The treasurie of health contayning many profitable medicines, gathered out of Hipocrates, Galen and Auicen / by one Petrus Hyspanus, and translated into English by Humfry Lloyd, who hath added thereunto the causes and signes of euery disease, with the Aphorismes of Hipocrates, and Iacobus de Partibus, redacted to a certaine order according to the members of mans bodie, and a compendious table containing the purging and confortative medicines, with the exposition of certaine names and weights in this booke contained, with an epistle of Diocles unto Kyng Antigonus..

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The treasurie of health contayning many profitable medicines, gathered out of Hipocrates, Galen and Auicen / by one Petrus Hyspanus, and translated into English by Humfry Lloyd, who hath added thereunto the causes and signes of euery disease, with the Aphorismes of Hipocrates, and Iacobus de Partibus, redacted to a certaine order according to the members of mans bodie, and a compendious table containing the purging and confortative medicines, with the exposition of certaine names and weights in this booke contained, with an epistle of Diocles unto Kyng Antigonus..
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John XXI, Pope, d. 1277.
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[London,: William Copland,
ca. 1560].
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Medicine -- Early works to 1800.
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"The treasurie of health contayning many profitable medicines, gathered out of Hipocrates, Galen and Auicen / by one Petrus Hyspanus, and translated into English by Humfry Lloyd, who hath added thereunto the causes and signes of euery disease, with the Aphorismes of Hipocrates, and Iacobus de Partibus, redacted to a certaine order according to the members of mans bodie, and a compendious table containing the purging and confortative medicines, with the exposition of certaine names and weights in this booke contained, with an epistle of Diocles unto Kyng Antigonus.." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/B00226.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 2, 2024.

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¶ For bledynge at the Nose.

¶ The Causes.

❀ A bayne or arteri opened or bro∣ken within ye nose with great abū∣dance of bloud, or to much laboring

The Sygnes

¶ To blede at the nose.

Remedies. Capi. xvi.

Consf. THe ioyce of hogges dounge cast into the nosthrells doth, restrayne the bloud.

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Beware that nethrnge vynd the bodye hathe, as thy gyrdel or such lyke, and hold thy hādful of she par∣dis purse and stedtastlye loke vp to the sōne, it stauncheth bleding, this is proued.

Lyke is sayde of beruen.

Lay the ioyce of nighte shade a∣gaynst the lywere yf it runne oute of the ryghte nostrell, yf not vpon the splene, it stauncheth the bloud.

Dioscor. The flower of a beane the outr skine pulled of, put into ye nosiriles stauncheth bloud if it be a wound.

The half of a beane layde vpon a wound closeth vp the wounde and restrayneth ye bloud, especiall wher horesteches haue ben, this hath ben prouyd.

Colde stones layd vpon the vay∣nes of the temples and hard holden theron, restrayne the bloud.

The ioyce of Rue put into the no∣strelles restrayneth the bloud.

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Diosce. The ioice of a nettle put into the nostrels maketh the bloud to flow, but being anointed on the forehead maketh the same to stoppe.

Yarow smelled vnto, or being drouke restraineth bloud it put in∣to the nostrelles maketh it to bleed.

Lapid. Item the stone Iaspis burnd & applied stauncheth the bloud.

The ashes of the rote of Rue, blo∣wen into the nosthrilles doth won¦derfully staunch the bloud.

The very blood it selfe burnt and made to pouder, & blowētp into yt nose, doth wonderfully staunch the bloud, and close vp woundes, if the bloud runne from the lefte nostral put a ventose vpon the splene, ifftō the right vpon the liuer.

Ifft be a woman after the same maner lay it on herteate,

If a womā blede put flar in ye whit of an egge & apply it to herteate, on

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that parte as the nose bledeth, or wt the soyce of night shade.

Item make a plaster of potters clay, vineger & the whit of an egge and applye it to thy cods it is good and hath ben proued.

Galen. Let the person which bledeth lye vpright & let his own water being cold be dropped on his face wyth vi¦neger.

If the heares f an Hare be put into the Vineger and water, and be put into it is wonderfull good.

The bloud of a Cowe layd upon the wound doth staunche the bloud incontment, but I say it is o more valour being burned.

The ashes of a cowes horne, cast into the wounde doth quickelye re∣strayne it.

Pouder made of ynke, and layd vpon the wounde wyth ashes of a ferne cote, stācheth the bloud and healeth the wound.

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Kychar. The ashles of a frogge burned in a well closed pot, stancheth all ble∣ding though it be of wounds it clo∣seth vp the vaynes & arteries and healeth burnings.

Aalcen. The bloud of a Thrushe, a par∣trige, a doue, and a turtle doue, put into the wound stoppeth the bloud wonderfully.

Peter. The brine of a man made in forme of a plaster, and applyed wt ye ashes of a vine, stauncheth bleeding.

Chaw the roote of a nettle vntill you may swallow it, and without doubt the bloud will staunthe.

Chawe the same till you maye swallow it, but in no wise swallow it and than will it staunche, for if a man keepe it in hys mouth he can leese no bloud.

The pouder of the scraping of a tandron or a frying pan Stamped and mingled with the ioyce of a ne∣tle andlput into the nostrelles doth

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stanche the bloud incontinente, this hath bene proued.

Conff. Plaster burnt and stampt wyth Hares hears and made in a plaster wyth the white of an eg stancheth bloud if it be in an artery or vaine.

A certayne herbe that is comon∣ly called Torch or moleyne stampt and layde vpon the branches of the teates, doth stop the bleding of any place.

Plinf. The asshes of a burnt Frogge applied to the place that bleedeth, doth staunche it incontinent.

The Fresh doung of a Bore is a chefe Remedy agaynst bleedinge at the nose as I find in the boke of natures of thinges.

The ioyce of an assis dounge dropt into the nostrels or into woūdes, stantheth the bloud thoughe it be of a vene or artery that is woū∣ded of the same.

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Diosco Fyue leaued Grasse dronke, and anoynted in the nostrels, stancheth bloud.

The ashes of Hennes Fethers, shouft vp into the nostrelles, stann∣theth bloud.

Macer. The ioyce of vyolet roottes garga∣rised in your mouthe, & throte, and swallowed stancheth oft tymes ble¦dyng at the nose incontynent.

Galen. The pouder of a nettle snuft into the nostrils, wil stanche bloud incō tinent.

Item stampe erth wormes with whyte frankencense and the whyte of an egge it is good.

Prime rose leaues stampt and laid in the place that bledth stanchythe the bloude.

Put into thi nostrels y rind of wod bynde, and the scrapȳnges of a Ra∣byshe, it is good. In onion onelye put into the nose is good also.

If a vayne be broken wythin lett

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the pacyent drynke Peper & the sed of towne Cresses, take one parte of Cerrasy gyllata, and anothere of the gūme called Sarasenicum, an other parte of Dragance, stampe it with win that is old, & make piles and geue the pacient to drynke.

Here vnto sethe Goates mylke wt dragance and vse it one day for an electuary.

Mengle potters claye wyth Rose water and vineger, and make a pla¦ster and apply it, the bloude there by shalbe stanched.

Take Coufery, and terra, Sy∣gillata of eche lyke muche, make a pouder and ministrr it wt rayne wa¦ter thre daies, this hath ben prouïd

The heares of an Hare chopte smale & myxt with the white of an Egge, and layd vpon the place that bledyth taketh away al flowing of bloud.

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