"leechdom" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1864, Thomas Oswald Cockayne, Leechdoms, Wortcunning, and Starcraft of Early England",
          "text": "That shall be a leechdom for her, for the one who there combeth her head.",
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          "ref": "1965, Rerum Britannicarum Medii Ævi scriptores",
          "text": "A leechdom if thou will that an ill swelling and the venomous humour should burst out."
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