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..

All compounde medicines bee eyther receyued within the body, or layde to the same without, and they which be receyued into the body be these.

• ELectuarium and confectio differ in this alone, that electuarium is moyst, and made with suger and hony, and confectio dry, made al∣onely wyth suger, and bicause they be for diuers diseases, there is no certayne tyme or measure, for the receyuing of them.
• Mixtura is whē diuers electuaries or cōfections be mingled togither, is receiued .ij. houres before meate.
• Tragea is whē diuers pouders be mingled togither with suger, and they be receiued a .ʒ. at once, with soppes of strong wine.
• Conserua & conditū be when diuers spices be mixt with some sirup, and be cōmonly receiued early and late the bignesse of a walnut.

• Loch is a medicine which may be licked with the toung, & may be re∣ceyued at all times in the quantitie of a hasell nutte.
• Iuleb is a cleare potion, made of diuers waters and suger.
• Rob is a iuyce made hard & thick with the heat of the sunne, or of the fire, and is commōly mingled with electuaries and conscrues.
• Syrup is a moyst medicine which may be receyued early or late.
• Decoctum is a medicine made of rootes, leaues, seedes, and floures, whervnto is added suger or hony.
• Infusie is when diuers medicines be beaten to pouder or hole, layde to stiep a certayn space in some liquor.
• Trochiscus is a round confection and plaine, made after the maner of a wheele, the which before it be re∣ceyued must be beaten to pouder, & dronke with wyne or other lycour the weyght of one .ʒ. commonly.

• Pilles be knowē to al mē, & ought to be receiued two or three houres after supper, the quantitie of .ʒ .i.
• Sief is a cōfection made after the fashiō of a suger lofe, & must be dis∣solued in licour before it be receiued.
• Collyrium is a moyst confection, made of sief dissolued.
• Sufuf is a fyne pouder made of diuers spices.
• Secaniabin is a sharpe syrup, wherin is put suger or hony.
• Masticatorium is a confection which is held in the mouth, & che∣wed to purge the head and flegme.
• Suffimentum or suffumigatio is when diuers pouders be cast vpon the coles, and the pacient dothe re∣ceiue the smoke therof.
• Gargarisme is a confection of di∣uers matters, and some decoction wherin som rob is dissolued, which is gargarised in the mouth, and not swalowed downe.