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 2, 2024.

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For all diseases in the head. Capi. j.

THese confections followyng doe not suffer the heares to waxe hore & gray, electuariū de arema∣tibus, confectio alharif, oleum cosli∣num, and de alchana.

These be very good for all disea∣ses in the brayne, the electuarie of Perles, Triacle dyatessoron, and

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the confection of muske.

These comfort the brayne, aroma∣ticum rosarū, maius aromaticum, diambra, gallie elephangine, & pil∣lule stomatice.

These purge the brayne, the cōfec∣tion alphescera, & pillule elephan∣gine, Oximel squillitik openeth the opilation of the brayne.

The infusion of hyera healeth the melancolike paynes of the head.

These be good for the falling euil, confectio de musco, thiriaca diatessarō, confectio alfescera, syrupus sticados, acetum and oximel squilliticum, vn∣guentum de bdellio, oleum de cucume∣re asinino, de lapide, gagatis, de pipe∣ribus and philosophorum Confectio alharif & kebuli conditi, be very good for all diseases in the senses.

These purge the instruments of the senses, pillule elephangine, stomati∣ce, aggregate and pillule lucis, maio∣res, minores.

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Hyerapicra purgeth al cold diseases of ye head, so doth hiera hermetis, hie∣ralogodion rufi, and pillule aggregate.

The cold diseases of the head are healed with the confection of wa∣ter and hony.

These confections ensuing are good for all paynes in the head, oxi∣mell squillitike, infusion of Hyera trochiskes of etro: oyle Anet, oyle of Laurell, of spikenard, of elder, and oyle of wylde cucumer.

The infusion of hyera clenseth the head, so do pillule stomatice, & pil∣lule aggregate maiores.

Hyera hermetis purgeth the he∣micran, & pillule alhandach, an em∣plaster of mustard and oyle of enfor∣bium heale the same.

The electuary of Roses purgeth the headache of an hote cause, and so do pillule alhandach.

These heale the turne or daseling in the head & eyes, the confection of

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muske a sharpe syrop of citrones or of prunes, vineger or oximel squil∣litik, but these purge the same, ha∣mech, electuary of Roses, confectio psilij, hiera hermecis, and pieralogo dion ruffi.

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