The regiment of life, whereunto is added a treatise of the pestilence, with the boke of children, newly corrected and enlarged by T. Phayre

¶The .vij chapter, againste the dyseases of the gall.

THe gal is placed in the holow∣nesse of the lyuer, to receyue the superfluitye of cholere, and to sende it to the bowels to be auoided with the grosser excrementes,

to thintente to clense the bloud of the saide cholere.

To the which there commeth often∣tymes oppilacions in the parties a∣bout by the liuer, or beneth in it selfe next the bowels, causyng great paine, by reason whereof the cholere turneth agayn vnto the lyuer, and there is mē∣gled with y^e bloud, and spred abrod in∣to all the veines of the body, and bre∣deth a dysease named iaundis (icteri∣cia in latin) wherof be thre kyndes▪ y^t is to saye, yelowe iaundis that proce∣deth of cholere called citrine or yelow, grene iaūdis which procedeth of grene cholere, and blacke iaundis that pro∣ceth of blacke choler, whiche is called melancholy, and commonly commeth of the oppilacion of the splene.

Remedye for iaundis. Yf the iaundis happen in an ague, before the seuenth daye, the pacient is in great daunger of his lyfe, as Hipo∣crates sayth. But yf it appeare in the sixth daye, being a day iudicial or cre∣tike

of the ague, or after, it is a verye good sygne.

And then ye must succoure nature, in refreshyng and digesting the choler, with sirupe of violettes, geuen in the morning wyth water of morel, or sy∣rupe of endiue, with water of cicorye.

After this purge the cholere as is sayd in remedies of the liuer. And thā geue him a lozenge of triasādali, with reubarbe, euerye morning two houres before meat, and drinke a litle waters of endiue, and cicorye, afore the sayde lozenge.

Moreuer, it is good to bathe the liuer as it is saide afore, and washe the pacientes eyes with vinegre, and wo∣mans mylke, & drinke a ptisane made of barly, liquirice, prunes, and y^e roo∣tes of fenel. And yf (when the feuer is paste) the iaundis tarieth styll, the pa∣ciente must drynke water of fenel, and morelle, with the syrupe of occisacca∣rum compost, and it is good to laye a quicke tenche vpon the liuer.

Iaundis sometime commeth with∣out feuer, and maye bee healed by the thinges that I declared here beefore, or thus.

¶An other Remedie for the Iaundis. Take foure ounces of radisshe, and geue it the sicke to drynke fyue mor∣ninges .iii. houres afore meat. In stede wherof it is good to drinke eueri mor∣nyng foure ounces of the decoction of horehounde, made in white wine, or as muche of the decoction of celidonie and barberies, with a litle honye and saffron.

An other remedy. Take wormes of the earth called an∣gle twitches, and washe them in white wine, then drye them and drinke them a sponful at a time, with white wine.

An other. Ye maye let hym drynke .vii. or viii. dayes together in the mornynges, a good draught of the decoccion of poli∣trichon, or of maydenheare. The de∣coction

also of woodbynd, or y^e wa••es of it distelled in a commune styll, is a soueraine medicine for y^e saide disease.

An other synguler remedye. Take cowes milke and white wine of eche a pinte, and distil them in a stil▪ kepe that water a monethe, and then geue it to the paciente three ounces in the morning two houres afore meate, and lykewyse after supper▪ when he goeth to bedde.