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 20, 2025.
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¶Of the diseases in the synowes. Ca. ix
ALl cold thynges be noyouse to the synowes, the bones, ye teth the braines & the mary in the backe, & vnto those al hote thynges be pro¦fitable and good.
A sodeyne Feuer healeth y• crāpe.
A convulsyon after sleape in an a¦gue, is to be feared.
To be short breathyd in an ague is the signe of a convulsion.
A convulsyon or gripinges in the bely in sharpe agues, be very euil.
A convulsyon after the drynking of hellebore, is deadly.
To haue a convulsyon with a sore wounde is death.
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A conuulsyon is perillouse to him that hath blede muche.
A convulsyon or yeskynge after a great inadityon be very euell.
If a dronken man lose his speche & haue a cōuulsyō he shal shortly die.
A convulsion cometh of immode∣rate fulnesse or emptinesse & so doth yeskynge.
Yeskinge, vomiting, a convulsiō or m••dnesse coming vpon hym yt is payn••d in the smal guttes are, to be fearyd.
The crampe or madnesse wt much watching, is very perillouse.
He that is taken with a sore conv∣ulsyon yf he lyue foure dayes shall e••kape.
A convulsyon after a purgatyon is very perillouse.
If a yonge man beinge fleshy be taken wyth a distension of the syno¦wes in the Somer tyme. let hym be washed wyth cold water for ye doth
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encrease the heate, and ye heate dothe asswage hys paynes.
In sore woundes a convulsion or distencyon be very euyll.
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