Leechdoms, wortcunning, and starcraft of early England. Being a ...

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occasion, and eiysipelaton.--. ca-uptions, and immoderatu Uook ir.
desires for meat, and innneuse want of appetite, and
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daintinesses, and sore internal diseases in foemina^ naturalibus,
that is, tlie uterus, and in the feet, and in the
bhidder, and despondency, and immoderately long wakings,
and witless words. The maAv is near the heart and
the spine, and in communication with the brain, from
which the diseases come most violently, from the circumstances
of the maw, and from evil juices, humours
venombearino-. Then the evil humours cct gathered
into the maw, and there they rule with excoriations
within ; esj^ecially in the men v/ho have a very
sensitive and soon sore maw, so that some of them
suddenly die ; they are not able to beai- the strong
excoriatino- effects of the venomous humoiu"s. At Avhiles
worms from the nether parts seek the upper parts, uj)
as far as the maw ; and they also work heart disease,'
and oppressive sensations, and swoonings ; so that sometimes
some men by the gnawing of the v/orms die and
go to the dogs. Wherefore it is well for those men, that
at the first the meats lie given them which have the
virtue of cooling and strengthening, such as be apples,
by no means too sweet, but by all means sourish, and
pears, and peaches, and loaf bread put into cold water or
into hot, according to the liking of the man which hath
the evil humours scarifying and sharp. This also is of
importance in the first place to them who suffer the
heart disease" and the abrasion ; it is fitting that one
should give them by little at a time the meats which
tardily digest, as lax or saltnoii, and the fishes which
slowly digest, goose giblets, and swines feet, and such Contradicts
as have a virtue against the evil humours ; and when
he ^ is better, then let him partake of sweeter meats.
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Tlie Saxon version misses tlic ;nU]i;)i- had liinisclf many times
meaning of icapoiaKus SiafleVeis.
- KcpoiaXyiaf, d/seafte of tin'
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said.
previous cdauses were plural
diyeslive onjun, as the Hellenic unless "tipopia'S stand for tiiiopa"!.
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