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..

¶ Of inflatyon and swellyng of the Coddes.

The Causes.

¶ Abundance of hote or colde hu∣mors falling to the Coddes.

The Sygnes.

✚ Great inflatyon and swellynge in the coddes.

Remedies. Capi. xlii.

Diosco. IF the Coddes be swollen, take bene flouer and temper it wyth y^e ioyce of walworte, and comon oyle, bind it vnto the coddes it loseth the swellyng therof incontynent.

Of the same operacion are the ioy¦ces of Elder and walwort.

••ye Goates dounge dyssoluid w^t wine taketh away al the swelyng of the Coddes.

Diosco The seed and leaues of Henbanne stampt & bounde to the coddes take

away the payne and swelynge ther of. Thys cure is wrought many waies, fyrst let the place and funda¦ment be mollifyed wyth y^e decoctiō of Margeram, and afterwarde the thynges mencioned, before myxt to¦gether and made in a plaster, suppli the same tyl he be hole of y^e sweling

Another forme of plaster is thys take of marciatō, waxe, pitche, ship rosen, and Cerebentine, of Franken¦sence, Mastycke, Dragons bloude, bole armonike new of eche like quā title: after that let hym vse suche a lyke syrupe aa this folowynge. xxi or. xl dayes.

Take of Veruen, Stycheworte, Calament, wyld Margeram, Plā∣tayne, Stare wort, Scabiouse, & of the rote of restharo we, let thē boyle well together afterward take Frā∣kensence, Dragons bloud, bole Ar∣monycke, Fenegreke, of mastycke, of eche lyke much slampe them and

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blend them wyth whytes of egges and put therinto a good quantytye of the foresayd decoctyon, and gyue it vnto the pacient early and lat, so shal he be healid.

Coluer dounge, dogges turdes, Gore doūge wyth the ioyce of wall worte and commone oyle, is muche worthe.