' The words are not from Tral- 

 lianus, but he speaks in the same 

 order of apxo/ie'cTjs irimaOui r^y 

 (pKfjIxovTi^ Kol yap St' ovpcov viroKAfn- 

 TETai Kol (TfxiKpvveraL 6 o^/coj. 



VOL. II. O 



- TU T/jS Tre'vf/eoiy arijj.e1a a<r(pa.- 

 KicTipa. Trallianus, p. li-'S, <'J. 

 1548. 



■' Cf. Aretxos ; chrou. I. xiii. 



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every day to drinlc tlie wort parsley, and dill, and seed n.ioi; ii 

 of raarche or its roots with lioney : if he hath no fever * '' 

 eke that with wine. After that other wort drinks 

 are proper, when the swelling is become an abscess and 

 bursteth/ and is becoming more free from soreness, and 

 is passing off downwards through the wamb, and the 

 man pisseth ratten, reckoneth that he then nia}^ be 

 hole ; - then must be given him principally the diure- 

 tic drinks, in order that all the mischief through the 

 wamb and through the mie may be done away, lest 

 the man shouki take to spewing ratten through the 

 mouth ; and let him withhokl himself somewhat from 

 the bath and from green apples. If however the 

 swelling and the ratten mounteth up to that degree 

 that it seem to thee that a man may cut into it and 

 let it out, then work him a salve first of culvers sharn 

 and the like of that, and previously bathe th(; places 

 with sousings, with the water, and with the worts 

 which are wrote of before. Wlien thou understandeth 

 that the swelling is growing nesh and mild, then touch 

 thou it with the cutting iron,^ and cut in a little, 

 and cleverly, even that the blood may come out, lest 

 an evil sinus or pouch descend in thither. Do not 

 let too much blood at one time, lest the sick man be- 

 come too languid or die; but when thou dost prick or 

 cut it, then have for thyself a linen cloth ready that 

 therewith thou mayst soon bind up the cut ; and 

 when thou wilt again let more hlood draw the cloth 

 off, let it run by a little at a time till it gets dry ; 

 and when the wound is clean, then enlarge it that the 

 thirl or aperture may not be too narrow ; Init do 

 thou every day syringe through it with a tube, and 



