Introductory Book

Item concerning pain of the brain and for dizziness original: "scotoma" of the head

All animals, as Aristotle says, that do not have a brain do not sleep. Item, for all pains of the brain, take wormwood, rue, and ground ivy, and grind them, and add honey as the white [part] of two, and [apply] to the head, and place a linen cloth over it. Grind the seeds of the poppy, and of the powder of white wax, make a whole [plaster], and place it on the head and forehead. Item, take plantain, betony, rachis referring to spine or stalk, mistletoe, and lettuce, with honey added, and oil and vinegar, and let the tenth part be mixed thus, and anoint the head three times in the day and as many times in the night. For a flow into the nostrils, take the face wherever it may be, have plantain and fused [juice], place it to the soft wool, and [after] eight days it heals. And for a blow to the head, take old strong wine, and [it is] a major draft, fill a vessel with wheat flour, and let it boil in a pot until it is moderately hard, which then being soft, mixed with linen, make it and place it upon the head. Item, for dizziness, grind southernwood and dilute it with water,

For pain of the loins

on the herb sastuaria possibly a specific medicinal herb, rub with the hand, and it will emit blood from the nostrils and you will have it gently. Item, for pain of the loins and face, eat sage ground with honey. Item, drink the juice of radish with a drink of water, and [perhaps] baliuū?. Item, balsamic [remedies] given in a drink amends the pain. Item, drink water boiled with garlic, and [apply] its seed...

For cleaning the [...]

Item, if you wish to purge the head into a clean state, have the heat of proximity body heat, and place it in a vessel; sweat with water upon it, and take the juice for a night. Thus, wash the head with that water, and from the sponge of ashes, place it upon the head for half an hour, and press with the hand strongly. Item, for [the scalp], take sulfur and ancient resin, and grind it in a mortar, and [when] liquefied, anoint the scabby places twice or three times in the week.

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Hair of the head [arises] from a hot and gross smoke, which is born for the measure of the humors. It is prepared where the heat exceeds the nature, [and] they fall in abstinence where [it] infests the humors, as in leprosy. And one sees often indeed that it happens in women and in eunuchs, [that it] never grows [due to] the use of venery. Therefore, it is necessary to use it, and [to] have [it] cooled by nature, and [as stated] in the 20th [chapter/book] of the Liber de anima Book of the Soul, that hair is from hot and dry smoke, and is insoluble, and therefore they do not suffer except in the humors... [as seen] in the way humans have straight and hanging hair. White, but frequent and rigid. In the hot, not miserable, often [curly] and curled throughout the whole body. Every animal has [it] in [its] front, as seen in the text...