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..

¶ Remedies. Capi. xxxviii.

TAke of Cloues, of Inannone muskara, or bettels, of Galin∣gale, of dried grassehoppers, of gro¦mell, of longe Peper, of saxfrage, of the ashes of a Scorpyon, of Goat••s bloude dryed, of the stone of a man, of eche .ʒii. make pouder therof, and geue it to the sicke (being in a bathe made of the decoction of Bocheres brome Spetage, Smalage, fenel wyth whyte wyne, wherin greate Galingale, and Englyshe Galanga¦le and the rot of Radishe haue ben sodden, thys is wonderfull good.

Item take Goates b••oud, ••he a∣shes of a Scorpyone, the pouder of Grashoppers of Spodium, of spik∣nard, of the bloud and heares of an hare, of Galingale, Dragōs bloud, of Gromel, make pouder therof and mingle it with Syrope of gromel and Saxfragge, and gyue it to the pacient in the morning that he mai¦slipe vpon it, it helpeth very muche

Seeth all those simples that break the stone, put them together in a¦gourd, that is olde, and stop it incō∣tinent with the pacientes yarde, so the hole ayre therof may enter thro¦gh the hole of the yard, and let him vse the same oft times a good whi∣le after the same maner, for it brea∣keth the stone, enlargeth the waies looseth the humors of the blader, & consumeth drieth and also expelleth the stone, inespecially if many flees called cimyces be soddē, afterward make a plaster of the dregges, and applye it to the yarde & to the bone aboue the yarde.

Diosco. Item put the pouder of the wor∣mes called Cimices, in the condute of the yarde, they performe a singu∣ler remedy.

Const Item if the yarde be annoynted ouer wyth fore bloude, the stone wyll breake incontenente, for put

a stone into the bloud of a foxe, & it wyll breke in three dayes.

Item .ix. Iuy verys gyuen wyth warme wyn to drinke, purgith the stone, & prouoketh brine myghtily.

Burne hares bloude and the hole skinne of an hare, in a new pot wel closyd, and of the same ashes gyue the pacyente a sponefull in warme wyne in a bath, and fastynge, it bre∣kith and driueth out the stone.

Item the stone of a man, giuen in drinke vnto the pacient fasting, bre¦keth the stone and bringeth it oute myghtily wyth his bryne.

Before al thinges the pacient must be purged, and nourished with such thynges as opē the pipes and vay∣nes, and clense slimy humors, or els al the medycines that shalbe geuen wyl litle auayle hym.

In the bead of a great Tod there is a stone, which stone being stāpt, and geuen to the pacyent to drinke

in warme wine maketh him to pise the stone out incontinent, but if the stone be to harde and to great, take the powdere of Snaylez, for it is a good experiment.

Egge shells dried and beatten to pouder and giuē to drynke, breketh the stone it hath be•• proued.

Take a good deale of mug worte, stampe it, and wrynge ou•• the ioice therof, dryuke a good draught ther of euery day to the quautite of half a cupfull, it breaketh the stone woū¦derfully, and causeth the grauell to yssue forth, it bath ben prouyd.

Gerard. Item yf the stone will not be borkē by no means, put in a spout of bras softely throughe the hole of y^e yarde¦tyl it stouche the stone, then pinch it tyll thou torne the stanne out of hys place, and it be setlyd in some other place of the bladder, there it may re¦mayne forty yeres w^t out daunger. Diosco. The guine of Cheryes doth mygh∣tely

••ye. breke y^e stone & lofe the grauil: Item the herbe and rote of seahcl∣me sodden and dronke with wine & Honye, earlye in the bed, heleth the stone, if it be vsed sixtene dayes.

Galen. Stampe Goates bloud the li∣uer y^e lightes raynes, yard bowels & stones altogether, make a puding thereof in the great gut of the same Goate, seeth it and geue it to the pa¦cient to eat, and thou shalt see won∣derfull operation therby, in taking away the stone.

Diosco. Betony geuē to the pacient to drik with wine, honye and peper, ming∣led together, taketh away the pain of the rains, and expelleth the stone of the raynes and blader.

Galen, If thou doubt whether the stone be in the blader, make a plaster of y^e herbe that is called Check wed sod in water and bound to the yard & so the bone about the yard and if the grefe encrease it is in the bladder if

it do not encrease it is not there but in the raynes.

Dioscor. The guine of a damason tree bre∣keth the stone, & causeth it to issue.

The rynde and beries of a baye tree dronke breketh the stone.

Goats pysse dronke expellith and breaketh the stone.

Anicen. Ameos o•• in the sted therof the sed of charuyll, losith the difficultye of makinge water, and dryueth forth the stone broken.

Rafis. Item the ashes of grashoppers giuen wyth the syrupe of spykna••d is of wonderful operacyon.

Peter. Sethe seuen heades of garlyke in water a good while, and giue the same water vnto y^e pacient in, day∣es, it is a prouyd medycyne against the stone.

Take .ii. or .iii. yonge leuerettes, drowne thē in vineger, that they ••y there, and afterward boyle them in a potte well closyd wythoute anye

thynge els, and giue the ashes thee of to hym that hath the stone, it bre¦keth the stone.

Goates bloud, and Gose bloude, myngled wyth veniger, and sod to∣gether wyth a slowe fyer, doth mol¦lyfye the stone.

Macer. The leaues of Enuala Campana, sod in wyne and vsid for a plaster is a great healpe to them that be fran∣tyke throughe the paine of y^e stone.

Circan. Item Englishe galingale stampt and sod w^e oyle, & plasteryd warme vpon the bone aboue the yarde, pro¦uoketh vryne wythout doubt.

For bloud fressh dronke brekithe the stone, for it is knowen that yf a stone be put into it, it wyl breake. The pouder of a hare burnt quicke in a new pot, & the pouder of a har¦tes horne, if it be takē is greatly to be cōmended, for it breketh y^e stone.

A Foxe eaten, and the suer therof anoynted on the pacyent, is a great

helpe.

Auicen. A special remedy after Auicen, is a wagtayle.

Gilbert. Make pouder of grasse Hoppers takyng awaye the fete, head & win¦ges, myngle it wyth Gillofloures, and Sixfrage made also. in pel ider

The stone of a man, the stone in a spong the stone that is found it the bladder of a hogge, be very good.

Oyle wherin Betels and Paper wormes be sodden, anoyntid or put into the holowns of the yard with a spout, is very good.

Galen. Stampe the rotes of Olyue, co∣min, and Chibois, then seth them in oyle, and apply them hote vpon the share, it moueth him to pisse incon∣tinent.

Gerard Stampe Peritorye, and apply it warme vnto the same place, it is o¦f wonderfull effect.

The bloude of an old Gote made to pouder, and myxt wyth y^e decoc∣tyon

of spiknard and cynamon, and dry gross••, oppers beton to pouder, and giuen to drynke causeth the sto¦ne to gu••••e out wonderfully.

〈◊〉〈◊〉 ••••••ette of a Cocke giuen to the paciēt to eate ar very good but not the rest of the fleshe.

In cause the stone to breake, and issewe for••h make ten or more rou∣les of Radyshes rotes, put them in white win al a hole night, in y^• mor¦nynge drynke the wine fasting, vse it euerye daye tyll the stone go from the.

••y•• The raynes, doung, bloud, ashes, & heares of an hare, breke the stone.