A most excellent and perfecte homish apothecarye or homely physik booke, for all the grefes and diseases of the bodye. Translated out the Almaine speche into English by Ihon Hollybush

¶To heale all maner disease of the eares.

SOmtyme is the hearing lost clene / so that a man heareth nothinge at al / or a litle.* 1.1 He that is so diseased / must be layd in the sunne in summer / and loke into hys eares / whether ought be fallen into them: or els whether an apostemacion / or bluster / or any other thinge be in it / whereby his hearinge might fayle. But if nothing is found nor sene in therein / then is it sure / y^t the grefe commeth from within y^e head / of some vapor y^t is gathered ther / wher by the hearing is stopped / or els of some apostemacion in y^e head / wher y^e or∣ganes of hearing are. And he y^t is so diseased / speaketh so softly / y^t he can scar¦sely be vnderstand / & is troubled with slepe.* 1.2 To thesame ought be geuen iij. pilles de iera picra Galeni / the same draw the humors from y^e eares & head / & cause him to nyse. After y^t set boxes vpon the one eare / to draw the fylt out of y^e head. But if a man is lettē blood in the head out of scason / thesame hur¦teth him sore / and causeth hym to become deafe.

If a man haue a sounding or piping in his eares / the same cometh som∣tyme of a hote slymy fylthynesse / or of a hote slymy moystnesse.* 1.3 He that is so diseased / ought to take pilles de iera picra / & then put oyle of Hempsede war¦me into his eares / mixt w^t a litle vinegre / after y^t let him leape vpon hys one legge / vpon that syde / where the disease is / than let hym bowe doune y^e eare of that syde / if happely any moysture or fylth would issue out.

This disease commeth somtyme of the Summer heate: he that is disea∣sed therof / hath great heat in hys heade. Put woman milke and Hemsede oyle mixte together into his eare / on that syde where he is diseased / that a∣layeth the heat.

Let him that is deafe take a handful of Rue or Herbe grace / * 1.4 & chappe or

cut the same small / and put it into a new pot wyth a pounde of good vine∣gre / couer it close / and put it to the fyre / and let it seth / that it runne ouer. Then let him go into the hote house / and when he doth sweat well / take a thonnel wyth a longe pype / y^t he maye couer the pot holy therewyth / make hote the pot / and let the vapor go thorow the thonnel into the eare. If it be in winter / and canst haue no Rue / then seth beanes of one yeare in water / and do lykewyse. If ye haue no beanes nother / than take Heysede vpon a heyelift sotten in water / and vse thesame as is sayd of the Rue / so hote as ye can suffer it.

* 1.5Agaynst the soundynge and whysperinge in the head / put warme wa∣ter into a lauer / and let it droppe softely vpon the hindermost of the patien∣tes heade / by thys droppinge is the soundynge and noyse in the head taken awaye. And when the lauer is emptye / then fyll it agayne / vntill the payne is awaye.

* 1.6He that heareth euell / let him seth Iuniper berryes and Sauin of lyke quantitie in good wyne / put into a new pot / well dressed and stopped: then let him bore a hole thorough the lidde of it / and laye his eares vpō the hole / to receyue thesame vapor.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Diseas of the eares
• * 1.2

  Cure.
• * 1.3

  Soūding in the ea∣res.
• * 1.4

  Cure of deafe.
• * 1.5

  Soūding ī the hea∣de.
• * 1.6

  Hearing euill.