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

¶When a man hath to manye sieges / howe that maye be letted.

SIeges that are ouermuch / are diuerse. The one is / that the stomak doth digest the meat and drinke of a man the better / because he hath a faut in the power retentiue. An other is by reason of superfluous moysture in y^e sto∣make or guttes: or els the power retentiue hath force in the stomack / & so in the guttes / by reason of fylthy moysture / that is hote and prickinge.

If the disease is in the power retentiue / which shoulde retayn the meat in the stomake / then must it be consydered / what moysture or humors be ga¦thered in y^e stomake / & whence they come. If the disease cometh of euil com∣plexion / then must the pacient be demanded / whether he feleth any heate in hys stomack / & whether he hath great thyrst / & whether he haue a bulkinge or breakinge of winde: for thereby maye it well be gessed / whether the siege be of ouermuch heat or not. If he haue no thyrste / and eateth well / but diges¦teth slenderly: then is his siege caused of cold / and therfore doth the stomak digest euill. He that will staye that siege assuredlye / must eat and drinke lit∣le / and vse two or thre dayes nomore but one kinde of meate / and be still: by that shall the stomacke be satled / and also the fundamente / and also the run∣ning staunched wythout hurte or daunger.

These meates do bind a man in his belly: hard egges / and Payst made wyth egges / & baken in the herth / rosted Peeres / bakē meates / Rice made wyth almōde milke / potages of barly / Barly water / Beanes / Peeres dried

in an ouen / Amilum / Medlers / Suger of roses. Or els take the stones or carnels in the grapes / beate them well / put them in a cloth / laye them in rey¦ne water or springinge water a daye and a nyghte / then strayne the water well out / and drinke a good draught therof fasting in the morning and at e∣uen to bedwarde: thesame stoppeth the hote fluxe verye well. Or els eate Sloes / that stoppeth sieges whether they be of heate or colde. Or els eate Moulberies dryed / thesame stoppe sieges. Lykewyse also do Bremble be∣ries not fully rype / and dryed and eaten / stoppe all maner of sieges / caused of greate heat.