Of one that hath the palsye.
* 1.1THe palsey taketh men sundery wyse / for somtime commeth the disease by anger / somtyme by colde / somtyme by superfluous eatinge and drin∣kinge / whereof is engendred in man ouermuche slyme / whereby the veynes are stopped / or els that the blood encreaseth excessiuely / and ouercommeth the harte / or els strayth in the membres / of the which is caused the palseye. It taketh men also that be lecherous / whose mary in the bones waysteth & cooleth / so that vnwares all his sorce fayleth / and he finally doth dye.
Somtyme doth it take anye of the membres that haue ben maymed / and not well healed / whereof they waxe somtyme sere / and can not suffre the heate of the harte / whiche is cause of theyr death and destruction / and the membre becommeth lame and wrye.
* 1.2This disease taketh somtyme the one membre / as hand or fote / somtyme the halfe body / or the tonge / so that a man can not speake: somtyme cōmeth it of ouermuche ioye / heuinesse / meate or drincke / ouermuche laboure / reste / slouthfulnesse / feare / swounynge / hartequake / and of supers••uitye of bloode / flegma / colera or melancoly.
Somtyme is the cause / that the two strynges / comminge doune from the brayne through the backbone into the fete: through the one goeth the na¦turall heate / and through the other the colde / that the same stringes (I saye) are stopped / ether the one or both. Wherfore / in whatsoeuer membre is stop¦ped thys stringe / that the naturall spirit can not come into the same / it wax∣eth lame. Let euery Physicion or Chirurgeon therfore rule him after this / and well and exactly knowe / and serche the cause of the disease / that he may the more certaynly knowe how to heale the patient.
* 1.3If moysture is cause of the disease / then muste the same be minished by suche thynges as consume it / warme and comforte the bodye / of thys wyse: Take Lauender / Sage / Cousloppe called herba Parali••is / Ren / Iuniper berryes / of eche a handfull / a pint of Aqua vite / a quarte of stronge whyte wine / putt all these into a greate potte / and set it into a kettel wyth water / and let it seth well. Wyth thys wyne streke the lymmes greued twyse in the daye / and let them drye agayne by them selues / and drinke twyse in the day of this wyne / at euery tyme so much as an egges shell conteyneth.
* 1.4But if the disease is comme by reason of supersluitye of blood / then must he be letten bloode incontinentlye. And if the disease is in the righte syde / then let him bloode in the lefte syde: If it is in the lefte syde / then lette him bloode in the ryght syde / in the arme / and geue hym halfe a dragme or tria∣kle in a bath / wyth warme wyne / wherein Castoreum hath ben sodden. But if thou haste not Castoreum / then take Lauender or Sage water /