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

¶Of all accidentes of the Lyuer.

MAny diseases come from the Lyuer / as Stopping / Rottinge / * 1.1 In∣flammation / the Yalow iaundis / the Dropsy commeth also there by / that the Lyuer can not digest / and that bloode that she should

sende into the membres / is turned to water: the membres are out of theyr frame / and haue no due operacion / by reason of the Lyuers disease / that is / that the veynes comminge from the lyuer to the stomacke / do geue euell heate: Thesame heate dryeth or seereth the stomake / so that he getteth luste to drinke colde water / and that causeth the stomake to digest euill / and cau∣seth dropsey. For the lust of colde water / weakeneth the digestion wholye / and the bloode that the lyuer shoulde sende to the vrines / is mixte wyth cold water / by reason of the indigestion / and so is parted through out al the membres / and therof swelleth man / and getteth the dropsey.

* 1.2Otherwyse commeth thys disease of the Splene / that it can not digest the substaunce / whyche the Lyuer hath ministred and sent to hym / and that is Colera nigra: thesame bloode dothe mixe it selfe farther into the other membres / and thereof swelleth a man.

* 1.3Somtyme is it occasyoned of the Kydneys / or that a man bledth to muche at the nose / or somtyme that a man is to muche bounde in hys bel∣lye / and can haue no sieges.

Somtyme of superfluous bloode / whyche lyeth hardened and vndiges∣ted in the lyuer / thesame doth mixe it selfe into all the membres / and cau∣seth them to swell.

* 1.4He that is diseased in the Lyuer / helpe hym of thys wyse: Let hym be∣ware of all meates chafynge or whote of complexion: for chafynge meates to scaulde the lyuer / and bringe it oute of hys complexion. Wherefore it is requisyte to set the Lyuer agayne into hys former digestiue power / wyth medicines competente to it: that is / that she be purged of Colera / Blood / and black Colera.* 1.5 It is reason and requisyte in all diseases / to mol∣lifye the disease / wyth thys syrop or confection / before a purgation be mini∣stred to hym.

Take the rootes of Fenel / Percelye / of eche a handfull: the herbe and rootes of Walworte and Valeriane / of eche an vnce: the sedes of Fenel and Anis of eche halfe an vnce: water two or thre quartes. Bruse the rootes / and let them all stande stypinge a nyghte / and geue the pacient to drincke there of in the mornynge and euenynge / at euerye tyme thre vnces / mixte wyth water of the floures of Eldren or Boure tre / and after that purge hym wyth Dia prunis laxatiuo / an vnce at ones / and that shoulde be minis¦tred to hym after hys fyrste slepe / and he maye slepe safely there vpon.

Item to purge one easely / wythout daunger / that hath a hoate disease / in a chafed Lyuer of a whote ague or other disease / geue hym in the mor∣nynge halfe an vnce of Electuarium de succo rosarum / thre quarters of an vnce Cassie fistule extracte / water of Endiue / the water of Colander or Maydens heyre / of eche an vnce and an halfe: mixe them together / and ge∣ue hym it in the mornynge / but he maye not slepe there vpon.

Geue hym for a confortatiue Diarrhodon abbatis.

Walwort dronken refrayneth the waterish moysture in the bellye.

Nothynge is better in the worlde for the Dropsye / then to drincke the iuyce of Blewlillies rootes an vnce or an halfe / wyth two vnces of whay: or els the roote sodden wyth wyne / and droncke in the euenynge and mor∣nynge

/ thesame enlargeth the brest / and taketh awaye fetching of the breth wyth payne / wherwyth they that haue the dropsy / are payned.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Diseases caused by the lyuer.
• * 1.2

  Of the Splene.
• * 1.3

  Of the kidneys.
• * 1.4

  Remedy for the lyuer.
• * 1.5

  A confe∣ction to mollifye diseases.