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

¶Of blethynge at the nose / and staunchynge of the same.

* 1.1BLething at the nose is somtime good / somtyme euill. He that hath a Catharre / that is a rewme or stillinge doune of humores in the head / or an apostemacion / blethinge at the nose / is good for him. It is also a good token / if the blood waxeth to hote in the bodye / and runneth vp into the head / and fylleth the veynes so sore / that they do breste. If the blood then come furth at the ryght nose trill / thē let him blood at the Cephalica vpon the same syde vpon the hande / by the thombe. But if the blood commeth furth at the left nosetrill / then tye his legge aboue y^t kne wyth a strong list or swadeling band / then remayneth the blood in y^t legge: after that beat egges shales to pouder / and syft then through a linnen cloth / and blewe them into his nose: if the shales were of egges / whereout yonge chickens are hatched / it were so much the better. Or els take the dounge of an asse / mixe the same wyth vinegre / and holde the same at his nose. Lyke∣wyse doth the dounge of a Sowe or Swyne that hath eaten grasse.* 1.2

He that bletheth so sore / that nothynge can staunche hym / it is good to

tye his fourth finger / or finger nexte the litle finger of the same syde so fast / do he do so euen swell: for that stauncheth the bloode / and speciallye on the left hande.

It is good also to tye y^e herbe called Shepherdes burse about his neck / or els geue it hym to holde in his hande / vntill it waxeth warme / and dight it in hys meate. Or els take a soft linnen cloth / the length & bredth about of half a yarde / wett the same in cold water: but if ye haue vinegre / take of ly∣ke quantitie / and tye it about hys preuy membre. If it is a woman / then let her holde it to her priuities. And if ye haue no vinegre / then binde hym the cloth about hys necke / dipped in water only / and when it waxeth warme / than wett it agayne. It is to be consydered / that thou do lose hys gyrdel / & set him vpryght / lest he do hange forward.

It is to be noted / that blethyng is caused somtime in y^t time of a disease / or in the amendinge / & this last is good / wherfore it oughte not to be staun∣ched:* 1.3 without he dyd bleth to sore / wherof the patient might be the more fe∣ble / and therfore ought he to be holpen / lest he waxe to weake. If the blood come out from the head / so that a man hath gotten a risinge of the blood in∣to the head / that shalt thou know thereby: he hath payne in the forhead: the same must be letten blood in the Cephalica / that is y^e vrine of the head. But if the superfluity of blood or blething cōmeth of y^e liuer / then hath he payn in y^e right syde wyth a stiche: thesame ought to be lettē blood on the right hād / by y^e litle finger / in y^e veine of y^e liuer. But if the blood cōmeth of y^e splene / thā hath he payne in y^e left syde wyth a stich: thesame ought to be lettē blood on the left hand / by the litle finger in y^e veyne of the splene: the same also oughte not be gyrded / nor yet weare any weyght about hys body / nether deck him warme: he must beware also of all that might warme him / and be quiet.* 1.4 It is to be marked / that when he that hath the pestilence bledeth / and can not be staunched / nor cease / it is an euident and sure token of death.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Blething at the no¦se.
• * 1.2

  Staūchīg of blood
• * 1.3

  The pro∣fyte of blething Tokens of ble∣thyng.
• * 1.4

  Nota.