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

* 1.1¶For the cough.

MAnye wayes getteth a man the cough: somtyme of the brestes mistem∣peringe / somtyme of a matter that is inward or outwarde of the body.

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If it be wythin / as it happeneth oft / that an humor falleth oute of the head into the brest / thesame is the worst to be healed.* 1.2

If the cough commeth of heat / then is the brine rede / and this throte is drye and rough. To suche one ought be geuen barly potage wyth butter to be eaten / and Ptisana or Barly water to be droncken / wher••in Lycoris is sodden. Geue him also to eat potage made wyth Lettis chapped and sod∣den in water / and after that well fryed in butter / thys taketh awaye he cough wythout payne.

The cough that is engendred by colde / is knowen by the whytenesse of the brine.

He that hath a feruent cough / let him take Neppe / that cattes delite in / so much as a Walnut / let him cut it smal and stampe it / and ma••e a taunsey thereof / wyth two egges beaten therein: let him eat this / and it shall make him whole. Thys taunsey maye he eate when he will / and is specially good for hym that hath a cough / caused of colde.

Or els vse thys medicine: take wyne and oyle of oliue in like quantitye / put thesame into a cruyse / and seth it a litle / stere it together / and geue hym that to drinke / when he will go to bed / and in the morninge / so warm as he can suffer it: do thys two dayes one after another / and thys breaketh the running or morres / and softeneth the cough wythout hurte. It is also good for horsenesse / caused of colde.

The cough doth also ouertake a man by reason of an euell humor engen¦dred in the liuer or the lightes / and so do fall into the brest:* 1.3 the same must be holpen of this wyse as shall folowe.

Somtyme is the cough caused by foren or outwarde occassions as are smoke / euill vapors / stinking ayres / dust / colde drinkes / or of drinkinge cold when a man is chafed / or els when he drincketh / it falleth into the wronge throte.* 1.4

The drye cough commeth somtyme / that y^e patient hath an vnclene pul∣men or lightes & throte / & of fylthy matter / y^t is assembled about y^e pulmon & the gristels of y^e pulmon in the cheste / & is waxē tough:* 1.5 wherby it cōmeth / y^t a man can not cast it out / & getteth somtime a deadly aposteme. When it is now growē to an aposteme / then helpe him with syropes / as I shall teache you here after to mollifye it. Take also diligent hede whence the apostema∣cion commeth / y^t therafter ye maye know how to cure him / and let this fo∣lowyng be the general cure.

Take a whit cloth / wet y^e same in cold water / & strayn it wel out again: thā winde it wel about y^t patiētes throte.* 1.6 After y^t take another warm cloth / & wind also threfold about y^e throte: thys do in y^e morning / middaye / & at ni∣ght / & geue him thys syrop: Take a dishfull of brayded or beatē barlye / foure vnces of res••nes / & xij. figges wel washē in warm water: put thē into a new pot / & take iiij. quartes of water / let thē seth halfe an hour. Thē strayn this / & put the drinke agayn into the pot / & cast into it sixe vnces of suger / lette it boyle ones / then take it of and stande to coole. Drinke of this when ye wil / specially in y^e morning & euen to bedward. Thys moll fieth very wel / & cau∣seth to cast out / & maketh large about the brest: also doth it heal y^e sorenesse & roughnesse of the throte. If it waxeth thicke / then put more water to it.