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

¶For them whose guttes are gnawen or wounded.

* 1.1THesame shalbe marked thereby / in his sieges issueth bloude also / and that happeneth by two causes / the one is outwarde / the o••her inward. The inwarde cause is by reason of an vnclene and pearsynge moystnesse / caused by a salte Flegma / and thesame woūdeth or fretteth the guttes. But the outwarde cause is / some greate laboure / which a man doth / and stray∣neth hym sore / so that the guttes are thereof so fretted / that the bloude folo∣weth thereafter.

If ye will knowe whereof it is / then take hede to the matter / that issu∣eth from him wyth the bloude: If it be reede / then is it of Colera: but if it is as the vnclennesse of the nose / then is it of Flegma. After that must ye take hede whether the bloude commeth of the vpper guttes / or of the nether∣most guttes / or els the middelmost guttes. If it commeth from the vpper∣most guttes / then hath he payne aboue the nauel: if it issueth from the ne∣thermost guttes / then hath he payne beneth the nauel.

When now the bloud commeth from the vpyermoste guttes / then geue the pacient his medicine into his mouth. Is it of the reed Colera / then geue him gumme Arabick wyth the iuyce of Porcelen / wyth a syrop of Mirtill / and geue him syrop of Roses / and geue him bread styped in Almondes bea∣ten / and geue him to drinke water sodden wyth small rasins.

But when the bloud commeth from the nethermost or middelmost gut¦tes / and that of the reed Colera / then geue him a clister wyth these thinges: Take Roses / yolkes of Egges / Porcelene / and pilled Barly sodden in wa∣ter / and make a clister hereof.

* 1.2Somtyme happeneth a restraynt in the small guttes / by reason the sli∣mye matter strayeth / because she can not voyde beneth / and then riseth it vp toward the throte wyth perbreakinge. This disease happeneth somtyme of an hote aposteme in the stomake. It commeth also of a colde humor / that is gathered in the stomake. The restraynte caused by an aposteme / is knowen thereby / that the belly is swollen / and he draweth winde or breth vneasely: he getteth also an ague and great thyrst. But if the restraynt were of a cold humor / thesame is not swollen in the bellye / and he is withoute an ague or thyrste: his handes and fete are colde / he is heuy and waketh much / nother can rest in one place / somtyme will he haue thys / somtyme that. He that is thus diseased / dyeth lightely the third daye / and he is paynfull to heale.

If ye will take in hand to heale such a disease / then take hede first / wher of such restraynte is caused. If it is caused by an aposteme / then geue hym Cassia fistula with Iera picra / tempered w^t oyle of Violettes. If the siknesse is strong / thē let him bloud in the liuer veyne / and make hym a clister wyth Malowes / Barly / Lentils / and oyle of Violettes. But if the restrainte is come by cold humors / thē clense the pacient Benedicta / & wyth Iera picra / thesame do expel / and make him a clister of Dill Fenegreke / Oyle of Camo¦mille

/ and oyle of Holder. Or els take the floure of Fenegreke halfe an vnce / and hony a quarter of an vnce: mixe thesame together with warme water / so much as nede is / and geue him thesame to drinke fasting & to bedwarde: thesame purgeth the guttes of the superfluous slyme / wherof is caused som¦tyme greate payne and grepinges.

But for the greping as in the great guttes / take y^e bladder of a Swine / and put it full of warme wyne / laye it vpon the nauel as hote as ye can suf∣fre it / do it oft / and it shall take awaye the payne / thesame hath oft ben expe∣rimented and proued. Or els take a black Henne / and laye her warm vpon the nauel / cut it in two peces or sliced quicke. Agaynste anye maner of other grepinge / take the harte of a Wolffe and the guttes / drye them / & make pou¦der of them: put thesame into a boxe. In that pouder growe litle wormes / let thesame therin / & when ye will vse thē / take thē one after the other / bray or breake thē wyth wyne / and geue it him to drinke.

Or els take half an vnce of oyle of Benedicta / oyle of Camomil / oyle of Melissa or Baume / of eche a quarter of an vnce / mixe them together / & bid the pacient lye vpon hys backe / and put foure or sixe droppes of the oyles in to the pacientes nose / as warme as he can suffre it wyth a fether or other thynge: laye a whot cloth vpon it / and let it lye stil. Do thys oft / and let him beware of cold thynges in his meates or drinkes.

Or els take whyte cattes dounge / brayed and made fyne to pouder / ste∣re that wyth whyt wyne / and geue it him to drinke thre tymes. Or els take reed nettels that haue reed floures / wyth the rootes a good handfull / seth them well wyth a pint of good wyne / coole it / and geue him it to drinke.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Fretting of guttes
• * 1.2

  Restraīte in the smal gut∣tes, and the sig∣nes of it.