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 ^f'- ^^■'• 

 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, be- 

 fore 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 

 of swine '^ are easy of digestion, and young beeves, and ^ I'igs trotters, 

 kids : and sweet wine digests better than the roucfh. 



XVI], 



For all liver diseases, and of its nature, and incre- 

 ment, 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 



' In Tr;illianu:j tliesc appliauct'S arc uicaut ior the fainting just nieu- 

 tionod, AcnroSi'.u'c, 



