¶Howe he maye be holpen that speweth blood.
HEmoptoica is a disease / whē a man speweth blood at ye mouth / wher∣of the cause is superfluity of blood / & thys shall be knowē of this wise:* 1.1 he is full of body & redish / his veynes are great. Somtyme commeth it out of the stomake / & then hath the patient payne in ye brest before. But if it com¦meth of the leuer / then hath he payne in the ryght side. And if it commeth of the lunges or lightes / then hath he payne in the left syde / & cougheth muche. Somtyme doth it also come of falling or ryottinge / and thē must he be hol∣pen of thys sorte: He must beware of anger / of long fasting / of sour or bitter meates and drinkes / and of surfetting.* 1.2 He ought to be let blood on the same hande / where the disease is. If it is of the leuer / then must he be let blood in the right hand: but if it is of the lunges / then ought he to be let blood on the left hande / and geue hym thys medicine.
Take Plantayn & wild Tasil / wyth ye water yt stādeth in the Tasil / put thereto reyne water / & streyne it through a cloth: of this geue the patient to drinke in the morning fasting and to bedward. But if the wild Tasil haue no iuyce / then seth it in reyne water / bray it / & strayn it through a cloth / cast the herbe away: then take the broth / put suker therto / & geue it the patiēt to drinke. Geue him also in the morning and euening to drinke goates milke / or pouder made of moulberries: or els geue him to drinke reyn water wher¦in are sodden shepeherdes purse / knotgrasse and waybred / braye them whē they are sodden / streyne them through a cloth / & geue him to drinke thereof thre tymes in the daye / euery tyme a good draught. Geue him also thre day∣es one after the other to eate wheat wyth water and butter.