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

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Title: 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
Author: Brunschwig, Hieronymus, ca. 1450-ca. 1512.
Publication: Imprinted at Collen :: By [the heirs of] Arnold Birckman,; in the yeare of our Lord M.D.LXI. [1561]
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Subject terms: Medicine -- Early works to 1800.
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A slouggish or slepery disease.

* 1.1THys disease commeth gladly and lightely of colde & much moystnesse / specially to a good folke / because their naturall heate is gone. This di∣sease is thus knowen: they haue alway great heat / whereof the cause is an impostumacion / y^t lieth in the head behinde / and his vrine is pale and thick. By reason of y^t disease & y^e trublinge of his head & braynes / he lieth or sitteth / makinge semblance as though he dyd slepe / and yet doth not: he wendeth & waltereth / & happely his head & fete do mete together: thesame must be hea¦led of thys wise: Bye a litle nysing pouder / or els take the sede of y^e Nigella that is founde in the corne feldes / beate and vse them in stede of the nysinge pouder / or els vse the floures of mustarde sede / or take beaten Mergerun gentle / put any of these into hys noyse oft tymes / and cause him oft to nyse. Rubbe also the soles of his fete oft wyth warme water / vinegre & salt / with a wollen cloth / the palme of his handes also / and kepe his belly louse wyth suppositories of alum / or other / as I haue taught before / and let him be layd in a place where much light is: let also much communication be had wyth hym / to hinder him of his slepe / and kepe him from slepinge. But if he hath great heate / then maye he be bathed in a bath / that the vncleane heat and moystnesse maye auoyde from him / and anoynte hys heade wyth water / wherein are sodden Camomille / Anis and Wormwood. Roses drye or gre∣ne were good also / of eche a few / that the water be not to stronge: for the washynge and bathynge doth muche good to the heade / by reason it doth comfort the same.

To the patient may be gyuen Diapenidion / Diagalanga or Pliris cum musco / made in the Apothecarye.

But if the vrine is rede / and the pulse beateth sore / then commeth the di∣sease by heate: let him then vse colde medicines / as confect of roses or violet¦tes. Also were it good ofte to burne the heyre of a man before hys nose / and he so to receyue the sent thereof.

Galen sayth: He that hath payne in the hindermost part of his head / the same must be let bloode vnder the chynne / speciallye on the ryght syde.

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A slepe∣ry dise∣ase.

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