Against horlenesse and cough.
The Causes.
¶ The cough cometh of superflu∣ous humors coming from the head or of colde, duste; smoke, and suche like horsenesse is when the humor falleth into the winde pype.
The Sygnes.
¶ To coughe or to be horse.
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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"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 10, 2024.
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¶ Remedies. Cap. xx.
THe gum that is of the Cherry trees dissolued with old wine and geuen to sup vp, doth vt∣tye well case the sharpe Arterits of the brest.
Diosco. Rosted Filberdes or hasell nuttes stampt and ministred with hony he leth the griefe of a longe continued cough.
Against a continued and daunge∣rous dropping of the Rewme, and againste the vlceration of the liuer apply vnto the head being shauen: mustardsede, and the skinne shalbe exasperate and the rewme dried.
Seeth bay berries in water and the smoke therof receyued at ye nos∣trilles and eares, will throughlye dry vp the rewme.
Take the fume of Laudanum and Frankensence, cast vpon whote co∣les, nothing drieth better the rewm
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and comforteth the brayne.
Const. Assafetida taken with a teere eg¦ge in the euening openeth the stop∣pinges of the liuer that cometh of grosse and flegmy humors, and hel∣peth them that be short breathed.
Diosco Item lye made of the ashes of a great oke, openeth mightely ye stop¦ping of the leuer, chefelp that whi∣che cometh or engedreth of any ve∣nemous matter, by dissoluing, and cōsuming the superfluous humors. Sixtus. The lightes of a Fox is very good for short and paynefull drawing of breath and to al straightars of the liuer.
Galen The tounge of a Ramme eaten oft times is good and hoisom therfore. Galen. The pouder of a dogs tord sprenk∣led on a feit of Heare or cloth dipte in hony, and olde greate made and applied to the breste or neeke of the diseased healeth the squinancy.
Put mustard seed in dry Figges, &
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geue the pacient them to eat in the euenynge it doth dissolue the grose humor and openyeth the stoppynge of the lightes, and also the condites of breathynge.
The Smoke of Arsenicke receivid bt the mouth helpeth them that haue great payns to take ther breth.