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 goute, the sciatica, & all other vl∣cers & ach in the outward members Ca. 17.

OLeum violatū, & cerotum sāda¦liu ar good for all hote apostu∣mes and these ripe and dissolue the same, cerotum andromachi, empla∣strum de fermento, and dyaquilon Oleū auellanarū, vulpinum, de la∣pide gagatis, & philosophorū heale a cold goute, & if it be hote, vse oleū de ranis, & for an old gout, cerotum alexandri, oleū de nucleis cerasorū & de granis citrangulorum be very good, hieralogodiō, & hamech purg acāker or crabbe & these ointments heale y^e same, diafinicon alphesericō emplastrum arabū, oleum iuniperi & de fraxino, & these ripe & breke it, syrupus de epithimio, pillule inde.

These dissolue al hard knobbes & swellings, dialacca, oleum amigda∣larum dulcium, and s••saminum, ce∣rotum ysopi, e••plastrum diaquilon and de allijs.

Oleum lilij, masticum and sina∣pis, ease all paynes whiche come of cold, but if they be hote take oleū ro∣sarū & de papauere, & these asswage al aches, oleum rosatū camomilli, & de melliloto w^t cerotū andromachi.

Vnguentum egiptiacum clenseth an old fistula very well, but ieralo∣g odion ruffi purgeth the matter, & these oyntmentes heale the fistula, vnguentum diafenicon, de lino and alphesericō, oleum de ouis, sirupus de epithimo and emplastrum arabū

Pillule aggregate and de oppopo∣naco purge the matter that causeth paines in the knees, and emplastrū andromachi taketh away the ache. These purge all goutes of cold cau∣ses, hierapigra, hierahermetis ele∣rium

indū, confectiō alkakengi, pil¦lule alhandhal, de hermodactilis, & de oppoponaco, but if I come of a hote cause, take electuariū de succo rosarum, and these purge all kinde of goutes, electuarium alescof, pil∣lule stomatice, aggregate, fetide, of serapino and coloquintide.

Anoynt colde ioyntes with cero∣tum alexandri, & oleum de stincho comforteth lose ioyntes.

For all paynes in the ioynts, take aqua mellis, oleum masticum, de sto¦race, de euphorbia, de been, de lauro de keire, de cucumere asimino, de granis citrangulorum & de piperi∣bus, also vse cerotum Isopi, acetum squilliticum, emplastrum andromachi and filiʐ zacharie.

Emplastrum diaquilon ripeth all swellings.

Trifera sarasenica, is good for wearinesse.

Vnguentum alphesericon, oleum

de iunipero and de fraxino healeth the paynes in the legges.

Confectio de asse and diasulphur be good for bytings of venemous beastes.

Emplastrum de fermento draweth al fixed things out of the body. For the sciatica, take emplastrū andro∣machi, emplast, sinapis, oleum de piperibus and philosophorum.

Anoynt thy body with oyle of dil & thou shalt sweate, and oyle of quin∣ces doth stoppe the sweat.

Pillule aggregate maiores and serapine purge the sciatica.

Hieralogodion ruffi & pillule ag∣gregate minores purge foul vlcers.

Vnguentū noble nichodemi cera∣seos, & ceruse, oleū almezereō de iu∣nipero, & de fraxino heale old vlcers

Oleum de been taketh away the skarre of an vlcer.

Vnguentū sericinum & vnguentum ceruse heale al burning with fyre.