PROGNOSTICATION, Drawn out of the Books of hippocras, Avicen, and other notable auctors of physic, showing the danger of divers sicknesses, that is to say, whether in peril of death be in them or not, the pleasure of almighty God reserved.  
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¶ The prognostication for this year.    

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hippocras, and Avicen.    

¶ prognostication of the Fever or Ague, which is called in latin Febris offimera.  
THat fever after Avicen is light to heal, and hard to know. He that knoweth it can say and affirm the same. For the fever I Effirme of his kind dureth not, but by space of one natural day. And therefore he is named or taketh his name of Effimeron a word of greek which is a name of a cetayne fish in latin. For that fish dieth the same day that he is gendered. And so it is of this Fever, for of his nature he endurith but xxiiij hours. And then he endeth and goeth away with vaperouse sweet, notwithstanding by occasion of ill governance, and some nature of the body, he enduryth sometime the space of a day inclusive, and if it last longer it is not the effomer Ague. And therefore if the pulse doth not rest soon after. And if the pulse be divers and the matter undigested it is a token that it passeth into a putrided Fever esspecially with stench of these which cometh forth from the body of the person.   

¶ prognostication of the Fever or Ague called in latin Febris canson.  
THis disease is very soon ended and with terrible or fearful accidents, and if all the token apere good fro beginning of the disease, the patient shall be delivered in the. 4. day or within. And if they apere ill he shall die the four day or within, but sometime it continueth till the vij day, It can not be prolonged farther For nature of the disease, and molestion of the accidents doth not suffer it to be tedious or of long continuance. It is not according necessary to put the good and evil Signs of the Agues here, for we have put them in another place. notwithstanding hippocras would Pronosticque that Alienation doth dissolve any trymblynges, either shakings, that are caused of the Fever Canson.   

¶ prognostication of the Fever Tercian.  
A True Tercian is ended in .7. points or within, and so is ended the .9. point or within. And he causeth pain & vexation .12. hours or within. And the mean season it is much painful he vixeth .36. days, In the first point it is little and week. In the second point strong. And in the third most strongest. At the ix it is in the last. And there it arresteth with most dangerous and wicked actydentes. At the .5. point it beginneth to wax weak.   

¶ prognostication of the bloody Fever.  
IF yellow or black whelks do a peer, or as Avicen saith, if the patient hard sound or rumbling in his belly like thunder, or if his eyes water by reason of malice of the disease? Or if he can scant draw his breath, or be stopped, or have impostumes in the ways where as the breath doth pass. And if ye perceive him very painful after sleep. All these are tokens of death.   

¶ prognostication of the Fever quartan.  
THe fever quartan of blood is sooner heeled and shorter than other of other Humours. Then next that which is of colour. Then that which is of phlegm. Then the worst of Melancholy. The fever quartan after his comen course lastyth a year. For as the sharp Agues follow the moaning of the Moon, so doth the Cronyckes follow moving of the Son. And sometime it lasteth .2. years, as Avicen saith. And if the patient use ill diet long, he dieth of it.   

¶ prognostication of the Cotidian Fever.  
IF we may perceive in the beginning wilful vomit, and in the end of the fit sweet, it is a very good token. For that betokeneth that the sickness is curable and short, for of that is signified that the matter is not very gross and viscous and the pores are not thick. This disease cometh lightly with moche sneezings and alterations with a certain astonyenges, and little thirst with swelling and pain of the face, and they falleth lightly into sweet, and have continual pain of the stomach.   

¶ prognostication of the Fever Ethycke.  
THe first kind of it is soon heeled, but the third never, but by the power of GOD. But the mean is of mean manner. So that if it be cured it is with great difficulty, when his nails croketh, then is he in the state certain to die, but when his hear falleth then is he near death.  
And if he chance to have the flux or lask, then is he at point of death. For that destroyeth of the patient very soon, when his legs beginneth to swell, then can he live no longer, but commonly they die within .3. days. And the patients of the Fever quartan Ethicke, can not well deserve of heat for the divers ill complexion, is made equal, and it is not feeled, and when the fever Ethicke is compound with the putrid matter, he is hard to be known.   

¶ prognostication of Sweet.  
THE sweet riseth from the place where the matter of the disease is, or near it. Where the sweet is, there is the sickness. The sweet which cometh now and then is nought. Sweet with weakness of the pulse, is nought. hot sweet in the heed, in the continual fever only is nought. And if it be cold, it betokeneth death. If the Ague be sharp and slow, it betokeneth length of the disease.   

¶ prognostication of the pocks.  
IF they be few and appearing soon, and that they matter soon, it is token of good likelihood of cure, because the crises or corrupt humours that they are gendered of, is good to heel. But if they turn toward the colour of violets, yellow or green, either black. All these are the worst and deadly. If a poysyn or venomous matter apere, it is deadly? If they apere sometime and sometime are hid, that is the worst sign of all. Also if the patient can not well draw his breath it is a very ill sign, but if he may draw his breath, well, and is with out fever, it is a good sign. But if the Ague be strong with the pocks, and great anguish, and vehement thrust, of week strength and the breath bound. It is a token that he shall die soon. As commonly they die by stopping of their breath. If panting over all, it is very evil. And if his Urine be black or green, and if the egestion be green. These are worst and deadly Signs, and so is lask with Pocks.   

¶ prognostication of Poison.  
THese are deadly signs, he that receiveth poison, if the apple of his eye be hid, and the white of his eyes doth apere only swelling of his face and throat, and changing of colour into yellow or black, and greenness, or blackness of tongue, and putting out of it, and very moche spitting pain of his guts, the cramp and panting. These signifieth death within certain years.   

¶ prognostication of Impostumes.  
SOme Impostumes are ended by in sensible resolution, and is very good, and some be poison matiring, and that is worst, some by mean laudable matyring, and that is good, and some by gravel and hardness, and that is ill. Some Impostumes are of hot matter, and they are ended in a day. And some are of cold matter and they are ended in the .40. day, also every Impostume of adust matter, as Antrax, Cabutulus, and Formica, are worst and mortal, and if these be with Ague, the patient escapeth but sylde, and if it be in places straight against the heart, or about it is mortal and if it vanish away suddenly it is deadly, and if the matter turn to the inward parts, than the patient beareth doth upon his Feet.   

¶ prognostication of the morphew.  
IF the morphew be new it is curable, or else it is uncurable. If the morphew occupy but a little space it is rurable, and if it be of a great space it is hard of cure. If the place of the morphew be pricked with a Needle in the over part of the skin only, so that it doth not pass farther than thorough the skin, and if blood comen forth it is curable, and if watrenes come, it is uncurable.   

¶ prognostication of wounds strokes and stripes.  
Wounds of the inward part, or bowels with snyvyll or perbreking, and lask is very evil, and if the Cramp come with/ as happen commonly they dieth, and if they have panting with swoonings, death is at hand.   

¶ prognostication of whelks.  
ALl whelks if they be not made clean, but left neclygentlye, they turn to scabs, and if it be of a cold cause, it groweth to Tetters, ringworms and other ill accidents. And if it be of phlegm after the scab, it is turned to Fistula, and if it be of melancholy, such are of hard cure, and if they be let pass negligently, they grow to a Canker.   

¶ prognostication of the scall.  
THe scall that is either new, or old, and if it be new it is lightly heeled, & if it be hold, it is heeled with great labour, or in a very long time for the ill applextion cometh to so great adustion that it will not take healing. And therefore if it be healed the hear groweth but sylde in that place. And that place shall be weaker always, and if they be heeled it shall be rebuke to them. For they shall be called pyllardes.   

¶ prognostication of the frenzy.  
GAlyen in his pronostyckes upon that part saith moving of hands doth signify that disease. And where he saith that frenzy is perilous in every kind of it. That frenzy is worst that is in the substance of the maries, and the next that is worst which is the meek mother, or fast mother. Then that is in the hard mother. But that frenzy that is of the red and adust or burned colour is worst of all. Then that which is next to the adust colour. Then that which is of blood. Then that which is of citrine colour & so of other. These are signs of death. When the Urine is first well coloured and after is of white colour and thine and continually so or other wise alienated from perfit colour, and continual watching. Likewise if Urine be holden and sickly, and if the patient have the cramp, and if the legs be stretched out and cannot be bowed well/ and when they are stretched they cannot be well bowed, and if a blood apere in the thumb and if swoonings chance to the patient, and when these signs doth apere, then death sitteth at his feet. Therefore a perhien is necessary.   

¶ prognostication of the sickness called in latin. Scotomia. For these are cousins and lovers of the falling sickness Apolencia & Apoplexia.  
Wherefore when they multiply their evil despossyon they fall in to it. Therefore every man ought to take heed diligently for them.   

¶ prognostication of litargy or lightness in the head.  
Cold sweet in the head signifieth death. And if a horse leche be put to his forehead if he cleave not to, it signifieth death, and if there be none of these signs, and the accidents begin to metigate continually & natural virtue to be strong, it is a token of cure, or health near at hand.   

¶ prognostication of Epyelnsia or of the falling evil.  
IF a woman with child chance to have the falling evil. If she be delivered of the child, she shallbe heeled and delivered also of the sickness. And if the white morphew chance to come in her heed it is a token of health, and if the child take any part of the disease, in the mother's womb and vomit after and purge him and avoid much superfluous watery humours it is a token that he is dlyvered of it, and if not, not if a man doubt whether one be delivered of the epilence or not, fumigate him with goats horns, and if he fall not he is heeled. But if he fall, he is not hole.   

¶ prognostication of Appoplexio.  
AFter hippocras and Avicen did Pronosticke. I say that I saw many that had that disease, but of Truth I never saw any escape it. Therefore Lord deliver us from sudden and everlasting death.   

¶ prognostication of the Palsy.  
IF green Urine apere in a child that hath the Ague, it betokeneth that he shall have the palsy, or the Cramp. It is hard to hele the palsy in aged people, or never, if trembling come upon the palsy it is good if the palsy come of much disordering or straining of the sinews, or of moche binding of the sinews, or breaking, or breaking or cutting, it taketh not cure by the contrary. And if the member that hath the palsy be moche lass. It is very ill, and if not it is to hope of cure.   

¶ prognostication of the Cramp.  
THe cramp that cometh of replenishing, or filling is curable for it is lighter to dry a moist thing, than to make moist a dry thing as is written in the .7. Chapi. of the Ingony. The cramp of wounds is deadly. The cramp of inaniton is also deadly. The cramp after fevers is deadly. The cramp after pricking of sinews is curable.   

¶ prognostication of Trembling.  
Trembling is the way for the cramp and palsy. It is not curable in aged people. Trembling is worse in the left side, than in the right side, after Avicen. Trembling in the lower lip betokeneth vomit.   

¶ prognostication of bleeding at the nostrils.  
bleeding at the nose which cometh of any cause of the brain, is cured hardly or never. Bleeding at the nose which enlargeth it to .4. li. is ill, and if it enlarge to, or above .8. it is of most great danger. And if it pass above twenty the patient can live no longer. The bleeding which endureth till the pale, or green colour, or wan, or brown colour, is worst and deadly. The bleeding that causeth sows is deadly. bleeding with cold of the neither parts is deadly. Every bleeding that cometh suddenly or with great haste is ill. All bleeding with lightening of the patient is good.   

¶ prognostication of sneezing.  
sneezing in the end of sickness is a good sign after Galen, sneezing with rheum is ill, and in a full body and in a hot cause, and in signs that betokeneth an evil cause in the head hurting the head and ill in reason of the cause, for over moche sneezing filleth the head, and also causeth swimming in the head and the disease called scotomia in latin and other like. If sneezing be provoked in any sickness in which it ought to be provoked and if the patient doth not sneeze, he shall never be hole. And if he be provoked with things of strong virtue, as is. Eleborus, Albus, Pepper, Castory, Mustard sede, Euforbium and other like.   

¶ prognostication of the disease of the tongue.  
IN the sharp Ague a black whelk appearing upon the tongue is sign of death. In the sharp Ague blackness of the tongue & ulteration is ill.   

¶ prognostication of pain in the teeth.  
IN the Fevers hurt, grevenes, and blackness, by reason of the Ague or fevers is the worst sign. Slymenes in the teeth with Ague betokeneth long sickness. In the continual fevers if the teeth be dry as a stick it is the worst sign and it is deadly.   

¶ prognostication of the squance.  
THese are ill signs in the squance and they are dangerous & deadly. But when the squance cometh in the continual fevers in a perilous day called in latin. Dies ceticus. Then chanceth to the patient a vehement entrance, difficult to swallow meet so that he casteth drink out again at his nostrils, and hath a shill voice so, that he soundeth to speak with his nostrils, he shall have Foam in his mouth, and put out his tongue, and will move it oft in putting out. As appeareth in a horse that he is weary his mouth being full of foam he shall have a wan black colour, he shall have the top of his tongue, lips, and eyes cold. He will draw into him his neck, and shall be in such case with pain that he cannot lie on his back and especially if the squance be in the ways of the breath, for when it is in ways of the meet, great pain is to swallow the meet. Howbeit sometime the both chanceth. These are signs of the squance which is hid within, that cannot be seen. Restraining of the breath, and when the patient drinketh water, he avoideth toward the nostrils, and the eyes are red, the tongue rough, the neck rough, and voice shill. The Squance cometh commonly in the spring time. And that is most perilous that cometh with an Ague, but if the lively signs are well, that is to say rest, sleep, little pain, good breath, good swalowing of meat. And if none of the ill signs apere which are spoken before than it is lightly curable.   

¶ prognostication of hoarseness of Voice  
hoarseness in old men is never heeled, whiles it be very new. Horse taketh not cure after one year. Horse which cometh by occasion of rheum is never heeled except the rheum be first heeled. When a man is rewmatycke and horse and if he be letyn blood when he is horse, scant or never shall he be healed.   

¶ prognostication of the cough coming in Idropysy is evil.  
MOche coughing with pain/ and grief, and with moche provoking and hoarseness and redness of eyes, with little avoiding is ill. And if it be oft it causeth rapture either borstines and then it signifieth death. Who so hath the Ague and cough together and if the Ague cease, and the cough remain it is token of recording, who so hath the moist cough and it cease suddenly with grief which remaineth in the breast. It be tokeneth that they have the putryde ague either ulteration of the lungs. For every matter that is moved by reason of the cough, and hath no passage forth the scrinth being week it is deadly, for it choketh the way of the breath.   

¶ prognostication of Tysycke.  
THE old Tysycke taketh no cure. For Avicen saith that he saw one that had the Tysycke whose life was prolonged by .20. years, and Avicen saith if whelks apere upon his shoulder blades, he shall die within .52. days. Tokens that showeth him that hath the tysycke which shall die shortly, is falling of his hear, croaking of his nails, going away of his appetite, hardness to draw his breath, holding of spyttyll, lask, and swelling of his legs. And most commynly they which have the Tysycke hath it at falling of the leaf, therefore a man ought to be well ware in prognostication of tysycke. For in speaking they die and in dying they speak.   

¶ prognostication of panting.  
WHo so suffereth trembling of the heart a long time, and if panting come suddenly the business is sped. For the cause is proportionate, if any man suffer long panting and colour of his face be changed in to paleness, grenes, or blackness, he shall never tread earth. If panting come suddenly and without any manifest cause. And if the panting be long. The matter is ended. If a nesing medicine be ministered to him that hath panting, if the powder be cast in his nostrils, and if he doth not sneeze, there is no counsel, but that the body need no medicine.   

¶ prognostication of the hasty appetite called the dogs appetite.  
THE hasty appetite cometh of rheum but sylde, if the hasty appetite continue, it bryngth the patient to a disease called in latin bolisinus. And bolisinus bringeth him in to a panting hunger. And that hunger to death, therefore watch & pray.   

¶ prognostication of thirst.  
IF thirst in the ague with dryness of the body. It is very ill, if one that hath the Ague thirst moche. And if the thirst cese suddenly, and the Ague remaineth, and if the tongue be dry and black. It betokeneth death without doubt.   

¶ prognostication of the Yockes.  
IF the Yockes be in the token called in latin Crisis, with good signs appearing it is good. For it betokeneth crisis by vomit. And if the cramp come after the yockes or alienation, it is a very ill token. If it come after a purgation be ministered. Yockes after vomit is ill.   

¶ Nanse in latin, belching in english.  
WHo soever hath this accustomably, can not avoid the disease called in latin catochia ydeapsy, swelling of feet, face, and eyes. etc.   

¶ prognostication of vomit.  
vomit may be a good Sign, and an ill sign. In this wise it may be a good sign. When vomit chanceth in the Ague in the dangerous day called dies cetica. And of tokens of digestion, and with lightening it is always good. But if it come in a day which is not dangerous and no signs of digestion apere and with grief and pain it is ill.   

¶ prognostication of pain in the Bowels.  
first it is to be known that pain in the bowels is also disease of the stomach with pricking, and anguish, with unquietness, vehement malice, and changing of beds, by reason of the colere and the humour that is closed in the bowels. But if lask come upon this sickness it is good. And if it come with binding more anguish is in it, also it is to understand that they which have this disease. Or if they have a week stomach and thine bowels, or not. If it be the first way. And if the sickness continue long, they fall into panting and so dieth and can not escape.   

¶ prognostication of the sickness of the lights called in latin lienteria.  
IF the colic come oft it is most worst and deadly. If the disease of the lights beforesaid come after disease of the disease of the bowels (which is with a perilous flyx) it is deadly by reason that the rheum was not at the beginning, it is good in every flix of the belly. For things degestine may be purged and digested sometime by a dangerous way, and therefore it is good.   

¶ prognostication of dyssentria which is a perilous flix from the bowels.  
EVery flix of the belly, and every masyege coming of the burned colere, or burned Melancholy, which is east upon the earth, burneth as venygre. Wherefore flies flieth from it If it come in the beginning of the sickness, it is deadly.   
¶ Finis  
ꝙ. R. w.  

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