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

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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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Subject terms: Medicine -- Early works to 1800.
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¶How the flixes maye be knowen.

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VVhen the bloudy flixe commeth from the vppormost bowels / thē issueth from man pure bloud / with digestion of the fylth of mans body / and thereof getteth a man greate payne in the vpperpart of his body or nauel. Him may ye helpe of this wise:* 1.1 Take Hēpsede / braye or beate thesame well / & put a litle water vpon it / strayne it through a cloth. Then seth two egges / y^t they remayne very softe / & put of the Hēpsede milke therto / as much as al the egges be / beat thē wel together / & take y^e fas¦ting: thesame stoppeth the flixe / & auoydeth the payn. Or els seth y^e rootes of Burres or the sede in water / or them both / and drinke it fasting: but it were very good to seth the sede in reyne water.

If it commeth of the middelmost bowels or guttes / than is the siege or flixe colored black wyth bloud / or els grene wyth thesame.* 1.2 To cure thesame is make a vaporaciō beneth w^t Rāmes greace or fat / waxe / pitche & Cumin ech of lyke quantitie / put thē in a new pot / & couer it close / set it vpon a fire / tyll it waxe thorow hote / and do smoke sore: than set it vnder a stole wyth a hole / and set the pacient thereon / as hote as he can suffre it.

But if the bloud commeth of the nethermost bowels / then is the siege y^t issueth therewyth yalow / black / pale / or els of a grene deadly coloure.* 1.3 The same may be holpen of this wise: Geue him rosted Rāmes flesh to eat / & olde hennes sodden / and specially the fete / and barly water to drinke. Item Al∣monde milke wyth water / thesame comforteth the harte.

But if the siege be by reason a man hath eaten ought that is vnholsom / then ought he not be staunched so sone.

There is also a flixe / called the whyte siege / in Latin Lienteria / thesame is / when the meate is voyded vndigested.* 1.4 Thesame siege commeth somty∣me of slymy matter lyenge in the stomake / and that is knowen by the heui∣nesse of the stomake.

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* 1.1

Flixe of the vp∣permost bovvels.

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* 1.2

Flixe frō the mid∣delmost bovvels.

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* 1.3

Flixe of the ne∣ther∣most gut¦tes or bo¦vvels.

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* 1.4

Liente∣ria, and the cau∣ses of it.

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