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
- 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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- Medicine -- Early works to 1800.
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Contents
- title page
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The first chapter is concerning the head and his partes.
- For fallinge of the heyre of the head.
- For lyse and nittes.
- Of payne in the head.
- A wounderfull experience for the headacke.
- A slouggish or slepery disease.
- A medecin awaking a man sore, and withstandeth slepe greatly.
- Headake of muche nisinge.
- Of apostemation in the head and braynes.
- Of whirling in the heade.
- Another for the whyrlinge.
- VVhen a man can not slepe.
- Of one that hath the palsye.
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If the palsey hath taken a man, and his membres were so holy
taken, that he doth not feale when he is touched vpon the same, then let him be bathed drye of this wise.
- ¶To restore agayne membres that be la∣med or taken.
- ¶For trembling or shakinge of the handes.
- ¶Of dronkennesse.
- ¶ For the fallinge euell.
- ¶A wounderfull pouder for the falling sycnesse.
- ¶To knowe whether a man be possessed wyth an euill sprit / and how he maye be holpen.
- ¶Thys drinke were good for suche one.
- ¶A good drinke for one that rageth / and specially if it is come of colde.
- ¶Of disease in the eyen.
- ¶To heale all maner disease of the eares.
- ¶Agaynst soundyng and ringinge in the eares.
- ¶Of blethynge at the nose / and staunchynge of the same.
- ¶Of spottes and blemishes of the face.
- ¶Agaynst euill scabbinesse or schilfering chekes / that will not heale nor fall doune.
- ¶Agaynst the fistula in the cheke.
- ¶Of all diseases of the mouth and hys appertenances.
- ¶Of all diseases of the teth.
- ¶A sure medicine for toothake.
- ¶To make a tooth so fall wythout smarte.
- ¶Of the swellinge in the rote of the mouth / called in Latin Vua or Vuula.
- ¶How to helpe one that hath the Squince in the throate / called the Squinancia.
- ¶For the hoorsnesse.
- ¶A confection to holde in the mouth agaynste hoorsenesse.
- ¶An experimented science for horsenesse though it hath longe lasted.
- ¶Of the yexe or yexinge.
- ¶Of suppuration or matteringe in the breste.
- ¶Of an imposteme in the breste.
- ¶Agaynst breakinge vp and vomiting.
- ¶The ryght makinge of Ptisana / that is / Barly water.
- ¶Howe he maye be holpen that speweth blood.
- ¶If one speweth oute mater.
- ¶When one woulde gladly perbreake / and can not do it.
- ¶For the cough.
- ¶A drinke for the cough / for thyrste and roughnesse of the throte.
- ¶An other syrop for the cough and apostemacion in the breste and harte / whiche weakeneth and cau∣seth to caste oute.
- ¶For the hote cough.
- ¶But when a man dyd cough / and were strayght aboute the brest and harte / and had heate therewyth / so that it were taken for an apo∣stemacion.
- ¶Thys folowynge is very good for the cough com∣mynge from the lightes.
- ¶Another drinke for the cough / that cooleth and mollifieth very well / and speciallye apostemes.
- ¶Of disease of the harte.
- ¶Of hartes feblenesse or fayntnesse.
- ¶Of all accidentes and diseases of the stomake / and howe it maye be healed.
- ¶When a man can not sweat / or els sweateth ouermuche / howe that maye be caused / or refrayned.
- ¶Of sweatynge.
- ¶A good bathe for them that haue taken colde.
- ¶Howe a man maye be restored agayne that hath lost hys strength by sycknesse.
- ¶A good drinke that strengtheth the hart and all the mem¦bres / if a man drinke halfe an egges shale full in the morninge and eueninge / wyth as muche good wyne.
- ¶Another drinke comfortinge the body and purginge.
- ¶Item a good bath and naturall / for it draweth furth euil heat / and strengtheneth well.
- ¶A verye holsome confection to strengthen a diseased of the foresayd sycknesse.
- ¶Of all accidentes of the Lyuer.
- ¶Of the yalow iaundis.
- ¶A true medicine for the Iaundis.
- ¶Agaynste the desperate iaundis.
- ¶Agaynst the iaundis that is rooted.
- ¶Another true and hurtlesse science for the iaundis.
- ¶Yet another medicine for the iaundis that is rooted / or els hath infect the eyes and skinne.
- ¶Another true medicine for the iaundis.
- ¶A good pouder for the iaundis.
- ¶Of the diseases of the Lyuer. ¶Of inflamacion of the Liuer.
- ¶A good pouder for the hote lyuer / hote stomake and for the hote ague.
- ¶When the Lyuer is inflamed.
- ¶Somtyme is the lyuer of a woman stopped / when hyr floures drawe vpwarde / before it is due season.
- ¶Of Apostemation of the Liuer.
- ¶A good drinke for the Lyuer / howsoeuer she is diseased.
- ¶Of diseases of the Lyghtes or Lunges.
- ¶A good barlye water for all diseases of the Poulmon or Lyghtes.
- ¶Howe to helpe a man that hath a disease or a stiche in hys syde / or an euell splene / or an aposteme wyth in vpon hys rybbes.
- ¶Of all diseases of the bellye / and hys partes annexed.
- ¶To clense the guttes.
- ¶For them whose guttes are gnawen or wounded.
- ¶Howe to dryue awaye the wormes in the bellye.
- ¶If a man had no sieges and were stopped.
- ¶Whan the gutte (where through the ordure passeth) go∣eth out / howe to set it in agayne.
- ¶An other true and proued science / when the basse or last gut issueth or is swollen.
- ¶When a man hath to manye sieges / howe that maye be letted.
- ¶A playster for sieges.
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¶A good science for the bloudye flixe and other sie∣ges or flixes / of what cause soeuer they be / and it stoppeth very
well. - ¶A true medicine for the bloody flixe.
- ¶How the flixes maye be knowen.
- ¶Of payne in the Loynes.
- ¶A true medicine for payne in the loynes caused of colde.
- ¶Agaynste payne in the loynes.
- ¶Another science for payne in the loynes / that helpeth verye well without harme.
- ¶Howe a man shall be holpen that pisseth bloude.
- ¶Whan a man pisseth bloude.
- ¶When a man pisseth matter.
- ¶When a man can not pisse / how the bladder ought be purged of her superfluous slimishnesse.
- ¶Thys folowyng causeth to pisse easely.
- ¶For to pisse easelye / and for the stiche and smartynge / and for the Brisynge stone.
- ¶When a man hath the Stranguria / that is difficultye to make water / or when one pisseth in hys bedde in the nighte.
- ¶Of the stone / howe he that hath it / maye be healed wyth conuenient medicines.
- ¶A confection for the Stone.
- ¶A good commune bath for the stone.
- ¶A bath to breake the stone.
- ¶Thys folowyng is also good for the stone.
- ¶A good true medecine for the stone / whiche is good and approued for commune people.
- ¶Another true science for the grauel / when one drinketh therof in the morninge and euenynge at eche time an vnce / or an vnce and an halfe.
- ¶Of Agues / and fyrst howe he maye be cured that is ouertaken wyth Ephemera.
- ¶Of the hote and feruent ague / called Causon.
- ¶Of chylderen diseases.
- ¶Of the dayly ague or feuer quotidiant.
- ¶A good drinke for the dayly feuer.
- ¶An approued science for the ague / it riddeth a man oft in thre dayes.
- ¶For the Iaundis.
- ¶Another true science agaynst the ague.
- ¶An other proued science for the ague / that hath lasted longe / speciallye when a man hath gotten it of an euell stomake.
- ¶An experimented science for the feuer quotidiane or dayly feuer.
- ¶A medecine for many kindes of feuers or agues.
- ¶Howe a man shall behaue himselfe that is thus diseased.
- ¶Of the Quartane / that is fourth dayes Feuer / which can scarsely be healed.
- ¶A drinke for the Quartane.