CHAP. XI. Of the Running of the Reins.
THe running of the Reins most commonly cometh of the much use of women, or because those women are cor∣rupted with a certain distemperature of heat, that is able to corrupt a man using with her. And of this running there may grow divers diseases, as you may see by those that are troubled therewith, if they be not helped as they ought to be. One of the diseases that may come of this, is great pains in the back, because it doth weaken the vertue of the Reins. There may come also a great burning in the Yeard, and botches in the Groin, and such like, all which are hard to bee dissolved. The cure of this disease is, You shall take three times our Pills called Pill•••• Aquilonae, every third day once, that being done, he shall use this Electuarie seven or eight daies together.
Take a certain shell which is smooth, and is called of some Calcinelli, and of some T••••inole, and of some Tel∣line; Take them and burn them, make it into fine pow∣der, and take thereof ℥ i. the buds of Cankers or wild Eg∣lantine that the Rose cometh of, it is called in Italian Rose canine, ℥. di. Hysope of the Mountain ʒ. ii. white honie crude ℥. vi. Make thereof an Electuarie without fire. The dose is, ℥. i, in the morning fasting, and at night before meat. Note, that when you use this Medicine, you shall eat no Pork, nor Fish, nor slimie things.