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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¶ For the wormes in the bely.

¶ The Causes.

¶ Flame putrified in the stomake or bowels.

¶ The Sygnes.

¶ Great paynts in the bely wyth much desyre of meate.

¶ Remedies. Capt xxix.

TO kyl wormes giue vnto the pacient fastyng clene milke to drinke .iii. or .iiij. dayrs toge∣ther the .v. daye gyue him garlycke stāpt with warme veniger to drike

Make a plaster of the peache lea¦ues or leke blades wt veniger bid it to ye stomake of the paciēt, & let him syt in hys warme bed, the wormes

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wil not a byde the bitternes therof

Dlosen. The seede of Cole wortes dronke kileth al the wormes of the bely.

Anleen. Salage sede dronke, kylleth the wormes, & is myghty in operacion Rib wort stampt and bounde to the nauyl as a plaster or dronke especi∣alli with Vineger of his owne pro¦perty kypeth the wormes.

Galen Sethe the rindes of Pomgra∣nates, and the roote of an Asshe in wyne, and drinke the same wine fa¦sting, it sleeth the wormes wonder¦fully.

The ioyce of Basyl or Myntes, myngled wyth Goates mylke, kyl∣eth wormes.

Yi the nauel be anoynted wyth bitter Almondes, and the oyle of Peach kernels, it mightely destro¦yeth the wormes.

The scraping of a hartes horne dronke killeth wormes.

Yf the fundament be depely anoin¦ted

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within & without, with mylke and honi minglid together or elsit sylke beynge dypt therin be vsid as a suppositorye, the wormes wil des¦cend to the swet place in continent.

If the wormes hurt the mouth of the stomake put honi combes in the mouth fastynge, they wil draw vn∣to the hony, and so voyed by yt mou¦the, it hath ben proued.

Agarike gyuen fasting to the pa∣eyent killeth al the wormes.

Anlocen. Sumache dissoluyd in water and dronke, is wonderfull agaynst wor¦mes.

Purssand sede in good quantytye dronke, kyleth the wormes.

Acacia dronke in watter of the decoctyon of Pomgranates, or sod∣in vyneger kylleth them.

Galen. The decoction of grene myrthe dronke, doth sseye the wormes mer nelouslye.

Pyles made of Galbanum, and

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sugereandy stampt together, & gen to the pacient do greatly helpe.

Take of the ioyce of mynte, ryb∣mort, of orpin, of singrene, of peach leaues, stronge veniger, and on oxs gaul, oyle of peachis, flours of Lu∣pines, smalage sed, of eche like quā∣titie, make an ointment and auoint the nauel and there about, and they shall al dye.

Leke sedes kil the wormes, also radish emyxt with water and honi

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