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IF the pacient can not sweat, somme thynke, that meanes shulde be sought to prouoke hym therto. And therfore they caste on hym many elo∣thes, and lette hym lye thre or foure houres couered hotte. And though this amonge all thynges that we suffre, be one the hardeste: yet I felte euen to the ve∣ry feyntynge, that so chanceth no fayllynge, all they that were cured with me, indured it moste greuously, and they sayde, that this
was the hardest thynge in all this cure. But if I myght laufully say my minde here in (all mooste I dare not shewe that that I haue lerned) I wolde no man shulde be pro¦••oked to sweate, saue that the pacient shall as the thynge requyrethe, kepe his bedde thre or foure houres, and passe not, and let hym be couered, but not with ouer many clothes, nor to lye ouer stylle and stere not: but in any wyse let hym not be putte to mo∣che vexation.
¶And I thynke verily, that as well in this cure as in other, the phisitions of my coun∣trey do many thynges fondly, whiche ought not to be done. For as this medicine of hit selfe causeth one to sweate, euen so hit wyll not abyde compulsion. Wherof this may be a dewe profe, that I perceyued my selfe no sooner to sweate, whanne I was couered with thre or foure furres, than whan I had to wrye me but one couerlede. But this I wold ye shuld vnderstande, that the pacient muste nedes sweate, and if it wyll not come naturally, than it must be prouoked meanly. For I allowe nothynge that is forced. And I warne you, that ye eschew those, that are wont to toste the bodyes at the fyre, or that wolde haue the stewes ouer hotte. For suche
hea•••••• ••••••roye the bodies, and drye vp the humours that nourysshe the strengthes. And where I sayd swette must be prouoked meanly, or easily, must be thus taken: that if one be wryed with the clothes of one bed, so that the loode of the clothes greue hym not or erke hym: I suppose through the ope¦ration of Guaiacum, he shal sweate inough.