De morbo Gallico·

¶Howe a man must ordre his bely in this cure. Ca. xxi. (Book 21)

AL the tyme of this cure the bealy a••oydeth very lyttell and harde, and that with moche ado, and that is not onely by cause he eateth litel but also by cause the nature of this medycine is to dry & bynde. How be it I haue harde say, that this thynge hap∣neth nat to euery man a lyke. For some say that anone after the begynnynge they were lose belyed, and some were so continually: Whereof I did meruayle. For in these .xl. dayes it neuer wente from me so moche as ones, but as it was compelled. For in this diete it may be kepte to the .v. or .vi. day. without any ieoperdie: And than in the mor∣nyng

the shauynge of this Guaiacum soden in water must be dronken to the maynte∣naunce of halfe an vnce. And if it moue not at the fyrst, it must be geuen agayn the next day, & so the thirde day, and if it help nat, so ye muste than poure in clysters vndernethe or suppositoryes prepared for y^e nones. For the bely muste nedes be losed. And if a man wyll lose hym selfe by drynkynge or eating Cassia, I thynke he dothe not moche amisse so that this be done but ones, and that mor∣nynge lette hym not drynke Guaiacum: I wolde not that he shulde be eased with vo∣mitis: for they make the bodye colde: and (as Plinie sayth) they be euyll for the eyes, and speciallly for the tethe. There be many thynges in this cure, that stoppe the bealy. Fyrst bycause the body is emptied in the be∣gynnynge with a pourgation, and than by∣cause there is lyttell meate receyued. But as this place is closed and shut from eiections, so is there somewhat in the meane season, other by sweatynge, through the strengthe of Guaiacum that expelleth thynges hurt∣full and superfluous, or els in the vrine, the whiche is more moyste than that cometh of the meate. And one thynge is greatly com∣fortable, that in the tyme of this cure there

chaunceth no swellynge / nor there are no peynfull throwes or aches felt / nor the taste cometh not bytter, nor there ryseth no lo∣thynge of meate, nor vapours breathe not lyghtly ascendynge from the stomake to the heed, as in other diseses. And that the paciēt is pourged, it is easely perceiued by making of water: nor to the intente that shulde be done / none other prouocacyon shulde be soughte. Nowe wyll I speake a lyttell of sweatynge.