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black bile.
xvi. Leechdoms and tokens of the hot inflamed maw,
immeasurably fast, and not to he moved, and of the
unreasonably cold maw tokens
;
how the hot inflamed
maw suffers infinite thirst, and swealing heat, and oppression,
and swoonings, and vacillation of the mind,
loss of appetite or nausea ; and how variety of meats
pleases the cold maw ; leechdoms for both, mickle and
noble ;
and of the late digestion of some meats.
xvii. Leech crafts of the various nature and disorders
of the liver, and how it is extended on the right side
as far as the pit of the belly, and how it is five lobed,
and how it is the material and home of blood ;
and that six things work acute pain in the liver, and
the cure of all these, and a plain token of them all,
either by the urine, or by loss of appetite, or by
tJie mans complexion, and l^y many other tokens.
xviii. Leeches teach this leechdom for swelling and
puffing up of the liver.
xix. Leeches speak of these tokens of a swollen and
wounded liver; and leechdoms for that; and of hardening
of the
liver.
XX. Leeches teach this for wound of the liver, when
the swelling or matter bursteth forth.
xxi. Leechdoms and tokens of a hardened and })uffed
up liver in manifold wise, either in the lobes, or in
the margins, or in the membranes, or in the hollows,
of the liver.
xxii. Leechdoms for the sense of hardness of the
liver, and salves, and wort drinks, or if it burst and
descend downwards or mounteth up upwards,^ or if
the insensibility and hardness of the liver become too
prolonged.
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All the viscera were supposed to get out of place.
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