Hen feddegyaeth kymrie : (antient Cymric medicine) and lecture memoranda, British Medical Association meeting, Swansea, 1903.
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Credit: Hen feddegyaeth kymrie : (antient Cymric medicine) and lecture memoranda, British Medical Association meeting, Swansea, 1903. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Llewellyn, who was a son ol Philip the Physician, who was a lineal descendant of Einion. A large portion of this manuscript is devoted to dietetics, and includes a table containing many quaint directions for the regulation of diet in health and disease. Emetics, purgatives, suppositories, and cordials are frequently recommended, and baths of various kinds are mentioned. Bleeding was recommended occa.sionally, and local applications, such as poultices and counter-irritants, are frequently alluded to. The exact date of this manuscript is not known, but it was probably written about the end of the fifteenth century. 'I'he work is divided into about 815 paragra]>hs, and begins with a number of conjectures as to the exciting causes of various diseases, such as the following :— “ Fever is excited by excess of heat and cold.” “ Eruptive poison fn the blood, or tumours, are produced by irregularities ol eating and drinking, obstructions in the stomach, veins, or other hollow vessels of the body, so that the food, drink, blood, or humours cannot pass on as usual.” “A boil or carbuncle, or plague, are occasioned by the entrance of poison into the system.” “ From these proceed all fevers and diseases incident to the human body, and by the aid of active remedies they are cured.” ^ Gout was attributed to a “desiccation of humours into a calcareous earth.” Paralysis was said to be due to the blood becoming](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29008682_0033.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
