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occasion, and eiysipelaton.--. ca-uptions, and immoderatu Uook ir. 

 desires for meat, and innneuse want of appetite, and * '■ 

 daintinesses, and sore internal diseases in foemina^ natu- 

 ralibus, that is, tlie uterus, and in the feet, and in the 

 bhidder, and despondency, and immoderately long wak- 

 ings, 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 cir- 

 cumstances 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 some- 

 times 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 s wines feet, and such Contradicts 

 as have a virtue against the evil humours ; and when 

 he ^ is better, then let him partake of sweeter meats. 



' Tlie Saxon version misses tlic ;nU]i;)i- had liinisclf many times 



meaning of icapoiaKus SiafleVeis. said. 



- KcpoiaXyiaf, d/seafte of tin' ■'• The previous cdauses were plural 



diyeslive onjun, as the Hellenic unless "tipopia'S stand for tiiiopa"?!. 

 VOX,. If. M 



