Batman vppon Bartholome his booke De proprietatibus rerum, newly corrected, enlarged and amended: with such additions as are requisite, vnto euery seuerall booke: taken foorth of the most approued authors, the like heretofore not translated in English. Profitable for all estates, as well for the benefite of the mind as the bodie. 1582.

¶Of the disease of the nose∣thrills. Cap. 23.

OFte the nosethrills haue running of bloud, and that commeth in mal••s, onely of three causes. The running com∣meth from the braine, & then it commeth with snéesing & with ach, & pricking in y^e forhead: or it commeth from the lyuer, and then the ache is in the right side, & bleeding at the right nosethrilles: or it commeth of the mylt, and then the ache is in the lefte side, and bléeding in the lefte nosethrill. Beside all this, in women bléeding commeth of the mo∣ther, and then the ache is about the na∣uell. Sometime this bleeding is profita∣ble, and sometime not profitable. When it happeneth in a sharpe ague, and in

phrensie, in the daye of chaunging by mouing of kinde, and then it is wont to be good, & not good when it commeth be∣fore the day of chaunging:* 1.1 for it is good when it commeth before the chaungable day through great boylyng and feruour of y^e bloud within: which w^t his sharpe∣nesse, maketh running and bleeding. In this manner and many other, commeth fluxe & bleeding, whether the bleeding be of chaunging or following the euill, the bléeding shall not be stinted in the be∣ginning, least it let the chaunging of the euill: or least the bloud drawe to some other parts, and make worse tokens fol∣lowing y^e euill, as stiffeling & such other. And if the bléeding increase too hastelye, and the patient is strong in y^e place ther the sore is, he shall be let bloud: and al∣so the vtter parts shal be bound & strōg∣ly constrained, and restraining medicines shall be put to the Temples and to the forhead: and water with vinegar shalbe throwen in the face. If the bleeding commeth of the liuer, a copping cup shal be set vpon the place of the liuer: and if it commeth of the milte, set it on y^e milt: and if it commeth of the mother, set it on the mother, or vpon the pappes.

* 1.2Riues in Greeke, Nares in latin, the nostrells, which be the organes of the braine, by which the braine doth at∣tract and expulse the aire, without the which no man can liue, & without the nosthrills no man can smell: & the nos∣thrill; be the emunctory places of the braine, by the which reume is expulsed and expelled. The cause of this impe∣diment commeth. 3. manner of wayes, through abundance of humor. Also by apostumation, lieng betwixt the brain, & the organs of the nostrels. The third commeth by apostumation growing in the nosthrills. The remedie, sternutati∣ons, gargarises: beware of too much drinking of wine, & of the fat of eeles and Samon.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Before y^e chaunge or nevv∣bloone.
• * 1.2

  Addition