¶ The Book of Knowledge/ Whether a sick person being in peril/ shall live, or die. etc. ✚ hippocras most cunning of all Physicians, commanded that the Analogy of all his works of Phesycke should be laid in his Sepulture under his heed which was so done. And where as the Emperor of Rome coming By his Tomb saw it t●●helye wrought, supposed that great treasure was hid in it. For the people in those days used much to hide their money in tombs, And when it was opened he found the said Analogy, there under his heed, in which all his works were he took it away & showed it to no man, but to Anadestus a Physician. And in it they found medicines most wholesome for diseases of man's body. And first of all was specified the tokens, which followeth, that doth prognostic wh●●her a syeke person being in peryil, shall die or live. etc. ¶ The forced token of death. ¶ if a man have sweating in his face, or pain in high heed without cough/ and putteth his left hand oft upon his breast, & is busy in clawing of his nosethryle, betoken death. ¶ Also an experiment to prove life or death. ¶ Put his spytell upon but●●…ynge roses, & if it stink h● shall die, & if not he shall live. ¶ Another experiment of the same. ¶ Cause the syeke person to spit in a vessel of water, & if it go to the bottom, he shall live, and if it swim above he shall die. ¶ Also the fourth token. ¶ If a man sweet moche in any manner disease, it is good, if he despair not. ¶ Another and the fift ¶ If the sick turn him oft to the wall, it is an evil sign. ¶ Another and the sixth. ¶ If the patient have thine nostrils or the tip of his nose sharp, or a sharp look, & hollow temples, hanging lips. & cold ears, & turneth his heed where his feet were it signifieth soon death. ¶ Another and the seventh. ¶ If the patient put his hands oft to his heed and draw his feet up to him, betoken that he shall escape. ¶ Also other tokens of death, which the cunning physyon Galyen set forth as followeth. ¶ He saith that these are tokens of death when the forehead is red, the brows hangeth down. The left eye is lass & watereth. The tip of of the nose white the chin falleth, the feet cooleth, & the belly decayeth, is signs of death. ¶ Also the ninth experiment to know fife life or death. ¶ Take the pacientes urine, & a woman● milk, that nourisheth a man child, & meddle them together, & if they go in to one, he shall live, and if they depart he shall die. ¶ For to know whether ye shall die within xii months or not ¶ Let a drop of your blood fallin to a dish of water. And if he descend hole in to the bottom, he shall fine that year, and if not, but go a broad, not. ¶ Also another manner. ¶ If ye rub also well the forehead of the syeke with a Tablet, or other such of Copper fro the one ere to the other, and if he sleep after he shall live, or else not. ¶ Also of the sharp ague an experiment oft proved. ¶ Take a courtesy of the pacientes blood & urine, and meddle it with the milk of a woman that nourisheth a man child, and if they mix together▪ he shall live, or else he shall not. ¶ Also another and the eleventh. ¶ If a frantic man have hard swelling without disgestyon, he shall die the ix day. ¶ Also another and the twelve. ¶ He that vometteth blood, and have swelling in any limb, as toghte as a trumpette like an egipciane bean, shall die the xl day after. ¶ Also another and the thirteen. ¶ If the eyes be hollow, and the mouth open when he sleepeth, and if he be not accustomed so, and if his left eye water he shall die the third day. ¶ Another and the fourteen. ¶ If the patient bid the Physyion farewell, or stretch forth his feet, and cast his hands upon his belly, he shall die the third day. ¶ Another and the xu ¶ If the patient bid the Physyon farewell and put his hands to his head, & draw up his feet, he shall escape. ¶ Also the proof of a sick man that can not sleep. ¶ Stamp henbane and mint, and lay it on his forehead plasterwise, and if he sleep not soon after he shall die. ¶ 〈…〉 of hippocras beginneth. WHo that falleth sick the first day of the month, it is to be feared of him the ii day, the which if he escape, he shall es … eull the xxx day. ¶ And if he fall sick the second day, it is to fear of him the ten day, and if he escape that he that be long sick, notwithstanding he shall escape. ¶ And if he fall sick the third day, he shall be delivered without doubt. ¶ And if he fall sick the fourth day, he shall be sore in pain till the viii day and then he shall very well escape ¶ And if he fall sick the fifth day, he shall be sore sick, yet he shall escape. ¶ And if he fall sick the sixth day, he shall seem to be hole, yet he shall die some day of the next month. ¶ And if he fall sick the seventh day, he shall be delivered without grief. And if he fall sick the eight day he shall be in meetly helthe till the eleventh day, & then after soon shall die. ¶ And if he fall sick the ninth day, he shall scape with marvelous great pain. ¶ And he that falleth sick the tenth day be shall die without doubt. ¶ And he that falleth sick the eleventh day, he shall be delivered the next day. ¶ And if he fall sick the twelve day, he shall die the xu day ¶ And if he fall sick the xiii day, he shall before vexed till the xvii day, and if he escape, than he shall be delivered. ¶ And if he fall sick the viiii day he may escape, if he live till the xv. day. ¶ And he that taketh sickness the xu day except he recover within. xviii days he shall die, shortly after. ¶ And if a man fall sick the xvi day, he shall be sick till the xxviii day 〈◊〉 escape. ¶ And if a man take sickness the xvii day he shall die the ten day. ¶ And if a man take sickness the xviii day he shallbe delivered at length, ¶ And if a man take sickness the xix day he shall be delivered at length. ¶ And if a person fall sick the twenty day the patient shall die the next month. ¶ And he that fall sick the xxi day, and he die not the ten after he shallbe in great peril, yet he shallbe delivered the next month after. ¶ If a body fall sick the xxii day all though he be in grievous pain till the ten day he shall not die till the next month. ¶ If a person take sickness the xxiii day, he shall be delivered though it be with grievous pain the other month. ¶ If a person fall sick the xxiiii, day, he shall die the next month. ¶ If a person fall sick the xxv day albeit he shall have some pain, yet he shall well escape that danger. ¶ If a body fall sick the xxvi day, yet he shall well escape. ¶ If a person fall sick the xxvii though he be at point of death, he shall be delivered the next month. ¶ If a person fall sick the xxviii day he is thretyn to die, yet he may escape. ¶ If a body fall sick the xxix day, yet he may be delivered the next month by little and little. ¶ If a person fall sick the xxx ●ay it is in doubt if the patient shall die or live. And also the xxxi day likewise. ¶ Explicit. ¶ Now to know whether a wounded man shall die or live. Stamp pimpernel, and dystempre it with water, and give it him to drink, and if it go out at the wound, than he shall die or else not. ¶ Another for the same. ¶ give him white Lettuse to drink with water, a if he parbreak it, he shall die, if not he shall live. ¶ A pronostycation set forth, by the said Galen of the danger of Pestolencial Impostume after the party of the body that it is in, howbeit in God is all. ¶ Another beginneth of the spots called gods marks. ¶ When the Impostome is in the pacientes face so painful that it may not be touched, and he layeth his left hand oft upon his breast, know that he shall die the twenty day, and specially when he handleth the nostrils in beginning of his sickness, when great Impostumes are in any of both his knees, it is to know he shall not die till after the xiii day, and then he may escape, and especially if he sweat much at the beginning of his knees, when it chanceth that little whelks cometh upon the vain which is on the nape of the neck, and upon as it were a manner of powder know that he shall die the ii day of his sickness, and especial token is if he have great thirst at the beginning of his sickness, when whelks are upon his tongue like dogs flies, know that he shall die the same day and the tokens is the beginning of his sickness; he desireth things which are naturally hot. When little black whelks are upon any of his fingers, that are sore, know that he shall the next day after die of that sickness, and an especial token ●s if he be painful and heavy in his body. When little white whelks are in t●e thumb of the pacientes left hand, fy●…e brown beans of co●…loute or pa●e, which are not sore. Then know that the patient shall die the four day of his sickness. Another token is that at on the mydled toe of the left foot. ¶ Finis. ¶ Imprinted by me Robert wire: dwelling at the sign of saint Iohn Evangelist in saint martin's parish, in the Duke of Suffolk's rents beside Charing Cross. ✚ printer's or publisher's device ROBERT merchant's mark wire.