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..

¶ Agaynst spyttynge of bloud.

The Causes.

❀A Strype, greate cryenge, hote rewme, repletyon, or great dri¦nesse.

¶ The Sygnes be Playne ynough.

☞ Remedies. Capt. xxi.

Galen WHen a man spiteth or vo¦mytith bloud, geue him to drink y^e ioyce of knot grasse, & it shal cease in continent, it was prouyd.

The greece of a Henne, a Gose, a Pygge, and a Ducke, the Marye of an Oxe, freshe Butter, Oyle of Vyoiettes, of Cithe a lyke muche mengle them all to gether and mel∣tte theym, and putte there vnto whyte Waxe, Bumme Arahycke, Dragons so that it be lyke an opat∣ment but fyrste laye Doe vpon the breaste of the pacyente, dypte in the Decoctyon of greate Mallowes, and kepe it there vntyll be sweate, than let the breast be anointid with thys oyntment, and laye aboue the same a Fore skynne, or els another lyke thynge warme, no thynge hel∣peth more outwardly than thys.

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Dioscor. Seth dry fygges in white win or in claret, but first fil y^e fygges w^t musterd seede, and lete hym drynke the wyn euery night when he hath eaten the fegges, it openeth all stop pinges of the leuer so that he maye breth at his wyll.

Gume of a Peach tre geuen fo him that rechit or spitteth blod, helpeth greatly and openeth the inward cla¦wesures of the bresse, and purgethe the inwards of the longes.

The pouder of dry Mulberyes is y^e thefest remedy, for thē y^t spit bloud. A Sirup for them that can scantlye take ther breth take the ioice of the tote of swete breer, young time bole Aemintacke, y^e ioice of slowes whit Coral, and the pouder of Rue, fole∣fote, or Mintes, y^e rinnes of Pome∣granates, O keaples, gume of Ara∣bicke Dragance, Camtery, Knott∣graffe, of the seede of Rybworte, of Manna, Sumach, Dragōs bloud,

of Bloud worte, of eche of these .ʒix. and of Sugere take soure pounde, then make a syrope of Ribwort and geue it wyth the decoction of quin∣res, Lētyles, & Medlers, this is ve¦ry good agaynst the blody fluxe, vo mytynge and such lyke.

Dioscor.Englyshe Tyme, & Venician Ti∣me, stampe them together and botle them in sethynge water, let it beset a syde a day & a nyght in a pot well closid that the smoke may not brea¦the out, let it be strayned & put mel¦rolit there vnto, and beynge scomed of, let it be giuen to the pacient in y^e goynge to bed it healeth the stopin ges of the coundytes of them why∣che be shorte breathed.

Macer. Almondes geuen to them that spyt bloud, is a singuler helpe.

Therote of Dragāce or Serpētine W^t claryfyed Hony clēseth humores out of the brest, so that y^e shal neuer returne or engender agayne.