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The same drunke with vineger & salt, purgeth
flegme; & boyled in meade or metheglin, clenseth
the brest, lunges, [renies?], & [matries?], & killeth
wormes. Made into powder & taken in the
waight of three drams with meade or honied
vineger called [?], & a litle salt, purgeth
by stoole cough & clammie flegme sharpe chole-
ricke humours, & all corruption of blood
The same taken in like sorte, is goode a gainst the
[?] schratica, the payne in the side & brest,
against the winde in the side & bellie, & is pro-
als for such as are fearfull, melancholike,
& troubled in mynde.

It is good to be given to those that have the fadinge
sickness so to smell unto.

Epithymum, after Galen, is of more effectuall
operation in phiscke then tyme, beinge hott
& drye in the third degree, more miyhtily
clensinge, heatinge, dryinge, & openinge then
[?suscuta], have right good effect to eradicate
melancholie, or any other humour in the spleene
or other disease, [spronge?] by occasion of the [spleec?].
It helpeth the longe, continued paines of the head,
& be sides his singular effecte about spleneti-
call matters; it helpeth the lepry, or any
disease of melancholie, or hypochondriaes;
all [quarten?] agues, & such like griefes proseeding
from the spleene.

Dioscorides sayth Epithymum drunke with honied
water, pulleth downe by [seige?] flegme, called pituita