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, Medieval.
- 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 May 7, 2024.
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¶ The Causes.
¶ Grosse humoures flowynge to the synowes.
The Sygnes.
¶ That the member hath lost both sence and mocyon.
¶ Remedies. Cap. xvii.
Paralisis is a sicknes caled the Palsey: wherin ether al ye bo∣dy or one mēbre or many mem¦bers be mortifyed and be depryued of felyng and mouing, it happenith ether of an impostume stopping the rottes of the sinowes, that they be¦ing depriued of the lpuelye spirites which serue for them be come ded or els of the Fleumatyke humoure grosse and vndigested whych stop∣pith the sayd places some tyme of a stroke or faull, wherby the ioyntes of the backe bone are loused and the sinowes which com from the nec is
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necke or nape of the hed, at stopped other while the sinowes and the ro¦tes of them hurte wyth a bruise en∣gendreth the palsey, & specially in a olde man.
••apid. ¶ Yf the tonge be sodenly wrythed through cold, make a hote Garga∣tysme of the wyne of Decoction of Sage, Rue & pellytorye, it is very good.
Put these pylles in thy mouthe and vnder thy tonge.
Take of Castoreum, of Pellytor¦rye, of Pyonye rootes, of eiche lyke muche make pylles wyth Triakel it is very good.
Anoint the pacient without with oyle benedicte or the oyntmēt caled Martiaton, wt caflorest these be ve••¦ry good in al palsis of a cold cause.
Rue, Pellitory, Sage Cinamon, Mustard, salt, let them all boyle to¦gether in oyle to half, and anoynt ye patient thet wyth is very good.
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Take a dead earth worme, make a plaster and lay it vpon the hinder part of the head where it riseth wt piche ware, olde oyle, Beares suet, coluer dounge, quicke lime mans, ordure Castoreum Pellitory.
If thou stampe a silke worme, and make a plaster and lay it in the na∣pe of the necke, because lightlye the disease riseth ther, & if it rise in ano¦ther place put it ther, and not vpon the hurt member.
If the tounge or throte be in fla∣med draw theron a Saphire, vpō the griefe for it taketh awaye the swelling.