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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"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 22, 2025.

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¶For all dyseasys in the bealy gutte and entraylles. Cap. xiii.

EMplastrū de aliis dyssolueth an apostem of the entraylles.

For the colike take diaciminū diafenicon, Philoniū, musa aenea, oleum de cartamo, de lilio and de pi¦peribus.

These purge the humour causīg the colike, hiera hermetis, electuariū indū, & alescf, confectio de dacti∣lis, Dyacitoniten, aqua mellis, pil∣lule aggregate and fetide maiores.

For the hidropsye, vse Diacucur¦ma magna, diamorosion diallacca diacoston, diasulphur, Sirupae de cupatorio, trochisci xiloaloes de ro∣sys and de reubarb. emplasters, de alliis and Andronachi, oleum alme¦reseron, and these purge the matter, confectio de eupatorio and de alka∣kengi, pillule sebelaro, de reubarb, & almeresion, and vnguentū arthani∣ta

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magum.

Oleum de kerua and de asse be ve¦ry good for the paynes in the small guttes.

Aromaticū rosatum drieth vp the humydite of the entrailles.

These conforte and make stronge ye guttes, aromaticum nardinū suc∣corū rosatū, dyacostum, syrypus de granis mirti, mellicratū de citoniis. For ye lubricitie of ye bowelles when the meate cometh furth vndigestyd vse these, electuariū de granis myr∣t••••, dyalacca, trocisci ramich.

Cōfectio de seminibus, dyacoston, oleū lauri heale ye paynes in ye belye which com of wind therin cōteyned, & hiera hermetis wyth electuarium. alescof purge and clēse ye same, these also be good against al paynes in ye entrayles, oximel squilliticum, dia∣finicō, emplastrum arabicum, oleū de ouis, & if it come of slymy flegme take diatrion pipercon, dycyminum

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cōfectio anacardina, and an empla∣ster de granis lauri.

Syrupus calamēti, oleū rute, em¦plastrum aristarchi, do hete ye entrai¦les yt be cold, and dyaciminum, dia∣nisum, decoctio alhast, dissolue ye vē¦tosites in the bely conteyned.

Emplastrum de fermento healeth the inflammations of the guttes, & secaniabin de calamento, or emplas∣trum de melliloto mollitie the hard∣nesse therof.

For the fluxe vse the confection de citoniis, citonia, syrupus de albela∣ch and de mēta, emplastu de gal∣lia, and if it come of choler take elc¦tuarium de fructibus, sirupus ace∣tosus de succis fructuum, Trochis∣ci de spodio, emplastrum diafinicon and yf the Fluxe be bloudy athana¦sia magna▪ is good, but if the cause be flegme take confectio de storace, rob de fructubus, trochisci de Ber∣beris.

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Succharum violaceū maketh the bely loose.

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