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 21, 2025.

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¶Of the pleurisye. Capi. xxii,

IF in the beginnyng of a Pleury¦sye the pacyent vse to spit, it short∣neth

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the disease, but yf it chance af∣ward it prolongeth the paynes.

The Northwynd blowing a long season to geder, engendreth colykes coughes, and pleurisyes.

Pleurisyes, peripeunomyes, rew∣mes, and coughes do chiefli raygne in the wynter.

If he whiche hath the pleurisie, be not purged in .xiiii. dayes, the flux∣yon wyl change to matter.

The pleurisy once changed to mat∣ter, if the paciēt be not purged with in fourty dayes after the brekinge furth of the matter, he shall fal to a consumptyon.

A sodeyne laxe folowing a pleu∣rysie or a peripeunomy, is verye pe∣ryllouse.

They whose belchinge smellith umwhat sharpe or tarte, be not ge∣uen to the pleurisye.

The frenesye in a peripeunomye is an euil token.

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Whosoeuer hauinge filthy matter in the voyd place of the stomake, or hauing the hydropsy, is lāced or brē¦ned, yf all the matter or water issue furthe, it is present death.

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