CHAP. XLIII. Of the pains in the head.
THe pain in the Head is a disease of the brains, which is caused of putrified humours in the stomack, the which is like unto a pot that boileth, causing the vapours to ascend, which if they be evill, the fume is evill to the taste and smell; but if there boil any good thing therein, the fumes are plea∣sant both to the smell and taste. And so likewise our stomack being filled with good juyce, filleth the brain with good fumes; but being filled with evill corrupt humours, it hurteth the brain, and causeth pains of the head. The like pains of the head may come of alteration of the blood, and to helpe that accident, you must first remove the cause principall, which is done with purging, and evacuating of the sto∣mack of those putrified humours; which thou shalt do with our Aromatico, giving it to the Patient two or thre times, every five daies once. The dose is ʒ ii. and then the pain will cease, of what cause soever it doe come; this done, take the juyce of a Beet root one ounce, Oil of bitter Almonds one drachm; mix them well together, and snuffe it up into the nose every morning untill it come into the mouth, for this doth purge the head marvellously; this being done, it would bee