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or rather liquid, and very little; provided the patient, as Hippocrates advises, can endure the state with the prescribed diet; if not, we will also allow soft eggs, softer meats that are easy to digest, and also (as Galen suggests) fish from rocky places.

33. For a drink, let it initially be barley water, which itself can be altered with vinegar or the acidity of citron. But afterward, when signs of digestion have begun to appear, with Galen, we offer a little watered-down wine, and we increase that same amount gradually.

34. Motion and other more vehement bodily exercises must be avoided, lest, as Hippocrates is the author, we kill the sick along with Herodicus a Greek physician known for his excessive use of gymnastics for the ill.

35. Sleep is harmful during the accesses.

36. Now, because heavy perturbations of the mind destroy the strength, and as Avicenna agrees, prevent digestion, as in any other disease, so also in this one, the mind of the sick person should be delighted with pleasant conversations, singing, musical harmonies, and other similar things. Fear and sadness, especially anger and similar passions of the mind, must be driven away.

37. Medicines must be given that are soothing, preparing, purging, and strengthening.

38. We will draw out the superfluities of the stomach and also of the intestines with a soothing agent: indeed by vomiting, if the sick person is nauseated and their mouth tastes bitter, and they vomit without difficulty; or through the bowels, if the feces are pent up in the lower parts.

39. The matter of the medicine inducing vomiting will sometimes be oil, in which either a feather or the fingers are dipped and inserted into the throat; sometimes a decoction of barley, with acid syrup and oil.

40. We praise a bolus of cassia and tamarinds with sugar, and if there is need, we will add a little of cleaned citron seeds.

41. I wish the same to be understood of manna, purgative rose syrup, and decoction of sorrel.

42. A milder enema will be made from the leaves of beet, violet, and mallow in simple water, or, which is better, in a barley decoction, to which we will add some oil or several oils, sugar, or strained honey, egg yolks, and a little salt.

43. With the bowels thus soothed,