TokeÌ„s of headake caused of bloode TokeÌ„s of headake caused of Cholera TokeÌ„s of headake caused of Flegma TokeÌ„s of headake caused of Melancoly Headake of blood Headake of Colera Supposiâ— Superfluity of blood To make the nose to bleth Heate in the head Headake of a mor. Headake of Melancoly Headake of flegma Nota. Headake of stoppinge Headake of coldâ— ayer A slepery disease To driue slype avvay and to avvak a man ij Thinges hinderinge slepe Headake vvhose cause is not knovven Headake of much nisinge ApostematioÌ„ in the head and braynes Phrenesis Beanes are not good for feable braynes nor lentilles VVhyrlinge in the head vvaking vnnaturall vvaking of melancolia vvaking of reade colera Nota. Cure of the vvakinge of colera vvaking of heate The palsey The causes of the palsey Supersâ—uitye moysture Supersluity of bloode A bathe for the Palsye To restore agayn meÌ„bres that be lâ—med or taken TreÌ„bliÌ„ge or shakinge of handes Dronkenesse To vvax dronken and yet drincke not ouer muche Dronkenesse of hote coÌ„plexion Nota. To slake thyrste Fallinge sicknesse Lib. 6. simpliciuÌ„ Pouder for the fallinge sicknesse Of ragiÌ„g Raginge caused by blood CoÌ„geled bloode Raginge caused by colde and droought Ragingâ— caused by flegma Sadnesse or heuynesse A drinke agaynste raginge Cure of raginge caused by flegma or colde Heate Ragyng vnknovven Ragyng of colde A drinke for ragiÌ„g of colde Speceâ— A sumigation Fuga dae monuÌ„ or Hypericon A cure generall Incubus or the Mare To gather vvittes stravved Disease of the eyen The cure Collyrium that is a medicin for sore eyes A bath for sore eyes Experience Reed eyes VVeke eyen or syght Spottes iÌ„ the eyeÌ„ Spurre blinde Runnige eyen Dymme syghte Read or running eyen Spottes or blemishes iÌ„ the eyen Duste in the eyen Diseas of the eares Cure SouÌ„ding in the eares Cure of deafe SouÌ„ding iÌ„ the heade Hearing euill SouÌ„ding in the eares Blething at the nose StauÌ„chiÌ„g of blood The profyte of blething Tokens of blethyng Nota. Spottes in 〈…〉 A fistula by the nose Scabbye chekes A fistula in the cheke Diseases of the mouth The vseâ— and diseases of the teth A sure medicin for tothake To make â— teth fall out vvith out smart SvvelliÌ„g in the throte Cure of squinacy Horsnes and the causes thereof A drinke for horsenesse Agaynst â—n olde horsenes The yexe and hys causes Fil of the stomake SuppuratioÌ„ in the brest A drye cough Cough vvyth payne in the brest Payne in the brest and head Experience The cause of apostemes A drinke for apostemes A salf for apostems AposteÌ„s of Colera AposteÌ„s for flegma or colde Agaynst perbreakynge Makingâ— of Barly vvater SpevviÌ„g of blood The curâ— Perbreaking of a diseased stomake Perbreakinge by grefe of the stone Perbreakinge of colde moystnesse Perbreaking that is harde Perbreakinge of read Colera Perbreakinge of black Colera Of Flegma Perbreakinge of colde Perbreakynge vvhose cause is vnknovven To cause perbreakinge To cause to ê‘breake vvithout payn The coughe and the causes thereof An humor in the brest An humor in the liuer Outvvar de occasions Drye cough Cure generall of apostems in the breste A consumynge cough Agaynst the cough caused of diseased lightes A cough vvith gripynge Cough of humors A drinke for the cough Hartes disease Stiche about the harte Faintnes of harte The maners of voyding the body Soudain alteracioÌ„ Nota for vvarmiÌ„g and confortynge the hart Voidnes in the nethermost meÌ„bres Faintnes of heate Faintnes by trouble and colde Of the accidences and diseases of the stomack Tokens of the euill digestion in the stomack To auoyde quasinesse and euell appetite Gredynesse to meat and drinke Cold humours in the stomake Of svveatinge Cure Tvvo maner of svveates naturall and vnnaturall Tokens of death Thinges causyng to svveat Floures causyng to svveat SvveatiÌ„g herbes hote of coÌ„plexioÌ„ Herbes causinge to svveat lightely To svvet easely An ointmente to cause to svveate A bath to make fruitfull A restoringe of mans naturall strength Another restoriÌ„ge bath A drinke to strengthen a man A drinke coÌ„fortiÌ„g the body A bath to dravv out euil heat and to strengthen A confection to streÌ„gtheÌ„ Meates streÌ„gtheninge Another to strengthen A StouiÌ„g or bathiÌ„g of colde legges Diseases caused by the lyuer Of the Splene Of the kidneys Remedy for the lyuer A confection to mollifye diseases Of the yalovve Iaundis and the causes thereof Iaundis vvith cosâ—ifnesse A pouder for the iaundis InflaÌ„macioÌ„ of the lyuer A pouder for invvarde heate InflaÌ„macioÌ„ of the liuer and the remedy therof Marke thys Liuer diseased of ouermuch moistnesse and the tokeÌ„s of it ApostematioÌ„ of the liuer Cure of the liuer vvith driÌ„kes and othervvyse Diseases of the lyghtes or lunges Asthma A playster for diseases of the lightes A drinke for the infect poulmon or lyghtes â–ª For a coÌ„sumpciâ—â— A special barly vvater for many diseases Payne or stiche in the syde and the tokens of it Dryenes of the digestion Fretting of guttes RestraiÌ„te in the smal guttes and the signes of it LuÌ„brici that is vvormes in the bellye To make sieges Agaynst perbreakinge of coÌ„fections takeÌ„ VvaÌ„bliÌ„g of the stomake of purgacions takeÌ„ â–ª RestraiÌ„te of ouermuch sieges or greping Of goiÌ„g oute of the gutt vvyth sieges Binding meates Flixe of the vppermost bovvels Flixe froÌ„ the middelmost bovvels Flixe of the nethermost guttes or bovvels Lienteria and the causes of it Payne in the Loynes Payne in the back and loynes Cure generall Cure of a vvomaÌ„ vvyth chylde Apostemes iÌ„ the loynes and the signes thereof A restraiÌ„t or bindynge vvyth apostemacion Pissinge of bloud Pissinge of bloud and hys causes and signes Pissinge of matter and his cure Disease of the bladder and the signes of it To pisse easelye The grauel or stone of a chylde Meates coÌ„uenieÌ„t for hym that hath the Stranguria A confection for the stone A good drinke for the Quotidian or dayly feuer An approued science for the ague Signes of an ague come of Flegma Hovve the diseased of a Feuer shall behaue himselfe A commun rule for agues coÌ„minge of the gall
slepe by reason of the heat of y e braynes mouing somtyme by reason of the read colera whiche is hote and drye somtyme by reason of the black colera which is colde drye when melancoly is risen into the head somtime commeth it by reason of exceding heate that is risen into the head of swete moystinesse If the waking come of melancolia or sorowfulnesse then becommeth a man strayght about the cheste or stomake his heat is dry y e colour also of his skin is altered But if y e waking come of y e rede colera then waxeth hys skin rede colored also then gyue him barly water to drinke But if the waking come of the black colera then becommeth the skin of the patient pale and he hath muche carefulnesse anguish and pensisnesse But if it commeth of phlegma then becommeth the patient heuy and slouggish It is to be considered that if a man watche much it maketh him heauy of courage and that commeth by reason hys membres drye wherein lieth the power of the bodye and it hindreth also the digestion of the stomacke whereof are engendred euill moystures in the bodye If the weaking is caused by colera then washe hys head wyth water wherein are sodden leaues of violettes or els Lettis or the sede of it strake the heade wyth women milcke Alume the bignes of a great bean kept in the mouth draweth the moistnesse out of the heade after that washe the mouth with water and beware of all thynges that are hote of complexion If the waking be caused by reason of heate take whyte or black poppy sede braye thesame in a morter poure water therin and make a milke of it which geue him to drinke Or els seth the toppes of black poppye in milke and let him drinke it Take a dish of black poppy sede beate it well temper it wyth water blood warme that it waxe as a thick milke moysten therein a fyne linnen cloth a hand broade and as longe that it maye go aboute hys heade thesame doeth coole hys heade and if he awake aboute mydnighte do it agayne Howbeit ye must take hede that if he haue no sieges then geue hym to bedwarde halfe an vnce of syrope of Violettes wyth an vnce of warme water mixte together but let it be colde when ye wyll ministre hym thesame geue hym also to drinke creame or potage of peasen sodden wythout anye salte or fatnesse onlye peasen and let hym drincke thesame blood warme in the mornynge lett hym after thys lye hygh wyth the head well couered and let him fast herevpon sixe houres Neuerthelesse if he waxe faynte and hath had a siege then maye he eate and drinke a litle but beware of excesse The crounes vpon the poppy heades sodden in milke make of the same a pappe and thereof at night the same maye be geuen a yonge childe and it causeth to slepe fast and restlye Or els take Betony and laye it vpon hys heade If one slepeth vnrestly let him eat lettice but is it a chylde let the Lettice be well sodden in water and geue him the same to drinke Of one that hath the palsye THe palsey taketh men sundery wyse for somtime commeth the disease by anger somtyme by colde somtyme by superfluous eatinge and drinkinge whereof is engendred in man ouermuche slyme whereby the veynes are stopped or els that the blood encreaseth excessiuely and ouercommeth the harte or els strayth in the membres of the which is caused the palseye It taketh men also that be lecherous whose mary in the bones waysteth cooleth so that vnwares all his sorce fayleth and he finally doth dye Somtyme doth it take anye of the membres that haue ben maymed and not well healed whereof they waxe somtyme sere and can not suffre the heate of the harte whiche is cause of theyr death and destruction and the membre becommeth lame and wrye This disease taketh somtyme the one membre as hand or fote somtyme the halfe body or the tonge so that a man can not speake somtyme coÌ„meth it of ouermuche ioye heuinesse meate or drincke ouermuche laboure reste slouthfulnesse feare swounynge hartequake and of supersâ—uitye of bloode flegma colera or melancoly Somtyme is the cause that the two strynges comminge doune from the brayne through the backbone into the fete through the one goeth the naturall heate and through the other the colde that the same stringes I saye are stopped ether the one or both Wherfore in whatsoeuer membre is stopped thys stringe that the naturall spirit can not come into the same it waxeth lame Let euery Physicion or Chirurgeon therfore rule him after this and well and exactly knowe and serche the cause of the disease that he may the more certaynly knowe how to heale the patient If moysture is cause of the disease then muste the same be minished by suche thynges as consume it warme and comforte the bodye of thys wyse Take Lauender Sage Cousloppe called herba Paraliâ—is Ren Iuniper berryes of eche a handfull a pint of Aqua vite a quarte of stronge whyte wine putt all these into a greate potte and set it into a kettel wyth water and let it seth well Wyth thys wyne streke the lymmes greued twyse in the daye and let them drye agayne by them selues and drinke twyse in the day of this wyne at euery tyme so much as an egges shell conteyneth But if the disease is comme by reason of supersluitye of blood then must he be letten bloode incontinentlye And if the disease is in the righte syde then let him bloode in the lefte syde If it is in the lefte syde then lette him bloode in the ryght syde in the arme and geue hym halfe a dragme or triakle in a bath wyth warme wyne wherein Castoreum hath ben sodden But if thou haste not Castoreum then take Lauender or Sage water drinke that the same helpeth But if thou haste not the water also seeth the herbe ether of them in good wyne and drincke it Or els take fyne Sage Lauender of eche thre handfull let them stepe in thre pintes of wyne xiiij dayes after that styll and drinke it If ye can not stylle it then seth the wine wyth the herbes and geue hym to drinke of it If the palsey hath taken a man and his membres were so holyâ— taken that he doth not feale when he is touched vpon the same then let him be bathed drye of this wise COuer a bathynge vessell well and close laye brickestones in the fyre that they waxe glowynge hote Take also Iuniper berries Mullen called Tapsus barbatus and reade Organ of eche foure hand full seth the same well in a kettel well couered or els in a pot and putte sixe quartes of good wyne thereto put hote water in the bathynge vessell that it be well warmed And before thou entrest into the vessel take two tyles that be hoted put them
lyghtely choke a man It is therefore diligently to be marked what occasion of y e disease hath Yf it coÌ„meth of reed Colera whiche is hoâ—e drye than hath y e pacient greate payn anguyshe wyth y e greate heaâ—e thyrste Make hym a playster outwardely about hys neck of Popular leaues sede seeth it well temper it wyth oyle of violets Camomille and strake y t vpon a clothe and laye it warme aboute the necke But yf ye can not haue y t oyle take the leaues of Elder leaues of reed kole of eche a handefull chapped smal brayed seeth them wyth hony and butter of eche a spounfull Laye thys warme about hys necke Thyssame hath holpen and healed many or els make hym any of the playsters of the swalowes nest folowynge But yf the Squynce is of superfluous blode and heate than must he be lett bloude incontinent in the ryght hande vpon y e thombe in y e Cephalica vnder y e tunge In y e hand vpon foure vnces vnder y e tunge vpon two vnces And as soone he is letten bloude must be made thys drynke for hym to gargelle take about fyue vnces of Diamoron take one vnce thereof mixte wyth warme water holde y t in the mouth gargell therewyâ—h spytt it out cause hym to do thys fyue tymes The next daye let boxes be set vpon hys necke wythout scrapynge these shulde drawe y e bloude from thence Or els bynde about hys necke as I haue taught before and let thys byndynge be thre tymes wythin daye nyght at euery tyme a quarter of an houre Make hym thys plaster Take the nest of a swalowe or pye but y e swalowes nest is the beste wyth all the substaunce as claye grauell styckes or fethers nothynge excepte beate it and syft it through a course syffe so tâ—at it maye be fined put thereto hony greace and make a playster there of strake it vpon a cloth and laye it about hys necke Of thys wyse haue I holpen one in iij. houres space Item make hym thys drynke Take Licorys Anis Fygges and greate Raysons of eche an vnce seeth them in a pottel of water and geue hym euery tyme thereof to drynke But yf thou canst not haue these thynges arte farre from y e Phisicion hast a swellinge in thy throte than is nothynge better than to take warme Mylla gargel thesame as hote thou canst suffre it thys done ofte taketh awaye y e sycknesse and mollifyeth y e apostemacion Lykewyse maye be done w t mylcke or water wherein is sodden knapwede otherwyse called Deuels bit And wheÌ„ y e apostemacion is brokeÌ„ geue him warme yolkes of egges that be soft and barly gruel and geue hym to drinke water wherein Barly is sodden that purgeth and healeth hym ¶ For the hoorsnesse HE y t is waxen hoorse by reason of an humor descending or coughinge of a cold ayer or drinke of creyng or weping let the same drinke in the morninge warme water as hote he can suffer it and wet a linnen cloth in half water and half vinegre wringe it well oute and winde it aboute the necke and another that is warmed vpon the same do thys in the morning at middaye and to bedwarde lette hym kepe hym warme and beware of colde ayer If he coulde sweate in the bedde that were very good Let him also beware of cold drinkes fruytes grapes and such lyke He maye also drinke warme milke in the morning and euening the same doth auoyde horsenesse also Or els take Aqua vite when thou wilt go to bed stipe a pece of bread therin and eate the same at euen and morning but if he is of hote complexion then is Aqua vite not good for him He that is so hoorse that the lightes seme to ascende into his throte and he is of cold and moyst complexion thesame should drinke fasting a quarter of an vnce of oyle Benedicti mixt wyth a litle water though it be vnpleasant to drinke yet is it good and without daunger But if ye can not haue the oyle then eat Anis sede thesame is holesome and good for the horsenes Or els sede the karnels of Quinches and drinke that water warme to bedwarde Or els take thre vnces an halfe of flint stones put to them a quart of springing water and seth it to the halfe drinke thereof blood warme in y t morning at euen and it shall go awaye Or els geue hym this drinke folowyng Take wyne oyle of oliue of lyke quantitie seth them in some thing drinke therof so hote thou canst at night and in the morning a good draught thesame taketh the horsenesse away without danger But if thou canst not haue oyle of olyue then take halfe so much butter as the wyne is and do as is sayd before ¶ A confection to holde in the mouth agaynste hoorsenesse TAke fyne mustard sede mele put thereto foure tymes the weight of hony make therof a confection put it vpon a trenscher and cut in peces but set in a coole place for meltinge holde one of these slyces in thy mouth in the morning and eueninge and let them melte by them selues Or els geue him this drinke Take Penyreal a hand ful cut it smal and seth it with a pint of vinegre tyll the thyrde parte is sodden in then strayne it through a cloth and geue the patient to drinke therof in the morning and euening alwaye a spounfull Or els take a great appel roste the same well slice it and laye it hote in a dishe wyth water and eat it This oughte to be done to bedwarde and couer thy selfe wel and warme put thy head vnder the couering as far thou canst or els couer thy head and face that no ayer come into thy mouth thesame is good and driueth awaye horsenesse He that is become hoorse lately let him roste a rape in ashes or vpon the fyre y t she be all black then pare her clene eate her as warm thou canst drinke a draught of water as warm thou canst suffer it Then wett a cloth in colde water strayne it well out and winde it so about thy neck vpoÌ„ the same binde another cloth well warmed and do thys when thou goest to bedde in the morninge for it driueth hoorsenesse awaye without danger ¶ An experimented science for horsenesse though it hath longe lasted TAke a soft night kerchyf and warme it take also a heade pelow warme thesame also and bind it wyth the kerchyf about the head neck when thou wilt go to bed and let it be so about thy head all night Do this thrâ— nightes one after the other and kepe thy selfe warme and beware of colde drinkes and ayer and it shall surely go from thy wythout hurte This same is good also for the flixe and cough Geue the patient also Lycoris in hys mouth Agaynst horsenesse go into the hote
also to se vewe y e vrin fele y e pulse to behold the patientes phisiognomy Thē may the Physicion minister to y e patiēt so much y e more boldlier medicins according to y e sciēce to such a Physicion maye a man trust so much the better for he may be called a true Physicion For apostemes in y e brest are dangerous therfore is it true necessary to know by what complexion or tēperatur y e diseases are caused If y e disease cometh of read Colera or blood thē ought ye to minister y e patiēt al such thinges as I haue taught in y e precedēt chapter But if it is caused by flegma or cold then make him thys salue and anoynt hym about the brest Take an vnce of butter capon or hennes grece an vnce oile of Baye or sorel half an vnce and mixe them together anoynt him about the brest therwith and laye vnwashen wolle therevpon that is black But he must refrayne from salt meates and of all soure meates ¶ Agaynst breakinge vp and vomiting TAke a pece of bread stiped in salt and vinegre bruse it and make it lyke a thicke playster laye it vpon y e cheste or hartes holownesse wher the mouth of the stomake is And if ye strake it about y e patientes mouth y t comforteth him and geueth hym strength Item y e water wherein karnels of quinches haue lyen or stiped y e same refrayneth the breaking vp of the stomake for it comforteth y e stomak maketh good digestion But whē y e tyme of the quinches is then maye they be sodden alone without sucker hony in stede of confect for y e hart so vsed ¶ The ryght makinge of Ptisana that is Barly water Barly water communly called Ptisana is praysed and commended of all Physicions and is a souerayne medicine agaynst all colerik and subtile heate it openeth the oppilacion or stopping it moueth sweat vrine it mollifyeth y e belly boūd with hard fylth it causeth slepe alayeth thyrst it doth also partly norish it is conuenient for al partes of the breste the poulmon Ptisana is taken somtyme warme to cause sweat somtime cold to alay thyrst somtyme w t suker somtyme without suker somtyme much somtime litle The ministratiō therof at one time is is a cruys full that is iiij vnces howbeit it must be ministred to an emptye stomake or at the lest not ouercharged It is somtyme taken by daye of the thirsty diseased and is conuenient in feruent agues and many other diseases Take fulgrowen barly that is heuy not wythered take also clere running water y t hath his course toward the East whose grounde is stony or sandy Of this water take x. partes of the barly one parte put them together into a clene pot make a slowe fyre vnder it of wood twelf houres long tyll the water is colored of the barly yalow rede like to bier after that take it of and let it coole and vse it ¶ Howe he maye be holpen that speweth blood HEmoptoica is a disease whē a man speweth blood at y e mouth wherof the cause is superfluity of blood thys shall be knowē of this wise he is full of body redish his veynes are great Somtyme commeth it out of the stomake then hath the patient payne in y e brest before But if it commeth of the leuer then hath he payne in the ryght side And if it commeth of the lunges or lightes then hath he payne in the left syde cougheth muche Somtyme doth it also come of falling or ryottinge and thē must he be holpen of thys sorte He must beware of anger of long fasting of sour or bitter meates and drinkes and of surfetting He ought to be let blood on the same hande where the disease is If it is of the leuer then must he be let blood in the right hand but if it is of the lunges then ought he to be let blood on the left hande and geue hym thys medicine Take Plantayn wild Tasil wyth y e water y t stādeth in the Tasil put thereto reyne water streyne it through a cloth of this geue the patient to drinke in the morning fasting and to bedward But if the wild Tasil haue no iuyce then seth it in reyne water bray it strayn it through a cloth cast the herbe away then take the broth put suker therto geue it the patiēt to drinke Geue him also in the morning and euening to drinke goates milke or pouder made of moulberries or els geue him to drinke reyn water wherin are sodden shepeherdes purse knotgrasse and waybred braye them whē they are sodden streyne them through a cloth geue him to drinke thereof thre tymes in the daye euery tyme a good draught Geue him also thre dayes one after the other to eate wheat wyth water and butter ¶ If one speweth oute mater Thesame may he holpē of this wise Geue him Diapenidion or diagagātū Ye must marke also that if ye laye the matter or corruptiō that he voydeth vpon hote coles and it stynketh then signifyeth it the rotting of the poulme or lightes whych is very euill and deadly to such one ought no man to minister medicine for he is to sore sycke But if he haue great heat in hys sycknesse then saye al Physicions that nothynge is better then to geue him to drinke barly water Thys heate is knowen by the vrine whether it be great or not by the chaunce of the vrin and the thycke of it synketh to the bottom But if the disease will last longe then geue the pacient what he lysteth and if he waxeth a litle stronger ther of then geue hym more if not geue hym no more Ye must marke also that if he be sycke of an ague or lyke disease then lette hym be geuen what he listeth whyle the disease lasteth ¶ When one woulde gladly perbreake and can not do it THe perbreakinge happeneth manye wayes somtyme by the disease of the stomake as namely when the stomake casteth from the bottom y t meate and can not kepe it whyche happeneth that the nethermoste part of the stomake is stronger then the vppermost The cause of thys must be consydered by thesame that is wyded Somtyme commeth it by the grefe of the stone or els the corruption then will growe to matter that ther of he doth perbreake Thissame is wel perceyued by the vrine and also whether he hath payne in the loynes bladder or back If the perbreaking commeth of cold moistnesse or humors then is it yelowe It is to be knowen that ye ought not to staunche that perbreakinge vntill the stomack be clensed of the euill humors after that oughte it to be prouided If the perbreakinge be sounde and harde that the patient can haue no sieges then geue him Cassia fistula and clense him
of Violettes and geue hym suger of Roses light meates Or els take a good tatt hen y t hath ben killed ij dayes before y t she be tender of thesame seth a quarter very well w t water in a pot wel closed and stopped y t no breth can come out of it Then take it out hold the quarter before the patientes mouth nose the sauour therof shal comforte and strengthen him very wel lette him drinke a litle of the broth But if the patient hath taken cold then put a litle Cinamon in y e water to seth wyth y e henne for y t geueth good warmth Thys pot oft tyme ought to be putt in a stillitory called Balneum Marie mixt wyth ashes and wel closed and ought to seth thre houres or more vntill euery water be consumed and marke well whan it is inough If a man hath a stiche about the hart if it cometh of blood or a hote humor or a fall or brusing than geue him to drinke Endiue water Pimpenell water Moulbery water or els Borage water If ye haue not the waters then seth y e herbes with water drink it Or els take Borage y e herbe chap it smal dight it lyke a thycke potage put butter therin eate y t in the morning y t is very good Bugiosse is yet a more souerayne herbe to comfort the harte dighted of this forsayd wyse but y e Borage potage is good for y e stiche about the hart specially if one maketh a potage therof with the herb of Dasye y e helpeth wel if a man were fallē or wounded for it driueth awaye the euell blood y t it auoyd from him wyth a siege Also if a man haue any grefe or heuines about the hert thē let him vse y e herbe floures or root of Borage or els the water distilled therof or sodden for it comforteth the harte verye well and maketh a man mery ¶ Of hartes feblenesse or fayntnesse THat commeth thereby whan the fylth is so encreased aboute it that it can not expell and cast it from it Thys fylth is engendred by great surfeting and excesse speciallye in such as surfet labour not wherby their stomak waxeth so full y t it can not digest it Or els if a man had eatē meat euel to digest wherby the body is fylled wyth ouermuch wind the hart febeled whereof man getteth manye diseases and inconueniences as are scabbes yushes or wheales mattering sores karnels and the canker But if thys filling or repletion is in the stomak y t marke therby he belketh or breketh much wind vpward or perbreaketh hath payn in y e head Helpe thesame of this wyse Purge hym wyth a drinke of pouder of Sene geue him in the eueninge a quarter of an vnce of pouder of Sene and in the morninge as much wyth a pease broth blood warme and that shal cause him to haue a siege The nexte day after cause him to sweat in a bath if hys strength can suffer it w t these herbes Take Valerian Popular Heysede and Ootestraw of eche a lyke and geue him to eate broth and potages wyth a litle saffron that comforteth the harte If ye haue no saffron then take pouder of Buglosse or els geue hym potage thereof to eate or cause him to perbreake and tye hys legges wyth litle cordes thrust a squill dipped in oyle into hys throte to cause him perbreake Or els cause hym to perbreake w t Oken leaues as I haue taught you before Or els geue hym ten pennye weight of whyt nising pouder if he can suffer it Howbeit I wold not gladly cōsel it therfore beware alway of nising pouder if y u canst forbeare it It is to be noted marked knowē y e great voyding emptening of the body is by sieges by perbreaking blething at the nose sweat floures of womē rūning sores by letting of blood which is an abundant emptyninge and weakeneth the body chaungyng a man his color quenchyng his naturall heate wherof then must the harte nedes waxe faynte as well as of excesse of fyllinge or surffetty A rash or soudayne alteration from heate into colde stoppeth y e sweate and encloseth the fylth wythin the body whereby a man waxeth faynt and feble It fortuneth also y t a mās harte waxeth faynt of soudayn ioye y t happeneth most to aged folke whose nature cōsumeth The harte also shrink together by reason of excessiue feare heuinesse mischange or els by astōnishment For great ioy doth the harte so open it selfe that the natural heat faydeth euen awaye then waxeth it cold and feble that men do somtime dye for ouermuch ioye and gladnesse Somtyme waxeth the harte faint by reason of the payne that other membres haue for the payne striketh to y e harte and troubleth the naturall course the body and entrayles If nowe y e harte is faint by reason of great emptinesse then let his face be cooled w t water pul him by the nose scratch him about y e holow or pit of y e stomak But if the emptinesse be in the vpper membres then binde the nethermost membres It is to be noted y t nothing is better for faintnesse of harte thē y t a mā put hole saffrō in his drinke put alway a litle in his broth or potage y t comforteth the harte very well warmeth a man lykewyse also doth Aqua vite wherin is put hole saffrō then dronke Or els take euery day about one or two of y e clock at after none an egge rost it y t the whyte ther of waxe a litle hard then take the yolke out of it put it into a dishe alone and poure a good ladel full of fleshe broth and put beaten saffron therein as muche as though thou woldest salt an egge put thereto also a litle salte and drinke it then oute that same is a greate comfortinge of the harte and not only the harte but also the whole body But if the voydnesse or emptinesse is in the nethermost membres then tye hys vpper membres And if his head do ake so sore therof that he thinketh to be raging therby then helpe him of thys wyse Bath him softelye and he shall lyghtely sweate And yf he hath heate in the heade then make hym thys Take an vnce of oyle of Roses vineagre halfe an vnce beate thē well together strake thys oft about hys heade thys alayeth the heate and ragynge of y e heade Geue hym pilles de iera picra and set hys fote oft in warm water and rubbe them dounward And when he taketh them out then let hym rynsch them in colde water and laye hym doune and rest but let hym haue the soles of hys fete vncouerd that the euel humors and heate may drawe dounwarde towarde the fete Geue hym to eate meates confortatiue howbeit not to muche at
helpe then set him a clister therwith Take milke and halfe an vnce of FraÌ„kincense put thesame into a new pot wherein are put hote koles put thesame vnder a stole wyth a hole and set the pacient thereon that the vapoure maye go vp into hym as hote as he can suffre it But before ye set the potte wyth the coles vnder the stoole laye an houre or twayne thys playster vpoÌ„ the pacientes bodye Take Malowes wyth the rootes washe them clene chap them small seth them in water vntill they waxe weake then presse theÌ„ well and frye them in a pan in a pint of butter or fat till it waxe a litle dry and then let it coole And when it is so dressed than put it into a fyne linnen bagge lyke a cussin And the sack must be a quarter of an elle broad and sowed together and laced lyke a pillowe And when ye haue nede of this kussin then put it into a kettel wyth water and seth it tyll it waxeth hote theÌ„ presse it oute that it do not droppe and laye it about the pacientes body as warme as he can suffre it and set hym there wyth vpon a stoole and sette the potte there vnder as is sayde before this weakeneth the swelling with in and wythout and causeth an easy siege wythoute hurt This were good for them that haue harde sieges and haue the matter burnte within them whereby they voyde it wyth payne To suche oughte to be ministred in a draught a syrope of Violettes and in the morninge halfe an vnce of succus Rosarum If thesame doth not worke within a houre then laye the forsayd playster thereon and set hym vpon the stoole wyth the pott vnder it as is specifyed before and then shall he haue sieges wythout any smarte ¶ To clense the guttes TAke halfe an vnce of meel of Fenugrecum seth that with a pint of water and poure of the clere mixe to thesame an vnce of hony and drinke thereof in the morning and eueninge ¶ For them whose guttes are gnawen or wounded THesame shal be marked thereby in his sieges issueth bloude also and that happeneth by two causes the one is outwarde the oâ—her inward The inwarde cause is by reason of an vnclene and pearsynge moystnesse caused by a salte Flegma and thesame wouÌ„deth or fretteth the guttes But the outwarde cause is some greate laboure which a man doth and strayneth hym sore so that the guttes are thereof so fretted that the bloude foloweth thereafter If ye will knowe whereof it is then take hede to the matter that issueth from him wyth the bloude If it be reede then is it of Colera but if it is as the vnclennesse of the nose then is it of Flegma After that must ye take hede whether the bloude commeth of the vpper guttes or of the nethermost guttes or els the middelmost guttes If it commeth from the vppermost guttes then hath he payne aboue the nauel if it issueth from the nethermost guttes then hath he payne beneth the nauel When now the bloud commeth from the vpyermoste guttes then geue the pacient his medicine into his mouth Is it of the reed Colera then geue him gumme Arabick wyth the iuyce of Porcelen wyth a syrop of Mirtill and geue him syrop of Roses and geue him bread styped in Almondes beaten and geue him to drinke water sodden wyth small rasins But when the bloud commeth from the nethermost or middelmost guttes and that of the reed Colera then geue him a clister wyth these thinges Take Roses yolkes of Egges Porcelene and pilled Barly sodden in water and make a clister hereof Somtyme happeneth a restraynt in the small guttes by reason the slimye matter strayeth because she can not voyde beneth and then riseth it vp toward the throte wyth perbreakinge This disease happeneth somtyme of an hote aposteme in the stomake It commeth also of a colde humor that is gathered in the stomake The restraynte caused by an aposteme is knowen thereby that the belly is swollen and he draweth winde or breth vneasely he getteth also an ague and great thyrst But if the restraynt were of a cold humor thesame is not swollen in the bellye and he is withoute an ague or thyrste his handes and fete are colde he is heuy and waketh much nother can rest in one place somtyme will he haue thys somtyme that He that is thus diseased dyeth lightely the third daye and he is paynfull to heale If ye will take in hand to heale such a disease then take hede first wher of such restraynte is caused If it is caused by an aposteme then geue hym Cassia fistula with Iera picra tempered w t oyle of Violettes If the siknesse is strong theÌ„ let him bloud in the liuer veyne and make hym a clister wyth Malowes Barly Lentils and oyle of Violettes But if the restrainte is come by cold humors theÌ„ clense the pacient Benedicta wyth Iera picra thesame do expel and make him a clister of Dill Fenegreke Oyle of Camomille and oyle of Holder Or els take the floure of Fenegreke halfe an vnce and hony a quarter of an vnce mixe thesame together with warme water so much as nede is and geue him thesame to drinke fasting to bedwarde thesame purgeth the guttes of the superfluous slyme wherof is caused somtyme greate payne and grepinges But for the greping as in the great guttes take y e bladder of a Swine and put it full of warme wyne laye it vpon the nauel as hote as ye can suffre it do it oft and it shall take awaye the payne thesame hath oft ben experimented and proued Or els take a black Henne and laye her warm vpon the nauel cut it in two peces or sliced quicke Agaynste anye maner of other grepinge take the harte of a Wolffe and the guttes drye them make pouder of them put thesame into a boxe In that pouder growe litle wormes let thesame therin when ye will vse theÌ„ take theÌ„ one after the other bray or breake theÌ„ wyth wyne and geue it him to drinke Or els take half an vnce of oyle of Benedicta oyle of Camomil oyle of Melissa or Baume of eche a quarter of an vnce mixe them together bid the pacient lye vpon hys backe and put foure or sixe droppes of the oyles in to the pacientes nose as warme as he can suffre it wyth a fether or other thynge laye a whot cloth vpon it and let it lye stil Do thys oft and let him beware of cold thynges in his meates or drinkes Or els take whyte cattes dounge brayed and made fyne to pouder stere that wyth whyt wyne and geue it him to drinke thre tymes Or els take reed nettels that haue reed floures wyth the rootes a good handfull seth them well wyth a pint of good wyne coole it and geue him it to drinke ¶ Howe to dryue awaye the wormes in the bellye THe wormes called Lumbriciin Latin growyng in