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CHAP. XXXVIII.
BƲLIMOS, * 1.1 is nothing else but great and vehement famine, or hunger.
It is caused through coldnesse of the sto∣mach, want, and weaknesse of strength, * 1.2 long journies (especially when there is snow) cause this disease.
In the beginning there is felt much hunger, * 1.3 yet doth not long endure, for afterward the patients heart failes him, with coldnesse of the extream parts, and want of spirit and breath. * 1.4
If this trouble happen in a journey without a fever, * 1.5 comfort them with bread infused in odo∣riferous wine burnt with cinamon, if he be ve∣ry faint, it is the best thing to let them smell to penny-royall; new bread holden to the nose helpeth much, so doth the savour of rosted meat, well seasoned with salt; but above all, sweet odours, and compell them to eat. * 1.6 If need be also Arom. Rosat. Diamber, &c. made into Lo∣zenges or Electuaries, or you may strew them on his meats; if a fever happen, which is seldom, comfort him with vinegar, and dip a morsel in pure white wine, and red-rose water, and give it him to eat, also give him every hour a little meat, for delayes are dangerous in this disease. Lastly, * 1.7
℞. Pulv. caryophyll. ℈.iv. ol. mastich. ℥.j. misce f. ung. stomachale.