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. lxvij.

The bodie being firste purged of burnt humors, applie vnto the place rawe egges, and lay thereon a blete leafe, and thou shalte won∣der at the healing therof.

Take the horn of a gote and burn it in the flame of the fire, & the rynd that riseth therof at that time, take and stampe it with vineger, & ouer∣noynt the burned place therewith, for it healeth wonderfully.

Galen. Barly meale fried or culuers dung dissolued with oyle, aad put a lyn∣nencloth

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& bounde vnto the burnte is wonderfull in efficacie, for thou shalt fynde no stronger medicine a∣gainst this disease called wilde fyre and all other burnings.

Dioscor. The grene leaues of a plane tree, stampt and mixt with grease, hea∣leth oftentimes the burnings.

The leaues of ribworte stampte and plaistred, are a singular helpe.

The yolke of an egge tempered with oile, and so applied assuageth all burnings.

The ashes of the rinde of an elme sprinkled vppon the burning, hea∣leth mightily the burnings with∣out scarres.

Salt stampt & mixt with oyle, & applyed, doth quenche this disease.

Albert. Vineger is of valure aboue all thyng for burnings. And Dioscori∣des sayeth, that it healeth this dis∣ease called Ignis sacer.

Dioscor. The pouder of Hares heares 〈1 page missing〉〈1 page missing〉

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and sprinkled vpon the burning hea¦leth the same quicklye & causeth tue heare to growe.

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