The treasury of healthe conteynyng many profitable medycines gathered out of Hypocrates, Galen and Auycen, by one Petrus Hyspanus [and] translated into Englysh by Humfre Lloyde who hath added therunto the causes and sygnes of euery dysease, wyth the Aphorismes of Hypocrates, and Iacobus de Partybus redacted to a certayne order according to the membres of mans body, and a compendiouse table conteynyng the purginge and confortatyue medycynes, wyth the exposicyo[n] of certayne names [and] weyghtes in this boke contayned wyth an epystle of Diocles vnto kyng Antigonus.

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The treasury of healthe conteynyng many profitable medycines gathered out of Hypocrates, Galen and Auycen, by one Petrus Hyspanus [and] translated into Englysh by Humfre Lloyde who hath added therunto the causes and sygnes of euery dysease, wyth the Aphorismes of Hypocrates, and Iacobus de Partybus redacted to a certayne order according to the membres of mans body, and a compendiouse table conteynyng the purginge and confortatyue medycynes, wyth the exposicyo[n] of certayne names [and] weyghtes in this boke contayned wyth an epystle of Diocles vnto kyng Antigonus.
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John XXI, Pope, d. 1277.
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[Imprynted at London :: In Fletestreate at the sygne of the Rosegarland by Wyllyam Coplande,
[not before 23 Aug. 1553]]
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Medicine, Ancient -- Early works to 1800.
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"The treasury of healthe conteynyng many profitable medycines gathered out of Hypocrates, Galen and Auycen, by one Petrus Hyspanus [and] translated into Englysh by Humfre Lloyde who hath added therunto the causes and sygnes of euery dysease, wyth the Aphorismes of Hypocrates, and Iacobus de Partybus redacted to a certayne order according to the membres of mans body, and a compendiouse table conteynyng the purginge and confortatyue medycynes, wyth the exposicyo[n] of certayne names [and] weyghtes in this boke contayned wyth an epystle of Diocles vnto kyng Antigonus." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A04527.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 23, 2025.

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Remedies. Capi. xxxi.

* 1.1STampe rue first sodden, and vse it for a plaster, it hlethe vry well.

Sethe mollen and stampe it, and mke a fume therof, or vse the herbe for a plaster, it healeth also.

Aum gotō made of Teribenthine cast on the coles healeth.

Sethe the rynde of a pomegranat, and the rote of an ashe in swet wine and geue the same wine vnto ye pa∣cient to drynke, it is very good.

Take of whyte Frankēsence .ʒ i. of Ameos .ʒ i. of Opii. ʒ. & a halfe, of Safron .ʒ .x. myngle them wyth ho¦ny and make a suppository. for this is very good.

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Put Comyn, Anyse, dyl, and greke pytche vpon hote oles, and when it burneth let the pacient receyue ye smoke therof clo••••ly from beneth.

Dyp olde Sylke in the decoctyon of Dill, and afterward dry the silke let the pacient wype hys fundamēte ther wyth.

Afumigacion made of sarcocoll vpon hote Coles, haleth the paciēt of thys desease.

Annoynte th Raynes and al per∣tes downe warde to the ende of the backe bone wyth hony,* 1.2 and sprēkle theron pouder of Greke Pitch, and of towne cresses, & the sede of Peny¦ryall, Isope▪ and Organ, and let it be bownde wyth a towlar.

Peritory made in a plaster helyhe the hard sege and the swellyng of ye fundament.

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