CHAP. LX.
DIABETES, is a disease about the reines, * 1.1 causing much thirst, and what is drunk, is pissed out again, even as it is taken.
It is ingendred of weaknesse of the retentive vertue of the reins, * 1.2 but the attractive vertue is so strong, that it sucketh the whole body through immoderate heat, causing a stubborn thirst.
For the sign, they drink continually, * 1.3 because the drink they take passeth swiftly out again: their bowels seem to burn, the loynes swell up, and the stones and haunches; also gnawing in the bowels, a wrinkled stomach, the body is lean with consuming.
If there be fulness of blood, bleed in the arm, * 1.4 if nothing forbid it. Let his pot-herbs be en∣dive, lettice, and purslain, pomegranets, also are good: wine that is red and thick, being well al∣layed with water is good: Rob. de ribis, or bar∣berries, and juyce of knot-grass, syrrup of Myr∣tils, and juyce of pomegranets, are good: and sweating is very excellent: This opiate fol∣lowing is very good. * 1.5
℞. Conservae ros. Antiquae ℥. iv. Boli armeni, co∣ralli