Garlic crushed with mortar and pestle<unk>  is a medicine described in<unk> 's Leechbook, a 10th-century Anglo-Saxon medical text written in Old English that survives in the collection of the British Library. The identity of<unk>  is not known but he is named in the work by a note that states "Bald owns this book which he ordered Cild to compile". The<unk>  is described as a treatment for a "wen" (lump) in the eye.<unk> 's Leechbook includes other treatments such as agrimony boiled in milk to combat impotency and the same substance boiled in Welsh beer to induce impotency.<unk> 's Leechbook gives a recipe for the<unk> . It consists of equal parts of garlic , crushed by mortar and pestle, and "cropleac" (another Allium species, the translation from Old English is ambiguous; modern reproductions have used onion or leek) and equal parts (the text is ambiguous as to whether these ingredients are equal with the Allium components) of wine and oxgall (bovine bile). The mixture is left to stand in a brass or bronze container for nine days before being wrung through a cloth and clarified. The text states that the medicine should be stored in a horn and applied to the infected area with a feather at night time. The leechbook describes the micture as "se betsta læcedom" ("the best medicine").
Bald's eyesalve
Morel's ear
Hutchinson's pupil
Keyser's Pills
Argyll Robertson pupil
Denis Browne bar
Eye drop
Craniotabes