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or remedy. There are eight sorts of goitre, as those arising from wind, bile, &c. 

 Thus six chapters are on curing diseases in the upper part of the body. 



Now follows the curing of diseases affecting the viscera, and the entrails or 

 vessels. 



34. In curing the diseases of the heart, there is treated of: cause and incident, 

 division, symptom, and remedy. There are seven distinction of diseases in the 

 heart; as the throbbing or palpitation of the heart ^ T Qg<V' &c. &c. 



35. In curing the diseases of the lungs are considered : cause, division, 

 symptom, remedy. There are eight distinctions of diseases. 



36. In curing the diseases of the liver, are treated of: cause, division, symptom, 

 remedy. There are 18 distinctions of diseases. 



37. In curing the diseases of the spleen or milt, four things come into con- 

 sideration. There are five kinds of diseases, as inflammation, &c. 



38. In curing the diseases of the reins or kidneys, there are four considerations, 

 with seven kinds of diseases ; as wind in the reins, &c. 



39. In curing the diseases of the stomach, or the pit of the stomach, there are 

 likewise four things to be previously considered. And first, 16 kinds of diseases, 

 as heat, cold, &c. and again five kinds, as wind, &c. 



40. In curing the diseases of the intestines or bowels are considered four 

 things, as cause, &c. with the distinction of five kinds of diseases. 



41. In the curing of the gut of the entrails or bowels, are considered: symptom 

 and remedv, with five distinctions of diseases ; as cold, puffing up, &c. Thus eight 

 chapters are on curing the diseases of the viscera and vessels ^^'*JjS. 



Diseases of the privy parts. 



42 43. In these two chapters for male and female cases are considered: 

 cause &c. four, with nine and five distinctions of disease respectively. 

 This class of disorders is called £}<vq'dj^ (secret disease). 

 The curing of little diseases (gJi'3j^V 



44. In the curing of hoarseness, or difficulty of using the voice, are 

 considered : cause, incident, &c. four, with seven distinctions of diseases ; 

 as wind, &c. 



45. In curing aversion from food, or restoring the loss of appetite (t£J'JS] T 



Q€j*V ?t «f) there are considered: cause, &c. four; with four distinctions of that 

 disease. 



46. In curing the distemper of continual thirst, are considered : cause and 

 incident, &c. four, with five kinds of that distemper ; as wind, bile, &c. 



47. In the curing of the hiccup, the disease of yexing (convulsion of the 

 stomach £J fi Wj!3Q'3j~ ), are considered: cause and accident, &c. four, with 

 five distinctions of that distemper ; as from meat or food, &c. 



48. The curing of the difficulty of breathing: cause, &c. four ; with five minor 

 distinctions. 



49. The curing of a sudden cholic, (qJ5'£|*J*Vj a distemper of the bowels,) 

 are considered : cause and accident, &c. four; with three principal, and eleven 

 minor, kinds of that distemper; besides some others that are enumerated, as heat 

 and cold ; worms and phlegm, &c. 



50. The curing of diseases arising from worms (in the belly or bowels :) 

 and insects, are considered : cause and accidents, &c. four, with two distinctions 

 inward and outward worms or insects ; as belly worms, lice, and nits. 



