of the fighting field; the dead of the assailants we threw over the rock, and among them was a clean-shaven man in trews and a tight-fitting _cota gearr_, who left two halves of an otter-skin cap behind him.

John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro

She heard the tale, and her leech-craft it sain'd me,

The Modern Scottish Minstrel , Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century Various

But all thy will well shall come to pass, for I know such leech-craft, that shall be to thee lief, so that all thy appearance shall become as the earl's; thy speech, thy deeds among thy people; thy horse and thy weeds

Roman de Brut. English Layamon

M'Iver stood dumfounded, to behold a cavalier of fortune's tears, and MacLachlan's face, for all his pain, gave up its hate and anger for surprise, as he looked at me over the shoulder of his kneeling clansman plying rude leech-craft on his wound.

John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro

He seemed to have a knowledge of leech-craft, and knew how to cure the ills of any wayfarer with any weed that grew near by; and he would pipe for hours in the sun.

Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes Charles Madison Curry 1906