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 May 7, 2024.

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¶ Remediee. Capi. xiviii.

If a woman be greuid wt che mo¦der, stāpe nettle leaues & put thē to the Matrix, and lett hyr also

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drinke parsnepsed with wine, for it is very good and losyth the suffoca∣tions and clenseth the sede contenid in the matrix.

A pessary of oyle, of bitter almon∣des, doth asswage the grefe vtterly.

This is a principal medecine, let the woman smel to euphorbiū that she may nese or blowe it to hit nos∣thrilles then shal she drinke Casto∣reum cloues, and assofetida.

Also louage, Isope wormewode and ferne leaues, sod and made in a plaster, and layde from the nauyl to the share do wonderfullye helpe the Moder.

Sethe wormewod, and Ferne or ether by itself, and stampe them for a plaster therof doth breke the pay∣nes of the moder.

A lynnen cloth sod in the lye of the ashes of coleworts, doth take awai the ventositie of the matrix.

Triakle, cloues and garlyeke dys¦soluyd

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in stronge vote wyne, is pre∣sent medicine for the Moder, thys haue I prouyd.

Lyke wyse doth a greate ventose wyth much fyre vpon the share: al∣so let hyr receyue stynkinge and fyl∣thy sauoures at her mouth, & a suf∣fumigacion or diuerse swere and o∣doriferous thynges beneth.

Rue sod and stamped in oyle with hens greace, & gose grese hote layd betwyxte the nauyll and the share, is an excellent medicyne.

Nettle sede dronke in wyne, doth aswageall paynes in the matrix, & take awaye the ventositi therof.

A suffumigacion of myrhe dothe o∣pen the Matrix beinge inclosyd: so doth the fume of Terbentine, recey¦ued by the mouth.

Make a pessary of minte, calamine Sauery, hilwort and muske wyth castoreum, put this into: he matrix and let hyr smel Assafetida, and rue

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thys haue I prouyd to be wounder full good.

Also Rue sod in water, and put in∣to the matrix, alwagith the paynes euen so dothe the suffumygaryon of galbanum.

Ruyne water mynglid with strōge vineger, and spouted into the nose∣thrilles, doth sodenly dryue doune the moder, and like vertue haue, xv graynes of Peony, dronke wt wine.

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