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filled with ratten ; some is very bloody ; some cometh I^ook 11. 

 jfrom the upper belly/ some fi-om the lower : of that 

 in which the discharge cometh from the upper belly, this 

 is a token, that the man feeleth sore at his navel, and 

 heavy sore on his shoulders, and thirst, and loss of 

 appetite, and a little blood droppeth through the back 

 gut or rectum. 



4. The disease d3''senteria cometh to many first ft-om 

 too mickle fsecal discharge, and then a man for a long 

 while attendeth not to this, till the inwards become 

 either inflamed, or through that neglect wounded. 

 At whiles it beginneth from the midriff, which is 

 betwixt the wamb and the liver, and the juices fi-om 

 meats which are mingled with blood and with bad hu- 

 mours, pour themselves through the inwards and cause 

 an evil faecal discharge, and for the grimness of the 

 inflammatous matters the food cannot be contained, 

 but the inwards,- along with it, are driven down, 

 then that turneth to dysentery. We say noiv, how 

 one must cure the man thus afflicted ; to him one must 

 give the meats which restrain the wamb and do not 

 scathe the maw, juice of colewort, at whiles peas broth, 

 and vinegar, and porrum or leek sodden with waybroad, 

 and old cheese sodden in goats milk, along with the 

 grease of goat. At whiles roast the cheese and diy 

 bread, and let him drink water which has been sodden 

 upon roses, at whiles sharp wine. Work him poultices 

 wrought to a clammy mass, barley or wheaten meal 

 sodden with honey, with a moderately mickle * 



' 'E| vi|/ijAfc'i/ ivTfpuv, boioels cor- i tions of the intestines, and tw 

 rectly. j iyrtpcDV fj tpvaiKi] TrtfifK-q, the fat 



- That is c,vaiJ.ara, abraded poi^ \ naturally adhering to them. 



