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 11, 2024.

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Remedies. Chap. lx.

THe braine of ashenne or potage made thereof eaten or applyed to the place of the griefe is of more better operation thā any thing els.

A pacients owne spittle is verie good against venemous bitings.

A scorpion stampt and applied to

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the greuous place, is contrarye to hit owne stinging, and other of hit kinde, and therefore it is a wonder∣full remedie.

Lyr A figge leafe or the rinde of a fig stampt and applied, is very apt and good against venemous stingings.

Goates bloud warmed ouer the fyre and dronk, is of myghtie ope∣ration agaynst all drinking of poy∣sons.

Goates dung tempered with ho∣nie, and put vnto the stinged place, healeth the same.

Dioscor. Oxe hoofes sodden & eaten with Mustard, withstand all poyson, so that nothing is able to hurte.

Agrimonie dronke with wine, is wonderfull good against the vene∣mous bityng of a serpent, a dogge, or a man, and a Carbuncle.

Take Houndes tongue grene or dried, and lay it to the Carbuncle & stynged or venomous place, and it

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will ripe it.

Mollen stampt and plastered, is of great efficacie agaynst the stin∣ging of a serpent, or when a mēber is wounded, put the iuyce therof in∣to the wound, and it will cause the venome to issue out.

Cresses stampt and mingled with braine, healeth the Carbuncle plai∣stered thereon.

Auicen. The ordure of a mā is very good oft times before the breaking forth and after.

Iuniper berries are medicinable against poisons, for there is none of like operation vnto it. Dioscorides also affirmeth that they do helpe a∣gaynste poysons and styngings of serpentes.

Gilbet. Cheruill and culuer foot are very good against the carbuncle: & in the daunger of death giue vnto the pa∣ciēt milk mingled wt wine & water.

The root of brome put into a ves∣sel

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of wine, preserueth the drinkers therof from all poyson, it hath, ben proued.

Dioscor. The rootes of Affodils expelleth all poison incontinent, and it preser∣ueth from euill & venemous meate, and plastred, helthfully helpeth ve∣nomous bytings.

Isaac. Rue, nuttes, and hony stampt to∣gether, and plastred, break wonder∣fully a melancolike or flegmatike apostume.

Nuts stampt and applyed to the grief, togither wt the rynds, destroy all apostumes within the bodie.

The sede of a palm tree drōk with wine healeth al venemous bitings

Fill an egge shell full of the iuyce of egrimony, giue it vnto the pariēt to drink, it purgethmightily al poi∣son vpward, and with a wōderfull facilitie healeth the biting of serpē∣tes and other venemous beastes.

Bees and flies bound & knit with

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Honie & wine in a cloth, drawe out all venom, also apply stamped gar∣like therinto till it breake.

Const. Ditanie stampt and plastred, and the iuyce therof dronk, is very good against all poyson, and venomous bytings.

Dioscor. The same expelleth and draweth out of the body an arow or shaft.

Isaac. Take a kernel of a great nut stāp it with the leaues of rue, & plaister it on the grief early & late, without doubt it wil break the apostume, or any kind of swelling els in the body

An oxe gall breketh a felon, or the sore that is called Cats heare, and breaking out in the fyngers.

Mulberies very ripe drōken and applyed to the griefe, breake won∣derfully the apostumes.

The sede and herb of Cresses min¦gled togither, and plastred, healeth the Carbuncle.

If a man eate garlyke, and then

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drinke the bloude of a Cocke with warme wine, he shall be hurt with no venemous beast.

The bloud of a duck dronk with wyne, preserueth the drinker from all poyson.

Sainct Iohns herbe stampt and plastered immediatly vpon the by∣ting, doth permitte no operation of the poyson in him.

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