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Of sickness of tho wanib, unci if it be wounded 

 within, how a man may understand that and cure it. 

 First if there be a wound upon it within, then is tliere 

 sore, and grumblings, and irritation ; and when tliey 

 take meat and drink, then they liave nausea, and tlioir 

 mouth is foul, and they are fevered, and their discharge 

 is bloody and stinketh foully : to those men shall be 

 given eggs to sup up, barley bread, clean new butter, 

 and new barley meal or groats made into a brewit 

 together, as cooks ken to do ; let it be administered to 

 them after their nights fast. Again, let one mingle 

 juice of peas and waybroad Avith strained honey, and 

 give it after the nights fast. Again for that, let one 

 apply good salves, and external applications, such as 

 may draw out that evil, also easily digested meats, and 

 sheer and smooth wine. 



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Of the various nature of the wamb or of its caprice, 

 how a man may rmderstand that. When it is of a 

 liot temper and nature, then a little drink may soon 

 help it. If the drink be more powerful soon tlie wamb 

 is oppressed and palpitates, as if in cold it were 

 ])eating, and it rejoiceth in dry meats. When the 

 wamb is moist it doth not suffer thirst, and it is of a 

 very moist nature ; it doth not suffer thirst nor heavi- 

 ness from meats, and it rejoiceth in moist meats. Of 

 the hot natnre of the wamb. The wamb, that namely 

 which is of a hot nature, digests meats well, especially 

 those which be hard and of difficult digestion, and 

 rejoices in warm meats and drinks, and it is not harmed 

 by cold meats, taken with moderation. That whicli 

 is of a w\atery nature hath a good appetite for meat ; 

 it hath not a good digestion, chiefly of the meats 

 which be of difficult digestion, it rejoices in cold meats. 



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