The physicians of Myddvai : Meddygon Myddvai, or The medical practice of the celebrated Rhiwallon and his sons, of Myddvai, in Caermarthenshire, physicians to Rhys Gryg, lord of Dynevor and Ystrad Towy, about the middle of the thirteenth century / From ancient mss. in the libraries of Jesus College, Oxford, Llanover, and Tonn; with an English translation; and the legend of the lady of Llyn y Van ; translated by John Pughe and edited by the Rev. John Williams ab Ithel. Pub. for the Welsh mss. society.

Date:: 1861

Credit: The physicians of Myddvai : Meddygon Myddvai, or The medical practice of the celebrated Rhiwallon and his sons, of Myddvai, in Caermarthenshire, physicians to Rhys Gryg, lord of Dynevor and Ystrad Towy, about the middle of the thirteenth century / From ancient mss. in the libraries of Jesus College, Oxford, Llanover, and Tonn; with an English translation; and the legend of the lady of Llyn y Van ; translated by John Pughe and edited by the Rev. John Williams ab Ithel. Pub. for the Welsh mss. society. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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FOR AN ERUPTIVE VIRUS IN THE BLOOD AND FLUIDS. § 411. Take water chickweed, pound well and express the juice under a press ; drink a cupful three times a day on an empty stomach. It is truly good. ANOTHER. § 412. Take chickweed, the leaves or the inner bark of elm, water cress, and scurvy grass, pound them well and express the juice under a press, let it be your only drink for nine days, and as a diet confine yourself to good wheaten bread pre- pared with yeast and goat's milk; it is proven. This medicine and the former one will destroy the eruptive poison in the blood and humors, also that of the inveterate eruption called in Latin Scabies,* and every kind of erup- tive poison in the blood. Pneumonia and numerous other diseases, more than an ignorant person would believe, are occasioned by this kind of blood poison. FOR A BURN OR SCALD. § 413. Take black soap or white, and bind to the injured part. FOR AN ERUPTION OF THE FACE. § 4] 4, Take best wheaten meal, mix with vinegar and honey, and apply to your face. FOR CARBUNCLES AND BOILS. § 415. Take wheaten meal refined, lard. May butter, and sage, pound together and make a plaster thereof, which apply to the carbuncle till it maturates and draws out the matter. FDR PAIN OR SWELLING IN THE MAMM^. § 416. Take the bark of the thornless holly, pound well and mix with good old ale, strain and administer it to the patient as a drink; it is proven that by the use of this the gathering of the breast will be prevented. * Scabies or itch—Scabies does not depend upon a vims, but upon the pre- sence of an insect,—the Aatnis Follicular am, 3 B

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