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..

For the frensye.

The Causes.

THe Phrenisy cometh of great abundance of bloude or choler fyllynge vp the braynes or pauni∣cules therof which choler, yf it be a dust engendreth a most perylouse & peruiceouse Phrenese.

The Sygnes.

¶ They whiche haue the Phrensy be troubled with a contynual feuer and madnes, wyth greate watchin∣ges, and lytle sleape and when they wake thei roar and cri, and cannot tell what they saye, or doo, and yf it come of bloude they laughe, of cho∣ler

the right and braule and skanfe be ruled without Lordes or Chai∣nes.

¶ Remedies.

FIrst let the mater be put back with the ioyce of Plantayne or morell and vineger annoin¦ting the tēples therwith, thē make a coife or cappe of waxe terbintine and womans milke and put it vpō the head, for it will ease the paynes and prouoke the patient to sleepe.

Constan Let the sinne fo the mater be dra¦wen downeward with a supposito¦ry or clister, & with moderate rub∣bing of the hands & fete, then put a sponge dipt in the decoction of Hen¦ban•• o•• a whelpe or a cocke ripte o∣uer y^e belly vpon the head, or y^e ligh∣tes of a swan, also binde the armes and legges of the paciente, and let him smell Opium, camphory, Hen∣bane, Basill, Saffrō or wax ming∣led with Rose water, afterward a∣noynt

the eares, eyes & nodle with myrth, storax, castoreum, or washe, the heade, with Henbane or Sma∣lagethat haue bē sod in swete wine Make an ointmēt of Dogfenel de∣taine, and oile of Roses, and anoint his head therwith, and it shal cause him to slepe.

Also take of Opium .ʒ .ii. of leuen ʒ .ii. well beaten with hony and vi∣neger, & annoynt the Pulses there with.

Make a plaster of Opium, Hen∣bane seede, and Suger, mingled in the ioyce of lettis, and lay it to hys forehead.

Make a suppository of Opium, and oyle of Violets.

White Popy, and Henbane seede. distempred wyth the whyte of an Egge, and layd to the forhead pro∣uoketh sleepe.

It is very good to let bloud of the vayne which is in the middel of 〈◊〉〈◊〉 for••head.

Take .ʒ .i. of opium .ʒ .ii. of blacke popy & distempre them w^t populeō, and the milke of a woman that ge∣ueth sucke to a wench, and lay it to the forheade.

The waxe of the pacyentes eare, giuen him in drinke causeth him to sleape.

Seth Henbane in swete wyne & wash ther with thi ears, temples & nosethrilles, & it prouoketh slepe.

The hot lightes of a goat clapte to the head taketh away the frensy so doth a sponge dipt in warme wyne and put to the left Pappe.

It is very good to anoynt y^e for∣head with oile of Roses, and to put 〈◊〉〈◊〉 to the forhead.

Canst. Safron in al meates prouoketh sleape.

Galen. Lay to the pacientes head safron Ma••drag, and Opium and he shal sleape.

If the hed be anointed with oile

of Roses, Dogfenel, and Castoreū, it swageth the paynes and causeth the patient to sleepe.

Galen. Sprinkle the pouder of Man∣drage and Arsenike vpon a shauen head, and the man shall sleepe.

If the face be washed with hote water of the Decoctiō of Popy the patiente shall out of hande eyther sleepe or dye.

Diosco Lay the rote of Neproyal boyled to the head, and it will draw forth the matter of the madnesse, it hath bene proued.

Galen. If the pacient be very sad, let the ioyce of Iuy be put in his nose and Mintes sod in Vineger be layd to his head.

If the Frantike man haue hys head annoynted with Castoreum, without doubt he shall sleepe.

If thou would cause a man to slepe take Opium, Henbane, Plantayne Popy, and the leaues of mandrage

and yuy leaues and beries, mulbe∣ry leaues, and the ioyce of hemlock and lettise, of euery one of them .ʒ .i. stampe thē all in a morter, then let a sponge drinke them vp, and put it in the Sonne to dry, afterwarde lay the sponge to his nose & he shall sleepe, and when thou wilt awake him dip an other sponge in vine∣ger, and hold it to his nose.