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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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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Brunschwig, Hieronymus, ca. 1450-ca. 1512.
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Imprinted at Collen :: By [the heirs of] Arnold Birckman,
in the yeare of our Lord M.D.LXI. [1561]
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Medicine -- Early works to 1800.
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A68179.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 15, 2024.
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Of apostemation in the head and braynes.
THe braynes are greued many waies / somtime of ye stomak / whē a man eateth meates / that the stomake can not digest / and lye sliminge & rot∣ting in the stomack / yelding an vpbraythinge into the head / wherof ye head hath euer payne / and thereof are the braynes diseased.* 1.1
Somtime engendreth an apostemaciō in the braynes of some litle skin∣nes / that enuiron the braynes / thesame are called Phrenesis.* 1.2 He that hath ye same apostemation / can not slepe / and becommeth somtyme mad. Thesame apostemation commeth somtyme of Colera / when ye same is inflamed / and breateth vp into the heade. It commeth also of hote bloode / that lyeth in
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the harte / and brarheth vp into the braynes: he that hath thesame apostema¦cion / hath also great drought in the mouth / and the tounge waxeth black / & he becōmeth read vnder ye eyes / & specially about ye nose / & such apostemaciō haue they most / yt are of hote & drye complexion / whē they labour or trauail to much. He yt hath this disease / ye first iii. dayes when it ouertaketh him / must he let blood in ye Cephalica / that is the veyne of the head / and the same daye ought he to let blood in ye forehead / or els set horselcaches or blood suc∣kers thereto. But if the horselcaches will not sucke / then anoynte the tem∣ples wyth wyne / then do they sit to by and by.
Good hede ought to be takē to them and wel kept / geue thē none other meat / thē bread steped in almondes milke. Geue thē almond milke to drink & beware of meates of hote complexion / let thē be still & quiet / & beware of vexynge and anger / or els becomme they lightly franticke and madde.
* 1.3Al men yt haue feble braynes ought to beware of beanes / for they trou∣ble the braynes / and cause heuy dreames / the braynes and head sycke. The lentilles do lykewyse / for they cause euell bloode / and stop the bowels & vey¦nes / that they can not sweate / & that in such men as labour not / tender and sycke feble / they hurte the breste / the lightes / the eyes / the skinne aboute the braynes / and all the veynes of the body: Contrary to this are speces / which comforte and fortifye the bodye / head and brayes.