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 June 2, 2024.

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Remedies. Cap. xxxiii.

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Diosca. ANise seede dried & smelled vn to taketh away yeskinge and lothing.

Macer. Betony mixt with hony and af∣ter a sorte ministred, maketh good digestion & afterward it is good to purge the same also taken, taketh away vomiting.

Isac. Endiue made in a plaster and a∣pited to the stomake, doth comforte the same wonderfully, the same ta∣keth away the payne of ye stomake and the cough, & also short breath

Wilde Margeram dronke with warme water taketh away ye gna¦wing of the stomake incontinently Gum of a chery tree dissolued with wyne and geuen to drinke taketh away the lothsomenes of a weake bealking stomake.

water of the decoction of Opium, with water and hony taketh away the belking of the stomake.

Mater crowfoote stamped with

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crommes of bread & a plaster made therof taketh away the heat of the stomake.

Diosco. Corall stamped and dronke with water, apesith for ever ye grefe of ye stomake and bely.

Auicen. Stampe Pomgranates hole with the rynd, and take a pound of hony let them boyle together tyll the be thecke, geue therof a quantite vnto the paeyent fastynge with cold wa¦ter, it restoreth the appetite verye well.

Isac. The ioyce of Pomgranates taken and made in a plaster with Barlye bran, and applyed on the mouth ta∣keth away the gnawinge aboute ye harte and stomake.

Vruen beynge eaten doth wonder¦fully styre vp the appetyte it hathe ven prouyd.

The ioyce of Malwort ministred ix. daies with Honi, taketh away ye swellinge of the stomake and loseth

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the bely.

The rootes of Mugwort, and fe∣nel, and ye leaues of Morwod stāpt together gaue to ye pecient to drīke wyth warme water and Hony, pro¦uoke vomyting incontynent.

Diosco. Massicke baterid with white of an Egge, and vineger applyed vnto ye spone of the stomake, it comforteth the stomake immediatly, ād restrei¦neth vomytinge, zedwary, chawed of the pacyent fastynge and swallo∣wed downe taketh away the grefe of the bely.

Dioscor. Aloes helpeth the stomake aboue all other medicines.

Against ye paine of the stomake of a cold cause, stampe Englishe Galen∣gal, and let so boyle in oyle and so be plastred one the mouthe of the sto∣make, it is a pryncypail remedy.

Make a plaster of iiii .vii. of Oly∣banū and .iii. vii. of or, and .vii. & a halfe of cloies, Calame taken and

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Neppe with win taketh away the payne of the stomake.

Water Roses stampt and dronke wyth wine, do greatly restraine vo¦myttynge.

Galen. Againste ouer muche vomytyng∣and flux of the bellye, beyle comyne in Vyneger & let the pacyent drynk the vyneger or eate Comyn.

Boile Frankensense and the ioice of Myntes & a litle Vineger toge∣there and make a plaster therof and bynd it to the spone of the stomake.

Stampe of Masticke of Comin of Bay beries of eche vn .i. mynglid wt ioyce of Ru, aply the same with toe vpon the stomake, it heth a woūder¦ful operacyon.

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