A most excellent and perfect homish apothecary or homely physic book/ for all the griefs and diseases of the body.  
Translated out the Almain speech into English by John Hollybush.  
ARNOLD BIRCKMAN  
W·K   printer's or publisher's device 
Imprinted at colen by Arnold Birckman/ In the year of our Lord M.D.LXI.   

The first chapter is concerning the head and his parts.  

For falling of the heir of the head.  
MAke lie of the ashes burnt of doves dung/ and wash the head therewith. 
falling of heir.  But if ye can not get doves dung/ take leaves of oaken tree/ and seth the middlemost rippes of them in water/ & wash the head oft there with/ letting it dry by itself/ that helpeth very well.  
Or else take the ashes burnt of little frogs/ make a lie therewith/ wash the head oft therewith/ that hindereth the falling of the heir.  
But for the dry scalds of it/ called in Latin Furfur/ Porrigo or Pityra/ seth the roots of mallows in water/ & wash the head oft therewith/ and they shall fall of. 
dry scalds. Scelfferinge of the head.  He that hath a scalfering head/ let the same take the course bramme or wheat/ & cast seething hot water upon them/ let them stand one day & night: after that let it be strained through a cloth/ & put a little vinegar thereto/ & struck it upon the head/ & moisten it oft therewith/ that doth drive the scelfering away.  
If one hath a head that can not be healed/ let him take thick cream/ 
Uncurable sores  and anoint the head therewith well in the evening and morning three weeks continually/ but let the head be first well and bare shaven/ that the cream may the better pierce in/ wash the head every third day with strong warm lie/ that the head may be chased therewith: at the last rensch the head with cold lie/ the same draweth the heat out of it/ after that let it dry/ & anoint it again as before. Of this wise mayest thou heal & cleanse a head/ though it were hard crusted with corruption.  
But if any hath had unclean scurfs or scabs upon the head/ & is healed of them/ howbeit it pilleth as though it would break up again/ let him struck or anoint it with oil of flax seed or line sede/ let him frot the head sore therewith: the same maketh the skin strong/ hard and also clean/ that it break up no more.   

For lice and nits.  
TAke the heads of herb Gitt or Nigella/ and burn them to ashes/ put swines grease thereto/ and struck or kemme the heirs therewith/ that driveth away lice and nits. 
For lice and nits.   
Or else buy quicksilver for a penny/ and slake it with fasting spatle/ put thereto half an ounce of swine's grease or butter/ anoint therewith a kamb/ and comb thy head therewith/ the same driveth away and killeth all the nits. But if it is in summer or harvest/ that thou mayest have the roots of wild saffron/ take the juice of them: where the same is streaked/ there slayeth and driveth it away the list/ and also lise of the privy members.  
Or else take a little piece of the cloth that goldsmiths wash the gilted vessels with/ and struck the place therewith where they are/ and they do fall of: and this cloth mayest thou use to twenty men/ and it may be kept yearly and daily/ and remaineth good to use/ specially for overbrows and eye lids/ wherein the same vermin called the life of privy members do grow/ and may be used without danger. 
Life of privy membres.   
For the life of the head/ take a penny worth of lorel or bay berries/ bray them to powder/ lie them in a linen cloth/ seth the same in running water/ and wash the head there with. Thesame virtue hath also the root of Bearfote beaten to powder.   

Of pain in the head.  

Of pain in the head.  THe pain of the head cometh sometime of his own disease/ sometime of other membres/ as of the stomach: sometime of outward accidents/ as of beating/ falling or sunheat: sometime of wounding/ sometime of cold: sometime of heat/ sometime of superfluity of blood/ sometime can it not be said by what occasion/ sometime cometh the sickness or disease by itself/ & the same lasteth continually. But most chiefly cometh it by the upbraything of the stomach into the head: to heal this/ is necessary to know of what complexion the disease is/ that thou mayst purge & cleanse it thereafter. If thou wilt then help him/ take heed of what complexion the disease is. 
Tokens of headache caused of blood.  If it cometh of the blood/ the same is hot & moist/ that shalt thou know thereby/ if the pain is most in the forpart of the head/ & then are those veins read that are by the eyes/ the face read and hot/ the veins under the eyes are pale/ the veins of the temples beat fiercely/ the vain of the pulls beateth fast and sore/ and is great/ his urine is read and thick/ his body louse. These are the evident tokens of the blood.  

Tokens of headache caused of Cholera.  If the headache cometh of Colera/ that is/ of hot and dry complexion/ that shalt thou know thereby: The nose is hot and acheth for heat/ the tongue is great and dry/ he is thirsty/ and can sleep but little: and when he sleepeth/ he fighteth & is unquiet/ the vain of his pulse is little and feeble/ & feeleth the grief most in the right side. Thesame needeth not to blow his nose/ for nothing issueth out of it/ by reason of the great heat.  

Tokens of headache caused of phlegma.  If the headache cometh of phlegma/ that is/ of cold and moist complexion or nature/ the same hath greater grief in the hindermost part of the head then the for part/ and can sleep better: he is heavy in all his members/ he is little thirsty/ the veins of his pulse are great and feeble.  

Tokens of headache caused of Melancholy.  But if the headache cometh of Melancholy/ them hath he the most grief in the left side of the head. Galen saith: the head is divided into four parts: In the fore part hath blood the dominion/ Colera in the right side/ melancholy in the left side/ & phlegma beareth rule in the hindermost part.  

Headache of blood  If the headache cometh of blood/ then let him blood in the head vain called Cephalica/ in the hand by the thumb/ or else in the forehead. Take heed also lefst his age of youth (whereby he might be to feeble) hinder thee: or else the time: the same must be kept with dieting/ as I shall teach hereafter.  

Headache of Colera.  If the headache cometh of Colera/ the same must be let blood at the liver vain/ and give him to eat prunes of Damask/ and sour cherries though they be dried/ take oil of roses or violets/ put thereto as much vinegar/ anoint his head therewith where it grieveth or acheth/ dip two hempen clothes therein/ & let him hold them in his hand/ the same draweth out the evil heat: but if ye can not have the oil of roses/ take the white of eggs/ rose water and vinegar/ and do thus: Set his feet in hot water/ and rub his legs well downward: and if he will not have them washed/ then let him dip the feet in cold water/ and lay him down to rest/ and not sleep by day time/ but beware for heat and wine. Howbeit if he will drink wine/ let it be sour/ and well mixed/ let him also drink water sodden with barley/ the same doth cool him/ & let him take otherwiles sugar candy into his mouth/ to slake the thirst/ or else again confect of cherries or prunes. But he must beware of salt meats and flesh/ without it were of chicken/ or else let him eat sour unripe grapes/ or else the juice of them/ or sorrel. Let him use a little vinegar in his meat/ but no spice nor aught that chafeth: & take heed he be lose in the belly. If need constrain thee/ take Venice soap or alum/ make pills of it/ & use it for a suppository. 
Supposit  But if ye have the roots of betes/ struck them a little with salt/ & put them up into the fundament/ or else seth honey till it be black in an earthen v●ssel/ put a little salt thereto/ & make pills of it/ and use them likewise. If ye have not honey/ take the iolke of an egg/ & as much salt/ seth the same together/ and make pillets thereof/ the bigness of a haselnut or filberte/ and put that into the body/ the same retaineth the siege. If it is a man/ let him beware of women/ for they are hurtful for him/ also of mostarde/ garlic/ onions/ leeks and such like. 
Superfluity of blood. To make the nose to bleth.  If the headache cometh of superfluity of blood/ then make him thus to bleth at the nose without smart: Take sedes of red nettles/ and bray them to powder in a mortar/ blow a little of the same powder into his nose with a quill. But if ye can not get sedes of nettles/ put a hole of the herb called Millesoyl or Yarbe into the nose/ and rub the nose outwardly softly/ and than shall it bleth. But if it be in winter/ and canst get neither Chirurgeon to let blood/ nor nettles/ nor nettles sede/ nor yet no millefoyle/ and wouldst gladly draw the blood from the head/ then take two sack bands/ and bind or tie them first about the legs above the knye/ & let it so abide the space of half a Pater noster: then lose it again/ and tie it again. Do this the space of a quarter of an hour: than tie his arms above the elbow likewise/ thus shalt thou draw all the blood from the head. But ye must handle this thing warily/ lest ye let the m●nbre to long to be tied/ whereby the member might be asconnyed or choked.  
But if the head burn to sore/ take the juice of Porceleyne/ and struck the head and temples therewith/ or where the most heat is. 
Heat in the head   
If the head doth ache so sore/ (by reason of a morre or running) that he can not snoffe his nose/ than were it good to use confectes made of the apothecary's/ called Nasalia/ and put them thereinto/ or else Margerim writhe together/ and put into the nose/ for the same draweth out all evil humours. 
Headache of a mor.  If ye can not have the same neither/ than take a green rote of betes/ as long as a finger and a half/ sharped a little and bruised/ put the same into the nose and let it abide the space of a quarter of an hour/ the same draweth out also all evil humours.  
But if ye can not have the same neither/ than take the seed of Cokle/ that is found in the corn/ beat it to powder/ put the same into the noise/ that draweth sore. Or else take a pot/ and put rapes into it/ and seth them/ than hold thy nose over it/ that the vapour or hot breath ascend so into thy head/ that thou do even sweat with it.  
Or take water cresses dried/ not in the sun/ but in the air/ bray the same to powder in a mortar/ or within your hands/ sift it through a linen cloth. Howbeit if it would be to long to dry it in the air/ then dry it in an oven/ when the bread is drawn/ or else in a stove or hot house.  

Headache of Melancholy.  But if one hath pain in the head of Melancholy/ his disease is come by cold/ and of dry complexion. Dicte the same and give him to eat meats that are hot and moist/ to chafe his nature and moist his body. If he have no sieges/ then give him the fourth part of an ounce or iij. drams of Diacartha mi/ before day break/ and let him walk up and down/ until he get a siege. But when the siege is done/ then give him some thing to comfort him or that may restore his strength/ as supping or broth of chickens/ or young beef/ and mix sometime a little beaten saffron in his meat. After that may ye give him a few pigs feet/ for the same make his veins tender and moist/ & give him sometime in the morning or day time milk to drink/ that is sodden with eggs: that strengtheneth him/ and giveth nature force. Also ought he to bathe sometime a little in a bath made with Fenel or Heysede/ gathered upon a hay fit/ & oats straw: but ye may not bathe to long nor to hot. If in bathing the sweat will not in short space issue/ them go out: for them is not the bath good for thy/ & keep thyself warm after it/ lest thou do take cold upon it/ & beware of all meats that may cool & dry the/ as mustard/ garlic/ onions/ leeks/ also of hard or old cheese/ Martinmasse beef/ Haringe/ read haringe/ Lynge and such like.  

Headache of phlegma.  But if the headache cometh of phlegma/ namely of cold and superfluous moisture/ then is it necessary to purge the head with pills Cochie/ and pills De iera. Beware of such things as cool/ and bring corrupt moisture/ as fruit/ water/ flesh/ fresh cheese/ new bread/ and all that is of evil digestion. His temples ought to be anointed with oil of camomile. But if thou hast not oil of Camomile/ then take two eggs shells full of flowers of Camomile/ grieve or sere/ and seth them in wine and water together/ and when it is sodden to the half/ then strain it through a cloth/ and put thereto butter/ so much as a goose egg/ and then boil the water and wine away: Bath his feet also in a deep tub/ even until the knees/ that the hot breath may thorou warm his body/ & he may sweat. Into this water put two handfuls of flowers of camomile/ and a handful of heysede well sodden. If he do sweat well/ lay him to sleep/ & cover him warm: if he could sweat in the bed/ that should do him good/ then give him a little green ginger/ and a little coriander stiped a night long in vinegar and dried again/ the same doth chafe his head and stomach/ and consumeth the evil humours/ that rise out of the stomach into the head/ and trouble the brains/ that same doth it suage. give him also in the morning fasting/ if he can bear it/ and let him fast two hours there upon: Take three quarters of an ounce of aqua vite/ a penny weight of beaten saffron/ and a penny weight of beaten Cinnamon/ half an ounce of Buglossen or Oxetunge water/ mix these together/ let them stand a day and night/ then shall it be tempered the one with the other. This doth warm his stomach/ riseth into his head/ drieth his moist brains/ whereof his disease cometh in the head. Let him eat meats of good digestion/ and not to much at ones: 
Nota.  for so long the stomach is cold and moist can it not digest well/ and if he eat much/ thereof waxeth it full of slime and filth/ and many diseases grow of it/ as pain in the head/ grievous coughings/ agues/ gripings in the belly/ worms/ pain in the mother or matrice/ and many other: and if the pain lieth in the head/ then let him be bathed/ specially with these herbs: Take of Valeriane and Fenell of each a hand full/ Ootes straw two handful/ a peck of Ootes/ but if thou hast no Ootes/ take the straw only/ Heysede/ of every one iij. handful/ put the same into a little sack/ and seth it in a kettle with water/ bathe therewith/ and when he is thorough warm and sweateth/ then rensch him with look or blood warm water/ and cast a cloth or twain over him for cooling/ lay him down/ cover his body and head warm/ that he may also sweat in the bed: afterward take some of the covering away/ let him sleep a little in the bed/ and after that give him a good broth of a pollet or chycken/ or else a supping of young beef or veele that is not overfat/ or else the broth of grey peasen/ with beaten saffron the bigness of a pease: but he may neither eat nor drink to much/ & then rest a little. If he can/ let him sweat a little after it/ & be always still/ both in the bath and also bed/ as he is in the heat or sweeting/ lest he become to fel. The head washen with lie/ wherein are sodden the flowers of Camomile/ taketh away the evil humours of the head and brains that are gathered there in with cold: the same doth also the water where in flowers of Camomile are sodden/ & put upon the head. 
Headache of stopping.  But if the head did thus ache/ by reason of a constipation or stopping/ so that ye could not well take breath/ then buy half an ounce of Cinomon unbeaten/ and eat oft a little thereof/ or else take a piece of bread/ stipe it in wine/ and strow Cinnamon beaten upon it/ eat the same/ that taketh away the stopping/ minisheth the slime/ of the which the stopping is engendered.  
This medicine doth also minish greatly/ and taketh away the pain in the head: Take a pint of wine/ warm the same/ then take four yolks of eggs/ beat the same in the wine/ and moisten his head well therewith: the same draweth out the heat/ and allayeth the pain.  
But if the head ache were come of cold air or winds/ 
Headache of cold● air.  them wash the head with water/ wherein are sodden the flowers & herle of Camomile/ after that struck the forehead/ temples & stomach with the foresaid oil or butter/ or else stipe soft clothes therein/ & lay them into the neck/ the same draweth out the evil moistness & cold/ & warmeth the head. Water distilled of Betony/ & a cloth dipped there in/ & pressed well out again/ and then wrapped or tied hard about the head/ restoreth the head that was distempered with cold moisture (even that some fall into frenzy) right well to his former estate. But if thou canst not get the water/ but canst have the herb/ then seth the same in wine/ mixed with the third deal water/ and use the same in stead of the distilled water.   

A wonderful experience for the headacke.  
SEt a dish or platter of tin upon the bare head filled with water/ put an ounce and an half/ or two ounces of molten lead therein/ while he hath it upon the head. Or else make a garland of vervain/ and wear it day and night/ that helpeth wonderfully.  
Likewise mayest thou take two hand full of Veruayn/ the same mayst thou chap small/ & seth them in a quart of wine/ put them into a little sack/ & lay them hot upon the head/ twice or iij. times/ that healeth well.   

A slouggish or slepery disease.  

A slepery disease.  This disease cometh gladly and lightly of cold & much moistness/ specially to a good folk/ because their natural heat is gone. This disease is thus known: they have always great heat/ whereof the cause is an impostumation/ that lieth in the head behind/ and his urine is pale and thick. By reason of that disease & the trublinge of his head & brains/ he lieth or sitteth/ making semblance as though he did sleep/ and yet doth not: he wendeth & waltereth/ & happily his head & feet do meet together: the same must be healed of this wise: Buy a little nysing powder/ or else take the seed of the Nigella that is found in the corn fields/ beat and use them in stead of the sneezing powder/ or else use the flowers of mustard sede/ or take beaten Mergerun gentle/ put any of these into his noise oft times/ and cause him oft to nice. Rub also the soles of his feet oft with warm water/ vinegar & salt/ with a woollen cloth/ the palm of his hands also/ and keep his belly louse with suppositories of alum/ or other/ as I have taught before/ and let him be laid in a place where much light is: let also much communication be had with him/ to hinder him of his sleep/ and keep him from sleeping. But if he hath great heat/ then may he be bathed in a bath/ that the unclean heat and moistness may avoid from him/ and anoint his head with water/ wherein are sodden Camomille/ Anis and Wormwood. Roses dry or green were good also/ of each a few/ that the water be not to strong: for the washing and bathing doth much good to the head/ by reason it doth comfort the same.  
To the patient may be given Diapenidion/ Diagalanga or Pliris cum musco/ made in the apothecary.  
But if the urine is read/ and the pulse beateth sore/ then cometh the disease by heat: let him then use cold medicines/ as confect of roses or violets. Also were it good oft to burn the heir of a man before his nose/ and he so to receive the sent thereof.  
Galen saith: He that hath pain in the hindermost part of his head/ the same must be let blood under the chin/ specially on the right side.   

A medicine awaking a man sore, and withstandeth sleep greatly.  

To drive slype away and to awak a man.  SEth or boil Rew or Herb grace and vinegar of like quantity in a covered vessel/ and when it is sodden/ put a little more vinegar to it/ and put the Rew into a little cloth/ & put it then again into the vessel where the vinegar is: & when thou wilt awake him/ then take the cloth/ hold it to his nose/ and brows/ & to his temples/ the same awaketh him contin●ntlye/ & causeth to sleep no more. Strong vinegar holden to his nose/ so that he holdeth in his breath/ doth likewise: for he awaketh/ and specially a feather dipped in strong vinegar/ and thrust into the nose so far that he be constrained to nice.  
Penyreal dipped in vinegar/ and holden to the nose/ doth likewise.  
Two things hinder a man of his sleep/ the one is natural/ the other unnatural. 
ij. Things hindering sleep.  The unnatural hindrance of sleep weryeth a man/ and cooleth him inwardly.  
But he that hath pain in the head by reason of exhalation or upbraiding out of the stomach into the head/ let the same eat ripe quinces after breakfast/ that are well roasted/ the same refrain the upbraiding into the head/ and drive downward to the siege.  
But if the well-doing come by reason of a cold stomach/ then were it good to eat Coriander ●ede/ after breakfast/ the which is stiped in vinegar a day and a night/ and dried again/ this withstandeth the upbrayting of the stomach.  
Or else give him to drink the juice of wormwood/ so much as contain an eggs shell/ with as much wine: this same is good for the evil evaporation or rising up into the head.  
They which are inclined to this disease of the head/ ought to be little sturringe/ and beware of meats that be of evil digestion/ as Martimasse beef/ salt fishes/ or moulberries: for they cause evil evaporations to rise into the head.  
Him also that hath headache/ and woteth not whereof it is/ mayest thou heal of this wise: 
Headache whose cause is not known.  Take a pennyworth of pepper/ & as much beaten mustard seed that is not steeped/ mix these two together/ let him take there of in his mouth so great as a small bean/ and remove it with his tongue hither and thither/ let him keep it thus in his mouth a while/ and it shall draw the evil humours out of the head into the mouth. This must be done fasting/ and three hours in the day.   

Headache of much sneezing.  
IF a man doth nice much/ that cometh by reason of cold in the head/ him mayest thou heal of this wise: 
Headache of much sneezing.  Purge the head with pillule auree/ or pillule de hiera picra/ after that let him eat nutmegs/ Coriander and Clares/ and let him oft smell at Castoreum/ or else put a drop of Oleum benedictum into his nose and ears in the morning/ that chafeth/ & let him eat oetmeel gruel/ and drink wine or stolen bier or ale/ neither let him eat meats that be moist of complexion/ but dry.   

Of apostemation in the head and brains.  
THe brains are grieved many ways/ sometime of the stomach/ when a man eateth meats/ that the stomach can not digest/ and lie sliminge & rotting in the stomach/ yielding an upbraiding into the head/ whereof the head hath ever pain/ and thereof are the brains diseased. 
Apostemation in the head and brains.   
Sometime engendereth an apostemation in the brains of some little skins/ that environ the brains/ the same are called Phrenesis. 
Phrenesis.  He that hath the same apostemation/ can not sleep/ and becometh sometime mad. Thesame apostemation cometh sometime of Colera/ when the same is inflamed/ and breateth up into the head. It cometh also of hot blood/ that lieth in the heart/ and brarheth up into the brains: he that hath the same apostemation/ hath also great drought in the mouth/ and the tongue waxeth black/ & he becometh read under the eyes/ & specially about the nose/ & such apostemation have they most/ that are of hot & dry complexion/ when they labour or travail to much. He that hath this disease/ the first three days when it overtaketh him/ must he let blood in the Cephalica/ that is the vain of the head/ and the same day ought he to let blood in the forehead/ or else set horselcaches or blood suckers thereto. But if the horselcaches will not suck/ then anoint the temples with wine/ then do they sit to by and by.  
Good heed ought to be taken to them and well kept/ give them none other meat/ than bread steeped in almonds milk. give them almond milk to drink & beware of meats of hot complexion/ let them be still & quiet/ & beware of vexing and anger/ or else become they lightly frantic and mad.  

Beans are not good for feeble brains nor lentils.  All men that have feeble brains ought to beware of beans/ for they trouble the brains/ and cause heavy dreams/ the brains and head sick. The lentils do likewise/ for they cause evil blood/ and stop the bowels & veins/ that they can not sweat/ & that in such men as labour not/ tender and sick feeble/ they hurt the breast/ the lights/ the eyes/ the skin about the brains/ and all the veins of the body: Contrary to this are speces/ which comfort and fortify the body/ head and brays.   

Of whirling in the head.  

Hosts in the head.  MAny are whom the head whirleth so sore/ that he thinketh the earth turneth upside down/ the same also hath pain in the eyen/ he thinketh that a sort of flies do fly before his eyen: those may be healed of this wise: They may drink no strong drinks nor wine/ without it be well allayed with water/ & to them aught to be given pills made of half an ounce of Aloe/ & a penyweyght of Mastix/ give him of them every night five/ the bigness of small beans/ and give him after that Diamargariton or Dianthos/ or else Diapliris/ for the same comfort the head and stomach/ and anoint his head with oil of camomile.  
Or else take Betony/ whose leaves must be dried in the shadow/ and made to powder/ the same strow or struck upon a piece of bread/ being stiped ni wine/ and eat the same in the morning and at even/ the same restoreth the brains. Or else take Cerfoil or chervil sodden in water/ and lay it to the temples and forehead/ the same warmeth the brains and head/ & take Pennyreal made to powder/ and drink it with water of Pennyreal. Coming refraineth the whirling/ comforteth the brains/ and maketh them to grow again or increase.   

Another for the whyrlinge.  
comen stiped in vinegar three days long/ and after dried again/ & at night when one will go to bed/ kept hole in the mouth/ & chawed as long as a man can/ at the last swallowed down/ etc. Some eat it made to powder/ but it is not so good.  
If it were a sickness fervent/ by reason of an exceeding cold or whirling/ then take the brains of a hog/ roast the same upon a greed iron/ and cut slices thereof/ & strow a powder there upon made of Cummin Peonye sede & Penny real in like quantity: this is very good/ put thereto so much miscelden or an oak/ as any of the other spices made to powder also/ & give it to the patiented/ let him use this iij. or iiij. times after another/ & he shall be healed. For it driveth out all superfluous humours of the brains/ and drieth & sharpeneth it.   

When a man can not sleep.  
OFt times cometh that a man can not sleep by reason of the heat of the brains moving/ sometime by reason of the read colera/ 
waking unnatural.  which is hot and dry/ sometime by reason of the black colera/ which is cold & dry/ when melancholy is risen into the head/ sometime cometh it by reason of exceeding heat/ that is risen into the head of sweet moystinesse.  
If the waking come of melancolia or sorrowfulness/ then becometh a man straight about the chest or stomach/ & his heat is dry: 

waking of melancolia.  
waking of read colera.   the colour also of his skin is altered. But if the waking come of the read colera/ then waxeth his skin read coloured also/ then give him barley water to drink. But if the waking come of the black colera/ then becometh the skin of the patiented pale/ and he hath much carefulness/ anguish and pensisnesse. But if it cometh of phlegma/ then becometh the patiented heavy and slouggish.  
It is to be considered/ that if a man watch much/ it maketh him heavy of courage/ and that cometh by reason his members dry/ wherein lieth the power of the body/ and it hindereth also the digestion of the stomach/ whereof are engendered evil moistures in the body. 
Nota.   
If the weaking is caused by colera/ then wash his head with water/ wherein are sodden leaves of violets/ or else Lettuce/ or the seed of it/ & struck the head with women milk. 
Cure of the waking of colera.   
Alum the bigness of a great bean kept in the mouth/ draweth the moistness out of the head: after that wash the mouth with water/ and beware of all things that are hot of complexion.  
If the waking be caused by reason of heat/ take white or black poppy sede/ bray the same in a mortar/ pour water therein/ and make a milk of it/ which give him to drink. 
waking of heat.  Or else seth the tops of black poppy in milk/ and let him drink it. Take a dish of black poppy sede/ beat it well/ temper it with water blood warm/ that it wax as a thick milk/ moisten therein a fine linen cloth a hand broad/ and as long that it may go about his head: the same doth cool his head/ and if he awake about mydnighte/ do it again. Howbeit ye must take heed/ that if he have no sieges/ then give him to bedward half an ounce of syrup of violets/ with an ounce of warm water/ mixed together/ but let it be cold when ye will ministre him the same: give him also to drink cream/ or pottage of peasen sodden without any salt or fatness/ only peasen/ and let him drink the same blood warm in the morning/ let him after this lie high with the head/ well covered/ and let him fast hereupon six hours. Nevertheless if he wax faint/ and hath had a siege/ then may he eat and drink a little, but beware of excess.  
The crowns upon the poppy heads sodden in milk/ make of the same a pap/ and thereof at night: the same may be given a young child/ and it causeth to sleep fast and restlye. Or else take Betony/ and lay it upon his head.  
If one sleepeth unrestly/ let him eat lettuce: but is it a child/ let the Lettuce be well sodden in water/ and give him the same to drink.   

Of one that hath the palsy.  

The palsy.  THe palsy taketh men sundry wise/ for sometime cometh the disease by anger/ sometime by cold/ sometime by superfluous eating and drinking/ whereof is engendered in man overmuch slime/ whereby the veins are stopped/ or else that the blood increaseth excessively/ and overcometh the heart/ or else strayth in the members/ of the which is caused the palsy. It taketh men also that be lecherous/ whose marry in the bones waysteth & cooleth/ so that unwares all his source faileth/ and he finally doth die.  
Sometime doth it take any of the members that have been maimed/ and not well healed/ whereof they wax sometime sear/ and can not suffer the heat of the heart/ which is cause of their death and destruction/ and the member becometh lame and wry.  

The causes of the palsy.  This disease taketh sometime the one member/ as hand or foot/ sometime the half body/ or the tongue/ so that a man can not speak: sometime cometh it of overmuch joy/ heaviness/ meat or drink/ overmuch labour/ rest/ slothfulness/ fear/ swooning/ hartequake/ and of supers●uitye of blood/ phlegma/ colera or melancholy.  
Sometime is the cause/ that the two strings/ coming down from the brain through the backbone into the feet: through the one goeth the natural heat/ and through the other the cold/ that the same strings (I say) are stopped/ either the one or both. Wherefore/ in whatsoever member is stopped this string/ that the natural spirit can not come into the same/ it waxeth lame. Let every Physician or Chirurgeon therefore rule him after this/ and well and exactly know/ and search the cause of the disease/ that he may the more certainly know how to heal the patiented.  

Supers●uitye moisture.  If moisture is cause of the disease/ then must the same be minished by such things as consume it/ warm and comfort the body/ of this wise: Take Lavender/ Sage/ Cousloppe called herba Paralisis/ Ren/ juniper berries/ of each a handful/ a pint of Aqua vite/ a quart of strong white wine/ put all these into a great pot/ and set it into a kettle with water/ and let it seth well. With this wine streke the limbs grieved twice in the day/ and let them dry again by themselves/ and drink twice in the day of this wine/ at every time so much as an eggs shell containeth.  

Supersluity of blood.  But if the disease is come by reason of supersluitye of blood/ then must he be let blood incontinently. And if the disease is in the right side/ then let him blood in the left side: If it is in the left side/ then let him blood in the right side/ in the arm/ and give him half a dram or triakle in a bath/ with warm wine/ wherein Castoreum hath been sodden. But if thou haste not Castoreum/ then take Lavender or Sage water/ drink that/ the same helpeth. But if thou haste not the water also/ seeth the herb either of them in good wine/ and drink it. Or else take fine Sage/ Lavender/ of each three handful/ let them step in three pints of wine xiv. days/ after that still and drink it. If ye can not still it/ then seth the wine with the herbs/ and give him to drink of it.   

If the palsy hath taken a man, and his members were so holy taken, that he doth not feal when he is touched upon the same, then let him be bathed dry of this wise.  
Cover a bathing vessel well and close/ lay brickestones in the fire/ that they wax glowing hot. 
A bathe for the palsy.  Take also juniper berries/ Mullen called Tapsus barbatus/ and read Organ/ of each four hand full/ seth the same well in a kettle well covered/ or else in a pot/ and put six quarts of good wine thereto/ put hot water in the bathing vessel/ that it be well warmed. And before thou interest into the vessel/ take two tiles that be hoted/ put them into a tobbe/ and pour of this foresaid wine upon them/ so that even the very bathing vessel be warmed with it: then set the patiented in the vessel/ and take alway a stone out and into the tobbe/ and pour of the wine upon it/ until he do sweat. But ye must beware lest he do bath to hot/ that he faint not/ or that he bath not to long. Of this bath are all his members chafed/ and that helpeth him very well. When he goeth forth out of the bath/ then let him lay himself upon a bed: and if his strength is so good/ that he can sweat in the bed/ that is very good for him. Let him also beware for taking cold. And when he waxeth dry/ then let his lamed limbs be streaked with water of Lavender. If ye have not the water/ then take the wine wherein Lavender hath been sodden with Sage/ or else Sage alone/ do this three times in the day. If he hath strength sufficient/ then let him be bathed ix. days long/ every day ones. He ought also to be anointed with half an ounce of Castoreum made to powder/ with ij. ounces of oil of olive warmed/ let his limbs be anointed therewith threse in the day/ if he can suffer it.    

¶ To restore again members that be lamed or taken.  
TAke Sage and seth it in water/ put it into a long pot: 
To restore again membres that be l●med or taken.  if the disease is in the hands/ then put alway one hand into the pot/ that the exhalation come to it so hot as ye can suffer it/ till it do sweat. After that take half a pound of Aqua vite/ and a hand full of Sage/ and as much Rue/ cut them small/ and seth them in the Aqua vite/ in a pot with a narrow mouth/ well stopped/ and so put into seething water.  
If the Aqua vite is drunk in of the herbs/ than put more therein/ & seth it until it boileth/ then put a little thereof into a goblet or other crewyse/ well close/ and chafe it so warm as ye can suffer it: steep a soft or fine cloth therein/ and struck the patientes limbs therewith by a fire. A●ter that take ●yle of camomile/ and put thereto as much Aqua vite/ and struck the same with a soft linen cloth about the joints of the patient. The cloth ought to be made of this wise/ that it be as long/ that it may cover the joint holy: then wind a black sheeps skin about the jointure/ every even and morrow/ xiv. days continually.  
But if the palsy hath taken a foot/ arm or knee/ then put the herbs out into a tub/ lay a piece of wood thereupon/ set the feet there on/ and cover the tub close. And when it waxeth cold/ then chafe it again with a hot brick/ and bathe the member/ as afore. But if the disease were in either of the houkels or shoulders/ then must the foresaid herbs be put into a little sack or bag/ being broad and long half a yard/ and then seth it/ and lay i● hot upon the taken member: and when it waxeth cold/ then to lay another straight way in the place/ and anoint him as before/ and keep the member that is taken alway warm. Let his meat and drink be alway seasoned with beaten saffron/ according as he couled. Let him also eat oft young hogs or porckes feet/ sodden with rapes: the same comfort the sinews. Or else let him use in stead of saffron/ Cinnamon/ or else the sovereign bugloss.   

¶ For trembling or shaking of the hands.  

Trembling or shaking of hands.  Wash thy hands out of a Lavor with cold water/ and let them dry by themselves/ as oft as thou dost wash them: but it were better if ye laid Sage there in.  
If a man standeth in fear of the palsy/ let the same eat every morning two or three mustard sedes/ and two pepper corns. Thesame is assured for the same disease that day.   

¶ Of drunkenness.  

drunkenness.  Drunkenness cometh oft by superfluous and undigested vapour/ braything up/ and troubling the brains. Likewise doth also the Son/ with overchafing head/ whereof the brains wax feeble/ and man's head acheth: which accident drunken folk doth overtake also. Drunkenness doth also weaken the wit and body of man with the memory so sore/ that he knoweth no more what he doth/ then an unreasonable beast.  

To wax drunken and yet drink not over much.  It chanceth otherwiles to some fol●e/ to be drunken/ and yet do not drink overmuch: and that happeneth two manner of ways: first that they have so great pain/ or wept so much/ that thereby their brains and head are become feeble: and when they drink/ the drinking doth so much the sooner strike into their brains. Besides this are many men/ that by nature have a feeble head and brains/ though they are no great drinks/ and therefore doth the drink run soon into their heads. This also happeneth diverse ways: First/ because the drinks are to strong for them. Secondly/ because the weather or place where they drink/ be to hot for them/ or else the Son hath feebled their brains. thirdly/ if they are in a hot place and much noise/ which they are not accostumed/ with that doth the drink sweetly overcome them/ etc.  
If the drunkenness is of hot complexion/ then anoint his head with oil of roses/ or oil of violets/ or both mixed together/ anoint (I say) his head and temples there with: 
drunkenness of hot complexion.  after that give him to drink water of Poppy/ beaten with water of roses/ and mixed together like milk. After that set his feet into a warm water/ rub them with salt/ with a woollen cloth/ & then anoint them with oil of violets/ that the vapours may sink down out of the head. After the same cause him sieges with pills of alum or soap/ or else with the yolk of an egg and salt. Let his drink be barley water/ or else syrup of violets/ with as much again blood warm water to drink. All this have I chiefly showed therefore/ that if a man doubteth/ he may know how to help himself.  
I read/ that if a man do eat three carnels of Almonds/ he doth not lightly wax drunken. 
Nota.  He that knoweth he is grieved with that impediment/ the same aught so much the more take heed to himself/ lest that rudeness and misbehaveour happen to him: for it maketh feeble every man's body and soul/ his understanding/ wit and honesty/ etc.  
If a man is greatly thyrstinge/ and dare not drink his fill/ the same shall slake his thirst of this wise: 
To slake thirst.  Let him take flint stones/ the bigness of a Walnut/ and lay them in cold water/ and now and than let him take one of them into his mouth/ that shall make him moist.   

¶ For the falling evil.  
Against the falling evil or sickness/ take miscelden of oaken tree with the bark an ounce miscelden/ of Pere tree half an ounce/ the paring of the toppet of hearts horn a quarter of an ounce: 
Falling sickness  make of these things a powder/ and give the patiented thereof to drink/ the more he drinketh thereof/ the better it is/ and this must he do fasting.  
Put also of the powder into a cloth/ and lay it under his head without his knowledge/ and let him sleep there upon.  
This powder must he use in the morning fasting/ and to bedward at even/ and let the powder be refreshed every night. Let also the powder to be laid under his head/ and the powder that he drinketh/ be of like weight. This doth help him.  
Macer writeth that the roots of Peony be very good for the falling sickness/ if they be hanged about the neck. 
Lib. 6. simplicium  Galene doth also write of a child/ which had the root of Peonye hanging about his neck/ and was free all that while of the falling sickness/ that it was about it: and when it was fallen of by chance/ than got it his former disease again.  
Hipocrates saith also/ that he did tie a child of five years the rote of Peony about the neck/ and it rose continently again from the falling sickness/ and was hole: and thus is it twice proved.  
If it be a man that is grieved with this disease/ let the same take a he Wolves heart/ and make it to powder/ and let him use that against the disease: but if it is a woman/ let her take a she Wolves heart/ etc.   

¶ A wonderful powder for the falling sycnesse.  

Powder for the falling sickness  TAke a living or quick molle/ open him/ and take out the entrails/ and cast them away. After that put the Molle with skin and altogether into an earthen or stone pot/ stop the same well and close with clay/ set it then by the fire/ and let it stand until the moll is consumed holy to powder. After that lay the same powder upon a marbel stone/ that is clean washed/ & take the juice of Cousloppe leaves or roots two ounces/ & grind the same with the powder in the Son. The next day grind it again with the juice/ & again the third day/ and let it always dry in the Son. After that take the roots of Basil/ and stamp them/ and take an ounce of the same juice/ and mix them together with the foresaid powder/ as is said of the Cousloppes/ but no more save ones. After take the roots of Gentian dried/ & make a powder thereof: of this same powder mix a quarter of an ounce with the foresaid powder. After that take an ounce and an half of the rote of Peony/ made to powder/ and mix it with that powder specified before. Hang also a root of Peony about the neck. Drink of the foresaid powders a quarter of an ounce with blood warm wine/ lie down to bed/ and cover thyself warm. After that in thy meat to beddewarde put the other quarter of the powder/ and do so while the powder lasteth. Eat little at night/ no entrails of beasts/ as heart/ liver/ etc. nor sucker/ and keep good diet/ and thou shalt be hole.   

¶ To know whether a man be possessed with an evil spirit/ and how he may be helped.  
INsania/ in Latin signifieth Madness/ the same cometh sometime of evil meats/ 
Of raging  sometime of overmuch drinking/ or if a man being hot/ drinketh cold drink/ sometime of superfluous slime that lieth in the stomach of meats that be not well digested/ sometime of meats that be hot of complexion/ as are garlic/ pepper/ and such like. Sometime doth it come of the biting of a mad beast/ or of an infect air/ or anger/ or overmuch sorrow/ sometime also of evil moisture/ or that a man hath had no natural siege a great season/ and the corruption is rotten within him/ and the vapours are risen up into his head/ and the brains are perfumed and corrupt therewith/ which causeth a man then to be witless and ragious.  

Raging caused by blood  If the madness cometh of the blood/ then doth man sing and is merry/ sometime thinketh he/ that he is in heaven/ or else that some body talketh to him/ saying he is God/ or an angel: sometime that he is rich and wealthy.  

Congealed blood.  But if the madness cometh of congealed or burnt blood/ the same are sometime a little merry/ after that wax they angry/ cry and beat themselves and another. 
Raging caused by cold and droought.   
If it cometh of cold and drought/ then doth he alway gloom/ weep/ and fear him/ that is not to be feared. Sometime thinketh he that the sticks and straws he seeth/ are serpent's/ toads or such venomous beasts/ he creepeth into the dark/ bendeth his hands together/ wening some body will take aught out of them: sometime croweth he like a cock/ sometime barketh he like a dog/ and many such foolish toys useth he.  
But if it cometh of phlegma/ then are his brains corrupt and slymed with cold/ and thereof becometh he mad: 
Raging caused by phlegma.  to such one doth the devil gladly accompany/ and so is he possessed.  
He that is become mad with sadness and heaviness/ to him ought fair▪ be spoken and made merry/ many things should be promised him/ and some be given. 
Sadness or heaviness.  If it is a man/ the same aught to be refreshed with women/ the same avoideth anger. But if it is a woman/ the same aught to be refreshed with men/ and to their company admitted: the same bringeth them to their right mind again. It is good also to give them meats of good digestion/ as mutton/ chykens/ new laid eggs/ white bread and drinks not to strong. If they have no sieges/ then give them pillulas cochie to bedward/ the same purge the head. It is to be considered also/ that if he have much blood/ then ought he to be let in the middlemost vain of the forehead: six days after aught he to be let blood upon both the hands/ by the thumb in the Cephalica. Let him use meats and drinks cold of complexion/ let him not drink wine.   

¶ This drink were good for such one.  
TAke a dish full of barley/ Licoris an ounce and an half/ cut the same small and take an handful of Waybred/ and seth all this in a quart of fair water/ strain it than through a cloth/ and let him drink of it. 
A drink against raging.  It is good also to wash his head in lie/ where in flowers of camomile are sodden & vervin/ of each a hand full in a quart of water/ the same comforteth the head.  
If the madness were of phlegma or of superfluous cold/ whereby the brains were cooled/ then let him eat meats that may warm him/ & let him keep himself warm: but first ought he be purged of this wise: 
Cure of raging caused by phlegma or cold.  Take the leaves of Sena/ made to powder a quart of an ounce/ fine sucker half an ounce/ and an eggs shalt full of aqua vite/ as much of bugloss water/ as much of good white wine/ and so much broth of Peasen/ as altogether: let the same be warm/ and put all these things together/ and beat them well: of this give him to drink in the dawning/ or when the day breaketh. If he will not take it by himself/ then open his mouth by force/ and pour it into the same. The third day after give him to bedward iij. pills of cochia/ and let no air come to him.  
If it is in winter/ then keep him warm in a close chamber both night & day. But if it is in summer/ then lay him in a chamber that is somewhat high/ and make him a fire of juniper would/ whereon the berries are/ for that is very good for him. It were good also to put saffron into his drink and meats/ his best meats were old hens or cocks well sodden/ for they do both warm and comfort him.  
And if he hath great heat in his head/ then make him this collyrium: 
Heat.  Take Housleke and leaves of Roses of like quantity/ well beaten and mixed with women's milk/ struck the same about his temples/ the same couleth the blood/ and allayeth the raging: let him beware of strong drinks.  

Raging unknown.  If a man is mad/ and it is not known whereof it cometh/ take the lounge or lights of a Goat buck/ and bind the same warm about his head/ the same allayeth the rage. Or else take a black hen/ and open her quick upon the back/ and lay the same so warm to the head. But if it is a woman or maiden/ then take the lounge or lights of a Goat.  

Raging of cold.  If a man becometh mad of cold/ then were it good forth with to take a black hen quick/ and rip the same up upon the back/ and lay her with blood and all upon the head: for the same doth warm his head and brains very well.   

¶ A good drink for one that rageth/ and specially if it is come of cold.  

A drink for raging of cold.  TAke a quarter of an ounce of beaten saffron/ half an ounce of Cinnamon/ half an ounce of aqua vite/ and put this into a pint of wine. The speces ought to be knit in a linen cloth. And let him drink a good draft thereof in the morning and evening.  

Spece●.  It is good also if he use speces in his drink prepared of this wise: Take a quarter of an ounce of Saffron/ Cinnamon a quarter of an ounce/ Clowes a quarter of an ounce/ Sugar an ounce/ make thereof a confection: the same doth comfort the head and brains very well. Or else give him the sedes of Peony beaten small/ temper the same with wine/ and give it him to drink/ that getteth him his wits.  

A sumigation.  It is good also to take the heart and liver of a fish called a pick/ and put the same into a pot with glowing hot cools/ and hold the same to the patiented/ so that the smoke may entre into him. If he is possessed/ he can not abide that smoke/ but rageth and is angry.  
It is good also to make a fire in his chamber of juniper wood that is green/ and cast into the fire frankincense and S. Ihons' grass or S. Ihons' wort: 
Fuga dae monum, or Hypericon.  for the evil sprites can not abide this sent/ & wax angry/ whereby may be perceived whether a man be possessed of an evil spirit or not.  
The cure of all these evils is (without God will punish them of a several wise.) They shall take and use two eggs shells full of Aqua vite/ & three times as much of other wine/ mixed among it/ a quarter of an ounce of powder of Seine/ the same let him use three morning fasting. 
A cure general.  Or else let him use Aqua vite/ where in is styped fumitory/ or the marrow of Walwurt/ or th● stone Lazulus/ or Garmander/ or Broke of the wall/ which all do purge black colera or Melancholy: For with purging black colera/ is the spleen cleansed/ and there with avoid the strange thoughts and imaginations/ the pensiffenesse and melancholy is driven out/ and the brains get again their force or strength/ and are increased. Wherefore if this be done/ then is the evil spirit or will driven out/ and all wicked thoughts are forgotten. If man be thus tended/ than cometh he again to his right natural understanding. Nevertheless the foresaid medecins must be ministered to him either when soever the pangs come upon him/ or when he seemeth to be free of them/ that they may minish by process of time/ or else hinder so much the less. If any child wear Peony seed about his body/ no evil spirit can hinder him.  
Item x. or xii. sedes of Peony beaten with wine/ & then drunk/ avoid the disease called Incubus/ that is the Mare/ which is a sickness or fantasy oppressing a man in his sleep/ that him seemeth a great weight lie upon his body/ wherefore he groaneth and sigheth/ but can not speak. 
Incubus or the Mare.   
If a man were desperate or frantic by fantesyes and his wits were spread abroad/ if thou wilt gather again the scattered wits: 
To gather wits strawed.  them take a great basin/ set it sedelings to a wall/ so that it do lean holy upon the wall/ then take a laver with a cock full of water/ set that high upon a coupborde or other thing/ open the cock a little/ so that the water drop by little and little upon the basin/ and make a ringing/ and run out of the basin again. Into this chamber or place lay the patiented/ so that he can not see this/ nor let not much be spoken to him: then doth he muse and fantasy so much upon that dropping & ringing/ what it may be/ willing gladly know what it is/ that at the last he fasteneth his wits/ & gathered them again. If the water fail/ them fill the laver again. Also may be given to him the sovereign water of bugloss.   

¶ Of disease in the eyen.  
IF one have disease in the eyen/ the same cometh of the four complexions: 
Disease of the eyen.  as namely/ if they be moist/ that cometh of the blood/ the same his eyen are heavy/ & the filthiness that cometh out of them/ is very unclean/ the veins of the temples grieve him. If it be of read colera/ then do his eyes smart him so sore/ as though one did prick him into the same with needles/ & they are very read and hot. 
The cure  first look the patient have good sieges/ and let him beware of things that are hot/ and be quiet. Purge him his head with pills de hiera picra: the first night let him take v. pills/ the second night seven. the third night ix. the same do purge his head. pills cochie do likewise/ but of them must he take no more/ save iij. at ones. Let him eschew flesh/ but eat fishes without scales.  
This collyrium following is a medicine for the eyen: 
Collyrium that is a medicine for sore eyes.  Take the white of eggs/ and beat them so long till they wax so thick/ that if ye put a little straw there in/ it standeth upright: than hold the dish wherein thou dost beat it upon the one side/ and let the thin run out into some other vessel: to the same put as much woman milk that sucketh a boy/ and as much water of roses/ beat all these together/ and wet a fine linen cloth therein/ press it out a little/ and lay it upon the eyes ● till it waxeth dry thee/ same slaketh the evil heat/ and draweth it out/ and allayeth straightway the pain and smart of the eyen. Do this every hour ones/ and when he will go to bed/ then lay them cloth upon his eyen/ and struck of this confection with a fedder into his eyen/ the same taketh away the smart also. But it were very good to lay first the white of an egg and rose water to his nape of the neck.  
Also if the head and eyes do ache/ then make a foot bath/ 
A bath for sore eyes.  and let him sit there in until above the calf of the leg/ cover him well/ that the vapour may strike up to his body/ and chafe him/ also rub him his legs while he sitteth in the bath. After that take the white of eggs/ water of Roses and vinegar/ of each a like/ and beat them together/ then take a fine linen cloth/ a span long/ and a hand broad/ dip the same into it/ and lay that upon his neck: when the same waxeth dry/ then let him wash his feet in cold water/ so that they be wet no farther/ then the ankles/ then let him draw them out again straight way/ and let him lie down upon a bed/ and let the feet be uncovered/ and then lay the collyrium upon the eye/ and this must he do in the morning/ at none and at even: the same draweth out the evil heat/ and allayeth te pain/ and is oft times proved.  

Experience.  The rote of Pilletory taken in the mouth in the morning and at even knawed/ but not eaten/ and then the mouth washed with half vinegar & half water: the same draweth down the heat through the mouth/ and minisheth the heat in the head and eyes.  

Reed eyes.  But if the eyes remain read/ then take of that water that standeth in the leaves of wild Tasill/ and put that into the eyes: or else the water that droppeth out of the veins in march/ when they be most communlye cut and bound up/ put thereto the third part as much white of an egg beaten. Also if a read spot or a bloody mark did remain in the eyes/ then take the white bladder/ having at the yolk of an egg/ called the chicken/ put that in the eye in the morning and even.  

Weke eyen or sight.  If a poor body hath weak eyen or sight/ wilt thou keep them that they wax no worse/ take the tongue of a fox/ & hang the same about his neck/ and so long it hangeth there/ shall not the sight wax feeble nor weak/ as saith Pliny. Likewise doth it also to him/ that eateth or knaweth every morning fasting five or six sedes of juniper/ and holdeth the nethermost lip above the upper/ and holding his hand before his mouth/ bloweth/ and receiveth the breath into his eyen.  

Spots in the eyen.  For spots in the eyen/ take the herb vervain with his rote & hole the substance/ tie the same about thy throat/ and wear it/ until the spots perish and said: the herb may be sowed with a linen cloth about the neck.  

spur blind.  If one were spur blind/ which also is caused by superfluous humidity of the head/ when the veins of the sight are stopped with pain/ & yet are the eyes fair and clear/ so that a man can not perceive he is spur blind/ without one do take good heed. At the last getteth he many syckely & week veins or spots about the forehead. The apple or ball of the eye of some men doth break/ so that the innermost of them doth rot/ and the sight of the eye perisheth: the same also have oft pain in the head. But this disease do lightly great women whose flowers fail before it be time/ and specially women that have cold heads. If this were looked to otherwiles/ a man might well be helped/ with giving a quarter of an ounce of jera pirra that he were purged: he must beware also of things that cause evil humores and of inordinate meatinge or drinking.  

Runnige eyen.  If a man's eyen do run of superfluous humidity/ then lay Walnut leaves in cold water/ and to bedward shake the leaves that the water avoid from the leaves/ and lay one of them upon the one eye: and when it waxeth dry/ lay an other upon it/ the same draweth the evil moisture and heat out of it/ and cleanseth the eyes.  
He that hath a dim sight/ let him take the water of Dandelion or of Cicory/ and put the same into his eyen/ and they shall wax clear. 
dim sight.   
He that hath read or running eyen/ let him take the water that standeth in the wild Tasill leaves/ or else water of the vynestock/ the weight of half an ounce/ & the weight of ten corns or grains of white Amber: 
Read or running eyen.  put the same into a glass/ and let it stand viii. days before ye occupy it/ shake or steer it every day three or four times in the day: the elder it is/ the better is it.  
The rote of Vervin or cut Malow/ called in Latin Alcea/ hanged about the neck/ driveth away spots and blemishes of the eyen/ whether it be in a man/ or horse/ as I Jerome of Brunsweig/ author of this treatise/ have sen myself. 
Spots or blemishes in the eyen.  I have also myself done it to a blind horse/ that was first bought for x. crowns/ & was sold again for xl. crowns/ the which was hanged the root about the neck/ & gave him the herb chapped with his meat or provender.  
He that hath gotten dust or such other thing into his eyen/ let him lie upon his back/ & let him put into his eyen iij. or iiij. sedes of Clary/ let him clese his eyen/ & than do they roll about into the eyen/ and draw the dust with them. 
Dust in the eyen  This is proved by the wild clary/ called commonly Oculus Christies sede/ that it doth so. The stones also found in the maw of swallows/ and specially young ones/ do likewise.   

¶ To heal all manner disease of the ears.  
Sometime is the hearing lost clean/ so that a man heareth nothing at all/ or a little. 
Disease of the ears  He that is so diseased/ must be laid in the sun in summer/ and look into his ears/ whether ought be fallen into them: or else whether an apostemation/ or bluster/ or any other thing be in it/ whereby his hearing might fail. But if nothing is found nor seen in therein/ then is it sure/ that the grief cometh from within the head/ of some vapour that is gathered there/ where by the hearing is stopped/ or else of some apostemation in the head/ where the organs of hearing are. And he that is so diseased/ speaketh so softly/ that he can scarcely be understand/ & is troubled with sleep. 
Cure.  To the same ought be given iij. pills de iera picra Galeni/ the same draw the humours from the ears & head/ & cause him to nice. After that set boxes upon the one ear/ to draw the fylt out of the head. But if a man is let blood in the head out of scason/ the same hurteth him sore/ and causeth him to become deaf.  
If a man have a sounding or piping in his ears/ the same cometh sometime of a hot slimy filthiness/ or of a hot slimy moistness. 
Sounding in the ears.  He that is so diseased/ aught to take pills de iera picra/ & then put oil of Hempsede warm into his ears/ mixed with a little vinegar/ after that let him leap upon his one leg/ upon that side/ where the disease is/ than let him bow down the ear of that side/ if happily any moisture or filth would issue out.  
This disease cometh sometime of the Summer heat: he that is diseased thereof/ hath great heat in his head. Put woman milk and Hemsede oil mixed together into his ear/ on that side where he is diseased/ that allayeth the heat.  
Let him that is deaf take a handful of Rue or Herb grace/ 
Cure of deaf.  & chap or cut the same small/ and put it into a new pot with a pound of good vinegar/ cover it close/ and put it to the fire/ and let it seth/ that it run over. Then let him go into the hot house/ and when he doth sweat well/ take a thonnel with a long pipe/ that he may cover the pot holy therewith/ make hot the pot/ and let the vapour go thorough the thonnel into the ear. If it be in winter/ and canst have no Rue/ then seth beans of one year in water/ and do likewise. If ye have no beans neither/ than take Heysede upon a heyelift sotten in water/ and use the same as is said of the Rue/ so hot as ye can suffer it.  

Sounding in the head.  Against the sounding and whysperinge in the head/ put warm water into a laver/ and let it drop softly upon the hindermost of the patientes head/ by this dropping is the sounding and noise in the head taken away. And when the laver is empty/ then fill it again/ until the pain is away.  

Hearing evil.  He that heareth evil/ let him seth juniper berries and savin of like quantity in good wine/ put into a new pot/ well dressed and stopped: then let him bore a hole through the lid of it/ and lay his ears upon the hole/ to receive the same vapour.   

¶ Against sounding and ringing in the ears.  

Sounding in the ears.  IN may bore a hole in an Ash tree about the mids/ put a read or such like thing into the same hole/ and set a vessel or pot by the tree/ under the read/ let it so stand five or six days/ then shall run clear water out of the tree. This water put into some vessel and make it warm/ hold the ear over the vapour of it/ and make as it were a tent of a sponge/ wet the same in the water/ and cleanse the ear therewith in the morning and even/ and the sounding or whispering in the ear shall go away.   

¶ Of blething at the nose/ and stanching of the same.  

Blething at the nose.  BLething at the nose is sometime good/ sometime evil. He that hath a catarrh/ that is a rheum or stilling down of humores in the head/ or an apostemation/ blethinge at the nose/ is good for him. It is also a good token/ if the blood waxeth to hot in the body/ and runneth up into the head/ and filleth the veins so sore/ that they do breast. If the blood then come forth at the right nose trill/ them let him blood at the Cephalica upon the same side upon the hand/ by the thumb. But if the blood cometh forth at the left nosetrill/ then tie his leg above that knee with a strong list or swadeling band/ then remaineth the blood in that leg: after that beat eggs shells to powder/ and sift then through a linen cloth/ and blue them into his nose: if the shells were of eggs/ whereout young chickens are hatched/ it were so much the better. Or else take the dung of an ass/ mix the same with vinegar/ and hold the same at his nose. Likewise doth the dung of a Sow or Swine that hath eaten grass. 
Staunching of blood   
He that bletheth so sore/ that nothing can staunch him/ it is good to tie his fourth finger/ or finger next the little finger of the same side so fast/ do he do so even swell: for that stauncheth the blood/ and specially on the left hand.  
It is good also to tie the herb called shepherds burse about his neck/ or else give it him to hold in his hand/ until it waxeth warm/ and dight it in his meat. Or else take a soft linen cloth/ the length & breadth about of half a yard/ wet the same in cold water: but if ye have vinegar/ take of like quantity/ and tie it about his privy member. If it is a woman/ then let her hold it to her privities. And if ye have no vinegar/ then bind him the cloth about his neck/ dipped in water only/ and when it waxeth warm/ than wet it again. It is to be considered/ that thou do lose his girdle/ & set him upright/ lest he do hang forward.  
It is to be noted/ that blething is caused sometime in that time of a disease/ or in the amending/ & this last is good/ wherefore it ought not to be staunched: 
The profit of blething Tokens of blething.  without he did bleth to sore/ whereof the patient might be the more feeble/ and therefore ought he to be helped/ lest he wax to weak. If the blood come out from the head/ so that a man hath gotten a rising of the blood into the head/ that shalt thou know thereby: he hath pain in the forehead: the same must be let blood in the Cephalica/ that is the urine of the head. But if the superfluity of blood or blething cometh of the liver/ then hath he pain in the right side with a stitch: the same ought to be let blood on the right hand/ by the little finger/ in the vein of the liver. But if the blood cometh of the spleen/ than hath he pain in the left side with a stitch: the same ought to be let blood on the left hand/ by the little finger in the vain of the spleen: the same also ought not be girded/ nor yet wear any weight about his body/ neither deck him warm: he must beware also of all that might warm him/ and be quiet. 
Nota.  It is to be marked/ that when he that hath the pestilence bleedeth/ and can not be staunched/ nor cease/ it is an evident and sure token of death.   

¶ Of spots and blemishes of the face.  
IF a man hath spots or blemishes in the face or under the eyes/ or where they be/ take the rote of Couckoupintel or Wake robin/ stamp the same/ and struck the juice there of in the morning and evening upon them/ and they go away. 
Spots in 〈…〉  Or else take the stone growing of wine life/ beat the same very small/ & hang it with a cloth in a moist cellar/ set something under it/ for out of it shall drop water: with the same anoint the spots under the eyes oft times/ but beware it come not into the eyes. Or else anoint thy selfes which the water that standeth in the wild Tasill leaves/ or else with the water that droppeth out of the Vine/ when he is cut and bound up in March/ the same do oft. Or else anoint the spots oft with the juice of the rote of Briony or wild neep/ beaten and strained.  
Against a fistula by the nose/ take the slime of a sows guts/ and burn that to powder/ put the same powder into the disease/ it healeth the same/ for it hath been experimented. 
A fistula by the nose.    

¶ Against evil scabbiness or schilfering cheeks/ that will not heal nor fall down.  
Take onions and white Lily roots of like quantity/ roast them in ashes/ shell them and make them clean/ then strain them through a cloth/ put thereto oil of Roses/ and struck this upon the sore. 
Scabbye cheeks.    

¶ Against the fistula in the cheek.  

A fistula in the cheek.  Mark which tooth standeth next to the sore/ the same draw out/ and cleanse the hole: take the rote of that drawn tooth/ and put it into the sore/ hereof is the sore healed.   

¶ Of all diseases of the mouth and his appertenances.  

Diseases of the mouth.  Against the stinking of the mouth/ chaw oft in the day herb called Cinkfoly or fyvefyngered grass/ and it shall go away in four days.  
If ye have eaten garlic/ and your breath savoureth strong after them/ eat the leaves of Rue or herb grace/ and it shall not be perceived with you.  
If a man have great heat and drought in his mouth/ so that he thinketh his mouth will burn/ then take the water of March ●se in thy mouth/ that slaketh it. But if thou haste not that/ lay four or six flint stones/ so big as a Walnut in cold water/ and take alway one of them into thy mouth/ and hold it therein: and when it waxeth warm/ take it out/ and lay it in cold water again/ and take another into thy mouth. This doth much good/ and slaketh also the thirst.   

¶ Of all diseases of the teeth.  

The vse● and diseases of the teeth.  THe teeth are created to chaw the meat therewith/ that it may be the more apt to digestion/ they aid also to the speech/ to retain the breath/ and to man●●dorning or continesse. They have 〈◊〉 pain and sinerte/ as other members or limbs/ namely gnawing/ holes/ worms/ wagging/ apostemation in the gums/ corrupt humours and blood of the gums.   

¶ A sure medicine for toothache.  

A sure medicine for tothake.  TAke a garlic head/ pil it/ beat it in a mortar/ that it wax soft/ moisty/ and that it be not hole: and look on what cheek or side the tooth ache is/ on that arm bind the garlic/ upon the wrist of the arm/ where boxes are set most commonly/ so that it do not touch the mousse of the hand/ and lay it as near together as ye can: cover it with a spoune or broad Walnutshell a hole night/ and than will it cast a bluster: pierce the same through/ or else will it burst by itself. But if ye will have it run sore/ take a leaf of Danwurt or Walwurt/ and turn the rough side inwardly. And if thou wilt have it to heal/ then take the Walwurt leaf/ and turn the smooth side inwardly/ and it healeth.   

¶ To make a tooth so fall without smart.  
SEth as many little green frogs/ breathing or sitting upon trees/ as thou canst get in water/ until the flesh do consume: 
To make ● teeth fall out with out smart  take the fat flowing upon them/ and keep it in a clean thing/ and when need is/ anoint the teeth therewith. But take heed/ that thou do not touch the other likewise/ or else consumeth it the other also. Likewise doth the tooth of a dead man/ if one touch there with the sore tooth: but let him that doth it beware/ lest he touch any more/ for they fall out also/ without any smart.  
The grey worms breathing under wood or stones/ having many feet/ and when they be touched/ do they cluster together like porkenpickes: these pierced through with a botken or like thing/ and then put into t●e tooth that acheth/ allayeth the pain. Likewise doth also a little slice of the rote of Acorus/ of some called in English Gladen/ of other Galanga/ which groweth in waters and marasses/ this must be laid green upon the tooth. A piece of the green rote of Termentil doth likewise.   

¶ Of the swelling in the rote of the mouth/ called in Latin Vua or Vuula.  
THe swelling that is caused of a cold slimy humour/ falling out of the head/ and hanging in the roof of a man's mouth/ is called in Latin Vuula/ which hindereth a man of his speech: this shall be cured of this wise: 
Swelling in the throat.  If it is of superfluous blood/ then is the disease read/ long and great/ & the veins ●f the forehead are gross and swollen/ then let him blood in the Cephalica upon the hand. But if it cometh of other accidents/ as of superfluous moisture and cold/ then take white dogs turd that is dry/ and make it to powder/ and take common salt/ and dry it in a pan upon the fire/ so that it wax even brown: bray the same of like quantity together to powder/ put that to the swelling or disease: for it is good and upright.  
Or else buy white Frankincense/ cast a piece of it upon hot coals: put a thunnel over it/ and let the smoke thereof go into thy throat/ that helpeth/ and is oft times experimented or proved.  
Or else take Sal armoniacum/ and make a powder thereof/ & heave the swelling up therewith.  
It is very good to let him blood under the tongue/ or else upon both the thumbs/ when the disease beginneth: for it helpeth him. Some do cut it of: but that is dangerous. They that be so diseased/ must beware for cold drinks/ and specially of milk and cheese.  
another experience for the swelling in the roof of the mouth/ or else him that can not well take breath/ which I have oft showed poor people/ namely/ to pull the patiented sore by the earlap upwardly/ & incontinently shall he be healed.   

¶ How to help one that hath the Squince in the throat/ called the Squinancia.  
THe Squince or Squinancy is an apostem in the throat/ & is very dangerous. If it cometh in a sickness/ then is it dangerous/ & if it cometh in an ague/ them is it not so dangerous. To such a patiented aught to be given gruel of otmeel/ well lifted through a cloth/ and put thereto ten or twelve almonds well beaten: and when it is dressed in a vessel/ put a little suker to it/ and catso with bread. But if he hath an ague with it/ give him of a quillis of a cock without bread/ and make him a drink of this wise: Take of Lycoris/ cut small j ounces of sugar haf an ounce/ seth them in water/ skin it well/ and let him hold it away a little in the mouth/ and wambel it roundabout in the mouth. Make him also this plaster to lay outwardly.  

Cure of squinacy  Take white dogs dirt three ounces/ dittany beaten powder an ounce/ green Wormwod brayed small an ounce/ half an ounce of barley flower: mix these all together with honey/ struck it upon a cloth/ & lay it warm about his neck. This plaster hath healed many/ it healeth a man/ or else dieth he the fift day. Sometime breaketh the swelling out outwardly/ but the inward is deadly for it doth lightly choke a man. It is therefore diligently to be marked what occasion of the disease hath. If it cometh of reed Colera/ which is ho●e & dry/ than hath the patient great pain & anguish/ & with the great hea●e & thirst. Make him a plaster outwardly about his neck of Popular leaves & sede/ seeth it well/ & temper it with oil of violets & Camomille/ and struck that upon a cloth/ and lay it warm about the neck.  
But if ye can not have that oil/ take the leaves of Elder/ leaves of reed kole/ of each a handful/ chapped small & brayed/ seeth them with honey and butter/ of each a spounfull. Say this warm about his neck.  
thissame hath helped and healed many: or else make him any of the plasters of the swallows nest following.  
But if the Squynce is of superfluous blood and heat/ than must he be let blood incontinent in the right hand upon the thumb in the Cephalica/ & under the tongue: In the hand upon four ounces/ & under the tongue upon two ounces. And as soon he is let blood/ must be made this drink for him to gargelle: take about five ounces of Diamoron/ take one ounce thereof mixed with warm water/ hold that in the mouth/ gargoyle therewith & spytt it out/ cause him to do this five times. The next day let boxes be set upon his neck/ without scraping/ these should draw the blood from thence. Or else bind about his neck/ as I have taught before/ and let this binding be three times within day & night/ at every time a quarter of an hour.  
Make him this plaster: Take the nest of a swallow or pie/ but the swallows nest is the best with all the substance/ as clay/ gravel/ sticks or feathers/ nothing except/ beat it/ and sift it through a course syffe/ so t●at it may be fined/ put thereto honey & grease/ and make a plaster there of/ struck it upon a cloth/ and lay it about his neck. Of this wise have I helped one in iij. hours space. Item make him this drink: Take liquorice/ Anis/ figs and great Raisins/ of each an ounce/ seeth them in a pottle of water/ and give him every time thereof to drink.  
But if thou canst not have these things/ & art far from the Physician/ & hast a swelling in thy throat/ than is nothing better than to take warm Mylla & gargel the same as hot thou canst suffer it: this done oft/ taketh away the sickness/ and mollifieth the apostemation. Likewise may be done with milk or water/ wherein is sodden knapwede/ otherwise called Devils bit. And when the apostemation is broken/ give him warm yolks of eggs that be soft/ and barley gruel/ and give him to drink water/ wherein Barley is sodden/ that purgeth and healeth him.   

¶ For the hoorsnesse.  
HE that is waxed hoorse by reason of an humour descending/ or coughing/ of a cold air or drink/ of creing or weeping: 
Horsnes and the causes thereof.  let the same drink in the morning warm water/ as hot he can suffer it/ and wet a linen cloth in half water and half vinegar/ wring it well out/ and wind it about the neck/ and another that is warmed upon the same: do this in the morning/ at midday and to bedward/ let him keep him warm and beware of cold air. If he could sweat in the bed/ that were very good. Let him also beware of cold drinks/ fruits/ grapes/ and such like.  
He may also drink warm milk/ in the morning and evening/ the same doth avoid hoarseness also. Or else take Aqua vite when thou wilt go to bed/ stipe a piece of bread therein/ and eat the same at even and morning: but if he is of hot complexion/ then is Aqua vite not good for him.  
He that is so hoarse/ that the lights seem to ascend into his throat/ and he is of cold and moist complexion/ the same should drink fasting a quarter of an ounce of oil Benedicti/ mixed with a little water/ though it be unpleasant to drink/ yet is it good and without danger. But if ye can not have the oil/ then eat Anis sede: the same is wholesome and good for the hoarseness. Or else seed the karnels of Quinches/ and drink that water warm to bedward. Or else take three ounces & an half of flint stones/ put to them a quart of springing water/ and seth it to the half/ drink thereof blood warm in that morning & at even/ and it shall go away. Or else give him this drink following: Take wine & oil of olive of like quantity/ seth them in some thing & drink thereof so hot thou canst at night/ and in the morning a good draft: the same taketh the hoarseness away without danger. But if thou canst not have oil of olive/ then take half so much butter as the wine is/ and do as is said before.   

¶ A confection to hold in the mouth against hoorsenesse.  
TAke fine mustard sede meal/ put thereto four times the weight of honey/ make thereof a confection/ put it upon a trenscher/ and cut in pieces: but set in a cool place for melting/ & hold one of these slices in thy mouth in the morning and evening/ and let them melt by themselves.  
Or else give him this drink: 
A drink for hoarseness.  Take Penyreal a hand full/ cut it small/ and seth it with a pint of vinegar/ till the third part is sodden in/ then strain it through a cloth/ and give the patiented to drink thereof in the morning and evening alway a spounfull. Or else take a great apple/ roast the same well/ slice it/ and lay it hot in a dish with water/ and eat it. This ought to be done to bedward/ and cover thyself well and warm/ put thy head under the covering as far thou canst/ or else cover thy head and face that no air come into thy mouth: the same is good/ and driveth away hoarseness.  
He that is become hoarse lately/ let him roast a rape in ashes or upon the fire/ that she be all black/ then pair her clean/ & eat her as warm thou canst: & drink a draft of water as warm thou canst suffer it. Then wet a cloth in cold water/ strain it well out/ and wind it so about thy neck: upon the same bind another cloth well warmed/ and do this when thou goest to bed/ & in the morning/ for it driveth hoorsenesse away without danger.   

¶ An experimented science for hoarseness though it hath long lasted.  

Against ●n old hoarseness  TAke a soft night kerchyf and warm it/ take also a head pelow/ warm the same also/ and bind it with the kerchyf about the head & neck/ when thou wilt go to bed/ and let it be so about thy head all night. Do this thr● nights one after the other/ and keep thyself warm/ and beware of cold drinks and air/ and it shall surely go from thy without hurt. This same is good also for the flux and cough. give the patiented also Lycoris in his mouth.  
Against hoarseness go into the hot house/ and when thou hast half bathed/ drink a good draft of warm water. This is oft proved.  
Garlic sodden and eaten maketh a clear voice/ and driveth away hoarseness and the old cough.   

¶ Of the yexe or yexinge.  

The yexe and his causes.  THe yexe cometh sometime by reason of the superfluous emptiness of the body: sometime of superfluous fill of the stomach. If it cometh by reason of the emptiness/ that signifieth the sick or patiented sufficiently/ whether he hath a long season not eaten or drunken/ or else whether he hath had outrageous sieges. Him shalt thou h●lpe of this wise: Seth an old hen with a quarter of an ounce of cinnamon/ & a quarter of an ounce of Mastix/ & give him that broth to drink/ and the hen to eat. give him also Hogs feet and white wine. If he be not hot/ give him confect of Quinches: but if he hath great heat/ then give him sukar of Roses.  

Fill of the stomach.  But if it is of superfluous eating and drinking/ then make him to parbreak with Oaken leaves/ or else as I shall teach you hereafter in the chapter of vomiting. Or else take a cake of roses and Wormwod/ of like quantity/ of each a handful/ and seth that in read wine/ and lay it wa●me upon the stomach. Or else let him say aught wherewith he may be sore astonished/ and he shallbe rid of the yexinge. But if a man doth yexe sore in a sickness/ it signifieth most commonly death.   

¶ Of suppuration or mattering in the breast.  

Suppuration in the breast.  HE that hath a mattering in the breast caused of cold/ aught to beware for cold/ and eschew the air/ let him lie high or sit upright/ let him not sleep much/ & in his sleep ought he be waked otherwhiles/ that he may himme. Make him a butter sup of half water and half butter/ let that be well sodden/ and put not much bread therein/ and eat that broth as hot as he can. Thesame broth let him drink to bedward/ that weakeneth the corruption very well/ and maketh it apt to be cast out. Also ought little meat be given him at one's/ and little drink: for the corruption groweth the more of much eating and drinking. Let him alway be hungry and thirsty/ neither eat any fishes nor speces/ neither drink any sour drink. A syrup of violets were good for him: but if ye have not that syrup/ than make a milk of Hempsede/ of water and hempsede/ or else in stead thereof take cream/ and eat that/ the same cooleth and softeneth the heart without hurt or danger. After meat ought he to walk a little/ having alway a warm cloth before his mouth/ that the air do not hurt him: for of the walking doth the corruption louse.  
Ye must also take diligent heed that he have good sieges. Also were it good he did sweat in the bed if he be so strong/ or else to cause him to sweat with a bath made in a kettle/ and so to lay him to bed to sweat. This bath ought to be made with Valerian and Ootstrawe/ and covered with warm sheets/ for these things weaken the corruption.  
Item/ roast onions/ and eat them/ a little butter therein/ were very good.  
He that hath a dry cough/ and doth not cast out/ it is an evident token/ that the same hath an evil stomach/ that doth not well digest/ whereby are caused many grievous diseases. 
A dry cough.  But if he voideth spatle that is whit/ mixed with blood/ and that with pain/ the same is a sign of a privy digestion/ and of a disease of the pulino or lights/ and that is deadly.  
But if he casteth out afterward without smart/ which nevertheless is a little reddish/ the same is a sign of appearance of digestion/ and nature beginneth to cleanse/ and is perfect.  
He that hath a cough with pain in the breast/ the same ought not to bathe in water/ neither eat nuts/ nor oil of nuts/ nor poppy seed oil: 
Cough with pain in the breast  but let him drink water sodden. If his cough cometh by cold/ then let him drink good wine.  
A man that hath great disease in the breast/ and also in the head/ if thou wilt help him/ and purge the head and breast wonderfully of all slimy phlegms and filth/ without any cost: 
pain in the breast and head  Take two or three roots of Bet●/ wash them clean/ and dry them well/ then bray them small/ strain them through a cloth/ and a very blue juice shall come out of them: upon that shall ye see a white foam/ blow the same away/ and take of that juice three or four drops in a quill/ and draw it into thy head through the noses: or else fill a fylberts' shell full of it/ and draw it so in through the nose. Then clise thine eyen and nose with both thy hands/ and within a quarter of an hour issueth a great deal of slimy moistness out of thy mouth/ whereof a man may marvel. 
Experience.  I have once seen six ounces run out of a man's mouth at one tyme. And out of mine own mouth is of this wise four ounces run out/ where I thought I should have had none at all.   

¶ Of an impostume in the breast.  
The cause of an impostume is of superfluous evil phlegma in the head or stomach: 
The cause of apostemes.  wherefore when the head and stomach are purged of the phlegma/ then go the apostemes away also by themselves. Let the patiented eat little or nothing/ and that meats of good digestion.  

A drink for apostemes.  Make him this drink: Take Maiden heir/ called also Colander/ whit Endive/ Scabiose/ Morsus diaboli/ that is/ Deuels bitten/ of each a handful: Barley peeled or puched/ an eggs shell full/ water's so much as is convenient/ or else ij. quarts: seth these ij. finger breadth away. After that strain them through a cloth: & of that make a hempsede milk/ with a good porringer full of washen hempsede: of the same give him half a good cruys full to drink blood warm in the morning & at night. But if ye have not the herbs/ then make a hempsede milk with barley only/ and drink that half a cruys of goblet full.  

A self for apostems  After that make him this salve/ and anoint him therewith about the breast. Take fresh butter or cream/ or else both in like quantity/ seth therein leaves/ & the seed of mallows/ strain it than through a cloth/ and anoint his breast therewith. If ye put capons grease thereto/ that were very good. After that were it good to make him a clyster or a suppository as is pertaining hereto. And this ought every Physician know & search of what complexion the patiented is/ & whence the disease cometh/ & what medicine is convenient for it. For if the Physician doth it not/ and ministereth to him that which is contrary to his nature or complexion/ than doth he misorder the patiented/ & is guilty of his pain or happily death. For this cause ought no Physician to trust to his science nor wisdom only/ but ask & inquire of the patiented or other all circumstances/ to what fashion the disease doth incline. He ought also to see & view the urine feel the pulse/ & to behold the patientes physiognomy. Then may the Physician minister to the patiented so much the more boldlier medicines/ according to the science: & to such a Physician may a man trust so much the better: for he may be called a true Physician. For apostemes in the breast are dangerous/ & therefore is it true & necessary/ to know by what complexion or temperatur the diseases are caused. 

Apostens' of Colera.  
Apostens' for phlegma or cold.   If the disease cometh of read Colera/ or blood/ then ought ye to minister the patiented all such things/ as I have taught in the precedent chapter. But if it is caused by phlegma or cold/ then make him this salve/ and anoint him about the breast. Take an ounce of butter/ capon or hens grease an ounce/ oil of Bay or sorrel half an ounce/ and mix them together/ & anoint him about the breast therewith/ and lay unwashen wool thereupon that is black. But he must refrain from salt meats/ and of all sour meats.   

¶ Against breaking up and vomiting.  

Against perbreaking.  TAke a piece of bread stiped in salt and vinegar/ bruise it/ and make it like a thick plaster/ & lay it upon the chest or hearts hollowness/ where the mouth of the stomach is. And if ye struck it about the patientes mouth/ that comforteth him/ and giveth him strength.  
Item the water wherein karnels of quinches have lain or stiped/ the same refraineth the breaking up of the stomach: for it comforteth the stomach/ & maketh good digestion. But when the time of the quinches is/ then may they be sodden alone/ without sucker & honey/ in stead of confect for the heart/ & so used.   

¶ The right making of Ptisana/ that is/ Barley water.  
Barley water/ commonly called Ptisana/ is praised and commended of all Physicians/ and is a sovereign medicine against all colerik and subtle heat/ it openeth the oppilation or stopping/ it moveth sweat & urine/ it mollifieth the belly bound with hard filth/ it causeth sleep/ & allayeth thirst/ it doth also partly nourish/ it is convenient for all parts of the breast & the poulmon.  
Ptisana is taken sometime warm/ to cause sweat/ sometime cold to allay thirst/ sometime with suker/ sometime without sugar/ sometime much/ sometime little. The ministration thereof at one time is is a cruys full/ that is iiij. ounces/ howbeit it must be ministered to an empty stomach/ or at the lest not overcharged. It is sometime taken by day of the thirsty diseased/ and is convenient in fervent agues and many other diseases.  
Take fulgrowen barley that is heavy/ & not withered/ take also clear running water/ that hath his course toward the East/ whose ground is stony or sandy. Of this water take x. parts/ & of the barley one part: 
Making of Barley water.  put them together into a clean pot/ make a slow fire under it of wood twelve hours long till the water is coloured of the barley yellow read/ like to bier: after that take it of and let it cool/ and use it.   

¶ How he may be helped that speweth blood.  
HEmoptoica is a disease/ when a man speweth blood at the mouth/ whereof the cause is superfluity of blood/ & this shall be known of this wise: 
Spewing of blood  he is full of body & reddish/ his veins are great. Sometime cometh it out of the stomach/ & then hath the patiented pain in the breast before. But if it cometh of the liver/ then hath he pain in the right side. And if it cometh of the lungs or lights/ then hath he pain in the left side/ & cougheth much. Sometime doth it also come of falling or ryottinge/ and then must he be helped of this sort: He must beware of anger/ of long fasting/ of sour or bitter meats and drinks/ and of surfeiting. 
The cur●  He ought to be let blood on the same hand/ where the disease is. If it is of the liver/ then must he be let blood in the right hand: but if it is of the lungs/ then ought he to be let blood on the left hand/ and give him this medicine.  
Take plantain & wild Tasil/ with the water that standeth in the Tasil/ put thereto rain water/ & strain it through a cloth: of this give the patiented to drink in the morning fasting and to bedward. But if the wild Tasil have no juice/ then seth it in rain water/ bray it/ & strain it through a cloth/ cast the herb away: then take the broth/ put sugar thereto/ & give it the patiented to drink. give him also in the morning and evening to drink goats milk/ or powder made of moulberries: or else give him to drink rein water wherein are sodden shepherds purse/ knotgrass and waybred/ bray them when they are sodden/ strain them through a cloth/ & give him to drink thereof three times in the day/ every time a good draft. give him also three days one after the other to eat wheat with water and butter.   

¶ If one speweth out matter.  
Thesame may he holpen of this wise: give him Diapenidion or diagagantum. Ye must mark also/ that if ye lay the matter or corruption/ that he voideth upon hot coals/ and it stinketh/ then signifieth it the rotting of the poulme or lights/ which is very evil and deadly: to such one ought no man to minister medicine/ for he is to sore sick.  
But if he have great heat in his sickness/ then say all Physicians/ that nothing is better/ then to give him to drink barley water. This heat is known by the urine/ whether it be great or not/ by the chance of the urine/ and the thick of it sinketh to the bottom. But if the disease will last long/ then give the patient what he lysteth/ and if he waxeth a little stronger there of/ then give him more: if not/ give him no more. Ye must mark also/ that if he be sick of an ague or like disease/ then let him be given what he listeth/ while the disease lasteth.   

¶ When one would gladly parbreak/ and can not do it.  

Perbreaking of a diseased stomach.  THe parbreaking happeneth many ways: sometime by the disease of the stomach/ as namely/ when the stomach casteth from the bottom that meat/ and can not keep it/ which happeneth that the nethermost part of the stomach is stronger than the uppermost. The cause of this must be considered by the same that is wyded.  

parbreaking by grief of the stone  Sometime cometh it by the grief of the stone/ or else the corruption than will grow to matter/ that there of he doth parbreak. Thissame is well perceived by the urine/ and also whether he hath pain in the loins/ bladder/ or back.  

parbreaking of cold moistness.  If the perbreaking cometh of cold moistness or humours/ then is it yellow. It is to be known/ that ye ought not to staunch that parbreaking until the stomach be cleansed of the evil humours/ after that ought it to be provided.  
If the parbreaking be sound and hard/ that the patient can have no sieges/ then give him Cassia fistula/ and cleanse him. 
parbreaking that is hard.   
But if the parbreaking is of the read Colera/ by reason of a hot stomach/ then give him sour bitter Pears to eat/ or else give him Sorrel to drink/ or else give him syrup of violets to drink with water in the morning and evening. 
parbreaking of read Colera.   
Item meddlers eaten fasting/ withstand parbreaking caused by heat. Likewise doth Mint eaten fasting/ and Anis eaten mornings and evenings.  
Or else take a cold flint stone/ and hold it to the neck of the patiented/ & the parbreaking ceaseth. Or else take a hand full of feathers/ and put them in to a pot/ and put to them glowing hot coals/ and hold thy mouth over it wide open/ that the vapour or smoke may go into it/ and than shall the wambling cease. 
parbreaking of black Colera.   
But if the parbreaking cometh of the black Colera/ then set boxes of each side of his neck.  

Of phlegma.  But if it is caused of phlegma/ then take Wormwod/ Mugwort/ Hirse or Millot unstamped of each four ounces. Put all these into a little sack or bag/ and quilt them so/ that they cluster not/ and seth them in half wine and half water/ wring it then out/ that it drop no more/ and lay it then warm upon his breast: the same warmeth his body and cold stomach/ and allayeth the wambling and perkreakinge. It helpeth also a woman with child that hath overmuch wambling. Also doth it help them that have the stone engendered of cold/ and must bow themselves much/ it doth also allay grepinges.  
If the perbreaking cometh of cold/ or else of cold and moist humours/ 
parbreaking of cold.  either in a man or woman/ then take Cumin/ and make four bags/ each a span long and broad/ put in each of the bags an ounce of Cumin/ & quilt the same bags crosswise/ that the Cumin do not cluster/ & seth the same in a quart of vinegar/ & bind one of them upon each wrist of the hand as warm as it may be suffered/ & likewise upon the wrist or jointure of the feet. And when they wax cold/ warm then again in the same liquor/ wherein they were sodden/ & lay them up again as before/ & of this wise ceaseth the parbreaking continently without danger. And give the patiented a broth of grey pease wherein Cumin is sodden/ & let him drink good strong drink/ & let him put at every breakfast a penny weight of beaten saffron therein/ the same comforteth the brains & stomach/ & refraineth the wambling or parbreaking: but he must beware of such things as cool him. Howbeit some complexions can not away with saffron & abhor it: for it causeth a loathsomeness: let the same drink water of bugloss and Porcelene/ the same comfort the head also.  
But if the perbreaking would not hold up/ then make him a bag of half an elle in length and breadth/ and put therein Cumin/ and dress the same as is said before/ seth it in vinegar/ and lay it warm upon the navel/ as warm as thou canst suffer it: and when it waxeth cold/ warm it again: with this is allayed the parbreaking/ and also doth this withstand the grepinge.  
But if one had a wambling/ and did parbreak/ and witted not for what cause/ or whereby it cometh/ let the same take the leaves of Quenches/ & bind them upon the wrist of the hands/ that allayeth it: 
Perbreaking whose cause is unknown.  the green that leaves be/ the better be they. Yet if one would keep them in store for winter/ let him pluck them of from the trees before our ladies day/ the xv. day of August/ and let them dry out of the Son.  
Against parbreaking take half an ounce of betony powder/ and two ounces of honey/ make a confection therewith/ and give the patient thereof every day fasting.  
Meddlers eaten/ do withstand parbreaking/ comfort the stomach/ and refrain wambling.  
I myself have had a woman/ which was accustomed every morning/ to void at the mouth about two eggs shells full of unclean slime of clammy flegmatish matter: the same was taught to take a certain space every morning a warm slice of bread/ roasted with salt/ and that allayeth the parbreaking.  
But if a man had eaten aught/ or had slimy matter within him/ & would fain be rid of it: 
To cause parbreaking.  to cast the same out by perbreaking/ let him take white nising powder/ called Lingworte/ about the third part of a dram/ and use it in a broth of peasen/ and it shall continently break from him. But if thou canst not have Lingwort or Nising powder/ then take the root of Elder/ and pill the uppermost shell of it when it is crene/ wash it/ and b●ay it in a mortar/ and give him it in a warm peasebroth. As for nising powder belonged to strong complexioned folk to use/ and not over the weight that I have above specified: For I was called by a man/ that had taken sneezing powder or Lingwort/ a little bag full/ as is commonly sold/ and had eaten the same/ supposing therewith to drive away from him/ such filth and slime/ as he had in his stomach. And as soon as he had taken it/ forthwith had he such a rage and greping within him/ that easily was seen the stomach rise up and down/ even to the neck/ and a cold sweat broke out: so that he weaned to die straght way: yea I myself judged him dead also. But as soon as I took an ounce of wine/ and a dram (or the fourth part of an ounce) of Castoreum/ warmed and mixed together/ and gave him it/ by and by was the wambling allayed.  
Of like wise have I seen a boy of eight years/ eat the parings of white sneezing powder/ that were peeled from the root by a Potekary/ and when the child was brought to me/ not knowing what had happened/ I advised by myself/ that the child had eaten Lingwort. For the sweat broke fiercely out/ and it waxed pale/ as if it would die. Wherefore I gave him Castoreum/ the bigness of a filbert with a little warm wine/ and continently was it hole/ which was even at the point of death.  
A strange Apotekary bade my servant smell in a sack/ wherein was beaten Lingworte or nising powder: and when he smelled therein/ he thrust his head into it/ so that his mouth and nose were full of it. Then ran he up and down in the house/ as though he should have died. Wherefore I gave him str●ight way fresh butter/ and after that Castoreum with wine/ (as is said before) and he was healed incontinently. This have I written/ that simple folk may beware of Lingworte or white nising powder/ with out it were proved before/ wherefore the common people knoweth not. Like I myself have seen a strange peddelapotecary minister to the common people/ that two or three died of it. Therefore when one will use them/ he ought not to take above the weight of twenty wheat corns/ with a whit peas●lbroth. Howbeit for the Lingworte may be taken the roots of Elder peeled/ as is specified before.  

To cause to ꝑbreake without pain  Wilt thou cause one to parbreak lightly without smart or pain/ take the seed of Orange/ seth that in water without salt/ and put a little oil of nuts thereto/ and give him it with some course meat/ and let him eat well/ that the stomach may be full. After that give him of the foresaid broth warm a good draft: after that let him labour a little/ or else walk/ until he be chafed/ and than shall he parbreak and cast out whatsoever evil corruption he hath in his stomach.   


The cough and the causes thereof.  ¶ For the cough.  
Many ways getteth a man the cough: sometime of the breasts mistemperinge/ sometime of a matter that is inward or outward of the body. If it be within/ as it happeneth oft/ that an humour falleth out of the head into the breast/ the same is the worst to be healed. 
An humour in the breast   
If the cough cometh of heat/ then is the brine read/ and this throat is dry and rough. To such one ought be given barley pottage with butter to be eaten/ and Ptisana or Barley water to be drunken/ wherein Lycoris is sodden. give him also to eat pottage made with Lettuce chapped and sodden in water/ and after that well fried in butter/ this taketh away he cough without pain.  
The cough that is engendered by cold/ is known by the whiteness of the brine.  
He that hath a fervent cough/ let him take Neppe/ that cats delight in/ so much as a Walnut/ let him cut it small and stamp it/ and ma●e a taunsey thereof/ with two eggs beaten therein: let him eat this/ and it shall make him whole. This taunsey may he eat when he will/ and is specially good for him that hath a cough/ caused of cold.  
Or else use this medicine: take wine and oil of olive in like quantity/ put the same into a cruise/ and seth it a little/ steer it together/ and give him that to drink/ when he will go to bed/ and in the morning/ so warm as he can suffer it: do this two days one after another/ and this breaketh the running or morres/ and softeneth the cough without hurt. It is also good for hoarseness/ caused of cold.  
The cough doth also overtake a man by reason of an evil humour engendered in the liver or the lights/ and so do fall into the breast: 
An humour in the liver  the same must be helped of this wise as shall follow.  
Sometime is the cough caused by foreign or outward occasions as are smoke/ evil vapours/ stinking airs/ dust/ cold drinks/ or of drinking cold when a man is chafed/ or else when he drinketh/ it falleth into the wrong throat. 
Outwar de occasions.   
The dry cough cometh sometime/ that the patiented hath an unclean pulmen or lights & throat/ & of filthy matter/ that is assembled about the pulmon & the gristles of the pulmon in the chest/ & is waxed tough: 
Drye cough.  whereby it cometh/ that a man can not cast it out/ & getteth sometime a deadly apostume. When it is now grown to an apostume/ then help him with syrups/ as I shall teach you here after to mollify it. Take also diligent heed whence the apostemation cometh/ that thereafter ye may know how to cure him/ and let this following be the general cure.  
Take a whit cloth/ wet the same in cold water/ & strain it well out again: than wind it well about that patientes throat. 
Cure general of apostems in the breast.  After that take another warm cloth/ & wind also threefold about the throat: this do in the morning/ midday/ & at night/ & give him this syrup: Take a dishfull of braided or beaten barley/ four ounces of res●nes/ & xii. figs well washen in warm water: put them into a new pot/ & take iiij. quarts of water/ let them seth half an hour. Then strain this/ & put the drink again into the pot/ & cast into it six ounces of sugar/ let it boil ones/ then take it of and stand to cool. Drink of this when ye will/ specially in the morning & even to bedward. This mollifieth very well/ & causeth to cast out/ & maketh large about the breast: also doth it heal the soreness & roughness of the throat. If it waxeth thick/ then put more water to it.   

¶ A drink for the cough/ for thirst and roughness of the throat.  
TAke a quart of water/ put an ounce of sugar therein/ and seth the third part of it away/ strain it through & cloth/ and let it cool/ and drink of it so much thou listest. It is good also to wash thy mouth in the morning and at none with warm water/ and to rub thy teeth: also to wash the forehead and temples with warm water/ this cleanseth and maketh the head light.   

¶ An other syrup for the cough and apostemation in the breast and heart/ which weakeneth and causeth to cast out.  
TAke violets a handful/ six leaves of Hearts tongue/ put them in a clean cloth and in a pot/ to this put a quart and an half of water/ seth it until the third part be sodden away: then press it through a cloth into a clean pot/ put thereto four ounces and an half of sugar/ steer it well until the finger is all molten. Of this mayest thou drink when thou wilt.  
If the cough cometh of heat/ then is the throat sore/ and very dry/ and the patiented is very costyf. The cold air doth him good/ when he goeth in it: for he thinketh that his heart is refreshed and quickened. Thissame aught to be let blood in the Epatica or liver vain.  
But if it is not convenient to let the same blood/ then mark whether his cough be caused by a hot humour/ and to what part it floweth/ and on that part shall ye set boxes/ for that is good.   

¶ For the hot cough.  
Give him to drink syrup of violets/ to bedward/ at night/ in the morning/ and else when ye will/ with a little blood warm water. Thesame cooleth/ mollifieth and causeth to cast out: it slaketh thy●st/ breaketh apostemation/ minisheth the cough/ and comforteth the dry and hot heart.   

¶ But when a man did cough/ and were straight about the breast and heart/ and had heat therewith/ so that it were taken for an apostemation.  
Taken a dish full of Hemp sede/ put thereto a little warm water/ bray it well/ and strain it with warm water/ so that it become as a thine parage. After that when it is cold/ give the patiented thereof to drink so much as he listeth without hurt: the same doth mollify & cool very well/ slaketh thirst/ and maketh large about the heart. And it is hood to seth that hempsede milk with butter/ sup there of with a spoune as hot as ye can suffer it/ and in three days ye shallbe whole without hurt or pain. It is good also for stitch about the heart.  
But he that hath a consuming cough/ and were greatly travailed therewith/ let him eat at ones half a ounce of sugar Benedicti. 
A consuming cough.  Then let him take three hoops of a vessel/ the one alway greater than the other/ & hang over them a coverled or tent cloth/ tied to the roof or plancher/ in the form of a bell downward/ and above narrow/ reaching within a foot to the ground. Under the same set a stool with a hole/ but sitting upon the same/ he may not reach with his head to the chain or festeninge. Then take mallows/ Oerstrawe of each a great handful/ and as much of herb Valeriane/ seth the same in a kettle well covered. After that put them into two robs/ and put the one under the stool with a hole/ into the other set thy feet as hot as thou canst suffer it/ and let the vapour strike up into the and upon the naked body/ until thou be fallen into a sweat. If the tobbe under the stole doth cast no more vapour/ then lay a hot flintstone therein/ so oft till thou be fallen in a sweat: and this aught to be done in a warm chamber/ or hot house. Ye must not travail yourself to much/ lest ye wax to feeble: and also if ye be fat/ like ye have a siege before ye attempt this dry bath. When ye now do sweat well/ then lay you down upon a bed in the chamber or hot house: and if ye have yet strength to sweat more/ do so/ for it is very good: for it weakeneth the hard matter/ and maketh easy to be cast out/ whereof the cough is engendered. After the bath must ye not go in the wind/ and remain that night in the hot house/ or some close chamber/ and should eat some thing that giveth strength/ and drink good drinks: the meat must be such as nourisheth well/ as are Oetmel gruel/ parsley ro●es/ and such like. This shall ye do three days one after another/ & the cough shallbe mollified without grief: and if he had a running in his head/ whereby the congealed matter might be hindered to lose and break/ this shall break it/ and void it. Take also oft in thy mouth the root of the herb called Pelitory of Spain or Mustard sede/ chaw them/ but swallow them not: that draweth much corruption down. If the patiented is strong of complexion/ than put a little sneezing powder into his nose/ to draw down the evil humours/ and beware of cold.  
He ought also hold his mouth oft over a pot/ wherein are sodden Rapes or Navets/ that the hot breath or vapour may go into his mouth/ until his face wax read/ and he do sweat: and let him keep himself warm thereupon. Thus may he do likewise over a pot/ wherein apples or Pears are sodden with wine/ Ale or Bire.  
Item if ye will be rid of the running/ take ix. matches made of brimstone/ put them into a pot stopped close/ save a little hole/ make them to burn/ hang a clock or some thing upon thy head/ open thy mouth wide open over the pot/ and receive that breath or vapour into it: this do in the morning and evening/ and the running shall break or said.   

¶ This following is very good for the cough coming from the lights.  

Against the cough caused of diseased lights.  Eat a pottage made of wheat/ water and butter: or else take a dishefull of pure and clean wheat/ seth the same in two quarts of water/ until the third part be sodden in. Thesame broth is good drunken for the cough/ for it cleanseth the pulme or lights/ and the pipes of the same/ whereof the cough cometh.  

A cough with gripping.  He that hath the greping in his body with the cough/ or else should get an apostemation with the cough/ let him take iiij. ounces of a black sheeps will/ put the same as warm upon his body/ as he can suffer it/ ii●. times in that day/ in the morning/ at none & to bedward. That mollifieth that matter/ whereof the cough is engendered/ so that he may void it/ & taketh away the grypinge and cough.  

Cough of humours.  But if the cough did come of humours/ descending from the head or other membres into the breast or stomach/ them give him this drink: Take honey the quantity of an egg/ beat the same with warm water/ drink it as warm as thou canst/ in the morning and at even: that allayeth the humours. Ye must beware ye have good sieges/ lest ye get a greping thereby.   

¶ Another drink for the cough/ that cooleth and mollifieth very well/ and specially apostemes.  

A drink for the cough.  TAke Hempsede well beaten/ mixed with water/ and strained through a cloth/ so that it wax even as milk/ drink thereof in the night and toward night when ye are thirsty.  
Or else take Rapes or Navettes as much as a fist/ roast the same well in ashes/ that they become as week as a peer/ the reader they be/ the better are they: it grieveth not though they be burnt somewhat. Thesame shall ye eat when ye go to bed/ as warm as ye can suffer it/ and likewise in the morning. This is good also for hoarseness.  
The rote of Iris or blue fleur-de-lys sodden in wine/ & drunk in the morning & at night/ taketh away the costifnesse/ & maketh large in the breast.  
He that cougheth/ aught oft keep his breath in/ so long as he can: & if that do not help him/ then let him daily blow the fire with his mouth/ & he waxeth whole: if that do not help also/ then let him eat roasted figs/ whereon is strewed the powder of Nep or Catmint called in Latin Calamentum. But some use no more save four or five Pepper corns/ and chaw them/ that taketh away the cough.   

¶ Of disease of the heart.  

Hearts disease.  CArdiaca is a disease of trembling of the heart/ when it trembleth/ leapeth and beateth/ by reason of the humours/ that are gathered within the celles or fells that environ the heart: and this overtaketh the patient suddenly/ when the humours fall to near the heart.  
If the humours are mixed with blood or colera/ that causeth over great heat/ then trembleth the heart/ and the patiented waxeth feeble/ and thirsteth very sore/ and draweth his breath heavily.  
If the humour be mixed with melancholic blood/ then trembleth the heart/ and the patiented is weary/ thirsteth not/ and is faint: wherefore ought the heart be helped forthwith/ saying it is the most noblest part of man.  
If the hearts disease cometh of colerik blood/ which is hot and dry/ then must he be let blood in the liver: or else (without the season do hinder it) give him a drink made of Cassia fistula/ tempered with Borage water/ bugloss water/ and Medewort water/ called in Latin Melissa.  
But if the disease come of Melancolick blood/ make him a siege with Diacartami three quarters of an ounce in the morning/ & let him walk well upon it. The third day give him pills de iera picra seven in number to bedward: the same cleanse the heart from filth and noiaunce. It were good also to bathe and sweat/ yet not to hot/ lest he wax to feeble.  
Sometime cometh it of evil heat and moisture/ and corrupt blood/ & then doth he sweat sore. The same shall be let blood upon the left hand in the vain of the lights/ and anoint him with Paulinum/ and oil of violets/ and give him sugar of Roses & light meats. Or else take a good tatt hen/ that hath been killed ij. days before/ that she be tender: of the same seth a quarter very well with water/ in a pot well closed and stopped/ that no breath can come out of it. Then take it out/ & hold the quarter before the patientes mouth & nose/ & the savour thereof shall comfort and strengthen him very well/ & let him drink a little of the broth. But if the patiented hath taken cold/ then put a little Cinnamon in the water to seth with the hen/ for that giveth good warmth. This pot oft time ought to be put in a stillitory/ called Balneum Marie/ mixed with ashes/ and well closed/ and aught to seth three hours/ or more/ until every water be consumed: and mark well when it is enough.  
If a man hath a stitch about the heart/ if it cometh of blood/ or a hot humour/ or a fall or bruising/ than give him to drink Endive water/ Pimpenell water/ Moulbery water/ or else Borage water. 
Stiche about the heart.  If ye have not the waters/ then seth the herbs with water/ & drink it. Or else take Borage the herb/ chap it small/ & dight it like a thick pottage/ put butter therein & eat that in the morning/ that is very good. Bugiosse is yet a more sovereign herb to comfort the heart/ dighted of this foresaid wise: but the Borage pottage is good for the stiche about the heart/ specially if one maketh a pottage thereof with the herb of Dasye/ the helpeth well/ if a man were fallen or wounded: for it driveth away the evil blood/ that it avoid from him with a siege. Also if a man have any grief or heaviness about the heart: them let him use the herb/ flowers or root of Borage/ or else the water distilled thereof or sodden: for it comforteth the heart very well/ and maketh a man merry.   

¶ Of hearts feebleness or faintness.  
THat cometh thereby/ when the filth is so increased about it/ that it can not expel and cast it from it. 
Faintness of heart.  This filth is engendered by great surfeiting and excess/ specially in such/ as surfeit & labour not/ whereby their stomach waxeth so full/ that it can not digest it. Or else if a man had eaten meat evil to digest/ whereby the body is filled with overmuch wind/ & the heart febeled/ whereof man getteth many diseases and inconveniences/ as are scabs/ yushes or weals/ mattering sores/ karnels and the canker.  
But if this filling or repletion is in the stomach/ that mark thereby: he belketh or breaketh much wind upward/ or perbreaketh/ & hath pain in the head. Help the same of this wise: Purge him with a drink of powder of Seine/ give him in the evening a quarter of an ounce of powder of Seine/ and in the morning as much/ with a pease broth blood warm/ and that shall cause him to have a siege. The next day after/ cause him to sweat in a bath/ (if his strength can suffer it) with these herbs: Take Valerian/ Popular/ Heysede and Ootestraw of each a like/ and give him to eat broth and pottages with a little saffron/ that comforteth the heart. If ye have no saffron/ then take powder of bugloss/ or else give him pottage thereof to eat/ or cause him to parbreak/ and tie his legs with little cords/ thrust a squill dipped in oil into his throat/ to cause him parbreak. Or else cause him to parbreak with oaken leaves/ as I have taught you before. Or else give him ten penny weight of whit nising powder/ if he can suffer it: Howbeit I would not gladly consel it/ therefore beware always of nising powder/ if thou canst forbear it.  

The manners of voiding the body  It is to be noted/ marked & known/ the great voiding & emptening of the body is by sieges/ by perbreaking/ blething at the nose/ sweat/ flowers of women/ running sores/ & by letting of blood/ which is an abundant emptyninge/ and weakeneth the body/ changing a man his colour/ & quenching his natural heat/ whereof then must the heart needs wax faint/ as well as of excess of filling or surffetty.  

Soudain alteration  A rash or soudayne alteration from heat into cold/ stoppeth the sweat/ and encloseth the filth within the body/ whereby a man waxeth faint and feeble. It fortuneth also that a man's heart waxeth faint of soudayn joy/ & that happeneth most to aged folk/ whose nature consumeth. The heart also shrink together by reason of excessive fear/ heaviness & mischange/ or else by astonishment. For great joy doth the heart so open itself/ that the natural heat fadeth even away/ & then waxeth it cold and feeble/ that men do sometime die for overmuch joy and gladness. Sometime waxeth the heart faint/ by reason of the pain that other members have/ for the pain striketh to the heart/ and troubleth the natural course the body and entrails.  
If now the heart is faint by reason of great emptiness/ then let his face be cooled with water/ pull him by the nose/ & scratch him about the hollow or pit of the stomach. But if the emptiness be in the upper members/ then bind the nethermost members.  

Nota for warming and comforting the heart.  It is to be noted/ that nothing is better for faintness of heart/ than that a man put hold saffron in his drink/ & put always a little in his broth or pottage: that comforteth the heart very well/ & warmeth a man: likewise also doth Aqua vite/ wherein is put hole saffron & then drunk. Or else take every day about one or two of the clock at after none an egg/ & roast it/ that the white there of wax a little hard: then take the yolk out of it/ & put it into a dish alone/ and pour a good ladel full of flesh broth/ and put beaten saffron therein/ as much as though thou wouldest salt an egg/ put thereto also a little salt/ and drink it then out: that same is a great comforting of the heart/ and not only the heart/ but also the whole body.  

Voidnes in the nethermost membres.  But if the voidness or emptiness is in the nethermost members/ then tie his upper members.  
And if his head do ache so sore thereof/ that he thinketh to be raging thereby/ then help him of this wise: Bath him softly/ and he shall lightly sweat. And if he hath heat in the head/ then make him this: Take an ounce of oil of Roses/ vinegar half an ounce/ beat them well together/ struck this oft about his head/ this allayeth the heat and raging of the head. give him pills de iera picra/ and set his foot oft in warm water/ and rub them downward. And when he taketh them out/ then let him rynsch them in cold water/ and lay him down and rest: but let him have the soles of his feet uncovered/ that the evil humours and heat may draw downward toward the feet. give him to eat meats comfortative: howbeit not to much at once/ until he have recovered strength. If he be a man/ he must beware of women: for that should hurt him.  
If the feebleness is come of heat or of vapour/ help the same of this wise: 
Faintness of heat.  Keep him from anger or hot meats and from wine/ without it be very well allayed/ and give him this following: Take the karnels of the pomegranate/ and as much Barley meel/ mix the same together/ and make a pottage thereof/ let him eat that. This cooleth the heart/ and comforteth it: it is also good for the stomach that is overchafed. But if ye can not have Pomegranates/ than take in stead thereof Berberis.  
If the faynenesse cometh by trouble and cold/ them give him such things as warm him/ and bathe him in warm water/ to warm him naturally/ and let him drink good wine. 
Faintness by trouble and cold.  Take also Saffron/ Cinnamon/ Clowes/ of each a quarter of an ounce/ Sugar two ounces/ Aqua vite half an ounce/ water of bugloss an ounce/ white wine a quarter of an ounce/ put these together in a glass/ and let them stand a day and a night. After that drink three mornings thereof fasting/ that chafeth and warmeth the stomach/ and comforteth the patiented. And in his meat ought he to put of the foresaid spices/ and keep himself warm/ and beware of such things as cool.   

¶ Of all accidents and diseases of the stomach/ and how it may be healed.  
When the stomach is full/ and can not digest/ it is to be marked/ whether the matter indigested cometh of superfluous eating and drinking: 
Of the accidences and diseases of the stomach. Tokens of the evil digestion in the stomach.  for that weakeneth the stomach and his natural operation. And these are the tokens/ whereby it is known/ whether the disease cometh thereof: the vapours come out of the stomach/ & climb up into the head: or else is his mouth bitter/ and he is thirsty/ & hath great pain in his eyen. Sometime cometh the disease by unmeasurable and inordinate eating of cold meets/ and thereby is the natural operation of the stomach altered and weakened: and in the bottom of the stomach engendre evil humores/ causing that man can not digest. And these are the signs whereby this is known: the urine is white/ thick and pale: above & in the mid is it clear/ and in the bottom is it white as whey of milk/ synckinge and cleninge to the bottom as it were corrupt matter. The patient hath great pain in the kidneys and backbone toward the left side. He hath also great cold in his brains/ which cometh thereby/ that the stomach and brains be far asunder/ and the vapours draw up out of the stomach into the head/ and thereby is the cold of the brains augmented.  
If the stomach were full of evil humours/ that are hot/ and were engedred of such hot meats/ as are garlic/ Ouyons'/ Mustard/ Pepper/ and such like/ then are these the tokens of it: The patient hath great pain in the head/ he hath great heat in the liver/ which is by reason of the hot meats that he hath eaten: for they inflamme the liver/ and consume her moisture. And if the patient is of Sanguine or read Colera complexion/ and eat such hot meats/ then getteth he fervent heat/ and burneth like fire: he consumeth his natural heat/ and getteth an unnatural heat in all his body/ and at the last getteth he a fervent ague/ called stinking febres/ by reason the natural heat and the natural moistness which manteyn the body/ be consumed.  
If the patient is sick of the heat/ then must he beware of all manner of hot meats/ and that he eat not much at ones/ nor surfeit. Hypocrates sayeth: Like to like/ mistempereth the body: and therefore ought cold meats be given him/ that is hot: and contrariwise hot meats to him that is cold/ to set the body again in a frame. Therefore also is it convenient to give the patiented light meats of digestion/ and cold/ to restrain the heat of the blood and the read Colera.  
And if the disease were of phlegma or black colera/ or else of surffeting/ them must he be helped of this wise: He ought not to eat nor drink much/ but his meats ought to be such/ as warm & comfort the stomach. He ought also to eat confectes of quinches/ made with quinches/ sugar/ or cherries/ or with sugar & apples: the same augment and restore again natural moisture.  
Item when a man hath his stomach full of superfluous hot moisture/ of sanguine or read Colera complexion: then must the evil humours be digested and prepared with any of these drinks/ which ye can best get. Take Barley half a pound/ three quarts of water/ and seth them to the fourth part/ then strain it/ and put therein the roots of succory two ounces/ Fenel roots an ounce/ Maiden heir/ endive of each an ounce/ the herb bugloss/ the herb Borage of each half an ounce: pour over this the foresaid Barley water/ and seth the fourth part away/ and then strain it again/ put an ounce or an ounce and an half of sugar to it/ and give the patiented to drink of it in the morning and evening. And when the matter beginneth to be ready/ then purge the stomach of this wise: Take electuarium de succo Rosarum three quarters of an ounce/ a quarter of an ounce Diaprunis laxativi/ Cassie fistule extract half an ounce/ honey of roses half an ounce/ water of bugloss/ Borage and Endive of each three quarters of an ounce. Mix all this together/ and give the patiented the one half at evening/ and the other in the morning in the dawning/ let him walk upon this/ and not lie down again until nine or ten of the clock: for assoon as the hot moisture is prepared and digested/ then is she easy to be cast out/ and wyded. And if the patiented sweat much/ then is it to be marked/ that the body is full of superfluous humours: and with digesting of the humours/ according to man's complexion/ is he cured and made whole: and this aforemencioned drink and purgation is the digestion and avoiding of such filth. After that ought some conserves and Electuaries be ministered to him.  
The stomach doth sometime wambel & is quasy by reason of a heat/ that is engendered by undigested meats/ or unwholesome meats/ and the vapour thereof beateth up into the head. Thesame disease happeneth sometime of raw humours in the stomach/ and if ye take the patiented by the body/ then is it outwardly weak/ and yet feeble. give to the same in the morning half an ounce of Diacarthami/ or else give him half an ounce of Electuarij de succo rosarum: the same cleanseth the rough moisture out of the stomach.  
But if the stomach doth wamble of Melancholy/ then is his body hard and dry/ when a man gripeth thereon. He that hath that disease/ aught to anoint the body with oil of olive/ wherein are sodden Fenkel sede or Kumin.  
If a man had some evil matter/ upon the mouth of the stomach/ which he would gladly vomit out: or else did perceive/ he had much slimy filth within him/ & would fain be rid thereof by parbreaking: or that his stomach did wamble: let him take green Oaken leaf in his mouth/ and chaw it. If ye can have no green leaf/ then take a dry or seer oaken leaf/ and lay it in water/ and then put it into thy mouth. Do this twice/ thrice or four times/ and it shall draw much slime and filth. And if he hath any matter within him/ then doth he cast it out by parbreaking. Or else take a little springing water/ and vinegar of like quantity/ and drink thereof as much as an egg containeth.  
If a man had gotten unlustiness/ that he had no appetite to meat/ and waxeth heavy & faint/ neither can tell whereby it cometh/ nor yet hath great heat: 
To avoid quasinesse and evil appetite.  then is nothing better for him/ than that he take three hens eggs in the morning/ and let them be thorough warmed. After that let him break them up/ and take away the white thereof/ and sup out the yolks/ and drink thereupon a good draught of wine/ and fast thereon until the evening/ & walk sometime: that consumeth the evil humours/ which cause unlustiness.  
But if he had gotten this unlustiness after meat/ then let him eat no more after that until the even/ and than let him eat a thin pap of oetmeel/ made with wine/ and let him drink little/ for that is good. And when he will go to bed/ then let his feet be rubbed with vinegar/ wherein is sodden Wormwod: this will happily cast him in a sweat/ that were very good.  
If the unlustiness cometh by adversity and heaviness/ then is he holy dismade and heavy/ and all what he doth/ that grieveth him. Thesame must be cured of this wise: Let him resort oft where mirth is used/ and eat meats good of digestion/ and in all his meats let a little saffron be put: for that comforteth the heart/ but it causeth unluste in the stomach/ therefore ought but a little be put therein/ yet causeth it good blood/ and rejoiceth the heart.  
He that hath an unmeasurable lust to meat or drink/ the same hath also sometime unmeasurable sieges: 
greediness to meat and drink.  for the meat goeth oft from him not well digested/ saying the stomach needeth not overmuch meat/ to digest well/ & that it leave not at the last evil humours. Thesame aught to drink good read wine/ and eat meats that do not overchafe the stomach.  
They that have many cold humours in their stomach/ let the same eat fasting raw onions with salt and course bread. 
Cold humours in the stomach.  Garlic doth also consume superfluous humours in the stomach/ and helpeth it to digest: wherefore it is good for labourers/ that drink much water/ and eat cold meats: it driveth away also the dropsy.  
But if the stomach had overmuch slimy humours in it/ then ought it he loosed with D●acartami/ or pills of iera picra. But if it hath overmuch heat then purge it with Electuarium de sucro rosarum/ in the morning/ with a peasebreth. And after two or three hours give him yet peasebroth that is not salted nor savoured/ and let him walk/ and not lie down if he have so much strength. Ye may also eat green ginger against a slimy stomach/ the same warmeth it/ and maketh digestion. Or else make a pottage of young Nettles/ the same warmeth the stomach/ and consumeth evil humours in it/ and causeth good digestion. Grene Calmus doth likewise eaten in the morning and evening/ and purgeth the stomach.  
But if it is in winter/ then eat in the morning and evening Anis seed upon bread/ dipped in wine/ the same cleanseth the stomach from slime/ and maketh good digestion. S. Ihons' berries called in Latin Berberis/ slake thirst/ specially that cometh of Colera or the gall/ and stop the flux/ and make appetite to eat and drink: they be good for the quavering heart/ refrain vomiting/ and are good eaten against blusters or reed pustuls/ against the pestilence/ specially when they are ripe/ stamped and strained through a cloth/ and sodden to the thickness of a pap: keep this through the whole year/ and take thereof a Walnut shell full at ones.   

¶ When a man can not sweat/ or else sweateth overmuch/ how that may be caused/ or refrained.  

Of sweating.  SOme men sweat much/ and when they sweat not/ then are they evil disposed/ and find none other grief nor disease anoing them. This sweat must be withstand/ or else maketh it the members feeble/ and drieth him without his knowledge. He that doth so sweat/ be sure that it is a token that he is full of evil humours/ wherewith he is chafed and warmed/ that he must needs sweat. 
Cure.  Thesame aught to be cured of this wise: he must be purged/ after that ye perceive his complexion: and when he is in purging/ make him a bath/ to draw forth such humours of th●s wise:  
Take a pound of Gentiane roots/ slice them as small as groats/ put them into a little bag/ put thereto two ounces of salt/ and eight quarts of water/ and let the Gentian be well sodden: and if thou needest more water/ take more of the first water. In this bathe let him bathe six hours in the morning fresh and fasting/ or according as he can suffer it. And if he would gladly eat or drink/ let him boldly eat a sup/ and drink ones/ to make him strong. When he hath now bathed enough/ then let him lie down to bed/ and rest or sleep well: and if a sweat came upon him/ without procuring/ that were very good for him/ and that he might even so rest or sleep a little. Then let him eat that/ whereto his mind standeth best/ whether it be Chekens or Pollets sodden or roasted/ Ryss pottage and other good pottages. He must be sober in eating and drinking/ lest he take a surfeit/ and the stomach be stopped/ whereof is caused a loathsomeness to his meat/ and consequently the yellow iayndes or other disease/ for the which he needeth not to bathe any more.   

¶ Of sweating.  
ONe manner of sweat is natural/ the other unnatural. 
Two manner of sweats natural and unnatural.  The natural sweat cometh by itself/ so that a man sweateth over all his body/ and se that his nethermost parts are warm/ and that his sweat is warm/ and that man waxeth not faint of it/ ye he resteth better after it/ and is lighter than before. This is a token/ that that man hath many humours with in him/ and that his nature is so strong/ that it can expel and drive out the same humours/ and therefore is sweating for such one. They are also natural sweats/ when a man goeth in hot houses that are not over whore/ and that man doth than begin to sweat: or else when one batheth in waters that are not over hot/ and that he beginneth then to sweat about the head and eyen. This ought not to be refrained/ for it is wholesome. Or else is it a natural sweat/ when a man laboureth measurably/ and is not so sore chafed therewith. All these are good and wholesome/ for they drive away from man the superfluous humours.  
The unnatural or evil sweat is it/ that cometh toward the evening/ and is cold/ and waltereth only about the heart. Thesame though it be not good/ yet is it not so greatly to be withstand. But when a man hath a great disease or feebleness/ and a cold sweat breaketh out only about the nose/ that is a very deadly sign/ specially when the nostrils open and close fiercely/ and the nose waxeth sharp. 
Tokens of death.   
But when he sweateth only about the heart/ that is sometime a token that a man is very contrary to his nature/ and that the heat is inward in his body/ and nature out of frame/ and the pories (which are the issues of the sweat) stopped/ whereby nature is not strong enough to drive out the sweat through the skin. Beside this are those natural sweats/ when men sweat much every day: and that cometh thereby/ that men have overmuch moistness or humours within them/ and that must be abated then and letted.  
These things cause to sweat without danger: The flowers and herb of camomile/ or else mallows/ put them into a close tobbe/ and make a bath so/ that the vapour may strike up into the. 
Things causing to sweated  And such a bath is good for them/ that will not gladly wet their feet. Like virtue also hath Fenell/ Penyreal/ the flowers of Hops/ Branck ursyne the toppets of the flower/ Saluye or Sage with the flower/ smallage/ and wild Clarye/ called otherwise Oculus Christi.   

¶ A good bathe for them that have taken cold.  
Of this wise ought they be bathed dry/ which have taken cold/ before they do bath in water: Take Mugwort/ Sauge/ Fenel/ Penyreal/ of each a hand full/ chap them small/ and put them into two bags/ seth them well/ also make a sweeting therewith w●en ye will bathe. And when ye will bathe/ then wet a long cloth in cold lie/ wring it well out/ and tie it about thy head. Then put the water that the herbs have been sodden in/ into a to●/ and set thy feet therein/ as hot as ye can suffer it/ and lay one of the bags under you/ and sit thereon/ and lay the other upon your stomach/ retching down till your privy members: but look ye bathe not to hot.  

Flowers causing to sweated  These flowers cause sweating also: The flowers of Almonds/ Cheris/ Violets/ Langedbeiff/ white poppy/ white lilies/ Benes/ Cocles/ great mallows/ or Holy hockes/ Filbertes/ Blewlyllyes/ or Appels. Of these flowers may ye seth some in water/ to make a sweating bath/ or else seth them in a bag/ and press it well out/ and lay it as hot upon your body as ye can suffer it/ and tie an other bag about thy feet/ for that shall cause you to sweat so much the sooner and without hurt.  

Sweeting herbs hot of complexion  These herbs following are of warm complexion/ and cause him that is cold of complexion to sweat lightly: Take Penyreal/ Lavender flowers/ Mustard flowers/ Cousloppes/ Sauge/ Mugwort/ the flowers of Elecampane/ the leaves of Lorel or Bay/ Selandine or the flowers of it/ and Fitches: all these/ or part of them may ye seth in half water half wine/ and mayest provoke sweat therewith/ as is said.  

Herbs causing to sweated lightly.  These herbs cause to sweat lightly: mallows/ hollyhocks/ Brankursine/ Hounds tongue/ the roots of white lilies/ Longeworte growing by Okentrees/ Lovage/ Pelitory of the wall/ Millefoyle/ the herb of violets/ Lettuce and the flowers of Hathorne.  

To sweat easily.  This following causeth to sweat easily/ neither needeth a man to be covered therefore the more: Take the leaves and flowers of Elder tree/ the leaves of Lilies/ of each two handful/ put the same under the patientes shites/ and let him lie upon his back upon the herbs/ if he fall a sleep there on/ he shall sweat.  

An ointment to cause to sweat.  This following causeth to sweat also: Seth Nettles in oil of nuts/ anoint him well therewith at night/ that it may strike in through the skin/ and after his sleep toward the morning shall he fall in a sweat. Also if a man taketh Rue or herb grace/ Salt and vinegar/ and rub the patient's hands inwardly/ and the soles of his feet/ when he will go to bed/ in the morning after his sleep shall he fall to sweating.  
This also causeth to sweat: Take a white and hard dogs dung/ bray and sift the same through a cloth/ of that take as much as a Filberts shell can contain/ put to the same as much Oetmeel as two eggs can hold/ and a dish full of Vinegar/ and four times as much water: make of this a thin broth/ and give it the patiented to sup to bedward/ and he shall sweat continently: and that sweeting is sovereign good for them that have fervent heat/ as in a pestilence or fervent ague.  

A bath to make fruitful.  If ye will make a good natural bath/ that chafeth and warmeth well/ and warmeth also barren women/ that they become fruitful: Take three quarts of the roots of Sloes/ or six good handfuls/ cut them small/ and seth them until the water waxeth read: put thereto a pound of Alum/ and half a pound of Brimstone beaten to powder/ but let these be put or tied in a cloth.  
Ye must know also/ that if a woman were sore cold/ then take twice as many roots/ neither must any other water be put thereto/ then the same that is sodden with the three foresaid things. It is good also to put three hand full of salt into the kettle where they are boiled. And she must beware of taking cold/ and use meats that warm.  
If the man be cold of complexion/ then must he bathe therein also/ for the woman becometh so much the more fruitful: for when a man batheth with a barren woman/ they wax so much the more abler/ and she the more fruitful. It were good to take the foresaid roots of Slo●s/ as much green flax with the roots chapped small/ and bound together in a bag/ and than lay that bag behind upon the womannis back/ as warm as she can suffer it: and when the bag waxeth cold/ to warm it again in the foresaid water/ and lay it again to her body in the bath. This must be done oft/ for there with is her matrice or mother chafed/ and made apt to conceive and be fruitful.   

¶ How a man may be restored again that hath lost his strength by sickness.  
IF a man were become very weak and feeble by reason of a long sickness/ even that he seemeth to be consumed/ 
A restoring of man's natural strength  neither can recover/ then take twenty old cocks/ dress and dight them as though they should be eaten/ seth them in the third part of a ton of water/ stamp them in a mortar/ so that the bones be all to bruised and make a bath therewith/ and let him bathe therein. When he hath bathed enough/ lay him to bed/ and rest.  
Or else bathe him in fern or broke/ for that restoreth the sinews to their former strength/ and comforteth the patiented. The fern ought to be chapped small/ and put into a bag/ and to a mean basket full/ must ye take the third part of a ton of water.  
This bath following is good for them that have been long sick/ or whose marrow in the bones is corrupt/ or else their blood in the veins is corrupt and become nought/ by reason of cold: 
Another restoring bath.  for it is a strong bath/ and is the bath of Master William of Vallis.  
Take Sauge/ Rue/ Wormwoode/ betony/ Reed mint/ the roots of Nettles/ Wild Mergerum/ Mugwort/ the herb of Strawberryes'/ the sede of Nettles/ Lovage/ juniper/ whereon are many berries or corns/ of each a hand full. Chap all these small/ and put them in two bags/ put to them half a pound of Bayeberyes/ and a pound of beaten Brimstone/ part them (I say) into two bags/ and seth them well in water/ as much as is convenient/ and bathe three days therein/ neither put any more water thereto/ and bathe in the morning fasting/ so long as ye can endure it. After that seeth the other bag also/ and do as before: the same strengtheth the limbs/ and giveth them force.   

¶ A good drink that strengtheth the heart and all the members/ if a man drink half an eggs shalt full in the morning and evening/ with as much good wine.  

A drink to strengthen a man.  TAke the best Aqua vite that ye can get/ take also a piece of fine gold/ make it gloing hot ix. times/ and quench it again/ the more ye quench it/ the stronger waxeth the water and better/ put into the same Aqua vite half a quarter of an ounce of saffron/ and a quarter of an ounce of Cinnamon both beaten/ let them stand four days well stopped/ and steer it every day ones/ but when thou wilt take it/ then let it stand still unstered/ that it may be clear. This water warmeth the cold stomach/ giveth strength to all the members/ specially to aged folk/ that have been overlong sick/ whose strength is consumed: for it comforteth and strengtheth the heart out of measure.   

¶ Another drink comforting the body and purging.  

A drink comforting the body  TAke two ounces of Aqua vite/ nising powder a quarter of an ounce/ let them stand fourteen days. After that press it out through a fylte/ and take thereof evermore fasting a quarter of an ounce with an ounce of wine.  
But if ye will refresh the body/ then take a quarter of an ounce of iera picra/ and lay it in Aqua vite as before/ and drink thereof fasting three drops/ and take a little in your hand/ and put and rub it into your nose/ and draw the sent there of up into your head. The water of bugloss drunken/ is good for them that be sick at the heart/ or else the water stilled with an old hen/ the same give him to drink that hath lain long sick/ and is feeble: for it giveth him good strength/ and it must be taken in the morning and evening.  
These meats strengthen well the foresaid diseased/ namely/ Hearts feet/ Does feet/ Bulls feet/ or any ruder beasts feet. The elder these beasts be/ the more do they strengthen/ and they must be sodden so long/ till the bones fall from the flesh/ and strow beaten Saffron upon them.   

¶ Item a good bath and natural/ for it draweth forth evil heat/ and strengtheneth well.  

A bath to draw out evil heat and to strengthen.  TAke Heeth or Lynge/ Penyreal/ Wormwood/ Sauge/ Fenel/ of each a handful/ put it into a bag/ and lay it into a kettle that it may be thorough hot. And when ye bathe/ than sit upon the bag: howbeit ye need not to put it again into the kettle/ for the water should wax to strong.   

¶ A very wholesome confection to strengthen a diseased of the foresaid sickness.  
TAke the best Grapes that ye can get/ put them into a kettle/ stamp them/ and make wine of them: 
A confection to strengthen.  seth that well about an hour/ steer it/ and strain it through a copper strainer/ after that strain it through a finer strainer/ and seth it again/ that it wax as thick as a thick pap/ and steer it till it be cold/ cut it than to small pieces/ and put it into a pot that is glazed/ and than is it made ready. The staler it is/ the better is it/ and may be eaten what time a man will.  
Kowe milk and Rice sodden together/ strengtheneth very well/ or else a thick pottage made of green parsley and flesh/ or else with parsley and a good hens broth: the same strengthen very well: 
Meats strengthening.  Likewise doth the marrow of harts/ Roes or rudder beasts/ drawn out of the bones/ sodden and eaten.  
If a man were wholly feebled and abated/ and could take no manner of sustenance/ it were good for him to drink warm woman milk/ or else to suck a woman/ specially in the morning: 
Another to strengthen.  the same doth strengthen and comfort the heart very sore and all the members/ and causeth good blood: But if he could eat flesh dighted with the flowers of Borage/ that were a sovereign thing.  
Or else take an old Hen/ let her be dressed as is convenient/ put her into a pottle pot of tin well closed or stopped/ put a goblet of wine thereto/ and half a quarter of an ounce of beaten Saffron well beaten and steered with the wine: set the pottle pot in a kettle with water/ and lay a stone or some weight upon the pottle pots lid/ and let it seth two hours continually. Then look whether the hen be fallen a sunder/ for than is it enough: if not/ let it seth better. This savoureth very well/ and giveth great strength. If the hen be little/ put so much the less wine and Saffron to it.  
If any man hath lain long sick/ whereby he is waxed cold/ let him take a hand full of bugloss/ and seth it well in a quart of wine/ strain that juice through a cloth/ and drink thereof in the morning and evening: the same giveth natural warmth/ and comforteth the heart very well.  
He that hath his legs cold by reason of long sickness or age/ let him take half a bushel of Ootes/ and seeth that well with two quarts of water/ and one quart of wine/ till it be half consumed/ and wax brown in the kettle/ steer it well/ lest it burn. 
A Stoving or bathing of cold legs.  Put this into a soft sack or pilow bier/ half an elle long and broad/ and wrap his legs and feet therein/ as warm as he can suffer it: do this in the morning and evening and none: of this wise may he be chafed again in three days/ and without danger.   

¶ Of all accidents of the liver.  
MAny diseases come from the liver/ as Stopping/ rotting/ 
Diseases caused by the liver.  Inflammation/ the yellow jaundice/ the Dropsy cometh also there by/ that the liver can not digest/ and that blood that she should send into the members/ is turned to water: the members are out of their frame/ and have no due operation/ by reason of the livers disease/ that is/ that the veins coming from the liver to the stomach/ do give evil heat: Thesame heat drieth or seereth the stomach/ so that he getteth lust to drink cold water/ and that causeth the stomach to digest evil/ and causeth dropsy. For the lust of cold water/ weakeneth the digestion wholly/ and the blood that the liver should send to the urines/ is mixed with cold water/ by reason of the indigestion/ and so is parted through out all the members/ and thereof swelleth man/ and getteth the dropsy.  

Of the Spleen.  Otherwise cometh this disease of the Spleen/ that it can not digest the substance/ which the liver hath ministered and sent to him/ and that is Colera nigra: the same blood doth mix itself farther into the other members/ and thereof swelleth a man.  

Of the kidneys.  Sometime is it occasioned of the Kidneys/ or that a man bledth to much at the nose/ or sometime that a man is to much bound in his belly/ and can have no sieges.  
Sometime of superfluous blood/ which lieth hardened and undigested in the liver/ the same doth mix itself into all the members/ and causeth them to swell.  

Remedy for the liver.  He that is diseased in the liver/ help him of this wise: Let him beware of all meats chafing or hot of complexion: for chafing meats to scaulde the liver/ and bring it out of his complexion. Wherefore it is requisite to set the liver again into his former digestive power/ with medicines competent to it: that is/ that she be purged of Colera/ Blood/ and black Colera. 
A confection to mollify diseases.  It is reason and requisite in all diseases/ to mollify the disease/ with this syrup or confection/ before a purgation be ministered to him.  
Take the roots of Fenel/ Percelye/ of each a handful: the herb and roots of walwort and Valeriane/ of each an ounce: the sedes of Fenel and Anis of each half an ounce: water two or three quarts. Bruise the roots/ and let them all stand stypinge a night/ and give the patient to drink there of in the morning and evening/ at every time three ounces/ mixed with water of the flowers of elder or Bower tree/ and after that purge him with Dia prunis laxativo/ an ounce at ones/ and that should be ministered to him after his first sleep/ and he may sleep safely there upon.  
Item to purge one easily/ without danger/ that hath a hot disease/ in a chafed liver of a hot ague or other disease/ give him in the morning half an ounce of Electuarium de succo rosarum/ three quarters of an ounce Cassie fistule extract/ water of Endive/ the water of Colander or maidens heir/ of each an ounce and an half: mix them together/ and give him it in the morning/ but he may not sleep there upon.  
give him for a comfortative Diarrhodon abbatis.  
Walwort drunken refraineth the waterish moisture in the belly.  
Nothing is better in the world for the dropsy/ then to drink the juice of Blewlillies roots an ounce or an half/ with two ounces of whey: or else the root sodden with wine/ and drunk in the evening and morning / the same enlargeth the breast/ and taketh away fetching of the breath with pain/ wherewith they that have the dropsy/ are pained.   

¶ Of the yellow jaundice.  
ICtericia is the yellow jaundice/ and alteration of the natural colour of the skin into a yellow colour. 
Of the yalowe jaundice and the causes thereof.  Thesame cometh sometime from the liver/ sometime from the Gall/ sometime from the Spleen. The jaundice coming from the liver/ is caused two ways: either by mistemperatnesse of heat/ or by stopping in the liver. The jaundice caused by mistemperaunce of heat/ is of two sorts: sometime with apostemation/ sometime without apostemation. But if the jaundice cometh by a wasting with apostemation/ then are the signs in a man strengthing/ trembling and a pain in the right side/ a consumption of the whole body/ and minishing of the strength and the digestion/ the water is as read as blood.  
The jaundice without apostemation hath no consumption/ streyngthing/ nor trembling/ and they have also the common token of yalownesse in their eyes/ the face yellow/ pale or green/ the water read and bloody.  
first aught medicine to be given for the apostemation/ if the jaundice is with an apostemation/ that it be first taken away/ after that shallbe taken away the waystinge coming by the heat.   

¶ A true medicine for the jaundice.  
TAke a handful of Cherye leaves/ seeth them in a pint of milk/ that it boil well/ strain it/ and drink a good draft thereof to beddewarde and in the morning fasting/ and the jaundice shall avoid from you by siege. Or else drink in the morning and evening this following: Take the wood of Berberis/ pill the upper shell with the leaves from it/ and take the second shell that is yellow: put thereof as much as a walnut in a cloth/ and seth it with a pint of water/ that it be well boiled/ and let it cool/ and than drink it. This hath been experimented/ put thereof also in thy drink.   

¶ Against the desperate jaundice.  
TAke two handful of the root of blue Lilies/ cut them small/ and seeth them in three quarts of water four hours long: and when he will go to bed/ wet a fine sheet therein/ that it be well wet/ fold it together/ and wind it all over and over the pacientes body/ even the head also/ when he goeth to bed. If he sweat/ then draweth the jaundice into the sheet/ and waxeth yellow.  
Him that the yellow jaundice taketh/ is well perceived by his eyes/ hands/ soles of the feet/ and the yellow colour of the whole body.   

¶ Against the jaundice that is rooted.  
TAke Celidony both the herb and root/ chap it small/ and when ye have a pottle thereof/ seeth it in water/ and let it be well covered/ that no vapour may go out/ and make therewith a sweeting bath/ and if ye sweat well/ the jaundice shall avoid by it.   

¶ Another true and hurtless science for the jaundice.  
TAke the seed of Ancolie or Accolie beaten to powder/ a quarter of an ounce/ put thereto beaten saffron a penny weight/ and an ounce of vinegar/ and two ounces of water of Celidony/ steer them well together: the same should be drunken fasting or to bedward/ and drink not after it. The same driveth out the jaundice by the urine harmless. In the morning draught put sugar/ that maketh it good. It may also be mixed with as much Southisteen water/ as may be drunk at ones: or take the flower of Cichore and roots/ and seth them in half wine/ half water/ and drink thereof fasting/ and at even.   

¶ Yet another medicine for the jaundice that is rooted/ or else hath infect the eyes and skin.  
TAke the herb of holes/ burn it to ashes/ and of them make a lie/ and wash thy therewith: wet also a cloth therein/ and wind it warm about thy head to bedward: do this eight days continually/ and the jaundice shallbe drawn into the cloth through the head.   

¶ Another true medicine for the jaundice.  
BEat the carnels of Peaches small/ put vinegar thereto/ so much that it wax a thin broth/ drink that what time ye will/ & specially fasting/ or to bedward/ but ye may not drink after it: that breaketh the jaundice/ likewise do the carnels of wild Almonds.  

jaundice with cos●ifnesse.  If one had the jaundice/ and were so bound in his belly/ that he could have no sieges/ then make him this solutorye. Mark whether he have a heat/ then give him to bedward half an ounce of Viol. syrup/ with as much cold water/ and give him in the morning half an ounce of Electuarium de succo rosarum/ tempered with a warm hens broth/ or a broth of calves flesh/ or else a broth of white Peasen/ and let him drink a good draft after that.  
But if the heat nor bitterness would go away/ then give him fasting a quarter of an ounce of Rebarbara/ with an ounce and an half of water of Moulberryes'/ and the next day let him blood in the liver vain/ and let him beware of all meats that warm. give him sometime warm water into his mouth/ to wash it there with/ and afterward cold water/ to rensche it: do this in the morning/ and let him wash his hands likewise. Or else let him drink distilled water of hearts tongue/ or the herb sodden in water/ the same is good drunken against the jaundice/ for the heat of the liver. Or else take the powder of Ancolye seed/ and beaten saffron/ of each a penny weight/ and half an eggs shalt full of wine/ and as much water/ and as much vinegar: mix these v. together/ and drink that to bedward/ and in the morning fasting: this helpeth very well/ and is experimented.   

¶ A good powder for the jaundice.  
TAke the skin of a hens maw/ wash it fair with wine/ dry it/ and make it to powder. 
A powder for the jaundice.  And when thou wilt rise from the board or supper/ then sup a piece of bread in wine/ and put of that powder thereon/ and eat it to bedward/ and in the morning fasting: this is a sovereign thing for the jaundice in the stomach.  
Or else take earth worms so much as half a walnutt/ cut them small/ and bray them with a little wine or water/ so that ye may swallow it: drink the same fasting/ and hold a slice of bread toasted with salt warm before thy mouth/ and drink Endive water thereupon: mix wine also and water of Endive together/ and drink that to bedward.  
He that hath the jaundice upon the tongue/ or that his tongue were dry or hot/ let him take Psyllium/ that is to say Fleewort/ as great as a Filbert/ let him put it in a fine cloth/ and lay it in warm water three hours long: after that let him struck his tongue therewith otherwiles/ the same draweth out the evil heat/ cooleth the tongue/ and taketh away the bitterness. Likewise doth Sauge laid in cold water/ and layeth alway a fresh leaf thereof on it. A plantain leaf laid in cold water/ and so laid wet upon the tongue/ do likewise: for it cooleth the mouth/ and taketh away the bitterness. But if it were winter/ and ye could not have the herbs: then take little flint stones/ lay them in water/ and do as is said before.  
He that hath the jaundice so fervently and sore/ that he can neither taste nor drink wine or good drink: let the same drink Barley water at all times/ for that allayeth the heat of the jaundice and gall/ and nourisheth well. And if he can eat no meat/ yet let him eat a pap of Barley sodden with water and butter/ and let him use that/ until he can eat other meat: and let him drink also water of Lilies/ or Isop/ or bugloss.  
There is an herb called Herb of jaundice/ it is so right green as grass/ and hath a long stalk/ and long leaves/ fashioned like Esula/ save that it hath no milk/ as Esula doth. Of this herb take a hand full/ and a quart of water/ seth them well: of this water let the patiented drink in the morning and evening/ and temper his drink therewith: the same breaketh and driveth away the jaundice sore without grief/ so that it is perceived in the urine. Or else take the seed of Ancolye or Accolye the weight of twinty wheaten corns/ mixed with two eggs shalesfull wine/ drink the same fasting in the morning/ and as much to bedward: the same driveth the jaundice straightway from you in the urine.  
If the jaundice were rotten in a man/ and had therewith heat/ thirst & a stitch/ then take his shirt or smoke/ and wet it in his own urine or chamberlye / wring it well out/ put it on him again/ lay him again to bed/ and cover him warm: then draweth the jaundice out into his shirt or smoke/ and his skin and smoke shallbe as yellow as a quench: and this must he do thrice. This may be done also/ if the liver were inflamed.  
It is good also for the jaundice/ to struck the west of the hands very well with warm wine/ in the morning/ at none/ and evening: for it draweth the jaundice from the stomach.   

¶ Of the diseases of the liver. ¶ Of inflammation of the Liver.  

Inflammation of the liver.  Sometime is the liver diseased of his own fault or vice: sometime also by other members. When it is diseased of itself/ that is sometime of heat or cold/ sometime of superfluous moisture/ or else of dryness or drought/ where of the liver and bladder get great hurt. When it is so diseased/ then let the patient at the liver vain in the arm: or else let him blood in the small toe of the right foot. But if he hath eaten/ then let him blood by the little finger upon the hand/ and give him to drink barley water. Let him eat no flesh/ nor chafing or inflaming meat/ no salt meat/ none old baken bread/ no eggs/ nor none undigestible meats.   

¶ A good powder for the hot liver/ hot stomach and for the hot ague.  

A powder for inward heat.  TAke five ounces of beaten or ground barley/ mixed with Endive water/ put thereto an ounce and an half beaten Coriander/ stiped before in Vinegar/ and a quarter of an ounce of Anis seed beaten/ four ounces of sugar: the same must be eaten with bread/ dipped in wine in the morning fasting/ after meat/ and to bedward: it causeth also an appetite.  
Ye may give him also confect of Cherries in the morning/ and let him fast thereon six hours. give him sorrel juice to drink/ the same cooleth/ and allayeth the heat of the liver and thirst/ or else give him water distelled of Sorrel/ the same cooleth and allayeth the thirst without danger.   

¶ When the liver is inflamed.  

Inflammation of the liver and the remedy thereof.  When the liver is inflamed/ take Oaken leaves/ make thereof square pyllous/ as great as a head/ and lay one to the right side: and when the same waxeth hot/ take it away/ and lay an other that is fresh thereon. This may ye do day and night/ and that draweth the evil heat out/ cooleth the liver naturally. Or else wet a cannefas in Endive water/ wring it out/ and lay it upon the liver. Eat also the liverwort that groweth in moystye marshes or standing waters/ and drink of it. Ye must beware of anger and sorrow/ and when ye will eat or take of refection/ then rub your tongue and teeth/ and after that wash them well with cold water. In the morning/ none and evening set your feet in warm water and warm them therein: after that put them suddenly in cold water/ and then lay you down with the soles of your feet uncovered/ for than draweth the evil heat after the cold/ and comforteth you.  
He that hath a diseased liver of a cold complexion can eat much better/ than he that is diseased of a warm complexion/ & yet can not he digest it. He hath great stitches in his right side/ and his face changeth sore: 
Mark this.  his lips and tongues wax white/ and he waxeth pale under his eyen/ his blood minisheth/ his urine is pale/ clear or white/ and a little scomminge. It is good to purge the same with Rebarbara/ and to anoint his liver wi●h oil of Nardus/ and oil of dill/ of like quantity. Or else give him to eat raisins/ and such meats as chafe him: but let him beware of sweet meats/ for they hurt the liver and spleen. Set his feet also in warm water/ wherein camomile is sodden/ let him warm them well therein/ and beware for taking cold: for that doth hurt.  
Wormwoode in meat comforteth and warmeth the stomach and liver/ and causeth lust to eat/ it healeth also the stopping of the liver/ as in the yellow jaundice and dropsy. For this use may ye dry it/ make it to powder/ and eat thereof in the morning/ at none and at evening/ at every time so much as a chest nut. Let him eat Rice pottage/ and chich peasen sodden/ that the ●uske be taken away. Let him also eat the broth of a pollet/ wherein white bread is stiped.  
Sometime is the liver diseased of overmuch moistness/ the same doth his Spleen swell/ & his urine waxeth as white and clear as water/ he hath also pain in his loins/ and specially in the left side: 
Liver diseased of overmuch moistness and the tokens of it.  he is not a thirst/ he is heavy minded/ his stomach wambleth by reason of stopping of his liver.  
Sometime is the liver stopped by reason of dry blood/ which can not flow nor have course through the other veins/ as it should do: because of his grossness and thickness.  
It is stopped also by other humour/ that are gross and slimy/ of the which it hath gotten their nature and quality.  
Sometime is the liver stopped by reason any member hath not his due course/ because it is cut of or maimed/ & the blood passing through the same from the liver/ is stopped/ and so remaineth it in the liver. Those that be so diseased/ aught ye to purge with pills of jera pi●ra/ and let him blood in the liver vain in the arm: and after eight days/ upon the right hand between the little finger and the next/ and give him to eat meats that cool/ & drink small drinks. He ought also at the first to be let blood in the Median in the arm/ and give him to eat sugar of Roses.   

¶ Sometime is the liver of a woman stopped/ when her flowers draw upward/ before it is due season.  
SHe that is in such a case/ that her liver is stopped/ because her flowers are stayed before time convenient/ the same ought to be let blood continently at both the feet/ and to purge her all manner of ways/ as it pertaineth women/ whose flowers are stopped/ as it is showed hereafter. give her pills of iera picra/ the first night three/ the second night five/ the third night seven: this is the best receipt for them/ for they purge her well. And this should be ministered to them forthwith: for if it be delayed/ then is it grievous to aid them/ which nevertheless is easy at the first.   

¶ Of Apostemation of the Liver.  

Apostemation of the liver  Sometime groweth an apostume in the liver/ by reason a man is fallen/ beaten or stricken upon it: sometime because a moisture is gathered in it: sometime of an evil heat/ that is gathered in the stomach of undigested meats.  
The diseases or apostemes of the liver/ are sometime upon it/ and than riseth a swelling upon the liver. But when the apostemation is under the liver/ then getteth a man great pain in the right side: and this is fa●the● known thereby/ that when he eateth/ he waxeth cold/ or else when he ●●●weth his breath/ that doth grieve him between the shoulders and liver.  
If the apostemation cometh of heat/ then hath the patient a sore ague and great thirst/ and his tongue is at the first read/ and afterward black: and it that goeth from him is first Colera/ and becometh green after that.   

¶ A good drink for the liver/ howsoever she is diseased.  

Cure of the liver with drinks and otherwise.  TAke four roots of Cicory/ but if they are great/ take but twain/ wash them clean/ cut of the herb/ seth them in a quart of water/ until the third part be sodden in/ or a little less. Let the same water cool/ and drink it fasting/ howsoever ye will: yet not to much at ones: the same doth purge the liver/ and healeth also.  
But if the disease is under the liver/ then give him also pills of jera picra/ and take heed/ lest the apostemation wax hard. If it waxeth to hard/ it can be remedied with no medicine/ for the dropsy followeth it. Yet are some things/ where with it may be helped/ that are/ Liver wort and the juice of smallage/ sodden in wine or water/ if he hath no great heat. If the apostemation is come of heat/ then give him to drink the juice of Fenel/ the juice of smallage/ oil of Almonds with Oxizacara. If the apostemation is come of a fall or bruising/ then give the patiented a quarter of an ounce of Rebarbara with milk.  
He that hath is liver faulty or unclean/ let him take Santali would/ Endive water and chervil water of each an ounce and an half/ mix them together/ and part it in three portions/ and drink thereof three mornings fasting/ at each time one portion/ and he shallbe whole/ and it is experimented and proved.   

¶ Of diseases of the Lights or Lungs.  
OF evil and corrupt air/ that a man hath drawn into him/ come diseases into the Lights/ and be so fervent/ that a man dieth thereof. 
Diseases of the lights or lungs.  For the lung or lights lieth upon the heart/ and giveth air to the heart: and when the corrupt or venomous air cometh to the heart/ it infecteth it/ and causeth otherwiles the death of a man.  
Sometimes also fortuneth a man to have an apostume in the lights/ whereof is caused another to disease/ called Asthma/ when the breath is short/ & that by reason the condutes of the lights are stopped. 
Asthma.  Sometime also getteth a man a disease in his lights or poulme/ that he is costumed to eat unnatural and unkind meats/ as fruits/ sour and salted meats.  
Such diseased must be kept from all meats/ that are not good of digestion/ and from sour or salted meats. Also from all manner of fruit/ except raysynes and plums: for they cool and lose the belly. Let him abstain from Pigeons or Doves/ and from all manner of foul that dwelleth in waters: for they are evil of digestion.  
For the disease of the poulmon or lights/ make this plaster: 
A plaster for diseases of the lights.  Take the croume of white bread three ounces/ Terpentine two ounces/ Anise two ounces/ Cumine three unces/ honey four ounces: all these seth in white wine/ & let them seth/ until the wine is near hand sodden away: make a plaster hereof/ and lay it upon his poulmon/ as warm as he can suffer it/ and the pain shallbe suaged. Thesame plaster is good also laid upon other griefs/ and it is good also for the breath.  
If the disease of the lights were come upon one of a stinking or venomous air/ then must ye give him within three days a purgation/ namely three mornings the one after the other a penyweyght of fine Tyriakle in a draft of warm wine. After that anoint him with this salve: Take Terpentine/ Aqua vite/ of each an ounce/ Dialthea three quarters of an ounce: mix these together/ and struck it upon his breast. He that hath this disease/ it is necessary that he be continently helped/ for he might lightly die of the infection. This drink following is a special medicine for him every morning and evening taken two ounces. 
A drink for the infect poulmon or lights▪  Take Licoris an ounce and an half/ Broke of the wall an ounce/ the midst pill or shell of Ground pine called in Latin Chamepitis three quarters of an ounce/ Figs/ Raisins/ sede of mallows/ of each three quarters of an ounce/ Maiden heir/ Isope of each a handful/ Barley an ounce/ water a pottle: Bray them that are to be brayed/ & seth them with the water/ that the water be sodden away two finger breadth/ then let it stand so all night/ and in the morning strain it/ and then drink thereof as is said before.  
Item they that consume sore/ whose eyes wax deep in their heads/ they cough much/ and have pain in the left side/ and about the breast/ them may ye help of this wise: 
For a cōsumpci●●  give them Diapenidion or Diagragantum/ & make them this drink: Take three ounces of Licorise/ Anis sede/ and Isope/ of each a handful/ seth these all in a quart of water/ strain it through a cloth/ and put thereto at the lest half an ounce/ or three quarters of an ounce of Sugar. Mark also whether they have any heat/ for then give them milk to drink. Make them also suppositories of honey and salt. If they cough & their blood be evil/ then let them blood upon the hand or in the arm. Their meats may be hogs feet/ chykins/ motton/ new baken bread/ and stolen drinks.  
Item when a man can not well draw his breath/ then help him of this wise: Take Syropum de Sticados four ounces/ Syropum de Calamenta/ and Syropum de Hyssopo/ of each two ounces/ mix them together and use it.   

¶ A good barley water for all diseases of the Poulmon or Lights.  

A special barley water for many diseases.  TAke half a pound of fair Barley/ a gallon of water/ half an ounce of liquorice/ Fenel sede/ violets/ parsley sede/ of each a quarter of an ounce/ Read roses a quarter of an ounce/ dry Isop/ and Sauge of each a penyweyghte/ two leaves of Hearts tongue/ a quarter of an ounce of Figs or Raisins: seeth all these in a new pot/ that the water be sodden away two finger breadth/ and set the pot in cold water/ and then strain the clear from it/ and drink it. Thesame cooleth the liver and all the members/ driveth away all evil heat/ slaketh thirst/ causeth to caste out much/ purgeth the lights/ the spleine and the kidneys/ the bladder/ and causeth to make well water/ & is specially good for all agues/ that come of heat.   

¶ How to help a man that hath a disease or a stitch in his side/ or an evil spleen/ or an apostume with in upon his rib.  

pain or stitch in the side and the tokens of it.  Pain in the side cometh of evil stinking moistness/ which causeth an impostume in the left side upon the ribs. If the apostume cometh upon the ribs/ then dieth a man lightly within three days of the stench of the apostume/ striking to the heart/ without a speedy remedy be sought. first ought he to be well let blood in the Median in the right arm: and if the apostume is in the right side/ them ought he to be let blood in the left arm. And before all is it to be known sayeth Galen/ whereby the apostume is occasioned/ afore ye ministre aught to him/ and also in which side the disease is. If it is in the right side/ then cometh it of the liver: If it is in the left side/ then cometh it of the spleen: and therefore have Hipocrates and Auicenna said/ that he that hath this disease/ should be let blood in great quantity/ after that his strength is.  
If the disease is in the left side/ than doth his heart shake and beat/ and hath great pain in his left side/ hands and feet are cold/ pain in the reins/ strong and fervent agues/ and great stitching when the ague cometh upon him: the disease is come of phlegma and black Colera.  
But if the disease is in the right side/ then cometh it of the liver and of superfluous blood/ and therefore is it requisite to minish a great deal of the patientes blood at the beginning/ after that he hath strength. And he that hath this disease/ the same hath febres acutas/ and great pain in the forehead/ and all his members do ache. He hath also in his sleep many imaginations and dreams/ and thirsteth: all sweet meats are contrary to him/ and listeth after sour meats and eager/ he hath also great heat in the liver. His face and eyes also are read/ his nose continually sharp and sere or dry: the second day after that the disease leaveth him/ than changeth his face/ and the nails of his fingers become white. These foresaid tokens are not good/ for they signify the death of the patient within three days. If the patiented in the beginning of this disease doth list to drink wine/ then ought the Physician to beware how to counsel him.  
When a man hath a stitch in his side/ then give him to drink water of Morsus diaboli/ (that is an herb/ whose root is as it were bitten of) either distilled or sodden. Likewise also doth Saffron drunk. Or else take honey & milk of a Cow of each half a pint/ let them be well warmed together/ wet a linen cloth of half an elle long and broad therein/ and lay it so warm thereupon/ and the stiche will straight way be allayed.  
Howbeit I have alway put thereto wheaten meel three quarters of an ounce/ and two penny weight of beaten saffron/ streaked upon the cloth/ and laid warm upon it like a plaster. But in summer did I lay the leaves of white Horehunde/ chapped small/ and put in a bag/ sodden in milk/ pressed out/ and laid warm upon the side/ the same suaged it. I have sometime also used it sere.  
Or else take a fine linen cloth/ and fold it so/ that it be a span long/ wet it in the patients urine/ while she is yet warm/ press it out a little for droping/ and lay it where the stitch is. And when it is dry/ then wet it again therein: the same draweth the humours out/ and allayeth the stitch forth with. Though this science doth not so wholly aid/ yet doth it not hurt/ though it were a woman in child's bed. Or else take a cold flint stone or paving stone and hold it upon the sore place/ and the blood draweth back/ and the patient is healed.  
The barks of an Ash tree/ sodden in wine/ and drunken of him that hath a hard spleen/ the same doth weaken it without doubt: This may ye prove of this wise: give a swine the same barks to eat nine days one after the other/ and when it is slain/ look after the spleen/ and ye shall not find it half.  
He that hath pain in his side/ let him take a kake of beaten Linesede/ seth it in water/ and wet a linen cloth therein/ and lay it warm upon the side/ and it shall said straightway. When a man hath a pain in his side/ and specially in the left side/ then take a quart of white wine/ the sixth part of a quart of honey/ a hand full of Percely/ or else two ounces of the seed thereof: seeth the same in a new pot/ the sixth part away/ give him the same to drink when it waxeth cold/ both in the morning and evening/ and he shall wax whole doubtless. Or else if a man hath great stitches and pain in his side/ I took half a pound of milk/ two ounces of honey/ an ounce of wheaten meel/ a pennyworth of Saffron/ and laid it warm thereon.   

¶ Of all diseases of the belly/ and his parts annexed.  
ANis sede/ howsoever it is used/ driveth out winds/ that be strayenge in the guts/ and cumber the stomach/ and chafe the liver: it maketh also good digestion/ and is good against belkinge or breaking up of sour winds/ of a cold and undigested stomach.  
If any person/ either man or woman had a grepinge in his guts/ specially the fretting in the great guts/ and he or she were poor: let him take a little wax candle/ and make thereof a cross upright/ upon a piece of papir/ the bigness of a groat/ festened or clyved upon the belly/ and lightened/ and a little glass set thereon: the same draweth the pain to it. Or else take a bondel of raw hemp thread/ and seth it in water where are many ashes/ and lay it so warm upon the belly.  
If ye have no hemp thread/ then do as I did when I was called by a woman/ that was at the point of travailing/ and had so great pain in her belly/ that the child leapt up and down/ so that all they that were about her/ were astonied/ neither durst any man minister ought to her: I band both her legs above the knee hard and fast with a band/ and let it so alway an ave Maria/ and then loosed it again a little space/ and band it again so oft/ till the pain was holy taken away.  
Auicenna saith/ that a man may well drink hot water in Colica passide/ that is grepinge in the great guts/ and also when the spleen riseth and swelleth.  
If any man were mistempered and hard in his body/ nother could make water/ than take two hand full of Wormwood/ cut it small/ and put it in a bag a quarter of an elle long and broad/ seth the same in half water/ half wine/ strain it out a little/ that it drop not/ lay it upon his body as warm as he can suffer it half an hour long/ and let him eat twelve carnels of Peaches. And when the bag waxeth cold/ then let him warm it again in the former water and wine/ and this shall he do in the morning/ at none/ and in the evening: of this wise shall the mistemperaunce of the body and hardness be allayed/ and he shall well make water.  
Or else take bran and water Cresses/ of each alike/ about two quarts/ chap the water cresses very small/ make a bag large a quarter of an elle/ and as long/ that it may well reach about your loins/ then put the water cresses and bran therein/ steer them well/ lest they cluster/ seth it well in a kettle with water/ anoint the loins with Meye butter/ or other butter so big as an egg/ and it that is left of the butter/ lay upon the navel/ and cover it with a little dish: then press the back a little out/ lest it drop/ and wind it about the patiented as warm as he can suffer it: do this in the morning/ at none/ and to bedward/ let it lie an hour or more at every time/ after that he is strong and can suffer it. Let him lie upon his back for the most part/ for that mollifieth the body well/ taketh away the mistempering and the pain/ and causeth to make well water: but before any thing look he have sieges.  

Dryenes of the digestion.  Sometime doth it fortune also nature to become so dry and sere/ that the meat can not void for great drought/ whereof he hath so great pain/ that he even swelleth. If the disease is of a swelling/ that shall ye know thereby/ that he is swollen and hath pain/ so that he can neither night nor day have any rest/ but crieth continually. Thesame may ye help of this wise: Take Cotton/ old or stolen butter/ vinegar/ salt/ of each three ounces: put the same in a pan/ & steer them together/ seth them without burning/ until they wax a little thick: then take a fylt or thick woollen cloth/ upon the same sow a piece of sustain or other linen cloth/ and thereon struck this foresaid confection. And when the patient doth demand it/ or hath need of it/ then warm it by the fire/ and anoint him well with oil of camomile and oil of vilely well warmed/ where he hath the greatest pain/ and then lay the plaster thereon as warm as he can suffer it. This shall ye do in the morning/ at none and evening/ and it shall ease him both of the swelling and pain. Mark also/ that if there be to little salve upon the plaster/ then struck more thereon/ or else if it fall of with the warmth: for she ought to be a finger thick at the least. It were good also he did bath in water/ wherein a basket full of mallows are sodden/ as warm as he can suffer it/ and ye must take heed that he have good sieges/ and give him to eat meats of light digestion/ as are sheep or calves heads/ chickens/ and such like. But if he can have no sieges than give him a quarter of an ounce of Electuarium rosarum/ with the weight of five barley corns of Diagridion: mix them well together with warm wine/ & give him it before day/ if he will/ let him drink again thereupon: and if he can/ let him walk upon his drink/ for that is good: if not/ let him beware of sleep. And if he can have no sieges thereof/ then be sure/ that he is bound and swollen within/ and therefore must he be helped straightway with suppositories of Alum: but if they will not help/ then set him a clyster therewith: Take milk and half an ounce of Frankincense/ put the same into a new pot/ wherein are put hot koles: put the same under a stole with a hole/ and set the patient thereon/ that the vapour may go up into him as hot as he can suffer it. But before ye set the pot with the coals under the stool/ lay an hour or twain this plaster upon the pacientes body: Take mallows with the roots/ wash them clean/ chap them small/ seth them in water until they wax weak: then press them well/ and fry them in a pan/ in a pint of butter or fat/ till it wax a little dry/ and than let it cool: And when it is so dressed/ than put it into a fine linen bag/ like a cussin: And the sack must be a quarter of an elle broad/ and sowed together and laced/ like a pillow. And when ye have need of this kussin/ then put it into a kettle with water/ and seth it/ till it waxeth hot: them press it out that it do not drop/ and lay it about the pacientes body/ as warm as he can suffer it: and set him there with upon a stool/ and set the pot there under/ as is said before: this weakeneth the swelling with in and without/ and causeth an easy siege without hurt. This were good for them that have hard sieges/ and have the matter burnt within them/ whereby they void it with pain. To such ought to be ministered in a draft a syrup of violets/ and in the morning half an ounce of succus Rosarum: If the same doth not work within a hour/ then lay the foresaid plaster thereon/ and set him upon the stool with the pot under it/ as is specified before/ and than shall he have sieges without any smart.   

¶ To cleanse the guts.  
TAke half an ounce of meal of Fenugrecum/ seth that with a pint of water/ and pour of the clear/ mix to the same an ounce of honey/ and drink thereof in the morning and evening.   

¶ For them whose guts are gnawn or wounded.  

Fretting of guts  THesame shallbe marked thereby/ in his sieges issueth blood also/ and that happeneth by two causes/ the one is outward/ the o●her inward. The inward cause is by reason of an unclean and piercing moistness/ caused by a salt phlegma/ and the same woundeth or fretteth the guts. But the outward cause is/ some great labour/ which a man doth/ and straineth him sore/ so that the guts are thereof so fretted/ that the blood followeth thereafter.  
If ye will know whereof it is/ then take heed to the matter/ that issueth from him with the blood: If it be reed/ then is it of Colera: but if it is as the uncleanness of the nose/ then is it of phlegma. After that must ye take heed whether the blood cometh of the upper guts/ or of the nethermost guts/ or else the middlemost guts. If it cometh from the uppermost guts/ then hath he pain above the navel: if it issueth from the nethermost guts/ then hath he pain beneath the navel.  
When now the blood cometh from the upyermoste guts/ then give the patient his medicine into his mouth. Is it of the reed Colera/ then give him gum Arabic with the juice of Porcelen/ with a syrup of Mirtill/ and give him syrup of Roses/ and give him bread styped in Almonds beaten/ and give him to drink water sodden with small raisins.  
But when the blood cometh from the nethermost or middlemost guts/ and that of the reed Colera/ then give him a clyster with these things: Take Roses/ yolks of Eggs/ Porcelene/ and peeled Barley sodden in water/ and make a clyster hereof.  

restraint in the small guts, and the signs of it.  Sometime happeneth a restraint in the small guts/ by reason the slimy matter strayeth/ because she can not void beneath/ and than riseth it up toward the throat with parbreaking. This disease happeneth sometime of an hot apostume in the stomach. It cometh also of a cold humour/ that is gathered in the stomach. The restraint caused by an apostume/ is known thereby/ that the belly is swollen/ and he draweth wind or breath uneasily: he getteth also an ague and great thirst. But if the restraint were of a cold humour/ the same is not swollen in the belly/ and he is without an ague or thirst: his hands and feet are cold/ he is heavy and waketh much/ neither can rest in one place/ sometime will he have this/ sometime that. He that is thus diseased/ dieth lightly the third day/ and he is painful to heal.  
If ye will take in hand to heal such a disease/ then take heed first/ where of such restraint is caused. If it is caused by an apostume/ then give him Cassia fistula with jera picra/ tempered with oil of violets. If the sickness is strong/ them let him blood in the liver vain/ and make him a clyster with mallows/ Barley/ Lentils/ and oil of violets. But if the restraint is come by cold humours/ them cleanse the patient Benedicta/ & with jera picra/ the same do expel/ and make him a clyster of Dill Fenegreke/ Oil of camomile / and oil of Holder. Or else take the flower of Fenegreke half an ounce/ and honey a quarter of an ounce: mix the same together with warm water/ so much as need is/ and give him the same to drink fasting & to bedward: the same purgeth the guts of the superfluous slime/ whereof is caused sometime great pain and grepinges.  
But for the greping as in the great guts/ take the bladder of a Swine/ and put it full of warm wine/ lay it upon the navel as hot as ye can suffer it/ do it oft/ and it shall take away the pain/ the same hath oft been experimented and proved. Or else take a black Hen/ and lay her warm upon the navel/ cut it in two pieces or sliced quick. Against any manner of other grepinge/ take the heart of a Wolffe and the guts/ dry them/ & make powder of them: put the same into a box. In that powder grow little worms/ let the same therein/ & when ye will use them/ take them one after the other/ bray or break than with wine/ and give it him to drink.  
Or else take half an ounce of oil of Benedicta/ oil of Camomile/ oil of Melissa or Baume/ of each a quarter of an ounce/ mix them together/ & bid the patient lie upon his back/ and put four or six drops of the oils in to the pacientes nose/ as warm as he can suffer it with a feather or other thing: lay a hot cloth upon it/ and let it lie still. Do this oft/ and let him beware of cold things in his meats or drinks.  
Or else take white cats dung/ brayed and made fine to powder/ steer that with whit wine/ and give it him to drink three times. Or else take reed nettles that have reed flowers/ with the roots a good handful/ seth them well with a pint of good wine/ cool it/ and give him it to drink.   

¶ How to drive away the worms in the belly.  
THe worms called Lumbriciin Latin/ growing in the body/ shall ye know of this wise: 
Lumbrici, that is, worms in the belly.  the patient hath pain about the navel & the guts/ & sometime do they void beneath or above. When they are found/ howsoever they are engendered/ ye shall help the patient of this wise: Take a quarter of an ounce of Herteshorne/ & as much salt/ & seth it with four spounfuls of water/ and give him the same to drink: do this oft/ and they shall all die.  
This is also a noble medicine and oft proved: Take yolks of eggs/ & a little chalk/ & four spounfull of strong vinegar: give the same the patient to drink in the morning fasting/ and do this three mornings one after the other/ and they shall dry without doubt. After that give him a quarter of an ounce of Esula/ and the same driveth away from him all the worms and filthiness.  
This is also a sure and proved medicine: He that hath worms in his belly/ the same shall drink water sodden with honey/ & that shall he do twice or three times fasting/ that the worms may be drowned therewith. After that shall he drink the juice of Wormwood/ Fumiterre/ Peaches/ & leaves of Beans: hereof must they all die: Or else take ij. ounces of the juice of Wormwood/ an ounce of Ox's gall mixed together/ & streaked upon the belly. And if ye put half an ounce of Aleopaticum & Euphorbium/ then helpeth it so much the better: howbeit the gall of an Hare were better then of an Ox.  
Against the worms in the belly take onions and pill them/ cut or slice them small/ power springing water over them/ let it stand so all night/ & in the morning drink that water/ and it driveth away all worms. Pour the same water upon the earth where worms are/ & within half an hour shall they creep out of the earth.  
Likewise if one eat garlic fasting/ it killeth & driveth out worms out of the body Or else drink distilled water of knotgrass or shavegrass/ the same killeth worms also: howbeit it worketh more in young then old folk.   

¶ If a man had no sieges and were stopped.  

To make sieges.  ARe they of middle age/ than give them three quarters of an ounce of Diacarthami. But if it is a man of a great & strong body/ then give him half an ounce of it half an hour before day/ and walk well upon it/ if he can/ neither eat nor drink before he have had sieges.  
But if he can not walk for sickness/ then let him be carried/ or sit upright in his bed/ and let his back/ body and legs be softly rubbed: and if he is so strong/ let him turn himself from the one side to the other. Let him fast iij. or iiij. hours at the least after that he hath taken it.  
But if it were to hard/ then let him drink a good draft of warm water/ the night before: that helpeth very well/ that it may work so much the better in the morning. And if the patient were of a very hot and dry complexion/ and that his sieges were hard/ then give him two nights & two mornings before/ every morning a good draft of syrup of violets to drink/ specially the night before he will take the comfecte. But if ye have no syrup of violets/ then drink a good draft of whey of milk blood warm/ and anoint the navel with cream/ the same soffteneth well. But I have sometime taken for poor people only the Gall of an ox/ and swines fat or grease of like quantity/ molten together/ and streaked their navel well therewith/ and laid thereon of it as big as a walnut/ & covered a dish upon it. But if he was cold/ then took I butter in stead of swines grease/ and did as is specified before/ the same mollifieth very well. give him also in the morning half an ounce of Electuarium de succo Rosarum/ mixed with a broth of fresh Byfe/ that is not to fat: give him a good draft of the same to drink/ as hot as he can brook it: the same driveth the matter out/ and maketh her apt to void. But if he can have no whey/ then give him a good broth of white unsalted Peasen in the evening/ in stead of the whey: and in stead of the flesh broth/ take an unsalted broth of whit Peasen/ without any fatness. If ye will have it to mollify yet more/ put thereto the third part so much of roots of mallows/ as is of the Pease broth: & this shall ye use in stead of the syrup of violets. When he hath taken the purgation in the morning/ if he is strong/ then let him walk well thereupon: 
Against parbreaking of confections taken.  if not/ let him sleep thereupon/ but it were better not.  
Some men there are/ which when they take the Electuaries or confections/ do parbreak/ by reason of their sweetness: wherefore ye may give them half an ounce of Diaprunis laxativi/ the same is sour/ and hath the same operation/ and driveth out very easily.  
But if such a siege did tarry until the evening before it did work then seth him a water with a little Licoris/ and a little Honey/ and when he goeth to bed/ let him drink a good draft of this water/ blood warm: the same mollifieth very well/ that it may void/ and he may have a siege without any harm and uncase/ and after that give him nine Pyllulas communes.  
But if it were a fish day when he would take it/ then give him a pease broth in stead of a fleshbroth/ as is specified before.  
He also that hath a wambling in his stomach/ or doth lightly parbreak/ when he hath taken aught: 
Wambling of the stomach of purgations taken▪  let the same hold a piece of toasted bread before his mouth/ as warm as he can suffer it. For assoon as the stomach perceiveth the savour of the bread/ then doth the wambling alaye.  
If a man had taken ought/ to cause him to have sieges/ and it would not wide nevertheless/ and him thought he should do his easement/ and yet could not: then take burn/ mallows/ both the herb and roots of like quantity/ chap the herbs small/ and seth these well in water ● and set the patient in that water until the navel/ as warm as he can suffer it/ and it shall weaken in a man/ that he shall have sieges. But if he will not bathe/ then put the Bran and herbs together/ and put them in two small bags like in cushions or pylowbeers'/ and lay the one of them before upon his belly and navel/ and the other behind upon his loins/ as warm as he can suffer them. Thesame mollifieth him well/ that he may have sieges without hurt.  
If a man had taken a medicine laxative/ and it were to strong for him/ so that he must do his easement to often/ whereof he might get a grepinge or other inconvenience: 
restraint of overmuch sieges or greping.  then make a little sheet warm/ and lay it upon his belly and loins/ as warm as he can suffer it: and let him lie upon his back/ and cover him warm/ and lie still a good while/ and the greping shall go away without hurt.   

¶ When the gut (where through the ordure passeth) goeth out/ how to set it in again.  
When the last or nethermost gut/ through the which the ordure voideth from man/ goeth out of the body also/ which cometh of a siege/ and if that doth hap oft/ it must be foreseen/ or else doth it bring to a man great inconvenience. Help him of this wise: 
Of going out of the gut with sieges.  Take the herb called in Latin Ononis/ or Resta bonis/ both herb & rote/ chap it small/ seth it well in water/ till it wax soft/ put it into a little bag/ sit upon it while it is warm: do this three times in the day/ and when it waxeth cold/ warm it again in the former water: of this wise remaineth it soft and thin. Or else bake him a little cake with this foresaid herb/ or with his red flower like to a pease flower: or if ye will/ give him the same with a slice of bread/ and this hath been experimented and found true. This must be used eight days long. But if ye can not have this herb/ take twelve hand full of meal or powder of Oaken barks/ put them into a bag/ seth them as before/ and sit thereon/ and it goeth in again.   

¶ An other true and proved science/ when the base or last gut issueth or is swollen.  
TAke worms/ chap them small/ and bray them well/ and put so much oil of roses thereto/ that it become as a thick broth: steer it well & struck it upon a linen cloth/ the thickness of a finger/ let the cloth be soft/ and a hand broad. Say this upon the sick place as warm as the patient can suffer it: and when it is cold/ then lay straight way another thereon/ the same helpeth well and continently. It is good also to wet a soft cloth in milk/ and lay it upon the sick place/ where the gut is gone out: and when the same is cold/ take it away/ and lay another warm in the stead of it. If the place is swollen or waxed hard/ the gut shall return into the body by little and little without any harm. Yet is it better to seth mallows in goats milk till they be weak/ and lay them warm upon it: the same mollify it without any hurt/ that the gut entereth again easily▪  
Tow dipped in the juice of Sloes/ is very good for him/ whose base gut is issued: for laid upon it/ driveth it in again without any hurt. Or else take the powder of burnt eggs shells/ warm and strew it upon it/ and lay a warm cloth upon it/ and that helpeth.   

¶ When a man hath to many sieges/ how that may be letted.  
SIeges that are overmuch/ be diverse. The one is/ that the stomach doth digest the meat and drink of a man the better/ because he hath a fault in the power retentive. An other is by reason of superfluous moisture in the stomach or guts: or else the power retentive hath force in the stomach/ & so in the guts/ by reason of filthy moisture/ that is hot and pricking.  
If the disease is in the power retentive/ which should retain the meat in the stomach/ then must it be considered/ what moisture or humours be gathered in the stomach/ & whence they come. If the disease cometh of evil complexion/ then must the patient be demanded/ whether he feeleth any heat in his stomach/ & whether he hath great thirst/ & whether he have a bulkinge or breaking of wind: for thereby may it well be guessed/ whether the siege be of overmuch heat or not. If he have no thirst/ and eateth well/ but digesteth slenderly: then is his siege caused of cold/ and therefore doth the stomach digest evil. He that will stay that siege assuredly/ must eat and drink little/ and use two or three days no more but one kind of meat/ and be still: by that shall the stomach be settled/ and also the fundament/ and also the running staunched without hurt or danger.  
These meats do bind a man in his belly: hard eggs/ and Payest made with eggs/ & baken in the hearth/ roasted Peers/ baken meats/ Rice made with almond milk/ pottages of barley/ Barley water/ Beans/ Peers dried in an oven/ Amilum/ Meddlers/ Sugar of roses. Or else take the stones or carnels in the grapes/ beat them well/ put them in a cloth/ lay them in rain water or springing water a day and a night/ then strain the water well out/ and drink a good draft thereof fasting in the morning and at even to bedward: the same stoppeth the hot flux very well. Or else eat Sloes/ that stoppeth sieges whether they be of heat or cold. Or else eat Moulberies dried/ the same stop sieges. Likewise also do Bremble berries not fully ripe/ and dried and eaten/ stop all manner of sieges/ caused of great heat.   

¶ A plaster for sieges.  
TAke a quart of Acorns dried and made to powder/ mixed with the white of an egg and vinegar in manner of a plaster upon a cloth/ and laid about the loins. But it were better to lace the plaster upon the belly under the navel/ and so about the body/ as warm as he can suffer it: and when it is dry/ then refresh it again with the white of an egg and vinegar/ as is said before/ and powder it fine again. This may be done three times.   

¶ A good science for the bloody flux and other sieges or flixes/ of what cause soever they be/ and it stoppeth very well.  
TAke a Turtle/ put it in a pot/ and cover it/ set it in an oven/ till it be burnt all to powder: and if any man hath a flux/ let him take an egg/ warm it well by the fire/ open it/ and put away the white: then take of the powder/ as much as a chest nut/ mix it with the yolk/ and eat it fasting/ do this three mornings/ and it shallbe staunched/ and it is specially good for all manner of bloody flixes. Or else seth the Turtle with water/ salt her not to sore/ but let her be well sodden with a broth/ and give it the patient/ and it stoppeth him.  
Disenteria is a bloody flux/ coming sometime from the guts/ sometime from the liver/ sometime from the stomach. If it is from the liver/ then hath he pain in his right side/ then can he scarcely be helped. But if it is from the stomach/ then hath he pain in the hollow of the heart/ & that is deadly: for the small guts are nearhand razed and gnawn through. But if he hath pain beneath the navel/ then cometh it from the great guts/ and he may be yet well helped. Ye must also mark/ that the bloody flux must not be staunched so suddenly/ till the evil matter is voided/ & the guts be cleansed. After that help him thus: give him whey of goats milk and barley water of each like much/ put a little honey in the barley water/ and seth them together/ and skomme them. After that put the whey thereto/ and steer them together/ and than take it from the fire/ and give the patient always thereof to drink blood warm with milk/ both in the morning/ none and evening▪ this healeth the guts inwardly. Likewise also doth water of Waybrede drunk in the morning/ at none and evening.  
Against the bloody flux/ take a quarter of an ounce of Sanguis draconis/ made to powder/ drink it in a pottage or broth/ or else eat in a weak or soft egg: the same is experimented that it stoppeth: or else give him Knotgrass to eat upon a sop/ or in some pottage/ or else howsoever he can eat it/ or else in an egg as is said before/ and that stoppeth the blood/ both above and beneath.   

¶ A true medicine for the bloody flux.  
TAke the tappettes or slouringe of walnuts and Filberts when they flourish/ new gathered after that they be fallen from the trees/ and put them into a basin/ and dry them in the Son or in an oven/ that they rot not: beat them to powder/ and he that hath the bloody flux/ give him a quarter of an ounce thereof in an egg roasted with oil/ till it be hard: and eat three mornings so much thereof at every time/ and fasting. And if it will not be staunched/ then give him half an ounce of this powder in an egg.  
Yet another for the bloody flux/ which comforteth the stomach/ and seasoneth the mouth if it is unseasoned: for surely it cooleth him and slaketh thirst/ and driveth away the heat of the liver. Take sugar of Roses as much as a chest nut/ and a quarter of an ounce of Sanguis draconis made to powder/ and give him a good draft of rain water to drink upon it/ or else conduit water/ or yet barley water. And if ye can have neither of these/ then seth well crosted brown bread in water: the courser the bread is/ the better is it: Let the water be a good pint/ and the crostes as much as a fist/ and let him eat thereof oft in the day/ and specially to bedward/ at night/ and in the morning. It were good also that he had sometime pilled Almonds/ that have lain long in cold water/ or else to give him a slice of bread styped in cold water/ the same cooleth and stopped very well. Or else take two flint stones/ and a piece of style/ and make them glowing hot/ and lay them than in milk of a Cow/ and thereof drink fasting a good draft blood warm. Do this three mornings/ and it shall avoid. Ye may also heat flyntstones and style/ and lay them in milk/ & drink thereof in the morning and at evening. Or else take the roots of Burrs as much as a penny loaffe/ chap them small/ and seth them in a new pot with good wine/ let the patient sit over them/ that the vapour may go up into him: do that oft/ and the flux shall staunch/ whereof soever it be. It stoppeth also the flowers of women/ when they have them to sore. Also take Peers dried/ and seth them in water/ and drink thereof/ and it shall staunch/ and after a laxative/ doth it stop the sieges continently.  

Binding meats.  These meats ought they to eat/ that have sieges: roosted Pigeons/ and all meats that dry/ as are lentils/ Rice/ Amilum/ pared or shaven Herteshorne/ or else Beenes' sodden with vinegar until they perch/ and give him these to eat three days continually/ neither give him any other meat.   

¶ How the flixes may be known.  
When the bloody flux cometh from the uppormost bowels/ them issueth from man pure blood/ with digestion of the filth of man's body/ and thereof getteth a man great pain in the upperpart of his body or navel. Him may ye help of this wise: 
flux of the uppermost bowels.  Take Hempsede/ bray or beat the same well/ & put a little water upon it/ strain it through a cloth. Then seth two eggs/ that they remain very soft/ & put of the Hempsede milk thereto/ as much as all the eggs be/ beat them well together/ & take the fasting: the same stoppeth the flux/ & avoideth the pain. Or else seth the roots of Burrs or the seed in water/ or them both/ and drink it fasting: but it were very good to seth the seed in rain water.  
If it cometh of the middlemost bowels or guts/ than is the siege or flux coloured black with blood/ or else green with the same. 
flux from the middlemost bowels.  To cure the same is make a vaporation beneath which Rams grease or fat/ wax/ pitch & Cumin each of like quantity/ put them in a new pot/ & cover it close/ set it upon a fire/ till it wax thorough hot/ and do smoke sore: than set it under a stole with a hole/ and set the patient thereon/ as hot as he can suffer it.  
But if the blood cometh of the nethermost bowels/ then is the siege that issueth therewith yellow/ black/ pale/ or else of a green deadly colour. 
flux of the nethermost guts or bowels.  The same may be helped of this wise: give him roasted Rams flesh to eat/ & old hens sodden/ and specially the feet/ and barley water to drink. Item Almond milk with water/ the same comforteth the heart.  
But if the siege be by reason a man hath eaten aught that is unwholesome/ then ought he not be staunched so soon.  
There is also a flux/ called the white siege/ in Latin Lienteria/ the same is/ when the meat is voided undigested. 
Lienteria, and the causes of it.  Thesame siege cometh sometime of slimy matter dying in the stomach/ and that is known by the heaviness of the stomach.   

¶ Of pain in the Loins.  
THesame cometh sometime of heat/ sometime of cold. When it cometh of heat/ then vanisheth all te pacientes moisture/ & his urine becometh reed/ or else yellow as an Orange apple. 
pain in the Loins.  He that hath that disease/ give him the milk of a So with Dragagantum/ and mallows/ make a pottage therewith and he must beware of all such things as chafe or warm him/ & of salt meats/ and give him all cooling meats/ or else give him pottages made of barley and spinach/ that cooleth well/ or else give him a Barley pottage with butter/ for that cooleth & mollifieth him well: If he hath the power and is able/ give him Triasandali.  
pain in the loins and back cometh sometime by overmuch companyenge with women. Thesame help of this wise: 
pain in the back and loins.  Let him beware of women/ and if he hath heat or thirst/ then give him sugar Candye/ and let him beware of all hot things. But if he hath no heat/ then give him such things as do warm him moderately/ and let him go to some bath/ and eat meats of good digestion.  
Item if he have any fault in his liver/ let him take heed thereto/ for them must he not bathe/ before his heat of the Liver be suaged.  
But if the pain in the loins cometh of cold/ then hath the patient no lust upon women/ and his back doth ache very sore/ and also his thighs: his urine is whitish as water. Let him beware of oil/ or any fat meats/ whether it be flesh or fish/ and of all such things as cool the stomach. Make also this plaster/ and lay it upon his back and loins/ as warm as he can suffer it: Take Fenel and smallage alike much/ chapped small and beaten in a mortar/ take of each as much as man's head/ and put thereto dill sede/ oil of Mastix/ Beef suet/ of each two ounces and an half: put these into a pan/ and when it waxeth hot/ then cast the herbs in also/ & fry them well together/ and lay it between two fine clothes/ and lay it about his loins/ as warm as he can suffer it: and when it is cold/ warm it again in the pan/ and lay it up again. Let him do this three days/ and it shall avoid without any harm or pain/ and doth soon help.  

Cure general.  If this disease overtaketh young folk/ that be between twenty and thirty years/ they may well be helped. They must be let blood before all medicines. But if this disease taketh aged folk/ that be above three score years/ the same can scarcely be helped/ or not: their urine is sometime yellow & dim coloured/ and when it hath stand a while/ then hath it a cloud as it were a cobbe weble or white cloud: the same are pale under their sight and lean.   

¶ A true medicine for pain in the loins caused of cold.  
TAke a quart of flowers of camomile/ seeth them in half wine/ half water/ and pour out the liquor or water/ and bray the flowers in a mortar/ till they be all to bruised. Then put them again into the water/ and seth them till the water be clean sodden away. After that put them into a clean linen cloth/ a quarter of an elle long/ and half a quarter of an elle broad/ and lay it as warm upon the pacientes loins/ as he can suffer it. And when the loins be well chafed therewith/ then take it away/ and dry them with a cloth/ and anoint them with this ointment: Take a quarter of an ounce of Oleum benedictum/ oil of Camomile/ oil of Spicanardi/ of each a quarter of an ounce/ oil of Bay half an ounce/ Dialthea/ Aqua vite/ of each a quarter of an ounce. Put all these into a vessel/ and set it by the fire/ that it wax warm: then anoint the loins therewith: after that lay the flowers thereon warm as before/ when they be warmed again in the foresaid wine and water: Do this in the morning and evening.  

Cure of a woman with child.  But if a woman were pained in her loins of a cold/ when she is with child/ it were good she were girded in her flanks/ that the vapour did not strike up into her to the heart/ and let her then sit upon the pot/ wherein the bath is/ that the vapour may stick up into her back/ as hot as she can suffer it/ and let her set her feet in the tobbe/ where in the same water is/ and so cover herself with a mantle or long gown/ that were good for her.  
Take garlic/ Coriander of each two ounces/ seth them with a quart of wine/ till the third part be sodden in: drink that in the morning and evening.  
If a man hath pain in his loins of heat/ then seth Fenel r●o●e● with water/ and drink that in the morning and evening. Or else take chervil chapped small/ as much as a goose egg/ seth that in a pound of clarified wine: Drink that to bedward/ and eat the herb also fasting.   

¶ Against pain in the loins.  
TAke Veruayne/ Savie/ Lavender/ Wild mint/ of each two handful/ seth them well in a great pot/ with three quarts of white wine/ well covered and stopped: put that into a tub/ and sit upon it/ & let the vapour go up into thy back/ until ye be well warmed. Then cause the sweat be wiped from your back/ till ye be dry. After that a joint your back with Beef suet melted/ when ye will go to bed/ do this three nights together. This taketh away pain in the loins/ and specially caused of cold.  
Or else take honey and milk of like quantity/ put the same into a new pot/ set it by the fire upon a trevet/ seth it well/ and lay it as warm upon thy loins/ as ye can suffer it: the same draweth out the pain. And when it waxeth cold/ then warm it again.   

¶ Another science for pain in the loins/ that helpeth very well without harm.  
TAke Mullen/ called Tapsus barbatus/ distilled/ struck the same well in to his loins by a fire/ in the morning/ at none and to bedward/ and do that nine days continually.  
Sometime grow apostemes in the loins of humours that are weltering and straying in the body/ wherewith doth come sometime a sore ague/ & the patient hath his members so heavy/ that he thinketh they do hang: 
Apostemes in the loins and the signs thereof.  and the apostem in the loins doth lightly become soft and so ripe/ that i● runneth.  
If the apostume is in the right side/ then let the patient lie upon the left side. But if it is in the left side/ then let him lie upon the right side. After that mark whether it be of a hot humour/ for than hath the patient great thirst/ his urine is reed/ and happily a great moisture withal. But if it is of a cold humour/ then is the ague easier/ and his urine coloured like water.  
If it is of a hot humour/ then is his urine reed/ and he hath a duseling. give him this medicine: Take the juice of Nightshade or Morel/ the juice of Fenel seth and strain them/ and put under them Cassia fistula and oil of Almonds/ and give him this.  
But if he hath a restraint/ that he can have no sieges/ then make him a clyster/ and thereto take oil of violets/ Barley/ mallows/ oil of Roses/ of each like quantity/ & give him meats that be moist & good of digestion/ & cooling. 
A restraint or binding with apostemation.  He must beware of all meats that warm/ & of women/ & be very still and quiet without moving. Take also Coleworts and Fenigreke of each like much/ make them to small powder/ & mix them together/ & lay it upon his loins where the pain is. But if the apostume doth break/ then bid him drink of an Ass. Take also Barley meel three ounces/ Figs two ounces/ six ounces of mallows/ mix them well together/ and wet a sponge therein/ and bind it upon the apostume/ and make him this clyster: Take half a pound of Kowe milk/ four unces' oil of Roses/ beat them well together/ and set him a clyster with it. The second day after make him a bath/ wherein are sodden a peck of barley brayed/ three bushels of the leaves of mallows: let the same be well sodden/ and bathe therein/ that mollifieth the apostume well/ that it may break out and run. But if the apostume or matter were to thick/ that it could not well run out/ than take the juice of Fenel/ Smalage and Wormwood/ of each like much: these ought to be sodden & strained/ and give him half an ounce of them with an ounce of milk of Asses/ beat them well together/ and let him drink it fasting/ the same mollifieth the apostume/ that it may run and void well: after that heal him with plasters and salves/ and cleanse him well.  
But if his apostume is come of cold/ then give him meat of good digestion/ and warm moderately/ bid him rest alway/ and keep him as is said before.   

¶ How a man shall be helped that pisseth blood.  

Pissinge of blood  Sometime doth pass a hot humour through the loins/ and lieth there so long/ till it waxeth slimy/ and raseth or scrapeth them/ that the urine becometh read or bloody. When that happeneth/ them lay this bathing sponge upon the loins: Take oil of nuts and warm water like much/ of each half a pound/ beat them well together/ then wet the sponge well therein/ and lay it upon the place/ where the pain is. After that make him a plaster hereof upon his loins/ that be half an elle long/ and a quarter of an elle broad: Take the leaves of Roses well brayed/ the meel of Lentils/ mix them well together/ that it become like a plaster/ lay that upon his loins.  
When it is dry/ then put more of the foresaid oil thereto/ and moisten it enough therewith/ and lay it up again: the same taketh away the pain well/ and give him this drink fasting/ the weight of a quarter of an ounce: Take the sedes of a Gourd made to powder/ Cumin beaten/ and the sedes of mallows of each like much/ so that they be together a quarter of an ounce/ seth them in two ounces of milk of Asses in a new pot. If ye can have no milk of Asses/ then take in stead thereof milk of a Kowe or Neet/ the same is good also.  
It is to be known/ that milk is wholesome for all them that have this disease/ drunk in the morning/ and eaten in the day. give him also to eat sups of Almond/ and the yolks of soft eggs potched in hot water.   

¶ When a man pisseth blood.  

Pissinge of blood and his causes and signs.  THesame cometh sometime from the bladder/ sometime of the liver/ or else of the veins that are in the back. If it cometh of the bladder/ then stinketh the urine/ and is troubled/ and the blood is coloured like matter/ and a man hath pain about his privy members. But if it cometh from the liver/ then is the blood very thin/ he hath pain in his right side. But if it cometh from his loins or reins/ then hath he pain in the back and reins. And if it cometh of superfluous blood/ then are his eyen great/ and than let him blood in the liver vain in the right arm. But if it cometh from the loins/ then let him blood by the ankle above the foot/ if it is a woman: but if it is a man/ let him blood under the foot.  
Sometime fortuneth it/ that the veins that pass between the flanks & bladder/ do break or remove out of their place/ so that a man pisseth blood thereof/ the same may ye help of this wise: Ye must first let him blood in the liver vain upon the right hand/ & the patient must beware of women: for it is not good/ & might bring him to farther inconvenience: & let him beware of all chafing meats/ but eat cooling meats that are good of digestion.  
It happeneth sometime also that a man pisseth blood/ when he hath taken strong medicines for the stone/ specially when he hath taken the wings and head of Cantarides/ (which are green worms/ sheninge with a gloss like gold/ and a scale like a bittel.) To the same give fresh Acorns made to powder to drink with wine.   

¶ When a man pisseth matter.  
IF ye will know/ whether it be of the gravel or stone/ then gather a deal of the urine in a vessel/ & let it settle six hours. 
Pissinge of matter and his cure.  After that strain it through a linen cloth/ and that remaineth in the cloth/ take with thy finger/ and if ye find either stone or gravel/ then is the matter also of the gravel or stone. Such a diseased must ye help of this wise: Take that less Shaving girss/ called also cats tail/ and Earth ivy/ of each two handful/ and two ounces of Acorns beaten to powder/ & half an ounce of the husk whereby they hang at the tree/ and as much of eggs shells burnt till they be while: seth these with three pints of wine/ and a pint of water/ till the fourth part is sodden away. Drink thereof in the morning/ after dinner/ and at night/ at each time two eggs shells full/ and do it so long till the patient be whole. And if ye have not enough/ then make more. And if he hath aught/ or is diseased with the fretting or briseling stone withal/ then give him at every time as much of chich peasebroth withal/ and let him drink them together.   

¶ When a man can not piss/ how the bladder ought be purged of her superfluous slimishnesse.  
When a man is diseased in his bladder/ then hath he these signs: 
Disease of the bladder and the signs of it.  He thinketh he is satisfied of meat or drink/ neither hath lust to eat/ and the meat bulketh up again/ sometime is he over hot/ sometime over cold/ neither hath any quiet sleep/ the urine straineth him: in his belly is he also/ as though he were swollen. Help the same of this wise: Take Fenel sede/ karnels of parsley/ Radice/ Lovage/ the roots of Cariottes/ seth them very well in water/ strain them through a cloth: then put whit wine thereto/ seth the same with pepper/ put this to the first broth/ and seth it again/ and put it into a pot/ and drink thereof fasting seven mornings one after the other/ and ye shallbe whole without hurt.   

¶ This following causeth to piss easily.  
TAke Horse radice as much as two eggs/ slice it small/ and seth it in a pint of water very well: 
To piss easily.  strain it through a cloth into a pot/ and put as much honey thereto/ as is the rote: this may he drink when he wil Or else take Horse radice/ as much as two fists/ slice it small/ stamp it/ & put thereto three times as much course bran: then put two quarts of water to it/ and seth it till the water be sodden in. Then lay the patient upon this with his belly downward/ as warm as he can suffer it: then warm it again with the water/ and of this shall he be caused lightly to make water.  
If a child had the gravel or stone/ & might not therefore make his water/ then take a handful of Acorns/ and bray them a little/ seth them with a quart of water till the third part be consumed: 
The gravel or stone of a child.  then strain it through a cloth/ and when that waxeth cold/ give it the child to drink/ as much it will/ and it shall help him.  
This doth also make lightly piss and easily: Take the roots of parsley the herb of Dasye/ and seth them in water/ and give him thereof to drink in the morning and evening. Or else put thereto distilled water of Radice/ that may he drink when he will. Or else give him the eyes of Crabs made to powder to drink with wine. And if it is a child/ that it can not piss for the stone/ then give him it with milk to drink.  
Another to make easily piss: Take parsley/ smallage/ Fenel/ of like quantity/ chap them/ and bray them small/ and seth them a little: put butter thereto/ & lay it upon his privy member and loins/ as warm as he can suffer it: of that shall he make his water easily.  
Or else take smallage chapped small/ as much as two fists with ones as much course bran/ and seth that with water/ till it wax dry: lay the same upon the bladder. Thesame is good for him/ that maketh his water pain fully/ and thinketh that his belly be swollen: and is specially good for them that are grossly stopped in the bladder/ for thereby do they piss.   

¶ For to piss easily/ and for the stitch and smarting/ and for the Brising stone.  
TAke two slices of a Garlic head/ pill them/ and bray them well: them take a good handful of mallows with the roots/ wash them fair/ chap them small/ put them together into a new pot/ put a quart of wine thereto/ seth it well half an hour/ scum it well/ and beware that it do not run over/ strain it through a cloth into a pot/ and put thereto two ounces of sugar: and when it is cold/ then drink thereof when need requireth/ specially in the morning & evening/ at each time a good draft/ hold a piece of toasted bread before his mouth/ lest he parbreak.  
This foresaid drink is specially good for them/ whose bladder is unclean or stopped/ either of the gravel/ stone or unclean slimy matter/ wherefore he can not make his water: for this drink mollifieth it/ openeth the condute/ and maketh soon to piss.  
But if a man were sore unclean/ that he had been long without making of his water/ & thereof had he gotten a greping or sore/ or were feebled/ or else had a wambling and parbreaking/ the same help thus without pain: Make him a bag of soft linen clothe a quarter of an elle broad/ that it may reach about his body/ from the navel till the privy members/ and take ij. quarts of brann/ water cresses chapped small as much/ put the together in to a bag & lay them in water: but let the back be quilted/ lest the bran cluster/ and seth it well. After that take the bag out/ and let it drop well/ and lay it as warm upon his loins/ as he can suffer it▪ that taketh away the gripping and pain anon. If ye can get no water cress/ then take the bran alone. Or else take ij. ryles full of yarme/ & seth them well with water & ashes/ & lay the yarme as warm about him as he can suffer it. Or else take a shirt seth it in ashes/ & hold it before him/ and wind it about his body & loins/ that is good and helpeth him well: yet is the first that best. After that set him upon a stole with a hole/ and take a pot/ and put two stones gloing hot/ as big as a fist/ set the pot under in the stole/ sit thereon/ so that the vapour may go no where out/ & pour alway a dish full of water thereon/ & let that vapour strike up into thee/ as warm as ye can suffer it. And if the stones be not hot enough/ then take more stones/ that they may cast heat enough/ that ye may sweat thereof. If it is a man/ then may he take that foresaid drink made with the garlic before the bath/ and bind the bag about his loins/ for that helpeth very well. This may also be well used alone/ for it doth help alone also/ and lightly to piss without hurt.  
But if a man can not make his water/ or else pisseth very little/ then take a new brickstone/ that never was wet/ and make it gloing hot/ and seth Cumin in good wine/ and pour the wine and Cumin upon the hot stone/ and set it under thee/ and let the vapour strike up into thee/ & the warmth and pissing shall come again to the.  
Or else take water Cresses sodden in wine in a new pot/ sit upon it as warm as ye can s●●fre it/ the same causeth to make water well/ and is also experimented.  
Or else take a good handful of the roots of the herb called Ononis or Resta bovis in Latin/ and seth them in a good quart of wine/ and give him thereof to drink in the morning/ at none/ and to bedward. But if it is winter/ that ye can not have the roots/ then take the toppet of an onion/ and put the same into the man's yard: or else take the innermost heads of onions/ and gather them together/ and put him then into the yard. But if ye have not that neither/ then take two or three lice/ so great as ye can get/ and put them into the yard/ into the innermost hole/ that goeth into the bo●ye/ and put a little cloth therein/ that they may creep in/ and he shall make water very well.   

¶ When a man hath the Stranguria/ that is difficulty to make water/ or when one pisseth in his bed in the night.  
Against the Stranguria take mallows/ Garlic/ of each a handful bruise them/ & seth them in a quart of wine/ till the third yart be sodden away/ drink thereof three times in a day. Or else eat that kernels of Peaches and Acorns made to powder of each a like/ mix that with wine/ and drink it: if he be not healed therewith/ then hath he the stone.  
When a young body doth piss in his bed/ either oft either seldom/ if ye will help him/ take the bladder of a Goat/ dry it/ that it may be made to powder/ the same powder aught to be given to drink with wine. Or else take the beans or hinderfallinges of Goats/ bray them to powder/ & give him of the powder in his meat in the morning & evening/ a quarter of an ounce at every time: Or else give him a quarter of an ounce or more of acrimony/ with a little wine or broth saith Bartholomeus de Montagnana: Or else give him Hedgehogs or Orchens made to powder at even to bedward in a draught of wine this flesh is also wonderfully good eaten against that.  
Or else take the powder that Montagnana setteth in his Antidotarius/ namely: Take half an ounce of the inner skin of a hens maw/ that ashes of a burnt hedgehog three quarters of an ounce/ an ounce of Agrimony/ steer them together/ and give the patient thereof a quarter of an ounce with a little wine or broth when he goeth to bed.  
When a man getteth the Stranguria or difficulty to make water/ then anoint him his navel with suet warmed & no more/ & it avoideth very shortly.  

Meats convenient for him that hath the Stranguria.  Such diseased must beware of salt meats & smoked/ as Hearing/ Ling/ cods/ green Places/ smouth fish's/ as Isle's/ Lampriles/ Barbels/ Tenches: also must he beware of fat meats as bacon/ pasteys' or pies/ fat cheese/ raw milk: But they may well eat Pikes/ Perches/ trouts & such like fishes/ breeding in running waters. Let him also eschew all water fools/ both wild and tame. Let him eat the flesh of kids/ pottage of great Peasen/ the roots of parsley/ Fenel/ the herb or seed of smallage/ beaten barley. He must also not eat his fill/ and beware of fruits. He may also make a bath of the flowers of camomile/ Water cresses/ mallows/ Betony/ Cinckfoly/ of each a handful: seth these well close/ & bathe therein until above the navel.  
If ye will make it yet better/ than put thereto the herb of marish Malow or Holyhoke/ Cinckfoly/ fern/ seth of each a handful/ and boil it with the first bath. This bath is very good for the Stranguria/ & causeth to piss well. Let him beware of overmuch heat/ let him drink good white wine/ & sodden sweet wine to bedward/ & in the morning an hour before breakfast/ & temper it a little with water/ wherein is sodden a quarter of an ounce of lettuce sede/ beaten Licoris half an ounce/ a handful of the leaves of hearts tongue: seth these in three pints of water/ until the third part be sodden away.   

¶ Of the stone/ how he that hath it/ may be healed with convenient medicines.  
Sometime doth the stone engendre in the bladder/ sometime in the loins. Sometime doth it engender of unclean slimy matter/ that is gathered in the stomach/ and is congealed together with an unclean slimy heat/ and so waxeth a stone or gravel/ which causeth great pain and grief.  
When the stone groweth in the loins/ then acheth his back and loins/ and be sometimes as dead. But if the stone is engendered in the bladder/ them hath he pain in the forpart of his body/ & he can not well make his water.  
Sometime cometh the stone of heat/ & then is his urine read/ & in the bottom of the chamber pot or urinal lieth much gravel or sand/ if it stand an hour still: and that gravel or sand is read and hard when it is touched. Such a patient must beware of all hot medicines.  
But if the stone is engendered of cold/ then doth the patient parbreak oft/ and the sand synkinge in the bottom/ is white. His urine is sometime clear/ and somewhat yellow/ as the whey of cheese: and to such one are hot medicines good.  
This disease is cured sometime by cutting Surgeons expert in that thing. But that the gravel or sandy stone may be voided from a man/ that he may be rid of the pain or smart/ or yet the parbreaking: ye must first see that the patient be purged of the unclean slimy filth/ and that he have good sieges/ & give him this syrup to drink: Take the roots of smallage/ Fenel & parsley/ of each four in number/ & of their sedes an ounce/ Grummel two ounces/ small Trifle an ounce & a quarter/ that sedes of Chiches & Pompones of each an ounce/ an ounce of the sede of the sharp Burrs or Clotes/ the herb of Pink needle or Cranes bill/ Colonder or maidens heir/ of each a handful/ six ounces of the roots of Brak of that wall or polypody: chap all the roots & herbs small/ & seth them in a quart of wine/ & a quart of water to the half: after that strain it through a cloth/ and deal it in two parts/ & to the one part put a pound of honey/ and seth it alway to the half/ and to the other part put a pound of sugar/ & a quarter and a half of an ounce of Cantarides without heads and wings/ made to powder/ and seth this the third part away. Of this give to the patient at every fourth day an ounce and an half/ with three ounces of water/ wherein are sodden the roots of smallage & parsley/ & of the first syrup made with honey/ give him every morning an ounce and an half/ mixed with four ounces of water made of the roots afore specified: and of the other syrup/ at every fourth day an ounce and an half/ mixed with iiij. ounces of the foresaid water/ & then recovereth he. And if he can not be healed there with/ and that the stone were great and hard: then were nothing better/ than to cut it/ if weakness did not hinder it.  
He that hath had pain of the stone a great season/ or else an unclean bladder/ whereof he hath had a pain or shuting in his cods: or else hath a swelling above his privy members: if ye will help the same/ then bathe him as hot/ as they be costumed to be bathed/ which are grieved of the stone. After that take milk/ and seeth the same with eggs/ and drink the same blood warm in the morning and evening/ & ye shall perceive very unclean filth to avoid from you/ both in the sieges/ and urine: Do this a fourteen night/ and it shall avoid.  
If ye will break speedily the stone/ that he do bruise/ take the goats blood/ put it into a glass/ and set it in the son to dry: after that bray it small to powder. Take every evening to beddeward of the same powder a quarter of an ounce with wine: and of this shall the stone be bruised/ that it may avoid without hurt. And when it avoideth now from him/ then let him eat both in the morning and evening upon a slice of bread the seed of parsley/ and Grummel or gray mill made to fine powder: but the bread must be dipped or wet before in wine. herewith is the stone hindered to grow any more/ for it driveth it out and bruiseth it. Like operation hath also the blood of an Hare/ and specially when he is drowned in vinegar.   

¶ A confection for the Stone.  
TAke the powder of an Hare/ burnt in a pot with skin and here/ so that nothing be taken from it: 
A confection for the stone  of this powder take an ounce and an hal●e/ and vi. ounces of honey/ & of this make a confection. Hereof take every morning & evening as much as a chest nut/ and ye shall find that the stone shall break & avoid from you. But if the rubbel or shards of the stone do put the to pain/ then use that bath/ whereof I have spoken before.  
Take the roots of parsley and herb/ the herb of Fenel with the roots/ dill with the roots/ smallage with the roots/ of each a handful/ and of each seed a handful: chap the roots and herbs small/ and put them altogether into a small fine linen bag/ seth them well in water that space of an hour/ & make a bath thereof/ & bathe therein. Then lay the bag a while upon the back/ as warm as ye can suffer it/ after that upon the belly likewise: after that sit upon the bag also as warm as ye can suffer it. And of this wise bath in the morning three hours/ at after none two hours/ and at night to bedward. Do this three days/ and use to eat the roots of parsley/ and the seed of smallage/ and the seed of parsley/ of each an ounce/ make powder of them/ put thereto two ounces of sugar/ & when thou wilt departed from the table/ then dip a slice of bread in wine/ & strow as much of this powder thereon/ as a chest nut. Eat this also in the morning fasting/ & to bedward: & thus shall the stone avoid from thy without any smart or pain/ & ye shall make water easily. But beware of all things that engender the stone.   

¶ A good common bath for the stone.  
TAke a bushel of Walwurt chapped small/ put it into a bag/ and seth it in water/ bathe in the same water nine days/ and the stone shall soon break. But if the stone is in the bladder/ then let him lay the bag before him under his navel: & if it is in the loins/ then lay the bag behind at his back/ or else where the stone grieveth him: this doth ease without hurt.   

¶ A bath to break the stone.  
TAke six buckets of water/ put thereto two pound of Wild or Horse radish roots sliced small & beaten/ put them into a bag/ & seth them well in water in a kettle or pot/ then put altogether to the other water: but ye may not bathe to hot/ neither let the water pass your heart/ or else should ye wax faint. It were good also he did drink water of Horse radice/ when he bateth/ and also before and after the bath: for that also driveth out the stone.   

¶ This following is also good for the stone.  
Take a kidney of an Hare/ burn it to powder/ bray it small/ and drink thereof in the morning and evening/ at each time half a quarter of an ounce with parsley water/ or else water of Horse radice rote. Or else take the roots of Horse radice cut checkerwise/ like to dice/ the weight of four ounces/ pour over them a good quart of the best wine that ye can get/ and let it stand a day and a night: after that drink thereof in the morning and evening/ at each time four ounces. Thesame driveth out the stone in the bladder & reins/ preserveth a man from pain of the bladder and reins/ withstandeth perbreaking. Some do dig a pot in the ground/ with the Horse radice root/ the depth of a knee Or else take commun radice roots/ let them stand in the earth/ but pair of the uttermost crown next to the herb/ and make it hollow/ then lay the crown again upon the root. If a water be gathered therein/ take and use the same: for it is very good for the Stranguria/ & for them that do make their water with difficulty and dropping/ but specially for the stone in the bladder.   

¶ A good true medicine for the stone/ which is good and approved for common people.  
TAke the berries of ivy/ beat them to powder/ and drink thereof in the morning and evening/ at each time a quarter of an ounce with an ounce and an half of wine. This hath driven from women stones as big/ some as a dove's egg/ some as walnuts/ some as chastnuttes/ some as fylberts or smalller/ and that with pain and travail.   

¶ Another true science for the gravel/ when one drinketh thereof in the morning and evening at each time an ounce/ or an ounce and an half.  
TAke the husks wherein Beans have grown/ and burn them to ashes: of the same ashes make a lie/ and drink it as is said before.  
Planteyne sodden in wine/ and drunk/ draweth out the stone/ and avoideth the disease of pissing/ called Dysuria/ being sodden in a little bag/ and laid warm upon the belly.   

¶ Of Agues/ and first how he may be cured that is overtaken with Ephemera.  
Ephemera is a fever so called/ because it is apt to be cured in one day/ but if it is not regarded/ turneth to sundry kinds of agues or fevers. This disease happeneth sometime of the Son heat/ whereby the head waxeth hotter than any other members. Sometime cometh it of excess of cold/ and than becometh a man reddish under his eyen/ & his body waxeth cold outwardly/ & the head heavy. Sometime cometh it with surfeiting with meats or drinks that be hot or cold/ and thereof waxeth his urine reed. Sometime happeneth it of anger/ & then waxeth his face reed/ and his eyen draw forward/ and turn very swiftly in his head. Also doth it happen by heaviness and great perplexity and adversity/ and than do his eyen sink in his head/ and looketh grimly/ and his body waxeth feeble/ and his pulse beateth faintly.  
When the ague cometh by the Son heat/ then set the patient a little in a blood warm bath the second/ or at the last the third day/ that he do sweat therein: After that set him in a cool place/ and there strow leaves & branches of Wylowes/ and steep Myrte berries in oil of violets/ and struck the same oil into his nostrils/ and take oil of Roses and vinegar of like quantity/ beat them well together/ & anoint his temples & for head therewith/ & the wrists of his hands & feet. give him to drink milk of Poppy sede/ made of this wise: Put water to the sede/ then beat it/ & mix it with water/ that it become like an almond milk/ & strain it through a cloth into a glass/ & give him it to drink when he will go to bed/ in the morning & in the day time a good draft. Ye must also cool him first: and when he is otherwiles thirsty/ give him bread stiped in cold water to eat/ and he must beware of all such things as may chafe him/ if he drinketh wine/ let him allay it well/ or let it be sour.  
If the ague cometh or is caused by cold/ & that the patient beginneth to consume/ then set him above a tobbe with hot water/ wherein are sodden camomile flowers/ dill & Basil: put also of that water into a pot/ & let the patient receive the vapour of it into his body beneath & at the mouth. Or else set him in a tobbe with the foresaid herbs/ that were better for him: Or else make him a bath with the foresaid herbs/ and let him warm himself well/ after that anoint him well with oil of dill/ for the same is good and convenient for him.  
If the ague cometh by heaviness or mourning/ or a dry occasion/ then set his feet in warm water/ until his knees/ wherein is sodden Camomile and dill/ of each two handful/ and cover the tobbe well/ that the vapour may strike well into his body/ as is said before/ and through the mouth. Let his legs also be rubbed downward/ for that doth him much good/ after that let him walk/ or use some other convenient exercise: he must also beware for taking cold/ & eat meats that warm him moderately/ & be good of digestion/ he must also beware of eating and drinking unmeasurably.  
If the ague is caused of hot meats or drinks/ then give him Oxizacra with milk of Poppysede or Sorrel.  
When the ague beginneth to fail/ then give him the second or third day to drink water distilled out of the roots of broad plantain/ three mornings one after another/ at each time an ounce and an half/ or two ounces/ and make him an Epithema/ that is a medicine upon the liver of this wise: take two ounces of Endive water/ a ounce of water Cicory/ and half an ounce of water of Roses/ mix these together/ and dip tow of Hemp therein/ and lay it upon the liver. Let him also eat meats of good digestion as are young Mottons/ lambs/ Chyckens/ Hogs feet/ and such like. Let him eschew salt meats/ and be sober in eating and drinking: and after meat let him use moderate walking or steering/ where good air is/ and so shall he recover easily and well.  
If the ague is caused of heaviness or great adversity or distress/ then must the grief be taken away with friendliness & good conversation with mirth and such pastimes and recreations/ as may rejoice him/ and not long remain in one place/ but let him abide where good air is/ & use to bathe sometime. After that he hath rested/ & will clothe him/ then anoint him with oil of Roses or oil of violets. Let him wash sometime in warm water/ & when he will clothe him/ then anoint him as before. Let him also be chaste/ & his meats & drinks of good digestion/ that do also mollify & cool him. He may not use strong drinks/ but Barley water to bedward/ the same mollifieth and cooleth him: hot meats do hurt him.   

¶ Of the hot and fervent ague/ called Causon.  
FEbris caustica is/ when the Colera perisheth in the veins that are near the heart/ and them that are above in the stomach/ liver and lights or poulmon. It is caused of a fervent heat/ and the patient hath exceeding heat and thirst. This disease is of two sorts: the one is of a single Colera/ the other overtaketh most chiefly young folk/ when their body is dry. When their urine is scommy/ then be sure/ that they are costiffe and bound about the heart/ and get a great disease and pain in the head. The urine of them both is reed/ and they wax feeble. Ye must purge and cleanse them with pills or laxatine/ but they must be mollified before which syropes of violets/ or syropus acetosus/ and with Electuarium de succo Rosarum/ or Diaprunis laxatinus/ so that they be strong enough/ or that the age do not hinder them/ if he hath much unclean matter in him. If he be greatly thirsty/ them give him otherwiles Pongranates or sorrel to suck/ & to bedward give him to drink syrups of violets or Roses/ with as much cold water: like wise do at none & in the morning/ & he must beware of such things as chafe him: he must also be let blood in the liver vain. Let him drink wine/ & allay it well with water. His meat must be meats of good digestion and cooling/ neither eat more than need requireth.  
If his belly is bound/ then lose it with Cassia fistula/ syrups of violets/ & Endive water: make him a clyster with the juice of Branke ursine/ Trifle/ herb of violets & mallows/ without the age/ the time/ the strength or the region or country do hinder the.  
If he hath pain in the head/ then make him this sointment/ & anoint his temples & forehead therewith: take oil of roses/ the juice of Porcelain/ vinegar/ of each an ounce/ beat them well together/ & when ye will use it/ beat it again/ and make him a plaster thereof upon the forehead and temples.  
Take read Saunders/ Roses/ Barley meel of like quantity: put thereto as much Rose water/ that ye may mix the other things therewith/ & make a past thereof/ & put the juice of Gourd thereto if ye can get it: This allayeth the pain soon and well. Or else take poppy sede/ and beat it very well/ temper it with water/ and give him alway a little thereof to drink/ and specially in the night: and wet a linen cloth therein/ and bind it upon his forehead.  
But if he can not sleep/ them take lettuce seed beaten/ Almonds beaten/ the juice of Lettuce/ of each an ounce/ water of Roses/ oil of Roses/ of each half an ounce/ mix these very well together like a plaster/ & bind it about his head: and when it is dry/ then wet it again/ and he shall fall to sleep. And if the pain go away/ then give him to eat Gourds & Porceleyne/ & when he will go to bed/ then let him wash his feet in warm water/ and rub his legs well beneath downward/ and afterward renche them in cold water. After that let him lie down/ and leave his feet uncovered/ and so draweth the heat out downward: Let him do to his hands likewise.  
If he waxeth faint in the night for heat/ then take water of Roses/ and half so much vinegar/ in the same wet two clothes/ each so much as a fist/ and give him then in his hand/ till they wax hot: the same draweth out all the heat. Rub the soles of his feet therewith also & his wrists/ for it giveth him good strength. give him confect of sugar in his mouth/ or else confect of Cheris/ or of sour Plums/ the same slake his thirst.  
If a woman were diseased hereof/ & were big with child/ the foresaid medicine might be given her well enough without danger. But if one were thus diseased/ and a yesking took him/ or a gout/ and it lasted four & twenty hours or more/ that is a sure token of death.   

¶ Of chylderen diseases.  
MOrbilli and Variole is a disease that noyeth children greatly/ called Pocks and Masers. They that have the Pocks/ if ye give them water wherein Rew or Herb grace is sodden with fumitory to drink/ it doth help them without doubt. Great inconvenience get children with these diseases/ and specially the Pocks: for they stray over all the body/ and the eyes also/ and when their eyen do itch/ they wax lightly blind thereof. If ye will save them that they ware not blind/ hang the roots of Rew and Scabiose at their neck/ and they shallbe safe.   

¶ Of the daily ague or fever quotidiant.  
THe ague or fever that taketh a man every day/ is caused of phlegma/ when it falleth into the blood and veins/ them doth the ague shake one/ and the cold is great. But when it is without the veins/ then hath the patient cold every day/ and the shaking nor frost is not so great. This ague have most commonly aged folk/ and such as are cold or moist of complexion. It taketh them also chiefly/ that are idle/ and use excess/ and specially them/ that eat or drink out of season/ wherewith engender within them many cold humours.  
When the patient is very thirsty/ and his body is dry/ then is his ague caused of salt phlegma/ wherefore give him such things/ as draw out moistness/ and set his feet in warm water/ wherein are sodden Dill and camomile: and when his feet are dried again by themselves/ then take salt and oil of violets/ of like quantity/ and rub the soles of his feet therewith. He must be purged also with such medicines/ as purge phlegma: for if the patient is diseased by the phlegma/ then is the disease more durable.  
He that hath the daily fevor or ague/ neither can be quit of it/ the same is a token/ that he hath corrupt blood in his back. To ease the same/ were it good to set horseleeches to his back/ his legs & arms near to his hands.   

¶ A good drink for the daily fever.  
TAke the barks of Miscelden growing upon oaks half a quarter of an ounce/ give him that beaten to powder to drink with a quarter of an ounce of Aqua vite/ while the shaking is upon him: 
A good drink for the Quotidian or daily fever.  the same driveth away the jaundice from him/ & also the whirling in the head. Wherefore saith Hipocrates: he that maketh Miscelden to powder/ & taketh it with Aqua vite/ the same driveth away the daily fever/ or else the jaundice/ the whirling in the head & the fever Hectica/ that is/ asatled fever or ague/ wherewith men do whirl and be dismade.  
The Tertiane or third days fever cometh of the heat of the liver/ the quartan or fourth days fever cometh of Melancholy/ the colour of his urine is like water and clear. But the colour of the Quotidiane or daily fever is most part reed and clear. The colour of the Tertiane urine is reed & thick.  
These urines have most part a little some in the circle like Percely: But the some of the Tertiane/ that cometh of the liver/ is something yellow/ because it cometh of the heat of the gall. His mouth is bitter/ and his face reed coloured/ his urine is thin. Anoint his head with oil of Roses and vinegar mixed together.  
This following is also very good against the daily fever: Take Euphorbium made to powder the sixteenth part of an ounce/ tempered with an eggs shell full of Aqua vite/ give the patient this three days together to drink in the morning fasting: the same purgeth the slime/ whereby the ague hath his nurture. This slime may be voided of this wise also: Take the rote of an Elder tree/ wash it well & clean/ then pair the upper shell softly from it/ after the shave of that other shell until the wood or hardness/ a quarter of an ounce/ bray that small/ beat it with an eggs shell full of Aqua vite/ & give it the patient. Or else seth of the inner shell or bark of Elder tree a hand full in a quart of ale or bier/ till the half be sodden away and drink that/ this is experimented.  
He that hangeth the root of Valeriane green at his neck/ if she wax sear/ then goeth the ague from him.  
He that feareth/ he shall get the ague/ let him swallow in three corns of Coriander fasting/ and it shall go away: and let this be done before the ague fall upon him.  
If he shall have cold with it/ then is it good also to take three roots of vervain/ and three leaves of it/ sodden in wine/ and drunk before the cold do overtake him/ and he shallbe quit of it.  
He/ whose fever cometh of Melancholy/ his urine is first whit/ afterward black/ when nature beginneth to digest. He that hath this disease/ let him eat fresh meats/ and purge himself twice every week with leaves of Sena tree made to powder/ and taken in the morning and evening at each time a quarter of an ounce with a peasebroth. give him also to drink of this syroppe following as oft he will: Take a handful of Cicory roots/ and a hand full of Cicorye flowers/ and two leaves of Hearts tongue/ seth them with a quart of water till the third part be sodden away: them strain it through a cloth into a pot/ and put an ounce of sugar thereto. This syrup is very good in summer/ for it cleanseth the blood/ and slaketh thirst/ and cooleth well/ it mollifieth also the hard matter/ that is gathered about the heart of congealed blood/ whereof do sometime grow apostemes or consuming coughs: it driveth away jaundice also/ and mollifieth sieges that a man may the easier have them. But if his head would ache/ then give him pills that purge the head/ as pillule de iera picra/ or pillule Cochie.   

¶ An approved science for the ague/ it riddeth a man oft in three days.  

An approved science for the ague.  TAke the roots of Celendine/ chap them small/ and bray them while they be green. Take as much thereof as a walnut/ steer them with a dish full of warm milk or wine/ or with a dish full of warm pease broth: this ought to be done in the morning fasting/ and refrain from eating and drinking/ four hours after: and if he can go/ let him walk upon it. The next day give him Diacartami/ half an ounce or more: but if he hath great heat/ then give him Diaprunis laxativi half an ounce or more/ and if his strength can bear it/ give him half an ounce Electuarij de succo rosarum.  

Signs of an ague come of phlegma.  If the fever is come of phlegma/ and the patient is aged/ and the season dry/ or yet cold and moist/ and his pulse in his arm beateth slackly/ and his urine is much and white/ he also is greatly thirsty: these are signs of the ague that cometh of phlegma. give to that patient the juice of Clarye/ the juice of Smalache/ the juice of Fenell made like an Electuary. Let not the patient eat nor drink/ while he hath cold or heat. After that give him a little meat/ that warmeth measurably: the next day give him some meat good of digestion/ as small birds/ and such like/ let his drink be clean wine. Or else give him Diacartami half an ounce or three quarters.  
Item suppinges of Amilum made with cow milk/ & a little saffron comfort nature/ & give a good colour/ and strengthen the patient. Likewise may ye make him Rice pottage. If he is sore cooled and feebled/ them seth him a dish full of Cumin/ with a yolk of an egg/ the same may he drink cold or warm/ that strengtheneth him very well.   

¶ For the jaundice.  
HE that hath the jaundice/ must beware of all meats or drinks that cool him/ for they hurt him. But if the jaundice doth grieve him/ then make him this drink: Take a penny weight of beaten Saffron/ and a penny weight of Ancolye beaten also/ put them into a porringer or with vinegar/ and steer them well together/ put also a little wine and water to them/ that it may be thin enough: then let it be drunk fasting/ and it breaketh the jaundice without hurt.  
But if the disease would differre/ and the jaundice would not void/ whereby the patient could have no stomach: if he be strong enough give him Rebarbara made to powder/ temper it with a fresh Peasebroth/ and let him drink it against the day break. If he hath strength/ then let him walk after it/ and hold a toasted piece of bread before his mouth/ and fast two hours upon it. This purgeth Colera an phlegma/ whereof come the ague and the jaundice: or else wydeth it the stomach above/ whereby the stomach is cleansed of slime and the jaundice.  
But if he could not do it/ or that it did irk him to take the Rebarbara/ then give him half an ounce of Diasene/ the one half at night/ the other half in the morning/ and let this be beaten with a Peasebroth/ or else swallowed in with a roasted apple or sour thing/ the same purgeth also.  
But if his head did ache of cold/ then anoint his head/ forehead and temples with oil of camomile/ and put into his nose oleum benedictum/ and a little into his ears also/ and make him a foot bath with flowers of camomile/ the same chafeth the blood and head very well.  
But if he hath a moist head/ then cause him to nice/ and let him take the root of Piretrum/ that is walwort in his mouth/ and chaw it: the same draweth out the moistness out of the head/ and give him Cinnamon/ Coriander/ Zeduaria or Nutmegs to eat.  
It is good also/ that he that hath a cold ague/ which hath lasted long/ wherewith a man is greatly cooled/ that he (I say) be well anointed the back/ the loins/ and the belly with oil of Bays/ and oil of juniper of each like much against a good fire/ that it be well rubbed in. Do this in the morning and evening/ for it chafeth the veins and withstandeth the ague.   

¶ Another true science against the ague.  
TAke the green branches of Elder/ and pill the upper shell of/ and take the next green shell/ bray it well/ put half so much good vinegar thereto/ mix that together/ then strain it through a cloth/ and drink half an eggs shell full thereof fasting three mornings: the same driveth away the ague without hurt.   

¶ An other proved science for the ague/ that hath lasted long/ specially when a man hath gotten it of an evil stomach.  
TAke also the branches of Elder/ the former part/ pill the uppermost shell sofftely of/ after that shave of the green/ cut that small/ and bray it well in a mortar/ put as much vinegar thereto/ and bray it there with/ strain it through a cloth in a glass/ and give a patiented thereof three mornings fasting/ at every time a spounful to drink/ and let him fast six hours upon it. This voided the stomach well of the agues occasions.  
He that hath the disease that cometh of hot blood/ his head doth ache/ he is hot and heavy/ his temples are swollen/ and his eyen stand forward. He is not thirsty/ and in the night appear before his eyen read things/ his pulse is swift/ and in his sleep do all his veins beat sore. He that is so diseased/ aught to be let blood in the liver vain in the arm/ and the next in the right hand upon the thumb in the vain of the head/ and the sixth day between the little finger on the right hand in the heart vain/ and the ninth day in both the feet without/ above the ankles/ neither must he let to much blood in any of the veins. But it must be considered whether he hath strength enough/ whether the age is convenient for it/ and whether the season doth agree to it.  
If any thing should hinder the letting of blood/ then must his blood be cooled with these things/ namely with water/ wherein is sodden Psylium/ that is Flewurt/ and with a little milk of Poppy sede/ this ought to be given him to drink. give him also a syrup of violets/ and water/ where in are sodden black Cherries.  
But if his belly were to hard/ then ought it to be mollified herewith: Take Barley a good handful brayed/ and seth it in a pint of water/ put there to a little butter/ and a little salt/ and a little Saunder/ mixed with a little sugar/ and give him otherwhiles a slice of bread/ that hath been stiped in that water: the same mollifieth his body and blood/ neither ought he to drink any other wine/ then that be sour/ and well mixed with barley water. Lay otherwiles upon his navel butter/ as big as a bean/ and lay a thin dish upon the same/ till the butter be saked in. And if strength can bear it/ and that it doth not grieve him/ then give him a purgation with a confect de succo rosarum/ and give him the night before syrups of violets/ that he may be mollified before/ and he shall have easy sieges.  
But if he hath head ache/ then anoint his head herewith: Take half an ounce of oil of roses/ a quarter of an ounce of vinegar half a dram of Bolus armeny made to powder/ mix them well together/ and anoint his forehead therewith/ and his temples and throat. Then take a dish full of cold water/ and put therein as much vinegar/ and wet a cloth therein/ like a band of three fingers/ wring it out/ and bind it about his forehead & temples. And take two clothes/ each as big as a fit/ and wet them therein also/ and give him always one in his hand/ till it wax dry. Wet yet two clothes therein/ and bind them about his feet: and when they are dry/ then wet them again. This cooleth the blood/ draweth out the evil heat/ whereof cometh the headache. But if the headache will not go away/ nor assuage/ then mark by his urine and all his beaucoure/ whereof it cometh him/ and use theselfe toward him/ as is taught severally before of the head ache.  
It is to be noted/ that if the head ache cometh of the stomach/ then is he more disquiet after meat than before: Him may ye help of this wise: Purge his stomach with a laxative/ after that must he be measurable with eating and drinking/ according to his complexion. But if the headache be because the pacientes brains are to moist/ then is he more unquiet fasting then after meat. If the moistness of the brains is of cold/ then give him something that warmeth the stomach measurably/ and the patient must beware of all things that cool/ and must keep his head warm.   

¶ An experimented science for the fever quotidian or daily fever.  
TAke the best Aqua vite that ye can get/ half a pound/ put therein the whitest ma●y of Walwurt that ye can get two ounces/ lest it stepe there in three days/ and give the patient thereof to drink. But mark well/ if it would chafe him to much/ then temper him the drink with a little other wine/ or drink/ and give him sometime Manus Christi.   

¶ A medicine for many kinds of fevers or agues.  
first prepare such a draft: Take cleansed and washen Barley two ounces/ black Ciche peasen an ounce/ liquorice pared small an ounce/ green or seer Fenell a handful/ three or four leaves of hearts tongue/ two or three leaves of Wormwood/ two or three roots of pimpernel: let all this be sodden in three quarts of water/ till the barley doth swell/ and if the water doth consume in seething/ then pour more water in to it/ so that there remain about two quarts and an half of water. After that strain the water through a cloth/ and keep it. Of that water must the patient drink both day and night when he is thirsty/ save only when he looketh for the shaking: for than must he neither eat nor drink/ without great necessity constrain him. And when the water is failed/ then make more.   

¶ How a man shall behave himself that is thus diseased.  
OF this wise must he guide himself that is diseased of this sickness: 
How the diseased of a Fever shall behave himself.  he must beware of cheese/ milk/ pork and fresh beef/ of all fruit new or old. Let him eat pottages made with Bethes'/ spinach/ Oetmeel/ Barley/ and alway put a few Almonds beaten thereto: on flesh days a quarter of an Hen/ or Chickens sodden in water/ with Percely/ and four leaves of Lettuce. He must beware also for moist meats and surffettinge. On fish days let him eat Crabs or Perches/ sometime an egg potched in water. Let him drink no wine/ without it be at meal times/ and that soberly/ and mixed with the aforesaid Barley water/ or clean water/ if the made water were against his stomach: but out of meal time let him drink none other water nor wine/ then the aforesaid.  
When a man knoweth that he shall have the ague/ if it is at after none/ then may he eat somewhat in the morning about six of the clock/ and tarry so/ till the heat hath forsaken him. If it shall come before breakfast/ then let him not eat/ till the heat be past.  
Some agues there be/ in the which it were good to let blood after the third day/ according to the pacientes strength/ and the season.  
This is now spoken of the common agues/ and of the Tertiane or third days fever/ though there be many kinds of it.  
If a man hath used such water/ as is spoken of before/ then let him beware of excess of meat/ and take fasting the herb/ or the herb made to powder/ called Centaurea/ in English Centory/ the bigness of a walnutt or chest nut/ tempered with wine/ and he may drink a little wine upon it/ to tempere his mouth of the bitterness. And thus may he remain that day. In the morning/ and the two days following/ let him take thereof in the morning the bicknesse of half a Walnutt/ with three leaves of Rue or herb grace/ and as much treacle/ as a pease/ and must drink upon it water of Celendine/ mixed with the water of white thystle/ called in Latin/ Carduus Marry/ or else water of Celendine alone two ounces. After the third day let him take of the foresaid powder again/ whether he be amended or not/ and use it four days continually/ and behave himself in dieting/ as is said before: and it is to be hoped that he shall recover/ or else shall the agus turn to another kind of fever.   

¶ Of the quartan/ that is fourth days Fever/ which can scarcely be healed.  
THe dieting and ordering in eating and drinking specified before/ must be considered/ and than mark what time the cold shall come: for the quartan cometh not equally/ and vexeth a man sometime more/ sometime less/ and than doth it rest two days. When ye know the hour of the assaulting/ then take of this drink following: Take Fenel a handful/ three or four leaves of Wormwod/ seth these in half a pint of wine upon a soft fire/ till the third part be sodden away. Then take it from the fire/ but let it remain warm. And when a man perceiveth the assaulting of the ague/ then let him not rest/ but either walk/ or cause him be led with the arms. In the foresaid wine ought to be put half an ounce of honey of Roses/ and then drink a little glass full thereof/ & walk and steer himself without ceasing/ so long he can/ ye if need is with the stay of other/ so long till the cold minisheth. Then let him lie down/ and be well warm covered/ that he do even sweat/ and sleep if he can/ which he might happily do with werrinesse and faintness. When the heat is gone then let him rise/ and take meat if he listeth: if not/ and that he thirsteth/ let him drink of the foresaid water in the morning/ and he shall amend/ & get a stomach.  
commonly when men have drunk the foresaid drink/ then have they the ague more fervently than before: but let no man be afraid therefore/ nor desist/ before he hath taken it five times. For he falleth to an amendment and lightening/ save the first day/ without he do misguide himself/ as is said before.   

¶ A drink for the quartan.  
Take cleansed Barley half a pound/ reed Chick peasen half an ounce/ the herb of Fenel and Maiden heir/ of each a dram/ the leaves of hearts tongue/ Rue and Wormwood of each a dram/ Licoris a quarter of an ounce or a dram: seth all these in a pottle of water/ so long/ till a pint is sodden away. Then strain that water through a cloth/ and keep it. secondly put three pints of water to the foresaid things/ and seth them till the Barley wax gross/ and than strain it again. Thirdly take again three pints of water/ and seth it again till the barley do burst/ strain it again as before: then put all the waters together/ and give the patient thereof to drink when/ or how much he will.  
Item three days ought he to drink every morning a little glass full of the foresaid water/ and a little Triakle/ either with or without the water/ as he can bes●●ake it.  
If that will not help the patient/ then take this following/ and make him a drink of it: Take the herb of Fenel half a handful/ wormwood half so much/ seth them in strong white wine/ till the wine be half sodden away. Then strain it through a cloth/ and put it into the same so much honey of Roses as ye will. Of this wine ought the patient drink a little glass full/ before the ague cometh upon him/ and walk upon it as long he can. After that let him lie down and cover him warm/ that he may sweat. But he must beware that he eat not four or five hours before the sickness do overtake him.  
Auicenna in the fourth book de cura Fabrium/ sayeth generally/ that him that hath the ague coming of the gall/ may be ministered cold water: 
A common rule for agues coming of the gall.  for it doth help to digest an consume the gall. But such water ought to be ministered in due season/ when he is in good temper/ that is/ neither to hot/ nor to cold. Galen saith that a dram of Centory made to powder/ and taken with white wine three mornings fasting/ causeth good digestion. It is good also for costyffnesse and old coughs/ as saith Platearius.   
The end of the Homish Apotekary or Homely Physic.