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..

Remedies. Cap. viii.

Macer. LEt thy head. be washed with y^e water of the Decoction of thre leued gras, and lay aplaster of the herbe to thy forehead.

The pith of breade, whiche was baken with coriander seede layd to the head is very good.

Diosco. The ioyce of onions cast into the nosethrilles clenseth the head.

Seeth Pulyole, and laye to tem∣ples, it is proued.

Poure Baume into the eares thrce or foure times in the Sonne and it will heale the pacient.

Lay to the head Silke or woll, dipte in vineger and the ioyce of ground yuy.

Misceltow layd to the head dra∣weth out the corrupt humors.

Mintes layd to the heade take awaye the paynes that come of a cold cause.

The ioyce of Iuy mingled with old lard is wonderfull good.

Thys emplaster was proued by Constantine to be very good, take of Opium and of Saffrō of eyther ʒ .i. of rosis .ʒ .iiii. and thereof with Vineger make a playster.

An other is thys, take Culuer dounge and branne of wheate, and temper them with the white of an Egge, and laye it to the contrarye parte of the head to that whiche is payned.