A discourse of the preservation of the sight: of melancholike diseases; of rheumes, and of old age ... / Translated out of French into English, according to the last edition by Richard Surphlet.

  • André du Laurens
Date:
1599
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Credit: A discourse of the preservation of the sight: of melancholike diseases; of rheumes, and of old age ... / Translated out of French into English, according to the last edition by Richard Surphlet. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    fee wherein confilteth the maner of dyet tobe obferued of olde folke: and it behoueth (that Imay makean endof the wholedi(= courfe) that every one become wile, to know hisnaturall inclina- tion;afid that experience of fuchthings as do him good or harme; make hima maiftetand-Phifition ynto himfelfe.: | Whit medécinés are most fit for ol te folke and by whas: meñnes the difcommodities of olde age | may be amendeds MES] O many are the difcommodities which’ olde age ‘Sill bringeth with it,as that che learned of olde time did ‘i if [thinke it to come necrer tothe nature of a difeafe The difcom. | then of health, You fhall fee olde mencommonly modities wai- | to be coftiue, toabound with fleagme, and fharpe 8 YPOR old waterifh humours, which canfes fome fmall itchings and burning of vrine,they are all full of windines,and feele an yniuerfall weake- nes ouer all their bodies, becaufe they hauea weake ftomacke, andthe naturall heate of their whole bodie is faint and languifh- ing, they are in a maner altogether fubiect torheumes, and ceafe not either tocough, {pit,orweepe: Allthefeinfirmities may be prouided againft by fome:gentle and delightfome medicines, And firlt of all,the bellie mult be made good,(thatis to fay loofe) How the belly with artificiall brothes ; which may bee prepared diuerfe waies, ere ekept Take of the tender crops of Mallowes,of Mercurie, Garden and: i Re wilde Artichoke, and of the hearbe called Cynocrambe, boyle’ broth, them witha Chicken, and take it in the morning, Fhe broth of red Coleworts with oyle,is very good, but the broth of a Cocke is - the excellenteft of all the reft : ic muftbe madethus, Take an olde Cocke,pullhim and beate him well, afterward kill him, andha- rhebroch of uing taken out his guts, wafh him twife or thrife in white wine, a Cocke, and{luffe his bellie witha handfull of the rootes of Percely, the leauesof Borage, Bugloffe, Burnet, Mercurie, Artichoke of the garden and field, fat Figs,damaske Raifins, Dates, luiubes,the feed of Carthamus and Hilope, boile all thefe together perfeAly, and | “ur. Dd. afters