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 Iaundise. Cap. 53.

* 1.1THE Iawndes is a defiling of the skinne without vneuennes thereof. And there be thrée manner of Iawndes, as it is said in Plateario: yeolow, which commeth of kinde Cholera, gréene, and blacke. The first is called Aurigo, for it maketh a man yeolow as golde. The second is called Pegenitis, which is to vnderstande, gréene: For it is grie••ed with gréene Cholera. The third is called Melanchyton, that is to say, blacke: for it commeth of blacke Cholera burnt. It commeth of strong heate and seething of bloud, passing & chaunging into Cho∣lera, and of passing heate that infecteth the bloud: and therefore this Cholera is borne with bloud to the vtter part of the skinne, and chaungeth and infecteth the skinne. Sometime it commeth of stopping of the oner or the neather hole of the case of the gall: and so Cholera reboundeth to the liuer, and infecteth the bloud: somtime it cōmeth of a postume, or of a continuall feuer, which changeth and burneth the bloud. Somtime of cor∣ruption of aire, or of meate & drink cor∣rupt: or of biting and stinging of a ve∣nemous worme which créepeth. In this manner the bloud is infected, and is sent to féeding of members, and as the bloud is infected, so it infecteth and corrupteth the members. With most hot Iawndes commeth infection of all the bodye, hea∣ting of the right side, ••••i st, bitternes of mouth, ache of the forhead, ringing in the eares, vrine coloured, and the foame thereof yeolow, or greene, or blacke, and all that commeth out of the body, which is infected with the same colour. If it commeth of stopping of the ouer hole, it changeth and dyeth all the nether parts, so that they be all strongly dyed. And contrariwise, if it commeth of the nea∣ther stopping: all the ouer parts be more dyed, and the nether lesse. And if it com∣meth of a feauer, by vertue and strength of kinde, and after the seuenth daye, in some daye of chaunging, with slaking of the feauer, and with reléeuing of the pa∣tient, and with withdrawing of the acci∣dent, it is a good token: such colouring betokeneth that the matter of the Fea∣uer is than purged. And if it cōmeth by strength of accident, as it fareth ofte be∣fore the seuenth daye, it betokeneth pe∣rill. For it is a signe and a token that the matter commeth vpwarde, for lyke∣nesse, or for fumositie, or for sharpenesse and biting, as Galen saith openly vpon

Aphor. And oft such a passion and euill is cured by bloud letting, and by medi∣cines, which coole and chaunge, layd to: and namely vpon the region of the ly∣uer, for there the bloud is most infected, as in his owne well. Also men giue them inward in dyet, & in medicine those things, which swage and cleanse bloud, and chaunge euill disposition of bloud. And if it commeth of stopping, men giue medicines which shed and open: but not too hot, as it is said in Viatico.

* 1.2These three kindes of Iawnes. Agri∣aca yeolow, of some Penateleon the greene sicknesse: Melankyron, the blacke Iawnes. The yeolow Iaundes, commeth after long sicknes or thought. The greene Iawndes commeth of yeo∣low cholar, mixt with putrified fleme. The blacke Iawndes commeth of cou∣lour adust, or melancholy and putrifi∣ed bloud.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Hictericia or Icteri∣cia, the Iavvnes.
• * 1.2

  Addition