leechdoms

Nay, said Habundia, there is no need for so much haste as that: I will in now, and do my leechdoms with the sick man.

The Water of the Wondrous Isles 2007

In the days of the old Saxon leechdoms it was customary against a stitch to make the sign of the cross, and to sing three times over the part: --

Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie

Dr. Edward Jorden (1569-1632), an English physician, wrote regarding the oftentimes successful results of treatment by means of incantations, and leechdoms or medical formulas, that these measures have no inherent supernatural virtue; but in the words of Avicenna, "the confidence of the patient in the means used is oftentimes more available to cure diseases than all other remedies whatsoever."

Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery Robert Means Lawrence

So therewith David and Robert, with two or three others, brought Christopher to a chamber, and did what leechdoms to him they might; but Jack of the Tofts, and his sons and their fair wives, and his other folk, made merry in the hall of the Tofts.

Child Christopher and Goldilind the Fair 1895

And so, as the century immediately before the Conquest had seen little but chronicles and homilies, leechdoms and laws, that which came immediately afterwards gave at first no very different products, except that the laws were wanting, for obvious reasons.

The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) George Saintsbury 1889

Christopher to a chamber, and did what leechdoms to him they might; but Jack of the Tofts, and his sons and their fair wives, and his other folk, made merry in the hall of the Tofts.

Child Christopher and Goldilind the Fair William Morris 1865

Nay, said Habundia, there is no need for so much haste as that: I will in now, and do my leechdoms with the sick man.

The Water of the Wondrous Isles William Morris 1865