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LEECH 1500K. II. 197
2. Of tlio overinickk', appetite, when from the same Book II.
cold disease of the maw it cometh that the overmickle
appetite and greediness ariseth from the foul hvimour,
wliich cometh from tlie naaw, and the sick are spewing,
and, as it Avere a hound, again soon seek the meats:
to them thou shalt give clean and clear wine, and red,
much heated ; let it not be too sharp ; nor let the
meat be too sharp, nor too sour, Avhich thou ma-yst
give them, but smooth and fat. If extreme hunger
cometh from immoderate heat and tenderness of the
maw, so that they are soon in a swoon, if they
have not the meat ;
then, for extreme hunger ' thou
shalt soon treat the man ; bind the extremities of liis
limbs with ligatures, pull his locks for him, and
wring his ears, and twitch his whisker, when he is
better, give him soon some bread broken in Avine, before
he take other meats. Give him the meats wliich
are not too soon digested. Beeves flesh, and goats, and
harts digests late : bucks is worst, and rams, and bulls,
and those of four footed neat which are very old, and
fowls which have hard flesh
;
peacock, swan, duck. To
those that have a cold wamb thou shalt give well
digesting meats, shell fishes, and young of culvers, hens
flesh, and gooses wings ;
they are the better as they
are fatter and fresher. The extremities of the liriiljs
^f'- ^^'•
of swine '^ are easy of digestion, and young beeves, and ^ I'igs trotters,
kids : and sweet wine digests better than the roucfh.
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For all liver diseases, and of its nature, and increment,
and of the six things which work the liver pain,
and curing of all these, and plain tokens, either by the
mie, or by tlie loss of appetite, or by the hue of the
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In Tr;illianu:j tliesc appliauct'S arc uicaut ior the fainting just nieutionod,
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