Commentary for Gittin 138:8

לכירצא אנפקא דחמרא באטרפא דעראה לכירצא חיורא ליתי ביזרא גלגילא וניציירה בשיסתג וניתייריה במיא ונשתיה ונזדהר מבינתא דאי לא מנקבא לה למעייניה

is, 'dry twigs stop the stream'. For swelling of the spleen, let him take seven leeches and dry them in the shade and every day drink two or three in wine. Alternatively he may take the spleen of a she-goat which has not yet had young, and stick it inside the oven and stand by it and say, 'As this spleen dries, so let the spleen of So-and-so son of So-and-so' dry up'. Or again he may dry it between the rows of bricks in a house and repeat these words. Or again he may look out for the corpse of a man who has died on Sabbath and take his hand and put it on the spleen and say, 'As this hand is withered so let the spleen of So-and-so son of So-and-so wither.'<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Mentioning his own name and the name of his mother. ');">⁸</span>

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