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CONTENTS,
Preface ..... Page ix
Legend of Llvn y Van .... xxi
Meddygon Myddveu .... 1
Physicians of Myddvai. PART I. . . . 35
Llvfr Meddyginiaetiiau ... 87
Enwau Llysiau . , . . • 281
PwYSAU A Mesurau .... 281
Pethau da Meddyg . . . • . 296
Anhepcorion Meddyg .... 296
Physicians of Myddvai. PART II. . . . 209
Weights and Measures . . . 45S
iNDE.ii .,-... 463
PREFACE.
Meddyginiaeth, or medicine, numbers as one of
"the nine rural arts, known and practised by the
ancient Cymry before they became possessed of cities
and a sovereignty ; "* that is, before the time of
Prydain ab Aedd INIawr, which is generally dated
about a thousand years anterior to the Christian era.
In that remote period the priests and teachers of the
people were the Gwyddoniaip, or men of knowledge,
obviously so called from their being looked upon as
the chief sources and channels of wisdom in the land.
It is to these men that the art of healino- is attri-
buted, which they seem to have practised mainly, if
not wholly, by means of herbs. Indeed Botanology,
or a knowledge of the nature and properties of plants,
is enumerated as one of the three sciences, M'hich
primarily engaged their attention — the other two
being Theology and Astronomy, as appears from the
followino^ Triad : —
" The three pillars of knowledge, with which the G wyddoniald
were acquainted, and which they bore in memory from the beginning :
the first, a knowledge of Divine things, and of such matters as apper-
tain to the worship of God, and the homage due to goodness ; the
second, a knowledge of the course of the stars, their names and kinds,
and the order of times ; the third, a knowledge of the names and use
of the herbs of the field, and of their application in practice, in
medicine, and in religious worship. These were preserved in the
memorials of vocal song, and in the memorials of times, before there
were Bards of degree and chair."t
* >ryv. Arch. iii. p. I'.'l. t Llanover MS.
X TREFACE.
Most of the nations of antiquity protended to
derive the medical art immediately from their gods.
ft does not appear, however, that the Cymry went so
far as to claim for it a divine origin, except in regard
to its elementary principles, though the practice of
it was confined to the priesthood. In this latter
respect also they differed from many old and power-
ful races. The most ancient physicians we read of
in history were those who embalmed the patriarch
Jacob by order of his son Joseph.* JMoses styles these
physicians servants to Joseph, whence we are sure they
were not priests, for in that age the Egyptian priests
were in such high favour, that they retained their
liberty, when, through a public calamity, all the rest
of the people became slaves to the king. In Egypt,
then, religion and medicine were not combined to-
gether. That the Jewish physicians as a class were
absolutely distinct from the priests, is also very cer-
tain ; for when king Asa was diseased in his feet,
" he sought not to the Lord, but to the physicians."t
It would appear that such, likewise, was the case with
the heathens, who dwelt near the Jews, as may be
inferred from what is recorded of Ahaziah, king of
Judah ; when he sent messengers to enquire of Baal-
zebub, god of Ekron, concerning his disease, he did
not desire any remedy from him or his priest, but
only to know whether he should recover or not.+
But among the Cymry all branches of knowledge
were centered indiscriminately in the Gwyddoniai<l
until the time of Prydain. These in his reign were
divided into three orders. Bards, Druids, and Ovates,
♦ Gen. I. 2. f 2 Chron. xvi. 12. : 2 Kini^s i. 2.
PREFACE XI
each having its peculiar duties as well as privileges.
It was to the Ovate more cs})ecially that the studies
and application of tciTestrial and natural sciences,
such as the one which now engages our attention,
were entrusted.
In the Laws of Dyvnwal Moelmud " medicine,
commerce, and navigation," arc styled " the three civil
arts," each having " a peculiar corporate privilege,"
which privilege is stated to be " by the grant and
creation of the lord of the territory, authenticated by
the judicature, and distinct from the general privileges
of a country and kindred."*
The o^reat ledslator is said to have flourished about
o o
the year 430 before Christ. At that time, then, sup-
posing the clause in question to be authentic, the
art of medicine was protected and encouraged by the
state — a fact which, whilst it indicates some progress
in medical knowledge, tells much in favour of the
humanity and peaceful habits of the people in general.
Soon after the era usually assigned to Dyvnwal
Moelmud — about B.C. 400, Hippocrates lived, who is
very generally considered as the father of physic,
inasmuch as from his time medicine seems to have
assumed the form of science among the Greeks.
Whether any of the British Ovates became acquaint-
ed with his system in the interval betMeen this and
the Roman invasion, we are, of course, unable to say.
It is possible that they might have derived some
information of his medical skill and treatment through
the Phoceans, who traded between Marseilles and
Britain ; and we are certain that they were not men
* Ancient Laws and Institutions of Wales, Vol. ii. p. 515.
Xll PREFACE.
to despise any opportunity that fell in their way of
adding to the store of their general knowledge.
In after times, however, we find that Hippocrates
was much esteemed by the medical profession in this
country, and the Physicians of JNIyddvai quote him
with admiration.* But their acquaintance with him
was, no doubt, derived from a perusal of his works,
rather than by tradition.
Some people there may be who are unwilling to
admit the authority of our native memorials as to the
Druidic antiquity of the art of medicine among the
Cymry. But there exists not the slightest reason
for any incredulity or doubt on the subject. On the
contrary, the classical writers of Greece and Rome,
as soon as they are in a position to address us,
bear witness in a greater or less degree to the same
fact, and support the general correctness of our tra-
ditions. The physical researches of the Bards and
Druids seem to have caught their especial attention.
" The soothsayers," says Strabo, " are sacrificers and
physiologists {(pv(Tto\o<^oi.) The Druids in addition to
'pliysiolocfy jiractise ethic philosophy." Nature both
external and human — causes and effects — diseases
and their antidotes — all came under their cognizance,
and in their hands underAvent a complete and prac-
tical investigation. Cicero informs us that he was
personally acquainted with one of the Gallic Druids,
Divitiacus the jEduan, a man of quality in his coun-
try, who professed to have a thorough knowledge of
the laws of nature, including, as we may ^ycll suppose
the science of medicine.
*sco§ nn.
PREFACE. XIll
Pliny enumerates some of the plants most in
repute among the Britons for their medicinal proper-
ties. He mentions the mistletoe, and observes that
in Druidical language it signified " All heal," omnia
sanantem — a name indicative of the efficacy which it
was supposed to possess ; and it is remarkable, as
corroborative of his assertion, that Oil iach is to this
very day one of the names by Avhich the plant in
question is known to the Cymry. Nor does it appear
that its virtues, real or traditionary, were forgotten
in comparatively recent times. In the Book of
Howel Veddyg, a descendant of the celebrated phys-
icians of Myddvai, and which forms the second part
of the present volume, we are informed that the
mistletoe was efficacious in cases of general debility —
nervous complaints — brain fever — rheumatism — affec-
tion of the heart, liver, bowels, kidneys, spine —
epilepsy — paralysis — insanity. It will strengthen the
sight and hearing, and all the bodily senses — prevent
barreness — and " whosoever takes a spoonful of the
powder in his ordinary drink once a day, shall have un-
interrupted health, strength of body, and manly vigour."
Another plant mentioned by Pliny, is the selago,*
a kind of club moss, resembling savine, which,
according to him, the Druids much admired for its
medicinal qualities, particularly in diseases of the eyes.
The samoluSjf or marshwort, is said also to have
been greatly used by them to cure their oxen and swine.
Welsh Botanology comprehends several plants,
which either by name or tradition, are associated
M ith the art of healing, and may be referred purely
* Ljcopodium Selago, oi- Upright Fir Moss.
+ Samoius Valerandi, or Water Pimpernel.
Xiv PREFACE.
to Druidical times, or at least to times when the
Bardic College enjoyed the protection of the state.
Such are the Dcrwen Vendigaid, or Vervain, the
symbol of Alban Hevin, as the Mistletoe was of
Alban Arthan — Arian Cor — Arian Gwion — Berwr
Taliesin — Bogail Gwener — Boled Olwen — Bronwen —
Cerddinen — Clych Enid — Erbin — Eirin Gwion — Ffa-
en Taliesin — Golch Enid — Llys y Dryw — Llys Tal-
iesin — ]VIeillionen Olwen — Pumbys yr Alban — Ys-
pyddaden, with many others.
We do not know to what extent British medicine
was influenced one way or other by the Roman domina-
tion. It is very certain that the masters of the world
did not generally regard Mith a favourable eye our
native institutions ; and as in the matter of medicine
they themselves were not particularly celebrated, we
are warranted in supposing that the medical college
received no very great advantage from their rule.
The Bards, however, though pre-eminently conser-
vative, would not reject any real improvements which
the Romans might propose to their notice, as we
infer from their conduct in other matters, such as
their reception of the Roman mode of making parch-
ment and books.
Soon after the departure of the Romans, partiality
for medical or physical pursuits becomes once more
characteristic of our Cymric ancestors. The following
constituents of man are attributed to the " Chief of
Bards " in the Gth century.
"THE ELEMENTS OF MAN BY TALIESIN."
" Man consists of eight parts -. — the first is the earth, whicii is
sluggish and heavy, whence is the flesh. The second is tlie atones,
which are hard, and tliese are the materials of the bones. The third
is water, which is moist and coM, and is the substance of the blood.
PREFACE. XV
The fourth is salt, which is briny and sliarp, whence are the passions
and the faculties of feeling in respect of corporeal sense and perception.
The fifth is the air, or wind, whence is the breath. The sixth is the
sun, which is clear and fair, whence is the fire, or corporeal warmth,
and the light and colour. The seventh is the Holy Spirit, whence are
the soul and life. The eighth is Christ, that is, the intellect and
wisdom, and the light of the soul and life.
If the part of man that preponderates be of the earth, he will prove
unwise, sluggish and very heavy, and will be a little, short, thin
dwai-f, according as the preponderance may be, whether great or
small. If it be of the air, the man will be light, unsteady-, garrulous,
and given to gossip. If of the stones, he will be hard of heart, under-
standing and judgment — a miser and a thief. If of the *(m, he will
be a man of genius, affectionate, active, docile, and poetical. If of the
Holy Spirit, he will be godly, amiable, and compassionate, of a just
and tender judgment, and fond of the arts and sciences ; and this
cannot otherwise than equiponderate with Christ and divine sonship."*
Taliesin has likewise the credit of being the pro-
pounder of the following medical Triads ; —
" There are three intractable substantial organs : the liver ; the
kidney ; and the heart.
There are three intractable membranes : the dura mater ; the per-
itoneum ; and tlie urinary bladder.
There are three tedious complaints : disease of the knee joint ;
disease of the substance of a rib, and phthysis ; for when purulent
matter has formed in one of these, it is not known when it will get well."t
The period between the Gth and 10th centuries,
being especially occupied with national troubles, does
not seem to have been favourable to the study of the
arts and sciences in Wales ; — at any rate the literary
remains of that interval are extremely scanty, and
furnish us with no information as to the state of
medical science, or the estimation in which the physi-
cian was held in the country.
Not so, howevsr, the era of Howel Dda, (or the
Good.) In his laws, which were compiled about a.d.
930, several particulars are noticed in connexion with
» I-lanover MS. t Llanover MS.
XVJ PREFACE.
these points, and more especially the mediciiier of
the Royal Court. (Jf him it is thus stated : —
" Of the mediciner of the household, his office, his privilege, and his
duty, this treats,
1 . The twelfth is the mediciner of the household.
2. He is to have his land free ; his horse in attendance ; and his
linen clothing from the queen, and his woollen clothing from the king.
3. His seat in the hall within the palace is at the base of the pillar
to which the screen is attached, near which the king sits.
4. His lodging is with the chief of the household.
.5. His protection is, from the time the king shall command him to
visit a wounded or sick person, whether the person be in the palace
or out of it, until he quit him, to convey away an offender.
0. He is to administer medicine gratuitously to all within the
palace, and to the chief of the household ; and he is to have nothing
from tliem except their bloody clothes, unless it be for one of the
three dangerous wounds, as mentioned before ; these are a stroke on
the head unto the brain ; a stroke in the body unto the bowels ; and
the breaking of one of the four limbs ; for every one of these three
dangerous wounds the mediciner is to have nine score pence and his
food, or one pound without his food, and also the bloody clothes.
7. The mediciner is to have, when he shall apply a tent, twenty
four pence.
8. For an application of red ointment, twelve pence.
9. For an application of herbs to a swelling, four legal pence.
10. For letting blood, four pence.
11. His food daily is worth one penny halfpenny.
12. His light every night is worth one legal penny.
13. The worth of a medical pan is one penny .
14. The mediciner is to take an indemnification from the kindred
of the wounded person, in case he die from the remedy he may use, and
if he do not take it, let him answer for the deed.
15. He is to accompany the armies.
16. He is never to leave the palace, but with the king's permission.
17. His saraad is six kine, and six score of silver, to be augmented.
18. His worth is six score and six kine, to be augmented. "
Elsewhere we meet with the following- particulars : —
" Of the three conspicuous scars this is —
There are throe conspicuous scars : one upon the face ; another
upon the foot ; and another upon the hand ; thirty pence on the foot ;
tliree score pence on the hand ; six score pence on the face.
prefacp:. xvii
Every'unexposed'ecar, four pence.
The cranium, four pence.*
For every broken bone, twenty pence ; unless there be a dispute as
to its diminutivness ; and if there be a dispute as to the size Jet the
mediciner take a brass basin, and let him place his elbow upon the
ground, and his hand over the basin, and if its sound be iieard, let four
legal pence be paid ; and if it be not heard, nothing is due."t
This singular test is made more clear in another
place : — thus
"Four curt pennies are to be paid to a person for every bone, taken
from the upper part of the cranium, which shall sound on falling into
a copper basin. "J
If the mediciner was insulted \yhile inebriated he
was not entitled to saraad, as '• he knew not at what
time the king might want his assistance."
He was " firee to travel the road, and out of the
road — along with the messenger of the sick," and, as
stated in legal fragments entitled " Elucidation," any
one might take another's horse to procure a medical
man for a person in danger without being required
to make amends.
We have no reason to suppose that there was any
material difference either in the position of the
physicians, or in the attention paid to the study of
medicine during the succeeding ages, until we come
to the era of Rhys Gryg, when the Physicians of
Myddvai flourished.
Rhys Gryg II was the son of Rhys ab GruiFydd, prince
of South "Wales, and lived in the former part of the
13th century. He was a distinguished warrior, and
fought with varied success in the wars which were
carried on in Wales almost without intermission during
his life. According to old usage he had his domestic
* Ancient Laws and Institutes of Wales, vol. I. p. 41, &c. t lb. p. 315. t p. 507.
I! i. e. Rhys the Hoarse. This surname would seem to indicate that Rhys was
afflicted with some disease of the Larynx, or his hoarseness may have been tho
result of a wound in that part.
XVlll PREFACE.
Pliysician, namely l^hiwalloii, who was assisted by
his three sons, Cadwgan, Griiffydd, and Einion, from a
place called- JNIyddvai, in the present county of Caer-
marthen, whose rights and privileges, as enjoined by
law were worthily maintained and upheld by the prince.
Under his patronage these men made a collection of
valuable medicinal recipes applicable to the various
disorders to which the human body was then subject.
But though this collection bears their name, we are
not to suppose that all the prescriptions contained
therein were the result of the studies and experience
of the Physicians of JNIyddvai. Some no doubt had
been in the materia medica of Wales long before ; a
few indeed may perhaps be traced up to the time of
Howel the Good, if not to the sixth century. Such,
however, do not seem to have been reduced to
writing, until the Physicians of JNIyddvai took the
matter in hand, and produced the work, which is now
for the first ' time printed. The original manuscrij)t
is supposed to be the one lately transferred from the
library of the Welsh Charity School, in London, to
the British Museum. Of this there are several
copies ; the one adopted as the basis of the present
volume is from the Red Book, in Jesus College,
Oxford, which w^as carefully collated by the Rev.
Robert Owen, B.D., Fellow of the said College, with
a transcript made by the late Mr. Saunders, from Mr.
Rees of Tonn's copy; which MS. was, moreover,
copied about 1766, by AVilliam Bona, of Llanpum-
sant, from another belonging to lago ap Dewi of
Llanllawddog The various readings of the Tonn
copy are all arranged at the foot of each page, and
referred to under the letter T.
PREFACE. XIX
A knowledge of medicine was preserved in the
descendants of this family, and they continued to
practice as physicians at Myddvai, without intermis-
sion, until the middle of the last century.
The second portion of this volume purports to
have been compiled by Howel the Physician, son of
Rhys, son of Llewelyn, son of Philip the Physician,
a lineal descendant of Einion, the son of Rhiwallon,
from the Books of the first Physicians of Myddvai.
William Bona made a transcript from the Book of
Jobn Jones, Physician of Myddvai, the last lineal
decendant of the family, a.d. 1743. The late lolo
Morgan wg took a copy of this MS. in 1801, and it is
his copy, now in Llanover Library, that forms the
text of our volume.
Besides these collections, several fragments, some
indeed of considerable lengths, but of uncertain date,
may be often met with in INISS. having for the most
part, perhaps, been made by individual practitioners
for their own private use, before the art of printing
became general. Some medical prescriptions assumed
a proverbial shape, and in that form clung firmly to
the public mind. We subjoin a few of these ; and as
proverbs loose much of their point when translated,
we give them first in their original form.
DIARHEBION MEDDYGOL,
(0 Lyfr laco ab Dewi.)
A gysgo'n ddigwynos, nid rhaid iddo wrth Rhiwallon Myddf'ai.
Cwynos o afalau, boreufwyd o guau.
Genau oer a tliraed gwresog fydd byw'n hir.
I farchnad y pysgod y boreu, a'r gigfa brydnhawn,
Dwr ocr a bara twym a wnant fol afiachus.
Tail* cynncddf dwr ; ni ddug afiechyd, dylcd, na gweddwdod.
Bwytta wyau lieb halen a bair afiechyd.
Nid sarhad dwyn cwynos hen wr.
■Llysowen mewn pastai, a Uaniprai yn yr halea.
XX PREFACE.
Cryd neu dwymyn ar gwympad y dail sydd bob ainser yn bir,
neu'n farwol.
Mynn mis, oen tri mis.
Traed sychion, genau ir.
Gleisiad a phrcgcth y Grawys.
Fe ladd cwynos fwy nac a wellhawyd erioed gan Feddygon Myddfai.
Piydnawnfwyd ysgafn, cwynos lai, cwsg da, hir oes.
Na flysia laeth wedi pysgod.
lecbyd ieueiigct^'d, afiechyd henaint, yw cysgu llawer.
Hir iecbyd ieuengctyd a fyrha'r einioes.
lachach arogli twym iia'i fwytta.
Clefyd hyr i'r corph, a rhcw byr i'r ddaear, a iach&nt, ac a gryfhSnt ;
pob un o'r ddan yn hir a ddinystriant.
Tra phiswyf yn loyw, cavdotted y meddyg.
Gwcll yw blys na glothineb.
Digon fara, ychydig o ddiod.
Y bava ddoe, y cig heddyw, a'r gwin y llynedd, a bair iecliyd.
Torr dy syched He cyrcho golchyddes ei dwr.
Tri dyn a fyddant biroesoeg, aradwr sychdir, hafottwr mynydd, a
physgottwr mor.
Tair gwledd iecbyd, llaetb, bara, a halen.
Tair meddyginiaeth Meddygou Myddfai, dwr, mel, a llafur.
Iecbyd yw llafur cymhedrol.
Tri cbymhedroldeb a barant hir oes, ymbortb, llafur, a myfyrdod.
Ni thorro ei gythlwng ym Mai, cyfrifed ei bun gyda'r meirw.
Yr hwn a welo fFunegl a'r nis casglo, nid dyn namyn diafol y w.
O mynni farw, bwytta ddeilcawl yn Awst.
Na pba faint a fwytteycb, yf deirgwaith.
E ddenfyn Duw fwyd i ddwylo wedi eu golchi.
Yf ddwr fal ych, a gwin fal brenin.
Cynbildeb yw un wy, bonbeddigeiddrwydd yw dau,glewder yw tri,
a dirhidra yw'r pedwerydd.
Pei gwypei rai ddaed iar yn lonawr, ni adewid un ar y glwyd.
Caws defaid, llaetb geifr, menyn gwartheg, sydd oreu.
Tri enllyn iecbyd, mel, ymenyn, a llaetb.
Tri cnll^'^n afiechyd, cig, cwrw, ac aesel.
Na ddiosg dy bais cyn y Derchafael.
Os mynni fyned yn glaf, golch dy ben, a dos i gysgu.
Nid oes mewn cawl beb lysiau na daioni, na maeth.
O mynni farw, bwytta gig maharen, rhost, a chwsg yn fuan.
Os bwyttai l)eth drwg, bwytta ysgyfarnog rost.
Mwstard wedi bwyd.
A gartho ei ddanedd a blaen ei gyllell, gall eu cartbu cyn bo liir
tt'r earn,
Udgorn angau yw poswcb sycli.
PREFACE. XXI
MEDICAL MAXIMS,
(From the Book of lago ab Uewi.,'
He who goes to sleep supperless will have no need of Rhuvallon
of Myddvai.
A supper of apples — breakfast of nuts.
A cold mouth and warm feet will live long.
To the fish market in the morning, to the butcher's shop in tlio
afternoon.
Cold water and warm bread will make an unhealthy stomach.
The throe qualities of water : it will produce no sickness, no debt,
and no widowhood.
To eat eggs without salt will bring on sickness.
It is no insult to deprive an old man of his supper.
An eel in a pie, lampreys in salt.
An ague or fever at the fall of the leaf is always of long continuance,
or else is fatal.
A kid a month old — a lamb three months.
Dry feet, moist tongue.
A salmon and sermon in Lent.
Supper will kill more than were ever cured by tlie Physicians of
Myddvai.
A light dinner, a less supper, sound sleep, long life.
Do not wish for milk after fish.
To sleep much is the health of j^outh, the sickness of old age.
Long health in youth will shorten life.
It is more wholesome to smell warm bread than to eat it.
A short sickness for the body, and short frost for the earth, will
heal ; either of them long will destroy.
Whilst the urine is clear, let the physician beg.
Better is appetite than gluttony.
Enough of bread, little of drink.
The bread of yesterdaj', the meat of to-day, and the wine of last
year will produce health.
Quench thy thirst wliere the washerwoman goes for water.
Three men that are long-lived, the ploughman of dry land, a moun-
tain dairyman, and a fisherman of the sea.
The three feasts of health, milk, bread, and salt.
The three medicines of the Physicians of Myddvai, water, honey,
and labour.
Moderate exercise is health.
Three moderations will produce long life ; in food, labour, and
meditation.
Whoso breaks not his fast in May, let him consider himself with
the dead.
lie who sees fennel and gathers it not. is not a man, but a devJI.
If tiiou desirest to die, eat cabbage in August.
XXII PREFACE.
Whatever quantity thou eatest druik thrice.
God will send food to wasiied hands.
Drink water like an ox, and wine like a king.
One egg is economy, two is gentility, three is greediness, and the
fourth is wastefulness.
If persons knew how good a hen is in January, none would be left on
the roost.
The cheese of sheep, the milk of goats, and the butter of cows are
the best.
The three victuals of health, honey, butter, and milk.
The three victuals of sickness, flesh meat, ale, and vinegar.
Take not thy coat off before Ascension day.
If thou wilt become unwell, wash thy head, and go to sleep.
In pottage without herbs there is neither goodness, nor nourishment.
If thou wilt die, eat roast mutton, and sleep soon after it.
If thou wilt eat a bad thing, eat roast hare.
Mustard after food.
He who cleans his teeth with the point of his knife, may soon clean
them with the haft.
A dry cough is the trumpet of death."
In conclusion, we beg to congratulate the Welsh
MSS. Society, under whose auspices the present
volume is published, upon its selection of a Translator.
Mr. Pughe, himself a member of the medical profession
and a good Welsh Scholar, has done full justice to a
work, the execution of which required skill and
judgment of no ordinary kind. We are sure that the
country will appreciate his labours.
Our thanks are greatly due to Lord Llanover for
the liberal use of his MS., likewise to the Rev. Robert
Owen, B.D., Jesus College, Oxford, for the very kind
and careful manner in which he collated the Tonn jNIS,
with the Red Book version ; also to JNIr. Rees of
Tonn, for his kindness in lending his IMS. for that
purpose, and for the pains with which he compiled the
ISIyddvai Legend ; when gratuitous aids of such a kind
are so rare, they deserve special ackno\\ledgment.
Feast of St. David, im. THE EDITOR.
€i)t ^legend of ^l^ih^^Wmx^W^tl),
OR
€in SLatrp of tin ^akc»
THE
LEGEND OF LLYN-Y-VAN-VACH,
OR THE ORIGIN OF
€jie ffit^hjgnti 3flli]iiMai,
COLLECTED FROM VARIOUS SOURCES,* IN THE YEAR 1841. t
When the eventful struggle made by the Princes of South Wales
to preserve the independence of tlieir country was drawing to
its close in the twelvth century, there lived at BlaensawddeJ
near Llanddeusant, Carmarthenshire, a widowed woman, the relict
of a farmer who had fallen in those disastrous troubles.
The widow had an only son to bring up, and Providence smiled
upon her, and, despite her forlorn condition, her live stock had so
increased in course of time that she could not well depasture them
upon her farm, so she sent a portion of her cattle to graze on the
adjoining Black Mountain, and their most favourite place was
near the small lake called Llyn-y-Van-Vach, on the North Western
side of the Carmarthenshire Vans.
* Written down by Mr. William Rees, of Tonn, near Llandovery, from the
oral rec-itations of the late Mr. John Evans, Tiler. Myddvai ; Mr, David
Williams, Mason, Morfa, Myddvai; (about 90 years old) and Mrs. Elizabeth
Morgan, of Henllys Lodge, near Llandovery, a native of Myddvai,
t Mr. Rees begs to acknowledge his obligations to J. Joseph, Esq. F..S.A.
Brecon, for collecting several particulars and incidents of the Legend from
amongst the old inhabitants of the Parish, of Llanddeusant.
X Blaensawdde, or the upper end of the river Sawdde — is situate about three
quarters of a mile S, E. from the village of Llanddeusant. It gives its name to
one of the hamlets of that parish. The Sawdde has its source in Llyn-y-Van-
Vach, which is nearly two miles distant from Blaensawdde house.
XXII LEGEND OF LLYN-Y-VAN,
TIio son grew up to manhood, and was generally sent by his
mother to look after the cattle on the mountain. One day in his
peregrinations along the margin of the lake, to his great astonish-
ment, he beheld, sitting on the unruffled surface of the water, a
Lady; one of the most beautiful creatures that mortal eyes ever
beheld, her hair flowed gracefully in ringlets over her shoulders,
the tresses of which she arranged with a comb, whilst the glassy
surface of her watery couch served for the purpose of a mirror,
reflecting back her own image. Suddenly she beheld the young
man standing on the brink of the lake, with his eyes ri vetted on
her, and unconsciously off"ering to herself the provision of barley
bread and cheese with which he had been provided when he left
his home.
Bewildered by a feeling of love and admiration for the object
before him, he continued to hold out his hand towards the lady,
who imperceptibly glided near to him, but gently refused the off'er
of his provisions. He attempted to touch her, but she eluded his
grasp, saying
" Cras dy fara ! \
Nid hawdd fy nala."
Hard baked is thy bread I
'Tis not easy to catch me ;
and immediately dived under the water, and disappeared, leaving
the love stricken youth to return home, a prey to disappointment
and regret that he had been unable to make further acquaintance
Avith one, in comparison with whom the whole of the fair maidens
of Llanddeusant and Myddvai,'^ whom he had ever seen were as
nothing.
* Myddvai parish was, in former times, celebrated for its fair maidens, but
whether they were descendants of the Lady of the Lake or otherwise cannot be
determined. An old pennill records the fact of their be.auty thus : —
" Mae eira gwyn
Ar ben y bryn,
A'r glasgoed yn y Ferdre,
Mae bedw man
Ynghoed Cwm-bran,
A nierched glan yn Myddfe,"
Which may be translated,
There is white snow-
On the mountain's brow,
And greenwood at the Verdrc,
Young birch so good
In Cwm-bran wood,
And lovely girls in Myddvs,
Uli THE LADY OF THE LAKE. XXI II
On his return home the young man communicated to iiis mother
the extraordinary vision he had beheld. She advised him to take
some unbaked dough or " toes " the next time in his pocket, as
there must have been some spell connected with the hard baked
bread, or " Bara eras," which prevented Ills catching the lady.
Next morning, before the sun had gilded with its rays the
peaks of the Vans, the young man was at the lake, not for the
purpose of looking after his mother's cattle, but seeking for the
same enchanting vision he had witnessed the day before ; but all
in vain did lie anxiously strain his eye-balls and glance over the
surface of the lake, as only the ripples occasioned by a stiff
breeze met his view, and a cloud hung heavily on the summit of
the Van, which imparted an additional gloom to his already
distracted mind.
Hours passed on, the wind was hushed, and the clouds which had
enveloped the mountain had vanished into thin air, before the
powerful beams of the sun, when the youth was startled by
seeing some of his mother's cattle on the precipitous side of tho
acclivity, nearly on the opposite side of the lake. His duty im-
pelled him to attempt to rescue them from thoir perilous position,
for which purpose he was hastening away, when, to his inexpressi-
ble delight, the object of his search again appeared to him as
before, and seemed much more beautiful than when he first
beheld her. His hand was again held out to her, full of unbaked
bread, which he offered with an urgent proffer of his heart also, and
vows of eternal attachment. All of which were refused by her,saying
" Llaith dy fara !
Ti ni fynua\"
Unbaked is thy bread !
I will not have thee.
But the smiles that played upon her features as the lady vanished
beneath the waters raised within the young man a hope that
forbade him to despair by her refusal of him, and the recollection
of which cheered him on his way home. His aged parent was
made acquainted with his ill-success, and she suggested that his
bread should next time be but slightly baked, as most likely to
please the mysterious being, of whom he had become enamoured.
Impelled by an irresistible feeling, the youth left his mother's
house early next morning, and with rapid steps he passed over the
XXIV LEGEND OF LLYN-Y-VAN,
mountain. He was soon near the margin of the lake, and with
all the impatience of an ardent lover, did he wait with a feverish
anxiety for the re-appcarance of the mysterious lady.
The slieep and goats browsed on the precipitous sides of the
Van ; tlie cattle strayed amongst the rocks and large stones, some
of which were occasionally loosened from their beds and suddenly
rolled down into the lake; rain and sunshine alike came and
passed away, but all were unheeded by the youth, so wrapped up
was he in looking for the appearance of the lady.
The freshness of the early morning had disappeared before the
sultry rays of the noon-day sun, which in its turn was fast verging
towards the west as the evening was dying away and making
room for the shades of night ; and hope had well nigh abated of
beholding once more the Lady of the Lake. The young man cast a
sad and last farewell look over the waters, and, to his astonish-
ment beheld several cows walking along its surface. The sight of
these animals caused hope to revive that they would be followed
by another object far more pleasing, nor was he disappointed, for
the maiden re-appeared, and to his enraptured sight, even lovelier
than ever. She approached the land, and he rushed to meet her
in the water. A smile encouraged him to sieze her hand ; neither
did she refuse the moderately baked bread he offered her ; and
after some persuasion she consented to become his bride, on con-
dition that they should only live together until she received from
him three blows without a cause
" Tri ergyd diachos."
Three causeless blows.
And if he ever should happen to strike her three such blows, she
would leave him for ever. To such conditions he readily con-
sented, and would have consented to any other stipulation, had
it been proposed, as he was only intent on then securing such a
lovely creature for his wife.
Thus the lady of the lake engaged to become the young man's
wife, and having loosed her hand for a moment, she darted away
and dived into the lake. His chagrin and grief were such that he
determined to cast himself headlong into tlie deepest water, so as
to end his life in the element that had contained in its unfethomed
depths the only one for whom he cared to live on earth. As he
was on the point of committing this rash act, there emerged out
OR THE LADY OF THE LAKE. XXV
of tlie lake two most beautiful ladies accompanied by a hoary
headed man of noble mien and extraordinary stature, but having
otherwise all the force and strength of youth. This man addressed
the almost bewildered youth, in accents calculated to soothe his
troubled mind, saying that as he proposed to marry one of his
daughters, he consented to the union provided the young man
could distinguish which of the two ladies before him was the
object of his affections. This was no easy task as the maidens
were such perfect counterparts of each other, that it seemed quite
impossible for him to choose his bride, and if perchance he fixed
upon the wrong one, all would be for ever lost.
Whilst the young man narrowly scanned the two ladies, he
could not perceive the least difference betwixt the two, and was
almost giving up the task in despair, when one of them thrust her
foot a slight degree forward. The motion, simple as it was, did
not escape the observation of the youth, and he discovered a
trifling variation in the mode with which their sandals were tied,
this at once put an end to the dilemma, for he, who had on pre-
vious occasions, been so taken up with the general appearance of
the Lady of the Lake, had also noticed tlie beauty of her feet and
ankles, and on now recognizing the peculiarity of her shoe-tie he
boldly took hold of her hand.
" Thou hast chosen rightly " said her father, " be to her a kind
and faithful husband, and I will give her, as a dowry, as many
sheep, cattle, goats, and horses, as she can count of each, without
heaving or drawing in her breath. But remember that if you
prove unkind to her at any time, and strike her three times with-
out a cause, she shall return to me and shall bring all her stock
back with her."
Such was the verbal marriage settlement, to which the young
man gladly assented, and his bride was desired to count the num-
ber of sheep she was to have. She immediately adopted the
mode of counting by Jives, thus : — One, two, three, four, five — One,
two, three, four, five ; as many times as possible in rapid succes-
sion, till her breath was exhausted. The same process of reckoning
had to determine the number of goats, cattle, and horses respec-
tively ; and, in an instant the full number of each came out of the
lake when called upon by the Father.
The young couple were then married, by what ceremony was
not stated, and afterwards went to reside at a farm called Esgair
XXVI LEGEND OF LLYN Y VAX,
Llaetlidy, somewhat more than a mile from the village of Myddvai,
where they lived in prosperity and happiness for several years,
and became the parents of three sons, who were beautiful children.
Once upon a time there was a christening to take place in the
neighbourhood, to which the parents were specially invited.
"When the day arrived the wife appeared very reluctant to attend
the christening, alledging that the distance was too great for her
to walk. Her husband told her to fetch one of the horses which
were grazing in an adjoining field. "I will" said she, "if you
will bring me my gloves which I left in our house." He went to
the house and returned with the gloves, and finding that she had
not gone for the horse, jocular!)' slapped her shoulder with one of
them, saying " go ! go ! (dos, dos) when she reminded him of the
understanding upon which she consented to marry him ; — That he
was not to strike her without a cause ; and warned him to be
more cautious for the future.
On another occasion when they were together at a wedding ;
in the midst of the mirth and hilarity of the assembled guests,
who had gathered together from all the surrounding country, she
burst into tears and sobbed most piteously. Her husband touched
her on her shoulder and enquired the cause of her weeping ? she
said " now people are entering into trouble, and your troubles are
likely to commence as you have the second time stricken me
without a cause."
Years passed on, and their children had grown up, and were
particularly clever young men. In the midst of so many worldly
blessings at home the husband almost forgot that there remained
only one causeless blow to be given to destroy the whole of his
prosperity. Still he was watchful lest any trivial occurence should
take place, which his wife must regard as a breach of their
marriage contract. She told him, as her affection for him was
unabated, to be careful that he would net, through some inadver-
tence give the last and only blow, which, by an unalterable destiny,
over which she had no control, would separate them for ever.
It however so happened that one day they were together at a
funeral, where, in the midst of the mourning and grief at the
house of the deceased, she appeared in the highest and ga3-est
spirits, and indulged in immoderate fits of laughter, which so
shocked her husband that he touched her saying " Hush ! Hush !
dout laugh." She said that she laughed '■ because people when
OR THE LADY OF THE LAKE. XXVll
they die go out of trouble," and, rising up, she went out of the
house, saying, '• The last blow has been struck, our marriage con-
tract is broken, and at an end ! Farewell ! " Tiicn she started off
towards Esgair Llaethdy, where she called her cattle and other
stock together, each by name. The cattle she called thus : —
" Mu wlfrcch, Moelfrech,
Mu olfrech, Gwynt'rech,
Pedair cae tonn-t'rcch,
Yr hen wynebwen
A'r las Geigen,
Gyila'r Tarw Gwyn
O lys y Bronin ;
A"r llo du bacb,
Sydd ar y bach,
Dere dithau, yn iach adre ! "
Brindled cow, white speckled.
Spotted cow, bold freckled,
The four field sward mottled,
The old white-faced,
And the grey Geingcn,
With the white Bull,
From the court of the King ;
And the little black calf
Tho' suspended on the hook.
Come thou also, quite well home !
They all immediately obeyed the summons of their mistress, the
"little black calf" although it had been slaughtered, became alive
again and walked off with the rest of the stock at the command
of the Lady. This happened in the spring of the year, and there
were four oxen ploughing in one of the fields, to these she cried,
" Fed war eidion glas
Sydd ar y maes,
Deuwch chwithau
Yn iach adre ! "
The four grey oxen.
That are on the field,
Come you also.
Quite well home!
Away tho whole of tlie live stock went with the Lady across
M3-ddvai Mountain, towards tho lake from whence tlicy came, a
distance of above six miles, where they disappeared beneath its
waters, leaving no trace behind except a well marked furrow,
which was made by the plough the oxen drew after them into the
lake, and which remains to this day as a testimony to the truth of
this story.
XXViii LEGEND OF LLYN-Y-VAN,
What became of the affrighted ploughman — whether he was left
on the field when the oxen set off, or whether he followed them
to the lake has not been handed down by tradition ; neither has
the fate of the disconsolate and half-ruined husband been kept in
remembrance. But of the sons it is stated that they often wan-
dered about the lake and its vicinity, hoping that their mother
might be permitted to visit the face of the earth once more, as
they had been apprised of her mysterious origin, her first appear-
ance to their father, and the untoward circumstances which so
unhappily deprived them of her maternal care.
In one of their rambles, at a place near D61 Howel, at the
Mountain Gate, still called " Llidiad y Meddygon " The Pysicians'
Gate, the mother appeared suddenly, and accosted her eldest son,
Avliose name was llhiwallon, and told him that his mission on
earth, was to be a benefactor to mankind by relieving them from
pain and misery, through healing all manner of their diseases ;
for which purpose she furnished him with a bag full of Medical
Prescriptions and instructions for tlie preservation of health.
That by strict attention thereto, he and his family would become
for many generations the most skilful Physicians in the country.
Then promising to meet him when her counsel was most needed,
she vanished. But on several occasions she met her sons near the
banks of the lake, and once she even accompanied them on their
return home as far as a place still called " Pant-y-Meddygon " The
dingle of the Physicians, where she pointed out to them the
various plants and herbs which grew in the dingle, and revealed
to them their medicinal qualities or virtues, and the knowledge
she imparted to them, together with their unrivalled skill soon
caused them to attain such celebrity that none ever possessed
before them. And in order that their knowledge should not be
lost, they wisely committed the same to writing, for the benefit of
mankind throughout all ages.
And so ends the story of the Physicians of Myddvai, which has
been handed down from one generation to another, thus : —
" Yr hen wr llwyd o'r cornel,
Gan ei dad a glywodd chwedel,
A chan ei dad fe glywodd yntau
Ac ar ei 61 mi gofiais innau."
The grey old man in the corner,
Of his father heard a story,
AVhich from his father he had heard,
And after them I have romembored.
OR THE LADY OF THE LAKE. XXIX
As stated in the Introduction of the present Work, llhiwallon
and his sons became Physicians to Rhys Gryg, Lord of Llandovery
and Dynevor Castles, "who gave them rank, lands, and privileges
at Myddvai for their maintenance in the practice of their art and
science, and the healing and benefit of those who should seek
their help," thus affording to those who could not aiford to pay,
the best medical advice and treatment, gratuitously. Such a truly
Royal Foundation could not fail to produce corresponding effects.
So the fame of the Physicians of Myddvai was soon established
over the whole country, and continued for centuries among their
descendants.
The celebrated Welsh Bard, Dafydd ap Gwilym, who flourished
in the following century, and was buried at the Abbey of Tal-y-
llychau, in Caermarthenshire, about the year 1368, says in one of
his Poems, as quoted in Dr. Davies' Dictionary.
" Mcddyg ni wnai modd y gwnaeth
Myddfai o chai ddyn meddfaetb."
A Physician he would not make
As Myddvai made, if he had a mead fostered man.
Of the above lands bestowed upon the Meddygon, there are two
farms in Myddvai parish still called "Llwyn Ifan Feddyg," the
Grove of Evan the Physician ; and "Llwyn Meredydd Feddyg"
the Grove of Meredith the Physician. Esgaer Llaethdy, mentioned
in the foregoing Legend, was formerly in the possession of the
above descendants, and so was Ty newydd, near Myddvai, which
was purchased by Mr. Holford, of Cilgwyn, from the Rev. Charles
Lloyd, Vicar of Llandefalle, Brecoushire, who married a daughter
of one of the Meddygon, and had the living of Llandefalle from a
Mr. Vaughan, who presented him to the same out of gratitude,
because Mr. Lloyd's wife's father had cured him of a disease in the
eye. As Mr. Lloyd succeeded to the above living in 1748, and died
in 1800, it is probable that the skilful occulist was John Jones,
who is mentioned in the following inscription on a tombstone at
present fixed against the west end of Myddvai Church.
HERE
Lieth the body of Mr. David Jones, of Motbvey, Surgeon,
who was an honest, charitable, and skilful man.
He died Septemder 14tb, Anno Dom 1719, aged 61.
JOHN JONES, Surgeon,
Eldest son of the said David Jones, departed this life
the 25th of November, 1739, in the 44th year
of his Age, and also lyes interred hereunder.
XXX THE LEGEND OF LLYN-Y-VAN.
These appear to have hcen tlie last of tlie Physicians wlio prac-
tised at Myddvai. The above John Jones resided for some time at
Llandovery, and was a very eminent surgeon. One of his des-
cendants named John Lewis, lived at Cwmbran, Myddvai, at which
place his great grandson Mr. John Jones, now resides.
Dr. Morgan Owen, Bishop of LlandafF, who died at Glasallt,
parish of Myddvai, in 1645, was a descendant of the Meddygon,
and an inheritor of much of their landed property in that parish,
the bulk of Avhich he bequeathed to his nephew, Morgan Owen,
who died in 1G67, and was succeeded by his son, Henry Owen ;
and at the decease of the last of whose descendants, Robert Lewis,
Esq. the estates became through the will of one of the family, the
property of the late D. A. S. Davies, Esq. M.P. for Caermarthenshire.
Bishop Owen bequeathed to another nephew, Morgan ap Rees,
son of Rees ap John, a descendant of the Meddygon, the farm of
Rhyblid, and some other property. Morgan ap Rees' son, Samuel
Rice, resided at Loughor, in Gower, Glamorganshire, and had a
son, Morgan Rice, who was a merchant in London, and became
Lord of the Manor of Tooting Graveney, and High Sheriff in the
year, 1772. and Deputy Lieutenant of the County of Surrey, 1776.
He resided at Hill House, which he built. At his death the whole
of his property passed to his only child, John Rice, Esq. whose
eldest son, the Rev. John Morgan Rice, inherited the greater
portion of his estates. The head of the family is now the Rev.
Horatio Morgan Rice, Rector of South Hill, with Calliugton, Corn-
wall, and J. P. for the County, who inherited with other property,
a small estate at Loughor. The above Morgan Rice had landed
property in Llanmadock and Llangenith, as well as Loughor, in
Gower, but whether he had any connexion with Howel the
Physician, (ap Rhys ap Llywelyn ap Philip the Physician, and
lineal descendant from Einion ap Rhiwallou,) who resided at Cil-
gwryd in Gower is not kno\vn.
Amongst other families who claim descent from the Physicians
were the Bowens of Cwmydw, Myddvai ; and Jones of Dollgarreg
and Penrhock, in the same parish ; the latter of wiiom are re-
presented by Charles Bishop, of Dollgareg, Esq. Clerk of the Peace
for Caermarthenshire, and Thomas Bishop, of Brecon, Esq.
Rees Williams of Myddvai is recorded as one of the Meddygon.
His great grandson was the late Rice Williams, M.D. of Aber-
ystwyth, who died May 16th, 1842, aged 85, and appears to have
been the last, although not the least eminent, of the Physicians
descended from the niyslcrious Lady of Llyn-y-Van.
5Hf^hjgim SHiJ^litini.
§ 1. Yma gan borth duw goruchel bendeuic, y dangossir
J medegynyaetheu arbennickaf a phennaf wrtli gorfF dyn ;
a sef J neb a beris eu hyscrivennu yn y mod hwn Riwallawn
uedic ae ueibon : nyt amgen : kadvgavn a Gruffud ac Einavn.
Kanys vynt a oedynt oreu a phennaf or medygon yn eu
hamser liwy; ac yn araser rys gryc eu harglwyd; ac ar-
glwyd dinefvr, y gwr^ a gedwis eu breint ac eu dlyet yn
gvbyl vrthunt yn enrydedus mal y dylyynt
. Ac y sef achavs y parassaut hvy ysgnuennu eu kywrein-
rf ydd yn y mod h<^nn rac na bei a Avypei gystal ac a -svydynt
hwy gvedy vy.
§ 2. Ac or peth pennaf a chyntaf ar a ffurueid^ys duw
gorff dyn : y peon yv hvnnv kanys yadav y mae y pump
synnvyr corff.
§ 3. Tri lie yn y penn y megir cleuydyeu: un yv y tonn;
Eil yv y acreuan; Trydyd yv y greadur.
1 A'l hwy, T,
B
15 MEDDYGON MYDDVEU.
§ 4. O agon ^ ar y penn hyt y creuan, a gollvng y gvcn-
<yn y g^aredir y greuan. O wact a Uosccu y g^^aredir y
tomi.
§ 5. O agoii ar y greadur ac yna kymryt y deupartli or
danliogen ar trayan or <iolet ; ac emenyn hallt ; ac eu maedu
ygyt. ae dodi •^vilmv. A hynny a diwennvyna y greadur.
Or kyuyt Hit a guenvwyn yndi.
§ G. Or pan agorer^ ar y tonn hyt ympenn y nafuet dyd
y bjd yfist ^ ar y ascf rn : sef y gfneir hynny o hen gleuy t
penn.^
§ 7. O dyrnaf t new3'^d neu urath newyd ar y penn goreu
y^ bo kyntaf y diotter. rac dygfydav gvaet ar y greadur ae
uerfi yno. Or pann diotter yr ascvrn y ar y greadur;
kymryt y uiolet ac emenyn gvyry ae maedu y gyt ; ac ony
chefFir ^ y uiolet, kymryt gvynn f y a Uin, ac eu maedu ygyt;
neu emenyn g^^yry a Uin ; ac eu dodi frthav yn y donneuher^
ac yua ^ gvneythur eli o lysseu ac emenyn a gver ac eu dodi
vrtbaf yn y bo lacb. Punt yw dylyet y medic or gveith ^
hvnnv yn y trugared heb y ymbortb ; neu nav ugeint ae
ymborth.
§ 8. Rac gvaev llygat : llosc ym pant yr ael ac arall yn y
wegil : a byiiy rac gvlybvr ^ y penn yssyd da.
§ 9, Rac llygeit coch gflyborafc,^" dodi magyl dan y dvy
en, a llosc yn y wegil. a hynny rac gvlybvr y penn yssyd da.
§ 10. Rac sychgeruyn. kymryt sud^^ y syui, a blonec lar,
ac emenyn mei ac eu maedu ygyt, ac eu dodi y my vn corn : a
phan elych y gysgcu ; iraf dy lygeit ath amranneu ^^ yn da.
ac vynt a U3^dant fach.
§ 11. Tri ryf ysgyucint yssyd. ysgyucint^^ vst, a gwvnn
ysgyueint^^; a g^^aev dan y dvyuronn. ac y dan yr adein. ac
' Ogori, T. ^ Agoret, T. ' Y bist ar. T. *Y penn, T. ^ciieir, T.
"Dontuher, T. ' Vno, T. - Moddicyniacth, T. "Glvbur, T.
i" ^'^d yw gvljboravc yn T. n Sydd, T. i^ Amuiraiit.iu, T. " Sid yw
ysgyueint yn T. i* A du ysgyveint. ^V, O. P,
MEDDYGON MYDDVEU. 3
ymponn yr ysgfyd, a choclii y deuriul. a ual liynn y mcdeg-
ynyefthyr. kymryt tridieu goduc orllysseu hynn; y kygget.
ar trydou. ar troet rud, a gvrtlilys yr alannon.^ Ac odyna
tridieu ereill ; ar y bridell. a gvedy yd atueirer ^ y cleuyt
or kymhibeu uelly, rodi kyuot yr dyn erbyn pcnn''' y
na^uetryd.* Ac odyna g^^neuthur mcdyglyn tr^y wcuitli
gvrvf, neii trwy win coch. ar llysscu hynn. y wroidrud.^
ar turth.^ar cnnyd. ar tryw. a llygat y dyd, ar hennllydan/
ar ercliwreid ; a g^'reid yr erwenn, ar gruc, ar uabcoll, a'r
udrot, ar grygyon a'r ten teulys iiendigeit, ar garawit ^ ; ac
a vynno y medic o lysseu ereill. Mai hynn hagen y gvneir
y gvynn gyflith ^ : kymryt emenyn mei, a gfer gauyr, neu
iret hyd, ar greithic ac a vynner ^° llysseu ac.y ^^ am hynny.
Brath ysgyueint hagen trydyd kyueilorn medic y v : kany
dichavn medic dodi teruyn arnav ; namyn aros ewyllys duw.
Trwy y llysseu gynneu y gfneir medyglyn yr neb y bo ys-
gyueint gornfydavc arnav. y ellwng ae gynnal a^^ dyly mal
brath ^^ ysgyueint, yn y ardymher. ac^* ym peun un
vlwydyn ardec ^* raynychaf y v marv o lionav.
§ 12. Pedeir teirthon yssyd ac a hanyw y boned or haf ;
nyt amgen, teirtlion vut, a theirthon gryt. a bratgyvaruot,
a''r tvymyn. a*'r pymhet teirthon yv gvall twym yn ; ac o"'r
penn panyv^*^ lionno. Teirthon uut. o gyuot a Hynn a llosgeu
y gf aredir.^^ Llyma y boned hi. o uagu gf lybvr gvydyn gor-
mod^^yn y gylla. Ac o hynny kassau b<yt o hona<^ ae
dinerthu yr haf. Y gannwrcid ^'^ Ivyt, ar weidryd, ar ecli-
vreid. ar uilHyth.^" aV kywarch, ar cavl coch, ar turch, ar
seith lysewyn yssyd yn ygkyueir pob un o\- rei hynny :
P<y bynnac ac -^ eu ^- kaffei y gyt ny bydci hir nychda<t
lAlmonnau, T. - Atvetrer, T. ^ Peint, T. *iVt(f yw navuetryJ
yn T. 5 Weidrudd, T. « Twrcli, T. ^ Hen lydan, T. « Garabit, T.
"Gjfleth, T. loVjMiior, T i^ iVid >/w y yn T. "y, T, " y
Bratha, T. " Ac, T. ^'^ I^^id yw ardec yn T. " Epanyw, T. " Xid
yw teirthon uut o gynot a Hynn a llosgeu y gvaredir yn T. i'*iVtrf yw gorraod
yn T. i» Ganwriedd, T. -" Vilftyth, T. ^^ Xid yw ac yn T. » Ai, T.
4 MEDDYGON MYDDVEU.
arna<' o vrath ysgyueint oV a elei y vy^-. A llyma y llyssev
hynny ; y lewyd, y try v, y greulys uendigeit y greulys war,
y ganwreid bengoch, ac yscawl crist, ar henllydan,* ar
bennlas, ar bybyrllys, llygat y dyd, ar benngalet, a gvreid y
dyuat cocli, ar grygyon, ar erinllis a rysswyd,^ a dannavc
sanffret,^ a gf reid yr erwein, ar gruc, ar uabcoll, ar Vtrot a
deil y bywi, ar trydon, ar wermot, ar wcnen llys van, ar
kyngav man, ar ganewin y gyt ac vynt.
§ 13. Rac teirtlion gr^^t : kymryt deint y lle<-, a m\vc y
dayar ac eu taraw ar dwfyr y bore, ac yuet yn gyntaf, ac
ymronn banner dyd kymryt wermot ac eu taraw ar d<^fyr ae
yuet byd ympenn decpryt, ae vvyglaw kynny yuet; a
chymeryt bara pynny<^l gvenith neu uara keircb, a meid
geiuyr, a chic kywyan, a ivt gvveiscon trvy dvfyr, a pheidiav
a llaeth, ac a llaethuvyt arall. ac ony pheit y cryt yua. y
dodi y myvn enneint yr avr y del y cryt idav. a rodi kyuot
idav yn yr enneint herfyd y nertli.
§ 14. Goreu tri"* llyn y torri gvrcs ; llynn aualeu, a meid
geiuyr,^ a dvfyr flynnafn.
§15. Medegmyaeth arall rac teirthon gryt : kymryt y
ganwreid Ivyt, ar greulys uavr, ar greulys uendigeit, ar gan-
wreid benngoch, ar diwytliyl, ar ieutavt, a riscyl yr ysgav,
aV liokys ; ac eu bervi y gyt y my wn crocban neu gallavr yn
oreu y galler. Ac odyua kymryt y dvfyr, ar llysseu ac eu
dodi yn yr enneint. Llyma y ryv uedyglyn yssyd da rac
hynny : kymryt y misyc a'r ganwreid rydegavc, neu ysgav
o"'r keffir, ac ony chefiir, larderv; a bervi y deu lyssevyn
hynny yn da. Ac odyna kymryt yr hockys. aV fienigyl, a^*
diwythyl, aV ieutavt, ar glessyn. a godeil y bywf. ac eu ^
hyssigav yn oreu y galler ; ^ ac eu ^ dodi ar y tan y gyt ; ar
deu lysseu gynneu, ac eu bervi jm da. Ac odyna kymryt y
1 Ilenn Llydan. T. ^i^pi^vjd, T. 3 San Fret, T. * 3, T.
» Xid yw meid geu;yr yti T. « Y, T. " Gellvr, T. » y, T.
MEDDYGON MYDDVEU. 5
riscyl a uyd yn dayar ^ oV ysgav ; ae gravu ae olchi yn da, ae
yssiga<' y myfn morter yndegyn ; ^ ac odynakymryt y llynn
hvnn<- y ar y llysseu gynneu, a tliarav y rise li<nnv ar y
Uyii hvnii<^ rvng dvy dvylav yn deiigynn. ae dodi ar darwed
y my^n llestyr y surho ; ae vragodi a meid geiuyr ; neu ueid
g^arthec. ac yuet fioleit da tra ^ barliao bop bore o houa<' :
ac odyna kyraryt ychydic o uel. of ncu aual neu trygyou ;
y d<yn bias oe eneu gvedy diavt. ar llynn Lvnv yssyd da y
bop dyn ©""r a uynno rydliau y gnavt.
§ 16. Deu ryv letywigwst yssyd : lletewigvst wleb, alled-
ewigvst boeth, o wres yr haf pan hanyw. lledewigvst wlep"* o
wlybvr yr haf pan liyn^^v; a sef ^ agved y dav Pedeir gvyth-
en a daw or auu yr kyfeisted : ac ual liynn y gvaredir :
rfymav y teir o honunt athtanj*" a doadu^ y pedwared yn
ryd ; a dodi llosccu ar uein y esgcired, ac ygkylch y liuyeu,
ae arreu. a gordyfneit gvaet y vfFarned, ae arreu ; a gvedy
retto y Uosceu cvbyl y gan y wythen. Yr eil uedegiuyaeth
yf hon heuyt : kyniryt yr hokys ae bervi trfy wenith
gvrvf, neu trwy dvfyr ffynnavn ; ac odyna kymryt a uyd yn
y dayar oV ysgav, ac yssigav y myvn morter yn da, ae
dara<^ ar y llynn livnnv yn of, ae ^ rodi yr claf yrafuan ^ ac
y rydhau y golud. Ac odyna gvaliard racdav kic eidon
mavr, a cliavs. a clienyn. a physcavt mavr ac ebogeu, a llas-
sowot, a chic hvyeit, a garllec, a phob llaethvvyt ; onyt meid
tvymlaeth,
§ 1 7. Pedeir bolwyst yssyd : Bolwyst lynn, a bolwyst
golud, a bolwyst belleneu, a bolwyst wynt. Bolwyst lynn
ny ellir gvaret idi ; bolvyst wynt nyt oes waret racdi heuyt.
nyt angheua<l yn ebrvyd. bolwyst golud o gyvot. a glas-
gyfleith a medyglyn y gvaredir. llyma y llysseu hynny. yr
1 Y dayar, T. - Vn Jdogyu, T. ' Md >/w tra ijn T. ■• Xid yw wlep o
yn. T. ''Nid jw set" yn T. «A thant, T. '"Gadu, T.
* Ac y, T. " Vmfyon.
6 MEDDYGON MYDDVEIT.
vrfno. ar dodcit, ar diwytliyl, a""!' feudavt, aV gynglenyd,
aV griessyn/ a'r unsyc, a'r redegai'c a godeiF y byvi aV
hokys. A llyma mal y g^neir y kyuot h<^nn<'^ : kymryt yr
hylitliyr ae gladu oe uon; ae olchi yn da, ae dauellu yn
uan ; ae vrivav y^ my<n morter ; yn orcu y galler : a b<'r^
y soec ynieith : Ac odyna dodi y llynn livnn<^ y myvn
padell ar y tan, ac odyna kymryt y berwon tra gaffer yn
wyn, ae gadv gennyt hyt y mynnych ; ae wneutliur yn
belleneu bychein pan y rodycli yr claf. Bohvyst bcllenneu
o losceu a magleu, a cliyuot,* y gvaredir.
§ 18. IXy^ dauatenneu a dav y gyfueisted, a sef g<ed y
gf aredir ; cu tr^^chu a hayarn oer ; a llosci eu lie, ac eu
heliav a mel.
§19. Tri ryf dosted yssyd : Sychdostcd^; o gyuot a
llynn, a llosceu a syclienneint y g<aredir. Maen calet ual
hynn y gvaredir He y diotter : kymryt fFonn ae dodi ymplyc
y arreu. Ac odyna dodi ydvy ureitli^ o vyvn y arreii. ac eu
plygu y vynyd am y ffonu ; a rvyniav taleith am y^ dcu
ardvrn, ac am y warr. ae dodi ac dorr y uynyd. A plietli uclicl
dann y dvy clun : ac or partli asseu yr dywyssen diot y
maen. Ac odyna y^ dodi y myvn enneint dffyr y dyd
h'i^nnv. a thrannocth y myvn^ enneint dvfyr yn gyntaf, a
gvedy hynny yn y kyfteitli. A gvedy bynny y dodi y myvn
y wely ae torr y uynyd : a sychu y weli, a dodi llin ac
emenyu liallt f rtlii, ae gynnal yn yr ardymher hvnn<' yny ^^
wyper a dihango ae adu dydgveith a^^ nosweith kynn gvneutli-
ur gveitli vrthav ; lieb vvy t a heb lyn ; ae dodi y my vu
enneint. Os tywot uaeu uyd j gvneuthur medyglyn trfy
"wenith gvryf gloyv kadarn^^ ar llysseii hynn : y glacrllys,
ar greulys ueudigeit, ar orchwreid. ar crinllys, ac cido y
1 Gwessyn, T. » Ac odeil, T. ^ .Vid >/wy yn T. •* Llyn a chyvot, T.
"Y sych dostedd, T. « Vreicli, T. ''"Eu, T, ^ Kid yw y yn T.
'•>Nid yw y myvn yn T. ^^ Oiiy, T. " O, T. ^'-^ Kadani gloyw, T.
MEDDYGON MYDDVEU. 7
daear, ar tryv a'r uilfFyth, a'r vydlvn, a'r colvrabina, a'r vam-
lys, aV dodeit, aV grfmyn/ ar danhogen, ar glessyn, a deint
y Uef . ar <reidrud Ivyt, ar ganwreid benngoch, ar redegavc.
§ 20. G<reic y^ vo arnei r<'ystyr am gaffel beichogi ; trfy
y llysseu hynn'' y gvneir medyglyn idi : yr erinllys ar ia^n.
ar tryv* ar ganvreid bengocli, ar ganwreid uelen, a tharv y
mynyd, a'r gan-wein, ar diwythyl ; ac ymysc liynny kym-
ryt kyuot o honei.
§ 21. Gvreic a del idi cleuyt y gf raged yn rvy : kymryt
y Avenenllys van, ar k^'iigaf man, ar ganywein,^ a roec. ar
diwythyl, ar^ uabcoll, a Uudv bann hyd a ladher ae gyrn ar
y benn, ac eu bervi trvy win coch yn oreu ac y galler : a
liidlav y llynn livnnv yn da ae yuet beunyd yn y darffo
a pheidav a b<ydeu gvressave a ludyvyt ucbot a gordyfneit
gvaet y ufFarncd ac y garreu.
§ 22. Gvreid y drycbeigyafc y torri yr hychgruc ; y tarav
ar y dvfyr oer ae yvet a chronni livnnv yn y eneu.
§ 23. Deint y lief y gyuot ascvrn penn hen dyn y taraf a'r
dvfyr oer ae yuet.
§ 24. Craf y natred ar greithwar ; sud y gvreid y torri
maessa ; a sud eu deil y dorri magyl.
§ 25, Gvreid y gannvreid Ivyt, eu bervi, trvy <in y dorri
maessa heuyt, a gvneuthur trvy eu deil y lad llyngher.
§ 26. Gvreid y chwefyrdan^ a gfreid y tauol. a llysseu
cadvga^'n. ac emenyn. a hen ulonec. a brvmstan eu bvrv y
gyt. ac eu gvascu trvy liein ; hynny yssyd da rac y crugyn.
§ 27. Or pan alho buch hyt ympenn y pymthecuet dyd,
gvressave uyd y llaeth. Ac odyna hyt pan lamher tra vo
bHth genthi gvressave uyd y llaeth. Kic hvch kynny blvyd.
a chic dauat. gvlyboravc vydant : a dyn a vo knavt gvlybor-
a<c idav o gleuyt ; nyt da idav y kic hvnnv.
' Givmin, T. ^ yj^ y^p y ^^ T. " Yrama, T. * Xid >/tr ar lawn ar
trjw t/n T. 5 Ganwenn, T. * Sid yw ar yn T. ^ Chefyrdan, T
8 MEDDYGON MYDDVEU.
§ 28. lachaf kic llvJyn gvyllt, yw kic i<Tch. lachaf kic
llvdyn dof y< kic t<^rcli. lachaf kic edyn g^yllt yv kic par-
tris. lachaf kic edyn dof yw iiir, lachaf i)ysga<'t mor^
y^ lledyn. lachaf pysga<'t awedvr yv^ draenogyeit a brith-
yllyeit.^'
§ 29. Rac derwhyden wlyb, meldebyr eicloKc, a mer
katno. ac ystor gvynn.
§ 30. Rac y dannoed ; kymryt y rise nessaf yr pren eid-
orve, a dell y gvydwyd. ac eu hyssigav y gyt y myfn morter
yn da, ac eu gvascu tr<'y liein yn y dvy fFroen, ae* dorr y
uynydd, a hynny ae gveryt.
§ 31. Rac byderi : kymryt trfnc hfrd. a bystyl llassfot^
a sud yr onn : ac eu gvascu yn y glust. ac y adaii ® y deint ;
a dodi llosc y mon y glust; ac ygkvrr y en; a chneuen yn-
daf a hynny yssyd da.
§ 32. Rac brath neidyr : os gvr uyd kymryt keilafc byf ;
a dodi y din vrth y brath ; ae gynnal uelly ; a hynny yssyd
da. Os gvreic vyd kymryt iar vyf yn yr vn aiisavd, a
hynny ae divenvyna.^
§ 33. Rac llyngranc. kymryt kagyl geiuyr, a blavt heid.
a gvin eoch ; ac eu berwi y gyt yn iwt ; ae dodi vrthav. A
hynny yv y uedegiuyaeth yn^ y lie ny diotter.
§ 34. Rac dolur y myvn penn : neu rac gvaev kyrahaleu :
kymryt bara pynnyvl ^ gvenith trvydaf . ac ualu yn vlavt
man. ac odyna kymryt suryon y coet, a deint y lief, ar^''
danhogen, a g<'in coch, ac yssigav y llysseu y gyt, y myvn
morter yn da, ae kymysgcu y gyt ar y tan ac ymron y diot,
dodi gver eidon yn da yndav a halen. Ac odyua dodi y
plastyr hfnnf vrth y benn gvedy eillav; a hynny ar ureth-
yn tev : Sef a wna hvnnv tardu corn vy don trvydav ; a suguaf
y gvenf yn y maes. ae didoluryav ^^ ynteu.
1 Y mor, T. 2 Yr, T. ^ Brith y Llyeit, T. * A, T. » Llos-
wot, T. ''Adan, T. ^ pihennv yiia, T. * .Vj(/ yw vn i/nT. " Pvn-
nyol, T. >0A, T. " Didoruryav, T.
MEDDYGON MYDDVEU. 9
§ 35. Ny byd gvenu^ynic brath adjTcob^ ; namyn o wyl
iieir y modi: liyt wyl ucir y canhwyllcu; ac yna brivav
kylyon vrtliav; a liynny ae diwen^yna.^
§ 36. Rac llynglier ; kymryt rise yr yscaf, a rise y coll
fFrenghic, a rise yr yspydat. ar elinyafc ; ac eu bervi trvy
d<^fyr y gyt, ac yuet ffioleit peunyd ar y gytli<'gyl. a pheidav
a bfyt liyt ymron^ ecliwyd : a liynny liyt ympenn y nav
pryt.
§ 37. Rac brath ab : kymryt bisswel tarv ae dodi vrthav.
a iacha uud.
§ 38. Rac y mann : kymryt yr erinllys, ae dodi vrthav
pan arganfler gyntaf.^ A rail yv. kymryt blodeu y benn-
galet. neu y deil. ae vriwav y gyt a melyn Avy, a halen man
ae dodi vrthav; a hvnnv ae kyuyt. Arall yv. kymryt y
wennelavc las, ae briwa<' y gyt a hen vlonec ae dodi vrtha<^.
Arall yv. kvmryt fjvreid v dvuat coch, a fj^reid v G,'an<reid
Ivyt. ar ieutavt : ae ber<i y^ gyt trvy lastvr geiuyr yn
dvys ; a dodi emeuyn yn y glastvr, ae yuet a nos a dyd.
§ 39. Rac y mann g^'^edy byryo^ y dameit/ neu ar lasc^ :
kymryt yr amrannwen, ae grassu yn da, ae ualu, ae irav a
hvnn^ gysseuin ; a bvrv blavt y Uysseu arnav ; a hvnnf a
wnci y greith yn da ac yn dec. BarwyP y gyuygeu pob
gfeli y uervi trvy lastvr llefrith.
§ 40. Y dorri gfaetlin redegaX^c : kymryt y uedlys ae
tharav ar dvfyr oer ; ae yuet, a hvnnv ae tyr trvy ucrth
duv.
§ 41. Rac crygi : kymryt y uabcoll. a'r erinllys ; ae bervi
trvy lefrith pur; a dodi emenyn arnaf ar y tan : ae uervi ids
da gyt ae yuet bop bore.
§ 42. Rac y dannood : kymryt y ueidavc ^ Ivyt. ae dodi
dan y ben ; y my vn llieiii crei a iach uyd. Arall yv. kym-
' AJyrp, T. ^ Diwenwyna, R. T. » Ymon, T. * V giiitaf, T.
^ Xul }w y i/n T. « Byryw, T. ' EUmcit, T. ^ Arias , T.
9 Barmvyl, T. " Veidiavc, T.
B
10 MEDDYGON MYDDVEU.
ryt y uei(lya<^c^ las. ae^ dodi y niywn tauolen dan y deint;
neu ar uaen tvyni. ae dodi yn d^ym y mywn lliein dan y
deint claf. A rail y<? kymryt yr henllydan,'' ac bri<a<' yn
da, ae dodi <'rtli y dant claf. tros nos. Arall y<-. kymryt y
vennwen.* a thara<? yn d^ys a hfnn^.
§ 43. Rac cleuyt bronn : kymryt yr hen Uydan a blonec,
ae dodi ^rtliaf, a iach uyd.
§ 44. Rac llyuglier : kymryt gvin, ac atr<m. ae gymyscu
y gyt. ae yuet bob bore ar y gythvngyl.^
§ 45. Rac brath neidyr : k3'mr3't yr licnllydan, ar benn-
galet, ar beunlas, ae tarav ar dvfyr ae yuet. Tri chyualorn
medic ynt : brath ysgyueint, a brath ammvydon bronn. a
phen glin.^
§ 46. Rac marchwreint : kymryt ystor gvynn ae dvymaf ;
ac yn uedal y dodi vrthaf, a hynny ae hiachaa.
§ 47. Seith gelyn llygat yssyd. wyla<', a gfylaw, a gvyl-
amec, a meddavt, a godineb, a sychbilen, a mvc.
§ 48. Tri ascvrn yssyd ymyvn ^ dyn or torrant ny chyf-
annant byth ; ac ni enir un o honuut gan dyn pan aner ef :
deint. a phedellec. a iat.
§ 49. Brivaf ^ grafn y pabi y mywn gvin y beri i dyn
gyscu yn da.
§ 50. Rac Uudyas eglii. kymryt y uedlvyn. ae tharaf ar
dvfyr ^ ae yuet ar y f nyt.^°
§ 51. Rac y cryt : kymryt y ganvreid l^yt. ar dynat coch.
ar henllydan, ar unyeit. ac eu brivav yn da y mywn meid
gciuyr hen ac eu berCi ; a phob bore yuet or ^^ claf gvppaneit.
a h<nn<^ ae gfna yn iach.
§ 52. Rac y danhoed. kymryt kanhfyll o wer deueit (a
gra<n y mor gelyn gyt a'r gf er.) a llosci y *^ ganhf yll yn ^^
' Veldyavc, T. =A, T. '■' Xld ytr Uylan ./n T. ■• Vonnwn, T.
sGvthlvngvl. T. fiClun, T. ^ Xid >/ic y 'yn T. " Briviv, T.
9 Y avfjr,'T. 1" Yvnyt, T. " Y, T. ^^ U, T. '=* Y, T.
MEDDYGON MYDDVEU. 11
nesaf y galler yr deiut a dodi d<fyr oer dau y ganh<'yll : a'r
pryuet a ddyg^ydant yn y d<^fyr rac gfres y ganli^yll.
§ 53. Rac li<'yd y niyvn croth dyn : kymryt g<or dauat. a
bla<t keircli, a deil ffiol y ffrud, aV diwythyl yn y vvynt i<t.
a dodi lifnn^ <^rtlia<^ : ac or byd cra<^n yndaf ^ ef a bennha.
Rac h^yd y niy^n croth dyn heuyt. kymryt meid geiuyr
ac ef yn symyl. a tharav craf y geiuyr arna\'^, ao yuet
tridieu. ar hfyd a a ymeitli.^
§ 54, Rac y ^ cleuyt dygfyd. llosc gorn gauyr. a gelKng y
u<^c ambenn y dyn, ac f rth yr arogleu hvnnv yn y He y
kyuyt ; a chyn kyuodi y dyn oclyno bvrf bystyl ki yn^ y
ben : ac ny da^ ida<^ y cleuyt h^^nnf byth wedy hynny.
§ 55. Rac pob teirton yscriuenner y myfn tri aual yn tri
diwarna^t. Yn yr aual kyntaf ^ o naglapater. Yn ^ yr
eil aual ^ Ul <^ nagla ^ Jilhis. Yn y trydyd aual ^ |^
tagla spiritus sanctus. A'r trydyd dyd ef a uyd iach. Or
mynny wybot pa wed y del y dyn a gleuycho ae y ^ uy v,
ae y uar^- oe gleuyt kymer y llyssefyn a elwir y uedyges a
briv <^ynt a rvym vrth y deugyuys, ac os y uyii y da^'' y
claf, yn y lie ef a gvsc, ac ony dichaf n ^^ kyscu ef a uyd marf.
56. Or mynny na bycli uedv ; yf y boi*e lloneit plisgyn
<'y sud y vedon chwerv. Or mynny na bydd ludedic yr a
ymdeycli/^ yf y bore loneit plisgyn vy o sud y ganwreicl gyt
ac garllec, ac ny brify ^^ ac ny blinhey yr meint a^^ gerdycli y
dydd hf nnv.
§ 57. Or mynny tynny meddavt y ar d}'n bfyta SafFyr
bri<f ar dvfyr ffynnafn.
§ 58. Or mynny uot yn llawen yn wastat b^yta Saftyr y
myvn bvyt neu clia<t, ac ny bydy trist vytli, a g^agel rac
b<yta gormod ; rac dy varv o tra llewenyd.
1 Xid yw yndav yn T. ^ Ymaith, T. " Xid yw y ynT. * Ar, T
5 Yn, T. ' 6 yid yu- aual yn T. ^ Uagla, T. » Xid yw aual //«, T
« Xid yw y yn T. '" Os vyv^d a, T. " Ddiclion, T. •- Ymdeith, T
i» Vrvy, T. " V, T.
12 MEDDYGON MYDDVEU.
§ 59. Or niynny na bycli wen^ynic. yf loneit plisgyn wy
sud y llysscu a elwir ^ Hygcit crist ; ac ny byd hawd gen-
nyt sorri. Or niynny not yn iach yn wastat, ^f loneit llvy
beunyd o sud yr hockys. a iach uydy yn wastat.
§ 60. Or niynny uot yn diweir bvyta beunyd beth or
Uysseu a elwir yr liyd ac ny chytsynnyy y byth a chyffro
godineb.
§ 61, Rac ymdineu croth (sef y<- liynny mynet allan.)
pennaf kyuared yf kymryt fflvr gwenith. ae bobi trvy uelyn
naf wy ^ a mel : a brifav ynda<- ble<^ dvy vron ysgyuarnoc,
ae grassu dan y lludv. ac ^ yuet nus buch eil al^.
§ 62. Or niynny na del y dannoed itt byth y gyniuer
gfeith 5'dymolchych. kyffro dy glusteu oe myvn ath uyssed.
§ 63. Rac y crugyn ^ kymer geilavc neu iar (hervyd ual y
bo y dyn, ae yn vr ae yn vreic) a dot y din wedyr blufyav ^
hyt pan uo niarv yr ederyn vrthav. a hynny ae dywenwyna.
§ 64. Pvy bynnac a uynno "^ tynuu dauatteuneu. dodet
frthunt llygat y dyd wedi briwer gyt a thrvuc ki : ac vynt a
ddigvydant oil.
§ 65. Pvy bynnac a uynno diua Nvhein. dodet y wermot
yn y mor trvy un avr ; ac odyna dodet y sychu f rth yr
heul. A gvedy vont sycli digavu. a ymgyuarffo ^ ac <ynt or
chwein. i'ynt a vydant ueirw.
§ QQ. Y diua kylyon. dotter y gannwreid yn y lie y
gnottaont dyuot, ac a ymgyfarffo o honuut a'r llyseu vynt a
vydant ueirw.
§ 67. Rac brath neidyr. yver sud yscav yr hvnn a <ascara
yr holl wenwyn.
§ 68. Pvy bynnac a gollo y synn<yr neu y yniadra^d. yuet
sud y briallu o vyvn y deuuis y coUo ; ac yn m ir iach uyd.
1 EKvit, T. ^ Velyticu wyeu. T. " Ac, T. ' 1)1, T. ' Kcu-
gjii, T. '■ liluffiav, v. '• Vyiiii, T. *■ VuigytfarBb, T.
MEDDYGOX MYDDVEU. 13
§ 69. P<y bynnac a vyiino g<ybot beth a uo ygcroth
gfreic ueichafc, ae mab. ae merch, edryohet arnei oe heisted
ac oe spuyll ; ac os y droet dcheu gyntaf a symut niab a
ar'^ydocaa ; os yr asseu nierch.
§ 70. Or myniiy wybot gf wahan rvg g<'reic a moK^yn iiad
uacn mucliud y mywn df fyr. a dyro idi oe ^ yuet ; ac os
g<'reic uyd yn dianuot hi a y ^ bissaf ; os moK-yn nyt a ni<'y
no chynt.
§ 71. Or niynny na chano y keilafc, ir y grib ac olcv a
mut uyd.
§ 72. E,ac magyl ar lygat, dotter ym\a^ sud iddaw y
dayar, ar magyl a tyrr, ar llygat a uyd diargywed a gloy<^.
§ 73. Y mab bychan a dallio ar wylav ; irer y deugyuys
a mer hyd. a auuynycliaeh yd vyl.
§ 74. Or byd y^ crugyn yn lie porigyl ar dyn. a mynnu
y symut oe le ; ual hyn y symudir ; kymerer deil ffiol y *
fFrud a gfasger or partli y mynner vrthaf ; ac ef a ffy rac y
llysseu uotued a banner.
§ 75. Mis lonavr na lad wact, y^ deir ffioleit o win ar dy
gythlvng. keis ucdygl}^. aruera o gic geiuyr a llysseuoed da.
§ 76. Mis Whevrafr ellvng waet ar uavt y llav asseu. keis
gyfleitli a medyglyn ; a liynny a wna y llygeit yn da.
§ 77. Mis Mavrth aruera o vvlmeut^ ac o wreid y llysseu,
ac o enneint, yn uynych na ellfng waet. Na chymer gyuot,
kanys oeruel a uac. yf win melys ar dy gythlvng.
§ 78. Mis Ebrill ellvng wact, kymer ysga<'n gyuot. bvyta
gic ir. aruera o dia<t tvymyn : bvyta dvy weith beunyd deu
dameit o dauot yr hyd, gogel wreid y llyseuoed .kanys trysgli
a uagant, yf y uedon cliverv.
§ 79. Mis Mei na v<yta dim o bcnn. na thraet un llvdyn.
aruera o diavt t<ymyn : bfyta dvy weith beunyd deu dameit
' Yv, T. - Nid >jw y >jn T. = Nid i/k y yn T. ■• Sid >)w y yn T.
^ Oelment, T.
14 MEDDYGON MYDDVEIT.
o dauot yr hyd ar dy gythUng. kynier gyuot ysgafn ysga<^l :*
aruera o ueid oer. ;^f sud y fenigyl ar wermot.
§ 80. Mis Meheuin. kymerfiolcit o d<^fyr oer ar dy gj'tli-
K'lig bcunyd : iiac ^ 5'^ "^ cli<T<'f iia med : yf laeth bKt. ys y
g^'y laeth.
§81. Mis Gorftennaf ua elKng waet : kymer gyuot,
aruera o ulodeu y ^ llysseu da : gogcl yn da rac godineb.
§ 82. Mis A<^st. aruera o ga<l ; ac o lysseuoed : nae yi na
chf ryf na med : kymer y pybyr g<ynn y myf n Cr<'et.
§ 83. Mis Medi kymer tri llymeit o laeth yn gyntaf beun-
yd ; pob petli a ellir yna y gymryt.* kanys aeduet vyd y
llysseuoed ar fFrvytlieu yna ; ar bara yn lludulyt.
§ 84. Mis Hydref, aruera o win newyd. b^yta y pilcoes.^
kymer gyuot. ys gic ir. a llysseueu da.
§ 85. Mis Tachf ed. na chymer uehin : kanys yma y byd
gfaet pob dyn g'fedy keulaf yndaf yr liynn yssyd berigyl.
yna y byd dr^c penneu yr yscrubyl ; ar llysseu oil.
§ 86. Mis Racuyr. nae yf y kafl. nac^ ys y deil cocli o'v
ca^'l : na'r troetynneu, a lleihaa'' dy waet.
§ 87. Pvy bynnac a ellyngo gfaet yn y deuuet^ dyd ar
bymthec o Vavrth,^ ny dav arnaf naV kryt, na'r tisic yn y
vlfydyn honno.
§ 88. Pvy bynnac a ellynglio g^aet yn y trydyd ^" dyd o
ebrill ny byd dolur a'r y benu na'r uautwym yn y vKydyn
honno onys gf na dyrwest.
§ 89. A da heuyt y^ ^^ yr unuet dyd ar dec^^ olKng g^aet
or mis hf nnf . A da heuyt yv gellfng gfaet y pedwyryd
dyd neur pumhet^^ o uis mei.
§ 90. Pvy bynnac a ellyngho gfaet yn y deuuet dyd ar
1 Gyvot ys gawl, T. « Na, T. ^ A, T. * Gymry, T. 5 Pil-
cors, T. "Ne. T. " Lleiliau, T. "17, T. !* .Vj(/ ysr ar bjTiithec o
yn T. i"Y 3, T. ii.V/(i i/tv yv i/ii T. ' '^ Yr 1], T.
^■> Y i neur. 5, T
MEDDYGON MYDDVEU. 15
bymthec^ o uis niedi ny da^' aruav y uolwyst nar cryt na'r
tisic yn y uKydyn honno,
§ 91. Y trydycl llun o lonai'T ar lluii kyntaf o whefravr,
a'r eil Hud o uis hydref : p^y bynnac a cUyngho g<aet y
dydyeu hynny. perigyl y< ida<^ y ^ uarw. Tri dydyeu ^
yssyd yn y vlwydyn ; ac yn y rei hynny ny dylyir gell<^ng
gfaet y * ueb, na chymryt diavt uedeginyaeth. Nyt amgcn,
y dyd diwethaf o ebrill, a'r llun kyntaf o a<'st aV llun
diwethaf o uis medi.
§ 92. Pfy bynnac a ellygo g<'aet yn y rei bynny. ef a uyd
marf . erbyn y pymthecuet ^ neu r seithuet *^ dyd. A llyma
yr achats. Y gythi a uyd llavn yn yr amseroed hynny ;
ac o chymer diaft uedeginyaeth perigyl yf . Ac ot ys gic
gfyd ef a uyd marw yn y trydyd, neu ynteu a uo Clarvr. ar
benn y pythewnos, neu ynteu a vo marv yn y dydyeu
dywededic hynny o agheu deissyuyt.
§ 93. Athraf on da a gafssant y gvybot hfn. ac ae hys-
criuennassant ; Nyt amgen no hot deudec niwarnavt ar
hugeint yn y uhvydyn yn beriglus. A gvybyd di pvy
bynnac a aner yn un o honunt. na byd byf yn hir. a phvy
bynnac a briotter yn un o lionunt. ^ ef a uyd marw heb o hir.
neu ynteu a uo b}n' trvy dolur a thlodi. A phvy bynnac a
dechreuo neges yn un o honunt nys gorfenua yn da. Or
dydyeu hynny yn lona^r y raaent seith : nyt amgen y
kyntaf ar eil. ar pedwyryd ar pumhet. ar deuuet ar bythec.**
Yn Whevra<=r y mae tri. yr unuct ar bymthec. ar deuuet
ar bymthec. ar deunavuet.*^
Ym Maf rth y mae tri. y pymthecuet ar unuet ar bymthec.
ar deunavuet.^**
Yn Ebrill y mae deu. y trydyd. ar unuet ar bymthec. "
1 Y 17th, T. ^Xidywy i/nT. •'' Tri lieu, T. * Xid yw y ipi T.
515T ''TT. ' Xid >/w na byd byv yn hir, a phvy bynnac a briotter
yn uno honunt 3/717. "^ 1, 2, 4, 5, 10, 15, 17, T. ' ^^ IG, 17, 18, T
J»15, 16, 18, T. I'Sa'rlG, T.
]G MEDDYGON MYDDVKM.
Ym Mei y mae pedwar. y pymthecuct. ar unuot ar byiii-
tliec. ar deuuet ar bymthec. ar ugcinuet.^
Ym Mehevin y mae un. sef yv L<nn<^ yr ^ eil.^
Ym mis * Gorffenuaf y mae deu. y pymthecuet. ar deuuet
ar bymthec.^
Ym A<'st y mae deu. y deunavuet. ar ugeinuct.*'
Ym mis'' Medi y mae deu. yr unuet ar bymthec. ar deu-
navuet.^
Ym mis ^ Hydref y mae^" un. y whechet/^
Ym mis ^^ Racuyr y mae deu. y pymthecuet ar ugeinuet.^^
Ym mis^^ Tachwed y mae tri. yr uuuet ar bymthec. ar
deuvet ar bymthec. ar deunavuct.^^
P<^y bynnac a amheuo yr ymadrodyon hynn. g^ybydet ef
y uot yn gallach. nor neb a gauas y gf ybot yn gyntaf.
§ 94. Eac ch<yd y myfn croth neu galcdu, ber<- liuat trfy
laeth geiuyr a dot vrthav yn vynych.
§ 95. Y estfng chfyd o draet ac esgeireu. kymer wreid y
greulys ae rise a berf dr<'y dvfyr : a gvedy y berwer bvr^
ymmeith yr uchaf, a chymer y perued a chymysc hen ulonec
ac ef ; a gossot ar vrethynn neu gadach ef, a dot vrth y
draet neu y esgeireu y bo yr ^^ chwyd yncluut ac ef a a
ymeitli.
§ 96. Eac chfyd neu dolur ygg<arreu : mortera wreid y
celidonia a llysscu y wennavl a''r ffenioyl a phennau garllec ;
a g^negyr neu win ac emenyn, a rvym ygkylch dy vynvgyl ;
a hyuny a ostvng y dolur aV ch^yd,
§ 97. Rac gvaetlin y fFroenau ber<i garllec trwy lastvr
llefrith ; ae yuet, prouedic y<'.
§ 98. Rac llosc yn neb ry^ aela^^t ; kymer wreid y lilivm "
gf ynn a golch yn da. a ber<^ yu ffest dr<?y df fyr : odyna briv
M 5, 16, 17, 20, T. a Xid >/w sef vv hvnnv yr yn T. » 2, T. * A'lrf
yw mis yn T. « 15. 17, T. 6 18, 20, T. ^ ^{j y„, mis yn T. » 1 6,
18, T. 3 Xid yw mis yn T. >" Md yir y mae yn T. " 6, T. '- Xiil
yw mis yn T. '=* 15,20, T. n Nid yxo mis yn T. " 1(), 17, 18, T.
J« Bor, T. J" Liliwyn, T.
MEDDYGON MYDDVEU. 1 7
yn van : a cliyniysc ag ole<^ ; ac ychydic o wynn \v^, a
gossot liviin<? ar liein : a dot <rtlia<^ y bore ar nos : ac ar
vwyliaf ^ vo oV plastyr livnnw gore vyd.
Arall yf llosc^ rise eidoi-fc. yn He glan, a bvrv arna<^ y
lludv liviinv. a liyiiny ae g^na yn iach."' Arall yv
llosci redyn a chyinysgu y lliidw h<^nnv a g<^yn <'y:
neu ynteu ole^ : ac eliav ac ef ; a liynny ae gfna yn iacli
yn ebr<yd ac yn enryued.
§ 99. Medeginyacth rac y tan gvyllt : sef yv h<nnv y kic
drfc ual nat ymdangosso erbyn penn y tridieu : kyininer
gafs da a niortera yn fFcst : a chymysc a mel yn y uo gloy<' ;
ac ir ac ef yn vynyoh : a dot arnaf deil * y kavl : ac ny
welir dim o hona'^ erbyn penn ^ y tridieu.
§ 100. Rac brath ki kyndoiravc ; niortera yr eidral a
blonec y gyt : neu uortera gcnnyn a gvin egyr,^ neu hat y
fFenigyl a mel a dot f rthaf .
§101. Rac dolur bronneu ; mortera wreicl y greulys. a
hen vlonec. a dot '^rthunt.
§ 102. Y dyn a gollo y synnvyr. kymer lygat y dyd. a'r
brytfn. a'r saluia (i. saies.) a tharaf ar win ; a dyro yr claf oe
yuet bymtheg nieu.
§ 103. O chaletta boly megys na aller^ niynet y ystyllen;
kyiner linat a^ dvfyr, ac odyna berf yn fest y niyvn crodian.
Ac odyna dot ef y myfn padell a llawer o waet. a nieliin, a
bf yta hvnn<^ yn ^ vrf t.
§ 1 04. Rac y parlis, kymer y bryt<'n a mortera. a hidyl y
sud ar amkan fiioleit uechan, a dyro yr claf oe yuet yggwafr ^^
dyd du<^ nadolic.
§ 105. Rac g^^aetKn^^ o^- dvy ffroen. kymer kymeint ac a
drickyo y r^ng penn dy dri bys or betonica wedy briver yn
ftest dr<v halen, a dot yn yfFroeueu. ajr ef a dyrr vn ebr<vd.
1 Vyaf, T. 2 ^xi^i ^,^ Uqsc ,pi T. 3 laol, vn cl.rwyd, T. •• Y <lril, T.
6 JVid yw penn yn T. « Gvinegyr, T. ' EUyr, T. <• Y, T. '•• Y, T.
i» j.Yirf i/w yggwavr yn. T. " Gwaetliyn, T. '^ Y, T.
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18 MEDDYGON MYDDVEU.
§ lOG, glyn avu dyn <^rth y assen : kymer y bore pan
gyuotto yr houl (dan ganu dy bader) y gyglennyd a tharav
cf a"'!- g<'r<^f ncwyd : a dyro yr claf oe yuet y my<'n onneint
na<^ nieu,
§ 107. Kac pessychu : mortcra uedwon cli<crv. a b<T<? y
sud y myvn llaeth berwedic, a liidyl ef. ac aruer o hona<'.
Arall yN'^ : ber<^ groclianeit o dvfyr yn y el dan y banner.
Ac yna kyniysc blavt rye ac ef, a dot enienyn yndav. ac
aruer o bonaf yn vrvt.
§108. Y lad pryuet y us ^ y myvn kylla neu grotli :
kymer sud yr eruin a dot arnav ; ac <ynt a doant allan.
Arall y? : kymer dyrneit o rise y persig vrth y dayar secb,
ac yf ar dy gythlvng gyt a llaeth geiuyr. ac vynt a doant oil
allan.
§109. Y ostvng kalledi ^ boly : dot halen ac arment ; y
uo gymein o bop un ae gilyd ; a dot ar dan y myvn craesset ;
a gat ar y tan ef yn y u6 ual kvyr yn vvygyl. a gvua o
hfnn<' deisscnneu, a gossot vynt yn y tu 61 yr dyn.
§110. Rac brath ueidyr : yuet sud yr erllyrj^at gyt ac
olew a^ lialen. Sud y gannfreid lieuyt gvedy briwer ac yd
hidler a ■* frthlad gvenvyn.
Arall yv : kymer emhennyd keilavc coch. a rut, a dyro ar
lefrith, neu laetli geyueu, neu win oe yuet : a dot beth o gic
y vronn yn vrvt vrth y brath a hynny a dynnyn y vrtliav
aV keilavc yn vyv.
§ 111. Rac llyngher : kymer laeth buch y bo llo gvri'f yn
y sugnav ; a blavt heid a mel : a berv y myvn padell. yn y
el iwt, a dot ef yn dvym vrth y grotli.
Arall yv : gvncythur bara o hcid. a chnevillon g^edy
dirisgler, a bfyta hvnuv.
Arall y^ : morteru y rut gvyry ^ ar gannwreid. ac yuet y
sud hvnnv."
1 Vy<l, T. 2 Kale.li, T. 3 XiU yw o!e\v a yn T. * Y, T. ^ Gvyr y, T,
« lion.' T.
MEDDYGON MYDDVEU. 19
§ 112. Or byd g<Teic heb allu escor y Ihvyth. rvymer deil
y gaunvreid vrth y mordvyt asseu; a thynner yn cbrvyd
ymeitli wedy yd escoro, rac tvallt y hannyan.
§ 113. Eac chvyd a^ doliir ygglinycu : Briv rut, a mel a
halen. a dot frthaf ; a bynny a weryt yr livyd.-
§ 114. Rac dolur arennau : tarav y ccntaure ar dvfyr oer.
a dyro yr claf oe yuet.
§ 115. Rac tra sychet. yvet y centavrya drvy dvfyr t^ym.
hynny a tyrr sycbet ac a burbu dvyvron. ar kylla,
§ 116. Rac y urech : kynier*^ lludv gruc. a lludv gvenyn
neu ysmalaes ; a lludv coru karv a mel. ac ir ef a hvnnv.
§ 117. Rac trachwyt : kynier yr eruin a berv drvy laetl)
geiuvr : ac yf ef, a livnnv ae tyrr.
§ 118. Rac llosc tan neu dvfyr. dot deil y lilivm y my<u
Uactli bervedic a gossot ar y well, yn y no iach.
§ 119. Rac Uesteir pissav. kymr emhennyd ysgyuarnavc.
a tharav bvnnv ar win arogleu avr. ac 5'f cf.
§120. Rac bratli neidyr : dyro y myvn* olev sud y
fenigyl. neu raphan, neu y rut, neu y werniot : ac yuet
hvnnv. neu vvyttaet.
§ 121. Rac chwydu gvaet : bervi y uilffei drvy win. neu
laeth ae yuet : a hynny ac tyrr ; neu uervi y betonica ^ y
niyvn llaeth geiuyr, neu win. a hvnu<^ ae tyrr.
§ 122. Rac attal maessa : Berv dvfyr a gvrcid ysgall man
or koet : a dyro y dvfyr hvnnv idaf oe ^ yuet.
§ 123. Pvy bynnac auo ry vras. yuet y^ ffenigyl. a hynny
ae kulba.
§124, byd llidyavc yuet yr apivm yn ^ uynych, a
hynny a weryt Hit, ac a wua llewenyd.
§ 125. Ot al ^ sarff yggeneu dyn. neu or byd yudav bryuet
ereill by<-, trawet armeut ar win yn dev, ac yuet hvnnv. ac
ef a geiff rydit.
^ Xid yw AynT. ^Y chvyd, T. ' Kymryt, T. * Mwvn, T.
' Betoni, T. « Nid yw oe yn T. 7 Xid yw y ynT. * Y, T, « Or el, T.
^0 MEDDYGOX IM VUDVEL'.
§ 120. O gonir prjuet y myvn dyn, neuKdyn. Dot arnaf
wreid y dragrans ; ^ ac ef a uyd marv y pryf yn diannot.
Arall y^^ taraf deil y ditaen ar win kadarn. ac yuet ar y
gvthlvng.
§127. Eac llygher. yvet ffioleit o sud y plantacn. i- yr
erhn-yat. a dodi y Uysseu h^iinv ar y uogel.
Arall yv tarav y vilffei ar win. ac yuet ar y gythlvng un
weith. ac vynt a doant oil allan y dyd h<nnf.
§ 128. Rac y cryt : yuet sud y rut. a gvin. a llygkct ^ tri
gronyn ©""r koliandrvni, ac yuet yr apivm drvy d^fyr (.i. y
maclis). a cliyiinull y plantaen gan dywedut dy pader, ac
yuet hfnnv drvy win a phybyr. Kymer sud y ganwreid
wedy briwher. a sud y wermot. chymysc ac olew hawdvym.*
ac ir dy gorff yn gfbyl dridieu ar un tu. ac ef a diffyd y
cryt^ heb olud.
§ 129. Or byd hagen kryt kadarn ar dyn. par ida<*^ uynet
myvn enneint, a mogel rac kyhfrd y ^ dvfyr ae vreicheu ; a
chymmer eido y dayar a berv ef yn ffest. a gossot yn vrvt
ar y benn. a gollvng gvaet ar y ureich ; ac ef a uyd iach
drfy nerth duf .
§ 130. Rac chvydu ac uclieneideu ; tarav dyrneit a ban-
ner o'r betonica ar dvfyr mvygyl ac yuet Iivnnv. Y torri
chvyt. kymer y^ betonica a berv drvy uel. A mortera ef ; a
gfna hvnnf pedeir pelen ; a dyro un beunyd or pedwar
dieu idaf y yuet y myfn tfymyn.
§ 181. cliymer dyn wenwyn, yuet sud y ditaen a gvin.
§132. Y torri gvaetlin ^ o firocneu, kymer blaen teir^"
dyuhadcn a tharaf f ynt y gyt ; a dot y bastei lionno yn dy
fynaf ac y^^ gellych yn y ffroenau. Arall yv kymer y
vilfFyd. a mortera drvy win egyr a dot yn y ffroeneu, ac ef a
dyi-r y gvaetlin.
' Dnigivns, T. ^ ^-,(/ ,^„, j ,,,j j 3 Llyngchet, T. ' Ilawodvvni, T.
Verve, T. « Idiav, T. ' ^ A, T. " iVit/ >/ir y >/n T. " Gvaitlyii, T.
^^ ^'id <,ic,tcir i/n T. " (), T.
MEDDYGON MYDDVEU. 21
§ ] 33. Eac chvydu : yuet y uilffci drvy win nKygyl yn y
uo iacli. Arall yv dodi y geillcu y myvu g^in egyr.
§ 134. Rac byderi o at-gleuyt ; kyiner bystyl bucli, a
llaeth bronneu a niel, a dot yn havd dvyni ^ yn dy giusteu.
Medeginyaeth na phaela j^ honno.
§185 Llynia gampeu y kenin : Da yf yuet y sud rac
ch<'ydu gvaet. Da yv y wraged a uynno kael plant vwytta
kennin yn uynych. Da yv kymryt kenin a gvin rac vrath
neidyr, neu aniuel arall. Da yv vrtli weli plastyr o geiiin a
mel. Da rac- hen lias^ neu ysgeueint sud y kennin a
llaeth bronneu. Da yv sud y kenin. a bystyl gauyr a mel
yn dri thraean rac byderi. a hynny y dodi yn dvym yn y
giusteu, neu yn y flroeneu. Da yv rac dolur o benn. Da
yv y * kenin a gwin. rac dolur o arrenneu. Da y v y ^ kenin
y gyuannu asgvru. ac y aeduedu cornvyteu. O dodir y^
kennin a halen vrth weli ef ae kae yn eliegyr. Or ^ bvyteir
y^ kenin yn amrvt, wynt a baraut uedvi. Nerthau dynyon
y^ del g<aetlin udunt a wnant. wynt a vrtbladant vygydorth
yr amysgar. argvedus ynt yr kylla, nac yn uerwedic uac yn
amrvt y kymerer kanys temigyav y greu ^° a wnant rac y
tostet : a mvc o honunt a ymdyrcheif yr penn. ac a lesteir a
goKc ac a wnant gvelet breudwydou arythyr ofynaf c : ^^ ony
vwyteir yn gyntaf y letus neu y popin neu y kyfryv hynny
y ^^ eu hardymheru : Y lad y pryuet a aner ygkylla neu
groth.
§ 136. Y rei ny allant kynnal na ^^ bvyt na dia<t namyn
y" chvydu : kymr ynllefolivm^^ a tliaraf my<u gvin mfy-
gyl, a dyro yr claf oe yuet.
§ 137. Yn erbyn gvcnwyn taraf d<^y gneuen a their or
1 Havddvjn, T. 2 Y\v rac, T. 3 Bas, T. * Xid </to y i/n T. <> Nid
yw y t/Til. 6 Nid yw y pi T. ^ 0, T. » Nid yw y yn T. » Nid
yw y yn T. i« Gieu,' T. " Ofnavc, T. ^ Yw, T. '^ A, T. " Nid
yw y yn T. i' Millefolium, T.
22 MEDDYGON MYDDVEU.
ffigys sychyon adyro ^ o deil y rut. a pliymthec gronyn ar
hugcint o lialon. a dyro yr claf ar y gythlvng.
§138, Llyina y petlieu yssyd da rac y kic drvc ; nyt
anigcnn alvm gvyim a valo yn ply or. a b<^r'^ y ploor hvnnf
arnav.
Rac yr un ryv : kymer llyffiint du.ny alio namyn cropyan :
a niaed a gvialen yn y llittyo. Ac yn y clivydo yn y uo
marf : a chymer ef a dot y rayvn pridell ; a chae y bridell
am danaf hyt na cliafFo^ y mvc vynet allan, na'r g<^ynt y
my<n. ae losgi yn y bridell yn y uo yn lludw. a b^rv y lludi^
livnnv arnav.
Arall yv kymV tvrch dayar. a llosc yn yr unryv agfed.
a bvrf y lludv arnav.^
Yn yr im ryv uod gvna lludv o gic dynj o'r kyfryv le ae
y bo y dolur. o gellir y gafiel o neb ryv fford. ac yn yr un
mod a hynny lludf carlfng g^ynn yn yr un ryf losgyat ac
y dywetpvyt ucliot ae uvrv arnav.
Arall yv kym' ^ y savl a uynnych o benneu garllec. a llosc
vynt ar lavr glau j a phan vvynt yn tanllyt, difFod vynt a
dafynneu mel, a gfna ploor o lionaf a bvrf arnaf . a rvym
arna^ plastyr ympenn y trydyd dyd gf edy golcher ; berv
vlaft rye a g<aet livch y gyt, a dot liVnuf vrtliaf ^ gvedy
golcher, ac ar wartliaf livnnv. y plastyr a mel berwedic a"'r
trayan o halen ; a bynny beunyd. Arall yf. kymr gen
march, a'r dannet oil yudi ; a Hose g<?paneit o hvnnf . a
chymysc ef a phybyr. ac a blonec : ac ir a hvnnf. a thempra
dr<y saes, a dot beunyd y plasf *" livnnv arnav. hyt ym peun
y pythewnos.
Arall yf kym"* ^ mel a melyn vy. ac arment ; a bla^^t
kyftbith man. ae kymyscu ygyt ae v<rv arnaf. dvywcith
beunyd. pucdic^ y<-.
' A dyrneit, T. " Ny cliatto, T, •'' Arall yv kyinr. gicuran yr uii ryw
losgyat : a bvrw y lludw arnav, T. * Kyiticr, T. ' Xitl >/>r vrthav i/n T.
•^ I'lastcr, T. ^ Kynicr, T. •• Provedic, T.
MEDDYGON MYDDVEU. 23
§ 139. jMvstart : da yv y waret fi^lybvr annvydafc. Da
y^ gyt a gvin egyr. rac brath neidyr neu lyffant. Da yv
rac y dannoed. Purliau yr emliennyd a wna. gostegu blodeu
y gwragedd a vna ; a chwennychu bvyt a beir, a chadaruhau
y kylla ; Da yv rac bolwyst, ac rac syrthyav g^allt, ac rac ^
dvrd clusteu, a thywyllvch llygcit. a rac agarwcd amraimeu,
ac rac parlis. a phetheu ercill llawer.
§ 140. Kanys trvy ansodeu y trfnc y gellir adnabot beieu
dyn. ae berigleu, ae liein.^ ae gleuyt o bell ac o agos. Yn
gyntaf ni a uynn<'U daugos pa bath yv y trvnc.
Pedwar ryv uonecl yssyd yr trvnc. kyntaf yv sucP y
gvaet a gerda y leoed anyanavl or corf. Yr cil yr ymysgar
y wneuthur y -vvassanaetli ynteu. Y trydydd yr'* gvytlii y
gymryt amryv wlybvr y colera ar fleunia. Y pedwyryd
rami, yr^ arenneu : drvy wassanaethu y gvlybyreu liynny a
anuonir yr chvyssigen : Ac o livnnv y gvelir lioll arvydon
cleuyt : ac vrtli hynny o achaws gvlybvr ^ y trvnc ae liv. y
delir yr arvydon drvc ar rei da.
§ 141. Or byd dyfyrllyt trvnc, neu debic y win coch, neu
y ^ win du, neu y win gvyrd. neu y olew, neu y waet ; neu
y drvnc aniueileit, ac os kywreint. a edrych yr achvysson
agheunreidavl ^ bynn, ac ae deall ar neilltu ; ef a wybyd pa
un vfyhaf or gvlybyreu hynn a ragorho, ae y ffleuma, ae y
colera, ae y sanguis, ae y melancoli. A reit yv kynnullav
yr vrin y myvn llestyr gvydyr. ae adu y orffowys hyt yr eil
avr ; ac yna vrth paladyr yr lieul y edrych ae uarnu hervyd
yr arwydon a dywetpfyt uchot. O byd du yr uriu ; reit
yv purhau y d^Ti hvnnf drvy yr ethrylithyr goreu a aller ;
ac aruer yn vynych cnneint. ac ole<' : Ac eilweith edrych
y trfnc : ac o byd tebyc i sail'rvu ac na loewo : gvybyd di ^
^ Nid yw rac yn T. ~ Nemeu, T. =* Y sud, T. *■ Yw y, T.
6 Y, T. ' 6 Gvvbvr, T. ^ Nid yw v jn T, » Nid yw agl;ennreidavl yn T.
9 Dy, T.
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vot heint gf yf yn y dyn, g^edy ryueithryn o wres a sychd<r.
O bvd cul y dyn ac welct yn gvanhau ; a bot gvythi agoret
llavn ncu yn gochyon : Ar trvnc yn unlliv a sinopyl : or
sanguis y mae y defnyd. Ac or gellygy ^ waet ar y vreich
asseu ida<^. ef a geifF waret heb olud. O byd tew y trf nc a
brA-s a choch iavn. heb loewi ym paladyr yr heul, ac yn tebic
y waet, nychdavt a gvand' - corff a ardengys a hynny drvy
ormod cryt. O byd gvasgaravc y trvnc. kryt yn hir amser
a arvydockaa. O byd coch y trvnc. neu debic y vr<^nstan.
ae welct yn symudav yn uynych. kryt enbyt y<^. O byd
nywlavc y trvnc a gvyrd (os ar dechreu heint ^ uyd hynny)
neu ympcnn y * deudyd g<^edy del g<?aret ; ae welet yn
dewach dewach, Diogel yv y byd marv. Os mvy v<y a uyd
yr arvydon. heb dewhau. hir heint uyd. Or hjd wybren
ar wyneb y trwnc. heint rac llav a arvydockaa. byd
kethin y trfnc yn yr heint gf res. a thywyllu ; Dolur penn ag
ysgvydeu. a gvanhau y glywet a arwydockaa ; Ac ony da^
gvaret idav ar ben y seithuet dyd. marv uyd. O byd tebic
y trvnc y olev yn yr heint gvres ; hynny arf ydokaa agheu
neu gyndared. neu idwn. Ac o symut yn ebrfyd, cornvyt ar
yr emennyd a dengys y uot. byd deuavt gantav uot yn
tanllyt y lif a dolur pan bisser ; hynny a uenyc na thavd
yndav y bvyt ar diavt. a reit yf rac hynny aruer o vvydeu
medal. O byd du, neu goch ; a bot megis rudyon yn y
gvaelaft, ar chwyssigen yn dygwydav, a dolur yn yr aren-
neu, a dolur yn pissav ; Perigyl uyd y dyn hvunv. O byd
pissa^ mynych a hynny bop ychydic maen tosted a arwyd-
ockaa. O byd glfiswyn trf no ^ yn yr heint gfres. neu
ewynavc, neu goch, a dyuot g<aet oe dwy ffroen, perigyl
mavr vyd y hvnnv. Dynyon y bo g^ann y hauu o^r byd
gfynn eu trfnc, gvae<^ rac llaf a uenic ; ac o symut yn y
J Gollungry, T. •■' Gwaiidid, T. 3 Clevvt, T. * Xid i^w y i/n T.
« V trvnc, T.
MEDDYGON MYDDVEU. 2o
dydyeu hynny : corn<^yt a uenic. Yn yr heint gfres or
byd \\i^ colera arna^. ae uot yn dew, a nywlen wenn arnaf .
a rudyon gvyniiion arna<^ yn nofya< ; hir nychda<'t a uenic.
Yn yr heint g<^res. o ffissir yn y<y noc yg ^ uottaei ; ac na
bo da y li<' ; a syniut yn da. perigyl a uenyc yn gyn-
drycha^l. O ny byd da y tr^nc pan bisser, a symudaf o
honaf ar li^ un iach ; Hynny a dengys kurya<^ o''r dyn rac
lla<^ a daryniret. Yn yr heint g^res os dyn a wna trvnc da
diga^n, a bo^ g'<^ynn ynda<^, ac na leihao y cryt. perigyl vyd.
O byd Dyfyrllyt ynteu mfy uyd y cryt. Ac ny byd perigyl
idaf . O byd tywyll y trvnc yn yr heint gvres, a thrvbyl
heb loewhau, ef a trossir yn gryt y pedvvaryd dyd neu y
trydyd. byd coch ynteu a llawer o wadavt ynda<^. hynny
a dengys y cryt. Os Uiv dvfyr a uyd arnav. trymniach
uyd y cryt, ac ny byd perigyl. Trvnc yr heint gf res. o byd
teimgyavdyr, a halafc a ll<^ch yndaf niegys gvadaft, ar nyw-
len ar y wneb ; hir nychdavt a dengys. Trwnc y cryt a uo
gwadaft tywodlyt ynda<' a megys gvaetlyt o vyvn ; dr<c y
^rth yr arrenneu a uenic hfnuv. O byd ewyngant ar drvnc
raegys bogelynneu ar df fyr : ac na synnyo ef yna dolur or
byt. hynny a dengys cleuyt rac llav.
Os y bore y byd y trvnc yn wynn ; a g^edy hynny yn
goch, da yv. y dilifFrans y gorfF a uenic.
Os coch vyd ynteu yn gyntaf, ac odyna yn du, neu uot yr
un tr<'nc ar deu liv hynny arnav. agheu a dengys. O byd
saym arnav. a bogelyn yn dyrchauel yndav. arwyd drCc yv.
O byd saym arnaf a gVadaft gvynn 3''gg<^aelavt y llestyr ;
hynny a arwydockaa g^^evyr yn yr ymyscar, neu yn y
kyssyllteu. byd glas y trfnc. heint yn yr perued^
a dengys. Tr<'nc coch gogethin. a megys rudyon yn-
da<' a nywl ar y wyneb. arwyd drvc y<'. O byd g<'ynn
iafn gvydyus uyd. O byd du y bore, gfaethaf yf . byd
^ V, T. ' Xjid iim bo yn T. ■* Ymvsgar neu"!- poived, T.
£
26 MEDDYGON MYDDVEU.
seimlyt. a dulur mavr ganta^. agheua<'l }'<"'. O byd pur. a
nywl arna<^. agos uycl aglieu h<'nii<'. Or byd gwynii y
bore, a gwynnacli wedy kinnya<? ^ gorcu un ^' h<'nn<'. O
byd coch a gwadavt yndaf, ny pliericla hwnn<\ urin epatig
t}"wyll. periglus y^. Urin spenetig llud<lyt, petrus vyd.
Urin coch o lieint kylla, Periglus vyd. Urin eglur. iach
vyd. Ac uelly y teruyna.
§ 142. Eff a dylyir gellvng g<-aet yn y symutto y lliw :
kanys o du-uyd yn mynet. gatter^ y redec yn y uo coch.
O byd te<^. gellyngher yn y uo teneu. O byd dyfyrllyt.
gellyngher yn y uo tew.
§ 143. Yth wneuthur byth yn iach. yf Ifyeit beunyd yn
gyntaf o sud yr hockys.
§ 144. Y wylltu ednot neu gylyon ; dot y gannwreid yn
y lie y bont, ac <'ynt a fFoant.
§ 145. Rac magyl ar^ lygat, dot yndav sud eido y dayar.
§ 146. Y waret meddavt. yf safFrvn. drvy dvfyr ffynnavn,
§ 147. Rac y maun, dot arndf keilyavc, neu iar yn y uo
marf.
§ 148. Rac yr heint dygvyd : Had gi ac heb wybot yr dyn.
dot y bystyl yn y eneu : da^ ^ byth arnaf .
§ 149. Y adnabot claf briv y uiolet a dot ar y arleisseu :
ac o ch<sc byf uyd ; o ny chvsc marv uyd.
§ 150. Or mynny na del chfant gfreic itt ; bfytta y ^ rut
y bore.
§ 151. Ytorri maen tosted kymr saxifraga .i. tormaen. yr
hfnn a dyf yn lleoed karrecavc. (kanys o "^ hynny y kauas y
henv :) a thempra drvy win a phyber, ae yuet yn tfym a
hynny a tyrr y maen, ac a beir pissaf, ac a wna blodio yr
gf raged ; ac a iacha yr arenneu, a llestyr y plant.
1 Kynnav, T. » Vyd, T. » Catto, T. •» At, T. * Xy dav, T.
•" Xtd i/ir y ^n T. ' A^id yv o i/n T.
MEDDYGON MYDDVtU. -<
Arall yv. kymr y ^ saxifraga. a hat y grwmit ; - a tharav
ar df fyr br^t ; a dyro idav oe yuet cliwediwarna^t. ac ef
a^ yn iacli yn diogel.
Arall y<-. kymF waet ysgyuarnaf c ac chroen, a llosc yny
el yn dvst : a chymmysc y pyloor li^nii^ a d<fyr tvym ; a
dyro idav Iwyeit or d<st h^nnf ar dia<t, ac yuet ar y gytli-
Kng ; a hynny a tyrr y maen ac ae teiuyl allan. Or mynny
broui hyuny ; dot Iwyeit or d<'st hvnnv y myf n d<fyr, a dot
yndaf y maen a uynnych, ac ef a ymellwng yn diannot.
§ 152. Llyma y tri tliew anesgor : "* auu, ac aren, a challon.
A llyna yr acliavs y gelwir vyut uelly, dilis yv y lie y
kehyrdo clvyf ar un or tri, na ellir gwaret udunt namyn
marv yn ehegyr.
§ 153. Tri theneu aneseor ynt : Pilyonen yr emennyd, a
glas-golud, a chvyssigen : achavs or^ un acliavs y maeut
aneseor aV rei ereill.
§ 154. Mae teir hir uych gveli : kjnnal gliu, a m<^ydou
assen. ac ysgeueint : kauys wedy macko cravn yn un o rei
hynny ; dilis y v ^ na wyr medic pa bryt y gallo gwaret '
idaf yn y gwelo yn iach.
§ 155. Rac heint y marchogyon. dot galclma^ paun a
gfreid redyn : ac ef a uyd iach.
§ 156. Rac bratli ki kyudeiryavc ; da yf bvyta gvreid yr
hadigyl.
§ 157. Y beri plant y wreic. bvytaet yn uynych letus, a
gfer brvt. a phybyr.
§ 1 58. Pa uedegiuyaeth uvyhaf : tynnu asgvrn yn di-
berigyl ar yr emennyd.
§ ] 59. Pa uedegiuyaeth leihaf. kossi dy lav yn y wennofo,^
ac odyna poeri arnei ^" ae rugla'C'.^^
^ yid i/w y ynT. ^ Grvmi), T. » A a, T. < Anesgar, T. 5 Yr, T.
« Y, T. 7 cialla gvaet, T. » Gakli na, T. •■> Weuolo, T. ^ Xid yw
arnei y>i T. " Kaiglaw, T.
28 MKI)DY(i(>.\ MYUDVEL'.
§ 160. Kac g-^e^yr: keis y dialtean, yr h<nn a uyd gan
yr yspisswyr ; ^ a goreu y^ h<nn<^ rac pob dolur.
§ 161. Rac y mann kymor lygat y dyd ar erllyryat, a
tharav ar dia<t yn dew ; a chymmcr dvvst a nadher o lasuaen
a dyro ar diavt idav. a liynny ae g<na yn iacli os keifF kynn
y 2 gysgu.
§ 162. llac cliwyd o vriv : kymer sud y keulon. a sud yr
erllyryat, a blaft rye a mel. a gfynn <y? '^ ^^^ y pl^^styr
hfnnf arnav.
§ 163. Ilac corn<^yt ; ^ kymer sud y morella. a'r erllyryat
a blavt heid a g'^'ynn \vy.
§ 164. Rac attal pissav : kymr y dynat coch ar persli. a
g<^na plastyr o hoiia<'. a dot ar y groth is la^ y uogel.
§ 165. Y waret dauattenneu, kymer y tu dieithyr y rise
yr helic, a gfin egyr a dot livnnv yn plastyr arnav.
§ 166. Rac lieint callon : kymer rise y keginderv, a rise
y * du-drem, ar erllyryat ; a phf rs y bugeil ; ae bervi drvy
d<^fyr ryclieu yn y el dan y draean ; a cliymryt y dvfyr
hfnnf . a g^'nevthur gruel drvy vlaft gfenith peilleit.
Arall yv : kymer d^fyr kara^n. a llaeth geifyr yn deu
banner, a sud yr erllyryat yn y blith. ae uervi g<'enithuein
yr ^ auon, ae rodi na,-^ nieu ida^ : ac na cliymysger diaf t
idaf, onyt honno eliun.
§ 167. Rac dolur dfyuron ; kymr eiryn y koet lawer, a
mortera yn ffest, a chymysc g<?r^f newyd ia<n ac ef ; a dot
y myCn crochan prid newyd yn y dayar ; dros yr ymyleu ;
ae adu yno naf nieu ; a nav nos ; ae rodi y bore yn gyntaf ;
ac yn diwethaf y nos yr dyn.
§ 168. Y wneuthur gfin egyr; kymr heid glan a dot y
my<n gfin dros nos hyt trannoeth ucher.^
§ 169. Y gyuannu asgfrn, kymr consolida maior ^ a brif
' Yspissvr, T. « A'id t/w y ynT, 3 Y cornwyt, T. * Xid vir y y>i T.
^ Xid yw yr v» T. " Ucha, T. ' Majr, T.
MKDDYGUN MVDUVEU. L9
dKy win, a pliybyr, a mel ac yuet beunyd hyt ympenn y '
na^ nieu. ac <ynt ^ a gyvaniiant oil yn un lie.
§ 170. Y wueutliur eli llygeit. kytn"* sud a sud
g<eid y feingyl, a sud y celidonia, a llysseu y wennol a blouec
h^ch a mel, ac ychydic o win egyr, a gfaet llasswen, a by sty 1
keila<c. ae dodi y my<^u llestyr efuyd yu y ulodeuho : ac ef
a <naeth y kyfry<^ livnnf dynyon wedi colli y dreni y gaffel.
§ 171. Gwybydet ba^p na ellir keissa^^ dim onyt drfy
nerth ; nyt oes nertli ouy byd iechyt ; nyt oes ^ iechyt ony
byd kymhedrolder yn yr annyan : ny byd kymhedrolder
yn yr aiiyan ony byd k5'liedvl * y ^ gvres yn yr aelodau :
Duf a ossodes ketwiraeth ar y mod y katwei dyn y yechyt.
ac ae dangosses yr pbiloffvvyr y wasanaetliwyr ehun. ac yr
proffvydi y dewisswyr.** y rci yssyd gyflavn or yspryt glan ;
a duw ae hurdavd vynt o"'r geluydyt bono.
§ 172. Y lladinwyr. a g^yr pers. ar^ groecwyr. y ^ bynn
a dewissom ni a garf n : Yr hynn a geissom a uedylyvn am
danav. Ac am bynny gfybydet bavb y duv rodi gvybodol-
yaeth ^ y wyr groec y ragoravl y adnabot pob keluydy t, ac
annyan pob peth y ragor ar y kenedloed ereill ; y mod y
keidv dyn y iecbyt.
§ 173. Y pbilfFvvyr ^° ar gvyr doetbon a racwelsaut ry-
wneuthur dyn o bedwar defuyd. a pliob uu o naduut y <Ttb-
fyneb y gilyd yr livn y mae reit idav v<yt a diaft bop amser;
ac onys keiff ftaelu a wna : or kj^riier dyn ormod neu ry
uycban o v^yt neu o lyun. gvanbau a wna y gorft'a syrtbyav
y myi'n cleuyt ; a beuyd my<u llawer o betbeu gvrtbvynebus.
or kymer ynteu v<'yt a llynn y gybedra<l. cryfbau a wna y
gorf, a cbadv y iecbyt beuyt.
§ 1 74. Y pbilosofFwyr a dywedant ^^ pvy bynuac a vvyttao
1 N.id yw y yn T. '^ A vy, T. •* Xid yw oes yn T. •• Kymedrolder, T.
' Nid yw y yn T. ^ Xid i/w y wasanaethwyr ehun. ac yr proffvydi y dewiss-
wyry»T. '' A, T. » Yr, T. ? Gvybodaeth, T. " '" PliilosoftVyr, T.
" Dywedassant, T.
30 MEDDYGON MYDDVEU.
neu a yvo m<'y noc a^ 'lyly^'j "cu lei : ncu a gysco m^y neu
lei, neu a lauuryo m<y neu lei ; neu a orfFowysso^ mfy neu
lei. my^n prytuerthKyd, neu my<^n ^ caledi yd ymrod y
ormod : neu yr neb a aruero o elKng g<aet peidya<^ o hona<^ ;
heb petrusf ny * dieinc yn digleuyt. Or petheu hynn y
traetlivn ni ar uyrder ; ac am y peth a uo goreu yr defnyd-
ycu liynu.
§ ] 75. Gvyr doetliou a dywedassant. p<?y bynnae a ym-
gattwo rac yuet neu vvytta gorniod ; ac a gymero kymedrol-
der o vvyt a llynn. megys y kannattao y annyan ; hvnnv a
geif iechyt. a dydyeu liiriou ; sef y<- hyny hir uuclied. ny
dywaft philosofwyr eiryoet dim amgen. Chvant a charyat,
ac erbynuyeit urdas bydavl : y rei hynn yssyd y nerthu, ac
y kanliorthwyo yr lioedyl or gfneir drvy gymedrolder. Ac^
acliavs hynny pvy bynac a uo cliwaDnavc y vywyt ac y par-
bau. keisset y peth a uo parhaus. ar hynn a gatwo y bywyt.
§ 176. Pvy bynnae a uynno y uywyt, reit y<^ idav arbet y
ewyllys, ac nyt bvyta gormod ar benn gormod. Mi a gigleu
y Ipocras ^ gadv y vywy t, trvy yr livn ^ y godeuavd ef lawer
o wendit a henaint ; ac yna y dywedassant y disgyblon ^
vrtha^ : Tydi ^ y mavr dysga<^dyr yn y doethineb ; pci
bvyttaut ^° neu pei hyuut la<^er, ny bydei y g<endit yssyd
arnat ? Yna yd attebavd ipocs ^^ vy meibion i lieb ef ;
ydwyfi yn bvyta dogyn <rth vot yn vyv arna<- ; ny bydvn
vyv i yv bfyta bfyta yn ry uynych yr parhau lioedyl dyn.
nyt yr bvyta y mae reitaf keisaf parhau ; kanys llawer a
welcis i yn meirv o vvyta y ry vyuych.
§ 177. Arbet yr ewyllys ar glythineb. a bfyta yn araf ;
y rei hynn a uydynt hir hoedla<^c ; ac ual hyn y gellir y
' Y, T. 2 Orffwyss, T. » iMjn, T. ' Pctiussny, T. » I'n Ih vr lioedyl
or gvnoir drvy gymedrolder. Ac i/mae d\ n byduwl, T. '" I{)ocratcs, T. ■ lloiin, T.
" yid i/w disgyblon yn T. " (Sef y disgyblon ) Tydi, T. i" Tc bwytaent, T.
II Ipocras, T.
MEDDYGON MYDDVF.U. 31
broui. G<'jv yr auia^ y rei yssyd myfn mynedcd^ a
choetyd diffcitli. y rei liynny a uydaiit h<'ya y hoedcl ; a
liynny a wDa arbet gormodyon bvytcu a llynn. Y my^n
deu vod y mac kad<^ icchyt : Nyt amge. y kyntaf y<' aruer
o''r b^ydeu a vo kymcdrvl y oedran ac y anyan — Scf y<^
hynny. aiV o hona^' o'r kyffelyp vvydcii a llyn ac y magys-
sit arnadunt. Yr eil yf ymdywallt o'r petheu a gynlmllavd
yn y gylla fford y pen uchaf ida'(^.
§ 178. Heuyt gvybydet pafb mae kyrff y dyiiion yssyd
yn erbyn y bvydeu ar llyn : a bot pafb onadunt hayach yn
afiaehus. Heuyt llygredic ynt y kyrf o dra gvres. yr hvnn
yssyd yn sychu yr annyan. yr li^nn yssyd yn meitlirin y
korf. Heuyt llygredic ynt y kyrf gan dra gvres yr lieul, yr
hvii yssyd yn sychu yr anyan : ac yn enwedic corfForoed yr
aniueileit. y rei yd ynn borthir arnadunt. Pann vo y korf y
wressafc bf deu kedyrn a bertliynat idav, kanys havd vyd eu *
treulaf.
§ 179. Pan uo y^ korf y vreisc, ac y sycb, bvydeu bon-
liedic a bertliynat idav ; a bvydeu ir ; kanys y rei hyriy a
dreula ef y havd. Yn y mod hyspyssa y diga<?n dyn kyn-
nal y iechyt, ac ^ aru' '' o vvydeu a llyii a uont gyedraf 1 oe
ariyan. hyn a brouet.
§ 180. Or byd d_^n a cliorf gvressavc y aunya idaf, bvydeu
gf ressa<'c a berthynant idaf .
§ 181. Or byd cortF ocruelavc, bfydeu oeruelafc a berthyn-
ant ida<.
§182. HeuA^t y gorf gflyboravc, neu gorf sych anya^
bvydeu oeruelafc a wahardir.
§ 183. Kylla gvressavc bvydeu kedyrn a vyd goreu idai'-,
kanys y kyftblyb ^ gylla hvnnv a gyffelybir y tan a Iosco
1 Gvyr Arabia, T. 2 Myned, T. » Arbed, T. ^ Y, T. » Xid yw y
yn T. '' Nid yic ac yn T. ^ Arvtr, T. ^ Annyan, 1". "•' Xid yic
kyffelyb yn T.
32 MEDDYGON MYDDVEU.
ysgyrion breiscyon. Kylla oeruelafc b<ydeu gfan a uyd
gorou ida<- ; kanys y kyflfelyb hf nn^ a gyffelybir y tan yn
llosgi g<ellt.
§ 184. Arfwydon kylla iach ynt, bot y corfFy escut, a bot
y eglur y deall, a mynych chfennychu b<yt.
§185. AKydon kylla afiachus ynt ; trymder corf, anor-
beidr^yd ymdeiinla<' ac ef, diogi yn y weithretoed ; hi^yd yn
y wyneb. dileugen y uynych a gol^c ymatlaes, a brytheiryaf
y uynych ; a phan glywer hyny y chwerf ; kanys hyny a
uac gvynnoed yn y kylla ; y rei a dardant drf y y korf ar ^
y ^ aelodeu, ac a barant gassau b<yt.
§ 1 86. Pan gyuottyeh oth wely ; rottya dogyn, odyna
ymestyu dy aelodeu trfy grynoi dy benn ath vynvgyl.
hynny a gadarnliaa y corf, a chrynoat y penn a wna redec ^
yr anyan o'r kylla yr pen ; ac or peii pan gysgych y syrth
yr corf dracliefyn. Yr litif ymenneina myf n df fyr oer :
hynny a gyneil g<^res yn y pen, ac o hynny y megir chvant
b<'yt. Gfedy hynny. gfisc dillat tec ym danat : kanys
medfl dyn a lawenhaa my<n petheu tec, aV gallon a dyr-
cheif. G<'edy hyny sych dy daned a rise y coll sychyon,
kanys gloe<ach vydant o hynny ; ac eglurach vyd dy 5'ad<d ;*
a pherach vyd yr^ anadyl. Heuyt saf weitheu myvn am-
seroed ; kanys lies mavr a f na, ac agori a <na y greadur, a
breisgau a ^na'r vynfgyl. tecach uyd Hi? yr wyneb a breis-
gau a V^naV breicheu, a g(^ellau yr oKc, a rvvstrav arnat
Hydya^, a chadarnhau y gof. Ymdidan a chyt gerdet ac
f yt ^ ual ydaruereist o vf yta ac o yuet. y gymhedravl gvna,
a llauurya dogyn o gerdet neu o varchogaeth ; kanys hyriy
a nertha y corf — ac a dinustyr gfynnoed " o vyvn yr ® kylla ;
ac escudach vyd dyn a chryfach, a gvressogach vyd y gylla,
a thynerach vyd y gieu.
^ X'ul vw nr 1/n.T. ^Yr, T. » jjel, T. * Vmadrard, T. » Dv. T.
« Vynt, f. 7 Gvyncd, T. " V, T.
MEDDYGON MYDDVEU. 33
§ 187. Pan gymerych vvyt, kyni"' y b<^yt mvyhaf agerych,
OS ^ kelFy ; ac y enwedic bara sur : ac oV b<'ytey vf ydeu
gf ann havs - uyd yr kylla dreulav. Dyeithyr or b^ytey deu
ry V vvyt ; bvy t gi'an, a bvy t kadaru ; b<^y ta y bvy t kadarn
yn gyntaf; kanys gvressogach yv gfaelavt y kylla. iioe
warthaf : kanys nes yf yr avu yr livn y keift' y wres o bonav.
§ 188. Pa vvyteych. na vvyta dy holl awyd; gat beth o
chvant b<yt arnat. Nac yf dvfyr gyt atb vvyt ; kany.x oeri
a Vila y kylla. a rvystrav arnav dreulav y bvyt, a diffodi y
gvres : ac o goruyd arnat yuet dvfyr, yf ycbydic. a livnnv
o\ dvfyr oera a gcffych. Pan darflb it vvyta. kerda wasdat-
tir plyd,^ Pa uynych gyscu. na chvsc ormod, gorffowys avr
ar^ yr ystlys deheu, ac odyna tro ar yr ystlys asseu a chvpla
dy hun. Or klyvy dolur ytli gylla, a tlirymder, dot lawer o
dillat y dauat y dvyn gvres yr kylla ; ac yi dvfyr tvym, a
byny a^ beir chvydu yr afiachuster a no yth gylla. Rodyav
llawer kyn bvyt a wresoca y kylla. Eodyav Haver wedy
bvyt a vaetha y kylla ; kanys heb dreulav od llauur y ^ syrtb
y waelavt y kylla, ac yna y " mac ^ llawer o gleuydyeu.
Kysgu kyii bvyt a wna dyn y gul : kysgu wedy bvyt a wna
dy y vreisc. Y nos a uyd oeracli iio'r dyd. Ac or achavs
hfnnv kynt y treula y kylla byt nos. no liyt dyd ; kanys bo
oera vo y tywyd. goreu y treula y kylla. kan? y gvres a
syrtli or aelodeu y gylch y kylla. ^ Ot aru"" dv'n o vvyta dwy
weitli yn y dyd ; ac na bvytao nayn un weith ; byny a
waetlia y kylla. Ot aru^ ^'^ o ^^ vvyta un weith yn y dyd,
ac odyna dvyweith byny a waethaa y kylla. Or bvytey
myvn un ams^ yn y dyd ; a symut byny y ams' arall. hynny
a argyweda yr^'-^ kylla. Dyeithyr or dav aghen ; megys y
bo reit y symut. aru' bop ycbydic. Hcuyt na vvyta yny
•Or, T. 2 Gvannhavs, T. »Clyd, T. * Xi\l ;/>r Ar ynT. ^ Xid
yw a. ynT, •* Y dvfyr a, T. " Sidi/iry ipi T. '' Mae, T. ^ Nid i/w
kans y gvres a syrth or aelodeu y gylch y kylla i/n T. '" Os arvery, T. ^^ Xul
yw o ;/« T. 'i* Y, T.
F
34 MEDDYGON MYDDVEU.
darfo yr kylla wackau. a hynny a elly y' adnabot ar dy
chwant yr b'Cyt, ar deneur^yd dy o\e<'. Or bVytey licb
ohvant bvyt ariiat. rewi a vna y f^<res annyanavl. Ac or
bf ytey pan uo chvant bvyt arnat. dy anyan a ^ vyd kyn
wresocket a than. A pb<y bynnac ny chyrn'o b<?yt yna, y
gylla a leinf o afiachust' yr h<nn a beir y gfaef yn y penn.
^ Nid yw y yn T. - Xid yvj a yn T.
THE PHYSICIANS OF MYDDYAl.
THK
^3lji|0irinii0 iif jllij&bni.
IXTRODUCTIO.V.
§ 1 . Here by the help of God, the supreme chief Sovereign,
are shewn the most notable and principal methods of healing
the human body, the persons who caused them to be written
after this fashion being Rhiwallon the Physician, and his
sons, even Kadwgan, Griffith, and Einion. For they were
the ablest and most eminent of the physicians of their time,
and of the time of Rhys Gryg ^ their lord, and the lord of
Diuevor, the nobleman who maintained their rights and
privileges, in all integrity and honour, as was meet. The
reason why they thus caused a record of their skill to be
committed to writing was, lest no one should be found after
them so endowed with the requisite knowledge as they were.
THE HEAD.
§ 2. The head is the first and the most important portion
of man"'s body, which God formed, for therein are the five
corporeal senses.
1 Rhys Grj'g, " arwr Dinefwr," was the son of Rhys ah Gruffydtl, Priuee of
South Wales. He married the daughter of the Earl of Clare, a.d. 1219, died
at Llaiideilo Vawr in 1233, and was buried in the Cathedral of St. Davids,
where his monumental effigy still remains in a good state of preservation. Kliys
Grj'g was a distinguished warrior, and fought with various success in the wars
which were carried on in Wales, almost without intermission, during his life.
Several odes are preserved in the first volume of tho Myvyrian Archaiology,
which were addressed to him by the poets, Llywarch ab Llywelyii, Phylip Bryd-
ydd, and De\\i Mynyw, the two latter of whom also wrote elegits upon liini.
38 THE rilYSICIANS OF MYDDVAI.
ORIGIN OP DISEASES IN THE HEAD.
§ 3. Diseases originate iu three places in tlie head ; one is
the pericranium, the second is the cranium, and the third
is the dura mater.
PRESERVATION OF THE CRANIUM AND SCALl'.
§ 4. 13y an incision in the scalp, extending to the cranium,
and giving exit to the venom, is the cranium preserved. By
])lilebotomy and cauterization is the scalp preserved.
DURA MATER.— TREATMENT.
§ 5.^ By exposing the dura mater, taking two parts of wood
betony, and three parts of the violet, with salt butter,
pounded together, and aj)plying them thereto, the venom is
removed from the dura mater. It will extract any inflam-
mation and pain existing therein.
DURATION OF TREATMENT.
§ 6. From the time the scalp is laid open to the end of
nine days, shall this issue remain on the bone : that is to
say, this plan should be followed in an old standing com-
plaint of the head.
V/OUND ON THE HEAD.— TREATMENT. PHYSICIANS FEE.
§ 7. As to a recent blow or fresh wound on the head, the
sooner it is dressed the better, lest there should be extrava-
sated blood upon the dura mater, and that it should become
concocted there. When the bone and the dura mater are
exposed, take the violet and fresh butter, and })ouud together.
If the violet cannot be gotten, take the white of eggs and
linseed, pounding them together ; or fresh butter and lin-
seed, and aj)ply thereto till (the pain is) assuaged. Then
an ointment should be prepared of herbs, butter and tallow,
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and applied thereto until it is cured. A pound is the phy-
sician"'s fee for this treatment as regards the deed of mercy
simply, without victuals : or nine score (pence) with victuals.^
PAIN IN THE EYE. CAUTERY.
§ 8. For pain in the eye. The actual cautery applied to
the hollow of the eyebrow, and another in the nape of the
neck, is beneficial for rheum of the head.
WATERY EYE.— TREATMENT.
§ 9. For a red watery eye (ophthalmia tarsi cum epiphora)
insert a seaton under the jaw, and apply the actual cautery
in the nape of the neck, and this is beneficial for rheum of
the head.
DISEASED EYELIDS.— REMEDY.
§ 10. For a dry scurfy condition of the eye (lids.) Take the
juice of the strawberry, a hen's fat, and May butter. Pound
them well together, and keep in a horn (box.) When going
to bed, anoint (about) thine eye and eyelids well, and they
will be cured.
PNEUMONIA.— TREATMENT.
§11. There are three kinds of lung disease; — simple
pneumonia, white pneumonia, (bronchitis) and black
pneumonia, (phthysis) which is marked by pain below the
mammse, under the armpit, and in the top of the shoulders,
with (hectic) redness of the cheeks. And thus are they
^ The same fee is ordered in the Venedotian Code of Hywel Dda ; — " The
coTupensation for the medicaments is tliis. For each, [a stroke on the head unto
the brain ; a stroke in tlie hotly unto tlie howels ; and the breaking of one of
the four limbs,] tiie person wounded is to receive tliree pounds from the one
who shall have so wounded liim ; the amount likewise due from the person who
shall wound him, for his medical treatment, is a pound, without j'ood ; or nine
score pence, with his food, and the bloody clothes." — Ancient Laws and Insti-
tutes of Wales, V. i. p. 313. See also p. 391.
40 THE I'lIYSICIAXS OF MYDDVAI.
treated. Let (the patient) take, for three successive days, of
the following herbs ; hemlock, agrimony, herb Robert, and
asarabacca, then let him undergo a three day"'8 course of
aperients. When the disease is thus removed from the
bronchial tubes, an emetic should be given him (daily) to
the end of nine days. Afterwards let a medicine be prepared,
by digesting the following herbs in wheat ale or red wine :
madder, sharp dock, anise, agrimony, daisy, round birth-
wort, meadow sweet, yellow goat's beard, heath, water
avens, woodruff, crake berry, the corn cockle, caraway,
and such other herbs as will seem good to the physician.
Thus is the blessed confection prepared. Take of May
butter, a she-goat''s suet or a doe''s fat, the shepherd's
needle, and as many as may be desired of such herbs as may
be suitable for the purpose. A wounded lung is the phys-
ician's third difficulty, for he cannot controul it, but must
wait for the will of God. By means of tlie Iierbs just men-
tioned, a medicine may be prepared for any one who has a
pulmonary abccss (empyema.) He should let out (the mat-
ter) and support (the patient) as in the case of a wounded
lung, till he is recovered. But most usually, he will have
died within eleven years (al. one year.)
FEVERS.
§ 12. There are four kinds of fevers, deriving their origin
from the summer, viz. latent fever, intermittent fever, ephem-
eral fever, and inflammatory fever. The fifth fever is typhus,
and this kind proceeds from the brain. A latent fever is
relieved by an emetic, a cordial, and cauteries. Thus it
oriirinates ; from the over seneratino; of tou2;h humor in the
stomach, from which results a distaste for food, and lassitude
during summer. The mugwort, madder, meadow sweet,
milfoil, hemp, red cabbage, and the tutsan, all these
seven herbs enter into the composition of the medicine re-
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quired. Whosoever obtains them all, will not languish long
from a wounded lung, or need fear for his life. Any of the
following herbs may be added thereto, butcher''s broom,
agrimony, tutsan, dwarf elder, amphibious persicaria,
centaury, round birth wort, field scabious, pepper mint,
daisy, knap weed, roots of the red nettle, crake berry,
St. John's wort, privet, wood betony, the roots of the
yellow goat"'s beard, heath, water avens, woodruff, leaves
of the earth nut, agrimony, wormwood, the bastard balm,
small burdock, and the orpine.
INTERMITTENT FEVERS. TREATMENT.
§ 13. For intermittent fevers. Take dandelion and
fumatory, infused in water, the first thing in the morning.
Then about noon take wormwood infused in water likewise,
drinking it as often as ten times, the draught being rendered
tepid. Let bread made with pounded wheat be also taken, or
oaten cakes, goat''s whey, the flesh of a young fowl, husky
porridge in water, milk being abstained from, and indeed every
kind of milk diet. If the ague does not then terminate, the
patient must be put in a bath, when the paroxysm comes
on, and an emetic given him whilst in the bath, as it will
then act more powerfully.
COOLING DRINKS.
§ 14. The three best cooling drinks are apple water, goat"'s
whey, and spring water.
INTERMITTENT FEVERS.
§ 15. Another treatment for an intermittent fever. Take
the mugwort, dwarf elder, tutsan, amphibious persicaria,
pimpernel, butcher's broom, elder bark, and the mallow^
and boiling them together as well as possible in a pot, or
cauldron. Then take the water and herbs, and add them to
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42 THE PHYSICIANS OF MYDDVAI.
the bath. The following is a good medicine for this class of
diseases : take moss, ground ivy, or elder, if obtainable,
(if not obtainable, caraway,) and boil these two vegetable
substances well together. Then take the mallow, fennel,
pimpernel, butcher's broom, borage, and the young leaves
of the earth nut, and bruise them as well as possible, put-
ting them on the fire with the two herbs before mentioned,
and boiling them well. This being done, let elder bark be
taken from that portion of the tree Avhich is in the ground,
let it be scraped and washed thoroughly, and bruised well in
a mortar. Then take the liquor prepared from the fore-
mentioned herbs, and mix the said bark therein assiduously
between both hands, and set it to drain into a vessel to
acidify, fermenting it with goat\s whey, or cow''s whey. Let
a good cupful thereof be drank every morning as long as it
lasts, a portion of raw honey, apple or wood sorrel, being
taken subsequently in order to remove the taste from the
mouth, after the draught. This liquor is beneficial to every
man who requires to purge his body.
HEMORRHOIDS.— EXCITING CAUSE. TREATMENT— SURGI-
CAL. ANOTHER METHOD.— MEDICAL. FORBIDDEN FOOD.
§ 16. There are two kinds of hemorrhoids, humoral
hemorrhoids and inflamed hemorrhoids, the latter pro-
duced by summer heat, the former by summer moisture
when either condition prevails. It is in this manner that it
comes. Four veins proceed from the liver to the anus ;
therefore, thus it may be cured. Secure three of these by
means of a ligature, and let the fourth be left free. The
cautery also should be applied to the ancles, and about the
knees and hams. Thus the blood will be habitually diverted
to the lower extremities, when the cauteries shall have dis-
charged all the humor from the vein.
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The second plan of treatment is as follows. Take the
mallow, and boil it in wheat ale, or in spring water. Tlien
take that which grows in the earth of the elder (bark,) bruise
well in a mortar, and mix it, crude as it is, w-ith the above
mentioned decoction, and administer it quickly to the patient,
so as to act upon his bowels. Let him afterwards be forbid-
den beef, cheese, leeks, largo fish, salmon, eels, ducks, garlic,
and all kinds of milk diet, except whey made witii warm
milk (from the cow.)
ABDOMINAL COMPLAINTS.- ASCITES, PERITONITIS, ABDOMINAL
TUMOR, TYMPANITIS. TREATMENT OF PERITONITIS. EMETIC.
EXTRACT OF STINKING HELLEBORE. INTERNAL ABDOMINAL
TUMOR.— TREATMENT.
§ 17. There are four kinds of abdominal complaints,
ascites, peritonitis, abdominal tumor, and tympanitis.
Ascites cannot be cured. Tympanitis also is a disease from
which there is no escape, though it is not soon fatal. Peri-
tonitis is treated by means of an emetic, the blue confection
and a medicine. These are the herbs required (for the
medicine ;) the sweet gale, bay leaves, pimpernel, male
speedwell, river startip, borage, moss, liverwort, the
young leaves of the earth nut, and the mallow. The
before-mentioned emetic should be thus prepared. Take the
stinking hellebore (dug fresh) from the ground, from the
root, washing it well, slicing it thin, then bruising it in a
mortar, as well as can be done, the refuse being thrown
away (after the juice is expressed.) The juice should then
be put in a pan on the fire (and boiled) whilst there is any
ebullition (till nearly solid,) keeping it by you as long as
you wish, making small pills thereof when you administer it
to the sick. Abdominal tumor is cured by means of cau-
teries, issues, a cordial, and an emetic.
44 THE PHYSICIANS OF MYDDVAI.
AXAL WAUTS.
§ 18. Certain warts will often furni about the anu.s. 'JMie
best way to remove them, is to dig them out with cold iron,
afterwards cauterizing their seat, and anointing the same witli
honey.
THREE KINDS OF URINARY DISORDERS. STRANGURY. HOT
AIR BATH. CALCULUS— OPERATION. SUBSEQUENT TREAT-
MENT. PREPARATORY TREATMENT, GRAVEL— TREATMENT.
§ 19. There are three kinds of painful urinary disorders.
Strangury. It is cured by means of an emetic, a cordial,
cauteries, and a dry (hot air) bath. A hard vesical calculus
is thus extracted by operation. Take a staff and place it in
the bend of the knee ; then fix both arms within the knees,
doubling them up over the staff, and securing both wrists
with a fillet, over the nape of the neck, the patient (being
placed on the back), his stomach up, with some support
under both thighs, and the calculus cut for on the left side
of the urethra. Let him be subsequently put in a water
bath that same day, also the day following early, and after
this he should be put in the kyffeith. Then he should be
removed to his bed, and laid there on his back, his wound
being cleaned, and dressed with flax and salt butter. He
should be kept in the same temperature, until it be known
whether he shall escape (the effects of the operation.) He
should be kept without food or drink for a day and a night
previous to the operation, and should have a bath.
If the disease be gravel, make a medicine of the following
herbs, mascerated in strong clear wheat ale, viz. water
pimpernel, tutsan, meadow sweet, St. John''s wort, ground
ivy, agrimony, milfoil, birch, common burnet, columbine,
motherwort, laurel, gromwel, bctony, borage, dandelion,
little field madder, amphibious persicaria, liverwort.
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STERILITY.— TREATMENT.
§ 20. A sterile woman may have a potion prepared for
her by means of the following herba, viz : — St. John's wort,
yew, agrimony, amphibious persicaria, creeping cinque foil,
mountain club moss, orpine and pimpernel, taking an emetic
in addition.
PROFUSE MENSTRUATIOX.— TREATxMENT.
§ 21. A woman who is subject to profuse menstruation,
should take the reddish bastard balm, small burdock, orpine,
stinking goose foot, pimpernel, water avens, with the ashes
of a hart''s horns, that has been killed with his antlers on,
boiling them, as well as possible in red wine, straining the
liquor carefully, and drinking it daily, till it is finished,
abstaining (the while) from stimulating food. Being res-
trained by the above means, the blood will be habitually
diverted to the thighs and ancles.
QUINSEY.
§ 22. The roots of the corn bell flower, will break the
quinsey, being digested in cold water, drank and retained
in the mouth.
EXFOLIATION OF DEAD BONE FROM THE SKULL.
§ 23. Dandelion digested in cold water, and drank, will
promote the exfoliation of the skull in aged men.
ISSUES AND SEATONS.
§ 24. Viper''s garlic, and shepherd's needle. The juice
of the roots will form an issue, that of the leaves a seaton.
ISSUES AND WORMS.
§ 25, The roots of the mugwort boiled in wine, will form
an issua also ; the leaves treated in like manner will destroy
worms.
4G THE PHYSICIANS UF MYDDVAI.
AN IMPOSTUME,
§ 26. Comfrey root, dock root, valerian root, butter, old
lard, and sulphur, pounded well together, and expressed
through a cloth, are useful for an imposturae.
MILK. YOUNG PORK, AND MUTTON.
§ 27. From the time of calving up to fifteen days, cow's
milk will be heating, and from thence until she is in calf, as
long as she remains in profit, the milk will be heating.
The flesh of a sow, under a year, and sheep flesh are watery,
and for the man whose flesh is flabby in consequence of
disease, such meat is not proper.
WHOLESOME MEATS.— VENISON AND PORK, PARTRDIGE AND
THE HEN, FLATFISH, BASS, AND TROUT.
§ 28. The most wholesome wild beast's flesh is venison.'
The most wholesome domestic animaFs flesh is pork.^ The
most wholesome wild fowPs flesh is partridge. The most
wholesome domestic bird's flesh is that of the hen. The
most wholesome sea fish is the flatfish.^ The most whole-
some fresh water fish is the bass and the trout.*
ECZEMA OR HUMID TETTER.
§ 29. For a humid tetter : honey of ivy, fox marrow,
and white rosin.
TOOTHACHE.— TREATMENT.
§ 30. For the toothache. Take the inner bark of the
ivy, and the leaves of the honeysuckle, bruising them well
together in a mortar, expressing them through a linen cloth
into both nostrils, the patient lying on his back, and it
will relieve him.
5 " The best hunted flesh is venison." Prov.
- " The best animal moat is mutton." Prov.
'" 'i'lie best sea tish are the flounders." Prov.
* '' The best fresli water fish is trout." I'rov.
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DEAFNESS. DROPS. CAUTERY.
§ 31 . For deafness. Take a ram's urine, and eel's bile,
and the juice of ash, expressing the same into the ear, and
about the tooth. The actual cautery should also be applied
behind the ear and angle of the jaw, a nut being inserted
therein. This is a good plan.
A VIPER'S BITE. STRANGE PROPOSAL FOR EXTRACTING THE
VENOM BY MEANS OF FOWLS.
§ 82. For the bite of a viper. If the patient be a male,
let a living cock be procured, and let the anal extremity be
applied to the wound, and so held. This is a good plan.
If the patient be a woman, let a living hen be procured and
applied in the same way. This will extract the venom.
CRUSTED SCALL, OR IMPETIGO CAPITIS.
§ S3. For a crusted scall. Take goafs dung, barley meal
and red wine, boil together into a poultice, and apply to the
part. This is the remedy, when the sore is not opened (by
the forcible removal of the crust.)
HEADACHE, AND PAIN OF JOINTS. TREATMENT BY COUNTER
IRRITATION.
§ 34. For headache or pain in the joints. Take cakes of
pounded wheat, and grind into fine meal. Then take wood
sorrel, dandelion, betony, and red wine, bruising them
together in a mortar well, then mixing them throughly
together on the fire, adding ox tallow and salt thereto freely.
Let this plaster, spread on thick cloth, be then applied to
the shaven scalp. This will induce the breaking forth of
boils, thereby extracting the venom, and relieving the
patient.
48 THE PHYSICIANS OF MYDDVAI.
BITE OF A SPIDER. REMEDY.
§ 35. The bite of the spider, will not be found venomous,
save from the feast of the nativity of the Virgin Mary, to
that of her purification, and then by applying the yellow bed
straw thereto bruised, the venom will be extracted therefrom.
WORMS. TREATMENT. FASTING.
§ 36. For worms. Take elder bark, walluut bark,
white thorn bark, bitter sweet, and boil them together in
water. Let a cupful be drank thereof daily fasting, and let
the patient abstain from food till it is almost evening. This
should be repeated nine times.
A PUNCTURED WOUND,
§ 37. For a punctured wound. Take the dung^ of a bull,
apply thereto, and it will be healed.
CARBUNCLE. SEVERAL PLANS OF TREATMENT.
§ 38. For a carbuncle. Take St. Johu\s wort, and
apply it thereto, when first observed. Another plan is to
take the flower of the knap weed or the leaves, pounding with
the yolk of an egg and fine salt, then applying thereto, aud
this will disperse it. Another is to take the self heal,
bruising it with rancid lard, and applying it thereto.
Another is to take the roots of the purple dead nettle, the
roots of the mugwort, and the speedwell, boiling well
together in goat''s milk whey, adding butter to the scum
thereof, and drinking it day and night.
TREATMENT WHEN A SLOUGH IS REMOVED AFTER CARBUNCLE
AND CAUTERY.
§ 39. The treatment of a carbuncle, when the slough has
been removed, or a buin (cauterization) in like circumstance.
' " Warm <huiy " in tin? liouk of Ilarri Sion of Pontxjiool.
THE PHYSICIANS OF MYDDVAI. 49
Take the wild chamomile, bake it well and powder, anoint-
ing the wound regularly, and sprinkling the powdered herbs
upon it. This will produce a good and fair cicatrix. Wo
judge that every kind of wound is benefited by milk whey.
ACTIVE HEMORRHAGE.
§ 40. To restrain an active hemorrhage. Take meadow-
sweet, digest in cold water, and drink thereof, and this will
stop it by the help of God.
HOARSENESS.
§ 41. For hoarseness. Take the water avens, and St.
John's wort, boil in pure milk, mixing butter therewith
when boiling. Boil a portion thereof briskly every morn-
ing and drink. ^
TOOTHACHE. SEVERAL EEMEDIES.
§ 42. For the toothache. Take betony and lay it under
the head, in an unbleached linen cloth, and it will cure it.
Another method is to take self heal, put it in a dock
leaf under the tooth, or on a hot stone, and place it hot in a
cloth under the painful tooth. Another is to take the round
birthwort, bruise it well, and apply it to the patient's
tooth for a night. Another is to take the thorn apple
and apply it well.
IMFLAMMATION OF THE MAMMA.
§ 43. For inflammation of the mamma. Take the round
birthwort and lard, apply them thereto, and they will cure it.
WORMS. REMEDY.
§ 44. For intestinal worms. Take wine and natron, mix
together and drink every morning fasting.
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60 THE niYSIClANS OF MYDDVAI.
BITE OF A VIPER.— REMEDY. OPPROBRIUM MEDICI.
§ 45. For the bite of a viper. Take the round birthwort,
knapweed, and field scabious ; mix with water and drink.
The Physician's three master difficulties are, a wounded
lung, a wounded mammary gland, and a wounded knee joint.^
RING WORM.
§ 46. For the ring worm, (favus.) Take white rosin,
warm it, and when soft apply it to the part. This will cure
it.
SEVEN THINGS INJURIOUS TO THE EYES.
§ 47. There are seven things hostile to the eye : weeping,
watching, feasting, drunkenness, impurity, a dry film, and
smoke.
THREE BONES WHICH WILL NOT UNITE WHEN FRACTURED.
§ 48. There are three bones in a man's body, which when
fractured, will never unite again, and neither of them exists
when a man is born, vix, a tooth, the knee pan, and the
fontenelle (or os frontis.)
TO INDUCE SLEEP.
§ 49. Poppy heads bruised in wine, will induce a man to
sleep soundly.^
IMPOTENCY.
§ 50. For impotency. Take some birch, digest in water,
and drink.
INTERMITTENT FEVER. TREATMENT.
§ 51. For intermittent fever. Take the mu^wort, the
purple dead nettle, and the round birthwort, as much as you
^ " The three imminent dangers to a man are ; — a stroke on the head, unto
the brain ; a stroke in the body, unto tiic bowels ; and the breaking of one of
the four limbs of the body." — Welsli Laws, Venedotian Code.
'This is practieally identical witli Sydeidiam's " Liquid Laudanum," so tliat
our Mcddygou may be said to have anticipated the discovery of that preparation.
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like of each, bruising them well in stale goat's milk whey, and
boiling afterwards. Let the patient drink some thereof every
morning, and it will cure him.
TOOTHACHE. A STRANGE REMEDY, AND STRANGER
PATHOLOGY.
§ 52. For the toothache. Take a candle of sheep's suet,
(some eringo seed being mixed therewith,) and burn it as near
the tooth as possible, some cold water being held under the
candle. The worms (destroying the tooth) will drop into
the water, in order to escape from the heat of the candle.
A TUMOR OF THE ABDOMEN.— POULTICE. TUMOR OF THE
ABDOMEN AGAIN.
§ 53. For a tumor of the abdomen. Take sheep's suet,
oatmeal, foxglove, and pimpernel, making a poultice of
them, and apply it thereto. If it contains matter this
will bring it to a head.
For a tumor of the abdomen again. Take goafs milk
whey, being fresh, mix ramsons therewith, and drink
of it for three days, and the swelling will disappear.
FALLING FITS. TREATMENT, ROUGH, BUT READY.
§ 54. For falling fits. Burn a goat's horn, directing the
smoke ujion the patient, and in consequence of the smell he
will forthwith arise. Before he has risen from the ground,
apply dog's gall upon his head, and that disease will not
attack him any more.
INTERMITTENTS OR AGUES. A STRANGE MODE OF
PROGNOSTIC.
§ 55. For all sorts of agues, write in three apples, on
three separate days. In the first apple )^ o nagla pater.
In the second apple ^ o nagla filius. In the third apple 1^ o
nagla spiritm sanctus. And on the third day he will recover.
52 TIIK I'lIYSICIANS or MVDDVAI.
If you would know how it will lia])pcn to a man who
sickens, whether ho will live or die of his disease, take the
herb called violet, bruise it, and bind a portion to both legs,
and if the patient will live, he will sleep, and if he cannot
sleep, he will die.
TO PREVENT INTOXICATION. TO PREVENT WEARINESS.
^56. If you would not be drunk, drink in the morning
as much as will fill an egg-shell of the juice of the hemp
agrimony.
If you would not be weary on a journey, drink in the
morning an egg-shell full of the juice of mugwort and garlic,
and you will neither be hurt nor tired, whatever distance
you may walk that day.
DRUNKENNESS. TO REMOVE.
§ 57. If you would remove a man's drunkenness, let him
eat bruised saffron with spring water.
HOW TO BE MERRY.
§ 58. If you would be at all times merry, eat saffron in
meat or drink, and you will never be sad : but beware of
eating over much, lest you should die of excessive joy.
TO CURE ENVY.
§ 59. If you would never be in an envious mood, drink as
much as would fill an egg shell of the juice of the herb called
wild clary, and you will not after fall into an evil temper.
If you would be always in good health, drink a spoonful of
the juice of the herb mallows, and you will always be so.
TO PRESERVE CHASTITY.
§ 60. If you would always be chaste, eat daily some of
the herb called hart's tongue, and you will never assent to
the suggestions of impurity.
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PROLAPSUS UTERI. TREATMENT.
§ 61. For prolapsus of the womb (tliat is an extrusicni
thereof.) The best remedy is to take wheaten flour, and
knead it with the yolks of nine cggs^ and honey, working into
it the breast fur of two hares ; then bake it under ashes, and
(making a potion thereof) drink it till the organ returns.
TOOTHACHE. TO PREVENT.
§ 62. If you would always be free from toothache, when-
ever you wash, rub the inside of your ears with your fingers.
SMALL TUMOR. A FOWL APPLICATION.
§ 63. For a small tumor. Take a cock or hen, (as the
patient may be a man or a woman,) and apply the rump feather-
ed, to the part, till the bird dies. This will extract the venom.
WARTS. TO REMOVE.
§ 64. Whosoever would remove warts, let him apply
daisy bruised in dog"'s urine thereto, and they will all dis-
appear.
FLEAS. TO DESTROY.
§ 65. Whosoever would destroy fleas, let him steep worm-
wood in the sea for an hour, and afterwards dry it in the sun.
When sufficiently dry, any fleas coming in contact there-
with will die.
FLIES. TO DESTROY.
§ 66. To destroy flies, let the mugwort be put in the
place where they frequent, and such of them as shall come
in contact with the herb will die.
BITE OF A VIPER.
§ 67. For the bite of a snake. Let the juice of the elder
be drank, and it will disperse all the poison.
1 Or as it may be also roailj siiii[>ly " the yolks of cg;rs."
54 Tin-: iiiysicians of myddvai.
LOSS OF REASON OR SPEECH.
§ G8. Whosoever shall liave lost his reason or his speech, let
him drink of the juice of the primrose, within two months
afterwards, and ho will indeed recover.
STRANGE DIAGNOSTIC OF PREGNANCY.
§ 69. Whosoever would know whether a woman be enceinte
with a hoy or girl, let him observe her sitting and standing,
and if she moves the right foot first it signifies a son, but if
tlie left, a daughter.
STRANGE DIAGNOSTIC OF VIRGINITY.
§ 70. If you would distinguish between a wife and a vir-
gin, scrape some jet into water, and give it her to drink.
If she be a wife, she will without fail pass water, but if a
virgin she will not have a more urgent call than usual.
TO SILENCE A COCK.
§ 71. If you should wish that a cock should not crow,
anoint his crest with oil, and he will be mute.
OPACITY OF THE EYE.
§ 72. For an opacity of the eye. Let some ground ivy
juice be put therein, and the opacity will be removed, the
eye becoming spotless and clear.
A WEEPING CHILD.
§ 73. Let the two lower extremities of the babe, much
given to weeping, be anointed with hart''s marrow, and he
will weep the less.
TO REMOVE A SMALL TUMOR.
§ 7-i. Should a nmu have a small tumor in a dangerous
part of hi.s body, and you .should wi.sh to remove it, your
THE niYSICIAXS OF MYDDVAI. 55
object can thus be accomplished. Take the leaves of the
foxglove, and press them well on any part (of the tumor,)
and it will remove it an inch and a half from the herb.
HYGEIAN OF THE YEAR. JANUARY.
§ 75. Month of January. Do not bleed. Drink three
cupfuls of wine, fasting. Take a potion. Let your diet be
goafs flesh and wholesome vegetables.
FEBRUARY.
§ 76. Month of February. Bleed from the thumb of the
left hand. Obtain a confection and a potion, which will
render your eyes healthy.
MARCH.
§ 77. Month of March. Use enemata, the roots of
vegetables, and the bath. Do not bleed frequently. Do
not take an emetic, as it generates cold within. Drink sweet
wine, fasting.
APRIL.
§ 78. Month of April. Bleed. Take a gentle emetic, eat
fresh meat, use warm drink. Eat two mouthfnls of hart''s
tongue twice a day. Avoid the roots of vegetables, as they
will occasion an obstruction. Drink hemp agrimony.
MAY.
§ 79. Month of May. Do not eat sheep's head or trotters,
use warm drink. Eat twice daily of harfs tongue, fasting.
Take a gentle emetic. Use cold whey. Drink of the juice
of fennel and wormwood.
JUNE.
§ 80. Month of June. Take a cupful of cold water, fast-
ing daily. Do not drink ale or mead. Drink milk warm,
and eat lettuce.
5G Till': riiYSiciAXS of myddvai.
JULY.
§81. Month of July. Do not bleed. Take an emetic.
Make use of flowers and wholesome vegetables. Avoid
impurity.
AUGUST.
§ 82. Month of August. Make use of soups and veget-
ables. Drink neither ale nor mead. Take white pepper in
gruel.
SEPTEMBER.
§ 83. Month of September. Take three draughts of milk
the first thing in the morning daily. You may after this
take what you wish, for vegetables and fruit are then ripe,
and bread apt to be mouldy.
OCTOBER.
§ 84. Month of October. Make use of new wine. Eat
minnows. Take an emetic. Let your diet consist of fresh
meat and vegetables of a wholesome nature.
NOVEMBER.
§ 85. Month of November. Do not take butter, as at
this time (of the year,) the blood of all men has a tendency
to coagulation, which is dangerous. At this time also the
heads of beasts and all vegetables are to be avoided, being
unwholesome.
DECEMBER.
§ 86. Month of December. Do not drink soup or eat the
red cabbage in the soup, nor trotters (sheep"'s,) and reduce
your blood.
A GOOD DAY TO BLEED.
§ 87. Whoever is bled on the 17th of March, will not be
liable to intermittcnts or cough in that year.
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SAME.
§ 88. Whosoevep is bled on the 3rd day of April, will not
suffer from disease, from the head to the coccyx, in that same
year, unless he is subjected to (undue) abstinence/
SAME.
§ 89. The 11th day of the same month is also a good time
to be bled, so also is the 4th and 5th day of May.
SAME.
§ 90. Whosoever is bled on the 17th day of September,
will not be attacked by colic, ague, nor cough that year.
DANGEROUS DAYS TO BLEED.
§ 91. Whosoever is bled on the third Monday in January,
the first Monday in February, and the second Monday of
October, will be in danger of death. There are three days
in the year in which no bleeding should take place, nor any
medicinal potion taken, even the last day of April, the first
Monday of August, and the last Monday in September.
THINGS TO BE AVOIDED.
§ 92. Whosoever is bled on those days, will die by the
15th or 7th day. And this is the reason. The veins will
be full in those days, and if any medicinal potion is taken, it
will be dangerous. And if he eats of the flesh of a goose,
he will die on the third day, or else will be an invalid in a
fortnight, or else he will die in the days mentioned of sudden
death.^
' Lit. " Unless he doeth abstinence."
^ In a manuscript, apparently written by Llyweiyn Sion, about 1580, tho
following are enumerated as good days or times for letting blood : —
The first day after the golden number I The fourth, before anterth, i. e. before
in each month, before noon.
The second, at noon.
The third, in the forenoon and after.
(3 in the morning.
The fifth, before anterth.
The seventh, any part of the day.
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DANGEROUS DAYS IN THE YEAR.
§ 93. Sound teachers have discovered and written as
follows, namely, that thirty two days in the year are dangerous.
Know that whosoever is born on one of those days, will
not live long, and whosoever is married on one of them,
will die ere long, or will only exist in pain and poverty.
And whosoever shall begin business on one of them, will
not complete it satisfactorily; and those days are : —
In January there are seven, even 1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th, 10th,
15th, 17th.
In February there are three, — 16th, 17th, 18th.
In March there are three, — loth, 16th, 18th.
In April there are two, — 3rd and 16th.
In May there are four,— 15th, 16th, 17th, 20th.
In June there is one, — 2nd.
In July there are two, — 15th and 17th.
In AuGust there are two, — 1 8th and 20th.
In September there are two, — 16th and 18th.
In October there is one, — 6th.
In November there are two, — 15th and 20th.
In December there are three, — 16th, 17th, 18th.^
The eighth, at noon.
The ninth, at all times.
The tenth.
The eleventh, in the evening.
The twelfth, at all times.
The thirteenth, at all times.
The fourteenth, at all times.
The sixteenth, in the morning.
Thes eventeenth.
The eighteenth, at the third hour.
1 In the MS. just quoted, the following are reckoned as the unlucky or
dangerous days.
January, 1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th, 10th, July, 15th, 20th.
The twentieth, after dusk.
The twenty third.
The twenty fourth, before noon.
The twenty fifth, at vesper time.
The twenty sixth, at all times.
The tweniy seventh.
The twenty eighth, in the evening.
The twenty ninth.
The thirtieth.
12th, 19th.
Februarv, 7th, 14th, ISth.
March, i5th, IGth, 18th.
April, 6th, 11th.
May, 5th, 6th, 16tb, 20th.
Juiie, 12th.
August, 2nd. 12th, 19th.
September, 16th, 17th.
October, 5tb.
November, 7th, 16th, 20th.
December, 6th, 8th, 15th.
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Whosoever doubts these sayings, let him know that he is
wiser than those who obtained this knowledge first.^
SWELLING OF STOMACH.
§ 94. For swelling or hardness of the stomach. Boil
duckweed in goat's milk, and foment it therewith frequently,
SWELLING AND PAIN IN THE LOWER EXTREMITIES.
§ 95. For swelling or pain in the lower extremities. Take
the roots of tutsan and the bark thereof, boiling them in
water, and when boiled pour off the supernatant liquor, and
take the residuum and mix with old lard. Then spread on a
cloth or a handkerchief, and apply to the swollen feet or legs,
and it will be dispersed.
SWELLING AND PAIN IN THE NAPE OF THE NECK.—
TREATMENT.
§ 96. For swelling or pain in the nape of the neck.
Pound the roots of celandine in a mortar, with fennel,
garlic, vinegar or wine, and butter, binding the same about
your neck, and it will remove the pain and disperse the
sweHing.
EPISTAXIS.
§ 97. For bleeding of the nose. Boil garlic in milk and
water and drink it. It is proved.
' The intelligent reader hardly needs being told, that all this statement relative
to good and bad seasons for bleeding has no foundation in fact, and the equivocal
structure of this sentence seems to indicate that our ancient mediciners were quite
aware of this, and must have indited it with a laughing twinkling eye ; we must be
guided in the use of the lancet by more certain indications, even the actual
condition of the patient carefully and skilfully ascertained. Nevertheless it is
curious to observe, that the type of disease seems to change in the course of an
uncertain cycle of years, from a sthenic to an asthenic form and vi\\ i-ersa. Thus
25 years ago the sthenio constitution prevailed, and the lancet was freely employ-
ed, but of late years in conseqtience of the markedly asthenic tendency of all
complaints, tliis characteristic implement of our art is rarely used, certainly not
once where then it would have been used fifty times. From Sydenham to the
present, this fact has from time to time, attracted the attention of medical
observers, that father of English medicine having been the first to call attention
to it.
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BURNS. A CAPITAL PI.ASTEU. ANOTHER GOOD ONE.
ANOTHER AGAIN,
§ 98. For burns occurring in any part of the body. Take
the root of the white lily, and wash clean, boiling it
briskly in water. Then reduce to a. pulp, and mix with oil,
and a little white of eggs, spreading it on lint. Let this be
applied night and morning. The more plaster you apply
the better.
Another mode. Burn ivy in a clean place, and cover the
burn with the ashes of the same, and it will heal it presently.
Another way is to burn fern, and mix the ashes with the
white of eggs ; or else oil, anointing the burn with it. and
it will heal it quickly and wonderfully.
NETTLE RASH, OR ERYSEPELATOUS ERETHEMA. TREAT-
MENT.
§ 99. A medicine for nettle rash, (when indicating a bad
constitution,) so that it may disappear in three days. Take
good cheese and pound it briskly in a mortar. Mix honey
with it till it is transparent. Anoint the part therewith
frequently, laying a cabbage leaf thereon, and it will have
disappeared in three days.
BITE OF A MAD DOG. TRE.\TMENT.
§ 100. For the bite of a mad dog. Pound ground ivy
Avell in a mortar wdth lard, or pound leeks and vinegar, or
fennel seed, and honey together, and apply thereto.
INFLAMMATION OF MAMMAE.
§ 101. For inflammation of the mamma?. Pound the
roots of the tutsan with rancid lard, and apply thereto.
INSANITV.— TO CURE.
§ 102. When a man becomes insane, take daisy, field
.■southernwood and sage, digesting it in wine, and lot the
patient drink it for fifteen days.
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OBSTINATE CONSTIPATION.— TO OVERCOME.
§ 103. If the bowels become so constipated that they cannot
be moved, take duckweed, boiling it briskly in a pot, then
cast it into a pan, and fry with a quantity of blood and
butter, eating it hot.
PALSY.-TO CURE.
§ 104. For tlie palsy. Take the field southernwood,
pound it in a mortar, and strain the juice to about a small
cupful, and give it the patient to drink, on the dawn of God^s
day of Christmas.
BLEEDING OF THE NOSE.— REMEDY.
§105. For bleeding of the nose. Take as much as you
can hold between your three fingers of the betony, being
briskly powdered with salt, and put it in your nostrils, which
will stop it quickly.
ADHESION OF THE LIVER.— TREATMENT.
§ 106. If a man*'s liver should adhere to his ribs, take in
the morning at sun rise, (chanting thy pater noster,) some
river star tip. Digest it in new ale, and give it the patient
to drink (whilst in a bath,) for nine days.
COUGH.— REMEDY. ANOTHER METHOD.
§ 107. For a cough. Bruise hemp agrimony, in a mor-
tar, and mix the juice with boiling milk, strain and use.
Another method. Boil a potful of water until it is
wasted to the half. Then mix rye meal therewith, and add
butter, eating it hot.
WORMS.— TO DESTROY. ANOTHER METHOD.
§ 108. To destroy worms in the stomach or bowels. Take
the juice of turnips, foment therewith, and they will come
out.
G'2 Till-: PHYSICIANS OF MYDUVAI.
Another method is to take a handful of the bark of the
peach tree, growing in dry ground, drinking it fasting with
goat"'s milk, and they will all come out.
CONSTIPATION.— TO OVERCOME.— SUPPOSITORY.
§ 109. To overcome constipation. Take salt and second
milk, equal parts of each, put on the fire in an evaporating
dish, leaving it there until it is reduced into a soft waxlike
mass. Then make cakes (suppositories) of the same, and pass
them into the patient's rectum.
BITE OF A SNAKE.— ANTIDOTES FOR. ANOTHER WAY.
§ 110. For the bite of a snake. Drink the juice of the
greater plantain, with oil and salt. The juice of the mug-
wort also, when bruised and strained will neutralize poison.
Another way is to take the brains of a red cock and rue ;
mix with sweet milk, curdled milk or wine, and drink.
Take also of the flesh of the breast whilst warm, (the cock
being alive,) and apply to the wound. It will extract the
venom.
WORMS.— A CATAPLASM.— A REMEDY. ANOTHER.
§ 111. For worms. Take the milk of a cow, that has a
bull calf sucking her, with barley meal and honey. Boil it
in a pan after the manner of porridge, and apply hot to the
stomach.
Another method is to make bread of barley and the kernels
of nuts, (shelled,) eating it.
Another plan is to bruise fresh rue and mugwort in a
mortar, and drink the juice thereof.
DIFFICULT PAllTURITION.— TO HELP.
§ 112. If a woman be unable to give birth to her child, let
the mugwort be bound to her loft thigh. Let it be instantly
removed when she has been delivered, lest there should be
hemorrhaire.
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SWELLING AND PAIN OP LEGS.— AN APPLICATION FOR.
§ 113. For swelling and pain in the thighs. Bruise rue,
honey, and salt, apply thereto, and it will disperse the swell-
ing.
PAIN IN THE KIDNEYS.— A RExMEDY.
§ 114. For pain in the kidneys. Take the centaury, infused
in cold water, and give it to the patient to drink.
EXTREME THIRST.— TO HELP.
§ 115. For extreme thirst. Drink the centaury infused
in hot water. This will quench thirst, and clear the breast
and stomach.
SMALL POX.— AN APPLICATION.
§ 116. For the small pox. Take the ashes of heath,
balm or smallage, and the ashes of hartshorn, with honey,
and anoint therewith.
A SURFEIT.— TO RELIEVE.
§ 117. For a surfeit. Take turnip, boil in goafs milk,
and let the patient drink thereof, and he will be relieved.
A BURN OR SCALD.— A FOMENTATION FOR.
§ 118. For a burn or scald. Put the leaves of the lily, in
boiling milk, and apply to the part till it is well.
RETENTION OF URINE.— A STRANGE REMEDY.
§ 1 19. For retention of urine. Take the brains of a hare,
and mix the same with wine. Let the patient smell it for
an hour and then drink it.
G4 TlIK PHYSICIANS OF MVDDVAI.
BITE OF A VIPER.— REMEDY.
§ 120. For the bite of an adder. Mix the juice of the
fennel, of radish, rue or wormwood, with oil, let the patient
drink the same, or eat it.
VOMITING OF BLOOD.— REMEDIES.
§ 121. For vomiting of blood. Boil the milfoil with wine
or milk, and drink, as this will stop it. Or boil the betonica
in goat's milk, or wine, and this will restrain it.
CONSTIPATION.— REMEDY FOR.
§ 122. For constipation. Boil roots of the small thistles,
growing in woods, and give the water to the patient to drink
FATNESS.— TO REDUCE.
§ 123. Whosoever is over fat, let him drink of the juice
of the fennel, and it will reduce him.
IRRITABILITY OF MIND.— TO CALM.
§ ] 24f. If a man be irritable of mind, let him drink of the
juice of the apinm, (celery) frequently, as it will relieve him
of his irritability, and produce joy.
REPTILES IN THE STOMACH.— TO EXPEL THEM.
§ 125. If a snake should enter a person's mouth, or there
should be any other living reptiles in him, let him take wild
camomile, (in powder,) in wine, till it is thickned, and
drink the same, as it will relieve him of them.
WORMS IN MAN OR BEAST.— TO KILL. ANOTHER PLAN.
§ 126. If worms be generated in man or beast, apply to
(his stomach,) the roots of the taragon, and the worm will
die forthwith.
Another way is to mix the leaves of the dittany with
strong wine, and let the patient drink it fasting.
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INTESTIXAL WORMS.— REMEDY. ANOTHER.
§ 127. For intestinal worms. Let tlic patient drink a
cupful of the juice of the plantain, and apply the same herb
to the navel.
Another way is to take milfoil in wine, once whilst fasting,
and they will bo expelled that day.
AGUE.— A REMEDY AVITH A PATER NOSTER. ANOTHER
REMEDY.
§ 128. For the ague. Drink the juice of rue in wine,
swallow three grains of coriander, drink celery (apium) in
water, (sweetened,) and collect plantain wliilst saying your
pater noster, and drink it infused in wine and pepper.
Take the juice of the mugwort bruised, the juice of the
wormwood, and tepid oil. Then anoint your whole body
on one side three days successively, and it will cure the ague
for you cheaply.
AN OBSTINATE AGUE.— TREATMENT.
§ 129. But if a man has indeed an obstinate ague, cause
him to go into a bath, and let him avoid touching the water
with his arms. Let him also take ground ivy, boiling it
briskly, and apply hot to his head. He must also be bled
in his arm, and he will be cured by the help of God.
VOMITING AND SIGHING.— A REMEDY.
§ ] 30, For vomiting and sighing. Mix a handful and a
half of betony in warm water, and drink it.
To cure vomiting, take betonica, and boil in honey, pound-
ing in a mortar, and form into four balls, and administer to
him one daily as a drink, in a warm potion.
POISON.— ANTI DOTE.
§ 131. If a man has taken poison let him take of the juice
of the dittany, and wine.
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BLEEDING FROM THE NOSE.— REMEDY. ANOTHER.
§ 132. To stop bleedinj^ from the nose, take the tops of
three nettles, pounding them together. Put this cataplasm
on the nape of your neck, and if possible in your nostrils.
Another method is to pound the milfoil with vinegar in a
mortar. Plug the nostrils therewith, and it will stay the
bleedins:.
VOMITING.— STRANGE TREATMENT.
§ 133. For vomiting. Drink milfoil digested in warm
wine, till a cure is obtained.
Another plan is to immerse the scrotum in vinegar.
DEAFNESS AFTER FEVER.
§ 184. For deafness succeeding a fever ; take a cow's gall,
a woman's milk, and honey, putting it in your ears warm.
This is a cure that will not fail.
MANIFOLD VIRTUES OF THE LEEK.
§ 135. The following are the virtues of the leek. It is
good to drink the juice against vomiting of blood. It is good
for women who desire children to eat leeks. It is good to take
leeks and wine for the bite of an adder, or other (venomous)
beast. It is good to apply a plaster of leeks and wine to
ulcers. The juice of leeks and woman's milk is a good
remedy for a chronic whooping cough, or pneumonia. The
juice of leeks, goat's gall, and honey, mixed in three equal
parts, are useful for deafness. It should be put warm in the
ears and nostrils. It is irood for headache. Leeks are cfood
to promote the union of bones, and maturing of boils. If
leeks and salt are applied to ulcers, it will heal them rapidly.
If leeks are eaten raw, they will occasion intoxication.
They will strengthen men who have suffered from hemorr-
hage. They will relieve flatulency of the stomach. They
THE niYSICIANS OF MYDDVAI. 67
are oppressive to the stomach, whether boiled or raw, as
they will destroy the nervous energy thereof, and their fumes
rising to the head, injure the sight. They produce terrific
dreams. Unless the lettuce or the poppy, or the like are
eaten first to temperate them, such is their tendency. They
kill the worms that are generated in the stomach or bowels.
VOMITING.— TO STAY.
§ 136. Those that cannot retain food or drink, but vomit
it, the milfoil digested in warm wine, should be given them
to drink.
ANTIDOTE TO POISON.
§ 137. As an antidote for poison, mix two nuts, three
dry figs, and a handful of rue, and thirty grains of salt,
giving it to the patient, fasting.
PROUD FLESH.— APPLICATION,
§ 138. The following is useful when proud flesh forms in
a wound, namely, white alum, reduced to powder, the same
powder being applied thereon.
Another for the same purpose. Take a toad that can
scarcely creep, beat it with a rod, till irritated, it smells, and
dies. Then put it in an earthen pot, closing the same so
that no smoke can come out, or air enter in. Then burn it
till it is reduced to ashes, and apply the same to the part.
ANOTHER AVAY.
Another plan is to take a mole, (al. raven,) and burn it
in the same way, applying the ashes upon the part.
ANOTHER.
In like manner, make ashes of human flesh, taken if
possible from a corresponding part of the body to that in
which the disease is situated.
(i8 TIIK IMIVSICIANS OF MYHDVAI.
PROUD FLESH.— ANOTHER APl'LICATION.
Ill like iiiaiiner you may take the ashes of the ermine,
burnt in the way above mentioned, and apply thereto.
ANOTHER.
Another plan is to take as many as you please of the
cloves of garlick, burning them on a clean floor; when they
are incinerated, quench (the fire) with drops of honey, make
a powder thereof, and apply. Bind it over with a plaster,
and in three days afterwards let it be washed. Boil rye
meal and a sow's blood together, applying it thereon when it
is worked ; over that a plaster of boiling honey, and a third
part of salt should be applied. Do this daily.
ANOTHER.
Another plan is to take the jaw of a horse, with all the teeth
remaining therein. Burn a cupful thereof (in powder,) and
mix with pepper and lard : anoint the part with this,
tempering with sage. Continue to apply this plaster daily,
for a fortnight.
ANOTHER.
Another is to take honey, the yolk of an egg, good milk,
and fine coufectioner''s meal, mix together and apply to the
part twice daily. This is proved.
VIRTUES OF MUSTARD.
§ 139. Mustard. It is useful to expel cold humors. It
is good with vineoar for the bite of an adder or toad. It is
good for the toothache. It will purify the brain. It will
restrain profuse menstruation. It will provoke the appetite,
and strengthen digestion. It is good for colic, loss of hair,
noise in the cars, and dimness of sight, cutaneous eruptions,
palsy, and many other things.
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URINAL PATHOLOGY.— FOUR URINARY ELEMENTS.*
§ 140. From the condition of a man"'s urine, may be dis-
tinguished his defects, dangers, fevers (plagues,) and dis-
eases, whether he be present or absent. However, we
should first show what is the composition of the urine. It
contains four radical elements.
First. The liuriior of the blood which circulates in the
reproductive organs.
* The following is the translation of an extract upon the same subject, purport-
ing to have been made from the Book of " Hywel ddu Feddyg," a descendant
of Einion ab Rhiwallon, by " leine ap Wm. ap ff," a.d. A thousand,
V q a° P u ai
" The following are the elementary rules of urinoscopy. If the urine exhibits
a yellow colour of a faint golden hue, or if it has the hue of refined gold ; it
indicates that food and drink are perfectly digested in the stomach.
If of a fiery red, like the sunset in the west — if red like oriental saffron — if a
fiery red like a vanishing fl;ime — if red like a portion of consuming fire ; these
four colours indicate that the food and drink have left the stomach in order tliat
their digestion may be completed.
If urine is deep coloured like human liver, or the hue of (blushing) cheeks,
like racked red wine, or greenish like the mane of oxen ; these three colours
concur in indicating that food and drink are properly digested in the stomach.
If water has a leaden hue, or an intensely black colour like black ink, or a
dead black, like black horn ; these three colours indicate the death of a man.
If it has the colour of clear spring water, if an opaline colour like transparent
horn, or the colour of plain milk, or the hue of camel hair ; these four colours
indicate the nondigcstion of the food in the stomach.
If it has a greenish blue colour, this indicates that less food and drink should
be allowed the patient.
If the colour of ill bled meat, it indicates that the digestion of food has com-
menced in the stomach.
If a greenish hue like an unripe apple, — if the hue of a ripe apple ; these two
colours indicate that the food and drink are half digested in the stomach. And
thus it terminates."
1 hese extracts as well as the teaching of our " Meddygon " on the same sub-
ject, are of but slight value indeed, farther than they show how rude and em-
piric was the urinary diagnosis and pathology of our fathers. The first writer
on urinoscopy was Theophilus, called Philaretus, a monk, who was Physician to
Ileradius, who reigned in the first half of the 7th century. His treatise on .the
urine has little originality, farther than as being the first of a class of writings,
distinguished above all others for chicanery and humbug. After him we find a
succession of authors (particularly the urinoscopists of the middle ages,)
pursuing dreamy speculations to a greater pitch of absurdity than can be readily
conceived by those whose curiosity has not led them to pay visits of discovery to
the bye paths of medicine. In nothing has modern medical research made
greater advances than urinary diagnosis and pathology, thanks to the niicroscop-
ist and the chemist. Vide " Lilium medicinw " of Bernard Gordon — M'alion (of
Xew York) on ancient medicine.
70 THE PHYSICIANS OF MYDDVAI.
Secondly. That of the abdominal viscera for the per-
formance of the functions thereof.
Thirdly. That of the vessels which receive the various
fluids of the cholera and fleuma (bile and phlegm).
Fourthly. That of the kidneys, supplying those fluids
which pass to the bladder. From hence can be discerned all
the signs of disease, the fluidity and colour of the urine
indicatins: the evil and ffood sims.
URINAL DIAGNOSIS.
§ 141. Should urine abound in water, or resemble red,
black, or green wine, or oil, or blood, or the urine of beasts,
and a skilful person consider the essential causes thereof,
attentively studying the same, he will understand which of
these humors chiefly predominate, whether the fleuma, the
cholera, the sanguis, or the melancholia. It is necessary
that the urine be collected in a glass vessel, and left to settle
till the second hour, when, by the light of the sun, the phy-
sician should judge the indications thereof.
SIGNS IN ORDER.— BLACK URINE.
i. If the urine be black, it will be necessary to renovate
that patienfs constitution by the most skilful means poss-
ible, frequently employing the bath and oil. Then the urine
should be again examined, and if it should seem safi'ron-like
and turbid, know that there is a painful disease in the per-
son, produced by heat and dryness.
SINOPLE.
ii. If the patient be attenuated and evidently dechning in
strength, his veins prominent, or red (transparent,) and the
urine similar in colour to sinople, it proceeds from the san-
guis. By bleeding the patient in the left arm, he will be
restored with little trouble.
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THICK, OILY, OPAQUE AND SANGUINOLENT.
iii. If the urine should be thick, oily, deep red, not trans-
parent in the rays of the sun, and sanguinolent, it indicates
languishment and weakness of body, from excess of fever.
CURDLED.
iv. If the urine be curdled, it indicates a lonfj continued
fever.
RED AND CHANGEABLE.
V. If the urine be red, or brimstone-like, and seeming to
change its appearance frequently, it indicates a dangerous
fever.
CLOUDY AND GREENISH.— A CLOUD ON THE SURFACE.
vi. If the urine be cloudy and greenish at the commence-
ment of a fever, or in two days afterwards, when secreted it
seems thicker and thicker, the patient is sure to die. If
these signs increase in number, though the urine does not
thicken, it indicates a tedious fever.
If there be a sky appearance on the surface of the urine,
it indicates a future fever.
FOUL URINE,
vii. If the urine seem foul in fever, it indicates heat and
blindness, pain of head and shoulders, with deafness. If
the patient is not relieved in seven days, he will die.
OILY.
viii. If the urine seems like oil during the heat of a fever,
it indicates death, delirium or erysipelas. If it is not
quickly removed, it indicates a softening of the brain.
FIERY, AND PASSED WITH PAIN.
ix. If it assumes a fiery hue, and is passed with pain, this
indicates that the patient's food and drink are not properly
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digested. It is accordingly expedient in such a case for the
patient to restrict himself to spoon diet.
BLACK OR RED, WITH SEDIMENT.
X. If it be black or red, and there* be sediment in the
bottom, with retention, pain in tlie kidneys, and pain in
micturition, the patient is in danger. If the urine be passed
frequently, and in small quantities, then it indicates a stone
in the bladder.
BLUISH WHITE, kc.
xi. If the urine be bluish white, during the heat of a
fever, or reddish brown or red, accompanied with bleeding at
the nose, it is attended with great danger.
WHITE.
xii. In persons with a diseased liver, when thin urine be-
comes white, it indicates future agony, but if it disappears
suddenly, it indicates a boil.
BILIOUS.
xiii. If in the heat of a fever it has the colour of bile, being
thick, with a whitish cloud and whitish granules floating
thereon, it indicates a long continued languishing.
xiv. If more is passed than is proper, during the heat
of a fever, and the colour is not good, though passed
freely, it indicates danger at hand. If the urine is not
natural, when passed, and it subsequently assumes a healthy
colour, it indicates that the patient will pine away from
future torment.
XV. If a man in the heat of a fever passes his urine suf-
ficiently natural, but with white gravel therein, the fever
not decreasing, it indicates danger.
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xvi. If it abounds in water, the fever will increase, but
he will be in no danger.
xvii. If the urine be dark, during the heat of a fever, the
turbidness not subsiding, his illness will resolve itself into
an ague in four, or perhaps three days.
xviii. If it be red, with much sediment, it will indicate a
fever.
xix. If it has the colour of water, the fever will increase,
but there will be no danger.
XX. Urine during the heat of a fever, if it be viscid and
filthy, abounding with a gravelly sediment, with a cloudiness
on the surface, indicates a tedious illness.
xxi. The urine of fever having sandy sediment, being san-
guinolent in colour within, indicates disease of the kidneys.
xxii. If the urine should be frothy, like bubbles on water,
let him not be surprised at the occurrence of any disease, as
it indicates a fever at hand.
xxiii. If the urine be white in the morning, and afterwards
red, it is well. It only signifies the proper flux of the body.
xxiv. If it be red first, and afterwards black, or if the
urine has a mixture of those two colours, it indicates death.
XXV. If it be greas}"- on the surface, bubbles ascending
therein, it is a bad sign.
xxvi. If it be greasy on the surface, and white sediment in
the bottom of the vessel, it indicates pain in the viscera or
joints.
xxvii. If the urine be blue, it indicates a disease of the
viscera.
xxviii. An ill lookins red urine, containing a ffravellv sedi-
ment, and having a cloudiness on the surface, is a bad sign.
xxix. If it be very white, it is unfavourable. If it is dark
in the morning, so much the worse.
XXX. If it be greasy, and preceded by great pain, it is in-
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dicativc of death. Tf it be transparent, with a cloudiness
thereon, the death of that patient will be ni^jh at hand. If
it be light coloured in the morning, and lighter after dinner,
it will be all the better. If it be red with a sediment, it in-
dicates no danger. A dark hepatic urine indicates danger.
A pale splenetic urine is dangerous. A red urine from
dyspepsia is dangerous. A clear urine indicates a healthy
condition. And thus it ends.
BLEEDING.
§ 142. In bleeding, the blood should be permitted to flow
till the colour changes, and the stream of blood from black
should flow till it is red. If thick, let it flow till it becomes
more fluid. If it is watery, let it flow till it becomes thicker.
HEALTH.
§ 143. To secure constant health, drink daily, the first
thing, a spoonful of the juice of the mallows.
BIRDS AND FLIES.
§ 144. To drive away birds or flies, put the mugwort in
the places where they frequent, and they will disperse.
SPECK IN THE EYE.
§ 145. For a speck in the eye, put therein the juice of the
ground ivy.
INTOXICATION.
§ 146. In order to be delivered from intoxication, drink
saifron digested in spring water.
A TUMOR.
§ 147. For a tumor. Apply a cock or a hen thereto till
the animal dies.
FALLING SICKNESS.
§ 148. For faUing sickness. Let a dog be killed, and,
unknown to the patient, put some of the gall in his mouth.
It will never attack him a^ain.
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PROGNOSIS OF DEATH.
« 149. In order to form a prognosis of the fate of a sick
person, bruise the violet, apply to the eyebrows, and if he
sleeps, he will live, but if not, ho will die.
CHASTITY.
§ 150. If you would preserve yourself from unchaste
desires, eat rue in the morning.
URINARY CALCULI.— TO DISSOLVE.
§ 151. To destroy urinary calculi. Take saxifrage,
which grows in stony places, (it has obtained its name from
its virtues in this respect,) temper with wine and pepper,
drinking it warm. This will break the stone, and promote
the passing of water. It will also promote menstruation,
and cure diseases of the kidneys and uterus.
AGAIN.
Another way (of dissolving the stone) is to take the saxi-
frage and the seed of the gromwell, digesting them in boil-
ing water. Let the patient drink this for six days, and he
will be cured without fail.
AGAIN.— EXPERIMENT.
Another mode is to take the blood and skin of a hare,
burning them to ashes. Then mix a quantity of this powder
in warm water, and let the patient drink a spoonful of the
mixture, fasting, and it will disintegerate the stone, causing
it to be expelled. If you would wish to prove this, put a
spoonful of the same powder in water, and deposit any cal-
culus you please therein, and it will instantly slacken it.
THREE THICK INCURABLE ORGANS.
§ 152. There are three thick incurable organs ; the liver,
kidney, and heart. The reason why they are so called is,
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that when disease has aflected either of them, no relief can
be given, but a painful death.
THREE THIN INCURABLE ORGANS.
§153. There are three thin incurable organs; the pia
mater, small intestines, and bladder. They are incurable
for the same cause as the others.
THREE COMPLAINTS WHICH OCCASION CONFINEMENT.
§ 154. There are three complaints which occasion long
confinement. Disease of the knee joint, of the substance of
a rib, and of a lung. For when matter has formed in either,
a surgeon does not know when he may be cured till he sees
him well.
HEMORRHOIDS.
§ 155. For hemorrhoids. Apply the calcareous drop-
pings of peacocks (pounded) with fern roots, and it will
cure it.
HYDROPHOBIA.
§ 156. The bite of a mad dog. It is a good thing to eat
the root of radish.
BARRENNESS CURED.
§ 157. To render a woman fruitful, let her frequently eat
lettuce, hot tallow, and pepper.
GREATEST REMEDY.
§ 1 58. What is the greatest remedy (or effort of surgical
skill ?) To remove a bone fi-om the brain (to trephine) with
safety.
LEAST REMEDY.
§ 1 59. What is the simplest remedy I To scratch one's
hand until it is irritated, and then to spit upon it forthwith.
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PAIN.
§ 160. An antidote for pain: seek the dittany, which
may be obtained from cunning men; it is the best in
all complaints.
A TUMOR.— REMEDY.
§161. For a tumor. Take the daisy and plantain (in
powder,) mixing the same with drink, till it is thickened.
Take also dust scraped from blue stone (sulphate of copper,)
and administer to him in drink. It will cure him, if it is
given him ere he sleeps.
SWELLING AFTER INJURY.— REMEDY.
§ 162. For a swelling, the result of an injury. Take the
juice of the yellow bed straw, the juice of the plantain,
rye meal, honey and the Avhite of eggs. Make into a
plaster, and apply thereto.
BOILS.
§ 163. For boils. Take the juice of the morella (mush-
room,) plantain, barley meal, and the white of an egg.
STRANGURY.
§ ] 64. For strangury. Take the dead red nettle, and
parsley. ^Make a plaster thereof, and apply to the stomach
below the navel.
WARTS.
§ 165. To remove warts. Take the inner bark of the
willow, make into a plaster with vinegar, and apply it.
HEARTACHE.
§ 1 66. For the heartache. Take the bark of the kegin-
derw, the bark of the stinking goose foot, the plantain, and
the shepherd's purse, boiling them in ditch (stagnant) water,
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till it is wasted to a third. Take this water and make it
into a gruel, with wheaten flour.
Another way is to take caraway water and goat^s milk in
equal parts, mixing plantain juice therewith, and boiling
river granite therein. Let this be given the patient nine
days, unmixed with any other drink.
DYSPEPSIA.
§ 167. For pain in the chest (dyspepsia.) Take a large
quantity of black thorn berries, bruise briskly in a mortar,
mixing very new ale therewith. Put this mixture in a new
earthen pot, over its edges in the earth, for nine days and
nights, giving it the patient to drink the first thing in the
morning, and the last thing at night.
TO MAKE VINEGAR.
§ 168. To make vinegar. Take clean barley, and put in
wine over night till the eve of next day.
TO PROMOTE THE UNION OF BONE.
§ 169. To promote the union of bone. Take comfrey,
and bruise with wine, pepper and honey, drinking it daily
for nine days, and they will unite compactly.
EYE SALVE.
§ 170. To make an eye salve. Take the juice * * *
and the juice of fennel root, celandine, lesser celandiDe^ sow''s
lard, honey, a little vinegar, an eel's blood, and a cock's
gall, letting them stand in a brass vessel till an efflorescence
takes place. This has restored sight to those who had quite
lost it.
DIGNITY OF MEDICINE.
§ 171. Let all men know that it will be vain to seek any-
thing except by effort. There can be no effort without
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health ; there can be no health without temperance in a
man''s nature, and temperance cannot exist in a man''s nature
without moderate heat in his extremities. God has decreed
a supervision of the manner in which we should conserve
the health, and has revealed it to his own servants, the
philosophers and chosen prophets, who are full of the Holy
Spirit, and whom God ordained to this profession.
§ 172. The Latins, the men of Persia and the Greeks
(say,) what we choose we love, what we seek we think of.
Therefore let all men know that God has given the men of
Greece a special gift, to discern every art, and the nature of
all tilings, to a greater extent than other nations, with a
view to the preservation of human health.
§ 173. The philosophers and wise men foreknew that man
was formed of four elements, each being antagonistic to the
others, and each consequently requiring continual aliment,
which if it do not obtain, it will succumb. If a man par-
takes of too much or too little food or drink, the body will
become weak, fall into disease, and be open to injurious con-
sequences. If he partakes temperately of food and drink,
the body will acquire strength, and the health will also be
preserved.
MODERATION.
§ 174. The philosophers have said whosoever shall eat or
drink more or less than he should, or shall sleep more or
less, or shall labour more or less from idleness or from hard-
ship, (being obliged to over exert himself:) or who, used to
being bled, refrains from doing so, without doubt he will not
escape sickness. Of these things we shall treat presently,
and of what is most suitable for our use.
SAYINGS OF THE WISE AS TO FOOD.
§ 175. Wise men liave declared, whosoever refrains from
eating or drinking immoderately, and will only partake tern-
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perately of food and drink, as his constitution requires, shall
enjoy health and lonij days, that is, a long life. Philosophei'S
never said anything to the contrary. Desire, love, and the
reception of worldly honour, these things fortify and assist
life, so that they be gratified temperately. On which
account, whosoever desireth life and permanence, let him
seek that which is permanent and tends to prolong life.
MODERATION A MEANS TO PROLONG LIFE.— HIPPOCRATES
AND HIS DISCIPLES.
§ 1 76. Whosoever would prolong life, should restrain his
appetite, and not eat over abundantly. I have heard that
Ipocras^ having attained to old age, whereby he had to
suffer much from infirmity and the weight of years, was
addressed by his disciples, thus: — "Thou great teacher of
wisdom, didst thou eat and drink abundantly, wouldst thou
have to endure all the weakness which thou dost ? " Then
Ipocras : — " My sons, (said he) I eat a proper portion seeing
I live, I should not live if (with a view of prolonging mere
human life,) I partook of food too frequently. Eating is
not the one thing needful, when the prolonging of life is the
object aimed at, for I have seen many die from too much
eating."
EAT SLOWLY AND SPARINGLY— MEN OF ARABIA.— TWO
RULES TO PRESERVE HEALTH.
§ 1 77. Whosoever, restraining their appetite, refrain from
gluttony, and eat slowly, these shall live long ; which may
be thus proved. The men of Arabia, who dwell in moun-
tains and pathless woods, are the most long lived (of mortals,)
^ Hippocrates was a native of tbe island of Cos, and was regarded as the father
of medical science. He delivered Athens from a dreadful pestilence in the
beginning of the Pelopenesian war, and was publicly rew.irded with a golden
crown, the privileges of a citizen of Athens, and the initiation at the grand
festivals. He died in the 99th year of his age, B. C. 361, free from all disorders
of the mind and body ; and after death he received with the name of Great, the
same honours which were paid to Hercules.
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as these circumstances prevent excessive eating; and drink-
ing. The health may be preserved in two ways. First, —
that is, by partaking of such food as is most suitable to the
time of life and the constitution, restricting himself to that
sort of diet which he was reared upon. Secondly, — by
evacuating duly, what is poured into the stomach from above.^
A THEORY OF DIGESTION.
§ ] 78. Let all men know, that the human organism is
antagonistic to food and drink, (decomposing both in the
process of digestion,) and that every (animal or human)
being is (naturally) verging upon disease. Also, animal
organisms are corrupt from superabundant heat, which dries
the spirit (anima) by which the body is nourished. Animal
bodies also are corrupt from excessive heat of the sun, which
dries the (animal) spirits ; and this is particularly the case
^ The following "Prescriptions about health and life" are attributed to
Cattwg the Wise.
1. He that would attain a long life, let him play until be is twenty, labour
until he is forty, and rest to the end of his days.
2. Let him arise with the lark, sing with the lark, and retire to rest with the
lark.
3. Let him eat when he has an appetite, drink when he is thirsty, and rest
when he is fatigued.
4. Let him avoid food that is too dainty, drink that is too strong, and work
that is too hea^■y and troublesome.
;>. Let him avoid too much food, too much drink, and too much labour.
6. Let him avoid contention, love peace, and divest himself of too many cares.
7. Let him be merry, generous, and just.
5. Let him have but one wife, be strong in the faith, and have a clean
conscience.
9. Let him be meditative in the morning, industrious at noon, and social in
the evening.
10. Let his meditation be pleasant, his games innocent, and his air salubrious.
11. Let his clothes be not old, his furniture be clean and sweet, and let him
be content with his lot in life.
1 2. Let his dress be light, his food be light, and his heart be light.
13. Let his disposition be affectionate, his genius lively, and his fiiends numer-
ous.
14. Let him keep the law of his country, the rule of his vocation, and the
commandments of his God.
l.T. Thereby, bis body will be healthy, liis mind easy, and his conscience pure.
16. His life will be long, his end will be bliss, and his God will love him. —
Myv. Arch. iii. p. 56.
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with the bodies of the animals upon which we feed. When
the body is hot, strong aliments are required, as then they
can bo digested.
FAT AND DRY CONSTITUTIONS.
§ 179. When a (nian''s) body is fat and dry, hixurious
juicy food is proper for him, for they will easily assimilate.
In this way a man may preserve his health. Let him con-
line himself to such food as is suitable to his constitution.
This has been proved.
A HOT HABIT.
§180. If a man's body be constitutionally hot, hot ali-
ment is proper for him.
A COLD HABIT.
§ 181. If a nian''s body be constitutionally cold, cold ali-
ments are proper for him.
A HUMID OR DRY HABIT.
§ 182. If the body be constitutionally humid or dry, cold
aliments are forbidden him.
WHAT FOOD MOST SUITABLE FOR WEAK OR STRONG STOMACH.
§ 188. Strong food is most suitable for a hot stomach, as
such a stomach is comparable to fire consuming loose flax.
Weak food is most proper for a cold stomach, as such a
stomach is comparable to fire consuming straw.
HEALTHY DIGESTION.
§ 184. The signs of a healthy digestion are, that the body
be active, the understanding clear, and the desire for food
frequent.
SYMPTOMS OF INDIGESTION.
§ 185. The .signs of indigestion arc, heaviness of body,
with irritability of feeling superadded, a languid performance
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of duty, swelling of the face, frequent yawning, dimness of
sight, frequent eructations, attended with a bitterness of taste,
(in the mouth,) this bitterness occasioning cardialgia, which
extending to tlic body and limbs, occasions a dislike for food.
HOW TO ACT AT GETTIXG FROM BED, AND SUBSEQUENTLY
DURING THE DAY, WITH OTHER HYGENIC MATTERS.
§ 186. When rising from bed, walk a while, stretch your
limbs, contracting your head and neck. This will strengthen
your limbs, and the contracting of the head will cause the
(animal) spirits to rush from the stomach to the head, and
from the head, when you sleep, it will fall to the stomach
again. In the summer, bathe in cold water, for this will
keep warmth in the head, which will occasion a desire for
food. Then array yourself in fair garments, for a man's
mind delights in fair things, and his heart is rendered
lighter. Then clean the teeth with the dry bark of the hazel,
as they will become all the fairer in consequence.* Your
speech will be also most distinct, and breath sweeter. The
standing posture should be at times practised, as it will do
you much good, relieving the dura matter (membrane of
the brain,) clothing your neck with power, investing your
countenance with greater beauty, giving strength to the
arms, improving your sight, preserving you from paleness,
and adding power to your memory. Conversation, walking
in company, and eating and drinking according to your
usual habit, should be done in moderation. Use moderate
exercise in walking or riding, as this will invigorate the
body, and remove cardialgic pains, so that a man will be
more hearty, strong, and the stomach will be warmer as
well as your nerves more elastic.
* Girakhis Cambrcnsis assures us that the Welsh, in the l2th century, paid
great attention to their teeth, rubbing thcni with either the leaves or the bark
of the hazel, and refraining from hot meats and drinks, so that tlioy were of
dazzling whiteness.
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WHAT TO EAT.
§ 187. When you eat, take that for which you have the
greatest relish if you can, particularly leavened bread. If
you eat simple food it will be more easy for the stomach to
digest it. If (when unused thereto) you should nevertheless
cat two kinds of food, plain and strong food, eat the strong
first, for the inferior portion of the stomach is hotter than
the superior, as the lime is nearer, from whence more heat
will be derived.
RULES FOR EATING AND DRINKING.
§ 188. When you eat, do not eat away all your appetite,
but let some desire for food remain. Drink no water with
your food, as it will cool your stomach, preventing its
digesting the food, and quenching the warmth thereof. But
when you drink water, drink it spai'ingly, choosing the coldest
water you can get. When you have done eating, take a walk
in some well sheltered level piece of ground. When you feel
inclined to sleep, do not sleep too much. Rest on your right
side, then turn on the left, and double yourself. If you
should feel pain in your stomach (cardialgia) and heaviness,
put on extra clothing, in order to withdraw the heat from the
stomach, drinking warm water, as this by producing vomit-
ing will remove the unhealthy matter from your stomach.
Walking much before food will heat the stomach. ]Mucli
walking after food will injure the stomach, because undiges-
ted (in consequence of the labour) the food will fall to the
inferior part of the stomach, and there generate many
diseases. Sleeping before food will make a man thin, but
sleeping after food will make a man fat. The night is
colder than the day, and consequently the stomach will
digest sooner by night than by day, because the colder the
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weather, the bettor will the stomach digest, as the heat falls
from the extremities, and concentrates itself about the
stomach. If a man who is in the habit of eatini; twice a
day, should do so once only, it will injure the stomach. If
a man in the habit of eating once only daily, should do so
twice, it will be hurtful to the stomach. If from eating at
one period of the day, we change to another, it will do harm
to the stomach. At all times, if necessity should arise,
obliging one to make a change in ones habit, let it be done
gradually. Also do not eat, till the stomach has become
empty, and this you may know from the sense of hunger
and the thinness of your saliva. If you eat without hunger,
the animal heat will freeze. If you eat when hungry, your
animal spirits will be as hot as fire, and whosoever does not
then take food, his stomach will fill up with insalubrity,
which will produce headache.
tm nmmi
'TAIR MEDDYGINIAETH MEDDYGON MYDDFAI:
Bfcor, Mtl a Ulafur."
Jlleii|gnE lEijifni.
Llyma Lyfr Meddyginiaethau a gafwyd yn oreuon ac
arbenniccaf wrth Gorph Dyn drwy ddeall ac ymbwyll ystig
Rhiwalloii Feddyg ai dri meibion, nid amgcn, na Chadwgan
a Grviftydd ac Einion ; sef Meddygon oeddyiit i Rys Gryg ab
Gruffydd ab Ilhys ab Tewdwr eu Harglwydd, yr hwn a roddes
iddynt ansawdd a thiroedd a breintiau ym Myddfai, fal y
gellynt ymgynnal ac ymddarbod au celfyddyd au dysgeid-
iaeth er iachad a lies au hymgeisiai.
Ac yma gan borth Duw y dangosir y gelfyddyd o iachau y
dolurau a'r defy don arbenniccaf ar Gorph Dyn a'r modd
au meddyginiaethir.
Yn enw'r Tad a'r Mab a'r Yspryd Glan, Amen, a phoed
felly fyth y bo.
RHAG Y CYLLWST WYNT.
§ 1 . Cymmer had y perllys, a phwya 'nhwy yn dda, au
berwi mewn seg ac yf e"'n frwd pan fo'r poen arnat.
RHAG Y GWST MAWR NEWYDD DDWAD.
§ 2. Cymmer ffaV gors, a phwya"'n dda, a golosg had yr
eithin, neu had y banadl, mewn crochan harn, a mal e'a
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fflwr, a bwrw ar y llysiau ar fflwr alwynaid o hen fedd
cadarn, a chan gau arnynt yn ddiwall, rho ias berw iddynt,
a gad oeri cyn agor, ag yf yn ddiod, nos a bore, yn wag, a
fo raid itli ddiodi, ac na yf brydiau eraill mamyn dwr yn
ddiod oni bot iach.
ARALL.
§ S. Yf isgell yr asgallen fendigaid naw bore, ac ar ol
hynny gorplnvys naw bore, yna yfcd a gorphwys fal or
blaen, wedi bynny yfed naw bore'r drydydd waith, ag ym-
borth ar fara gwenith a llaeth gwartheg.
DWR LLYGAID.
§ 4. Cymmer lonaid ffiol geiuiog o'r gwin gwynn goreu, a
cliyminer maint wi gar o fwn pres a thwyma ef yn y tan
nes byddo cocb, yna diffod ef yn y gwin, a gwna felly naw
gwaith, yna dod y llynn mewn llestr gwydr a chauadu'n dda,
a gwedi aros dan gaead nawnieu ymarfer ag ef fal y bo
gofyn, gan ddodi diferyn neu ddau yn dy lygad nos a bore,
lie nas gellir gwin, hen fedd cadarn, neu hen ossai da sef
gwin afalau.
ARALL.
§ 5. Golch dy lygaid a'th ddwr dy hunan, yna eu cadw yng
'nghaead tra rifer cant.
I DORI ADDWYD,
§ 6. Cymmer ychydig o'r llysewyn a elwir gras Duw, ag
ychydig fara surdoes yn friwsion, a banner llwyaid o liw'r
gliwydd, a berwa nhwy mewn gwaddod hen ddiod, a chym-
ysg nes bytho'n tewhau, a phan arferer gosoder ar liain yn
frwd wrth y dolur.
RHAG Y DDANNOEDD.
§ 7. Cymmer ddistyll rhos cochon, ag ychydig gwyr
melyn, ag ychydig menyn newydd, yr un faint o'r cwyr ar
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menyn, cymmysg ynghyd mc^vn dysgyl ar y marwor,
gwlych liain ynddo a gosod ar yr en He bo'r dolur mor frwd
ag y gellycli ei oddef.
ELI CLWYF,
§ 8. Cymmer bedwar aracan o rosin, dau amcan o gwyr,
ac uu amcan o lien floneg, a phedwerydd amcan o rwd
gwyrdd, yua berwa 'nghyd ar dan araf, a hidla drwy liain
bras, a dod i gadw mewn llestr plwm caeedig.
RHAG GWAYY/ O BOB RHYW,
§ 9. Cymmer linliad a berw mewn llefrith, gwna blasder
bono a gosod wrth y dolur.
RHAG BRIW.
§ 10. Cymmer gwyr melyn, a thodd cf ar dan araf, a
cliymer had cwmin pwycdig, a chymmysc ar cwyr tawdd,
gan eu cymmysg a modlain oni bo'n oer, gosod hwn yn
blasder ar y briw.
ARALL.
§ 11. Cymmer linhad pwyedig, a gwynn wi, ag ychydig
hufen llaeth dafad, ag ychydig fel, gwna'n blasder, a dod
wrth y briw.
RHAG LLOSG TAN NEU DDWFR BRWD.
§ 12. Rhostia ddeuddeg wi yn galed fel y garreg, yna
cymmer y melyn o honynt, a dod mewn padell ffrio, ffria
nhwy oni bont yn eliw, yna hidla, ag ira'r llosg ag ef, wedi
hynny cymmer bledrcn ac ira hi a gliw'r liwydden, a dod
wrth y llosg.
RHAG CLWYF YR EISTEDDFA, A ELWIR HEFYD CLWYF Y
MARCHOGION.
§ 13. Cymmer goch yr wden a sych ef, a gwna'n Iwch
mor fal ag y gellych, yua dod ef ar farwor mewn tanllestr,
a dod y llestr mewn cadair gist, ag eiste uwch ci benn.
92 MEDDYGON MYDDFAI.
ELI I DYNNU CIG PUDR ALLAN O DDOLUR.
§ 14. Cymmer hvyaid o aesel da, llwyaid o fel,ac ychydig
rwd fi^vyrdd, a chymmaint a hynny o'r elyf, berw ynghyd,
a cliadw yn barod wrth law i'w arfer.
GOLCH I OLCHI DOLUR.
§ 15. Cymmer lydan y fFordd, dail y gwinwydd, a rhos
gwynnioD, a distylla 'nhwy ynghyd, ag yn y distyll dod
amcan o gamfFyr, a gad ei aros yn y dwr yn wastadol,
RIJAG Y CRYD A'R MWYTII AR BLENTYN.
§ 16. Berw dail y pumpbys mewn llaeth, gymmaint o'r dail
ag a wedd yn y llaeth, a rho'n unig dJiod i'r plentyn oni
bo iach, hyn hefyd a Iwydd fynychaf i ddyn mewn oedran
gwr.
ARALL.
§ 17, Rhostier afalau sirion y coedydd, a chymmerer y
bywyn un amcan, a banner amcan o fel, a rhodder Invnnw
yn unig ymborth i'r plentyn ddiwarnod a noswaith.
RHAG Y JnVYTH GWENWYXLLYD YN GYRRU ODDIAVRTH Y
GALON.
§ 18. Gwua bossel gwin gwynn, a chymmer ymaith y
caws, a chymmer ebod march raor frwd ag y del oddiwrtho,
a chymmysc ef yn dda yn y possel, yna India ef, g\vedi
hynny berw ychydig o ddail yr ysgall bendigaid ynddo, neu,
OS bydd, yn lle'r dail, dod yn y possel lonaid llwy o ddistyll
yr ysgall bendigaid, a dyro i'r claf iddei yfed yn wag naw
bore, Iwnc syched o bono.
RHAG MAGL AR Y LLYGAD.
§ 19. Cymmer sudd y perllys, a banner cymmaint o fel, a
difer ag asgall yn y Uygad, ai gadw ynghau hyd y rliifer
cant, a thrin yn Uynn yn fynych.
MEDDYGON MYDDFAI. 93
ARALL.
20. Cymmer sudd llysiau'r clefyd melyn, a difer yn y
Uygad, a chau'r Uygad arno oni rifer cant, a mynych ei drin
yn llynn.
I WELLHAU BRYST DOLURUS.
§ 21. Cymmer y glarllysg a tlior yn fan, gwaddod diod
fain, bran gwenith, a gwer niyharen, nialbwva ''nbwy'n dda
mewn mortyr, yna berwa nhwy yugbyd ar dan araf a gosod
yn blasder wrth dy fryst.
I BERI GAEL YSTOL.
§ 22. Cymmer wi iiewydd ddodwi, a bwrw allan y gwynn,
yna dod yuddo menyn newydd beb balen, a tbwyma ef, yna
ei fwytta, a gwna liynny yn fynycli os rbwym o gorph yn
naturiol y boch.
I BERI GWNEUTHUR DWR.
§ 23. Cymmer egfaen, a dod nliwy mewn llestr pridd coch,
a chyda amcan o fel, a'i melusa'n dda, yna dod yn y ffwrn
gyda bara, yna cymmer ef drwyddo'r cyfan o bono bedair
llwyaid ar y pryd, deir gwaith y dydd.
ARALL.
§ 24. Gwahana liad yr egfaen oddiwrtli y ^^y^vyn, a sych
nliwy oni bout gras, yna mal uliwy'n fan, a dod i gadw
mewn lie sych, a plian fo arnat ei eisiau, cymmer Iwyaid o
hono, a llwyaid o fel, a gwua'n gyfletb, a chyramer y nos
wrth fyued i'r gwely, ag cihvaith y bore'n wag, gan ymattal
rhag ynibortli deirawr ar ei ol, ag os bydd aclios gwua felly
eilwaith, a digwydd o fil nad iach y byddi.
RIIAG LLYNGER AR BLANT.
§ 25. Cymmer fflwr gwenith g>vedi ei wegryn drwy wagr
sidan teg, manweaidd, gymmaint aga safo ar dair coron aur,
94 MKDDYGON MYDDFAI.
a dod ef mewn pottel wydr, a diwal arno ddwr fiynon, gym-
maiiit ag ai gwlycho oni bo fal llcflfrith, ag nid yn dencuach,
yna dyro i'r plcntyn iddei yfcd, ag ef a gcir gweled yn ei
bridd bryfcd meirwon, a hynn y sydd yn gyfarwyddyd dda
iawn.
ARALL.
§ 26. Cj'mmer wallt y plentyn, a thorr ef mor fan ag a
ellir, a rho gymmaint ag a wedd ar goron aur mewn bywyn
afal rhost, neu mewn mel, a hynn a ladd y llynger.
RHAG CRACH GWYLLTION A DARWYDENI.
§ 27. Oymmer falwed a phiccia nhwy'n ami a nodwydd,
oni ddelo fal dwr o honynt, ag a'r dwr hynny golch y crach
neu'r darwydeni, ag ar hynny ddod ddail y gwinwydd yn
rwymedig, gwna hynny hwyr a bore, a chyn bo hir ti a
fy ddi iach.
RHAG POERI GWAED O ACHOS TORRI GWYTHIEN YN Y
BRYST.
§ 28. Cymmer dom llygod a sych ef yn yr haul, neu o
hirbcll o flaeu y tan, a gwna'u bylor, a chymmer gymmaint
ag a safo ar ucha grod, a dod e mewn banner llonaid ffiol
win sudd llydan y fFordd, gydag yehydig o fel eras, a dyro
i'r claf i yfed hwyr a bore, gan barhau felly nes elo'n iach.
RHAG ANADL DREWLLYD.
§ 29. Cymmer ddail rhosmari a'r blodeu os byddant i'w
cael, a berw mewn gwin gwynu, gydag yehydig myrr a
chanel, a cliai weled ffrwyth rhyfedd oddiwrtho, os arferi'n
fynych yn dy enau.
RHAG DOLUR Y GARREG.
§ 30. Cymmer bylor y felencuraid, a elwir yn lladin Tir(^a
aurea, a dod Iwyaid o bono mewn wi newydd ddodwi, gwedi
MEDDYGON MYDDFAI. 95
'i rostio'n dyner a dyro i'r claf yn fwyd bore, ag na fwyttaed
ddim bedair awr yn ol hynny, ag efe a wna ddwr cyn penu
banner awr ar ol hynny, ag arfercd felly ddeg neu ddeuddeg
diwarnod, ac efe a gaiff wared y garreg yn ddiboen, a da
iawn yw hynn befyd rbag y cyllwst wynt.
RHAG LLYGAID DYPRLLYD.
§ 31. Cymmer ddalen bresygen goch, ag ira hi a gwynn
wi, a gosod hi ar dy lygaid wrtli fyned i'r gwely.
RHAG CXOAD CI CYNDEIRIOG.
§ 32. Cymmer a weddo mewn hanner plisgyn cneuen
ffreinig o bylor blodau'r ysgall gwylltion, wedi eu sycliu yn
y cysgod, a dod mewn llonaid ffiol win o'r gwin gwynn goreu,
ag yf ef dair gwaith y dydd dridiau, ag iach y fyddi drwy
Dduw.
RHAG LLYGAID DOLURUS.
§ 33. Cymmer sudd iorwg y ddaear, a llaelli bronu gwraig,
hanner yn banner, a'u hidlo drwy liain nianwiiaidd, yna dod
ddiferyn yn y Uygad a fo dolurus, ag yn y ddau lygad o
bydd achos.
ARALL.
§ 34. Cymnier ddistvU fFenigl, ac amean o fel newydd, a
chymmysga nliwy ynghyd, a dod ddiferyn neu ddau yn y
llygad ; profedig yw.
ARALL.
§ 35. Cymmer ddail drysi cochon, a dail llydan y ffordd,
a berw nhwy mewn dwr rhedegog hyd oni el i'r hanner, ag
arfer wrth y dolur.
DWFR LLYGAID I LADD GWRES A DOLUR YN Y LLYGAID.
§ 36. Cymmer ddyrnaid o'r geidwad goch, a benv mewn
au cudd ddwr gof yny tllanno'r hanner ymaith, yua
90 MHDDYfJON MYUDFAI.
hidla'n galcd, a dod geiniogvverth o clyf yn y llynnor, a
chymmaint o goprys gwynn yn ol oi gymmcryd oddiar y
tan, a llynora dy lygaid ag of.
RHAG MAGL AR LYGAD.
§ 37. Cymmer wynn wi yn frwd oV nyth, heb ddim o'r
mclyn, dod atto faint cneuen feclian o elyf yn bylor, ac
ychydig fel crfis, cymniliwya nhwy yn dda, a dod amcan o
ddwr a wnelo fal y gellir ei hidlo drvvy liain manwe, a their
gwaith yn y dydd difera ddefnyn neu ddau ymhob llygad,
neu yn yr un a fo achos.
RHAG GWYN YN Y GOES.
§ 38. Cymmer ddryll o surdoes trasur, yr un bwys o fer-
man, ar un o sebon du, tj^mmhera nhwy ynghyd, yna taner
ef ar liain, a dod wrth y goes lie byddo'r gwres, a symmud
ef ddwywaith yn y dj^dd, a thrwy borth Duw fe iacha ymhen
tair gwaith neu bedair.
I BERI GWELED YN DDA.
§ 39. Cymmer y gf>lyglys, a ffunel cochon, ddyrnaid o bob
un, banner dyrnaid o ryw, distylla nhwy, a golch dy lygaid
beunydd a'r dwr.
RIIAG DOLUR YN Y PENN.
§ 40. Cymmer ddryll o gigeidion heb ferwi, a gosod ar dy
wegil, a symmud ef bob nos wrth fyned i'r gwely, ag arfer
hynny mor fynych ag y bo achos ; profedig yw.
RHAG Y GWST JIAWR.
§ 41. Dolur yw hwn a fydd gan fwyaf yn y traed a'r
dwylo. Cymmer chwerwyn y twyn, a'r murlys, a brann
gwenith, a thorn bywch, a halen, a berwa nhwy mewn aescl
gwin neu ossai, a dod yn blaster wrth y dolur.
MEDDYGON MYDDFAI. 97
I WNEUTIIUR SUGLIAIN RIIAG GWYNIAU O BOB RHYW.
§ 42. Cymmer bunt o gwyr heb weithio, banner punt o
rosyn, a chwedran punt o dus, a phunt a banner o wor
mybaren, bcrw yngbyd, a bidla nlnvy i fasyn glan, yna dod
y basynar danllestr a than inarwor, a gwlych ddryll o liain
ynddo, ag felly dod ar y dolur.
RHAG Y PESWCH.
§ 43. Cymmer had niwstardd wedi eu brasfalu, a dod
nliwy mewn ffigys, a berwa nhwy felly niewn cwrw da, ag
yf ef.
RHAG DARWDEN.
§ 44. Cymmer wraidd tafol cochon, a hallta nhwy, yna
dod nhwy mewn aesel, a rlio ias bcrw iddynt, a golch y
ddarwden a'r llynnor.
RHAG Y FAM.
§ 45. Cymmer rosyn, a malbwya ef yn dda, yna dod ef
mewn gwin gwynn, ag eliw^r liwydden ber, a llwnc ef, a tin
a gai les oddiwrtho.
I UN A FO'N DYWEDYD YN EI GWSG.
§ 46. Cymmer lysiau'r corph, a pliwya nhwy''n fal ag yn
dda, yna dod attynt win neu hen fedd cadarn, a hidla''u
galed, ag yfed y claf o honu'r bore ac wrth fyned i gysgn.
I WRAIG A FYTHO'N GAEL GORMOD O'l BLODAU.
§ 47. Cymmered droed ysgyfarnog, a llosged yn bylor, a
chymmered ganel yn bylor, y ddau banner yn banner, a
doded mewn gwin coch, ag yfed o bono Iwnc syched yn
gyntaf a diweddaf nawniwarnod, a hi a gaiff les o hynny.
RHAG Y DDANNOEDD.
§ 48. Cymmer bwrs y bugail, a phwya'n soppyn, a dod
wrth y (lant.
98 MEDDYGON MYDDFAI.
ARALL.
§ 49. Cymmer wreiddyn gellhesg y nant, a chno ef, ag os
twU yn y dant, dod ynddo dam maid or gwreiddyn, a gochel
lyncu'th aliw, canys gwenwynllyd yw sudd y gwreiddyn, ac
oi lyngcu ef a*'tli ddisynwyra dros ddiwarnodau, os ni ddug
dy fyvvyd.
RHAG PESWCH PERYGLUS.
§ 50. Cymmer ddail y geidwad, a rhuw, a chwmmin, a
phwya nhwy'n fal gyda phybyr, yna berwa nhwy ynghyd
mewn mel, a gwna'n gyfleth, ag cbymmer Iwyaid o hono
fore a liwyr, a thrwy Dduw dydi a gai les o hono.
RHAG GENAU DOLURUS, A'R CANCAR.
§ 51, Cymmer frig rhosmari, y geidwad, dail y gwyddfid,
dail gwiuwydd, a dail y malw, banner dyrnaid o bob un,
a berwa nhwy'n dda mewn dwr fFynon gymmaint ag au
cudd, hyd oni flanno'r traian, yna dod fel pur wedi ei
ferwi'n dda mewn dwr ffynon, a chymmaint ag wi colommen
alwm, a berwa hwynt yn nwr y llysiau gwedi ei hudlo,
oni flanno'r traian, yna dod mewn pottel wydr a chau'n glos
arno, a golcli dy enau o hono pan fo raid wrtho.
I WNEUTHUR TRED SUGN.
§ 52. Cymmer cliw-'r bywyd, ag ymenyn Mai, a rhosyn,
a gwer dafad, a chwyr newydd, gwedi hynny cymmer yr
henlydan, a llygaid y dydd mawr, a chribau santffraid, ar
mill, a thafod yr oen, a'r geidwad, perllys y morfa, a
rhuddos y gcrddi, a phwya nhwy'n fal, a dod y menyn a'r
llysiau ynghyd, a bervv ynghyd ar y tan yn araf ddwyawr
neu dair, ag os sychu ymaith a wna'r menyn, dod ychydig
atto fal y bo achos, a phan ddarffcr a hynu, hidla menyn
MEDDYGON MYDDFAI. 99
yn galed dan wasg, yna dod atto'r cwyr ag eliw'r bywyd,
a'r rliosyn, a'r gwer defaid, a berwa nhwy nghyd ar dan
araf dros awr, gvvedi hynny gad oeri nie\vn llestr glan, a
dod i gadw.
RHAG BWYD NEU DDIOD GWENWYNIG.
§ 53. Cymmer y rhuw a briwa'n fan, a dod win gwynn arno
gymmaint ag ai cuddia, ag oni fydd gwin, cwrw ncu fedd,
cymysg y ddiod ar llysiau yn dda, a gwedi hynny hidla
ef a rho i'r claf iddeu yfed, llawn hvnc, yn y bore yn wag, a
llwnc arall ymhen yr awr, ag iach fydd.
RHAG HWYDD MEWN BROXN GWRAIG.
§ 54. Cais y tryw, a chribau sainffraid, a'r dderwen
fendigaid, a'u malbwyo'n dda, a chymmysga nhwy a hen
gwrw da, a hidla'n galed, a dod lefrith ar y tan, a phan fo
ar ferwi, bwrw y llynn am ei benn a gwna bossel o hano, ai
roi i'r wraig iddei yfed yn dwyni, ag arfer o hynny, ag iach
fydd.
RHAG CRYGYNAU.
§ 55. Cymmer yr elinog goch ai berwi, ai phwyo mewn
mortyr, ai chymysgu yn dda, ag iro'r grygynnau, ag iach
a fydd.
RHAG Y TOSTEDD.
^56. Cais glust y llygoden, aV geidwad wyllt, a gwna'n
bylor, gymmaint o'r naill a'r Hall, a bwrw yehydig ar ddiod,
a da yw, goreu diod ossai afalau, neu hen fedd onis bydd
ossai.
I DYNNU DANT HEB DDOLUR,
§ 57. Cais dair o'r madrwyod raelynion, a elwir gan eraill
genergog, a'r pwdrchwilod, y rhai a geffir yn y rhedyn
amser haf, a llosg nhwy mcwn croclian harn, a gwna'n
100 MEDDYGON MYDDFAI.
bylor, a chymmer mcddygfys y Haw ddehau, a gwlych
e raewn dwr, a tharo yn y pylor, a chod, a tharo ar y daut
yn fynych, a gwrth ei boeri allaii, a'r dant a ddaw allan yn
ddiddolur; profcdig yw.
RHAG PISO GWAED.
§ 58. Cymmer y tryw, a briwa nhwy'n fan, a dod y
briwion ar win, neu gwrw, neu fedd iddei yfed, a thi a gai
iachad.
Y CHWYF YN RHEDEG GORMODD.
§ 59. Cymmer wraidd y fFenigl cochon, a mortyra nbwy
yn fal iawn, a chymysca nhwy a Uaeth geifr, ai yfed dros
naw bore, ag efe a wna les, ag a ettail y rhedeg ; profedig yw.
RHAG GWAYW DYGYRCH.
§ 60. Yf sudd y tansi gyda hen gwrw, ag iach a fyddi
yn wir.
RHAG CYFYNGDER Y'X Y DDWYFRON A'R GALON.
§ 61. Cais wraidd marcbalan, a golch yn Ian, a chraf
bwynt, yna berw mewn aesel gwin gwynn, gAvedyn eu crafu^n
fan, au syehu, au malu'n bylor, a berwi'r pylor hwnnw
mewn mel, a bwrw pybyr mill am ei benn, ai roi mewn
blwcb i gadw, ai fwytta nos a bore lonaid llwy, a hynny a
wna'r claf yn iach.
O bydd cyfyngdwr, a plieswch, a thawlu ar ddyn, cais
dri marworyn, a dod ger bronn y claf, a phoered ar y mar-
wor, OS drewi a wna'r poeryn ar y marworyn marw a fydd,
oni ddrewa byw a fydd.
RHAG BRATH CI CYNDEIRIOG.
§ 62. Cais ddyrnaid o lydain y ffyrdd, a dyrnaid o'r tringol,
a mortyra'u dda, a dod wyn wiau, a mel, a hen floneg, a
o;wna cli a dod am y brath. ag iach fydd.
MEDDYGON MYDDFAI. 101
I BERI LLAETH YM MRONNAU GWRAIG,
§ 63. Cais sudd y flfeniglen goch, a rho ar gwrw i'r wraig,
ag efe a bair ddigon o laeth i fagu ei phlentyn.
RIIAG BYDDARI.
§ 64. Cais ben gwynwyn coch, a berw mewn sawstred
rael, a dod atto ddyrnaid o frag ceirch, a dail rhuw a ffenigl
cochon a wedd yn y llynnor, a berw ynghyd, a dod hwnnw
ynghlaiarder llefrith yn y clust hwyr a bore, ag ystoppo'r
clust a gwlan oen du, fel na ddelo allan yr eli, a hynny a
bair clywed yn ryfeddol ; profcdig yw.
I WNEUTHUR DWR BENDIGAID I LOYWI LLYGAID AG
IDDEU GLANHAU.
§ 65. Cymmer rhoscochon, perllys y mor, rhuw, y dder-
wen fendigaid, ffenigl rlmddion, gwallt y forwyn, y fyddar
Uysg, a melyullys, a theim gwyllt, golch nhwy'n Ian a dod
nhwy i sefyll ddiwarnod a noswaith mewn gwin gwynn, a
cliwedi hynny distyllu ar wyneb crochan pres, a thi a gai
y dwr cyntaf yn debig i arian, a hwnnw a fydd dda rhag
pob rhyw glwyf ar lygad, a rhag magi ar y llygad.
RHAG GWLYBWR LLYGAID.
§ 66. Cymmer flodeu eribau sanffraid, a bwyta nhwy, a
hynny a loywa'r llygaid, ac a'u sychant yn loywon.
ARALL.
§ 67. Ira'th lygaid a sudd y melynllys a mel newydd
ynghymysg, a thi a gai les mawr.
ARALL.
§ 68. Cais win gwynn a sudd y melynllys, a sudd ffenigl
cochon, a berw mewn y gwin gwynn hyd oni phanno'r traian,
ag a hwnnw ira dy lygaid, a hynny a'u cynnal yn loywon
ag yn iach.
102 MEDDYGON MYDDFAI.
RHAG MAGL NEU WAVW MEWN LLYGAD.
§ 69. Cais felyn wi a blawd gwenith, ag ychydig o goprys
glas, a'u maeddu ynghyd, a dod ar liain, a gosod wrth dy
lygaid wrth fyned i gysgu, ag ef a wella erbyn tranoetli, a
gwneler hynny hyd ymhen tri diwarnod.
RHAG DOLUR AR LYGAD DYN.
§ 70. Cais fustl ysgyfarnog, a bustl-gar, a bustl llysowen,
a bustl carw, a dwr gwyra, a dail gwinwydd, a tharo
ddyrnod ar bren eiddiorwg, a dod y sudd a ddelo allan o'r
pren am benn y pethau liynny a berw ychydig arno, a hidla
drwy hain manwe, a phan ddarffo iddo oeri, dod ychydig o
hono yng nghiliau dy lygaid, a rhyfedd yw oni wyl ai
harfero y ser ganol dydd o rinwedd y feddyginiaeth honn.
I NERTHU LLYGAD.
§ 71. Cais y fyddarllysg, a dail rhos cochon, a'r melynllys,
a'u pwyo 'nghyd a'u berwi mewn gwin gwynn, neu hen
gwrw gloyw a chadarn, a berwa amcan ffest arnynt, a
hidla'n Ian drwy fan we, a golch y Uygaid nos a bore, ag
iach a fyddi.
I WYBOD AM FORWYN AI BOD WEDI CADW EI MORWYN-
DOD AI NA BO.
§ 72, Cymmer bylor y milwydd a dod ar ei diod, ag os ni
bydd morwyn, hi a gyfyd i wneuthur dwr ; os morwyn nid
ysgyg.
I WYBOD PUN AI MAB AI MERCH A FO YXGROTH GWRAIG.
§ 73. Cais laeth bronn y wraig, a dod ef ar ei dwr hi ei
hun, OS nofio wnaV llaeth yn ucha, mab yw ; os ir gwaelod
yr a, nierch yw.
MEDDYQON MYDDFAI. 103
RHAG GWEWYR ANWYD, SEF Y RHYNWST, A PIIOB GWEW-
YR ANHWYL, A GWENDID YN VR YSGWYDDAU, AR
BREICHIAU, AR ESCEIRIAU.
§ 74. Cjmmer y teim gwylltion, a briwa nh\vy''n fan, ai
berwi mewn gwaddod cwrw cadarn hyd oni bo tew, a dod
wrtho yn dwymaf ag y gallo y claf ei oddef, ag arfer o hynny
bum niwaruod, ag iach a fydd yn wir.
RHAG DRAEN.
§ 75. Os draen a ii mown cnawd dyn, ai mewn traed, ai
mewn Haw, oni ellir ei gael allan, cymmer wraidd yr ysgall
duon, neu ei dail, a gwynn wiau, a chann blawd rhyg, neu
haidd, lie ni bo rhyg, a dod wrtho yn blasder, ag efe ai tynn
allan.
RHAG MWVTH GRYD YR EILDDYDD.
§ 76. Oymmer ddyrnaid mawr o gribau sanffred, dj'^rnaid
o frig banadl blwydd, a dyrnaid o'r geidwad, a'u golchi'n
Ian, a'u briwo mewn mortyr, au cymmysgu a cliwrw cadarn,
ai hidlo, ai yfed nawpryd or unty, a thorri a wna.
RHAG ATTAL GWNEUTHUR DWR.
§ 77. Cais had y banadl au malbwyo'n fan fal y cann, a
dod ar y ddiod ai yfed, gwna hynny oni bot iach.
ARALL.
§ 78. Cymmer had y banadl, a chyfrif naw, ar ddegfed ei
bwrw i Dduw, a malu r had yn baill iawn, ai cymmeryd ar
y ddiod, neu mewn mel berw yn gyfleth, ag os gwraig neu
forwyn a wna hynn, ni ddaw na gwewyr na chrawn yn ei
bronn fyth.
RHAG YSSIG.
§ 79. Cais waddod hen gwrw cadarn, a gwer mollt du,
neu wor gafr, a rhynion gwenith, a berw yn dda, a dod ar
104 MEDDYGON MYDDFAI.
gadacli brethyn cyn dwymed ag a cllir ei oddcf wrtli y
clwyf driphryd, ag iacli a fydd.
DIOD RHAG Y GWST MAWR.
§ 80. Cais y fabcoU, a llysiau'r cryman, a chribau sanflFrM,
a'r dderwen fendigaid, atncan o bob un, ag o lysiau'r gerwyn
bedair amcau, a'u berwi inewn a'u cuddio o win gwynn, ag
yfed llwnc syched bob hwyr a phob bore, a thi a gai wellhad ;
yf hwn yn gyntaf o'r bore, ag yn ddiwethaf y nos, naw bore
i waredu'r cylla, yua dod wrth y droed neu'r law olwythyn
trwch hanner modfedd o gig eidion ffres, a hyu a'th Iwyr
iacha.
RHAG CYFYNGDER A CHRYGI.
§ 81. Cais lawer o'r dderwen fendigaid, ai bersvi me\vn
dwr ony phanno draian, yna ei hidlo ; a bwrw gMTaidd y
melottai Avedi ei asglodenu'n fan ynddo, a berw drachefn, ag
arfer a hwnnw yn dwyra y nos, ag yn oer y bore, ai gadw
mewn grenn bridd,
RHAG PERIGLYS.
§ 82. Cynimer sign y rhuw, a chwmin, a phybyr mal, a
berw ynghyd mewn mel, a gwna'n gyfleth, ag arfer o hwnnw
nos a bore, yn gyntaf y bore ag yn ddiwethaf y nos.
RHAG Y GAFFO AVR GAN WRAIG.
§ 83. Cais ebod march ceilliog a llinhad, au tymheni yng-
hyd, au berwi yn iwd, ai roi ar gadach lliain wrth y clwyf,
ag arfer o'r plaster hynny hyd oni ddarffo iddo dynnu y llosg
tan i gyd o'r clwyf, yno rhoi'r eli a berthyno wrtlio, ag iach
a fydd.
CLEFYD YR ARCH.
§ 84. Cais ronell pysgod eog, a sych yn araf, a gwna'n
by lor, a dod ar gwrw iddei yfed, a iach a fyddi yn wir.
MEDDYGON MYDDFAI. 105
RHAG BYDDARI.
§ 85. Cymmer wiail o brenn llwyfi, a dod ar y raarwor, a
derbyn y dwr a ddcl o'r gwiail mewn llestr gltvn, a chais
saem llysowen ddu, a chyniaint o fel, a chymaint o sudd
cribau sanflfred, au cymysgu, au rhoi yn y clust, ai ystopio
a gwlan o aflach oen du, a iach a fydd yn wir.
RHAG MAGFA GWAED.
§ 86. Cais fflwr ffa a mel, a melyn wiau, a gwna deisen,
a chras ar faen yr aelwyd, dan badell a marwor am y badell,
a dod beth o'r deison i'r claf i fwytta'n fynych.
I DDIANC RHAG GELYNION,
§ 87. bydd un yn myned i lu, ceisied y dderwen fen-
digaid a doded yn ei ddillad, ag ef a ddianc rhag ei elynion.
I WNEUTHUR COLMWN.
§ 88. Cais banner pwys o byg, a chwarter pwj^s o gv\yr,
a banner pwys o wer defaid, a pbylor raaen galis, a berw
yngbyd, gan gymysgu yr lioll amser fal au cydgyfuner, yna
ei roi mewn blwch, neu ei fwrw mewn dwr ai wneutbur yn
rhol, a bwn a fydd rbag pob clwyf dyfrllyd, ai ledu ar
liain neu ledr raaneg tenau.
RHAG Y BLODAU YN STOPPIO AR WRAIG.
§ 89. Cais rhuw a malbwya'n dda, a gwasc y sudd mewn
gwin neu gwrw cadarn, bidla ef a gad iddo loywi, ac yfed
y wraig o bono, ac iacb y bydd.
I BERI CLYWED YN DDA.
§ 90 Cais blanbigion ynn ifainc mal maint gwiail, a
thorr, a dyro ar y drybedd uwcb benn y tan, a derbyn y
defnynau a ddel o'r bonau, a chymmer lonaid llwy o fel, a
blaen Uysiau'r tai, a'r pennau a'r baglan oV cennin, ac
P
lOG MEDDYGON MYDDFAI.
ychydig o fwstardcl paill, a llonaid cragcn o saem llysowen,
a berw y cwbl ynghyd gan cu cymysgu yn ofalus yr lioll
ainser tra berwont, a dod mewn chwistrell ynjglaiar, ai
yrru'n y clust ar wlan oenen ddu, ac iach y bydd.
RHAG HWYDD YNGWIALEN GWR.
§ 91. Cais ddail y gwynwydd, a berw, a golch yn dda,
yna cais ddail y Uinhad, aV malw, a berw mewn llaetli, a
dod beutu'r wialen ar liain raanwe.
ARALL.
§ 92. Rhostia wiau yn galed, a thyn y raelyn a g^\Tia'n
bylor man, a gwna'n eliw, a gwasg ef drwy gadach lliain, a
dod ar y wialen, ag y niae'n dda rliag y gi^vst mawr a fo
mewn asgwrn, a rhag amrafael glefydau eraill.
ARALL.
§ 93. Cais floneg yr Aflfrig a chennin, a dod yn blasder
wrth y wialen, ag iach y bydd. Ti a elli yniarfer a'r plasder
hwn gyda'r meddyginiaeth nesaf o'r blaen at hwn, a da fydd
hynny.
PLASDER RHAG YR IDDWYF, AG I DYNNU CIG DRWG.
§ 94. Cymmer sydd chwerwyn y twyn a niel wedi ei
gymysgu a halen ag aesel, a cliymysg yn dda, a dod
amcan o flawd rbyg, a berw, a gwna yn blaster, a dod wrth
y clwyf, ag arfer y plaster ar ddiod a ddywespwyd ei fod
yn dda rhag y gwst mawr hyd onid el yn iach.
RHAG Y CRYD A'R MWYTH POETH.
§ 95. Cymmer wertli dwy geiniog o driiag, gwerth ceiniog
o sattar, ag ychydig o gorn carw wedi ei radellu'n fan iawn,
a dodi am benn ffiolaid dda o ddiod, au cymysgu yn dda, a
MEDDYGON MYDDFAI. 107
yfed dri bore, yna cais wydd yr hafa cochon, dail drysi pur,
a bara cann y gwccw, a bnlg, ai wucuthur yn ddiod, ai
liyfed dair^waith neu bcdair yn y dydd Iwnc syched, ag
iach fydd a wnelo bynny.
DIOD GARTH.
§ 96. Cymmer wertb ceiniog o stwbiwm, a rhadella'n fan
fal fflwr, a dod ef ddiwarnod a noswaith yn ^vlycll mewn banner
punt gwrw iacbus, a cblaiara ef, a dyro i'r claf i'w yfed vn
wag y bore, wedyn cais cbwart o bossel a dyro iddo am
benn banner awr i'w yfed, ar dair gwaitb, ag yn ol iddo ei
gynhyrfu, gwna dwym drwy ddwr ffynon a dod ynddo
ymenyn yn dda a phetb mel, ag yfed ddwywaitb neu dair,
ag iach a fydd ef.
ARALL.
§ 97. Cymmer reol y rbafnwydden, a gwasg eu sudd, a
dod dwy Iwyaid o bono am benn llwnc sycbed o frecci cwrw
da, ag yf, ac oni chynbyrfa yf Iwnc arall o'r brecci beb sydd
y greol, a gwedi iddo weitbo cymmer yn fwyd dwym blawd
ceirch drwy ddwr ffynon, a mel ag ymenyn ynddo, a bara
gwenith drwyddo ynddo, a gwna felly deirgwaitb mewn
naw diwarnod ag ef a garth o'r corph bob llynnor llygredig,
a bydd fyw ar ol hynny naw diwarnod ar fwyd llaetli a bara
gwenith drwyddo, a'r twym dwr a blawd a ddywespwyd ail
yn ail.
ARALL.
§ 98. Cymmer ddyrnaid o ddail rhos damasg a berw
mewn brecci cwrw da, ac yf, a chyfluniaethu fal y dywespwyd
eisioes am fwyd tros naw diwarnod.
ARALL.
R 99. Cymmer fel a sudd greol y rbafnwydden mesur tra
mesur, a berw yngbyd ar dan araf, a chadw mewn pottel
108 MEDDYGON MYDDFAI.
wydr yn glos gauedig, a plian fo raid cymmer ddwy neu
dair llwyaid o hono, ac ymhen banner awr ar ei ol Iwuc
syched o frecci cwrw da.
CYFLETH RHAG GENAU DOLURUS.
§ 100. Cymmer Iwyaid o sudd y geidwad, a llwyaid o
sudd yr ysgaw, a dwy Iwyaid o sudd mwyar gleision, a
bywyn afal poeth, a thair llwyaid o fel, a berw ar dan araf
gan gymysg yn ddibaid onid elo'n gyfleth tew, dod mewn
blwcli pridd a cbau arno'n dda ai gadw at achos, a pban fo
dolurus y genau, cymmer faint wy colomraen a dal yn dy
enau oni thoddo, a da yw.
ARALL.
§ 101. Cymmer ddail ysgaw, a dail gwinwydd, a'r geid-
wad, a rbosmari, a dail drysi, a berw yn dda mewn dwr au
cudd, yna melysu a mel, a golcb dy enau gan ddal y llynn
yn dy enau gyd a gallot, yna ei boeri allan dair gwaitb,
gwedi bynny yfed llwnc syched o bono, i oeri 'r cylla.
ARALL.
§ 102. Cymmer bedair llwyaid o fel, a sudd pedair euron-
en, a thair llwyaid o sudd y geidwad, a thair o sudd mwyar
duon, a thair o sudd mwyar gleision, a berw ar dan araf
onid elo*'n gyfleth tew, a chadw mewn blwcb caedig, a dod
faint wy colomen yn dy enau, ai ddal yno oni dderfydd yn
ddim.
RHAG Y LLYNNORWST OER.
§ 103. Cymmer banner punt o sudd gwlydd y perthi, a
llwyaid o fel ynddo nos bore.
ARALL.
§ 104. Cymmer banner punt o sudd y mwyar duon, ac
ynddo hvyaid o fel nowydd nos a bore.
MEDDYGON MYDDFAI. 109
RHAG Y LLYNNORWST POETII.
§ 105. Cyramer sudd gwlydd y perthi, a sudd bcrw
fiynonau, a sudd suran y waen, a sudd yr ysgaw, yr uii
faint bob un, ac yf banner punt o bono nos a bore naw
diwarnod, a byw naw diwarnod arall ar fwyd llaeth a bara
gwenith drwyddo, beb na bwyd na diod anigen, a da
cymeryd cartb ddwywaitli ncu dair o flaen y feddyginiaeth
honn, i arllwys y corpb o'r llynnor llygredig.
RHAG Y LLYNNORWYNT YN GWANHAU'R CORPH A'R PWYLL.
§ 106. Cymmer sudd afalau, neu sudd mafon, neu sudd
eirin, neu sudd mwyar, yn hidledig, a dod ar dan araf, ac
ynddo Iwyaid o fel at bob llwnc, a'i lasferwi, yna yfed llwnc
syched nos a bore, dros naw diwarnod, a cbymmer yn fwyd
fara wedi ei wneutbur a fflwr nies uchelgras, beb anigen o
fwyd a diod yn bynny o amser, ag iacb y byddi.
Goreu o bob sudd fFrwythau os bydd eu badeg, sudd eirin
man y pertbi, a sudd mwyar duon, a lie na bo mes, eras
wraidd dynaid o flaen y tan o liirbell, a mal yn fflwr, a
gwna'n fara, a bydd fyw arno.
ARALL.
§ 107. Cymmer Iwyaid o had mwstardd dair gwaith yn y
dydd, ai golchi i lawr a llwnc o hen fedd da, a byw ar fwyd
llaeth gwartbeg a bara can gwenith uchelgras, a phrydiau
man a mynych.
ELI GLINIAU, MYNYGLAU TRAED, A CHYMALAU.
§ lOS. Cymmer y rhodri, eraill ai geilw yr uddygl, a gwer
dafad neu afr, a phwya nhwy ynghyd oni clont yn eli, yna
dod yr eli mewu padell, ag atto ychydig o fel a halen, a
berw yn dda ar dan araf, a hidlo'n galed, ag a hwn ira'r
dolur, ag iach y byddi drwy Dduw.
110 MKI)I)Y(;ON MYDDFAI.
I DYXNU IIHYRN NEU BRENNAU, AG I AGOR Y BRATH.
§ 109. Cymmer wreiddiau dynaid, a bloneg g<^ydd a nicl,
a pliwya nhwy'ii blasder, a dod ar y brath, ag yii ddir<,a'l cf
ai egyr ag a dyii allaii a fo ynddo.
RIIAG GWRES A G\VAY\V MEWN BRATHAU, Y RIIAI NI
ADAAVANT I'R CLAF GYSGU.
§ 110. Cymmer risg y celyn, a rhogas, a rhisg canol yr
ysgaw, yr un faint o bob un, a dod gyda nliwy floneg a
gwin yr un gyffelyb fesur, a berw yn dda hyd pan fo yn
dew, yna cymmer liain, a dod yr eli arno, a dod both o liono
ar oreth yn dwym, a dod yn y brath ar lliain eli'ad ar bynny,
a dod gyda'r oreth elyf pyloraid ar y brath, ae efe a iacha
drwy Dduw.
ELI DA I FEDDYGINIAETHU BRATHAU.
§ 111. Cymmer eliw'r oliwydden, ag oni bydd hwnnw,
bloneg twrch, a gwin mesur tra mesur, a berw yn dda
ynghyd gan gymysgu''n ddibaid tra berwo, a phan elo'n
dew dod e mewn blwch pridd, neu mewn pledren i gadw, a
chau yn dda arno, a lie bo raid elia'r brath ag ef.
ELI RIIAG GWRES AR GNAWD.
§ 112. Cymmer hufen gwartheg da a gwin gwynn, neu
ossai afalau cadarn, neu hen fedd lied galed, a berw yn dda
ynghyd, yr un fesur o bob un oni fo tew, a chymysgu yn
ddibaid, a phan oero, dod mewn pledren neu flwch i gadw,
a phan fo raid, eliaw'r gwres ag ef.
RIIAG Y PESWCII A'R GALON PDIFFYG.
§ 113. Cymmer wraidd y perllys, a'r ffunel cochon, a
chynglynedd yr afon, a phwya nhwy'n dda, a chymmer
drichwart o frecci du cadarn, a berw a wedd o'r llysiau
ynddo hyd onid elo'r trichwart yn un, yna cymmer worth
MEDDYGON MYDDFAI. 111.
chwecheiniog o bylor anis ag ai melysia'n dda o fcl cms, a
berw yn y llyiiii liyniiy, a dod i gadw mevvn lie cynnes, a
hwnnw a elwir mcddyglyn y cylla, ag a ddinistr y peswch
yn wir.
I WNEUTHUR MEL CRAS.
§ 114. Cymmer fel un amcan, a dwr ffynon bedair amcan,
a dod mewii crochan pres glan i ferwi, a plian ddelo'r cwyr
a'r eliw i'r wyneb, cymmer ymaitli a bassel hyd oni dderftb
i'r berw grawenu, yna berw ar dan canolig oni phanno'r
dwr yn Ian ag ydd erys y mel yn gras yn y crocban, yna
cymmer a dod i gadw mewn llestr pridd a cbau yn dda
arno, a goreu o bob mel y bydd mewn mcddygiuiaethau a
bwydydd.
ELI GWAYWYR.
§ 115. Cymmer fywyn afalau coed a berw mewn gwin
liyd oni ddarftb'r gwin yn llwyr, yna cymysg Invnnw a
cliwyr, a rhosin, a mel gloyw, a hen floueg, a berw yn dda,
a liidla yn Kin, ag ira'r dolur yn fynycb, ag ef iach a fydd
trwy Dduw.
I BERI I WRAIG ESGOR ESMWYTH AG EBRWYDD.
§ 116. Cymmer sudd y marchfynt, neu fynt y dwr, Avedi
cu pwyo'n dda gyda gwin gwynn, ai liidlo'n Ian, a rbo iddi
i'w yfed. O bydd gwraig a dyn marw yn trigo gyda hi,
yfed y sudd hynn a sudd marchalan banner yn banner, ag
ef ai rhyddha hi drwy Dduw.
RIIAG LLOSG AR GXAWD DYN GAN DAN NEU DDWR.
§ 117. Cymmer wreiddiau'r lili a'i golchi'n bin, an berwi
yn fFest mewn dwr, gwedi hynny cymysg nhwy'n dda a
gwyn wiau ag eliw, pederhamon, neu eliw gliwydden, ag oni
bydd hwnnw, hufen llaeth gwartheg da neu menyn ffres di-
balen, a dod wrth y dolur, a goreu pa fwya'r plasder wrtho.
112 MEDDYGON MYDDFAI.
RIIAG inWDD, A GWRES, AG YSSIG, NEU NATTUR ANWYD O
DRAFAEL, AG IDDWY A FO AR ESGAIR, NEU LIXNIAU, NEU
FOKDDWYD, ER MAINT Y BO'R LLID, AG ER COCHED FO'R
LLIVV, AG ER PYDRED FO'R CXAWD A'R CLWYP', A METHU
LLAWER MEDDYGIMAETH.
§ 118. Cymmer faenclyf gwynn a briw'n fan, a berw
iiiewn dwr ifynon dair ias arno, ag o cyfyd saem arno
bassela'n fanol oni ddarffo hynny, a chadw hwnnw yn anwyl,
a gwerth ceiniog o elyf mewn chwart o ddwr sy ddigon, a
chymmer gadacli lliain a golcli y clwyf yn fynych, a hwnnw
a estwng yr hwydd, a'r gwres, a'r angerdd, a'r dolur, ag
arfer dy olclii yn y modd hwnnw, ag yn wir ef a fydd iach
pa glwyf bynnag y bo, ai cancar, ai iddwy yssig, ef ai gwna
y dwr hwnnw yn iach, ond o hir arfer o'i iro wrth dan : ag
o derfydd gwna un arall, a digou y bydd gwerth ceiniog o'r
alwm mewn chwart o ddwr, ag o gwnai felly iach a fyddi ;
profedig yw.
RHAG LLOSG HAUL, NEU UN GWRES ARALL AR GNAWD.
§ 119. Cymmer sudd llysiau'r geiniog, a hufen llaeth
banner yn banner, a berw ar dan araf oni bo'n eli tew, ai
gadw mewn blwch dan gau.
RHAG Y CRAFU NEU'R YMGOS,
§ 120. Cymmer wraidd marchalan, a berw yn dda mewn
dwr glan wedi ai golcher yn h\n, a phan fo meddal y
gwraidd, pwya nhwy'n dda, yna dod hufen llaeth gwartheg
tew am eu pennau, a chymysg yn eli, ag elia dy gorph ag
ef cyn myned i gysg unwaith bob tri diwarnod, sef teir-
gwaith mewn naw diwarnod, ac yf Iwnc syched o'r dwr a
ferwed y gwraidd ynddo dair gwaith yn y dydd dros naw
diwarnod, a thi a fyddi iach o'r gwres, ac yn hoenus dy
gorph, canys da yw'r dwr i wcUhau a bywhau'r cylla a'r
ysgyfaint.
MEDDYGON MYDDFAI. 113
ELI RHAG CLWYF YR YSGYFAINT.
§ 121. Cymmer wer mollt a mel, a berw ynirhyd, a plian
font ddigon berw, cymmer naw deniyn o wlanen main, a
gwlych yn yr eli a dod bob un ar ei ben ei hunan i oeri, a
plian font ocr, dod y naw ar glwyd y ddwyfron, a boed yr
hyd a'r lied o gessail i gessail, ag o uchder ysgwydd agos i'r
fogail, a gad ar dy fronnau naw diwarnod, gwedi liynny
cymmer un o'r gwlanneni ymaitli yn y dydd, ag un bob
dydd onid elo ymaith y naw, a tlira bo hynny o beth ar
waith, cymmer yn fwyd fara gwenith trwyddo, a mel pur
arno yn frechdan y bore, a'r un bara gyda llaetli gwartheg
ganol dydd, ag afalau pobiedig a llaetli geifr y nos, a
chymmer rliwug prydiau Iwyaid dda o fel pur, a thi a fyddi
iach drwy Dduw.
ARALL RIIAG CLWYF YR YSGYFAINT.
§ 122. Cymmer Iwyd y cwn, a phwya"'n fan, a dod ddwr
glan arno, a gad sefyll deirawr, yna liidla'n galed drsvy
fanwe, a dod ar dan araf i glaiaru a llawer o fel ynddo, a
chymmer liauner llwnc syched o bono bob teirawr, a bydd
fyw ar fara can gwenith a llefrith, a phan fo syched arnad
cymmer afal a phob ef, a dod mewn cymaint ag ai cudd o
hen ossai da, a bwyttaV afal, ag yrahen awr yfed yr ossai,
heb amgen na hynn o fwyd na diod.
ARALL.
§ 123, Cymmer lefrith gwartheg banner pryd gwr, a dod
ynddo ddwy Iwyaid o fel pur, a chymmer gydag ef yn fwyd
bara gw^enith da driphryd y dydd, a rhwng prydiau Iwyaid
sudd llwyd y cwn, a llwyaid o fel ynghymysg.
A lie na cheffych y llysiau hynn nag un llysiau craill a
welir son am danynt yn irion er cael eu sudd, cynnner y
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114 MEDDYGON MYDDFAI.
llysiau'n sychioii, au berwi mewn y maiiit ai cudd o ddwr
mewn crochan liarn oni fflanno'r hauner, yna ei hidlo'n galed
drwy fanwe, a chwedi hynny hanner mesur y dwr berwedig
o fel, ai berwi yiighyd yr ail waith oni fflanno''r traian, ai
gadw mewn pottel wydr yu gauedig.
ARALL.
§ 124. Cyramer yn uiiig fwyd brechdan bara cann gwenith
a mel, ag yn unig ddiod, llaeth bronnau gwraig ifanc iachus,
naw diwarnod yn ddibaid, yna yn lie llaeth bronnau,
cymmer laetli geifr naw diwarnod eraill, a chynnal ar liyuny
yn hwy os bydd achos.
RHAG Y TOSTEDD A'R MAEN.
§ 125. Cymmer y milwydd a'r tormaen, a pliwya nhwy am
benn dwr twym, a dyro*n ddiod i'r claf cliwe diwarnod yn
llynn, ag nac yfed arall o ddiod, ag iach a fydd trwy Dduw.
RHAG Y TOSTEDD A'R MAEN.
§ 126. Cymmer waed ysgywarnog ai cbroen, a gwna''n
bylor, a chymysg ag ossai afalau cochon cibwyr, neu a
medd, neu a'r ddiod a yfer ba un bynnag, eithr goreu y
bydd yr ossai neu'r medd, ag yfed y claf hwnnw yn unig
ddiod ag ef a dyrr y maen ag ai teifl allan, ag o mynni brofi
hynny cymmer Iwyaid o'r pylor hwnnw mewn dwr, a dod
mewn twll a fo mewn raaen sur, ag erbyn trannoeth ef a
dyrr y maen yn lie gwir.
RHAG Y TOSTEDD A RHW' YSTRO GWxVEUTHUR DWR.
§ 127. Cymmer bersyll y mordir, llysewyn tebyg ei ddail
i'r perllys a dyf mewn gerddi, a bias rhost arno, a chymmer
rhuw, a cliribau sanffred, a chwart o win gwynn, pwya r
MEDDYGON MYDDFAI. 115
llysiau'n fal iawn, a berw yn y gwin hyd nas pann ei banner,
yna liidla yn Ian drwy fanwe, a dyro i'r claf yn dair diod,
ag yn wir iacli a fydd ef.
RHAG DOLUR YNGHYLCH Y GALON.
§ 128. Cymmer y ganrhif, a phwyam fal, a berw drwy
hen gwrw, a hidla'n Ian, wedi hynny berw oni phann yr
banner, a cbymmer bwnnw ar ddau cymaint o fel, a berwa
nbwy ycbydig yngbyd, a cbymmer yn ymprydiol ffioled o
bono bob bore byd ymben y nawfed dydd, ag ef a dynn y
gw;^n a'r dolur o gylch y galon a'r cylla drwy ei gymmeryd
yn wir.
MODD ARALL Y GWNEIR YR UN FEDDYGYNIAETH.
§ 129. Cymmer y ganrhif, a berw drwy hen gwrw yn dda,
yna cymmer y Uysiau o"r cwrw a phwya nbwy yn dda mewn
mortyr, a berw eilwaitb yn dda, a hidla drwy fanwe glan, a
cbymmer y sudd bwnnw am benn y dau cymaint o fel, par
ferwi ycbydig, ag arfer ei gymmeryd yn ymprydiol naw
bore, ag ef a iacha'r gwyn a'r dolur yngbylch y galon ag yn
y cylla, trwy Dduw.
ELI GWERTHFAWR RHAG FOB MATH O AVAYW.
§ 180. Cymmer ben floneg, a gwer bwch, a gwer dafad, a
chwyr melyn, a cbymmer y cbwerwyn, a phriellau, a
mortyra nbwy''n dda, a'u berwi trwy menyn, yna dod atto'r
gwer, a'r bloneg, a'r cwyr, a berw yn dda, a hidla'n Ian ag
yn galed drwy liain, a cbadw hwn yn anwyl, ag efe a wellha
bob gwayw.
ELI RHAG FOB CLEFYD A FO MEWN GIAU A GWYTHI.
§ 131. Cymmer lynger y ddaear, a pben gwynwyn, a
gwna dwll, a dod y llynger yn y twll, a dod dan y lludw i
bobi, a gwedi hynny dod wrtb y dolur, a gad wrtho dair
nos heb symud.
116 MKUDYCUN MYDDIAI.
ELI 13LE BYNNAG RHAID I DDYN WRTHO.
§ 132. Cymmer floneg ceiliaccwydd, a bloneg catb wrw,
a bloneg twrcb coch, tri phen gw^ynwyn, a j j j o gwyr glas,
a berw y ffynonau, a'r cbwerwyn, a gwlydd syfi cochon, a
briellau, au berwi mewn dwr fFynon glun, a gvvedi eu berwi
dod bwynt mewn ceiliaccwydd, a pbob ef o bell oddiwrth y
tan, a'r saem a ddel o hwnnw doder mewn blwch yn anwyl,
yu eli gwertlifawr i bob gwayw yng ngliorph dyu fel y
gwnaeth Hipocras gynt : profedig yw.
RHAG MAGL YN LLYGAD DYX.
§ 133. Cymmer fustl cigfran, a chymysg yn dda am a
gwynn wi, a dod ycliydig yn dy lygad, a chymmer yehydig
o liain main, a dod ar gefn dy lygad, a gwna bynny nos a
bore, ag yu wir iach a fyddi.
RHAG BRIWO ELIN, NEU LIN, NEU ESGAIR,
§ 134. Cymmer saem gwynn, sef yw hynny bloneg wedi
ei doddi unwaith, rbodder ar frethyn neu wlanen wrth yr
hwydd, ag os ar y lin neu elin y bydd, rliowch sudd y
rhuw ynddo, ag ef a wella glwyf y cyramal, a iach a fydd ;
profedig yw.
RHAG HWYDD, A GWRES, NEU LOSCFAN NATTUR
IDDIW, NEU GLWYF ARALL.
§ 135. Cymmer risg y llwyf a briw 3m fan, a thynn yr
ucha heibo, a gwysgona mewn dwr twym nes bo'r dwr fel
mel gwyddn tew, ag yna tynn y rhisg ymaith bono, a
chymmer fflwr haidd ag ymenyn gwyryf, a dod i ferwi nes
elo c'n iwd, ai roi ar bilyn owlanen wrth v dolur, as: bydd
tyb fod asgwrn twnn ynddo, dod aniledd risg yn y plasder,
ag ef a ddaw a hwynt iddt-u lie, lle'i gweler yn wir ond arfor
vn fviivcb.
Mi:i)L)YCiON' MYDDFAI, 117
RHAG GWAYW A THWRW VN Y CLUST.
§ 136. Cymnier dortli o fara gweiiith trwyddo yn frwd o*r
ffwrn, a'i holltrn ddau banner, a dod wrtli y ddau glust
mor dwym ag y gellir ei oddef, a rhwym a chwysu felly, ag yn
wir iacli a fyddi trwy Dduw.
RHAG GLOESON A LLOSGFAN CYLLA GWLYB.
§ 137. Cymmer rawn paradvvys, ag ychydig o bylor claw
yn eu niysg, a bwytta liyd ymhen yr wythnos, ag yn wir
iach y fyddi trwy Dduw.
I BERI PR BLODAU GERED AR WRAIG.
§ 138. Cymmer dafod yr bydd, a berw mewn dwr yn ffest,
a rboi yn glaiardwym i yfed, ag iach y bydd.
RHAG PISO GWAED.
§ 139. Pwya arlleg a berw mewn llaeth yn yr amser, ai
yfed nos a bore, a iach y byddi.
RHAG TRAUL NATTUR AR WRAIG, A RHAG GORMODD O
FLODAU.
§ 140. Cymmer risg derwen ifanc o r banner at yr haul,
a thynn o'r bon tua''r brig, a thynn yr uchaf ymaith, a briw
yn dra man mewn llaeth buwch unlliw, a chymmer werth
ceiniog o safFar yn bylor man, a berw y cyfan yn dda ar dan
araf, a chwedyn ei hidlo ai yfed y bore a'r nos yn dair diod
neu chwaneg, ag yn wir iach y bydd trwy Dduw. Amen.
PLASDER I DYNNU HWYDD.
§ 141. Cymmer grestys fawr fendigaid, a'r pumpbys, a'r
brwr, a rhogos, a bloneg, ag ymenyn, a berw y llysiau mewn
dwr yn dda, ag yna tynn ef i'r llawr a phwya'r llysiau'n dda,
ag yna dod yn yr un dwr yr ail waith ar y tan, a'r menyn,
a'r bloneg, au cymysg, au berwi hyd nes elon yn iwd, ai
roi wrth yr hwydd, ag ef ai ostwng yn wir. a iach a fydti.
118 MEDDYGON MYDDFAI.
RHAG GWAYW Y FAM A LLEWYGON.
§ 142. Cymmer gan gwenith, a dwr yn oer, ai yfed yn
dair diod, ag iach a fydd yn wir, gyda nerth Duw.
I WRAIG A FO AI FFRWVTH YN CERDDED GORMODD.
§ 143. Cymmer fflwr gwenith a llefrith yn oer, ag yfed ef
felly, ag iach y bydd yn wir.
RHAG Y FAM YN CODI AR WRAIG.
§ 144. Cais gymaint a ffafen o'r tus, a dod ar dri mar-
weryn a chymmer y tarth i'th ffroenau ag i*'th enau, ag ef a
ostwng yr hwydd, ag hefyd cymmer gorn y carw ag arfer ef
yn yr un modd, a iach y fyddi.
RHAG Y CLEFYD MELYN.
§ 145. Cymmer y llysiau a dyfant ar frig yspyddaid, ag
efeillwydd, a elwir ychelfedd, ai berwi mewn gwin, neu hen
gwrw da, nes pannu'r hanner, yna tynn ef i lawr, a hidl
ef, ai yfed ef hyd pen y naw bore deirgwaith y dydd, sef
boreu, nawn, a nos, ag iach a fyddi.
RHAG Y FAM O'R BYDD YN CWNNU AR WRAIG YN HWYDD-
EDIG O'R CYLLA.
§ 146. Cymmer isob, a''r llysiau llwydon, a gwna ddiod ag
hwynt trwy hen gwrw iachus, a hidla'n Ian trwy liain
wedi'r berw, a dyro i'r wraig dair diod ar dri phryd, ag ef a
estwng y clwyf jn wir, a da yw'r ddiod honn rhag y tostedd
a'r cyllwst, o herwydd y llysiau llwydon sy dda i'r clefydau
hynny yn wir, ag felly rhag pob gwynnogwst yng nghorph
dyn, ai yn y cylla, ai yn y gwaed, ai yn y llynnor.
DIOD RHAG Y CRYD O'R CYLLA, A'R CRYD O'R CNAWD.
§ 147. Cais ddyrnaid o rosmari, a dyrnaid o isob, a dyrnaid
o'r geidwad, a dyrnaid o'r chwerwyn gwynn, a dyrnaid o
MEDDYGON MYDDFAI. I 19
ffunel cochon, au pwyo'n dda, au berwi niewn galwyn o frecci
du cadarn a wncler o frag liaidd, ai roi mewn llestr pridd i
gadw, ai gauadu'u dda, ai ado yno dri diwarnod, ag yna
cymmer dair diod bob bore'ii wag, ag yn ddiwetha'r nos, ai
dwymo yngwres gwaed, ag yna cymmer werth ceiniog o'r
grawn a elwir grawn paradwys, gwerth ceiniog o'r claw, a
gwerth ceiniog o saftar, a gwerth ceiniog o'r canel, au pwyo
yngliyd oil mewn mortyr yn bylor man, a bwrw peth oV
pylor hwnnw ar wyneb y ddiod, a gwna I'elly hyd y parhao
y ddiod wrtli ei hyfed, a da yw yn wir, ag ef a brofwyd, a
da hefyd rhag pob gwynnygwst yng nghorph dyn ; profedig
yw.
RHAG DOLUR YR YSCEFAIX.
§ 148. Cymmer annegan o'r melged, (a elwir yn y lladin
Beta,) a tlior y ceingau a'r pennau ymaitU, a chymmer dri
galwyn o ddwr glan a berw hwynt, a thynn y melged allan,
a gad yn llynn i ferwi, yna tynn i lawr a gad yny bo mewn
gwres brecci mewn tymmer, ai ddodi ef ar waddod ffres
newydd, a gad ef i weithio hyd pan wastodha, ag yna dyro
i'r claf i'w yfed hyd ymhen y nawpryd yn unig ddiod, yna
cymmer y melged a thynn ef drwy ymenyn a phylor melottai,
a dyro i'r claf i'w gymmeryd hyd ymhen nawpryd, ag iach
y bydd, trwy Dduw, Amen. A da iawn yw'r feddyginiaeth
rhag y cryd tridiau.
RHAG Y CRYD A'R MWYTH.
§ 149. Cymmer ddyrnaid o gellesg y naint, a jjj chwart
o gwrw da cadarn, a phwva'u dda'r gelle:<g, a berw ef yn y
cwrw hyd ues elo'r tri yn un, ag yna hidla ef, a chymmer
werth ceiniog o rawn paradwys pyloraid a berw yr ail waith
yn ysgon, a rhann ar bedwar dydd o flaen y cryd, ag iach
y byddi.
120 MED1)Y(J0N MYDDIAI.
RHAG DOLUR O'R TU MEWN YR HON A ELWIR Y LLECH.
§ 150. Cynirncr y Ilysseu a elwir y dodded felen, a dyfant
mevvn gweunydd ag ar fynyddau yn grafangog ar y llawr,
ai flodeuyn glas diffaith a fydd arno, cynnuU or llysiau
hynny lonaid dy gyccwll, a phwya 'nhwy'n fan mewn mail
brenu faAvr, a chynimer y gymmain arall o ferw y fFynonau,
a pliwya'n ffest y rheini, a chymmer geiliog coch, a lladd ef,
a phlufia, a thynn ei fysgar lieibio, a gwna ef yn ddigon glan
a dod riiewn crochan pres i ferwi a dwr glan ynddo
gymaint a dau alwyn o'r lleia, a berw y ceiliog yn
y dwr a'r llysiau, hyd nas del yr esgyrn o liano ag yna
tynu i'r llawr, a thynn yr esgyrn o liano yn Uwyr, a
bwrw y cig yn y croclion ju* eilwaitli am ben y llyssau, a
berw yr ail waitli vn ffest, hvd nes ijwelech vn mvned vn
dew, ag yu britli goUi y berwad gan ei dewed, ag yna tynn
i'r llawr, a chymmer liain cadarn ag ystraena yn Ian oil y
gyd a'r cig, a ffrwytli hwnnw a ddel trwy'r lliain dod ar y
tan, yna cymmer wertli diniai o bybyr pyloraid a bwrw yn
y llynn hwnnw yn frwd, wedyn tynn ef i lawr i oeri ai
gymysg yn dda tra oero, a rho i'r claf ar ei fwyd ag ar ei
ddiod bob pryd hyd nes gweler y clefyd yn toddi ag yn
rhedeg trwyddo : ag yn wir mi ai profais ar fach a mawr o
dd^-nion, a hwnn a elwir glas gyflaith y llech.
O BYDD DYN WEDI HWYDDO WENWYN CORNIORYN.
§ 151. Cymmer naw ewin garllcg, a phila'n Ian, a chym-
mer Iwyaid o driagl, a banner chwart o gwrw newydd
cadarn, a chymysg a rheini a dyro i'r claf i yfed lawn ddiod
o hano, a dod ddigon o ddillad arno bed nes hwyso, or trig
y ddiod un awr yn ei gorph ped fae mannau duon arno hwy
a'n allan, ac fe a ddianc, a da r feddyginiaeth honn i ddyn a
frathwyd gan neidr.
MEDDYGON MYDDFAI. 121
RHAG HWYDD A DOLUR GWARR DYN, NEU GERN A BON
Y CLUSTIAU.
§ 152. Cymmer y melyiiUys a gwraidd y fFuncl cochon, a
phennau cennin, a gwin coch, ag ymenyn, au pwyo nhwy
ynghyd, au rlioi wrtlio yn blasder yn oer, ag iach y byddi
di yn wir trwy help Duw.
RHAG CKACH A RHASGLACH AR GNAWD DYN.
§ 153. Cy miner y melynllys, a gwraidd raarchalan, a
suran y coed, a berw hwynt mewn a annont ynddo o ddwr
hyd nes el dan ei hanner, ag a'r llynn hwnnw golcli y
clwyf, ag iach a fydd ; profedig yw.
RHAG GWAYW YN Y CEFN.
§ 154. Gollvvng waed ar gefn y droed ym mron y bawd,
a chorda'r esgair wedi ei thymdvvyra a dwfr twym, ag
iach a fydd yu wir.
RHAG GWAYW IDDYW YN YR ESCEIREDD AG YN YR
AELODAU.
§ 155. Cymmer y llyssau a elwir corn y carw, a berw
mewn tri galwyn o ddwr nes el yu bottel, ag yna rhoi galwyn
gwrw am ei benn, ai berwi nes el yn bottel yr ail waith, ai
hidlo, ai gadw mewn lie glan, ag ira'r gwayvv yn dra
mynych, ag iach y bydd,
RHAG Y TOSTEDD AI WEWVR.
§ 156. Cymmer y gromil cochon, eraill ai geilw y tor-
maen, ar perllys, au pwyo ynghyd, au berwi trwy fel a hen
gwrw, a hidla yn Ian, ag ^f nos a bore, ag iach a fyddi yn
enw Duw.
R
122 MEDDYGON MYDDFAI.
RHAG DOLUll Y CLUSTIAU.
§ 157. Cymmer faccou yr ynn, craill ai geilw allweddauV
ynn, a berw yn flfest mewn dvvr y claf, ag 'itsl't dolur, a dod
ar wlan du yn y clustiau, ag iach y bydd trwy Dduw.
RHAG Y CLEFYD MELYN.
§ 158. Cymmer afal, y mwyaf a ellir ci gael, a thor ei
lygad yn grwn o hono, a thynn ymaitli galon yr afal a
llwyar asgwru neu brenn, a llanw a sudd yr aspygan, a eilw
eraill llygaid y dydd, a saffar, yna dod y llygad yn ol yn ei
le drachefn, yna dod i bobi yr afal dan y lludw, a plian
ddigono cymmer allan oV lludw, a pliwya of yn iyttan, a
dyro Tr claf i fwytta, ag yn wir iach a fydd.
RHAG CLEFYD Y GALON.
§ 159. Cymmer risg y duddrain, a chraf yr uchaf ymaith,
a berw y rliisg gAvynn mewn dwr yn ferwad cig eidon, a
chwedi liynn berw wi'n galed, a chymmer y melyn a chaun
gwenith, a chymysg y melyn liynn a'r cann yn dda, a
chymmer draian y liynn lie berwaist y rhisg, ag o ftrwyth
y cann ar melyn wi, a gwna fara o honynt, a chras ar faen
aelwyd, ai fwytta nos a bore, a gwilio nad yfoV claf o un
ddiod arall ond y liynn lie y rhisg yn berwi ynddo, neu win
coch, ag iach y bydd. — Philip Feddyg.
RHAG LLEWYGON YNGHYLCH Y GALON.
§ 160. Cymmer sudd y ffenigl a mel, mesur am fesur, a
berw hyd nes el yn galed, a bwytta maint wy gar nos a bore,
ag iach a fyddi. — P. Feddyg.
MEDDYGON MYDDFAI. 123
RHAG BOLA CALEB.
§ 161. Cymmer ddwy Iwyaid o sudd dail y celyn, ai yfed
dair ^waith yn y dydd, hcd pen y naw diwarnod, a^ iacli y
byddi trwy Dduw.
RHAG CYLLA GWLYB.
§ 162. Cymmer wraidd y cennin, a gwHa"*!! bylor drwy
grasu hirbell o flaen y tan ai fortyru, a chymmer Iwyaid
o'r pylor liynny mewn llwnc da o win coch, ag yf yn
ddiwetha'r nos dwyawr ar ol bwyd adiod dros dri niwarnod,
ag iach a fy ddi trwy Dduw ag Amen.
RHAG YSGEFEIN.
§ 163. Cymmer y tri llysewyu a enwir yma, nid amgen
y llysau llwydon, gystlys, sef y tansi, a ffenigl coclion, a
digon y\v llonaid Haw o'r tri llysewyn, au pwyo'n dda, au
gwneuthur yn ddiod drwy hen gwrw da ag iachus, yna ei
berwi ar dan araf, ai liidlo yn lau, ai yfed yn oer driphryd,
ag efe a dyrr y gwayw a fydd dan y balfais ar ysgwydd,
trwy Dduw, ag iach y bydd.
Modd arall ai gwneir, sef pwyoV llysiau yn fan, a dodi
triphryd o'r cwrw, neu o hen fedd da ar y llysiau briw, a
gwedi y safo felly banner awr yn oer, ei hidlo'n galed drwy
liain glan, ai roi'n dri diod pen bob teirawr i'r claf, a thrwy
Dduw ef ai iacha.
EIJ RHAG FOB RHYW ^yAY^y.
§ 161". Cymmer flodau'r banadl, a phan na bo'r blodau, y
dail a'r esgarcdd, a phricllau, a gwraidd y cegyr niawr, a
dail y morgelyn, a'r llysiau llwydon, a gwraidd y tafol
cochon, a mortyra nhwy yn dda, a gwna eli a hwynt drwy
ynicnyn, a^' ira'r dolur yn fynych, air iach a fydd.
124 MEDDYGON MYDDFAI.
UHAG TODDI YR AFU.
§ 165. Cymmer ychydig o'r dinllwyd, sef y tansi gwyllton,
a phwya nhwy'n dda gyda gwin, a liidUi'ii galed, ag yf dri-
phryd y dydd dros dri diwaruod, a tlii a fyddi iach, trwy
Dduw.
Lie na bo gwin cymmer gwrw cadarn iachus, neu fedd
iachus a chadarn yn ei le.
Tafod yr ych a dynn ymaith y lliw coch ond ei bwyo"*!!
dda am benn gwin ai yfed, ag ef a bair i ddyn fod yn dda ei
gof ai synwyr, twyra a sych, yn wir.
RHAG SYCHED AR DDYN CLAF NEU IACH.
§ 166. Cymmer y gaurliif, eraill ai geilw ysgol Fair, a
phwya gyda dwr twym ai hidlo, a plian fo''n oer ei yfed, a
hwn a wna les i'r ddwyfron a^* cylla lie bo Uosgfan mawr,
ag a iacha'r claf.
RHAG DOLUR AR DRAED, A HWYDD YN YR ESGAREDD.
§167. Cymmer wraidd y greflys fawr, a tliynn y rhisg
ymaith, ag yna berw yn dda, a chwedyn mortyra^n dda
gyda hen floneg, a dod ef yn blasdcr ar y dolur.
RHAG Y SYCHBILEN AR LYGAD DYN.
§ 168. Cymmer ddail y syfi (eraill ai geilw dail y mefys,)
cochon, a phwya nhwy am benn bloneg gar ag ymenyn
gwyryf, ag ira dy lygaid pan elecli i gysgu, ag fe a^- menyn
yn dy lygaid, ag iach a fyddant trwy Dduw.
ARALL.
§ 169. Cymmer floneg gar, ag ymenyn gwyryf, ag
ycbydig clyf pyloraid, a berw ychydig arnynt, a gad oeri,
yna elia dy lygaid pan elech i gysgu.
MEDDYGOX MYDDFAI. 125
RHAG GLOESON AR DDYN.
§ 170. Cymmer sudd j ceuin, a mel, a phybyr pyloraid,
ag aesel, a ])hwya'n dda oni bo'n ardymmerus, a rho i'r claf
yu dair diod, a iach a fydd.
RHAG Y CYLLWST A'R TOSTEDD, A DOLUR HEFYD YN YR
ARFFEO.
§ 171. Cymmer ddau ddyrnaid o lysiau'r taiic, a'u pwyo
mewn mortyr yn fol, yna eu berwi mewn dwr ffynoii ferwad
cig eidion ag yna byddant yn myned yn dew, gwedi bynny
berw blawd haidd yn wyneb y berw, ai gymysgu'n dda, yna
tynn cf i lawr a dod ef ar frethyn neu wlanen wrtb y clwyf
ym mlaen ag yn ol, a mynycb arfer y plasder bwn hyd ym
mhen nawpryd, ag yna cymmer ddau gwart o win rhwn, a
chwart o'r distyll bendigaid (sef yw hynny y cyfeiti,) a
dyro yn y gwin cydwymed ag y gallo y claf ei yfed, ag
nag yfed un ddiod yn dwymaf ag y gallo a'r distyll yn oer
yn gyntaf bob liwyr a bore, ag arfer felly tra pharliiio y
llyn, hefyd gyda'r pethau hyun cymmer gig myhareu, a
berw ef mewn dwr ffynon ferwad mawr, ag yna tynn i'r
llawr, y cig allan, a'r dwr i oeri, a cliymmer y wyneb oddiar
y dwr a gwna yn belen, a thawdd y gwer hwnuw, a berw ef
am benn peth o'r distyll onid elo''n eli ar dan araf, a chaead
annianc ar y llestr ai berwer ynddo, ag ira'r dolur a'r eli
hynny ym mlaen ag yn ol. A cliymmer fara gwenith eras
odyn, neu yn lie hynny bara gwenith eras dafell, a chig
myharen yn fwyd, ag na cliymmer un rhyw arall o fwyd
yn hir o amser, ag arfer o hyn ag iach a fyddi ; namque yn
wir fe brofwyd yn wir.
RHAG LLOSG ER EI FOD AR GYMMALAU A GWYTHI.
§ 172. Cymmer y marchredyn, eraill ai geilw y rhedyn
mawr, a chymmer sudd y gwraidd gwedi crafu yr uchaf
I*i0 MKDDYGON MYDDFAI.
ymaith, a gwynn \vi, a cliymysg y sudd aV gwynn wi, a
dod cf ag asgell ar y dolur iios a bore, ag iach a fydd.
I SUGNO ASGWRN DYN NEU NEFAIL.
§ 1 73. Cymmer y chwerfwr, a elwir yn y Lladin cwcwmbri,
a llysiau Mair, a phybyr mewn gwin, ag yf hwnn naw pryd
yn wag ag iach y byddi, yn wir.
RHAG DOLUR BRONX AU.
§ 174. Cymmer y grcflys, y griswil fawr a hen floneg, a
mortyra hwynt yn dda, a gosod wrth y dolur, a hwnnw a
dymhera yn gynta, a thrannocth cymmer yr henlydan, a
llonaid maneg o griban Mair, a berw hwynt hyd dan y
hanner a gosod ar frethyn neu wlanen, a dod wrtho pan el i
gysgu, a rlio iddi gwppanaid o win, a hi a gaifF y nattur y
uos hono. i. h. u. y.
RHAG PRYFAID AR GNAAVD DYN.
§ 175. Cymmer y rhuw, a phwya nhwy'n fan, a chymmer
y llysiau mewn lliain main a rhigl y cnawd, a hwy a
fyddant feirw, a da yw hynn rhag chwys tawdd ar ddyn
yr hwnn ai gwanhaa ef yn ddirfawr.
ELI RHAG POB CROEN TWN.
§ 176. Cymmer y meddygyn meniw, a glessyn y coed, a
llwyn hidir, a llydain y ffordd, a'r geidwad ddof, gogymaint o
bob un, a mortyra nhwy'n fFest, a chymmer fenyn hcb halen
ai ferwi trwyddo nes darftb'r ymenyn, a berwi'r llysiau, ai
hidlo yn Ian, a gosod mewn blwch, ag a hwn elio pob croen
twn.
LLYMA ELI I DYNNY SUGN ALLAN WAELOD NERTH ELI.
§ 177. Cymmer y meddygyn meniw, a llysiau llwydon,
a'r gaswcnwyn, yr hwn a elwir dail y bcrglasar, ar erllyriad.
MEDDYGON MYDDFAI. 127
yr hwn a elwir Uydaii y ffordfl, a dail yr arhocas, a'u
mortyru''n dda, yna cymmcr ymcnyn lieb halcn, ag ycliydig
o gwyr melyn newydd a rliosin, a gwer magyn llwyd, a
berwa'n dda yngliyd, ag cf a ddaw fFrwyth y llysiau fr
ymenyn, gwcr, cwyr, a"'r rhosin, a hidla'n Ifm trwy liain, a
gosod mcwn bhvch, a hwnnw a dynn dam o waclod pob
twnn, ag iacli fydd.
Tri thorr croen sydd ar ddyn ni ddyly meddyg ymhyrru a
hwynt, nid aingen pilennod yr ymhennydd, yr ail, twn ar
golydd dyn, yn drydydd, gwysigen y dwr ; sef nid oes ond
eu gadael i Dduw, ag ymiachau yn lied fynych a Avnant, fel
an gwelir ar wyr o dwn yn rhyfel, ag nis dylit na bwyd na
diod namyn llefrith a llaetli bronnau i'r neb a gaffont dwn
yn un o'r tri cliroen hynny.
RHAG PRYFED YN Y CYLLA.
§ 178. Gwna bylor o'r erfin drwy eu tafellu a'u crasu o
flaen y triu, yna eu malu, a dyro i'r claf i fwytta yn oer ar
gylla gwag naw bore, neu hyd ben y nawpryd cyfenw, ag
efe a fydd iach.
RHAG BRATH NEIDR.
§ 179. Cymmer sydd llydan y ftbrdd, a sudd y ganwraidd
las, ag eliw oliwydd, gymaint tra chymaint, a dyro Iwngc
syched o bono i'r claf, ac ira 'r dolur ag ef, a hwnn a
ddinistra ''r gwenwyn, ag iach y bydd.
ARALL RHAG BRATH NEIDR.
§ 180. Cymmer ymhennydd ceiliog coch, a sydd y rhed
yr hwn a elwir tafod yr bydd, a"'u mortyru 'n ffest, a
chymysg hwynt yn dda a gwin gwynn neu lefrith, a yfed y
claf ei lawn Iwnc sych, a golched y dolur ag ef, ag iach fydd
trwy Dduw.
128 MEDDYf.'ON M^nDFAI.
RIIAG WYXEB YSBLOTTOG.
§ 181. Ira ef a gwaed tarw, neu a gwaed ysgyfarDog.
RHAG HWYDD MEWN GLINIAU NEU GYMMALAU DYN.
§ 182. Oymmer ysgol Fair, a elwir y ganri goch, a mor-
tyra yn dda, yna gwasg yn dda drwy ddwr mewn lliain
glan, a dyro i'r claf i yfed.
RHAG TRA SYCHED.
§ 183. Cymmer ysgol Fair, ag ychydig o belydr y mynydd,
a'u mortyru'n dda, yna eu gwasgu am ben brecci du o
frag barlys, neu 'rhoi mewn llestr pridd i sefyll hyd tran-
noeth yn y brecci, ac yna ei roi i'r claf i yfed y bore, a
hwunw a dyrr y syched yn wir.
RHAG HWYDD O'R TU MEWN TR CORPH.
§ 184. Cymmer eirin a berw mewn llaeth geifr, a phan y
bo yn oer, dyro i'r claf i'w yfed y bore, aV nos yn hwyra y
gellych.
RHAG RHWYSTR PISO A LLOSGFA MEWN GWIALEN GWR
NEU WRAIG.
§ 185. Cymmer yniheunydd ysgyfarnog, a dyro mewn
gwin gwynn sur, a rlioi i'r claf i yfed.
RHAG Y MARCH WRIAINT.
§ 186. Cymmer ufelfaen, a mal e'n fan, a chyramer wer
eidion, a gwraidd y tafol, a berw y gwer a'r gwraidd, a plian
y bo e''n oeri cymmer yr ufelfaen pyloraid, a cbymysg am
benn y gwer hynny gymaint o bono ag a wnelo'r eli'n galed
ddigon, a hwnnw a ladd y gwriaint, yn wir.
MEDDYGON MYDDFAI. 129
RHAG GWAYW YN Y PENN.
§ 187. Pwy benna gaffo wayw yn ei benn yn fy nych,
gwnaed leisvv a'r dderweii fondigaid, a chribau sanffrcd, a'r
gamri, ac ychydig o'r fi'unel cochon, a golched ei ben dair
gwaith yn yr wytlinos a hwnnw, a bydd iach.
RHAG BYDDERI CLUSTIAU.
§ 188. Cynimer ddwr niyharen, a saeni llysywen, a'r
fyddarllysg, a sydd cudd y coed, a wi wrth ei dwymo, au
cymysg ynghyd a'i fwrw yn y clust ar y dolur bob ychydig,
a iach y bydd.
ELI AT HEN YSSIG.
§ 3 89. Cymmer ddyrnaid da o ddail iorwg, pwya nhwy'n
dda ynghyd a thorn geifr a nienyn ffres, au maeddu yng
nghyd yn dda, a dod yn blaster wrth yr yssig, ag iach y
bydd. "
RHAG DOLUR PENN AR DDYN,
§ 190. Cymmer lysiau'r gerwyn, a phwya nhwy'n dda
gydag aesel a gwin coch, a dod yn blaster wrth dalcen y claf.
Yr hwn ni chymmero fwyd pan fo arno ei chwant, ei
gylla a leinw a gwynt ag afiachwst, yr hynn a bair gwayw
yn y penn, a chymmeryd bwyd sycli o fara gyda chig
myhareu hallt a'i gwna'n iach.
RHAG POB CYFRYW WAYW.
§ 191. Cymmer dalm o flodau'r banadl, a gelesg, a phri-
ellau, a dyrnaid o wraidd y dynaid cochon, a gwraidd y
bymystl yr hwn a clwir y cegyr mawr, a dail y morgelyn, a
dail llydain y ffordd a f o a had arnynt, a chwart o had, au
cymysgu, au pwyo'n fiil ag yn dda drwy ymenyn gwyra^
s
130 MEDDYGON MYDDFAI.
au borwi drwy'r ynicnyn yn ffest, ai hidlo drwy liain gli'm,
a'i osod incwn blwch i gadw yn gaeedig, ag eli gwerthfawr
yw rliag jiob cyfriw wayw.
I LADD PRYFED YNG NGHYLLA DYN, PA RAI NI ADANT NA
BWYD NA DIOD liEB EI A\ IlTinVYXEBU.
§ 192. Cymmer y llysiau a elwir llysiau'r mel, a pliwya
nhwy'n dda am benn gwin gwynn, a thwymo ychydig arno,
a rho i'r claf i yfed yn wag y bore hyd ym mhen tri bore,
a iacli y bydd.
RIIAG DOLUR YN Y CEFN, NEU WAYW CLUN.
§ 193. Cymmer y llysewyn a elwir clust y llygoden, a
phwya ef yn dda, ai ferwi gydag yraenyn, ai hidlo yn Ian, ag
ira'r cefn yngwres y tan ag ef, ag iach y bydd.
RIIAG TRAUL YR AFU.
§ 194. Cymmer wraidd y felottai, a had anis, a chribau
sanffred, a marchalan, au pwyo"'u dda gyda brecci du, neu
win gwynn, ai hidlo'n Ian ai yfed y bore a'r nos, nes peidioV
dolur, a tlirwy Dduw y cei iachad.
I WELLA GOLYGON A FONT WEDI TYWYLLU.
§ 195. Cymmer sugn y ffunel cochon, a sugn y melynllys,
a sugn llysiau'r wennol, ag ychydig wiuegr neu aesel, a
gwaed llysoweu, a *bustl ceiliog, au cymysgu ynghyd, au
dodi mewn llestr glan hyd pan flodeuo, a chymmeryd y
gloywon ai roddi i'r dyn i fwrw yn ei olygon gwcdi y coUo
ei olwg, ag, medd y gelfyddyd, yn wir wedi y collo ef ai
caiff eilwaith.
RHAG GWAYW IDDIW A'R HWYDD.
§ 196. Cymmer wraidd y rhedyn, a raortyra'n dda, a
chymysg cf ag ychydig tldwr twym, a niaedd ef ath law yn
MEDDYGON MYDDFAI. 131
gymysgcdig, a, gwcdi liynny Iiidla'n wasgedig drwy liain, a
gwna'ii blaster gyda blawd liaidd a gwynn wi, a thynn ef ag
ysbavvd ar gadach brethyii, a dod wrth y dolur.
RHAG FOB CLWYF AR LYGAD. AG YN ENWEDIG MAGLAU
NEU WYBREN.
§ 197. Cymmer y tanclys gwyllt iicu'r dof, a bcrw mewn
gwin gwynn yn dda hyd nyd elo ffrwyth y llysiau yn y
gwin, ag yna tyn i'r llawr, a hidla'n Ian, a gad i ocri ag i
loywi, ag yna cymmer y dwr gloywa o bono, a dod ynddo
gamftyr gwynn, a gad ci doddi yn y llynn^ a cbymnicr
ycbydig o'r llynn a dod ar dy lygad, a pliaryw glwyf
bynnag a fo ar lygaid, ef ai gyrr bwy yn iach ; profedig y w,
racdd Aristobolis.
RHAG GWAYW YN Y CYLLA.
§ 198. Cymmer ycbydig o'r tanclys, a phylora'n fan, a
dod win gwynn yn ddiod, ag yf ef, a tbi a fyddi iacb.
ARALL.
§ 199. Cymmer ycbydig o'r tanclys, ag o lysiau'r corpb,
a berwa nhwy'n dda gyda balen, a bwyta nbwy yn fynycli
gan ymprydio, ag iach y byddi.
RHAG CRIP AR BEN DYN YN HWYDDO GWEDI GAEL CWYMP.
§ 200. Cymmer uncyn o balen gwineu, a tbri uncyn o
fel crai, ag uncyn o gwmin, a dau uncyn o dwrpant, a
cbymysg y rhain yn dda ar y tan, a gwedi bynny tj-nn ar
liain a gwna blaster, a rbo wrtli y penn yn dwym, a bynn a
dynn yr bwydd a'r yssig, ag iach y byddi ; na ddoder na
gliw, na gwer, na saem o unrhyw ba bennag mewn plaster,
a ddoder wrth y penn.
132 MEDDYGON MYDDFAI.
RHAG ECHRYN YM MRYST GWRAIG.
§ 201. Cymmer ddail y cegiJ, ai briwo'n fan ai berwi
gyda ymenyn newyd ar dan araf mewn padell, ai osod mor
dwym ag y gallo hi ei oddef -wrtli ci bryst ar frethyn gwynn,
ag iach y bydd ; neu ef a ellir pwyo'r dail yn fal gydag
ymenyn newydd, neu liw'r eliwydden, ai wneuthur yn blaster
ar frethyn gwynn, ai dwymo mor frwd ag y gellir ei oddef, ai
osod wrth y bryst.
RHAG Y CANCAR YN Y GENAU.
§ 202. Cymmer bannald o win neu glared, a brigyn«o
rosmari, a berw hwy ynghyd, a do ddryll o elyf gymaint a
chneuen, a llwyaid o fel, a dwy Iwyaid o ddwr, au cym-
ysgu'n dda, a golchi'r genau yn fynych, ag iach y bydd.
I WNEUTHUR GWALLT YN AUR FELYN.
§ 203. Cymmer risel y rhywbarb, a dod e mewn gwin
gwynn, a golcli dy benn ag e, a sych e a lliain main glan,
wedyn sych dy benn wrth y tan neu yn yr haul o bydd
tesog ; gwlych dy benn drachefn, a sych e'r un modd ag o'r
blaen, a pha fyuychaf y gwnelech yn llynn teccaf y bydd y
gwallt heb wneuthur cam a'r penn un amser.
I DYNNU MANNAU ODDIAR DDWYLAW A FONT AVEDI BRYCHU.
§ 204. Cymmer sudd y dringol i gydag ychydig o halen
gwinau, golch dy ddwylaw, a gad nliwy i sychu oi'u nattur
eu hunain, a golch trwyddo eilwaith, a tin a gai weled yr
hoU frychau a'r mannau yn auymddangos, ag y mae'r
cyfarwyddyd hyn yn dda rhag y wiffer a'r tarddiant yn wir.
I WYBOD PUN AI BYW NEU FARW Y BYDD DYN CLAF.
§ 205. Cyniuicr laeth bronuau y bo mab yn ou sugno, a
chyiumei- ddwr y claf, a bwrw y llaeth wrth ben dy fys am
MEDDYGON MYDDFAI. 133
ben y dwr, ag os ar yr wyneb y trig y llaeth, bvw ty<lil y
claf, OS i'r gwaelod yr n, marw y bydd yn wir.
ARALL.
§ 206. Cymtncr flodau llygaid y dydd, a phwya nlnvy'n
dda am beiin gwin, a dyro i'r claf i yfed, ag 03 ci fwrw a
wna, ef a fydd farw o'r clwyf hyiiny, os peidio a wna, bydd
fyw, a hynn a brofwyd yn wir.
RHAG LLOSG TAN.
§ 207. CymmCT* wrciddiau'r rhedyn, a phwya'u dda am
ben ymenyn, ai roi'n blaster vvrth y dolur, ag fc a dyrr y
Uosfan.
RHAG GWAYW GWYLLT YN Y PEN.
§ 208. Cymmer ddail ffion tfritli, a phwya nhwy am ben
Uefrith a gwer dafad ynyd el yn blaster, a rlio mor dwym
ag y gellir ei oddef wrtli y pen.
ARALL FODD AI GWNEIR.
§ 209. Cymmer ryunion blavvd ceirch, a dail ffion ffrith a
gwer dafad, a llefritli, a phwya nhwy ynghyd yn dda ouid
cl yn blaster, a dod ar dan hyd oui thwymo, a dod wrth y
penn yn blaster mor dwym ag y gellir ci oddef ; da y w yn
wir.
RHAG Y FRECH GNAPPOG.
§ 210. Cymmer arian byw, ag eliw twrpant, a phlwm
gwynn, a choprys glas, a bloneg moch, au toddi ynghyd yn
eli, a chymysgn yn dda er lladd yr arian byw, carthu'r hen
a dodi'r uewydd, a chymmer yn ddiod i beri iddi darddu i
macs, pubur hirion a thriagl uiewn gwin seg.
134 MEDDYGON MYDDFAI.
RHAG Y FRECH FAWR.
§211. Cyramcr wcrth dwy geiniog o eliw twrpant, a gwcrtli
dwy geiniog o cliw bae, gwertli cliwcch clieiniog o arian
byw, gvverth dwy geiniog o'r gwm a elwir mastig, gwertli
dwy geiniog o rwd gwyrdd a elwir ferdigrw, gwertli dwy
geiniog o goprys glas, gwertb ceiniog o gamffyr, gwerth
ceiniog o elyf, gwerth ceiniog o losgfaen pyloraid, ag ob* o
rosin, pwys o floncg moch, pwys o blwm gwynn os bydd y
claf yn wlyb, cymysg liwy ynghyd, ag elia'r claf, profedig
yw.
ELI ARALL RHAG Y FRECH FAWR.
§ 212. Cymmer bunt o floneg twrch neu fadd i wr, os
gwraig bloneg hwcb, a banner pwys o'r ystor a elwir tus
g^vedi ei bwyo''n dda, ag wncyn o arian byw, banner wncyn
^ S^prys gwynn, wncyn o rwd gwyrdd, ag ycbydig o elyf
lieb ei losci, ag ob o losgfaen pyloraid, pwya nbwy ngbyd
yn dda fal nad adwaenir un oddiwrth y Hall, ag elia'r claf;
profedig yw.
ELI TYF RHAG FOB CROEN TWN.
§ 213. Cymmer y feddygen fenyw, a llwyn bidydd, a'r
geidwad ddof, a glessyn y coed, yr un gymaint o bob un ai
gilydd, mortyra nhwy'n dda, a berw nliwy drwy fenyn mai
heb lialen, gwedi hynny liidla drwy liain main, a dod i
gadw mewn blwcli, ag ira'r dolur ag efc a iacluia, os bydd
cig marw yn y dolur, cymmer ycbydig elyf, neu goprys
glas, neu fercbur coch pyloraid, ai gymysgu a pheth o'r eli,
a bwnnw a fwytty*'r cig marw, ac iacliau a wna.
RHAG DEFAID AR DDWYLO NEU DRAED DYN.
§ 214. Cais fwydon y ddaear, a phwya gyda mcnyn liallt
neu ffres, a gwna blaster o lionynt, a dod ar y man lie bo''r
dcfaid, a bwnnw au diwreidda bwynt.
* 01)ulus, cfallai ; gwcrtli dimai.
MEDDYGON MYDDFAI. 135
RHAG DAFADEN.
215. Cymmer lysywen, a thorr ei phen hi, ag iraV
Jwylaw, neu''r lie bo y defaid, a'r gwaed a ddel o heni, a
chladd y penn wcdi liyiiny ymhcll yn y ddacar, ag fel y bo
y peun yn pydru, felly y bydd y defaid yn darfod.
RHAG DRAEN NEU SAETH A EL MEWN DYN AG NA ELLIR
EI DVNNcJ ALLAN.
§ 216. Cais wraidd yr ysgall garw neu eu dail, a gwynn
wi, a chymysg ynghyd, a rlio wrtlio, ag efe au tynn.
RIIAG Y WAEDLING NEU FRATH.
§ 21 7. Cylyma fys bach y dyn ag efe a ettail y gwaedu.
RHAG CNOAD CI CYNDDEIRIOG.
§ 218. Cais bricllau, a phwya uhwy, a chymysg a llaeth,
a rho i'r claf i yfed yn unig ddiod dros nawnydd, yn
liidledig drwy liaiu main, eraill a ferwaut y priellau am ben
Uefritli, ai hidlo dan wasg, ai roi'n ddiod hyd ym mlien y
nawfed dydd i'r claf, ag yfed a alio, heb amgen o fwyd a
died.
I BERI I WRAIG BLANTA.
§ 219. Cais lynger ysgyfarnog, ai harennau, a pheth oV
gwaed, a tlirwy wynebion yr isgell y berwer y cig, eu
maeddu, a dod ynddo banner wncyn o rawn paris yn bylor-
aid, ag ychydig o win gwynn main, a rliodder liynn iddi
pan cl i wcly, a hi a fydd gyflawn o anian naturiol.
RHAG BREUDDWYDO TRWY GWSG.
§ 220. Cymmer y dderwen fendigaid, a chrog am fwnwgl
y dyn, neu rho iddo eu sudd hwynt i yfed wrth fyned i
gysgu, ag efe a baid a breuddwydo.
13G MEDDYGON MYDDFAI.
I LADD PRYFYN MEWN DANT.
221 . Cvmmer wraidd y felenydd a thorr yn ddrylliau, a
rho dau ddant y claf dair nos, ag of a ladd y pryfyn.
RIIAG POB RHYW GRACH A THARDDANT AR GROEN DYN.
§ 222. Cynimer wynwyn a briwa uliwy mewn dwr neu
aesel, ag a hwnnw golch y lie dolurus, a hwn a ddifa grach
y pen, a phob tarddant arall a fo ar y corph.
RHAG DADWRDD YN Y PEN, YR HYNN SYDD YN
RHWYSTKO CLYWED.
§ 223. Cymmer ben o arlleg gwedi oi bilio, a phricca dri
neu bedwar o dyllau yn ei ganol, a throcli ef mewn mel, a
rlio ef yn y clust, a dod wlan du yn y clust ar ei ol ef, a
chysced ar yr ystlys arall bob nos, a gad i sefyll seithuos
neu wytli heb ei symmud, ag fe dyrr y llysnafedd o'r trwyn,
ag fe gaiff y claf ei gly wed.
PLASTER ANENBYD WRTH BOB HWYDD.
§ 224. Cais liufen llaeth, ag yn nifFyg liufen, llefrith ffres,
a rlio mewn llestr ar y tan, a bywyn bara cann a cliwyr, ag
ychydig o fel, a plian fo wedi berwi ym mronn digon, rho
amcan o wer manllwyu ynddo i doddi, ac amcau o eliw
gliwyddcn. Os bydd gwres mawr yn yr liwydd, rhoer
gwynn wi ynddo, a chymysg yn dda, a rlio wrtli yr liwydd.
PLASTER I DORRI GWAYW, A GWYNNIAU, A PHOETHFANT.
§ 225. Cais lefritb buwcli unlliw os cei, a blawd ceirch, ag
ychydig o wer llwdn dafad, a dyruaid o'r ferllysc, au pwyo"'n
dda, au berwi ynghyd yn dda, ai roi yn glaiardwym wrth y
dolur, !ig cfe a wna Ics iddo vu ebrwydd.
MEDDYGON MYDDFAI. 137
I DYNNU IIWYDD BLE BYNNAG Y BO.
§ 226. Cymraer sudd llydan y ffordd, a gwynn wiau, a
mel puredig, a fflwr haidd, an cymysgu yngliyd, ai ddodi yii
blaster wrth yr livvydd ; profedig yw.
ARALL I DYNNU HWYDD.
§ 227. Cais sudd y glerllysg, a gwynn wYau, a mel, a
fflwr gwenith neu haidd, a dod yn blaster wrth y dolur, ag
iach y bydd.
I DYNNU HWYDD A GWYN.
§ 228. Cyinmer flawd rliyg, a gwynn Wiau, a sudd llydain
y ffordd, a dod yn blaster wrth y dolur, ac ira ef a mol, ag
iach y bydd trwy Dduw, a lie bo achos, gwneuthur felly ail
a thrydydd waith.
I DYNNU HWYDD.
§ 229. Cymmer ddail y ffion ffrith, a gwer manllwyn, a
blawd ceirch a llefrith, ai ddodi yn blaster twym wrtho, ag
iach y bydd.
I DDYRRU CLWYF I GRAWNU, AG I DYNNY Y CRAWN I
WYNEB Y CROEN.
§ 230. Cymmer ddail y ffion ffrith, au pwyo'n gymysg a
gvvin manllwyn a blawd haidd, ai ddodi wrtho yn blaster
twym.
ARALL.
§ 231. Cymmer gaws ffacced trwy gwrw, a llaeth defaid,
au plasio ynghyd.
RHAG WHAIN.
§ 232. Cymmer ddraenog a rhostia ef, a dod lestr i dder-
byn y diferon, a dod y difer hynny ar tfonn, a dod y ffonn
lie bo'r whain, a chymaint ag a fo yn y stafell honno hwy a
ddont atti.
T
138 MEDDYGON MYDDFAI.
RIIAG POB KIIYW WAYW MEWN GLIXIAU, A TFIRAEI), A
BRKICIIIAU, A PHOB RIIYW GYMMAL.
§ 233. Cymmer dalm o flodauV banadl, a blodau'r elestr,
a dail morgelyn, a gwraidd y tafawl cochon, a mortera
nhwy'n dda, a gwna eli o honynt Invy trwy menyn, ag elia
y dolur, ag iach y bydd.
RHAG Y MWYTII PENDDAR, A EL\YIR Y MIGRAN, SEP
GWAYAV NAILL IIANNEROG YN Y PENN.
§ 234. Cymmer ysgyfarnog yn fyvv, a thorr ei phen a
bliiig 111, a berw neu rhostia, yna agor y penn, a chymmer
flodau rhosmari, a phylor oV un, a dod yn y benglog, ai
gweirio, ai bobi neu rostio, a bwytta'r ymhennydd, a chysgu
gyda liynn ; a da yn wir yw ef.
RHAG YR HAINT DIGWYDD, A ELWIR Y FFALMYGWST, AG
YN Y LLADIN EPILEPSIA.
§ 235. Cymmer waed ocn newydd eni heb sugno erioed, a
chymysg a dwy Iwyaid o gwrw da, ag yf hwn yn ymprydiol
dri boreu, a hwn sydd brofedig a rhyfeddod.
I ESTWNG BASSAU A FYDD YN CODI I'R PENN.
§ 236. Cais had cwmim werth ceiniog, had ysnoden Fair
a elwir y glingal, werth dwy geiniog, canel dwy geiniog, a
phylora"'r cyfan yn dda ynghyd, a bwrw ar lynn twym i yfcd,
a da yw.
RIIAG Y WHARREN A'R COWYN.
§ 237 Cais ddyrnaid da oV geidwad gocli, a dyrnaid o
ruw, a dyrnaig o arlleg, au pwyo'n dda mown cwrw cryf neu
win neu fedd da, yna ei hidlo drwy liain main, ai glaiaru ai
yfed yn glaiar, a iach y byddi trwy Dduw.
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UHAG EISTEDDFA DVN YN DALA ALLAN.
§ 238. Cymmer y llysiau a elwir g^vlydd y perthi, sef y
rhai sydd au hadau yn glynu wrth sanau'r sawl a elont i'w
plitli, yn gnappau gymaint a phubur, ar liyd frig y llysieu-
ach, a pliwya nlivvy'n dda, ag yiia cu bcrwi trwy fenyn onid
elont yn eli, au hidlo'n wasgedig, ag aV eli hwunw iro'i'
eisteddfa.
RHAG Y MIGRAN NEU'R MWYTH PENDDAR.
§ 239. Cais ystor tus, a chwyr melyn, a mel, a'u plasio
yng nghyd yn dda, ai ddodi'n blaster wrth y talcen, a da
yw yn wir.
I DDYN BYCHAN A FVTHO WEUI COLLI NERTH EI
AELODAU.
§ 240. Nid hwyracli nad o wendid cefn y coUodd efe
nertli ei aelodau, a rhag liynny cymmer eliw twrpant, ac
eliw gliwydden, au cymysg ynghyd ag el'io cefn y dyn
byclian nos a bore, a hynn ai cryfha.
RHAG GWAYW MEWN GLINIAU, A THRAED, A BREICHIAU,
A PHOB CYMMAL.
§ 241. Cais eliw twrpant, ag yraeuyn, a gwer dafad, a
gwer gafr, a g^ver hydd, berw yn dda raewn padell a hidla
drwy liain, ag a hwnnw iro'r dolur yn dda.
RHAG Y PIGYN O WAYW YN DECHREU DAN Y FRAICH, A
THAN Y FRON, A THIiWY YR YSGWYDD ALLAN.
§ 242. Gwna eli drwy hufen tow da, a thafol y own, a
dynaid, a fflastera i ddyrru hwunw i'r croon, a da yw yn
wir.
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RHAG BRATII CI CVNDDEIRIOG.
§ 243. Cymmcr briellau, a phwya'n fal, a liidla'r sudd
drwy wasg caled, a dod am ben llcfrith yn gymysgedig, a
rho'n ddiod i'r claf i yfed, hyd ymhen y naw pryd.
RHAG YR YRWEST, SEP TRYMDER ^YN YR YSGYFF A'R
AELODAU, A SVTHDER YNDDYNT.
§ 244. Gwna eli drwy fenyn, a rhuw, ag ystor tus, a
gwertli tail* ceiniog o'r distyll bcndigaid, ag ymelia dair
gwaith yn yr wythnos dros fis o haf, ag os yn y gauaf aros
mewn ystafell gled, a gochel rhag cael gwaith anwyd.
I DDYN A FO WEDI DYLU.
§ 245. Oymmer gribau sanftred, a berwa mewn chwart o
gwrw da, ag arfer o hwnnw'n ddiod ; a gwych y byddi
yn wir.
I DDYN A FO A GWENDID PEN ARNO, SEF YN GWALL-
BWYLLO.
§ 246. Cais chwart a winegr gwin coch, a banner cymaiut
o sudd y melyullys, au cymysgu ynghyd, ag yn gynta cais
last, a chymmer ddiod trwy ddwr fFynou a chribau santFred
yn bwyedig a hidledig, yn gynta''r boreu ag yn ddiweddaf y
y nos, a berw ar dwym iddo y llysiau i gryfhau y penn, a
gwna wisgon drwy had cywarch, a berw y llysiau arno, a
dod y claf mewn lie ty wyll i gysgu, a da yw yn wir.
RHAG GWENDID PEN A ELWIR MWYTII YR YMIIENNYDD
A'R PENDDAR GWYLLT, YN PEHI GWALLBWYLL, AG A ELWIR
YN LLADIN FFKEXESIS, YN YR HWN NI WYBYDD Y CLAF
DOKAETH AR A DDYWETTO, SEF YW HYNNY GWAITII Y DWR
A FYDD YN Y IAD AR Y'R YMHP:NNYDD YN UERI Y LLE A'R
BILEN WEDI GESTWNG llEB ALLEL CY'SGU Y NOS.
§ 247. Cais had cywarch, au pwyo'n fal nicwn niortyi-
pres, a gwneuthur gwysgon ag of drwy ddwr glan, ai fcrw i
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fal benvi gwysgon arall, a pliylori cruinniaid o had anis a
sinsir inal yngliyd, ai fwrw ar y gwysgon ai roi Vr claf i
yfed bedair gwaith yn y dydd dros iiaw diwarnod, ag arfer
o fwyd gwresog, a diod fain iachuslem, a dod i gysgu mewn
lie tywyll.
RHAG LLOSFAN, A HWYDDAIXT, A GWAYW YN YR AELODAU,
A'R UWYLO, A'R TRAED.
§ 248. Cais ferllysg, a phwya**!! fal, a gwna'u eli drwy
nienyii, ag elia'r dolur ag ef, a da yw yn wir.
RHAG GWALLT YN CWYMPO.
§ 249. Cymmer fenv'r ffynonau, a phwya'n dda, a gwasg
eu sudd, a golch dy benn o hano ai riglo'n dda, neu gym-
meryd y sudd hwnnw, ag iach y byddi.
RHAG Y FAM WYNT.
§ 250. Cais gyfod yn gyntaf, yna cais y llysiau sychon
hynn, sef claw, a mastic, a grawn paris, a phren alws, au
pwyo 'ngliyd yn dda, werth ceiniog o bob un, au bwytta
bob bore yn sychon, a diod trwy'r gwesca weithiau eraill,
I DYNNU ALLAN YR ESGYRN A FO WEDI TORRI MEWN
CLWYF AH BENN DYN.
§ 251. Cymmer gribau sauftVed, a'r dderwen fendigaid, a
rhuw, au pwyo'n dda ynghyd gyda mel a chann gwenith, a
gwynu wi, ai wneutlmr yn blaster, ai ddodi wrth y clwyf.
PLASTER I DYNNU HWYDD.
§ 252. Cais gann haidd, a gwynn wi, a'u cymysgu a'u
dodi wrth y dolur yn blaster.
I DDYN A FO'N GWNEUTHUR EI DDWR YN WAED.
§ 253. Cais ddyruaid o bob un o'r llysiau hynn, sef o'r
perllys, o lydain y fibrdd, ag o bwrs y bugail, au pwyo'n fal,
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au liidlo'd wasgedig drwy fuidd Uaeth geifr, ag yf gwppau-
aid o liano'ii wag bob bore, ag arfer o liynny, a gwycb y
byddi.
RHAG Y DDARWDEN WYLLT.
§ 254. Cais ddail iddwg y ddaear, a dail ffion ffrith, au
pwyo'n dda ynghyd, au bervvi mewn gwaddod surdrwnc, a
gwer eidion neu fanllwyn yn dda, ag yna hidla ef, ag el'ia'r
dolur ag ef oni bo iach.
I BERI CYSGU.
§ 255. Cais had y raorgelyn, a llysiau leuan a elwir yr
orpin, a chymysg a llefrith, a gwna belennau, a dyro iddo
bob yn un, ag ef a gwsg maes o law.
RHAG GWRAIG GWEDI EI LLOSGI GAX WR.
§ 256. Cymmer ariau byw werth dwy geiniog, eliw
gliwydden werth dwy geiniog, camfFyr werth ceiniog, colman
werth ceiniog, plwm gwynn werth ceiniog, coprys glas ob, a
bloneg, ai gymysgu ynghyd ai ddodi ar y dolur.
RIIAG Y FFLAMIDDWYF, YN GYNTA O GOSI Y DECHREU III
DDYFOD, AG I lACHAU AG I DORRI'R COSI.
§ 257. Cais y ferllysg, au pwyo''n fal, au bervvi yn dda mewn
menyn, a bwrw gwcrth ceiniog o sebon du am benn y berw
ai gymysgu yn dda, ai hidlo, ag elio'r dolur uos a bore,
profedig yw. Ag i beri i'r croen dyddu neu fod yn wyn
fal croen arall, cais wisgon ceirch trwy ddwr a blawd ceirch
arno, yn deisen lydan, a hwnnw ai tyf ef yn cbrwydd,
gwedi ei olchi a''r g-vviscon yn gyntaf.
RHAG Y MANWYNON, ERA ILL AI GEILW Y FRECH YN Y
GWAED.
§ 258. Cais cliw gliwydden werth grod, plwm gwynn
wejth dwy geiniog, tus werth ceiniog, coprys glas ob, cwyr
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werth ceiniog, eliw twrpant wertli ceiniog, arian byw gwcrth
tair ceiniog, colman gwerth ceiniog, a Moncg moch wedi ci
doddi, au cymysgu yngliyd, ai ddodi bob ychydig wrth y
dolur, i dynnu'r hen a dodiV newydd,
RIIAG HWYDD A FO YN LLWYFEN G^VDD\VG DYN YN
RIIWYSTRO IDDO DDYWEDYD.
§ 259. Cais floneg moch, a surdrwuc, a bervv ynghyd, a
gwlych wlanen ynddo, a thro ynghylch dy wddwg, ag arfer
o hynn dridiau, ond os cilwrnen a fydd dod menyn wedi ei
buro ar wlanen, ag ef a dynera yn dda, ag a rwystra iddi
grawnu.
PLASTER I ESTWNG HWYDD O WAITII ADWYTH.
§ 260. Cais o"*!* nialw, a'r ganmil, a gwallt y forwyn, a
gwlydd, a llysiau'r gerwyn, au berwi yn dda drwy waelodion
surdrwnc suraf ag a eUir ei gacl, ai ddodi yn blaster wrth y
dolur, a hwu a estwng bob hwydd.
I GADARNHAU'R DANNEDD A'U GWNEUTHUR YN WYNION.
261. Cais farchalau a rhigla dy ddannedd yn dda a nhwy,
hynn au gwna'n gadarn, ag yn wynion, ag yn iachus itti.
RHAG Y FFLAMIDDWYF WEDI TORRI YN DDUGOCH.
§ 262. Cais ddail y morgelyn, a dail y gwern cochon, a'r
ferllysg, a blodau'r banadl gwyrddion, a'r elesg, au pwyo'n
dda, au gwneuthur yn eli drwy ymenyn a sebon du, ag iro'r
dolur air ef, ag iach v bvdd.
RHAG GWYTHIEN A DORRO YN DDAU.
§ 263. Cais ffa neu flawd fifa, a gwer defaid, a berw
ynghyd, a dod fel plaster wrth y dolur, a da yw yn wir.
144 MEDDYGON MYDDFAI.
HIIA(; IIWYDD A *GWY DOLURUS MEWN PWRS NEU
ARENAU DYN.
§ 264. Cais j llyriad mawn, sef llydan y fFordd, a llwyn
hidydd sef y bychan oV erllyriad a elwir astyllynes, a dant
y Hew, a dyrnaid da o fwydynod y ddaiar, y rhai mwvaf
a geflych, a bloneg tew, a dod ynghyd luewn mortyr am
ben eu gilydd, a phwya'n dda fal nas nabydder un oddi
wrth y Hall, a dod yn blaster ocr wrth y dolur ac iach v
bydd ; profedig yw.
I DORRI GWTHNEU.
§ 265. Cais beint o sudd ffunel, ai ferwi gyda plieint o
lei puredig, a cliymmeryd llonaid llwy bob bore yn wag, a'r
nos yu ddiwetliaf hyd ym mhenn y iiaw diwarnod.
I DDYN A FYTHO'N DYWEDYD TRWY EI GWSG.
§ 266, Cymmer beint o sudd cribau sanftrcd, a pheint o
fercris, au cyniysgu ynghyd ai yfed, a liynny a wna les trwy
ddwy (i. 6. trwy Dduw.)
RHAG GIG YN CWYMPO O GYLCH Y DANNEDD.
§ 267. Cais werth dwy geiniog o ddistyll bendigaid, neu
ynteu distyll gwin gwynn, ag aesel gwin gwynn werth dwy
geiniog, au cymysgu ynghyd, a golch dy enau a hwnnw
hyd y parhao.
RHAG Y MANWYNION OS BYDD PRYFED YNDDO.
§ 268. Cais gig ci wedi ei flingo, a thorr e'n dafelli
bychain fel golwython chwilbob, a dod wrth y dolur o'r
pryd i gilydd, a thyn ymaith a sych y clwyf yn Ian, ag or
bydd pryfed fal penn y dannedd fe au tynn ymaith, a dod
gig arall o'r uurhyw wrtho o'r pryd i gilydd hyd ymhen
pedair noswaith, ag ymhen pob pryd ei sychu yn Ian. Ag
* Gwyn — main debyg.
MEDDYGON MYDDFAI. 145
i iachau a sychu'r dolur cais cliw gliwyddon wcrtli wyth
ceiniog, a plilwm gwynn werth grod, ai fcrwi yngliyd yn
dda, a'i ddodi ar y clwyf noeth ychydig y bore a'r nos, a
cliraf yr lieu a dod y newydd, ag c'r bydd heb dorri dod
wrtho blaster glaiarllys a menyn.
ELI RHAG Y MANWYNON, A'R FRECH FAWR A'R CANCAR.
§ 269. Cais worth grod o gamflFyr, gwerth ceiniog o ystor,
ac o gwyr morwynain ob, o driagl ob, o eliw ccsedr werth
ceiniog, a'r cymaint arall o eliw'r baedd, ag eliw yr
eliwydden yr un gymaint a'r eliwau eraill, eliw rhos yr
un g ymaiii a''r eliwoedd eraill, a thair llwyaid o fel, a
phwya a maedd hwynt oil ynghyd yn dda, yna eu berwi
trwy laeth gcifr, a thynn i'r llawr, a berw eilwaith hyd
ymhen y naw waith, a hidla trwy liain crai, a dod i gadw
mewn corn, ag a hwnnw ira'r clwyf, a hwnnw a dynn y pryf
waith riddwn o gig ag esgyrn.
RHAG CIG DEWG A FO'N PYLLU AG YN MAGU PRYFED.
§ 270. Cais bwys dwy geiniog a frawn morfil, a elwir yn
y Lladin spermaceti, a phedair ceiniogbwys o rwd gwyrdd,
a phwyaui dda ag yn fan a rho am ben peint o laeth gafr,
a hidla'n Ian drwy liain crai, a dyro i'r claf i yfed ar hen
gwrw da, a da iawn yw.
RHAG GWAED YN MYNED FFORDD CWNDID DYN.
§ 271. Cais filly dd, aV drydydd rann o sudd ffunel cochon,
a thymhera trwy win coch, ag yfed y claf yn dwym ag iach
y bydd.
RHAG CLEFYD Y GWAED, A RHAG Y GWEWYR Y SYDD YN
EI DDILYN EF.
§ 272. Cymmer eirin man y llwyni gwyllton tra font
addfed, a sych uhwy y naill ai mewn tcs cryf ai o flaen y
U
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tfin hirbell onid clont mor sych ag y gellir eu pyloru, a
dod i gadw nicwn pottel wydr yn gacedig, a lie bo claf o'r
dolur hwn dyro Iwyaid o\ pylor hynn am ben peint o gwrw
da iachus, ncu ossai hen cadarn, neu hen fedd da, ai dwymo''n
dda, ai roi Tr claf i yfed yn wag y bore dri bore, ag ef a
dyrr y gwayw a"*!' gwewyr, ag a iachaV clefyd.
Hefyd rhag y dolur hwiin cais gadachyn o liain garw
newydd, a rho ynddo gymaint a gwi gwydd o gann gwenith
teg iawn y goren a ellir o'i ryw, a rhwym ef yn y cadachyn
crai hynn, a berw mewn galwyn o ddwr fiynon nes el yn
gwart, a gad i oeri, a berw ychydig mewn llaeth a berw ef
fal gNvysgon, a rho ef yn fwyd bob pryd i'r dyn ; profedig
yw.
I DORRI GWAYW FO GYDA CHLEFYD Y GWAEI).
§ 273. Cymmer fara gwenith, a hen gaws, ai dafellu yn
fan, ai ferwi trwy lefrith, a bwrw ddigon o bubur arno ai
fwytta, ag arfer o hynny, a da yw.
RHAG Y PARLYS MUD, SEF COLLI NERTH Y NAILL YSTLYS,
A GWAED GWEDI YMATTAL A CHWEDI RIIEWI YN Y GWYTHI.
§ 274. Cais ddail y ffion fFrith un dyrnaid, a dau ddyrnaid
o ddynaid cochon, a phwya nhwy'n dda ynghyd, yna ei
berwi mewn chwart o fel yn dda, ai hidlo yn lau ai ddodi
mown llestr i gadw, a bwrw am ei ben werth fair ceiniog o^*
distyll bendigaid neu o ddistyll gwiu neu ossai, a chymmer
ddau alwyn o surdrwnc ai ferwi yn dda, ai ddiwynebu wrth
ei ferwi yn Ian, a chymmer folaid o hwn bob bore a nos yn
dwym, ag ira dy gymalau ag ef yn dda yng ugwres y tan,
a gwedyn a'r cli cadwedig, a cheisio lie uchel i fwrw pwys
yr ystlys, ag ystwytha dy hunan i gerdded, ag arfer o
hynny, a da yw.
MEDDYGON MYDDFAI. 147
RIIAG Y PETH Y SYDD YN CTTWYDDO DAN Y FOGAIL,
WEITIIIAU'N HIR, WEITHIAU YN GllWN, MEGIS PELLEN Y
MAE RHWNG CIG A CHROEN.
§ 275. Cais cliwart o wincgr coch, a phwya ddyrnaid o
geunin drwy'ii barfau a^i dail, a bcrw worth ceinio<T o fara
rliyg sur am ci benn, ai adacl i forwi yn dda yn y gwin cgr,
a dod liwnnw 'n l)laster wrth y dolur bob nos, a symud
o'r newydd bob nos, a hwnnw ai dyrr ymaith.
RHAG TRAUL NATTUR FFORDD Y WIALEN.
§ 276. Cais Lad ffunel, a had anis, a mas, a phylora
nhwy yiig nghyd a bwrw ar gawl ncu lynn twym, a chym-
mer hyd ym mhen nawnydd, a da yw yn wir.
RHAG DRAEN.
§ 277. Cais ddail cribau sanffred, a clwir y bitton gan rai,
a hen floneg twrch, a'r tryw, sef yr agrimonia, a phwya nhwy
ynghyd, a rho wrtho ef, a hynn ai tynn ymaith.
RHAG DRAEN GWENWYNIG.
§ 278. Cymmer floneg baedd, a sebon du, a melyn wiau,
a chymysg ynghyd, a dod yn blaster wrtho, a hynn ai tynn
i maes.
RHAG GWAYW O WAITH DRAEN.
§ 279. Cymmer frig banadl a dwr mab bychan, a berw
hwnnw yn ffest a dyro yn cnaint i'r dolur, a hynny ai
esmwytha. A bloneg cath goed sy dda hefyd : cymmer
hefyd ehw ghwydden, a gwerth ceiniog o gamffyr, a mor-
tyra'n dda ynghyd, a dod yn eli ar y dolur.
RHAG Y CWRLLYS, SEF Y BYSTWN AR FYS.
§ 280. Cais ruw, a cliwmin, a thewdwr cig moch, a blawd
gwenith, a bcrw mewn gwin gwynu, ac ehw twrpant, a
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cliyiiiysg ynii;liy(l yn ddii, a dod ar y dulur, a j)han fo addled
af^or, a dod warcth ynddo, a iaclia ef fel iachau bratli arall
ncu ddyrnod.
ARALL RIIAG Y BYSTWN.
§ 281. Cais lysiau leuan a'u briwa**!! ffest, a chyiuysg a
mclyn wi, a rho wrth y dolur, ag iach y bydd.
Huslyb fydd y croen a lliw dugoch arno, a llosgi wrth yr
asgwrn, a phydru y giau a wnaV gwrllys, dyna fel y
uabyddir y clwyf liynn.
ARALL RHAG Y BYSTWN.
§ 282 Cymmer melweden i maes oi chragen a thorr lii'ii
fan man, a phwya'n blaster, a dod yn rwymedig am y bys,
a hynn ai addfeda ag ai tyrr, gwcdi bynny gwarethuV
clwyf ai iachau fal yr iacheir clwyf arall.
ARALL RHAG Y BYSTWN.
§ 283. Cymmer y glaiarllysg a pliwya^n fal, a chymysg
ef yu dda gydag eliw rhos, a dod yn blaster wrth y dolur.
ARALL RHAG Y BYSTWN.
§ 284. Cymmer ruw, a llysiau cadwgan, a phwya'n fal, a
berw hwynt gydag ystor neu rosin, a chwyr melyn, a dod
yn blaster wrth y dolur, a da yw rhag hwydd o bob rhyw
mewn bys neu mewn rhyw gymmal arall.
ARALL RHAG Y BYSTWN.
§ 285. Cymmer ryw, a glerllysg, a llysiau'r corph, a llysiau
cadwgan, a malweden, ag ychydig floueg twrch, a phwya
nghyd yn blaster, a dod wrth y dolur, ai newid bob nos,
eraill a ferwant y llysiau yn bwyedig mewn bloneg, a dodiV
falwcden attynt yn ol eu berwi wedi cu thorri'n fan man, a
uiaeddu''r cyfan ynghyd yn blaster, ag ymarfer ag ef felly.
MEDDYGON MYDDFAI. 149
ARALL lUIAG Y BYSTWN.
§ 286. Cymmer ychydig halen glas wedi ei sychu ai
bylori'n fal, a chymysg ef yn dda gyda melyn wi, drwy ei
faeddu yn dda, a dod wrth y dolur, ag cfe ai iacha yn
ebrwydd, ag a dyrr y gwayw ag a estwng yr hwydd.
I WELLA'R OLWG.
§ 287. Berwa ffunel mewn dwr, ag a'r dwr liwnnw golch
dy lygaid a'th wyneb bob bore a pbryduawu, a thi a fyddi
gwell.
RHAG MAGL AR LYGAD.
§ 288. Cymmer bustl buwch, a bustl 'scyfarnog, a bustl
hen geiliog, ag ychydig o liw glas a wneler a'r rhuw ag
ychydig o sudd y melynllys, cymaint o bob un ond bod
mwy oV bustl buwch, a thymhera nhwy drwy win yu faedd-
edig, a dod ar dy lygad, ag efe a ddinistra''r magi.
RHAG MEDDWI.
§ 289. Cymmer ddyrnaid o gribau sanffred, sef y bitton,
a phwya'n fan, a gwasg mewn dwr a hidla'n Ian ai yfed cyn
bwytta un bwyd, a chjm yfed amgen o wlyb, ag ni feddwi y
dydd hwnnw.
CYFOD DA PR PENN A'R CYLLA.
§ 290. Cymmer dair llwyaid o sudd y bitton dri bore o
rcstr, a bwrw a bon asgell yn dy ffroenau, a hyuny a fydd
cyfod da i'r pen ag i'r cylla.
RHAG Y CRYD AR MWYTH.
§ 291. Cais adaiu y Hew a mwg y ddacar, a dod ar ddiod
ag yf yu galed y bore a banner dydd, ag iach fyddi yn wir.
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I LADD Y CANCAR.
§ 202. Cymmer gelchyn yn y natur y bo cyn ei losgi, a
phubur duon, ag eurbibau, a clvvir yn y lladin auripir/ment,
ag aesel cryf, rliuw, mel, a blawd liaidd, yr uii faint o bob
un, a berw ynghyd mown padell neu bott newydd nes gallo
dyn wneutlmr pylor o honynt, yna eu pyloru au berwi yr
ail waith, a'r pylor hyn y sy dda i ddinistro'r cancar aV
manwynion.
ARALL RHAG YR UN DOLURIAU.
§ 293. Oymmer wraidd llysiauV ddraig, a thorr hwynt
yn fan ddrylliau, au sychu au gwneuthur yn bylor, a chym-
mer nawpwys ceiniog o'r pylor hynn a rlio mewn gwin, a
berw yn dda, ag yna yfed y claf o bono yn glaiar dwym yn
wag dri niwarnod ag fe fydd iach, ag ni chaiflf bytb drachefn
dan warrant.
REIAG BYDDARWCH CLUSTIAU.
§ 294. Cymmer geingen o bren onen o droedfedd o byd,
a rho ei chanol yn y tun, a cliadw^r dwr a ddel allan o"*!
deupen, a cbymmer sudd y rbeonllys, a elwir yn y lladin
rhubarb, a gwin, a bloneg Uysywen fires, ag oV rbain cym-
mer gymaint o bob un ai gilydd, a cliymysg y cwbl yugbyd,
a rho yn y clustiau wrth fyned i gysgu. Da hefyd rliag y
dolur hyn ar glustiau yw dodi surdrwnc ynddynt, a gwlau
du arno.
LLYMA FEL Y CEDWIR DYN BRATHEDIG.
§ 295. Na fwyttaed na chaws, na menyn, na wiau na
physgod mor, na chig eidon, na bara rhyg, na bara newydd
ei grasu, ag nag yfed yn ddiod nainyn llefrith, a dwr, a
Uaeth ynghymysg a golwnc o win neu fedd unwaith yn y
pedair awr ar hugain, ag nad arfered godineb gyda gwragedd,
acr cf a vvaredir trwv Dduw.
MEDDYGON MYDDFAI. 151
RHAG BRIW Gx\N ARF, NEU DDOLUR MEWN GIAU NEU
WYTHI, NEU LINGIG, NEU ASGWRN, A IIWN YN HWYDDO
AG VN LLOSGI AG YN CRAWNU.
§ 296. Cymmer lefrith geifr, a llinhad, au berwi ynghyd,
a chymmer lefrith buwch unlliw a blawdd flfa, a chymysg a
rho am benn y Hall, a gad i fcrwi cngaid liir a thyn ef i lawr
a dod ef yn blaster wrth y dolur, a gad wrtlio liyd tranoeth
neu yn liwy, ag ef a estwng yr hwydd a'r dolur, ag a
ddiwenwyna y cig, ag a dyf y giau, ag a garth y cig marw
ag a ddyr ymaith yr yssg, ag a bair ir dyn gysgu, os bydd
rhaid cais eli tyf.
ELI I DORRI BRATH NEU GLWYF, GWEDI IDDO GAEAD AR
DDRWG, AG I lACIIAU,
§ 297. Drachefn a"'r un eli cais amcan o gwyr, a rhwsin,
a sebon du, ychydig o ddail y gwinwydd ar henlydan, au
pwyo 'iighyd au berwi ar y tau, au hidio drwy liain, a dod
mewn llestr i gadw, a dod hwn wrtho yni mraint plaster, a
iach y bydd.
I WNEUTHUR DWR, I DYFU CIG, A CHROEN, AG ESGYRN.
§ 298. Cais ddyrnaid o ros cochon, a dwr ftynon, a sudd
y melynllys, a mcl, a sudd y cegyr, a sudd y flenigl, a sudd
dail twrch, a sudd y cyngaw, a llwyaid o ddwr dyn bychan
ar y fronn, a gwin coch, a chymysg ynghyd, a tliwym
ychydig arnynt, a thyu i lawr a hidla, a dod i gadw, ag a
hwn ira y dolur He bo cig yn tyfu ar farvv, ag ef ai difa, ag
ai tyf yn Ian ond arfer o bono.
RHAG Y CANCAR A CHIG DRWG.
§ 299. Cymmer gaws da, a mortyra yn ffcst, a chymysg a
mel gloyw, ag ira ag ef yn fynych, a dod arno ddail cawl,
a hynny ai lladd ym mhenn tri diwarnod, a da yw.
152 MEDDYGON MYDDFAI.
RHAG GWLITHEN.
§ 300. Cymnier fcl, a melyn wiau, a cliann gwenitli, a
cliyniy^g yngliyd, a dod cf yn blaster wrth y dolur, fel y bo
yr aclios, a da yw yn wir.
RHAG DOLUR AR GOES, A FO'N CODI YN GNYCCIAU, AG YN
TORRI YN DDYRLLYD, AG YN BIGAU COCHON, AG YN GWRESGVN TUAG AT
y MIGWRN I WARED, AG DDEUTU'R GOES, AI LIW YN DDIGOCH.
§ 301 . Cais fel rhos werth tair ceiniog, eliw gliwydden werth
dwy geiniog, eliw twrpant werth ceiniog, llwyaid o fel, ag
ychydig gwyr, a plilwm coch werth tair ceiniog, ag ychydig
war manllwyn neu hydd, ag ychydig o'r maen pres yn
byloraid mal, ag ychydig sef amcan llwyaid neu ddwy o''r
distyll bendigaid, neu ddistyll gwin coch, au dodi ynghyd
au tymheru ynghymysg mewn godarth ar y tan uys deloV
ias drwyddo, ag eliaV clwyf, a da yw.
RHAG CLWYF DREWLLYD.
§ 302. Cymmer sydd yr ysbeinwydd, a elwir yn y lladin
bocsws, wedi ei ferwi mewn cwrw neu win, a golch y clwyf,
a da yw ; neu gymmeryd y dail au pwyo'n fal am benn
gwin neu gwrw neu fedd da, ai hidlo drwy wasg, ai ddodi
mewn llestr pridd ar y tan onid elo'r ias drwyddo, a golchi
clwyf.
I WNEUTHUR ELI RHAG Y MANWYNION.
§ 303. Cymmer gwyr melyn, a rhwsin, a gwer manllwyn,
a marchalan, a'r melynllys, au pwyo"'n dda ynghyd, au
berwi am ben eu gilydd, a'u hidlo drwy liain glau, ag elia'r
clwyf, ag iach y bydd.
MEDDYGON MYDDFAI. l')o
RIIAG Y MAXWYNION.
§ 304. Cymmer y dderwen fendigaid, a phwya^n fun, a
dod mewu llestr ai lanw hyd y fil, a dud arno a clo i nicwu
fr llestr o ddwr ffynon, a gad ei scfyll dros uoswaith, a
hidla, a chymmer hwn yn unig ddiod, a thi a elli roddi
gwin yn lie dwr ar y llysiau pwyedig, ag yfed o hono
gyflawn ddiod unwaith yn y pedair awr ar hugain, a chym-
mer y llysewyn a plnvya'n fal am ben eliw gliwydden, a
berw ynghyd a hidla drwy wasg, yna dod am ei ben ychydig
gwyr melyn, ag ychydig fel, ac ychydig wer hydd, a benv
ynghyd onid elo"'n eli, a dod mewn llestr i gadw, ag eliVr
clwyf a hwnn. Ag os cymmeri wraidd y llysewyn au golchi
yn lau, au sychu'n gras, au malu'n flawd, ai ddodi gyda
blawd gwenith ei draian mewn bara, a byw ar y bara hynny
a llaeth geifr yn unig fwyd, ti a iachai yn ebrwyddach ; a
hynu sydd brifiedig yn wir.
PLASTER I DYNNU HW'YDD A PHRYFED I MAES O'R
MANWYNON.
§ 305. Cymmer laeth buwch unlliw, a blawd ceirch, au
berwi yn dda, a gwna fal iwd dyn bach, a dod frachdan dew
ar liain, yna dod fel ar ei wyneb, ag ef a sugn y pryfed, ag
a estwng yr hwydd, ag a ddiwenwyna'r cnawd, ag a dyu-
hera"'r caledwch ynddo, ag a dyf y clwyf; hyn sydd
brofadwy.
RHAG GWRES A MWYTH YR AFU, A GWYXT Y FAM, A DOLUK
Y LLEFExVI, A DOLUR AR DDYX YN EI YSCYF.
§ 306. Cymmer ysgol Fair, a llysiau'r afu, a phwya'n
fan ag yn fal, a dod mewu llestr ei lonaid, a chymmer win
a dwr banner yn banner, a dod ar y llysiau a elo ryngddynt,
a gad sefyll chwechawr yn gaeedig, yna hidla drwy wasg,
ag yf lawn ddiod o hono fore a nos yn wag, a chymmer yn
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154 MEDDYGON MYDDFAI.
fwyd gawl a wncir gyda chii^ nianllwyn aV llysiau hynn, sef
tafod yr ycli, gwylaotli, ffunel, perllys, ag ychydig fel, a
byddcd yn unig fwyd itti ; hcfyd gwna leisy a lludw coed
neu rcdyD, iieu ddynaid, a bcrw ynddo ef werth dwy geiniog
lieu dair o floneg, a dod i oeri ag i aros liyd traiinoeth, yna
tynn ei wynebioii a dod mewn llestr i gadvv, ag a hwnnw
elia dy ystlys a"*! lleoedd y bo''r dolur, ag iach y bydd, trwy
Dduw.
RIIAG LLOSG TAN.
§ 307. Dod dy ddwr dy hun am ben torn buwch, a gad
ei loywi, yna diwal y gloywon i lestr, a golchiV dolur,
RHAG FRECH Y MOCH, SEF TRESCEL GWDY,
§ 308. Tarddu ar liyd y croeii ef a gyfyd yn fothellau
gwynion, ag fe red dwr gloyw o honynt. Cynimer flodau'r
baual, a bloneg, au berwi au liidlo, a bwrw gwcrth dwy
geiniog o sebon du, ai gymysgu yn dda, ag a Iiwmiw ira dy
holl gorpb, a da yw yn wir.
RHAG GWRAIG A FO AI NATTUR YN COLLI ODDIWRTHL
§ 309. Gwna wysgon drwy rynion blawd ceirch a dwr
glan, a dyro grimpad o''r cwniin, a chrimpad o'r garreg a
elwir cryth, ag yn lladin creta^ a lie ni bo hwnnw cymmer
garreg calch, a mal ef mor fal ag y gellir ai Avegrynu drwy
liain main neu sidan, ai fwrw am ben y gwysgon, a cliym-
ysgu''r cyfan yngliyd a chymmer gwppanaid oV twym hynn
ddeupen y dydd gyfoed wythnos, a da yw.
I DYNNU DANT HEB DDIM DOLUR.
§ 310. Cais y morgrug a'u hwyau liwynt, a phylora hwy,
ag oV pylor hynny hwytli trwy fon asgell ar y dant, a nad
ei gwrddyd ag un dant arall.
MEDDYGON MYDDFAI. 155
RIIAG DWYLAW YN CRYNU.
§ 311. Cymmer y llysiau llwydou, a elwir hefyd y feidiog
Iwyd, a dod raewn dwr yn bvvyedig i aros noswaith, ag yn
hwn golch dy ddwylo, a thi a gai les o hynny, ag o golclii
dy gefn o'th wegil i wared a'r dwr hwD, efe a'tli gryf ha yn
ryfeddol.
I ESTWNG PANGAU Y FAM.
§ 312. Cais y chwerwyn gwyn, a'r cliwerwyn llwyd, a
rhisgl nesa i'r prenn o''r onneu, a'u berwi mewn dwr fFynon
nad elo fytli yn hesp, au berwi'n dda, au hidlo, ag yfed yn
wag dair llwyaid fawr dri bore ti a gai iacbad, ag ni
chyfyd fyth arnat.
RHAG GWAEDLING FFROENAU.
§ 313. Pwya ddyrnaid o'r dynaid, a dod mewn lliain wrtli
dy ffroenau, a dod beth o hono yn dy ilroenau, a da yw.
ARALL,
§ 314. Cymmer dafellan o harn, a dod yn y tan hyd oni
bo twym eithr nid yu goch gan wres, a gad ddiferu y gwaed
arno, a phan fo digon o hano, craf oddiar yr harn a rho
hwnnw'n bylor yn dy ffroenau ai hwythu iddynt drwy fon
asgell, A hynn a attal gwaedu o drwyn, ag o friw, ag o
frath, pa Ic byunag y bo ar gorph dyn.
I DDYN A FO WEDI EI LOSGI.
§ 315. Cymmer ddyrnaid o ddail y malw, a nialwod
cregyn, a'r dail crynion a elwir llysiau'r geiniog, a Uinhad
wedi eu malu mewn niortyr pres, au cymysgu au pwyo
ynghyd fal nas galler nabod y naill oddiwrth y Hall, a dodi
hwn lie bo hwydd neu''r dolur wedi torri wrtho ai chadw hi
156 MEDDYGON MYDDFAI.
heb (Idismocli un ainser, ag os mynnir, clnvistrellu a dwr
elyf ai golclii, a gwaith y plaster fe ddaw llynu IKvyd ei
ffrocn hi allan, a da yvv.
I WYBOD PA UiN AI BYW AI MARW Y BYDD DYN CLAF.
§ 316. Ira sawdl y claf a bloneg twrcli, ynia rho Invnnw
i'r ci i fwytta, ag os bwytty y ci ef, byw fydd y dyu, ag
onid ef bydd farw.
I WYBOD AI BOn GAVRAIG YN FEICIIIOG AI NAD YW.
§ 817. Gadewch iddi wneuthur dwr mewn presen neu
gopren, a dodwch ddynhaden yn y dwr, ag os bydd beichiog
hi a fydd yn llawn ysblottau gwaedlyd.
I BERI I'R GWALLT DYFU.
§ 318. Cymraer ddail yr ysbeinwydd a dod mewn crochan
harn ei lonaid, a dod ddwr attynt a wedd gyda nhwy, a
berw ar dan araf oni dderfydd banner y dwr, ag a'r dwr
hwn golch dy benu ddeupen y dydd, a gwilio nad elo'r
golch yn un mann ar y croen lie nas dylai fod gwallt.
ARALL.
§ 319. Cwramer eliw gliwydden ddwy Iwyaid, a dwy
Iwyaid o fel newydd, a gwynwynyn maint wi colommen, a
phwya'n 'nghyd mown niortyr maen, oni fo''n eli, ag a
liwnnw elio dy benn fore a uos, a gwisgo cap lledr oni thyfoV
gwallt ; goreu pwyo'r gwynwynyn yn fal cyn y doder at y
mM a'r eliw.
I DYNNU GWALLT AG I BERI NA THYFO FYTII YR AIL
AVAITH.
§ 320. Cymmer y morgrug au hwiau, a gwua nhwy yn
bylor, a chyda rhain had llewyg y iar yn byloraid, a dod ar
y iiiann y bo gofyn, a rhigla"'n galed oni bo gwresog y He
MEDDYGON MYPDFAI. 1 ." 7
ddwywaith y dydd, a liyiin a kulJ y f^wallt oi wraidd, ai,' iii
tliyf yn y lie hynny inwyach, hofyd; ti a clli ci gymys<ru a
dwr yn y bo fal iwd, ag iro'r lie a liwuuw deupen y dydd.
I LADD LLAU.
§ 321. Cymraer yr ystor a clwir olibanwm, a bloneg, a
berw yn dda gyda eu gilydd, ag iro y penu ueu le arall y bo
achos a'r eli hynn, ag efc au lladd.
RHAG WYNEB YSBLOTTOG.
§ 322. Ira ef a gwaed ysgyfarnog neu darw y nos wrth
fyned i gysgu, aV boro golchi'r wyneb ag enwyu sur.
I DYNNU DANT.
§ 323. Cymmer gwm iorwg, a dail iorwg, a llosg liwy yn
bylor me^vn crochan pridd uewydd, a dod y pylor hwn am
ben sudd y llysewyn a elwir llaeth y cythraul, a dod hwn
yn y dant os can y bydd, ag ef a gvvymp o'th benn, ond
gwagel na chySyrddcch un dant arall.
RHAG Y TOSTEDD.
§ 324. Pwya ddail y raalw a garlleg ynghyd gyda gwln
gwynn, ag yf ef, a tlii a gai wneuthur dwr pwy achos benna
ag y bo.
LLYMA'R MODD Y GWXEIR BRAGODLYN Y CYLLA A DA YDYW
RUAG Y PARLYS MUD, A'R PARLVS CRYNEDICf, a'r CRYI) MUD, a'R CKYD CRY.N-
EDIG, AG OERDER Y GALON, A CHLEFYD Y CYMALAU a'r CYLLWST, a'R GLOESO.V
YN Y CYLLA, A GWYNT Y TOSTEDD, A DOLl'R YU ARENAU, AG OERFEL Y GIIU
a'r GWYTHI.
s 325. Cais ddyrnaid o rosmari, a dyrnaid o'r geidwad, a
dyrnaid oV tryw, a dyrnaid o'r weudon, a dyrnaid o isob,
dail a brig pob un o'r rliain, a gwraidd y glyf, a gwraidd y
158 MEDDYGON MYDDFAT.
niarclialan, a gwraidd yr hiddigl, a gwraidd tormaen, dyraaid
bob un o lionynt, au dodi nicvvn mortyr, au pwyo'n dda,
au rliiglo rhwng, a dodi oil i ferwi mown tri galwyn o frecci
du cadarn hyd nyd el y tri galwyn yn un, ai dynnu i'r
llawr ai oeri, a hidlo trwy liain glan, a chymmer chwart o
fel pur a dod yn y brecci hwnnw, a berw nys el j'n chwart
dan y berw, ai ddadwynebu yn Ian, ai dynnu i'r llawr i
oeri, ag yna cymmer chwecli galwyn o gwrw cadarn ffres,
rhwng ei farm ai waddod, a dod ef mewn cerwynen lun, a
chau arnaw yn dda, a gad i sefyll dridiau a thair nos, ag
yna dod mewn llestr pengaead cadarn, a chymmer werth
ceiniog o glaw, a gwerth ceiuiog o sinsir, a gwerth ceiniog o
rawn paris, ag ychydig o had ffuuel, a gwerth ceiniog o had
yr arddwy, ag ychydig had ysnoden Fair, a chymaint ag oil
c'r canel, au pylori'n fan fal cann gwenith, ai ddodi mewn
cwd Uiain cadarn yn y llestr ynghrog gerfydd y lliain, a
rlioi carreg fechan yn y cwd iddeu bwyso i'r gwaelod yn
ddwfn, ai adu i gadw, ag yfed y llynn hwnnw yn gyntaf y
bore ag yn ddiwethaf y nos, ag nid gwaeth y llynn hwnnw
na dwr byw ar les corph dyn. Llyma rann pob un o'r
Uysiau a enwyd ; rhosmari a fywioccaa, y geidwad a dyrr y
cryd, y wendon rhag y parlys mud, isob i'r ddwyfron, y
tryw i*'r coludd, y tormaen i'r chwysigen, yr hiddigl iV
cylla, marchalan i'r cymalau, claw a sinsir i'r gi'au, ysnoden
Fair i'r arennau, grawn paris i''r ymhennydd, y glyf a''r canel
i'r ysgy feint aV gwythi. Ag iawn ymarfer o'r ddiod honno i
bob dyn rhag y clefydau a ddywespwyd ucliod, ag os bydd
clwyf arall mewn dyn rhoed y llysiau a weddo yn erbyn y
clwyf hwnnw, ag arfer o'r ddiod honn yn fynych, a thi a
gai dy gorph yn iachach, ag yn ieuengach yr olwg arnat, ag
yn ysgawnach yr aelodau, ag yn gryfach yr olwg, ag yn well
y wyllys, yn hwylusach i gerdded, ag yn berach yr anadl, a
liwn yw'r bragodlyn goreu o'r cwbl, a'r ddiod oreu yn y byd.
MEDDYGON MYDDFAI. 159
I BERI I DDYN FYNED WRTH FAES YN ESMWVTII.
§ 326. Cymmer wi giar, a thynn ritli y ceiliog ymaitli, a
chyniysg ag ychydig o g^vl•w da, y cwrw a'r wi ynghyd, ag
yf liwn yn wag y boro, ymprydia wcdyn dair awr, ag iach
y byddi.
RHAG CYLLA A FO'N YMHOELYD, SEF YN GWRTHWYNEBU
O ACnOS UOD OEHFEL YNGENAU Y CYLLA, AG YN YMIIOYLYD Y LLUNIAETH I
FYNYDD, AG IIEB ALLEL FYNED WRTIl FAES.
§ 327. Cymmer ddwy ffioled o win gwynn bob ail dydd,
neu gyfod, cais driagl, a cliwart o win egr coch, ceiniogwertli
fwstarth, wertli tair ceiuiog o alwys, au berwi yn dda yng
nghyd, au dodi mewn llcstr i gadw, a chyniraer ddwy
Iwyaid y bore yn wag wedi ei dwymo. Cais wertli ceiniog
bubur, gwerth dwy geiniog o had ffunol, au berwi mewn
mel puredig, neu ddail y ffunel y sydd well naV had.
RHAG Y SYCII BESWCII SEF RHWYSTR O BESWCII NYS BO
CHWYS AR Y TALCEN AG HEB GAEL DIM I DAWLU.
§ 328. Cais y defnyddion hynn, ceiniogwerth o bubur,
cciniogwerth o had fFuuel, dwy geiuiogwerth o had anis,
ceiniogwerth o gwmin, dwy geiniogwerth o'r gl^'f sef y
licras, ceiniogwerth o'r can el, a cheiniogwerth o'r had a elwir
grawn paris, au plori'n fan man, au berwi mewn chwart o
fel nys gwineuo ar y tan, a thynn i lawr a dod mewn llestr
glan i gadw, a chymmer Iwyaid bob bore yn wag, a llwyed
yn ddiwethaf y nos wrth fyned i'r gwely, a gweglyd bwyd-
ydd o gig, a chadw ar ydfwyd.
RHAG Y GWAYW MEWN GLIN NEU FAN ARALL A ELWHl
Y CLWM GWYTHI.
§ 329. Cais geiuiogwerth o scbon du, tair ceiniogwerth o
arian byw tair ceiniogwerth, ehw gliwydden dwy geiniog-
IGO MEDDYGON MYDDFAI.
wertli, tus (Iwy geiniogwerth, dwr bywyd a elwir y distyll
bciulin^aid gwerth grod, a bloncg baedd, au maeddu yii dda
yngliyd ncs y bo cynwynned a'r cwrsi, ai riglo ar y dolur,
ag ddcupen y dydd, a rhiglo bob gwaitli ; profedig yw.
RHAG Y PESWCH.
§ 330. Cais cliwart o lefrith, a cheiniogwerth o arlleg, a
phwya nhwy, a berw yn y llefrith, ai hidlo, ai yfed fel y
gallecb, ag arfer o arlleg gyda'th fwyd, a byw ar fwyd
ammras ag anhallt.
RIIAG CRYD A MWYTH Y CYMALAU, A RHAG GWAYW YN Y
BORDDWYDYDD NEU YN YSTLYS Y CEFN WRTH GERDDED.
§ 331. Cais werth dwy geiniog o sebou du, gwerth tair
ceiniog o arian byw, gwertli tair ceiniog o ddistyll y bywyd,
a phwys o floneg baedd coch os ceir, a phan fo toddaid y
bloneg bwrw iddo'r sebon du ar edlyii distyll, ai drachym-
ysgu, a phan oero bwrw ynddo'r arian byw, a chymysg ef
nys bo gynwynned aV bliant, ag aV eli hwn eliVr dolur
wrth y tan nos a bore yn dda gydag enaint o bydd rhaid.
RHAG GWALLT YN CYNNYGLU, SEP YN TYFU'N GYM-
MHLETH FAL NAS GELLIR EI GRIBO.
§ 332. Eillia'r pen unwaitli bob wythuos hyd ymhen
blwyddyn, a golch bob nos a berwyn cryf y geidwad, a phob
bore a dwr y mor, neu ddwr a lielltir a lialen, yn oer, ag
unwaith yn yr wythnos eliaa^r pen a bloneg giar neu lysywen,
ag ar ol ei iro felly dod am dy benn gyndwymed ag y gelli
ei oddef y plaster yma, sef cymmer fara cann gwenith teccaf
a cllir ei gacl o fara bermanaid, a berw niewn llaeth dafad,
a dod ynddo Iwyaid o fel neu ddwy, a llwyaid fawr o eliw
cnau'r ffawydd a melyn wi pwyedig, a phlasioV defnyddion
hynn yn dda ynghyd gymysg tra chymysg a dod yn blaster
am dy benn a gad i aros bedair awr ar hugain, a phan ai
MEDDYGON MYDDFAI. IGl
carthot golch dy ben yn dda a berwyn ffunel a sebon, a
rhiglo'n dda, a chymnieryd yn fwyd laweroedd o laeth ac
ychydig o gig ag afalau berw neu rhost gyda llaeth mor
fyiiych ag y gellycli ei gael.
RHAG FOB GWAYW YN Y CYMALAU, A'R ESGYRN, A'R
GLINIAU, A'R CEFN.
§ 333. Cais sebon du werth tair ceiniog, gwertli grod o
arian byw, gwerth grod o eliw gliwydden, a gwerth grod o'r
distyll bendigaid, a bloneg twrcli neu liw arall, a niaedd yn
dda niewn mortyr oni bo gwyn fal y cwrsi, a dod i gadw
mewn bhvch pridd yn gaedig, ag ymelia ag ef wrtli y tan
nos a bore.
RHAG DIFANT NATTUR, SEP NATTUR DYN YN YMOLLWXG YN
Y WIALEX O'l AXFODD.
§ 334. Cais ychydig o bhvm a phwya'n deneu yn dewder
gwenhithyn, bydded dau ddyrnfedd ei hyd, a banner dyrn-
fedd lai o led, a gwija dwll y naill benn iddo, a dod linyn
drwydd a clilym am dy fain gefn erwydd y llynin hwn a
oera dy nattur, yna cymmer risgi nesa i'r pren o'r derw ag
o'r drain duon ddyrnaid o bob un, a berw yn dda, a dod o
fel ai gwnelo yn felus, a chynimer Iwyaid fechan o had anis
yn byloraid, a un faint o had ffunel pyloraid, a banner
liynny o gauel pyloraid, a bwrw y rhain ar y berwyn, ai
yfed yn ddiod dri bore a thair nos, ag na chymmer arall o
ddiod ; profedig y w.
RHAG PESWCH YR YSGYFAINT.
§ 335. Cais wraidd y gl^f sef y felottai, a ffigys, a marcli-
alan pyloraid, sef y gwraidd, a gwna'n gj-ffaitli gyda mel,
oi faeddu yn dda gymysg dra chymysg mewn mortvr, a
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162 MEDDYGON MYDDFAI.
chyramer hvyaid fawr nos a boro yn wag dwyawr o leiaf
cyii a gwodi bwyd, ag ymarfer a bwyd o laeth geifr ag
afalau.
I GARTHU GWENWYN BRECII O BOB RIIYW O'R GWAED, AG
ACHOS BRECU YN Y GWAED Y DAW'r MAENWYNON, A TIIARDDANT AR YR
YSCEFAIN, A CIIORNWVDON A PHOB TARDDANT AR Y CROEN, A PHOB LLYS-
NAFEDI) PEN A CHYLLA, A LLAWER DOLLR AR BE.NN A LLYGAID.
§ 336. Cymraer wlydd y pcrtlii, sef au nabydder wrth yr
had crynion a lynaiit wrth y dillad pan font aefed, a phwya
nliwy'n dda a dod mewn llcstr pridd a wedd ynddo, a berw
dwr ftynon a dod ar y llysiau a el iddyut, a gad ei sefyll
awr, yna hidla dan wasg drwy liaiii glan^ ag yf yn unig
ddiod nawniwarnod, a lie na bo gwlydd berw ifynhonau, ag
yn fwyd cymmer lawer o fwyd llaeth a chymaint ag a elli o
afalau rhost neu ferw gyda llaeth, a brechdan o fara can
gwenith a mel, ag na chymmer un cig narayn manllwyn
ffres, a chawl a wneler o'r cig hynny gan ferwi gwlydd, a
berw ftynhonau, a meillion gwynion y maesydd ynddo, a
chymmeryd dynaid berw, a berw"'r ftynhonau gyda gwin egr
yn lie bara gyda'r cig ; profedig y\v.
RHAG GWENDID PENN.
§ 337. Cymmer had cywarch, a phwya'n dda au gwysconi
drwy fiiolaid o ddwr glan fal gwysgoni iwd, a chribau
sanfi"red, au pwyo au cymysgu iCr gwiscon hwnnw a
thynnu'r llysiau end y sydd, a berw hwnnw nys bo
fel iwd,. a rhoi arno beth o'r llysiau''n byloraid, a pheth o'r
pren alwys yn bylor, a had fi"unel, a had anis yn byloraid,
ag yfed y claf dair llwyaid neu bedair beunydd, ai ddodi
mewn lie tywyll i gysgu ; profedig yw.
RHAG Y PESWCH A CHYFYNGDER YR YSCEFAIN.
§ 338. Cais wraidd marchalan, gwerth dwy geiniog o
bubur duon, gwerth dwy geiniog o wraidd y glyf, au pylon
MEDDYGON MYDDFAI. 1G3
au gwneuthur yn gyfFaith drwy fel puredig, a chymmer
faint wi colommen yn gyntaf y bore ag yn ddiwethaf y nos;
profedig yw.
RHAG DWR RHWNG CIG A CHROEN.
§ 889. Cais o'r ferllys ddau ddyrnaid, a phwya'n dda, au
berwi dnvy ymenyn, ag yn dwym dod ynddo ynogydfaint
wer manlhvyn, a gad ei doddi, ag a liwnnw ira'r lie bo>r
dolur yn dda da.
I DYNNU HWYDD O DRAED NEU GOESAU.
§ 840. Cais ddynaid cochon, a chegyr, a'r geidwad, a
gwna ennaint trwyddynt i'r dyn, a dod y fidiog lie j
gwyddost gerllaw y migrwn, a golch drwy dy ddvvr dy hun
beunydd ; profedig yw.
I DDYN A FO HEB GAEL MYNED WRTH FAES.
§ 341. Oymmer wraidd y gloria, eraill au geilw yr helesc,
a'r rhisg nesaf at yr ysgaw, a sudd y fyddarllysg, au
mortyru'n dda, a chymmer hen gwnv a chyraysg ynghyd ar
llysiau yn faeddedig, yna hidla drwy liain glan, a dyro Tr
claf i yfed yn ddiod ar ei (rythlwnir, a2: efe a jjaiff ei rvddhau
o'r caethiwed hwn ar fyrder, ag na chymmered amgen o
ddiod oni chafFo yn rydd ei gorph.
I DDYN A FO'X GWNEUTHUR DWR GWAEDLYD*.
§ 842. Cais had fFunel, a had perllys neu'r dail lie nas
gellir yr had, au pwyo'n dda au cymysgu a maidd geifr, ai
liidlo'n Ian ag yfed chwart yn ddiod bob bore a nos hyd
ymhen xv diwaruod a gweglyd liallt a sur, ag arfer o
fwyd ir, ysgon, a gwresog, a bara g\venith a digou o lefain
ynddo, a chawl trwy ferw'r ffynon, a dwr ft'ynon, a rhynion
ceirch, a,^ arfer hwnnw ajj iach fvddi.
1G4 MEDDYGON MYDUFAI.
I DYNNERU ARENNAU A FONT WEDI SIGO NEU IIWYDDO.
§ 343. Cy miner ychydig o floneg, a cliymysg ef a dyrnaid
ruw pwyedig, a dyrnaid o'r chwerwyn pentwyn yn bwyedig,
a pheth Uinhad pwyedig, ai faeddu yn blaster, a dod ar liain
wrtli y dolur ; profedig yw.
RHAG CANGCAR A FO HEB DYFU YNGHYD.
§ 344. Cais dora ci a fo wedi sycliu yn wynn, a g\vydyr,
a gwna'r gwydyr yn bylor mid mfd mor ful ag y gellir ei
falu, a chymysg y pylor liwn a thorn y ci ynghyd ag eliw
glywydden, hen eliw sydd oreu, a dod ar y tan a flVia nhwy
ynghyd, a dod ar y clwyf, ag cfc ai iacliaa.
RHAG Y WHARREN, NEU'R CORNWYDON, NEU HEN DDOLUR.
§ 345. Cais amcan o gwyr morwynig, yr un aracan o
ystor tus, a'r un o byg, banner amcan o goed ffrengig, a
phedwar pwyau'r cyfan o lionynt o rwd gwyijfld, dod y
rhain ynghyd, a briwa nhwy i gyd yn fan man, a dod mewn
padell, a thawdd nhwy ynghyd, a thro yn dda rhag ofn
iddynt drigo wrth y badell, yna gwcdi cyflawn dawdd a
chymysg arnynt, tynn i'r llawr, a India yn Ian a dod wrth
y dolur, a da yw yn wir.
RHAG Y WHARREN FFRENGIG, A ELWIR Y FLAG.
§ 346. Mewn amser peryglus a lie bo doluriau a chlefyd-
on traphydus, llyma fodd y gochelir y traphyd ; cais dair
cangen fychein o'r llysiau a elwir rhuw, ag un o'r goUen
ffreinig, a ffigysen [neu ddwy, au bwytta ynghyd, a thi a
fyddi gadwedig ; profedig yw.
ARALL I lACHAU'R CLEF YD.
§ 347. Cymmer bridd bachgenyn ifanc rhwng deg a dou-
ddeg oed, a chras ef a mal ef yn bylor man, yna dod o'r
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mwyaf dJwy IwyukI o lioiio iiiewn ffiolaicl o win gwynn, a
rho Tr claf i'w yfed o'r hwya chwech awr ar ol iddo ef
glefychu, a goreu pa gyiita ; liyn a brofwyd gau fagaid.
RHAG Y DDARWDEN FAAVR, A ELWIR PRYF Y BRENIN.
§ 348. Cais ddail yr iddwg au pwyo au berwi inewn gwer
manlhvyn gyda gwaddod surdrwnc, au berwi yn dda, au
hidlo, yna bwrw am ei ben werth dwy geiuiog o sebon du,
a chymysg ynghyd yn dda, ag eliaw ag ef.
RHAG GWAED YN CERDDED YN EDLIF I FYNYDD AG I
WARED, NEU'R BOSTWM WAED.
§ 349. Cymmer gribau sanffred, a'r geidwad, au crafu, au
pylori, a bwrw megis crimped o''r llysiau mewn wi giar, i
rostio ai fwytta cyn bo ef caled, ag arfer liyn bob dydd
lawn wythnos iieu ragoi-, ag arfer o bylor y mas ar dy gawl
a"'th ddiod yn dwym bob dydd nys bych iach, a bwydau
ysgawn, ir, gwresog, a bara gwenith drwyddo, a digon o
lefain ynddo, a da yw. Da hefyd yw'r feddyginiaeth hon
rag yr hadred, sef traul nattur dyn o'r wialen o'i anfodd.
RHAG YR HADRED, SEF TRAUL NATTUR DYN O'R WIALEN
O'I ANFODD.
§ 350. Cymmer gregyn oestrys, a llosg a phylora nhwy, a
phob afal a chymmer ei fywyn a dod atto'r pylor, a gwua'n
belenau, a chymmer ddwy belen neu dair bob bore'n gyntaf,
ag yn ddiweddaf y nos dros o naw i bymtheg diwaruod.
RHAG Y PANGAU.
§ 351. Cais uu ffigysen ar bumtheg, a thrugain gwen-
hynen a naw, a thynn eu pennau a'u traed a'u hadenydd
ymaith, au pwyo'n bylor, yna dod at y ffigys y pylor hwn,
a chymaint o fel ag ai gwlycho a fo raid, a ])lnvya'r cyfan
IGO MEDDYGON MYDDFAI.
yiii^liyd, a g\vna"'n belenau bob un gymaint ag eirinen wenn,
a rho un i'r claf yn neclireuT pang, gan ei ddal ef ar ei
draed, ag un a fo lai ar ol y pang, a gwna'n llynn nys bo
iach.
RHAG MAGL AR LYGAD.
§ 352. Pob wi yn galed a holl ef ar ei hyd, a dod ynddo
gymaint a chneuen o goprys gwynn yn frwd, ag erbyn y
diferon mewn pottel, a dod ddiferyn yn y Uygad; profedig
yw.
DWR LLYGAID.
§ 358. Cymmer cbwart o ddwr iFynon yngwrthwyneb
haul, a dod ynddo gneuenfaint neu ddwy o goprys gwyn, a
dod mewn crochan pridd i ferwi, a chaeadu'r crochan fal na
ddelo'r anwedd i macs, a berw ar dan araf bedair awr ar
hugain, awr yn berwi, ag awr ar lawr, yna bidla drwy liain
glan a main iawn, a dod i gadw mewn pottel, fe ymgeidw y
dwr hwn yn dda saith mlynedd heb fod un gronyn gwaeth,
dod ddiferyn ar y pryd ar y llygad claf.
ELI I LOYWI LLYGAID.
§ 354. Cais lygaid y dydd, a'r effros, a dail y syfi, a'r
ffenigl cochon, a cliribau sanfFred, a'r mill, a'r benlas, a'r
bengaled, a gwraidd y cawn, a dail y gwiuwydd, a llysiau'r
gerwyn, a'r dderwen fendigaid, a chymmer o bob un gymaint
ai gilydd, au pwyo yn dda gyda menyn, au gadu wytli
niwarnod ag wyth nos i sefyll, a'r uawfed dydd berwa''n
dda, a hidla drwy liain glan, a dod i gadw mewn llestr
gwydr yn gaedig iawn, a rho gymaint a gronyn o wenitli oV
eli hwnnw ar y llygad ; a rhoV eli uchod deuddydd a dwy-
nos yn y llygad i dreulio'r wybren a'r bilen, aV magi,
a rho'r eli yma'r drydydd nos yn y llygad, a hwn ai gylch
yn glaer ag yn loy w ; profedig yw.
MEDDYGON MYDDFAI. 1G7
RIIAG DYWEDVD TRWY GWSG.
§ 355. Cymmer had rliuw neu'r dail, a phwya nhwy
ynghvd am ben aesel onid el yn fwdran, yna dod am ben
hen gwrw a chymysg yn dda, a hidla drwy liain glan, a
rho yfed.
RIIAG BREUDDWYDO YXGHWSG.
§ 356. Cymmer y dderwen feudigaid, a chrog am fwnwgl
y dyn, neu rho iddo eu sudd hwynt i yfed wrth fyned i'r
gwely, ag ni freuddwyda, yn wir gwir.
I DORRI RHYNGEX SEF Y FFLEUM.
§ 357. Cymmer ymenyn heb halen, a mel gymaint dra
chymaint, a chymysg yn dda, ag eli'a dy fryst ag ef, da yw.
ARALL RIlAG YR UN PETH.
§ 358. Cymmer berllys yr helau a berw mewn aesel gwin
da, ag ar aesel berw golch dy fryst, a chymmer y llysiau
berw a rho mewn Iliain a rhwym wrth dy fryst dri neu
bedwar o oriau.
RHAG BRATH DRAEX, NEU NYDWYDD MEWN CYMMAL LLE
BO'R TWLL WEDI CAEAD.
§ 359. Cymmer flawd gwenith mor fan fal ag ai gellir, ag
ardymhera ef a gwin gwynn, a berw ynghyd nys bont yn
dew, a chwlwm wrth y dolur gynboethed ag y gellir ei
oddef, a hynny a egyr y twll ag a dynn allan y brynti a'r
gwenwyn, ag o eisiau gwin cymmer gwrw da.
MEDDYGINIAETH RHAG BRIWIAU MEWN COES NEU FRAICH,
NEU LE ARALL.
§ 360. Cymmer ferw ffynhonau a golch yn Ian a berw
mewn dwr glan nys bont yn dyner, yna cur hwynt yn dda
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iiiewn niortyr, a rlio mewn padell ffrio l;m, a chyda nhwy
wer carw neu fwch, neu Iwdn dafad, a rho hefyd amcan o
waddod gwin a brann gwcnith, a fFria'r cwbl yngliyd, a
gwna blaster o bono, a rbo yn dwyni wrtb y lie dolurus, ag
felly rbo dri neu bedwar plaster, fel y bo achos yn gofyn.
PETHAU DA I'R YMHENNYDD.
§ 261. Ymsawru a mwsg, a cbammil, ag yfed g\\m yn
fesurol, a bwytta dail y geidwad yn fynycb, cadw y penn
yn wresog, mynycb olcbi'r dwylaw, rliodio''n fesurol, cysgu'n
fesurol, gwrando ycbydig gerdd dant yn fynycb, gwrandaw
cannau tafawd, ymsawru a rhos cocbon, golcbi'r arleisiau
mewn distyll rlios, yfed diod o ddwr wrtb fyned i gysgu,
darllain ycbydig cyn myned i gysgu, bwyd ysgon.
PETHAU DRWG PR YMHENNYDD.
§ 362. Pob rbyw ymbennydd, glytbineb, meddwdod,
bwyd yn yr bwyrnos, cysgu llawer yn ol bwyd, awyr
lygredig, digofaint, trymder calon, sefyll yn fynycb yn ben-
noetb, bwytta llawer neu ar ffrwst, gormod gwres, gormod
gwilad, gormod oerfel, llaetb caws, pob rbyw o gnau, mynycb
ymdrocbi, wynwyn, garlleg, manswrddan, ymsawru a rbosyn
gwyun, gormod godineb, gormod cerdd dafod a tbant, dar-
llain gormod, diod gryf cyn myned i gysgu, aflonyddwcb
ynghwsg, ymprydio rby fynycb, gwlycb mynycb ar draed.
RHAG LLOSG TAN NEU LYNN BRWD.
§ 363. Cymmer wynn wi, a rbo ar lestr pewtyr, a
cbymysg gydag ycbydig elyf carreg, gau rigloii dda nys bo
megis possel, yna cymmer ddryll o liain teg a gwlycb mewn
eliw gliwydden neu eliw cuau'r fiawydd, neu ryw liw arall
a fo bawddaf ci gael, a rbo^' lliain bwnnw ar y Uosg, ag
arno ef rho'r caws, possel, aV elyf, a'r gwynn wi ar ei ucba,
ag fe dyn allan y poetbni, ag a iachaV clwyf.
MEDDYGON MYDDFAI. 109
MEDDYGINIAETH RHAG Y DADWRDD YN Y PENN, VR HWN
SYDD YN RHWVSTRO CLYWED.
§ 364. Cjiiimer benn garllegyn ai bilio, ag yspigo buiiii)
neu chwech twU tua'i ganol ai drochi mewn mol newydd
gloyw, a rlio yn dy glust a gwlan du ar ei 61, a gorwedd
bob nos ar yr ystlys arall, a gad sofyll y garllegyn yn dy
glust saith neu wytli niwarnod, ag ef o dditb ryugen yn y
penn, ag a ry'r clywcd eilwaith.
RHAG Y FRECH FAWR.
§ 365. Cymmer berllys yr hel, a thorr, a phwya nhwy
yn fan, a rho mewn pot o sentdradoles a dwr ffynon, dod
yndo ymcnyn a halen, a gwna gawl o lionynt, ag yf o hano
unwaith neu ddwy yn yr wythnos.
ARALL RHAG YR UN PETH.
§ 366. Cymmer biod dri neu bedwar o honynt, a hoUt
hwynt a cbyllell, a rho mewn crochan distyllydd y pluf a'r
perfedd a'r cwbl o honynt, ag a'r dwr distyll, neuV edlyn a
gei honynt golch y dolur, ag yn amgenach yr wynel), a'r
ddwy feddyginiaeth yma sydd brofedig.
RHAG LLOSG TAN.
§ 367. Cymmer y gliw a dynner o'r Ihnhad a dod ar y lie
llosgedig ag asgell, ag efe a dynn dannau'r tan, ag a iaeluVr
dolur, gyn decced ag y gwnaeth erioed un fcddyginiactli
arall.
RHAG Y GARREG, NEU ATTAL GWNEUTHUR DWR.
§ 368. Cymmer chwart o win gwynn a gwna bossel o
bono, a chymmer ymaith y cawslacth, a rho yn y posscl
bwys pcdwar ceiniogbwys o grafion scbon gwynn, a borw
ef, ag yf o bono yn dwyma gellych, a da yw yn wir.
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I'll SAWL NI ALLANT WNEUTHUU DWU.
§ 369. Cymmer garrcg fflynt neu gallestren, a rho yn y
tan nys bo yn bocthloyw, ag a honno twym dy ddiod o
gwrw cadarn, ag yf.
I BERI I UN WNEUTHUU DWR.
370. Cymmer y perllys y bedwaredd rann o ddyrnaid, a
chymaint a hynny o ffunel cochon, a briwa liwynt yn dda,
a dod mewn cwppanaid o hen gvvnv, a gwna bossel o bono,
ag yf y cwrw, ag efc a wna Ics iti ; profedig yw.
I ATTAL GWAED O AUCHOLL NEWYDD.
§ 371. Cymmer ddail cennin, a phwya hwynt am ben
mel a cbann gwenith, a chymysg a raaedd yn dda nes bont
yn dew, a nad ei fyned yn agos iV tan, ond i gyd yn ocr
rho wrth y clwyf.
DWR LLYGAID DA.
§ 372. Cymmer afalau pydron a hidla hwynt drwy ddwr
ffynon, a golch dy lygaid ag fe loywa'r golygon, ag a garth
o honynt y brynti.
ARALL.
§ 373. Cymmer goprys a rho mewn dwr ffynon, a hidla
fc yn Ian, a phan elych i'r gwely taro amrannedd dy lygaid
ag of, a difera both yn dy lygaid.
RHAG AFIECHYD YN YR YSCEFAIN, A'R AFU, A'R DDWY-
FRONN.
§ 374. Arfer o fvvytta naw gronyn o bubur bcmiydd, a
da y w yn wir.
RHAG PUB GWRES A PHOETIIDER YN YR WYNEB, BYT
FAE EF TAN ST. ANTWN.
§ 375. Cymmer chwart o ddwr cafn y gof, dyrnaid o
ddail y geidwad, dyrnaid o ddail llwyl'cn ncu ci risglyn glas,
MEDDYGON MYDDFAI. 171
ceiniogwerth o elyf, a bcrw liwynt ynghyd oni dderfydd
lianncr y dwr, a dod i gadw mown llestr pridd, ag ira'r
wyncb ag ef.
RHAG GWAYW MEWN AELODAU, NEU'R CEFN, NEU'R
YSTLYSAU.
§ 376. Cymmer ddistyll bendigaid, neu ddistyll gwin, ag
eliw traed defaid, a dod mewn llestr pridd, au claiaru au
cymysg ynghyd yn dda, ag ira'r lie cystuddiedig, gau roi
digon ddillad yn gynnes ar y dyn.
MEDDYGINIAETH BROFEDIG RHAG GWAYW.
§ 377. Pwya berllys yr liel, a rlio mown distyll bendigaid
neu ddistyll gwin, a hidla drwy wasg, a dod iloneg bacdd
yn doddedig am ei benn, a chymysg yn dda, ag a hvmn
yn d\vym ira'r lie dolurus.
RHAG GWAYW NEU HWYDD YN Y GLINIAU.
378. Cymmer chwart o win seg, a dyrnaid oV gryw a
elwir teira gan eraill, a berw ynghyd, a phan fo banner berw
dod ynddynt ynienyn newydd a berw cilwaith ynghyd o
chwart i bcint, a phan elych i'r gwely golch dy draed yn
dda ag ef, a gwlych liain tri dyblyg neu bedwar yndo, a
rho ef o beutu'th liniau dolurus yn boetha byth y gellych ei
oddef dros chwech neu saith o noswcithi, ag efe a wna les
mawr yn ddilys, os bydd distyll gwin neu ddistyll bendigaid
dod Iwyaid am benn hwnn yn ei ferw pan fo ar fod yn
ddigon, a chymysg yn dda.
I ATTAL GWAED O ARCHOLL, NEU DRWYN.
§ 379. Cymmer hen liain a gwlych yu dda mewn aesel
gwin coch, neu o oisiau hwunw yu yr aesel a fo, yua llosg
yn bylor a rh<» hwnnw ar yr archoll, ag fo attal v gwacd ar
172 MEDDYGON MYDDFAl.
frys, OS o'r trwyn y bydd y g^vac(lu hwyth i fynu i>
ffroenau y pylor Invn drwy asgell.
PLASTER I DDOLUR, NEU FRIW, NEU HWYDD NI BO
AEDDFED.
§ 380. Cyminer flawd a berw ef mewn Uactli buwch
newydd odro, nys bo cyndewed ag iwd, a rlio mewn padell
gydag amcan o wer llwdn dafad, a berwa nhwy yn dda, au
cyinysg yn dda, ag felly gwna'u blaster a dod ar y dolur yn
boctiia byth ag y gellir ei oddef.
RIIAG DANT CI.
§ 381. Cais y ddiwid fendigaid, a garlleg, a gwyn wi,
a gwua yn blaster, a dod wrtho, ag iacli y bydd.
I AEDDFEDU CORNWYDON.
§ 382. Cymmer beint o laeth crai a dod ar y tan, a rho
yndo amcan o fraster llwdn dafad gwedi ei friwo, dyrnaid o
flawd ceirch, a cliur a maedd yn dda tra bcrwo, a gad ferwi
nes bo"'n dew fal y gellech ei osod ar liain glan, a rho yn
dwym wrth y dolur, a phan dorro dod ycliydig o dwrpaut
ar ledr gwyun, ai bigo'n llawn tyllau.
RHAG BYDDARWCH CLUSTIAU.
§ 383. Cymmer sudd y cennin a bustl gafr ynghyd, a
chymysga'n dda, a bwrw yn y clustiau, a rho wlan yn ei 61.
RHAG TYWYLLWCH LLYGAID.
§ 384. Cymmer had y melynllj's drwy wlith y bore, a
mortyra'n ftest, a hidl y sudd yn Uwyr, a ehymysg a niel
gloyw gymaint tra chymaint, a berw yn flcst hyd uys el dan
cf draian, a dod mewn llestr gwydr, a rho ar dy lygaid pan
I'o raid.
MKDDYGON MYDDFAI. 173
RHAG Y CRAFU.
§ 385. Cymmer wraidJ y tafol ag ymcnyn, a^phwya''!*
gwraidd a hidl drwy liain, a phura y menyn yn Ian, a berw
y sudd cCr menyn, a dod niewu padcll i gadw, a phan fo
aclios twyma cf, ag ira'r cnawd ag cf doirgwaith, scf bob yn
ail ddydd, ag iach y byddi.
RHAG CIG DRWG.
§ 386. Cymmer wlan du, a sebon, a phylor cig eidion
wedi ei bobi, a dod ar y cig drwg, ag fe fydd iach.
RHAG DOLUR PEN CYMMAL.
§ 387. Cymmer fywyn bara gwenith oV ffwrn, ag afalau
surion, a chribau sanffred, a dant y Hew, mortyra nliwy yn
dda, gogymaint au gilydd o lionynt, a Berw mcwn gwin cocli
da onid el yn blaster, a dod wrth y dolur mor frwd ag y
geller ei oddef, ag fe dyrr allan yn gornwydon.
PETHAU DRWG I'R GALON,
§ 388. Gwynwyn, pys, cwmin, garlleg, tristwch, digofaint,
gormod pryder, gormod trafel, yfed dwr oer yn ol trafel,
a newyddion drwg ; a dyn a chwenyclio iecliyd a hir einioes
gwilied gadw ei galon yn iach, ag na fwyttaed, ag nag yfed,
ag na wnaed ai drycco fal y dywed gwr doeth, iach calon,
iach y cyfan.
RHAG DOLUR MEWN CVMMAL.
§ 389. Cymmer wlydd, a dail pricllau, au blodau, a'r
gclestr, a phwya''u dda ynghyd, a bcrw drwy ymenyn Mai,
ag elia'r dolur ag ef yn dwym, ai gadw mewn blwch pridd.
RHAG YR WRWST.
§ 390. Cymmer yr hoccys, a burvv mown dwr llynou, a
gvYua^n blaster, a dod wrth y dolur.
1 7 \ MEDDYGON MYDDFAI.
AKALL.
§ 391. Bcrw dail y goinog mewn hufen llacth dafad, a
dod wrth y dolur.
RHAG LLOSG EIRA.
§ 292. Cymmer y dail sydd ar wyneb y gors yn sychion, a
j)lnvya'n dda, a cliymnier wyn \vi a pliwya'ii dda am benn y
Uysiau, a chy miner menyn Mai a dod attynt, a phwya'll tri
ynghyd, a dod wrtho yn blasdcr, ag iach y bydd.
RHAG Y DDANNOEDD.
§ 393. Cymmer wraidd y gelestr, a phwya'n fFcst, a hidla
drwy liain, a bwrw y sudd a bon asgcll i'r ftroen bella
oddiwrth y dant claf.
RHAG LLOSG TAN.
§ 394. Cymmer redyu au pwyo'n dda am benn llaetb
defaid, a dod ar y lie bo"'r llosg ag asgell, a cliymysg y rliai
hynny yn ddwys cyn ymgymmeryd ag ef.
I ATTAL GWAED O ARCHOLL.
§ 395. Cymmer ddail y rbuw, a phwya'n dda a dod ar
yr archoll.
ARALL.
§ 39G. Cymmer geingcn banadlon a chraf y rbisgl a gwna
lei banc, a dod yn yr archoll, a chlym yn dda.
RHAG TARWYDENNAU.
§ 397. Cymmer ddail y lili, ag eiddcw'r ddaear, a j)hwya''n
dda ynghyd, ag yna cymmer wer defaid a ffria nhwv
ynghyd yn dda, yna cymmer gedych a hidla ag elVa y
dolur ag ef.
MEDDYGON MYDDFAI. 1 7i3
ARALL.
§ 398. Cymmcr woUt ceirch, <a llosg, a dod y llndw
hwnnw ar y lie dyfrllyd, ai riglo arno, ag cfc ai sycli
yn iacli.
RHAG GWELED BREUDDWYDON.
§ 399. Oymmer gribau sanffred, a dod am dy wddwg, ncu
ynteu cyramer eu sudd hwynt yn ddiod wrth fyned i gysgu.
RHAG CANGCAR YN Y GENAU, NEU YN Y GRUDDIAU, NEU
MEWN UN LLE ARALL.
§ 400. Cymmcr viii. ncu ix. o ddail y gcidwad, a pliwya
yn dda gydag yehydig o halen a gwin egr, a gwna blasder
a dod wrtho.
MEDDYGINIAETH RHAG TYWYLLWCH LLYGAID.
§ 401. Cymmer xii. gronyn o wenith teg, a dod y gwenith
ar uclia rhyw ham glan llyfn ocr, ag yna cymmer ryw liarn
arall a gwna of yn frwd yn y tan, a gwasg yr harn twym
ar y gwenith, ag fe a^r gwenith megis yn fel, yna cymmer
oddiar yr harn oer, yna tynn yr asgell a'r mel drwyV
llygad dolurus^
I ATTAL GWAED PAN DORRER UN O'R GWYTHI PENNA, NEU
UN O WYTHI'R GALON.
§ 402. Cymmer ddryll o gig eidion hallt, y gwynn a'r
coch yng nghyd gymaint ag a debygoch a el yn y clvvyf, a
dod ef ar y morwor nys bo poeth trwyddo, ag felly yn
dwym rho yn y clwyf, ag fc baid y gwacd a rhedeg.
RIIAG GWAYW MEWN AELOD A CHWYDD, NEU IIEB CHWYDD.
§ 403. Cymmer y glarllysg a chymysg a mcl, a mclyii
wiau, a chann blawd gwenith, ai roi yn blasder wrth y
17G MEDDYGON MVDDFAI.
(lolur, ag o bydd nattur crawn, fc ai crynhoa cf i grawiiu,
onid of fo a dynn y gwayw ag ai gwna ef yn iach.
RHAG HAINT Y BRENHINOEDD.
§ 404. Cymmcr wraidd y lili, a chras dan y llydw, a
gwna ef yn bylor, a chymysg y pylor hwnnw a saera gwydd,
neu a bloncg, a dod wrtho, ag iachau a wna.
I DYNNU ESGYRN TYNNON O BEN DYN, NEU O LE ARALL.
§ 405. Oymmer gribau sanffred, a'r dderwen fendigaid, a
rhuw, a chymysg hwynt a chann gwenith a gwynn wiau, a
phwyo a maeddu""!* defnyddion hynn am ben eu gilydd yn
dda, a rho wrtho yn blasder.
RHAG FOB RHYW GRACH NEU DARDDANT AR Y CROEN,
A'R PENN CRACH.
§ 406. Cymmer wynwyn a briwa nhwy'n fan, ag yna
berw mewn dwr neu win egr, ag a hwnnw golch y lie
dolurus neu amhwyntus, ag fe a ddifa'r penn orach, a phob
tarddant arall ar y corph.
RHAG Y CRAFU.
§ 407. Cymmer wraidd y tafol, a briw nliwy^n fal am
bcnn ymenyn newydd, a ffria nhwy gan gymysg a maeddu
yn dda, ag ira'r daf, ag iach a fydd.
ARALL.
§ 408. Cymmer wraidd marchalan a glanha nhwy"'n Ian,
a berw mown dwr ffynon, a ])]ian font ddigon, pwya nliwy a
maedd nhwy am ben hufen tew da, neu ymenyn hcb halcn
nys bo^n eli, ag eliVr enawd ag ef dair gwaitli mewn naw
niwarnod, sef unwaith bob tri diwarnod, ag yf y dwr ymha
nn y bcrwyd y gwraidd bob bore a nos, lawn ddiod o liono,
MEDDYGON MYDDFAI. 177
a hynn y sydd dda rhag y frech yu y gwaed, a<,' yn y
llynnor yn peri tarddiant ar y crocii, a clirach, a chornwyd-
on, a'r ymgrafu, a tharwydennau.
RHAG CORNWYDON.
§ 409. Cy miner wlan du a sebon du, a rhwyni ynghyd
wrth y dolur neu'r cornwydon.
RHAG Y CANGCAR YN Y GEXAU.
§ 410. Cymmer sudd dail llydain y ffordd a gwin egr, a
distyll rhos coclion, a chymysg ynghyd, a golch y genau
yn fynych ag ef.
RHAG Y FRECH YN Y GWAED AG YN Y LLYNNOR.
§ 411. Cymmer wlydd a phwya''n dda a hidla eu sudd
dan wasg, ag yf gwppanaid dair gwaith yn y dydd ar dy
gythlwng, a da yw yn wir yn wir.
ARALL.
§ 412. Cymmer wlydd, a dail llwyfen neuV rhisgl nesaf
iV prenn, a berw fFynhonau, a llysiau'r llwyg, a eilw rhai y
morlwyan, a phwya'n dda, a hidla'r sudd dan wasg, ag yf
yn unig ddiod hyd ymhen y naw niwarnod, ag na chymmer
yn fwyd amgen na bara gwenith da dnvy ferman a llaeth
geifr, profedig yw ; a'r feddygyniaeth honn a'r un uchod a
iacha^r frech yn y gwaed a'r llynnor, a'r maenwynon, a'r
darwyden fawr, a elwir y lladin i/scabies, a phob gwenwyn
brechlyd yn y gwaed a'r llynnor, achos y gwenwyn liynny y
daw'r ysgyfeinwst, a doluron eraill yn niferawg iawn, fwy
nag a gred nas gwypo.
RHAG LLOSG TAN NEU LYNN BRWD.
§ 41 3. Cymmer sebon du neu wynn a rhwym wrth y lie
dolurus,
•2 A
178 MEDDYGOX MYDDFAI.
RIIAG TARDDIANT AR WYNEB.
§ 414. Cymmor gann gwenitli, a chymysg a gwincgr, a
iiR'l, a rlio ar dy wyneb.
RIIAG CORNWYDON A PHENDDUYNOD.
§ 415. Cyinincr gann gwenith, a bloneg moch, a menyn
Mai, a dail y geidwad, a pliwya yngliyd a gwna''n blasder a
rho wrth y coruwyd, ag fe ai addfeda, ag a dynu allan y
crawn.
RHAG DOLUR NEU HWYDD AR FRONN GWRAIG.
§ 416. Cymmer risgl celyn moelon a phwya'n dda, a
chymysg a hen gwrw da, ai hidlo, ai roi i'r claf i yfed, ag
arfer o hano, ag iach a fydd yn wir profedig, ag ni chrawnaV
fronn ddim.
ARALL.
§ 417. Cais lysiau'r waedling a gwi trwy'r blisg, a phwya''n
dda ag yn fal am bcnn cu gilydd, a dod yn blasder wrth y
fronn, ag iach a fydd yn wir.
RHAG GWAYW YN Y COESAU.
§ 418. Cymmer y llysiau a elwir earn yr ebol, (ynt debyg
i ddail y cyngaw,) nhwy a llaeth buwch unlliw, a rhyniun
blawd ceirch, a menyn Mai, au berwi yn dda a dod yn
blaster wrth y dolur yn dwym.
RIIAG CYFYNGDEK YN Y BRYST.
§ 419. Cymmer isob, ac ysgol Fair, gymaint tra chym-
aiiit, pwya'n dda a hidla'n lun, a chymmer wynu wiau a
thynimhcra hwnnw a'r llysiau am benu cu gilydd, ag yf dri
di\varn<Kl vn was.
MEDDYGON MYDDFAI. 179
ARALL.
§ 420. Cymmer ruw a bcrw yn dda mewn gvvin cgr, a
dyro Tr claf i yfed.
RHAG Y FAM.
§ 421. Cymmer y llysiau llwydon, a ffuncl coclion, a mynt
coclion, au bcrwi iiiywn hoD gwrw yn dda, a hidla yn Ian
trwy liain, ai yfed yn dwym, ag iach y byddi.
RHAG Y MWYTII DRYDEDYDD.
§ 422, Pwy bynnag a yfo sudd cribau sanftred, a sudd
llydan y flPbrdd ynghymysg, fe fydd iach.
RHAG GWAYW NEU HWYDD MEWN COESAU, NEU DRAED,
NEU FREICHIAU.
§ 423. Cymmer flawd ceirch, a llaetli buwch, a bwrw
attynt sudd Uysiau'r gwayw, a clwir llysiau pen tai gan
eraill, a gwer dafad, a dod i gyd i ferwi hyd oni fo ef tew, a
gwna blaster o bono a dod o gwmpas i'r dolur, a hwn a
laesa''r gwayw a'r dolur, ag a yrr yr hwydd ymaith.
RHAG LLYGAD A FO YN RHEDEG.
§ 424. Cymmer felwed duon a berw hwynt mewn dwr gltin,
a chymysg y saem a fo ar wyneb y dwr, ag a hwnnw ira dy
lygad.
ARALL.
§ 425. Cymmer blwm a thodd ef mewn llestr ham, a
thyn i lawr a bwrw arno win egr, a chau arno fal nas
diango^' anwedd, a phan oero ag y bo gloyw arllwys y
gloywon i bottel wydr, a dod yn y bottel garregyn o elyf
maint eneuen fawr, a plian fo aclios wrtho, dod am ben
ferwyn malw, lianucr yn banner, a golch dy lygaid ag ef,
180 MEDDYGON MYDDFAI.
neu dod y gwin cgr hwn am ben gwynn wi pwyodig banner
yn hanncr, a\i pwyo'n 'ngliyd yn dda, a golch dy lygaid
agef.
RHAG GWAYW YN Y PENN.
§ 426. Cymmer lonaid ffedog o dringol, a berw mewn
llaetli buwch unlliw nys bo ym mron sych, a dod yn blaster
wrtli y pen, a dod y claf i orwedd yn y gwely, a dod ddigon
ddillad arno nes bo yn wliwysu.
RHAG OERFEL.
§ 427. Cymmer had y dynaid a berw mewn mel, ag a
liwnnw eli'a dy draed a''tli freichiau, a phob lie arall y bo
aches, ag fe dynn yr oerfel.
RHAG YR EFRYDDIANT, SEF Y PARLYS, A FYTHO'N DWYN
PARABL DYN.
§ 428. Cymmer ddail y geidwad, a dail pennroa, a lie
ni bo dail cymmer wraidd y pennros, a phwya'r llysiau
hynn ynghyd am benn eu gilydd, gymaint dra chymaint, a
hidla drwy gwrw da, a rho Tr claf i yfed ; profedig yw, yn
wir gwir.
RFIAG CLWYF WEDI lACHAU ODDIALLAN AG ODDITANO YN
DDOLURUS.
§ 429. Cymmer flawd haidd, a gwynn wi, a mel, a
chymysg hwynt ynghyd, a gwna blaster, a rho wrth y lie
dolurus, ag fe ai llesha, ag ai iachtia.
I UN A YFODD WENWYN.
§ 430. Cymmer ruw ir, golch cf, a phwya'n fal, a dod
am benn gwin gwynn, a hidla, a rho i'r claf i yfcd lawn
ddiod.
MEDDYGON MYDDFAI. 181
RHAG HWYDD MEWN CROTH, NEU GALEDI BOLA.
§ 431. Cymmcr linod a berw drwy laeth geifr, a dod
wrtho yn fynych yn blaster.
RHAG GWAYW'R FAM.
§ 432. Cymmer fynt y meirch nou"'r tanclys, a phwya'n
dda, a hidla'n Ian, a berw gyda hen gwrw, ag yf yn dwyma
gallot.
RHAG LLYNGER.
§ 433. Cymmer sudd y tanclys, a llefrith, a hidla, a berw
yn dda yny ddifeinw ei draian, ag yf ef yn dwym.
RHAG PEN CRACH.
§ 434. Cymmer byg a chwyr a berw ynghyd, ag eillia'r
pen orach yn hln, a gwna blaster a dod wrth y pen yn
dwyma gellych ci oddef, a gad yna naw diwaruod.
RHAG GWAYW MEWN LLYGAD A FO'N MAGLU.
§ 435. Cymmer felyn wi a blawd gwenith manfal, ag
ychydig o goprys glas, a chymysg yn ffest, a gosod wrth y
llygad, ag fe a dyrr y magi.
RHAG MAGL AK LYGAD DYN.
§ 436. Dod sudd eiddew'r ddaiar ar y magi, a hynn ai
tyrr ag ai iachaa.
RHAG MARCH WRIAINT.
§ 437. Cymmer wynn wi wedi ci bobi, a dod ar liain
wrtho yn blastei".
RHAG GWAYW YN Y CEFN.
§ 438. Cymmer fanal ifainc a berw mcwii dwr rtynon, ag
a^" dwr hwnuw golch y ccfn.
182 MKDDYGON MYDDFAI.
I WK A ro WEDl EI LOSGI GAN WRAIG.
§ 439, Cymmcr clyf mill a chwrw, a chymysc, a gwlych
bilin lliain ynddo, a tliro bcuparth y wialcn.
RIIAG CYFYNGDER BRYST.
§ 440. Cymmer sudd hidledig isob, ag ysgol Fair gymaint
tra chymaint, a chymysg a'r im faint o wynn wiau, ag yf
yn uuig ddiod dri diwarnod.
RHAG DOLUR YN Y BRYST.
§ 441. Cymmer berllys, a dail y geidwad, a phwya
'nghyd a dod ar dy fryst.
RHAG GWAYW DAN YR YSTLYS.
§ 442. Cymmer sudd y geidwad, a gwin wedi ei fwyglo,
un amcan o'r sudd am ddwy amcan o'r gwin, ag yf of, ag
efe a laesa'r gwayw dan yr ystlys a'r groth, ag yn y cylla,
ag y mae'n dda rhag gwayw yu y pen a''r parlys neu'r
efryddwst ; profedig yw.
RHAG Y CLEFYD DU.
§ 443. Cymmer y gryw, sef hwnnw'r teim, a rhuw, a'r
brymllys, ag isob, a gwraidd y perllys, a ffunel, a dail yr
ysgyrr, a elwir yn y lladin chamaerops^ a dwy Iwyaid o had
anis, a berw y cwbl mewn chwart o ddwr a thair llwyaid o
ft'], a hidla drwy liain glan, ag yf o hano yu naws gwaed.
I WAREDU'R CANCAR.
§ 444. Cymmcr ffiolaid o win coch, tair neu bedair llwy-
aid fcl, a chymaint a chneuen fawr o elyf, a chymysg a
berw ynghyd nys treulo'r trydy ran, a hidla ef, a dod mewn
pottel i gadw, a golch y lie clwyfus yn fynych ag ef, a
hynny ai iachu.
MEDDYGON MYDDFAI. 183
I WK WEDI EI LOSGI CAN WRAIG.
§ 445. Cymnier linod, a llaeth geifr gwynnon, a berw yii
iwd, a (lod wrtli y wialen bouparth iddi ; profedig yw.
UHAG DOLUR YN Y PENN.
§ 446. Cymmer Iwyaid o sudd cribau sanfFred, a Uwyaid
o win, a llwyaid o fel, a rlio ynddynt naw puburen, ag yf o
liano bedwar diwarnod, ddeupen y dydd.
I DYNNU BRIW A IIWYDD, AG I ESMWYTHO LLE BO
GWAVW.
§ 447. Cymmer amcan o flawd ccirch, a llaeth myswynog,
a sudd llysiauV gwayw, a gwer manllwyu, a briw hwynt
yugliyd nys bout yu dew, a gwna blaster, a dod yn dwyni
wrth y lie dolurus, a hyun a laesa'r gwayw ag a dynn
ymaith yr hwydd.
RHAG POERI GWAED.
§ 448. Cymmer berllys yr hel, a miut, a rliuw, a chribau
sauffred, a berw hwynt mewn llefrith nowydd odro, ag yf o
hono yn dwym, ag iacli fyddi.
RHAG Y TOSTEDD.
§ 449. Cymmer ddynaid cochon, a phcrllys, a phwya^n
dda yughyd, a dod yn blaster ar y groth.
I GRYFHAU'R LLESTR YN YR HONN Y GORWEDD NATUR-
lAETH.
§ 450. Cymmer fes a chras nhwy yn galcd, a gwna
nhwy''n bylor, dod Iwyaid mewn diodaid o gwrw, da ag yf
yn dwym bob bore dros o wythnos 1 naw diwarnod, a gor-
wcdd vn dv wclv awr ncu ddwv.
184 MEDDYGON MYDDFAI.
DWR DA I'll LLYGAID.
§ 451. Cymmer afalau pydron a hidla hwynt drwy ddwr
fFynon, a golch dy lygaid ag ef, hynuy a lanhaa ag a loywa
dy lygaid yu ryfaddol.
RHAG Y DDANNOEDD.
§ 452. Cymmer ddail y celyn a bcrw raewn dwr ffynon
oer oni bont yn wydnon, yna tynn y crochan it llawr
oddiar y tan, a dod neisied am dy benn, a dal dy enau yn
egored uwch benn y crochan i gael enaint, ag iach y byddi.
MEDDYGINIAETH BROFEDIG RHAG Y DDA^fNOEDD.
§ 453. Cymmer wraidd pelydr ysbain, a golch yn Ian, a
phwya"'n fal, a gvvna o bono dair pellen bychein yn dy law,
pob un am faint plemyscn, a rho^* bel gyntaf rwng dy focli
a'r dant dolums dros amser y cerdder millt ar gam canolig,
ag fel y bo''r dwr yn crynhoi poera fe 'maes, a phyn debyg-
ech fod y belen wedi bod yno gyhyd a hynny, rho arall i
mewn, ag ar ol hynny ymhen yr un faint o amser y
trydydd, yna gorwedd ar dy wely, ag ymgynhesa'n glyd, a
gwedi itti gysgu di a fyddi yn iach, a hynn a brofvvyd yn
fynych gennyf, ag a welais fy hunain yn wared parodol
rhag gwayw'r ddannocdd.
I WYBOD A DORRODD PADELL YMHENNYDD.
§ 454. Os y cnawd fydd yn gyfan i fyny cymmer ag
cilliaV gwallt lie bo'r yssig, a dod liain tran dew yn ddcublyg,
a dod arno wynn wi yn dannedig ar y lliaiu, a chlym cf ar
y dolur dros noswaith, aV bore tynn ef ymaith, ag edrych
OS bydd gwlyb y Ihain, ag os llaith a gwlybaidd y bydd,
dilys vw dorri o"'r asirwrn.
MEDDYGON MYDDFAI. 185
RHAG GWYNT MEWN CYLLAU.
§ 455. Oymraer had moron y meusydd a gwna'n belenau
maint pys, drwy fel, a chymmer bedair ddeupen y dydd
hyd ymliemi tridiau.
RHAG DOLUR GWEFUSEDD.
§ 456. Cymmer wreiddyn y bengaled, a phwya^n dda, a
chymmer hufen llaeth oer a bwrw am ei benn a chymysg
yn dda, a hidla drwy liain glan, a dod y sudd hwnnw ar dy
wefusedd.
I BERI BLYS AT FWYD.
§ 457. Berwa fustl y ddaiar mewn dwr glan gloyw, ag
yfed y claf o hano yn ias gwaed yn wag dridiau bob dydd
naw Uwyaid, ag fe fydd iach.
RHAG CNOAD FOB NEFAIL GWENWYNIG.
§ 458. Oymmer ddail llydan y ffordd ag yf eu sudd
hwynt, a chymmer howen a''r melynllys gymaint un ai
gilydd, a phwya hwynt yn fill, ag ardymhera nhwy a sur-
drwnc a rho wrth y dolur, ag fe laesa'r gwayw, ag a estwng
yr liwydd, ag a dynn allan y gwenwyn.
RHAG CNOAD CI CYNDDEIRIOG.
§ 459. Cymmer ddyrnaid o gribau sanffred, dyrnaid o'r
geidwallt wyllt, dyrnaid o'r mauyglog, ffiolaid o ddwr pant,
a phwya'r llysiau yn dda am benn y dwr, a hidla, a rho
ynddo gciniogwerth o dryagl, a rho ef i'r claf i yfed ddau
neu dri bore ; profedig yw.
RHAG CLWYF AR LYG-\D.
§ 460. Cais hufen llaeth a'r cymaint arall o wynn wiau,
a gwna gadach lliain yn ogymaint aV llygad, a gwlych yn y
blaster a dod wrtho.
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18G MF-DDYGON MYDDFAI.
RIIAG MEDDWI.
§ 461. Cyinincr (MyriKiid o'r bittaii, u clwir crib;iu .s;iii-
ffred, a phwya nhwy'n dda a chymj-.sg a dwr ffynon, a
liidla'n lAn, ai yfed cyn bwytta nag yfed dim arall, ag ni
feddwi y dydd liwnmv.
CVFOD DA I'R PEN A'R CYLLA.
§ 462. Cymmer dair llwyaid o sudd y bittan dri bore o
restr, a bwrw a bon asgell yn dy ffroenau.
HHAG GWAYW YN Y COESAU,
§ 463. Cais y llysewyn a elwir earn yr ebol ddyrnaid, a
cbyniaint o ddail cyngaw, a phwya nhw}'^, a chyniysg nhwy
a Uaeth buwch uulliw, a rhynion ceirch, ag ymenyn, au
berwi yn dda, a dod yn blasder wrth y dolurwayw yn
dwyma fyth y gallot ei oddef, ai esmwytho a wna.
RHAG YR UN PETH.
§ 464. Cais y dail hynny hcb eu pwyo a dod ynghylcli
dy dracd mal amwisg ddydd a nos ; tynnu dwr g^venwynllyd
a wna, weithiau eraill papur llwyd yn yr un modd fal
hosanwisg ; profedig y w.
RHAG Y GIBWST, NEU'R CRONYGLAU AR SODLAU, A THRAED.
§ 465. Cymmer gwybr cwyr yn dwym pan bacr yn hidlo
cwyr, a dod dy draed yn y cwybr twym yn dwyma ag y
gellych ei oddef, a saf arno yn hir ag iach a fydd, sugno
allan y cronyglau a wna.
I OSTWNG Y FAM.
§ 466. Cymmer eli ariau byw, ag ymenyn Mai. noii
flonog modi a ladder fis ]\jai, a cbwyr, a rhwsin, an toddi
MEDDYGON MYDDFAI. 187
ynghyd a llysiau Taliesin yu bwyedig bob un gymaint ai
gilydd, ond bod yn fwy o""!- ymenyn^ neuV bloncg, na"*!*
cwyr, a'r rbwsin, a berwi"*!! dda ynghyd, a hidlo, ag aV eli
hwnnw iroV ystlys y bo'r doliir i fyny ag i wared yn dda
ag yn galedta fyth y gellych ; profedig yw.
RHAG FFAELU MYNED WRTH FAES.
467. Cymmer wraidd llysiauV gloria, eraill au geilw
llysiau'r moch, a phwya'n dda y gwreiddiau fel garlleg gyda
hen gwrw da ai adael gwers i sefyll, a thwymo ycliydig ar
y ddiod yn hidledig, a dyro i'r claf i yfed, ag fe a gaift'
fyned yn rhydd yn wir ; profedig yvv.
RHAG DOLUR AR GRYMIN BYDD CROEX TWN.
§ 468. Cymmer y cwrw goreu ag a ellych ei gael gwart a
banner o bono, a berw yn dda hyd oni threulo fed llonaid
llvvy, ag eli da yw hwnnw rhag pob dolur crymin se osod ar
ronyn o liain crai ar y dolur, ag arfer o hwnuw a sugna'n
oreu i gyd yr amhuredd allan, a chwedi hynny cais eli twf
a dod arno. bydd hwydd yn y goes cais ddail ffion y
ffridd, a phwya, a dod wrtho a phridd y gist ar uclia'r dail,
a da yw.
ARAT,L I ESTWNG YR HWYDD, AG I SUGNO'R DRWG.
§ 469. Cymmer derr a dod bob yn ronyn ar y croen twn
ag arfer o hynny, a da yw.
RHAG I WRAIG GOLLI EI FFRWYTH AI NERTII.
§ 470. Cymmer risg y ddraenen ddu, y nesaf at y preun,
crafu yr ucha heibio, au pwyo yn dda a llaeth buwch unlliw,
ai gymysgu ai roi yn ddiod i'r wraig, a da yw yn wir arfer
bono.
188 MEDDYGON MYDDFAI.
ARALL.
R 471 . Cymmer y dynaid blodeuwyn a phwya'n dda a
dod am benn gwin coch da, a hidlo'n Ian, a dyro'ii ddiod Vr
wrai"- foreu a nos, a alio hi ei yfed o bono, a da yw yn wir
arfer o bono, a cbadw y dynaid yn y ty'n sycbon fal y
galler eu cael yn y gauaf, au pylori'r pryd bynny, a rhoi'r
pylor yn y gwin lawn Iwyaid, ag yfed yn frwd cyn frytted
ao- y gellir, a da yw'r gwreiddau yn bwyedig am ben y
gwin ai hidlo, neu yntau yn bylor yn y gwin, a da cadw y
llysewyn hwn mewn gardd ar ei benn ei bunan.
RHAG DRAEN.
§ 472. Cymmer sebon golcbi, a dod wrtho, ef ai sugna'n
dda, a cbadw wrtbo yny ddel allan.
I ANEFAIL CLAF.
§ 473. Cymmer sebon du, a berw mewn cwrw, a rbo'n
ddiod i'r nefail oi fwrw yn ei wddwg, ag fe a gaiflF fyned
wrth faes.
RHAG CLEFYD BRONN.
§ 474. Cymmer ddail llydain y ffordd a bloneg, au pwyo
yngbyd, a dod wrtho.
RHAG HWYDD MEWN CROTH.
§ 475. Cais faidd geifr, a phwya'r Uysiau a elwir craf y
geifr, a dod am ben y maidd a hidla, ag yf yn unig ddiod
dridiau.
RHAG ATTAL PIS AW.
§ 476. Cymmer y dynaid cochon a pherllys, a gwna
nhwy'n blasder, a dod ar dy werddyr.
MEDDYGON MYDDFAI. 189
ARFER DDA I GADW Y CORPII MEWN lECIIYD.
§ 477. Dod ddwr ffynon oer bob bore ar dj wyneb, a''th
ddwylaw, a'th ddirgelwch, ai gwrw ai benyw, a rhifrla'n dda,
a dod unwaith yr wytlmos ar hyd dy gefn a'th wegil, a
rhio;lo''n dda a lliain frarw.
I LADD PRYF A FO YNGHNAWD DYN.
§ 478. Cyramer floneg twrch coch, ag ymeiiyn Mai, a
dail y geidwad, a mes, a'u maeddu i gyd ynghyd, a gwna eli
o bono, a dod wrtho, a hwnnw ai lladd.
ARALL.
§ 479. Cymmer sudd y geidwad, ag ychydig distyll gwin,
ag elia man y bo pryf, a hynn ai lladd.
RHAG GWAEDLING O DRWYN.
§ 480. Cymmer gocwy * wi a derbyn y gwaed yu y
cogwy, a dyro yn y tan i bobi hyd onid el yn bylor, a bwrw
y pylor hwnnw }T1 y ffroenau, ag ef a ettail y gwaedu ;
profedig yw.
RHAG DOLUR AR FROXN GWRAIG.
§ 481. Cymmer risg y celyn moelon, a phwya'n dda, a
chymysg a hen gwrw da, a hidla, a rho iV claf i yfed, ag
arfer o bono ag iach y bydd yn wir ; profedig yw, ni
chrawna'r fron ddini.
ARALL.
§ 482 Cais lysiau'r waedling a gwi trwy ei blisg, a pliwya
yn dda ynghyd, a dod wrth y fron, ag iach y bydd yn wir.
• Cocwy a cawg.
TOO MRDDYCOX MYDDFAI.
RIIAG GWAYW PA FAXN BYNNAG Y BO MKWN CORPH DYN.
§ 483. Cais waddod gwin seg banner galwyn, aV unfaint
o waddod lien gwrw da, a llonaid ffiol vi o frann gwcnith, a
gwreiddiau llysiau'r pumpbys, au bcrwi yn dda, a pliwyc'r
llysiau yn dda, a berwi'r cwbl yngliyd yn yd el yn wydn,
])wy oreu au berwer goreu i gyd fydd y plasder, a dod
hwnnw wrth y gwayw, ag arfer o bono, ag iacli y byddi yn
wir gyda Duw ; profcdig yw.
RHAG DOLUR Y CYLLA.
§ 484. Cymmer y ganimil a sig yn dda a berw mewn
peint win hyd nys elo'n banner peint, a dyro i'r claf i
yfed, ag iacb fydd yn wir.
ARALL.
§ 485. Berw bad moron y maes a nialw mewn au cudd o
ddwr, ag yf yn ddiod ; profedig y w.
I lACHAU YSSIG, AG I DYNNU DAVR O'R DOLUR, NEU O'R
ESGYRN TYNNON, NEU HWYDD O'R AELODAU NAWS DWR NEU DDRYGWAED
NEU GNAWD ILYGREDIG.
§ 486. Cymmer wer defaid banner pwys punt, ag o sebon
du dimeiwertb, a tbawdd ynghyd, a dod vi wi o wiau gwedi
eu cymysgu gwyn a melyn yngbyd, a chymysg yn dda da,
a tbyn i'r llawr i oeri, gwedi bynny maedd liwy yn dda
yngbyd a gosod ar liain yn gyfled ag y bo raid, a dod wrtb
y dolur, un beunydd neu bob ail ddydd, byd oni bo iacb.
I DYNNU NAWS DWR NEU DDRYGWAED O BEN SIGIEDIG.
§ 487. Golcb dy enau yn Ian, a cbymmer eliw'r liwydden
yn dy ben a bwrw yngblustiau y dyn, a dilyn bynny viii
diwarnod, ag iacb y bydd.
MEDDYGON MYDDFAI. 191
RHAG YEl HAW All Y LLYGAID YR HWN A KLWIR YR OXGLE,
§ 488. Cyinnier pubur a mal yn bylor, a chymysg a mer
asgwrn adain hen wydd, a dod inewn lliain myel, a llosg ar
ucha *niaen yn bylor man, a bwrw hwnnw yn y llygaid
hyd pan fo iach.
ARALL.
§ 489. Cymnier flodau drain gwynnion, a blodau helig, a
g\vna ddwr o honyn, ag arfer o bono nos a bore, a da ydyw
i lygaid a fo yn myned yn goclion, ag yn Uosci, ag yn
dyfrhau.
ARALL.
§ 490. Berw sudd y melynllys yn dy lygaid drwy fon
asgell ddwywaith yn y dydd.
RHAG Y COSSI.
§ 491. Cais ddail y geidwad a pliwya nhwy a gwasg eu
sudd, ag a hwnnw ulhau'r croen yn dda da nos a bore hyd
ymhenn naw diwarnod, ag iach y byddi.
RHAG DYRNOD PEN, NEU GWYMP HYD PAN DORRO'R ASGWRN,
A GWASGARU Y GWINIAD.
§ 492. Cais y bettain, sef cribau sanffrod, a mortyra yn
ftest, a berw yn dda niewn gwaddod gwin coch, a dod yn
blasder wrtho y pen, a Invn ai hoera ag a wasc yr escyrn bob
un at ei gilydd, yn wir.
RHAG GWAYW O NATTUR Y CYLLWST NEU'R TOSTEDD.
§ 493. Cymmer geirch glan, a fFria mewn j^menyn gwyra
yny bo'n rhuddn, a dod wrth y dolur ar gedych brethyn, ag
iach a fydd yn wir, yn wir iawn.
* Maeiij gair a arfcrir yn Morganwg am gra<lcll.
102 MEDDYGON MYDDFAI.
RHAG Y FFLAM IDDIW.
§ 494. Cymmer dom gwyddau a font yn pori allan, aV
carllys, a llygaid y dydd, a'r bettain, ag ymenyn Mai heb
haleu, ai pwyo ynghyd, ai dodi ar y tan i ferwi, ai hidlo^n
Ian, ai ddodi i gadw mewn llestr glan, ag ira'r claf ag iach
a fydd.
I HELAETHU Y CYMMHIBAU, Y MYNYGLAU, A'R BRYST.
§ 495. Cais y ffenel cochon, a brig yr isop a * briw, a
glyf, a berw mewn dwr rhedegog o fiynbonau nad ant fytli
yn ysbydd, a rho i'r claf i yfed, ag iach fydd yn wir iawn.
RHAG BRATH CI CYNDEIROG.
§ 496. Berw'r geidwad wyllt mewn ai cudd o gwrw neu
ddwr, ag yf yn ddiod liyd ymlien naw diwarnod ; profedig
y\v.
RHAG FOB RHYW WAYW DRWG YN Y BYD, PA FOPD BYNNAG
Y DEL.
§ 497. Cais y perllys, a llydan y ffordd, a llygaid y dydd,
aV craf, a grawn paris, a mortyra'n dda a hidla, a dod y
sugn ar gwrw, ag yf ef ; ag o bydd cig eidou, neu laeth-
fwyd, na fwyttaed ag nag yfed pan el yn iach.
RHAG Y CRYGI.
§ 498. Cais y canwraidd Iwyd, a dynaid cochon, ar er-
llyriad, a berw yn dda trwy faidd geifr, ag yf gwppanaid
bob bore, ag iach y byddi.
RHAG Y PAS A'R PESWCH.
§ 499. Cais grafangc y llew mewn glastwr, a dyro i'r claf
ar ei gythlwng y bore, aV nos yn hwyr, a iach a fydd.
* qu. ai Briweg !
MEDDYGON MYDDFAI. 193
RHAG Y PESWCH.
§ 500. Cais ddyrnaid o'r geidwad wenn a moi*tyra''n dda
a dod am benn hen gwrw da, a hidla'n Ian dan wasg, a
gwna bossed o'r cwrw hwnnw, ag yf y gloywon, ag iach y
byddi.
ARALL RHAG Y PESWCH.
§ 501. Cais bylor maen aurbibau gyda wiau caled, a
chyramer ddwywaith y dydd dridiau ar ddeg, ag iach y
byddi.
RHAG Y PESWCH.
§ 502. Cais flonheg hwyad, a bloneg giar, a mer asgvvrn
cig ir, a gwna eli ag ira dy fron, eithr na chwrdd a'r cylla,
ag ef a'th iachaa.
RHAG PEN TARDDEDIG WAITH TES.
§ 503. Cais yn gyntaf waddod cwrw da cadarn, a rhwsin,
a blawd rhyg, a gwna is 3 plaster a dod wrth y pen, ag
wythnos o yspaid i bob un o honynt, ai olchi drwy drwnc
sur, ai grafu yn dda, a thyn y blew marw yn llwyr, a
gellwng waed, lie bo gwrid, a hynny rhwng pob pryd o'r
tri uchod, ag oddyna cais wynn wiau, a fflwr rhyg, a gwna
g, 3 plaster y 3 phryd, ai olchi bob gwaitli yn lan, ag yna
cais wraidd y marchalan, a gwraidd y tafol, a mwg y ddaiar,
aV droedrudd, au pwyo 'nghyd yn dda, au berwi trwy wer
eidion yn dda, au hidlo yn lan, a phan fo oer cais goprys
glas, amcan fach o swiffwr a gwna'n bylor man man a
chymysg ar eli hidlaid, * pjm yn gwbl ag y jS ^ I i o yn dda
o^i fronn, fel y bo fel mel tew, ag a hwnnw eliVr pen yn dda,
ag oddyna cais ymenyn ar unrhyw lysiau daiar a enwyd
* Odddiwrth pwno.
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194 MEDDYGON MYDDFAI.
uchod ond poidio a'r pylor, a gwna eli o honynt, ag elia a
Invnnw ag iach y bydd.
LLYMA FEDDYGIXIAETH I DDYN A FO A PHEN TARDDEDIG
AG HEB BALL EI ORFFEN.
§ 504. Cais byg a chwyr newydd, a tawdd ynghyd, a dod
wrtho yn blasder cyn dwymcd ag y gallech ei oddef, a gad
nawnydd heb ei symmud.
ARALL.
§ 505. Cymmer swlffwr ag arian byw, a mal yng nghyd
gyda garllog rhostiedig a bloneg ffres, a chymysg ynghyd,
ag a liwnnw ir y pen.
ARALL.
§ 506. Cymmer ddau ddyrnaid o'r peuros a elwii- yn y
lladin petilion, cyn y blodeuo ef, a berw mewn pottel o leisy
cadarn hyd ddifant yr banner, yua golcli y penn a'r Ueisy
hynny yn dwym, a cliraf y tarddant lioibo, ag yna gwna
blasder e'r peuros a dod ar y penn yn dwym, a gad yno
ddiwarnod a noswaith ag yna tynn ymaith, a gwna blaster
flawd rlivcf a dwr rliede<Too:, a irwna fal iwd tew a dod ar
ddaru o liaiu a gyrhaeddo dros y dolur, a gad yn iii die a
iii nos, ag yna tynn ymaitli a golch y penn mewn sur-
drwnc cadarn, a chraf ef hyd y cig, a chymmer wynwyn
cochon a gwna blasder dros y dolur au berwi mewn dwr, a
thynihera nhwy gyda sudd rayut y mynydd a bloneg hen
faedd toddedig, ag arfer o hynny ono fo iach.
ARALL.
§ 507. Cais byg, a chwyr gymaiut dra chymaint, a
thawdd ynghyd, a bwrw mewn blwch, a gad ei sefyll mewn
dwr hyd oni fo wedi oeri, a chraf y pen, a golch megis y
dywetpwyd uchod, a chymmer liain a dod ar y pen, a dod
MEDDYGON MYDDFAI. 195
liaiu <ar liynny, yna cais beth o'r un o'r blvvch a gwna'u
bylor a bwrw ar y lliain, a dod liaiu ar hynny, yna cais
dalaith a rhwyin y talcen a'r cyfan fal ua cboller y pylor, a
gad yno vii neu viii diwarnod, ag am bob gwaith ag y
newidych golch y pen mal y dywetbwyd, a phan welech di
na bo raid wrth hynny mwy, cyinmer saem traed VVttiVC&
pan ferwer hwynt, a chwyth ef oddiar y dwr y berwcch
yndo i lestr avail, a dod ef mewn blwch, ag a hwnnw iro'i*
ponn yny bo iach ; profedig yw.
I BERI PR GWALLT DYFU.
§ 508. Eillia"'r pen yn Ian ag ellym, a chymmer fel a sudd
gwynwyu, gymaint dra chymaint, ag a hwnnw eli'aV pen a
rhiglo'u dda bob bore, a phob nos golch y pen a distyll mel ;
profedig yw.
ARALL.
§ 509. Eillia'r pen yn Ian ag ellym, ag elia ef a mel a
bwrw arno bylor molle.
I WELLHAU'R GERI. A ELWIR HEFYD Y DUEGWST, A
CHLWYF Y GERI.
§ 510. Cyramer redyn y cadno, goreu yw'r un a dyfo ar
y dderwen, a berw mewn brecci du cadarn, ag yf lawn ddiod
o hono bob yn ail ddydd dros wyth diwarnod, a bydd fyw
ar fwyd cyfarpar o gig ffres heb lysiau eithr cymuieryd bara
gweuith uchelgras gydag ef, ag yfed yn ddiod gwin da neu
gwrw a llefrith yr unfaint o'r naill a'r Hall, eithr yniddiodi^n
arbedgar, a chymmer bylor had y garddwy, a'r fFunel, a
moron y maes, ag anis, a chanel a'r cyfryw lysiau sychon ar
dy ddiod, a cherdded yn dda bob dydd, ag ymgais a cherdd
dafawd a thant a ganer gan arall, ag nag ymarfer dy hunau
a cherdd, ag o ymarfer a'r pethau hyiiu ti a ymwellhei drwy
Dduw.
196 MEDDYGON MYDDFAI.
RHAG MWYTH Y GALON.
§ 511, Cymmer isgell y bennigan ruddgoch, a ehvir yn
lladin cariophilwm major, am benn mel, a phylor had anis,
a had ft'uuel yn fwriedig arno, lawn ddiod uos a bore, a
chadw'r blodau yn sych fal y gallech eu cael yr amser a fo
achos o rflwyddyn.
PLASDER I ESTWNG HWYDD BRATH NEU DDYRXOD, NEU YSSIG
ARALL AR GORPH DYX, MEU AR AELOD LLE BO'R HWYDD Y.N CUDDIO'R YSSIG.
§ 512. Cymmer ddyrnaid da o ddail yr helogan, a elwir
yn y lladin oleoselimcm, a chann gwenith, a gwynn pedwar
gwi, mortyra"'r llysiau yn dda, a phwya'r gwynn wiau oni fo
teneu, a dod y rhain am ben y cann gwenith a chymysg yn
blasder, a dod wrtho, ag ef a dynn yr hwydd yn Uwyr, fal
y galler gweled yr yssig yn ddiffael.
RHAG Y DYRGLWYF, A ELWIR YX Y LLADIN HYDROPS.
§ 513. Cymmer does peilliaid croyw, a gwna'n goecwy
neu bastai fawr fal y gweddai ynddi wydd neu dau gapwllt
o'r lleia, a llanw y coccwy a'r llysieuoedd da hynn, nid
amgen na dau ddyrnaid oV geidwad ddof, dau ddyrnaid oV
ysgaw bendigaid, ag un dyrnaid o'r ddanhogen, sef cribau
sanffred, ag un dyrnaid o ferwV dwr, ag un dyrnaid
dafod yr hydd, ac un dyrnaid o wraidd y perllys neu'r
halogan gwedi eu sigaw, a banner dyrnaid ©""r isob, a banner
dyrnaid o'r madwysc a elwir yn lladin aquilegia, a rhoi pob
un o'r llysieuoedd yma, ond y perllys, yn y cafrom, yna cais
wncyn o bylor gwraidd neu farfau cennin, wncyn o bylor
anis, dau wncyn o bylor y glyf, au rhoi yng nghyd oil yn
y coccwy uchod a chau aruynt yn dda a'r toes, ai roi
mewn flwrn frod gyfennyd a'r bara, a chrasu'n dda, ai
thynnu allan yn frod ai thorri yn bedwar rhann, ag
vn frvdion en rhoi mewn llostr pridd dijronaid ei faint, air
arnoedd dau alwyn o hen jrwrw da a chadarn wedi ci dvnnu
MEDDYGON MYDDFAI. 197
oddiar y gwaddod, a cliau ar y llestr yn dda da, a gadu felly
i wastadhau un noswaith, ac o hynny allan yfed cryn ddiod
o hono dair gwaith beunydd y bore, banner dydd, a'r nos, a'r
llynn hwnnw a fydd lacciiad itti sy dymherach no''r lleill, a
bwrw ychydig o ludy'r banal arno bob gwailh, ai yfed felly, a
hwnnw a'th geidw, ag a etteil y dyrglwyf ; profedig yw.
Y MODD Y GWNEIR LLYDY BANAL YR IIWN SY DDA lAWN
RHAG Y DyilGLWlF A RUAG Y TOSTEDD O'l ROI AR DDIODYDD CVPAMWEDD.
NEU EI G-VJirSGU A MEL, AI WXEUTHUR YN GYFFAITH, NEU Y.\ BELENAU, A
CHYMMERYD AJICAX HONO NOS A BORE, DIM LLAI XA PHEDAIR PELEN NEU
SWMP HYXXY o'R CYFFAITII.
§ 514. Cymmer dafell fawr o liarn neu faen crasu, a
thwyma yny bo coch tanllyd, a dod fanal irion ar y dafell
amser y bont yn eu llawn had sydd oreu, a gad losci y
llysiau au trafod yn dda, a llosei fal hynny yn y bo mesur
ffiol chwech oV llydy, yna ei roi ynghadw, a chaead yn dda
iawn ar y llestr ai cadwer ynddo, fal nad elo naws o'r awyr
atto nag oddiwrtho, a phan bo achos ymarfer a llwyaid o
hono ar gryn ddiod o hen gwrw cadarn a da, neu ar fedd
hen da, neu ar ddiod o win ffwvnn da.
RHAG IDDW COCH GWRESAWG, A HWYDD AG ANGHERDD,
A LLOSGACH ME^VN CYMMAL, NEU AELOD ARALL.
§ 515. Cais beilliaid blawd haidd ag ymenyn wedi ei
gyweirio yn Ian, a rhoi ychydig halen yndo fel pe baid yn
ei fu'ytta, ai gymysgu a'r peilliaid bob yn ychydig yn o
gymaiut un ai gilydd, a gadw mewn llestr glan yn gaeedig
cyd ag y mynnech, ai roi ar frethyn neu liain wrtho lie bo'r
dolur, a"- o chyfyd fel lefain ymod yn dda a llafnen o bren,
ao- caleda neu sychu tymhera a gwynn wi, ag arfer ag ef ; a
iach a fyddi yn wir Dduw, canys profedig yw.
RHAG TARWDEN DDRWG.
§ 616. Cais wydr a phylora, a chymysg a sebon du, a
dod wrthi yn fynych, ag iach a fydd.
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KIIAG POB GWAVW IDDW RHWYMEDIG NEU CHWYDD-
EUIG A FAI YN RUWYMO AELODAU DYN AI GEFN, O NATTUR IDDW GWRESOG.
§ 517. Cais y ce^id, a'r lledlys, aV malw, aV ffenigl
coclion, a blodau yr elestr os ceir, a<:^ onid e cais yr hoccas,
a briw hwynt rwnf; dy ddwylo, yr hoU lysiau, a bcrw yn
nwr y claf yn hir hir, a bwrw am ei ben ychydig ymenyn
gwyra ai ferwi yn ffest, ai dynnu i'r llawr, ag a hwnnw
golchi y dolur yn frwd, a rhoi y llysiau yn blaster wrtho yn
frwd ar gadach bretbyn, ai adu wrtho noswaith, ag yna ei
dynnu ai dw^^mo drachefn ai osod wrtho yr ail waith, ag
arfer o hwnnw yn y bo iach ; a gwell y dwr dyn ei hun na
dwr dyn arall rhag ei fod yn glwyfus, ag arfer o hynny a
thi a fyddi yn iach yn lie gwir.
RHAG Y COSSI AR DDYN, A DWR I LADU EF PLE BYNNAG
Y BO EF AR GORPH DYN.
§ 518. Cymmer bottelaid o ddwr glan, a dyro mewn
llestr glan ar y tan, a chymmer un o'r elyf, ac wncj'^n o'r
coprys glas, a dyro yn y dwr, a berw yn dda, ag yna tynn
i'r llawr a gad i loywi, a dyro ef mewn pot pridd a chaeadu
arno yn dda, a phyn fo rhaid wrtho dod beth o bono i
dwymo, ag yna cymmer gadach lliain a golch y dolur ag ef,
ag iach a fyddi, ac a sych y cossi ag ai diffrwytha.
RHAG YR EFRYDDWST SEF Y PARLYS.
§ 519. Cymmer ychydig o ddail y bae, a'r geidwad wyllt,
a dail syfi, a dail neu wreiddiau y sammwl, a dail y gwydd-
wydd, a rhosmari, a mortyra bob un wrtli ei Iiunan yn fal
mal o'r llysiau hynn, a chymysg a bloneg a gwna belen
fach o bob un o honynt, a dod mewn pot pridd dog diwarnod,
ag yna dod mewn padell a thorr hwynt yn fan, a gyrr wres
ynddynt uwcli ben y tan, a chymysg ag ymenyn Mai neu
eliw bras, a India drwy gadach yn dwyni, a dod mewn
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gwydren, a phan eloch i wcitliio ag ef dod wrth trm bob
ainser y bore a"*!' nos, ag cf A, yn iacli gyda Daw, profedig
yw.
RHAG Y GWST MAWR NEU'R GWST MWYTH, SEP Y BYDD
TN Y CYMALAU a'r TUAED, a'R DWYLAW, AG YN« NGIIWYD Y CYLLA, a'k
GLINIAU, a'r pen, A IIWYDD, A DIGOFAI.NT, ACHOS BOD Y LLYNNOR YN SYCIIU
YN BRIDD CALCHAIDD, A'R DOLUR HWN A ELWIR YN Y LLADIN * ArlhidifS.
§ 520. Cymmer sudd y tanclys, sef y tansi, a mel pur-
edig, bob un o honynt gymaint ai gilydd, a chymysg
ynghyd, ag os twyra fydd y clwyf ffria ynghyd mewn
padell a chadw ef yn dda, os oer y clwyf bydded oer y
meddyginiaeth, a dod am y dolur ar wlanen f niyail, ag y
mae liynn yn dda, ag yn brofedig ; o herwydd a welais :
oblegid gwraig a fu'n gorwedd bedair blynedd yn y clefyd
liyun, a hi a actli yn iach mewn un mis o ymarfer a'r fedd-
yginiaeth ynia.
ARALL RHAG Y GWST MAWR.
§ 521. Cais amcan o ruw, ag amcan o halen bras, a'r
gwynn a'r melyn o'r wi, ag ychydig o sebon du, a mortyra
y rhuw a'r lialen ynghyd a dod yr wi a'r sebon du ynghyd
a nhwy, a phlasio'n dda gymysg tra chymysg, a dod yn
blasder wrth y dolur, ag iach a fydd.
ARALL RHAG YR UN CLEFYD.
§ 522. Cais wynwyn, un neu ddau, a dyro i bobi yn dda
o flaen y tan, a chais ychydig o'r distyll bendigaid a dyro
uwch ben y tan mewn distyll peytyr yna torr y wynwyn yn
fan, a berw yn y distyll bendigaid, a gad iddynt ferwi
ychydig ynghyd, yna cais liain glan a hidia mewn dysgl, a
hwnnw ira y dolur nos a bore hyd yn y bo iach, ag y mae
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200 MKDDYGON MYDDFAI.
llavver o'r meddygon yn dywedyd mai profedig yw hynn o
beth, a chynfychaned o gost ag ydyw ef.
RHAG YR UN CLEFYD.
§ 523. Cymmer linhad, a gwaddod gwin, a chalcli heb ei
ladd, gymaint bob un ai gilydd, a bcrvv ynghyd hir ferwad,
a gwna yn blaster a dod wrtho, ag o bydd ef twym cais
lysiau'r geiniog a briwa'n fan, a dod wrth y dolur, ag ef a
dynn y gwres o'r hwydd ; profedig yw.
RHAG YR UN DOLUR.
§ 524. Cais ddyrnaid o''r geidwad, a dyrnaid o lysiau'r
afu, a dyrnaid o ddail y gwywydd, a berw mewn galwyn
o ddwr dof hyd onid el yn chwart, a golch y dolur ag ef, a
gwedi y darfFo yt ei olchi, dyro y llysiau wrtho, a gyda
Duw iach a fydd.
ARALL RHAG YR UN DOLUR.
§ 525. Cais melyn tri o wiau gwedi eu pobi yn galed, a
nial mewn padell yn fan ar y tan, neu fel yn by lor, ag yna
hidla yn Ian, a da yw''r eliw hynn rhag y gwst mawr, a
rhag llawer o glefydau eraill yn wir.
RHAG YR UN DOLUR.
§ 526. Cymmer sudd llysiauV geiniog, ag ychydig elyf, a
sudd llydain y ffordd os bydd eu hamscr, a dwy Iwyaid o
bylor y cochwraidd, a dod mewn galwyn o ddwr rhedegog,
a berwi yn dda ynghyd, ond nid da gormodd o ferw iddynt,
ag ira'r claf ag ef cyn dwymed ag y gallo ef ei ddioddef, a
throch liain yn y Hynn liwnnw, a dyroarno, ag iach y bydd.
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PLASTER RHIAL RHAG Y GWST MAWR YN Y PENN.
§ 527. Cjmnier farlys lonaid dy ddwylaw a brivva yn fan
mewn mortyr, a chynimer ddyniaid o'r bittain, sef cribau
sanffred, a briw yn fan wrthynt eu hunain gyniaint a
banner y barlys o honynt, ag yna cymysg ynghyd ag viii o
win, a brecci banner cymaint a hynny, a chymysgu a''r
bittain aV barlys yn un agwedd ag iwd, a dod ar y tan i
dwymo yn dda, a dod ar liain ar lied, a dod wrth y penn lie
bo"'r dolur cyn dvvymed ag y gellych ei oddef ymhell oddi-
wrth escyrn y gruddiau hyd ganol y taken, ag iach y bydd.
ARALL RHAG YR UN DOLUR MEWN PEN.
§ 528. Cais ddistyll rlios, a distyll y dderwen fendigaid a
llaeth gwraig, a gwynn wi wedi ei lanhau a chymysg
ynghyd, a dod wrtli y pen, ag o bydd dim dolur ar lygad
gellwng y sudd yn y llygad, ag iach y bydd.
RHAG Y GWST MAWR.
§ 529. Gynimer banner mesur o win gwynn a gwer carw,
a lie na bo hwnnw gwer llwdn dafad, a breision gwenith,
nid y lleia, nid y luwya; a berw hwynt ynghyd hyd nes
elon yn dew, ag yna cymmer dalni o arlleg a'u pilio yn Ian
a'u pwyo''n fan, a dod ynghyd ar eraili ond mogel rhag bod
y Hall yn dwym, o bydd fe gyll y garlleg y grym, a
chymysg ynghyd, a dyro yn blaster rhwng y gvvst a'r lie
iach, fel y gallo hwnn ei dynnu ef ganto hyd yn ydd el yn
iach.
RHAG FOB GWAYW.
§ 530. Cais faccwyon y drysi, sef y mwyar, y rhai
tynner, a brig banal, a brig rhuw, au pwyo yn fan ag yn
fal ynghyd, ond ynghyntaf eu golchi vn Ian, au tvmheru
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gydag eliw gliwydden, ag felly gwneir yr cli Invnn, ag a
liwnn elia'r dolur.
RHAG Y DYRGLWYF OER NEU DWYM.
§ 531. Cais had anis a had y marchberllys, a elwir yn
lladin le^sticwm vulgaris^ a gwna'n bylor,;; ag arfer o hwunw
yn dy fwyd a'th ddiod ; ag ysbignardd o ysbain y sydd dda
yn y ddiod hwnnw ag ymhob diod arall.
ENNAINT RHAG Y DYRGLWYF, OER NEU DWYM.
§ 532. Cais frig y gwinwydd gwynion, a gvvraidd y ffunel
cochon, a'r bened, a berw ynghyd mewn padell hyd onid el
y llysiau i'r gwaelod, a dyro mewn llestr fal y gallo ef
ymenneinio yndo a golchi ei hun, a gwna gawl drwy ferw
ffynhonau a chig twrch neu gig myharen ai fenvi hynn
trwyddo, ai liwo a saftar, ag y mae ef yu dda rhag pob rhyw
or dyfrglwyf, ai oer ai twym ; i. e. yu lesu.
RHAG GWAEDLING YR EISTEDDFA, A ELWIR CLWYF Y
MARCHOGION, A'R LLEDEWIG.
§ 533. Cais ddistyll bendigaid o''r goreu a gwlych liain
main myal yndo, a gyrr i mewn rhwng y ddwy ffolen yn
bella ag y gellych, os i mewn y byddan y lledewigion, os i
maes y byddan golch hwynt a^- distyll dridiau neu bedwar
wrth fyned i'r gwely.
RHAG YR UN PETH.
§ 534. Cais dafod yr afr, a dail y pren molen, au briwa
ynghyd, a gwna'n bellenau by chain, a gad i'r dyn eiste
mewn cadair maesa, sef un a thwll yudi, a chau y gadair, a
dyro badell a than golosg, a bwrw y pellenau ar y tiin, a
chadw yr anwedd ynghylch y dyn, a dod hws drosto o
ddiUad.
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AUALL.
§ 535. Eistedded y claf yn y gadair uwcli ben ennaiut
brwd oV malw, a llysiau'r geiniog, a llaeth gwartheg.
RHAG YR INGLOES.
§ 536. BerwV llysiau llwydon, a mynt gwyrddon, a had
y wewyrllys, a had ffunel mewn dwr a llaeth hauner yu
hanner, ag yf gryn ddiod o hono yn frytta gellych, a died
arall o hono pan fo llawn oer, ag na yf ond dwr ar dy fwyd,
a bydd wrth gyfarpar, gan ymwrthod ag ymenyn a breision
o gigoedd, a chwrw da, a byw ar gig myharen bryd ciniaw,
a llaeth gwartheg neu eifr nos a bore gyda bara gwenith
uchelgras, a died dda i'r dolur hwn yw carregyn calch dilosg
yn falaid malaid, ai roi mewn dwr a llaeth yn ddiod Ivvyaid
fechan ar y pryd ; profedig yw.
LLYMA GYFARPAR DA I DDYN A FLINER YN FYNYCH GAN
YR INGLOES.
§ 537. Cymmer bob bore, ddwyawr cyn pryd bwyd, dafell
hanner pryd o'r bara gwenith drwy ferman goreu, a cliras
o flaen y tan oni bo caled iawn a dugoch, a gochel ei losgi,
a bwytta hwn wrtho ei hunan ag nag yf yn y byd ar ei 61,
ag bwytti gig bwrw ymaith y brasder, a goreu cig cig
myharen, a bara gwenith drwy ferman uchelgras o ffwru
gydag ef, a diod o ddwr neu lastwr ar y bwyd, ag arfer ag
iydoedd a succanau blawd ceirch gyda llaeth neu fel, neu
win neu ossai, a gochel pob llysicufwyd o erddi, a mynn
falu had ft'unel a had garddwy, a had gwewyrliys gyda
dy wenith bara ag ymgadw rhag ymenyn, a ehig moch yn
enwedig yr hen, a chaws brcision, a ehig gwydd, a chig
hwvad.
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RHAG Y CRAWNGLWYF, A ELWIR V POSTVVM.
§ 538. Cyniiuer laeth buwcli, a llinhad, ag ychydig arlleg
yn bwyedig, a berw yn dda yngliyd, a gwna'n blasder, a
dod wrtho.
DWR RHAG FOB RHYW O'R GWST MAWR.
§ 539. Cais had y morgelyn o wyl Fair gyntaf yn y cyn-
liaiaf, a dyro mewn pot pridd ei lonaid a chaeadu'ii glos clos
arno, a dod yn y ddaear lawn banner Hath o ddyfnder, a
gad yno hyd wyl Fair diwetha yn y gwanwyn, ag yna agor
ef, a thi a gel yn y pot ddwr gloyw, a chadw ef yn dda
mewn gwydr tra chaeedig; da iawn yw ef rhag pob
rhyw oV gwst mawr,
I BERI'R LLYGAID YN LOYWON.
§ 540. Cais bysgod ffrais sef y rhai a welir fal ysgadan
man, a dod yn yr haul neu o hirbell o flaen y tan mewn
gwres gogyfnaws a haul yny delo saem o honynt, a chymysg
hwnnw gyda mel, ag ira d}'- lygaid.
RHAG LLYGAID A FO'N RHEDEG.
§ 541. Cais ddail y bresych cochon, a elwir mewn man-
nau y cawl cochon, a bloneg ifir, a phwya'n dda ynghyd, a
dyro wrtho y nos dan rwymau.
RHAG GWAYW MEWN LLYGAID.
§ 542. Cais sudd ystol Fair, rhai ai galwant llysiau
Lleurwg, a sudd llysiau'r wennol, a berw yngliyd, ag ira dy
lygaid.
RHAG ESCYRN TWN VM MHEN DYN.
§ 543. Yf sudd cribau sanffred bedair Uwyaid daircwaith
A dvdd ar dv frvthlwna", a hwv a ddont allan.
M!i:ddyg()n myddfai. ^05
rhag y cancar.
§ 544. Cymmer bengaled, a thraed geifr, a chrasa niewn
fFwrn, a gwna yn bylor, a dyro ar y cancar.
RHAG Y GWST MAWR DREWETTIG.
§ 545. Cais sudd llysiau Mair, a llysiau'r ais Uwynhidydd
y 'i gelwir, a gwynn wi, a clilustiau llygoden, a chan blawd
rhyg, a gwna blasder a dod aruo, a lliain arno liyd oni
sycho, ag felly beunydd yny bo iach.
RHAG Y GWRTHLYS.
§ 546. Cais lydain y ffordd a gwna yn blasder, a dod
wrtho, ag iach y bydd.
RHAG Y CRAWNGLWYF MEWN PENN, A ELWIR POSTWN Y
PENN, O BYDD ATTAL AG YSTOPIAD YN Y CLUSTIAU.
§ 547. Cais chwerwyn y twyn ai bwyo'n dda, ag eliw y
cnau alraon, a dod raewn Ihvy arian ai ddodi ar uclia niar-
woryn, ai adu i ferwi, ai gyniysg yn dda, a chymmer liain
glan a gwna wareth, a tbroch yn y llynn, a dod yn y clust
dolurus, a rhwym hyd pan dorro'r crawn allan ; profedig y w.
I DYNNU DANT A PHYLOR.
§ 548. Cais wraidd llysiau''r mocli, a had duon, a dyro y
gwraidd mewn llaetli geifr ai pwyo ynghyd yn dda, yna
dod attynt yr had duon yn bwyedig ar eu pennau eu hunain
at y gwraidd pwyedig, a gweithia''r cwbl yn dalp, a dod
hwnnw mewn gwin egr i:iii nieu, a newydda y gwin egr
dair gwaith, as: yn^, gwna'n bylor y talp, a dod win egr arno
ymhellach dridiau, a phan loywo tywallt i bant y gwin egr
a gad sychu y pylor yn yr haul neu 3'n ias haul o dan, a
dod yn y dant, os cau, ag ef ai tynn yn ddiboen, yn ddi
derr.
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UHAG GWAYW YN Y PEN, A'R PAS.
§ 549. Cais wynwynyn coch a briw yn fan man, gydag
ycliydig o fustl, a dyro gyda''r pwyaid ychydig o fel a berw
yn dda, a phan ddarffo i ferwi dod yn dynn ai dorr i fynydd,
a bAvrw both yn ei fFroenau, a gad iddo godi yn ei sefyll ag
efe a entrewa, ag a fydd welliedig ag esmwythaedig.
I WNEUTHUR CADACH PYGOG.
§ 550. Cais ddeuwnc o god, deuwnc o byg, demvTic o
dwrpant, deuwnc a chwarter o\ mastic, wnc o ystor tus, au
cymyscu jnighyd yn dda, a dod ar y tan a chynimer rann o
sudd llydan y ffordd, a chymysg a nhwy, a dod y cadach yn
y tawddlynn hwnnw, a gad iddo gymysgu digon o liono ef,
a chymmeryd a elo i mewn iddo, yna dod ef i oeri, a phan
fvnnych ymwaith ag ef dyro wrth y tan i dynneru, a dod
wrth y chvyf, lie bo briw neu ddolur arall mewn corph
dyn.
Y MODD Y GWNEIR PLASDER YMRAINT TRED, OND EI FOD
YN OF I DDOLURIAU A FONT YN LLOSCI.
§ 551. Cymmer yr helogan sef perllys yr hel, ag a elwir
gan eraill march berllys yr hel, a sena, a gwraidd y gellesg
neuV elestr, a gwraidd llysiau'r moch a elwir y morel, a
llydan y flPordd, a phwya^n dda oni bont fal mal, a dod
attynt fel, a gwynn wi gwedi ei lanhau, a chann gwenith,
ag yna eu dargymysg yn dda da, gan ei darllaw au trafod
ynghyd, a gwybydd nid ar y tan, ond ei weithio ai ddar-
Uaw yn oer hyd yn y bo tew fel iwd, ai ddodi ar liain, a dodi
wrth yr archoll, ag ef a ladd y llosgfan ag a ddwg yr archoll
3'n ei nattur ei Inm ; hwn y sydJ bennaf o blasderon i
bob dolur.
MEDDYGON MYDDFAI. 207
I WNEUTHUR TRED DA I DYNNU GWAED NEU FRIW O
DDOLUR.
§ 552. Cynimer lieu gig moch, a tliawdd ef mown padell,
a gad i sefyll nes myncd yr halen Tr gwaelod, a chy miner
gwyr morwynig gymaint a'r tawdd, a thus yn bylor, a gad
yradawdd ynghyd, a dargymysg yn dda, a gwedi myned y
gwres hono, cais bylor mastic yn gymmedrol ar tus, a
dyro ar y tan, a chymysg yn dda, a pliyn oero dyro gyniain
o bylor swlffwr ag o'r tus a''r mastic, au trafod yn dda ag
yn ddiwyd, yn y bc'r cwbl fal mel, a dyro mewn blwch yn y
bo rhaid wrtlio.
RHAG MELYNU DANNEDD A DREWI.
§ 553. Cais ddail y geidwad a phwya'n fal a chymmer y
ddau gymaint o halen a chymysg ag ef, a gwna yn belenau,
a chras ef oni Iosco, ag yna pylora, a rhigla dy ddannedd yn
fynych ag ef, a hynny a wna'r dannedd yn U\n ag yn
wynnion ag yn ddiadsawr.
RHAG Y CAN CAR.
§ 554. Cais galch heb ladd, a phubur, a mynt y meirch,
a bustl cadarn, a mel, a blawd haidd, oV un gymaint a'i
gilydd, a berw yn dda mewn llestr pridd, a gwna yn bylor,
a dyro ar y cancar ac ef ai dinistra.
ARALL.
§ 555. Cymmer galch heb ladd a phylora, a llosgladd
arian byw pedryran y calch, a dod am ben gymaint o fel ag
ai gwna yn doesyn, a dod mewn llestr pridd mewn ffwru,
brydni bara, a chras gyfennyd a chrasiad bara, a phan oero
dod i gadw mewn gwydr yn drachaeedig, a chymmer a fo
raid a phylora, a bwrw ar y cancar ag ai Uadd yn gwbl, yna
208 MEDDYGON ^MYDDFAI.
(lod blaster glanhau wrth y dolur, a plian y bo glan o gwbl,
dod eli twf ar warethi, ag cf a iaclieir y claf.
RIIAG DYRGLWYP LLE BO'R DWll RHWNG CIG A CHROEN.
§ 556. Oais barion crwyii defaid, a berw hyn elon yn
dew, a dyro wrtho ar liain.
I DORRI CLAVYF AR A FYNNYCH, AI AGOR DRACHEFN,
§ 557. Cais amcau o sebon du, ag arall o fel, a thrydydd
o gann gwenith, au darllaw ynghyd, a dod wrtho. O mynni
dorri y clwyf yn ebrwydd dod lawer o'r sebon, a da yw.
RHAG Y TAN GWYLLT, SEF Y CLEFYD O CLAFYCHA DYN EF
A FYDD FARW.
§ 558. Cais domm colommen dwym, a blawd rhyg, pwys
o bob un lionynt, a phwya ynghyd, a dod attodd banner
pwys o win egr, a chymysg yn dda, a dod yn oer wrth y
clwyfj a dod ddail y cawl ammodd i ddala ynghyd, a chlwm
liain yn glos oddigylch i"'r dolur, a gad yno dridiau heb
symmud, ag o'r hwyaf ef a fydd iach o fewn y plasder.
RHAG Y GWST MAWR SEF MWYTH Y GEWYNOD.
§ 559. Cais surion y coed, a^" llysewyn a elwir Gras Duw,
a elwir mewn mannau yr yrddon neu'r orddon, a'r tryw, a'r
tanclys, a llysiau'r crymman, a'r ddilwydd felen, a''r fabcoU
a eilw rhai fanwylyd, a dail iorwg, a'r maeseifiau, cymaint o
un a'r Hall o honynt, au pwyo'n dda ynghyd, a hidla, ag yf
y sudd yn ddiod , a da yw.
I WNEUTHUR ELI RHAG Y GWST MAWR.
§ 560. Cais floneg mochyn bychan a elwir mewn mannau
byrhwch, a bloneg cefFyl, a bloneg baedd, a'r llysiau a elwir
y tormwyth neu'r wermwd wenn, ag yn y lladin ffebrifuga,
MEDDYGON MYDDFAI. 209
wedi eu pwyo''n dda, a chyinysg yni^hyd a tliawdd hyd ferw
a gwedi y berwi yn y ccir fFnvyth y llysiau, yiia hidla a dod
yr eli i gadw mewn gwydr yu gaedig, ag ira'r dolur yng
ngwres y tan.
ARALL.
§ 561. Cais fervv'r cerrig, a llysiau'r corph, a"'r geidwad, a
chymaint a gwi o suwgr, a dod mewn Uestr gwydr hyd ei
banner, a Uanw ar liynny halen yn y bo llawn y llestr, a
gwybydd yrhaid yw pwyo'r llysiau yn fal drwy hen gwrw, a
dodi'r llestr yn ol ei drefnii''n barod yn yr haul wythnos neu
yn naws haul o dan, a thi a gai eliw o bono, a chadw ef yn
amvyl, ag a hwnn iro'r dolur ; yna cais frann gwenith, a
gwin gwynn, a bloneg baedd, a berw ynghyd a gwna
blasder, a dod wrtho cyn dwymed ag y gellych ei oddef ar
yr hwydd a hwn ai gyrr yinaith.
ARALL.
§ 562. Cymmer falwod duon a phob hwynt o flaen y tan
mewn llestr pridd, a chadw y tawdd mewn llestr glan, ag a
hwnnw elia'r dolur; y mae yn dda i'r gwst dwym ag oer.
ARALL.
§ 563. Cymmer byg, a chwyr morwynig, a thus, a gwer
defaid, a bloneg baedd, a ffria hwynt yn dda ynghyd, a
hidla, a dod i gadw mewn blwch, ag a hwnnw iro y dolur.
ELI DA I GORXWYDON, AG ARCIIOLLIOX.
§ 564. Cymmer frasder cig moch toddedig a gad yr halen
syrthio i'r gwaelod, ag yna cymmer y brasder, a chwyr
morwynig, a phyg, a thus, a gwna eli o honynt, a dod
wrtho He bo achos.
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P:LI I DDOLUR PENN.
§ 565. Cymmer sudd ysgaw Mair, gwaed j gwyr au
geilw rai, a mel, a halen, a chwyr, a thus, au berwi ynghyd,
ag a hwnnw ir dy ben neu"'r arleisedd.
RIIAG Y GWST MAWR YN Y CYLLA.
§ 566. Cymmer ddyrnaid oV tanclys a phwya^n lied fal,
yna dod arno chwart o win seg, a gad sefyll noswaitli dan
gaead da mewn llestr o bren derw, yna dod mewn llestr
pridd diystaen a rlio ledias berw iddo, yna hidla ag yf yn
dair diod un y nos wrth fyned i'th wely, a dod arnot ddillad
yn dda mal y chwysot, cymmer yr ail ddiod yn ail nos a*'r
un peth y drydydd, ag iach y byddi. Da yw arfer cysgu
mewn llenni gwlenyn neu frethyn hannerpan.
ARALL.
§ 567. Cais gesseiliaid ©""r tanclys ag un raalw, ag un o'r
chwerwyn, a banner hynny o**!' geidwad ledfegin ag oV
rhosmari, a berw yn dda mewn pair, a dod yn y dwr bwys
punt halen, a dod yn ennaint mewn llestr digon o faint i'th
drochi'n gwbl, a dos ynddo guwch aHh fwnwg, ag am danot
Icnni gwlenyn i'th gynnal yn dy lawn chwys aros ynddo
amean o ddwy neu dair awr, gan borthi^r llestr a llynn
twym a fo achos i gynnal y gwres, ag yf dair llwyaid dda
bob banner awr o hen fedd da a bwrw arno ychydig o had y
ffunel yn byloraid, ag ymhen yr amean a ddywetpwyd gad
oeri'r ennaint, a phan el yn ei lygwres yn naws llefrith
newydd odro neu dan y fuwch, dos allan ag i dy wely a dod
am danot wlenyn yn dda a chymmer Iwyaid ar ben pob awr
o'r isgell bendigaid hyd ymhen chwechawr, ag ymgadw
amean o ddyddiau rhag cael anwyd, ag iach fyddi.
MEDDYGON MYDDFAI. 211
RHAG DOLUR CYMALAU ODDIWRTH OERFEL, NEU DRALLA-
FURIO, NEU YSSIG.
§ 568. Cymmer w^g y mor a berw yn nwr y mor, ag
enneinia''r dolur a hwnnw mor frwd ag y gallech ei oddef,
yna dod y gwyg berw yni mraint plasted wrtho gwedi eu
pwyo yn dda a chynfrytted ag y bo hawdd ei oddef, a da
yw*'r fcddyginiaeth rhag pob dolur a hwydd o gwymp ag
ergyd.
RHAG Y PAS.
§ 569. Cymmer foneg moch, a garlleg pwyedig ag ychyd-
ig fel, a berw yn dda, ag elia draed y claf ag ef, yna dod
wlenyn am y traed a digon o ddillad am y claf yn y gwely, ag
edrych fwrw ymaith y dillad tra chwyso, ag iach a fydd yn
wir gwir.
RHAG Y CANCAR.
§ 570. Dod sug wynwyn cochon ar y dolur, a gwna
blaster a dail yr efyrllys yngliyd au cellydr, ai blodau, au
had OS byddant yn bwyedig gyda mel, a gwinegr, ag yehydig
elyf; profedig yw.
RHAG BRECH YR YSGYFAINT.
§ 571. Cymmer flodau yr ysgawen, a phan nas gellir
blodau y boglynau, neu'r dail, neu'r rhisg gwyrdd nesa iV
pren, a surion y coed, a berw mown maidd geifr neu wartheg,
ag yf yn unig ddiod dros naw wythnos, ag fal na bo arnat
naws ddifFyg y blodau casgl hwynt yn eu hadeg a sych
yn dda yn yr haul a dod gadw, a berw yn y maidd lie bo
achos, ag yn ni cheir surion y coed, berw afal manfriw
gydaV blodau yn y maidd ; a da hynn rhag pob brech yn y
gwaed a'r llynnor.
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RIIAG Y RHYNNWST.
§ 572. Ovmincr bwys punt o arlleg a phwya'n dda a dod
arnyn chwart o win seg da, a lie na bo Invnnw lien gwrw
da neu fedd cadarn, a gad sefyll yn glosiedig o gaead, ag
yna hidla dan wasg, ag yf yn lygdwyni, ag os mown cymmal
neu aelod y bydd y dolur dod y garlleg yn ol eu gwasghidlo
i fryttau, a dod yn dwyma gallech wrtli y dolur ; profedig
yw.
RHAG DOLUR MAGL AR LYGAD.
§ 573. Oymraer sudd y melynllys ag ychydig fel a
chymysg yn dda, a dod ag asgell ar dy lygad nos a bore ;
profedig yw.
RHAG Y MWYTH DU.
§ 574. Cymmer had anis, a had ffunel, a mrd yn dda, a
chymmer rliuw a phwya'n dda, yna dod win gwynn neu seg
da arno a gad sefyll chwecli awr, ond y cyntaf a rodder Vr
claf rhodder ias berw i'r defnyddiau er cael yn ddiaros, yna
hidla''n Ian a rho i'r claf yn unig ddiod.
ARALL.
§ 575. Cymmer wynebion cwrw newydd o'r il, a rho Iwnc
da i'r claf unwaith ymhob teirawr neu bedair aw^r ar hugain,
ag yna rho iddo fara gwenith drwy ferman wedi ei grasu yn
dafell dorth ym mlaen y tan a dodi gwin da arno yn frwd
a bwyttaed ag yfed y gwin yn fan brydiau pen y pedair
oriau ; profedig yw.
RHAG YSSIGTOD AR LYGAD.
§ 576. Cymmer berllys a phwya'n dda am ben menyn
gwyra, a dod yn blasder wrth y llygad yn glaerdwyin.
MEDDYGON MYDDFAl. 213
RIIAG Y MANXOGI AR LYGAD.
§ 577. Cymmer sudd y raelynllys, a sudd fFunel, ag
ychydig fel, a bwrw yn y llygad nos a bore, a clianol dydd,
a gwisc am y llygad fal nas delo'r goleu aruo ; profcdig yw,
RIIAG Y PENDRONI.
§ 578. Cymmer Avraidd priellau, a dail y geidwad, bwys
traphwys, a berw yn dda, a pluvya'r gwraidd yn gyntaf,
gad ferwi oni dderfydd y dwr ym mraidd cuddio'r llysiau,
yna hidla dan wasg, a chymmer gryn ddiod o bono nos a
bore, dwyawr o flaen a dwyawr gwedi bwyd.
RHAG LLOSG HAUL AR GROEN.
§ 579. Cymmer ddail llysiau'r geiniog yn frasbwyedig a
hufen llaeth, a berw ynghyd ar dan araf a mal yn eli, ag
elia'r dolur.
ELI LLYGAID DA.
§ 580. Cais win egr, gwin gwynn, a sudd y melynllys, a
eilw rhai Uym y llygad, a sudd llydan y ffbrdd a dod mewn
padell a chymysg ynghyd, a dod gyfor ar y llestr, a gad
sefyll iii diau, a iii nos, cig ag oddyna dod mewn blwch, ag
a hwnnw ir dy lygaid.
TRED RIIAG CORXWYDOX A GWAED BRIWEDIG.
§ 581. Cymmer fraster cig hen faedd, a chymmer y naill
banner o gwyr morwynig, a thus, a mastic, a berw ynghyd,
a phan fo agos i oeri, dod ynddo gymaint o swlfFwr pyloraid
ag o'r thus, a gwaith ef yn eli, a chadw mewn blwch.
RHAG DOLUR A FO'N AGORED AG NI CHAU.
§ 582. Cas dus, ag arnamentwm, a mal hwynt yn bylor,
a dod vn vr archoll.
214 MEDDYGON MYDDFAI.
TRED DA,
§ 583. Cais lydain y fFordd, a llysiau'r crymman, a'r
tanclys gwyllt, a mortyra"'n dda ynghyd gyda bloneg ifres,
a gad i bydru ix nieu ag ymhen y nawnydd cymmer a bervv
vn dda a India dnvy liain, a dod atto gwyr, a thus, a * rlios
pur, a thawdd yngliyd, a gwneuthuredig yw.
ELI GWAYW YN Y PENN.
§ 584. Cais sudd yr ysgaw bendigaid a elwyr gwaed y
gwyr ym maunau, a cliwyr newydd, ag ystor, a berw ynghyd,
ag a hwnnw ir dy neidrwydd.
I WNEUTHUR ELI DA.
§ 585. Cais sudd yr halogan, a sudd tanclys, a morel, a
sudd llydain y fFordd, a sudd llysiau'r geiniog, o bob un
gymaint au gilydd, a inel, a chann gwenith, a bloneg baedd,
a gwer defaid, a chwyr, a berw hwynt ar y tan yn y bont
tewoD, a hidl ef trwy liain, a da yw.
I LYGAID TYWYLL.
§ 586. Cais sugn yr eidral, a sugn gwraidd y fFunegl, a
sugn y raelynllys sef llysiau'r vvenol, a bloneg hwch, a mel,
ag ychydig win egr, a gwaed llysowen, a bustl ceiliog, a dod
mewn llestr yn y flodeuo, ag a hwnnw ir dy lygaid ; hynny a
wna i ddynion gael eu golwg gwedi y collyut ; prot'edig yw.
RHAG DOLUR LLYGAID.
§ 587. Llanw bliscyn wi a sudd fFunegl, a rhud, a mel
gloyw, a gwin, a thrwnc mab bychan, ag ir dy lygaid ag ef.
* Riiosin mae'n dcbvrr.
MEDDYGON MYDDFAI. 215
ELI LLYGAID.
§ 588. Cais felwed duon fis Mai, a dod ar farwor i rostio, a
chymmer a saem, a cliadw tra chefiych, ag a asgell ir dy
lygaid.
RHAG MAGL AR LYGAD, NEU WAYW.
§ 589. Cais felyn wi a blawd gwenith, ag ychydig o goprys
glas, a gosod wrtho pan elych i gy3gu''r nos, ag efe a hwysa'r
nos, gwna hynny dridiau ag iach a fyddi.
RHAG BYDDERI.
§ 590. Cais fustl hwch, a llaeth geifr, a mel gloyw, a dod
yn hoyw dwym mywn dy glustiau; meddyginiaeth yw honn
ni fFacla fyth.
RHAG CIG DRW'G A DORRO, A GWEDI Y TORRO.
§ 591. Cais lawn ddyrnaid o'r geidwad, a banner dyrnaid
o lydain y ffordd, ar unfaiut oV ffunel cochon, au berwi oil
mewn chwart o ddwr, a chwart arall o fel, neu ddau chwart
o ddwr a fydd oreu fel y dioddefo hwy ferwad, a phwys
punt elyf gwynn, au berwi yn hir ag yn dda hyn el dan
ei draian, a dyro y llysiau yn gyfain ond eu torri rhwng dy
ddwylo, a rhoi mewn llestr i gadw a'r llysiau yndo, a
hwnnw y sydd ddwfr da i iro pob cancer, a pliob cig drwg,
a phob gwewyr, a pliob cig noeth, lie y bo nattur gwenwyn
neu greulonder arall, ai olch a'r dwr hwnnw, ag iach a fydd
trwy Dduw.
RHAG CIG DRWG AR EI DDECHREU OS CEISI EI LADD AI
DDINISTRO AR HYNT.
§ 592. Cais fel, a thriagl, ag elyf, a swlffwr sef y llosglist,
ag arian byw, a phlwm pyloraid, a gwna'n blasder, a dod
wrtho yn fynych, ag iach a fydd, ag oni bydd iacli er
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hynny dod wrtlio blasder o fel a huddigl du, a iacli y bydd
gyda Duw yn wir.
DIOD I BERI I DDYN GYSGU.
§ 593. Cais sugn yr opivvni, a sugn y morgelyn neu eu
liad, a llefrith, a gwna belenau ag ef, a dyro i'r claf, a
llynced un, ag ef a gysg, ag oni chysg wrth un dyro un
arall ag un arall yny gysgo, ag aros dvvyawr neu dair i
weled ai cysgu ai nad ef a wna cyii rlioi ar a rodded iddaw.
RHAG TARDD AFRIFED.
§ 594. Oais floneg, a sebon du, ag arian byw, a maedd
hwynt yngliyd, a gwna eli ag ef, ag ir y clwyf, a thi a fyddi
iacli.
RHAG Y CLEFRI NEU'R DDARWYDEN FAWR.
§ 595 Cymmer fadarch, a lie ni bo fFwug y ddaiar a elwir
bwyd llyffaint, a^r dail coclion a fydd ar y gwern, ag ymenyu
puredig, a berw ynghyd mown llaeth defaid, ag yna hidlo
trwy liain crai, ag yn fynych iro a liwn, ag iacli y byddi
gyda Duw.
RHAG CRYGENACH AR DDYX NEU DRVSTLIF AR GROEX DYN.
§ 596. Cais wraidd y tafol eocbon a berw drwy laeth
defaid ddwy awr o leiaf, a tbynn i lawr, a don ymenyn
puredig yndo, ai bidlo drwy liain crai, ag a liwu iro'r dolur,
ag iacli a fydd.
RHAG CRACH YMGRAFU.
§ 597. Cais wynn wi a gloywa yn fFest trwy liain, a sugn
y ffunel coehon, a sugn y melynllys, a mel gloyw, a tlirwnc
mab bychan, a gwin gwynn gymaint ai gilydd, a chymysg
yn ffest, ag a hwnnw ir dy gorpli, a'th lygaid o bydd rhaid.
MEDDYGON MYDDFAI. 217
RHAG TARDD GWAHANOL, A ELWIR Y GWAHANGLWYF,
§ 598. Cais wraidd y tafawl cochon, a gwraidd y march-
alan, a dail y gv/ywydd, a cheiiin y brain, a brig y banadl,
a gleison y coed, a'r meddygyn, a rhedyn Mair, aV fabcoll
sef dail anwylyd, a mortyra nhwy ynghyd gydag ymeriyn
heb halen, a dod fervvi yn dda, yna tynn iV llawr a hidl yn
Ian drwy liain crai, a dod ynddo amcan o losglist pyloraid,
a rhwd gwyrdd, ag a hwnuw ir yn fynych ag iach y bydd
trwy Dduw.
RHAG Y MARCHWRIAINT, SEF DOLUR A FYDD YN O DEBYG I
DARDD LLYNNORIG, A CHOSI AFRIFED ARNO.
§ 599. Cais mel ddiariddwg, a mer llwynog, ag ystor, au
cymysg yn dda drwy bwyo arnynt yn ffest mewn mortyr
oni bo"n eli, ag a hwnnw ir y dolur.
RHAG Y CORNWYD.
§ 600. Cais sugn y moriel, a sugn yr erllyriad, a blawd
haidd, a gwynn wi, a gwna'n blasder a dod wrtlio.
ARALL.
§ 601. Cais chwerwyn yr ardd a elwir ym mannau y
tormwyth, a'r bengaled, a'r llyse llwydon, a llysiau Mair,
a'r gaswenwyn, a llygaid y dydd, au golchi yn dda, au
mortyru yn dda trwy hen gwrw, a rhoddi i'r claf Iwyaid ar
unwaith, ag o cais yn amser ef ai amddiffyn. Diod yw
lioun.
RHAG GWAYW DYGYRCH.
§ 602. Yf sudd y tanclys drwy hen gwrw a da yw, pwyo'n
dda ynghyd, a hidlo.
RHAG DOLUR YM MWN\YGL LLE BO TARDD NEU GORNWYD
YN Y LLWNC, A MWYTH YN CYDFYNED AG EF.
§ 603. Cymmer ddail y geidwad, a rliud sef y rhuw, a
berw mewn dwr, ag yn ol v berwo ychydig tvnn i lawr a
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218 MEDDYGON MYDDFAI.
dod win egr atto, a mel yn y bo lledfelys, ag a hwnnw yn
glaiardwym golch d}'^ enau a'th Iwnc gan boeri'r golch allan
a gochel ci lyncu, a gwedi golchi yn dda yf gryn ddiod oV
llynn, gwna liynn dair neu bedair gwaith yn y dydd, a
chynifer gwaith y nos, a chymmer y malw, a dail y geidwad,
a rhuw, gymaint tra chymaint, a phwya'n dda, a dod atto
ychydig laeth defaid, neu laeth a fo'u barod, gymaint ag ai
ireiddia blaster, a dod yn glaiar am y mwnwgl, a newid fal
y sycho, a chadw yn dy, enau ar ei dawdd faint cneuen
ddwywaitli o hen fel caled puredig, gwna hynn drydiau ag
iach y byddi drwy Dduw.
ARALL.
§ 604. Cymmer ddail y geidwad, a rhud, a gemmau neu
flodau y pren ysgaw, a lie na bont y rhisgl nesa i'r prenn,
a'r malw, a'r tormwyth, a dod mewn mortyr, ag ychydic o
fel ag ychydig win gwynn neu win egr am eu penn, au
pwyo''n dda, ag a pheth o''r pwyedigaeth gwna yn blaster ar
wlanen a dod yn glaerdwym am y mwnwgl a chwedyn hidl
yr arall, ag yf ddwy Iwyaid or sudd penn pob dwyawr,
ag a Uwyaid arall cyn pob yfed, golch dy Iwnc a'th enau a
bwrw V frolch allan ijwcdi ai trafedech vn dv enau a'th Iwnc
ag na lefais ei l^'ncu gan y bydd gwenwyn y dolur ynddo.
Ag yn lie plaster, ti a elli iro dy fwnwg a'r sudd gyda
phob yfed, a chadw gwlenyn am y mwnwg ; gwna hynn dri
diwarnod ag iach y byddi gyda Duw.
ARAT.L.
§ 605. Berw y rhud mewn gwin gwynn a hidl, ag yf
bedair llwyaid pen pob teirawr, a golch y mwnwgl dan
wlenyn gyda phob yfed, a chyn pob yfed golch dy enau a''th
Iwnc a'r berw a gwin egr banner yn banner, ag yna bwrw
allan y golch, a thi a iachei gyda Duw.
MEDDYGON MYDDFAI. 210
ARALL.
§ 606. Cymmer afal mawr a thyn ei lygad, yna tyiin ei
galou a pLeth o'r bywyn, yna cymmer rud a briw yn fau
man a dod yn yr afal, a dod arno y llygad a dynnaist yn
dynn, yna pob yr afiil ym mlaen y tan, a phan fo digon a
digon, cymmer a plnvya ynghyd a dodi am ei benn ycbydig
o fel, a llwyaid o win gwynu, a'u cymysg yn gyflaitb, ag o
hwnnw cymmer Iwyaid ar benn pob dwyawr yn y bot iach,
a chynn y cymmeryd, golchi genau a Ihvnc a berwyn rhud
a {Twin eijr banner vn banner.
LLYMA GEGOLCH DA.
§ 607. Cymmer ddail y geidwad, a rbud, aV malw, a
blodau'r ysgaw yr ir neu ynteuV sycb, a berw yn dda mewn
dvvr, ag yn ol berwi dro, dod win egr a mel llwyaid a llwyaid
at y berw, a gad ias iddynt o ferw, a bidl yn Ian drwy liain
teg a dod gadw, a pban y bo gofyn claeara o ddwy i bedair
llwyaid, a cliymmer yn dy enau, ag yna ei drafod ai yryn
a'tli gyhyd a gallech gan ochel ei lyncu yna bwrw allan,
gwna felly o ddvvywaith i bedair, a llwyaid ar y pryd, a da
yw rhag pob dolur genau a llwuc, ag ymarfer ag ef ymhob
amseroedd peryglus lie bo ecbrysaint ar gerdded, a hynn ai
gwared gyda Duw, a gwedi y golcber y genau, os bydd
ecbrysaint yfed llwyaid oV llynn ac ef a'th amddiflyn gyda
Duw.
RHAG Y MWYTH GWERSEDDAWG AR BLENTYX.
§ 608. Berw ddyrnaid o ddail y pumpys mewn llaetb
buwch, a rho Iwyaid benn pob awr i'r dyn bychan byd
ymhen y tridiau, ag ef ai iachaa gyda Duw.
I LADD CIG MARW MEWN BRATH NEU DDYRNOD.
§ 609, Cais ben wer, a ben dom ceiliagwydd, a cbrofen
'bara rhyg a plilisg wiau, a balen. gymaint o bob un au
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gilydd, a doJ i gyd mewn crochan a Uosg hwynt yu bylor, a
mal liwnnw yn fal mal a dod arno.
ARALL.
§ 610. Cymmer galch wedi ei losci bwys punt, aV un
faint oV glist a elwir aurbibau, a dod hwynt mewn posned
i ferwi gyda dwr amcan fawr o amser, yna tynn i lawr a gad
sychu lie nad elo un dyfydwch arno, a phan y bo llwyr o
sych, gwna'n bylor, a hwnnw dod ar y cig marw ag ef ai
lladd, da hefyd yw i ladd y cancar, ai ddodi arnaw i aros
awr ag o hynny i deirawr ar y dolur, ag yna ei olchi a llaeth
defaid claiar, a lie na bo hwnnw llaeth buwch neu afr, a
gwna hynn unwaith bob dydd yn y gwelir lladd y cancar ;
yn dod warethi ag eli twf wrtho, ar hoU amser yfed y claf
ferwyn gwlydd y perthi, a chribau sanflfred yn unig ddiod,
ai unig fwyd berw mewn llaeth, a goreu llaeth geifr, a dwy
waith yr wythnos cig manllwyn 11a wn oedran.
RHAG BRATH.
§ 611. Cais ddynhaden wraidd a cliwbl, golcli y gwraidd,
a phwya*'r ddynhaden yn dda, yna berw hi gydag ymenyn
gwyra, a gwna'n eli, a dod wrth y brath, ag iach y bydd.
MEDDYGINIAETH RHAG BRATHAU.
§ 612. Cais floneg moch a thawdd ef, a mel, a gwin, a
blawd rhyg, a berw ynghyd, a dod ar gadach brethyn ar y
brath, ag ef ai earth y brath, ag ai iacha, os cau a wna yn
rhyfawr, cais y llysewyn a elwir y nep wyllt, a gwna yn
blaster a dod wrtho, ag ef ai hegyr.
Tau amryw gyfluddiaethau y sydd ir iddw, nid amgen,
twym ag oer, y twym yw'r enbyttaf o'r ddau a ffroenau
heleyth a ddaw arno, ar oer y sydd a fFroenau canolig iddaw,
ag o achos hynny rhaid yw anirj-w feddyginiaeth iddynt,
MEDDYGON MYDDFAI. *i21
achaws y gwresawg a ofyn ei feddyginiaethu a phethau oer-
felavvg, a'r clwyf oerfelawg a phethau gwresawg. Fel hynn
ydd iacheir y clwyf oerfelawg, y dolur hwn sydd lancole ;
Cais wynn wi a blawd rhyg, a gwna does a dod arno, a gad
wrtho hyd pan ddigwydd i hunan, a gwna felly hyd yn y
bo iach.
MEODYGINIAETH DROS Y CIG A DDREWO, AG A FO GWRESAWG
TYLLAU, AI GYLCHON,
§ 613. Cais ganrig a mel gloyw, a gwna does, a gwna ef
yn deisen, a dod ar y tyllau, a plian fo raid dod arall, ag
felly hyn fo iach a heini.
MEDDYGINIAETH GYFFREDIN RHAG FOB RHYW IDDW,
§ 614. Cais garth a briw yn fan, a golcli raewn lleisy a
wneler o gwrw gwenith, a berw yn dda a dod ar y dolur
noswaith a banner dyddgwaith, ag yna ei dynnu oddiwrtho,
a golch y dolur a tlirwnc gwr, ag yna dod arno ef y pylor a
wneler fal hynn, cais esgyll gwyddau a thynn y garw
ymaith, a llosg hwynt, a gwna'n bylor, a dod hwnnw ar y
dolur, a dod arno yntau floneg cath goed neu floneg twrch,
gwedy hynny dod ddalen o gawl arno, a chymmcr hen gwrw
da a wneler drwy wenith heb haidd, a llanw ysten newydd
a'r cwrw, a dod halen yndo, ag arfemeint a ftyg o bob un
gymaint ai gilydd, ag o gwyr mwy nag un o honynt, a berw
hwynt ynghyd hyn font tew, ag yna tynn iV llawr, a gad
ei oeri, a gwna blasder a dod wrtho, yn gyntaf y pylor a
ddywedpwyd uchod, a plilaster oV bloneg arno, ar ddalen
gawl ar hynny, a symmud bore a nos, a dyro isgell neu
ferwyn y fabcoll i'r claf i yfed, canys y dydd y hyfo ef
hwynt ni bydd mwy y dolur na lied na chynt.
ARALL
§ 615. Cais sudd y fabcoll, a sudd y malw bendigaid a
had llin, a briw i gyd, a dod gyda mel a llaeth buwch
222 MEDDYGON MYDDFAI.
uiilliw, a tlod hwyut mown ysten newydd a berw yn dda,
ai ddodi yn dwyma ag y galler ei ddioddef ar y dolur.
ARALL.
§ 616. Pylor o bubur, a berw mewn gwin egr hyn y traul
y gwin egr yn llwyr, yna elyf pyloraid, ag ystor, a rhwd
gwyrdd, a mel, au cymysg yn dda ynghyd mewn mortyr,
ai ddodi ar gadach yn blaster wrth y dolur.
MEDDYGINIAETH RIIAG GWAYW IDDW YN YR ASGWRN.
§ 617. Dod had y morgelyn mewn ysten, a dod dan y
lludw i rostio yn dda, a gwasg drwy liain yn dda ag yn Ian,
ag yna bydd gliw, ag a hwnnw ir y dolur, ag oni bydd yr
had cais y llysewyn wraidd a chwbl a dod i rostio a gwasg
fal ucliod,
ARALL YW.
§ 618. Cais eliw rhos ag ir ag ef, a gwna isgell y geidwad
wyllt ag isob drwy win, neu sudd y llysiau drwy win, a
dyro i''r claf yn unig ddiod yn y bo iach.
ARALL YW.
§ 619. Cais bys gwynnon a dod hwynt ar y tan i grasu
yn dda, a gwedi hynny gwna bylor, ag ir y dolur a rael
gloyw, yna bwrw y pylor liwn wrtho, a gad yno hyd yn y
digwyddo o honaw ei hunan oddiyno, yna gwna fal o''r blaen
hyn fo iach.
RHAG GWAYW IDDW A HWYDDO,
§ 620. Cais wreiddion y rhcdyn a mortyra yn dda, a
chymysg ag ycliydig o ddwr twym yn dda, a cliwedi hynny
gwasg trwy liain a gwna blaster o liouaw a blawd liaidd, a
thorr wynn wi am ei benn wrth ei weithio'n blasder, a than
ag yscif ar gadach a dod wrtho.
MEDDYGON MYDDFAI. 223
MEDDYGINIAETH KIIAG GWAYW I BROl'I PA UN FO LLE Y
BO HWYDD, AI CIG O'R AIS PR LLALL, AI PYDUI ARALL.
§ 621. Yn gynta ir y dolur a mel o bob parth iddo, ag
yna cais gaws gwyra, a blawd rhyg, a dod hwnnw yn y
ddaear noswaith, ag oddyno ar y tyllau lie y tebygech fod y
pryf, a chlwm ef yno, a thrannoeth pan syniuttych o bydd
tyllau yn y caws gwybydd di fod y pryf yno.
ARALL YW.
§ 622. Cymmer a dod felweden ddu, ag o gweli di y fel-
wheden gwedi ei bwytta dranoeth pan symuttycli ,y pryf
a fydd yno.
Y FFURF A'R MODD Y LLEDDIR Y PRYF.
§ 623. Cais wraidd yr elestr ddu a briw mewn gwin a
mel, a chymmer falwheden, a dod yn nesa i'r dolur lie bo"'r
clwyf uchod neu gig drwg, a dod y rhaini i gyffeithio arno,
ag ef a ladd y pryf.
ARALL YW.
§ 624. Cais bubur a rhist, a had llin, aV chwerwyn, a
sych y tri hynn yngliyd, a gwna bylor, a dod arno, ac ef
ai lladd.
MEDDYGINIAETH RHAG BRATHAU NEU WAYW GWLYBYRAWG
A FO YN CRAWNU, AI Y CANCAR.
§ 625. Cais arfeniaint a gwna yn bylor, ag ir a hwnnw.
ARALL.
§ 626. Cais hen floneg, ag arian byw, a thus, a mastic,
ag ychydig o bybyr, a briw bob un o honynt ar wahan, a
chymysg hwynt gyda'r bloneg yn oer, a dod yr arian byw
gydag ef, ai ladd yn dda da, ag a hwnnw ir y dolur wrth
y tan.
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ARALL.
§ 627. Cais sudd gwraidd y taf * as, sudd y fabcoll as,
sudd mynt y maesydd as, sudd y malw bendiiraid as, sudd
llydan y ffordd as, a dod nicwn padell ar y tan gyda bloneg,
a gwna'u eli, ag ir y dolur ag ef p'le bynnag y bo, ac iach
y bydd.
blitli yr holl gystuddiant hawl beriglawr clefydon y
pryderic ac y hofnir y cig drwg ar cancar gwyllt, ac o ddych-
lynaidd feddyginiaeth y gwaredir hwynt, nid amgen,
RIIAG I CIG DRWG O BOB RHYW NATURIAETH A PHOB RHYW
IDDWF HEFYD.
§ 628. Cymmer grawn yr y'd, a halogrwydd iair, a ffa
duou, a garlleg, a halen, a chagl geifr, ag escyrn march, a
darnau o frattiau gleision, a dod mewn crochan pridd a
chau arno yn dda a dod ar y tan a gad yno hyn font yn
bylor, a bwrw y pylor hwnnw a'r cymaint a phybyr a
phylor o'r gwydr gwynn ag oV garlleg, a golch y feli a gwin
egr a tlirwnc, neu a thrwnc sur, y nos aV bore, a dod y
pylor arno, a iach y fydd.
Hefyd cais gagl geifr ag ymenyn a chymysg, a dod arno,
y pylor yn gyntaf.
Hefyd cais ardimentwm a chwyr newydd, a dod arnaw y
pylor yn gyntaf, ag ar wartha hynny y cwyr newydd, a
phan osteger ei wenwyn ai lid dod arnaw blaster o sudd
llydain y ffordd, a mel, a gwynn wiau, a blawd rhyg, ag yf
y bore sygn yr erllyriad ar fabcoll oV dryw. Peidied aV
caws, ag aV enau, ag a'r gwragedd, ag iach a fydd.
RHAG YR UN PETH.
§ 629. Cais wadd a llosg mewn crochan pridd yn y bo'n
bylor, a gwna"'n fal mal a bwrw y pylor hwn arno ag yn y
• Ystyr as ydyw dippyn hack.
MEDDYGON MYDDFAI. 2l^5
lie y bo y cii;; marw, a chyniiiier gloyrllysc a'r bcn<Talc(l, a
mortyra"'ii dda gvda cliydii!; o fAI ag ynicnyii, a gwna yii
blasdei", a dod arno, ag cf a ladd y cig niarw, ag ai gwna yn
iach.
Hefyd bwrvv arno bylor y geidwad, ag cf ai rliwym ag ai
gwna yn iach.
RHAG YR UN RHYW BETH.
630. Cais sandr ag elyf, a choprys, a mwtrwni, a rlnvd
gwyrdd, a gwna yn flawd man a bwrw arno, a gad yno ii
neu iii dydd, ag yno dod arno y dryw wedi fortyru yn oreu
ag y gallech, a cliyniysg a niel gla,n, a dod arno ei lonaid
liyd na bo dim yn noetb, a cliarth yn Ian ddwywaith
beunydd, ag yn Heigys ef a fydd iach.
Oni chai y llysiau uchod cais hyddigl a lludy llopanau, a
thrwnc sur, a chymysc yn dda ai ddodi wrtho i ladd un
dydduchod, a gwna fe yn iach a dryw a mcl megis y-
dduchod.
RHAG Y CANCAR.
§ 631. Cais goprys, a ffypyr, a briw liwynt ynghyd, a
thymhera nhwy gyda gwynn wi a mel wcdi y darffo y lan-
liau ar y tim ; ir y dolur yn galed lie bo''r cancar.
RHAG Y CANCAR.
§ 632. Gwna bylor elyf gwynn a dod arno.
RHAG ANADL DRWG.
§ 633. Cais sudd y ganhewin, a sudd y tormwyth, a sudd
llysiauV angel, a sudd y brynllys, chymysg a mel a rho
Iwyaid y boreu ar gythlwng, ag un wrtli fyned i'r gwcly i'r
claf ag iach y bvdd.
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220 MEDDYGON MYDDFAI.
I DDYN A GOLLO EI ODDEG NEU EI DDYWEDYD YN EI
GLWYF.
§ 634. Cais y brynllys a gasgler y Sul gwynn neu nos
wyl leuan fedyddwr, a bervv y rhain, a sych a gvyna'D bylor,
a dyro ar ddiod fr claf i yfed, a da yw.
RHAG DOLUR AR GOES A FO'N DREWI.
§ 635. Berw ddail y derw mewn gvvin gwynn neu goch,
a dod y gwin a'r dail wrtho, a da yw.
ARALL.
§ 636. Cymmer eliw"'r liwydden hen, a gwin gwynn, a
chymysg yn dda, ag eliaV dolur, ag efe a dynn ymaith y
drygwynt, ag ai iacha.
I AVRAIG A FO YN FFAELU ESGOR.
§ 637. Cais sudd y sewyrllys, a dyro iddi gyda dwr.
I ATTAL GWAED O FRIW NEU FRATII, NEU O ACIIOS ARALL,
NEU ARCHOLL O BA RYW BYNNAG.
§ 638. Cais ddynaid, a phwya'n dda, a bwrw win egr am
eu penn, a dod wrth yr arclioll, mogel rhag llewygu y dyn,
ag OS gwua cymmer win egr ag ira ei arleisedd ag ef, a dyro
ddiod iddo.
RHAG GWAEDLING GWRAIG.
§ 639. Cymmer goccwyon cnau a phylora'n fal, yna gwna
isgell aV rliisg nesa i''r prenn oV drain duon, a dod ychydig
fol, a bwrw y pylor ar y llynn, ai yfed yn unig ddiod liyd
ymhen y mis, a gwna felly fis arall o bydd achos,
RIIAG GENAU DOLURUS.
§ 640. Cymmer Iwyaid o sudd y geidwad, a llwyaid o
sudd rhut, a llwyaid o win gwynn neu o win egr, a llwyaid o
fel, a chymysg ; yna golched y claf ei enau yughyntaf a
MEDDYGON MYDDFAI. 227
dwr a halen, yna cymmered y llynn a ddangoswyd yn ei
enau Iwyaid ar y pryd a thrafodcd ai dafawd ai anadi yii
dda, onid el yn ei Iwnc, a gocliel ci lyncu, a bwrvvcd allaii,
a chyramered Iwyaid arall a llynced, ag ef ai iacba, a gwnaed
eihvaith ag eilwaith hyn fo iach, a da'r feddyginiaeth honn
i wared rhag doluriau peryglus.
I WARED RHAG DOLURIAU PERYGLUS.
§ 641. Yn amser y bo doluriau peryglus cymmer sudd y
rhud a gwin gwynn neu hen fedd cadarn banner yn banner,
ag yf Iwyaid neu ddwy bore, ganol dydd, a nos wrtb fvned i
wely, awr o leiaf cyn neu ar ol bwyd.
ARALL.
§ 642. Cymmer ddyrnaid o rud, a pbedwar penn o arlleg,
a dyrnaid oV geidwad a pbwya ngbyd am benn gwin neu
fedd da, yna bidla'n Ian ag yf bedair llwyaid bob bore ar
dy gytblwng tra plieryV echrysaint.
CARTH DA I'R CORPH.
§ 643. Cymmer lonaid llwy o sudd y fflamgoed, a tiiu.s
pyloraid am ei benn, ag y mae ef yn dda i'r ddwyfronn ag
Vr cylla.
ARALL.
§ 644. Cais sudd isob lonaid llwy a berw mewn cbwart o
win cocli a gad ferwi yn ydd el i'r banner, yna dyro iV claf
i yfcd, y nos yn dwym a'r bore yn oer.
PRO MORBO feaHtnUa, HYNNY YW Y CLEFVD CADARN.
§ 645. Cymmer y gwysglys a elwir ucbelfar y derw, a
dod mewn ysten bridd ddiystaen a cbae yn glos clos arno, a
dod ar dan araf nid rby agos, a sycb yny bo a cllir ei
bvlori beb ei lo.sgi, gwna''n bvlor, a dyro i'r claf vmliob diod
228 MEDDYGON MYDDFAI.
ii pliob bwyJ, hefyd gwna docsyn ag ef am bcnn mel a dyro
gyinaint a gwi colomnien fr claf i fwytta rliwrig prydiau
bwyd, a dilyii ar dros iiavv wytliuos ; profcdig yw.
ARALL.
§ G46. Casgl y gwysglys y Nadulig frig a dail a gwyfon a
chwbl, gwna gyffaith a"*!* gwyfon drwy fel bwys dra phwys,
a dodi gadw yn glosgaedig, a'r cwbl arall o'r llysewyn pylora
fal y dywetpwyd uchod, a He bo claf cymysg a'r cyffaith a
elo yndo, a cliadw ynghyd yn ddidor a difraeuiad o'r pylor,
a bwyttaed y claf ei lawn dammaid ar gytlilwng fore, nawn,
a nos ; profedig yw.
ARALL.
§ 647. Cymmer fustl ci, a clirog ef yn y ty y bo'r claf,
lie caflb wynt dridiau, yna bwrw mewn cwrw anican o
chwart, a berw hyn el yn beint a dyro fr claf pan gotto o'i
syrtli, cyn y delo'r clwyf yr ail waitli arno.
RHAG CLWYF YN V CYLLA.
§ 648. Cais had yr * un, a llinhad, a rhwnig, a phwya
nliwy'n dda am ben gwin gwynn, a dyro yn glaerdwym i'r
claf i yfed y cwbl o bono, ag o''r gwin a gwnelo"'n yfadwy.
RHAG HWYDD MEWN CYLLA.
§ 649. Cais wraidd y ffuncl, a gwraidd yr un, a pbwya'n
dda, au tymheru gyda gwin a mel, ai roi i'r claf i yfed, ag
iach y bydd.
I WYBOD PUN AI BYVV AI MARW Y BYDD BRATHEDIG.
§ 650. Cais lysiau r crymman, ueu leth, ncu feillon, a
dyro iddo i yfed, ag os bwrw, of a iydd niarw, sef am benn
dwr yn bwycdig a liidlo y gvvntjir y ddiod.
♦ Qu. jini.'
MEDDYGON MYDDFAI. '220
MEDDYGINIAKTII I AUCIIOLLION.
§ 651. Cais floneg niocli toddaid, a tliawdd cf am beu
mel, a gwin, a blawd rhyg, a berw cf yn dda a dyro ef ar
liain wrtli yr archoll, ag ef a sugn ag a lanlia'r arclioll, ag
ai iaclia ef yn Ian.
I AGORI ARCHOLL.
§ G52. Cais erfin gwylltion a pliwya'n blasdcr, a dyro
wrtli y dolur, ag ef ai hegyr ag ai gwna yu iacb, a byuoy a
brofcd.
I lACHAU ARCHOLL.
§ 653. Cymmer y llysewyu a elwir ystol Fair, eraill ai
geilw yr arlladys, a gwna'n bylor, a bwrw hwiinw yn yr
arcboll, ag ef ai iacbiia gyda Duvv.
I ATTAL GWAEDLING DRWYN GWR NEU WRAIG.
§ 654, Cais y perfagl, rliai ai galwant yr erllysg, a dod
mewu cadedlyn am wddwg a waedo, ag y mac yn brofedig.
Llawer o beryglus ddolurau a chlcfydon o bob amryw
wahanawl gystuddiaeth a fag ag a breswylia nicwn corpb
dyn o wenwyn ag angcrdd y manwynnon, a thrwy ffrwyth-
lawn feddyginiacth y gwaredir hwynt nid amgcn.
RHAG Y MANWYNNON.
§ 655. Cais lygaid y dydd, a'r erllyriad, a tharo ar ddiod
yn dew a chymmcr ddwst a nadder o faen glas, a dyro ar y
ddiod iw yfed, a bynn ai gwna yn iacb, os ceiff cyn y cyscu.
RHAG Y MANWYNNON CYN Y CYSCU.
§ 656. Taro lygaid y dydd, a'r lysogen, a'r erllyriad, a
dod yn blaster arno, ag yf y sugn liwnnw.
230 MEDDYGON MYDDFAI.
ARALL IIHAG Y MANWYNNON.
§ 657. Cymmer flodau'^r bengaled neu y dail, a briw gyda
raelyn \vi a Iialen man, a dod wrtho.
ARALL RIIAG Y MANWYNNON.
§ 658. Cais wraidd y dynaden goch, a gwraidd y gan-
waid Iwyd ar ei *emdawd, a berw mewn glastwr llefrith, a
dod ymeiiyn yndo, ag yf lawn ddiod o bono nos a boreu a
chanol dydd, ag nag yf arall o ddiod hyd fot iach ; profedig
yw.
RHAG Y MANWYNNON GWEDI Y BWRWO EI DAM AI LOSG-
FAN ODDIWRTHO.
§ 659. Cais yr amranwen, a llosglist puredig yn bylor, a
berwi drwy lastwr geifr hyn ddarffo ci boll irder, a chrasu a
malu yn bylor mal, ag a bwnnw iro y dolur, a bwnnw a bair
cyfyngu pob gweli.
RHAG TRAHENI Y MANWYNNON.
§ 660. Cais fel, ag ystor gwynn, au macddu ynghyd, ag
yn dwym 'i ddodi wrtho.
ESGYRN TVNNON.
§ 661. I gyfannu asgwrn twn cais y melynllys a berw
drwy wan a fiVpyr, a mel, ag yf beunydd yn ddiod nawuieu,
a bwynt a gyfaunant oil.
MEDDYGINIAETH RHAG YR ESCYRN TWN.
§ 662. E,hvvyma''r aelod yu gyntaf, gwedi hynny cymmer
fes creision au pylori, a dud bedair Ihvyaid o'r pylor am
benn chwart o lastwr banner yu banner, a berw yn dda, a
dod yndo ai lledfelusio o fol jjuredig, a dyro i'r claf yu unig
* Emduml, blo<lau a seiuniau GwyJd. D. (i.
MEDDYGON MYDDFAI. 231
cldiod hyn welUio ; hcfyd, cymmer win a niOl a haleii
a blawd rhyg gymaint bob iin ai gilydd, a cliyinysg yngliyd
a gwna blasder, a dod arno, a byniiy au cyfannant.
Pwy bynuag a yfo isgell y mill a ehvir ym maunau y
fioled, ef a deifl allan escyrn tynnon yn lleigys.
I ADNABOD O BYDD ESCYRN TWN MEVVN AELOD DVN AI
NA BONT.
§ 663. Cais wynn wi, a llin, a llaeth bronnau, a g^vna yn
blaster a dod wrtlio, ag oni sycli y plaster gwybvdd di fed
yr asgwrn yno, ag oni bydd, ef a sycb yn grinca.
I DDYNION A GOLLONT EI SYNWYRAU.
§ 664;. Cais lygaid y dydd, a bryton, a'r geidwad, a
phwya'u dda a dod ar win, a gad sefyll deirawr yn glos-
gaedig, yna hidla yn Ian, a dyro iV claf i yfed.
I BERI DYWEDYD, O COLL DYN EI BARABL YN EI
DDOLUR.
§ 665. Cymmer y geidwad neu llysiau'r crymman, a
mynn ei sudd a bwrw yngenau y claf, ag ef a gaiflf ei barabl.
I BERI CYSGU.
§ 666. Cais y pabi sef bwlwg yr yd, a gwell yw naV
bwlwg ffrengig, a'r morgelyn neu 'u had, a niortyra'n dda,
a berw raewn gwin, ag a hwnnw ir dy fFroenau, a llygaid, a
chlustiau y claf yn fynych, ag ef a gwsc.
ARALL.
§ 667. Cais had y morgelyn, a'r tlaflys, a mortyra yn dda
a chymysg a llefrith, a gwna belennau bychain a dyro iddo
bob yn un hyd chwech neu wyth o bydd achos pen pob
banner awr, ag ef a gwsc yn ddi air.
232 MEDDYGON MYDDFAI.
ARALL.
§ 6*68. Cais rawn y pabi, a berw mcwn cwrw, a dyro yfed,
ag of a gwsc,
ARALL.
§ 669. Cymmer gorn gafr, a berw raewn dwr, a gad oeri
a golch dy benn a thi a gysci, a dod y corn berwdig dan
dy benn.
RHAG DOLUR BRONN.
§ 670. Cais yr erllyriad, a bloneg moch, a phwya ynghyd
yn fal mal, a dod wrtho hyn fo iacli.
RHAG BRONN DDOLURUS.
§ 671. Cais wraidd yr erfinen wyllt sef yr isgell gwylltion,
a chraf ei risg uclia ymaith, a gwna dwn yn ei goppa a dod
garreg las arno, a dod yntau yn y ddacar iiii nieu neu v
nieu, ag yna agor ef a chymmer y sudd a fo yn y twnn, a
chadw mewn Uestr gwydr, ag a hwnnw ir y fronn ddolurus.
RHAG CRAWNU BRONN.
§ 672. Cais gwyr gwyry a * them wrth dan a gwna wisg
i''r fronn a dod wrthi, ag ef a sugn y gwenwyn allan.
RHAG YR UN RHYW.
§ 673. Cais wraidd y cegid a briw yn fan a blawd haidd
a llefrith buwcli unlliw, a gwna blaster twym a dod wrtho.
ARALL.
§ 674. Cais waddod acsel a chwyr newydd, a gwna blaster
a dod wrtho, trwy ferw y gwneir y plasder,
GWAYW MEWN BRONN.
§ 675. Pwya fynt yn blaster a dod wrthi.
* Qu. (( (htin, i\ tannu ?
MEDDYGOX MVDDFAI. 283
PRYF MEWN BRONN.
§ 676, Cais wiau bran, a llosc a g\vna'n bylor, a chymysg
a sugn chwerwyn y twyn, a dyro yfed.
MEDDYGINIA.ETII I WAKED UHAG ECHRYSAINT.
§ 677. Cymraer wer manllwyn, a bloneg twrch fFres ban-
ner yn banner, a tbawdd a bidla'n Ian, yna dod eihvaitb ar
y tan, a cbymmer anican o ruw a pbwya'n dda a dod am
ben y tavvdd, a berw amcan dda yngbyd, yna bidla, ag a
hwnnw elia dy holl gorph, a rbiglo yn dda ag yn galed tra
pheryV ecbrysaint.
ARALL.
§ 678. Cynimer Iwyaid o sudd rhuw a llwyaid o fel yng
ngbymysg bob bore ar dy gythlwng, tra phery'r baint, a
da'r feddyginiaeth honn a r un uchod i wared rhag pob
ecbrysaint, ai chwys, ai cornwyd, ai brech, ai mwyth du ai'r
fad felen y bo.
LLYMA DDIOD DRWY ARCH DUW A WNEIR I DDYN BRATH-
EDIG AG A DDAW ALLAN" FFORDD T BRATH, AG A lACHA o'r TV MEWN, MD
AMGE.V.
§ 679. Cais y tanclys, a brig y *gwarcb a brig dynaid
coclion, a brig y f trysi cochon, a brig y cawl cocbon, a
llydan y ftbrdd, a'r fabcoll, a'r cocbwraidd sef y madr, ac o bwn
gymaint ag o'r saitb eraill oil, a raortyra yngliyd yn dda,
au berwi niewn ben gwrw cadarn, ai bidlo, ai yfed y nos yn
dwym a'r boreu yn oer, a dodi dalen o'r cawl coclion ar y
brath bob ddini mwy no bynny, ag iacli y bydd — ag o
cbesgli y rheini fis Mai, ac o'r hwyaf wyl I fan, au mortyru
au gwneutbur yn beleni bycliain, au sycliu niewn sycban
heb wynt niawr na baul ddini ti au cefli yn amser y flwyddyn
* L\'\\drch,jtjt\H<n. t Drvsi,/c'/i((/t.
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234 MEDDYGON MYDDFAI.
na bont ar gael yn amgen. A gwell y cadw liyn fo raid, ag
yna eu briwo mewn cwrw, a gwneuthur fal y dywetpwyd
uchod.
LLYMA'R MODD Y GWNEIR MEDDYGINIAETH RHAG DOLUR-
AU O WYNT Yx\ Y CYLLA.
§ 680, Cymmer ddistyll bendigaid ueu ddistyll gwin, a
dod ar byloren a wneir o bwyaw yn dda y llysiau sychon
yma, nid amgen uiaccwyon neryw sychon, had ffunel, a
had moron y maes a elwir nyth y deryn, a had perllys, a
had gwewyrllys, au rhoi ynghyd mewn pottel wydr a chaead
yn glos clos rhag myned ©""r enyfed ar aeholl, a chymmer o
Iwyaid i ddwy Iwyaid pan fo"'r dolur.
I WNEUTHUR Y GLHV A ELWIR YX Y LLADIX *OLWM FFEIN-
WM, SEF HYNNY GLIW FFWYN.
§ 681. Cais ffwyn sef gwair y man oV manaf a ellych ei
gael, a briw yn fan man, a bwrw mewn llestr dau alwyn, ac
o drwnc ai llanwo, a gad yno dridiau a thair nos i bydru, ag
yna berw, a rho floneg twrch yndo, a gad ei ferwi nes
treulo'r banner, yna tyun i lawr, a liidia yn Ian, ag yna y
ail ferwi nes traul y naill banner i hynny, a thynn i'r llawr
i oeri, a chadw yn dda ag yn Ian, canys mae yn dda rhag
pob chv^'f y tu mewn i ddyn ag a fagco oerfel, ag y mae^n
dda rhag gwayw hefyd, og olvcm ffeinwm y gelwir hwn.
Amryw beriglus ddoluriau y sydd, a llyma ddangos
amwy neu o feddyginiaetheu y rhaccynt.
RHAG CAFFAEL Y CRAFLOSG, SEF Y DOLUR YMGRAFU.
§ 682, Cymmer losglist a chelchyn annhawdd, a dod
mewn llestr, a bwrw aruaw chwart o isgell y geidwad, a chau
arnaw yn dda, a gad ei sefyll chwech awr, yna diwal y
• Oleum fnenuin, ff yu- hitnny oleic gu-air. — loi-O ,MoRC.A>wr,.
MEDDYGON MYDDFAI. 235
gloywon, ag ir dy gorph ag ef cyn yr elycli i d^ ncu wely
peryglus a thi a waredir.
ARALL.
§ 683. Cymmer ddail y geidwad a phwya^n dda am ben
gwin egr, a hidla dau wasg, ag a hwnnw ir dy gorph.
ARALL.
§ 684. Cymmer ddistyll bendigaid a bwrw ar ddail y
geidwad yu bwyedig, a cliae yn dda rhag coin'r ednyf, a
gad sefyll deirawr, ag a hwnuw ir dy gorph.
AMWYN RHACt MWYTHEN YN ATTARDD DAIL.
§ 685. Cymmer risg derw y nesaf iV prenn, a dail y
geidwad, a llyseu Cadwgan, a berw mewn cwrw da, ag yf
gryn ddiod y boreu ar gythlwng deirgwaith yr wythnos, a
da hwnn i wared y dolureu.
AMWYN RHAG Y MWYTH DU.
§ 686. Cymmer ddyrnaid oV rhiiw, a dyrnaid c'r geidwad,
ag amcan o had y ffunel, a phwya yngliyd, a bwrw deu-
chwart o win seg da arnynt, a gad sefyll deirawr dan gaead
ffest rhag coll yr ennyf, ag yf bedair Uw^^aid y bore ar dy
gythlwng, a da yw rhag pob echrysaint.
ARALL.
§ 687. Cymmer o ruw, a'r geidwad, a rhosmari, a rhisg y
pren cerdin i'r pren o bob un lawn ddyrnaid, a chymmer
win egr drwy waddod a dod am benn y Uysiau mewn distyll
a dardynu ennyf, ag yf Iwyaid nos a bore, a bwrw ychydig
yn dy ffroenau, ag ir dy arleisiau a chylch dy ddirgelwch
a'th arffed, a'th lofeunau, a'th arddyrnau, a gwadnau dy
draed, a phwll dwyfron, a mwnwgl, a hynn a"th wared rhag
pob echrysaint.
230 MEDDYOON MYDDFAI.
ARALL
§ 688. Cymnier Avin egr a berw, a dod mewn pottel brickl
ag am ei benii amcan o ddistyll bendigaid, a chyninier ei
ennyf Ttli ennau a"th ftVoenau, yna yfed y llynn yn gynta
peth a wnelech y bore.
ARALL.
§ 689. Briw yn fan ddail y geidvvad a rliuw llawn
ddyrnaid o honynt, a dod mewn pottel wydr a distyll gwin
am eu pcnn a chae yn dda rhag colli"'i' ennyf, yf Iwyaid bob
bore.
ARALL.
§ 690. Cymraer lawn ddyrnaid o ruw, ag o'r geidwad, ag
o chwerwyn y twyn, a brasbwya nliwy a dod mewn pridd
diystaen, ag am eu penn ddeuchwart o win egr gwin
gwynn, a chae yn dda arnaw, a gad sefyll cliwech awr, yna
golch dy lioll gorph ag ef y bore fal y codecb, ag yf Iwyaid,
a thi a waredir drwy Dduw, a da yw yn amwyn rhag y
chwysaint.
ARAI-L.
§ 691. Ymolch yn nwr y nior a rhiglo dy gorph yn dda
beunydd, ag ar hynny ymolch dy lioU gorph a gwin neu
a gwin egr unwaith y dydd, ag Iwyaid o ddwr y mor benn
pob awr.
ARALL.
§ 692. Cymmer y rliuddos a phwya''n dda am ben gwin
da neu win egr, neu fedd cadarn, neu hen gwrw cadarn, a
hidl yn Ian, ag yf led ddiod y boreu ar dy gythlwng tra
phery'r echry saint, ag o chlafychu nid rhaid ond yfed hwn
yn unig ddiod, a da o amwyn yw rhag yr echrysaint
ffrengig, a elvvir y plag.
MF.i)i>Yf;o\ :\rvnnF.\T. i!37
ARALL.
§ 693. Casgl chwerwyii y tvvyu, a rhosmari, a'r geidwad,
a mynt cochou, a Uysiau'r corph, a sycli yu dda, yna dod
mewn fiettur gwely, ag ar hwniiw cysg awr bob bore lie bo
aWi ddeffry a mogel cysgu arnaw yn favvr dros amcan o awr
rhag trymnied y cwsg, yna codi a golcli dy ddwylaw a'th
wyneb a gwin egr, ag yf Iwuc o liano, ag yf ddiod o win da
unwaitli y dydd, a mogel cigoedd namyn manllwyn ddwy-
waith neu dair yr wythnos gyda bara gwenith uchelgras.
AKALL.
§ 694. Cymmer amcan o ryw, ag o fynt, ag c'r geidwad,
ag o rosmari, a phwya"'u dda gan fwrw ycliydig win egr neu
win gwin am eu pennau, yna hidla dan wasg a berw liyn
fe"'n dew, yna dod yehydig fol am ei benn a pliylor had
rhuddos, a phan oero gwna'r tewych yn belenau maint
pys, a cliynimer un bob dwyawr oV dydd tra phery'r
ecbrysaint, ag os y chwyshaint y dolur dod yn lie had
rhuddos, neu am ei ben ef, a ellyeh ei doesi am benn y
tewych a wnelech yn belenau.
RHAG YR EFRYDDAINT.
§ 695. Golch dy holl gorph a gliw gliwydd unwaith yn y
dydd a rhigla yn dda, yna ir y cefn o'r gwegil i'r gloren a
mel twym, a rhiglo yn dda, a gwedi hynny rhiglo'r holl
gorph a myned i wely a digon o ddillad yn y tardd chwys,
a gwedi y darffo y chwys o Iwyr a llwyr, dos yn nhrych yn
y mor, a gwisg wlenyn ar dy gefn a'th ddwyfron, ag iachau
a wuei, gyda Duw.
RHAG Y RHYRED, SEP Y TRADD COCII.
§ 696. Cymmer afaleu a briw yn fan, ar un bwys o fel, a
dod mewn posned bridd ddiystaen ar y tan neu o flaen y
tan yn y digono'r ftbcced, yna cymy;?g yn dda a dod man
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greifion cwyr ncwydd am ei beiin, a gyrr dawdd arno, gwna'r
cwbl yn gyflaith a chymmer hvyaid bob dydd ar gythlwng.
RHAG DOLUR YN Y CYMALAU ACHOS OEKFEL, A RHAG
YSIGTOD, A DOLUR O FRIW.
§ 697. Cymmer ffioled o hen gwrw da, ag ychydig o
greifion cwyr, a mel, a berw ynghyd yn y bo tew a dod ar
gadechyn wrth y dolur.
CYFLAITH RHAG ECHRYSAINT,
§ 698. Cymmer ruw, a'r geidwad, a chribau sanffr^d, a
phwya^n dda am ben mel ag ychydig win egr yn y bont
wedi eu llwyr gyfladd yn nis gcUir adnabod un oddiwrth
arall o honynt, a chymmer faint mesen fawr pen pob dwy-
awr, ag ymhen awr ar ei ol dair llwyaid o win cadarn, hefyd
cymmer fel, a gwer manllwyn, a chyfladd yn dda mewn
mortyr, a chadw oV cyflaith faint mesen yn dy enau i doddi
ymhob yn ronyn, ag a hwnnw hefyd iraw dy gorph unwaith
o leiaf yr wythnos.
Y MWYTH A'R TARDD.
§ 699. Cymmer lysieu''r gerwyn, a phwya'n dda am ben
gwin a hidla dan wasg, ag yf hvyaid neu ddwy pen pob awr,
ag yn ddiod rhag syched, berwyn yr un llysiau.
RHAG CRYGNI.
§ 700, Cymmer surion y coed, neu surion y gerddi, a
garlleg, a phwya'n dda hyn fo llwyr gyfladd arnynt, yna
cymmer wer manllwyn a thawdd a hidl, yna cymysgu m^l
ag ef banner yn banner, a dod am ben y llysiau pv/yedig, a
chyfladd y cwbl yn dda, yna dod yn dy enau ycliydig oV
cyflaith, a gadael ei doddi ai lyncu fal y toddo, a phan
dderfydd cymmer eilwaith, ag eilwaith yn y symuder y
crygni.
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ARALL.
§ 701. Cymnier wraidd dynaid a cliras yn gras eras, yiia
eu pylori, a chyfladd y pylor am ben m^l ag ymenyn gwyra,
a chymmer Iwyaid oV cyflaith hwyr a boreu.
Y TARDD CENNOG.
§ 702. Cymmer ddail y cyngaw a phwya'n dda am ben
ychydig win, a hidl, ag yf dair llwyaid nos a bore a channel
dydd, hefyd yf isgell y cyngaw yn unig ddiod, a gokh y
dolur ag ef yn frytta byth y gellycli ei oddef, ag iro ar
hynny ag eli cyfladd gwin, a gliw^r liwydden, a mel ;
profedig yw.
Dau amryw gwynofus a plieryglus ddolureu y sydd, nid
amgen, bratheu pryfed a gwenwyn, ag a fyddant arddescyn-
awl niewn amryw foddion ar gorph dyn, ag anghenraid
ymweglyd rhagddynt, ag fal hyn y gwaredir hwynt.
• RHAG BRATH NEIDR.
§ 703. Cais yr erilyriad, a'r bengaled, a phwya'n dda au
taro ar ddwr ai yfed yn unig ddiod, a tin a waredir gyda
Daw.
ARALL.
§ 704. Cais yt sugn yr egllyriad gyda gliw gliwydden, ag
yf, ag ir y dolur ag ef.
ARALL.
§ 705. Yf isgell y gan wraidd, a golch y dolur ag ef.
ARALL.
§ 706. Cais ymhennydd ceiliawg cocli, a sugn y rhut,
a llefrith neu laeth, a dod wrtlio, neu gigfran 'yn frwd,
agr yf laeth vn unitr o fwvd a diod yn v hot iach.
240 >ii;di)V(;on myddi-ai.
RHAG BRATH NKIDll.
§ 707. Os gwr, dod geiliawg coch wrth ei din ar y bratli
li yn fo niarw, — os gwraig, iar yn yr un modd,
ARALL.
§ 708. Cai.s garrai o groen Ihvdn liydd a rliwyni bob
banner Vr brath, yna cais iar a tliyn y pluf o gylch ei thin, a
dod din y iar yn fyw ar y brath a dal hi yno hyd pan welych
yn hwyddo, yna dod arall yn yr un modd hyd pan dynnor
y gwenwyn oil i raaes, yna dyro i yfed isgell a wnelych aV
llysieu yma, nid amgeu yr ysgaw a''r bengaled, neuV ganrhi
goch, neu isgell y tormwyth, a byw ar lefrith, a hynny a
iachaa bid ddyn bid Iwdn.
RHAG BRATH AB.
§ 709. Cais dom tarw yn dwym, a dod wrtho.
RHAG BRATH CI CLAF.
§ 710. Cais lydan y ffordd, a'r tryw, a raortyra hwynt a
dod wynn wi, a mel, a hen floneg gyda hwynt a gwna eli,
ag elia y brath.
ARALL.
§ 711. Cais genin, a gwin egr, a had flfunel coch on, a mel,
a chymysg yn dda, a dod wrtho yn blasder.
RHAG GWENWYN.
§ 712. Cais ii gneuen, a iii ffigysen sychon, a dail y rhut,
a XXXV halen, a dyro i'r claf i'w yfed ar y gythlwng ;
hefyd, yf laeth yn ddiod, a bydded yn unig ymborth hyd
ymhen wyth awr a deugain.
ARALL.
§ 71 3. Cais y ganrhi goch, a chribau sanffred, a'r geidwad,
a eliwcrwyn y twyn, a ffunel, ar dis, a phwya'n dda a dod
MEDDYGON MYDDFAI. 241
mewn gwin a hidla drwy wasg ag yf goccwyaid ar benn pob
awr, A da hwn rhaij bratli ci claf ncu fratli iicidr jrvda dodi
dail y malw bendigaid ar y brath.
ARALL.
§ 714. Cymmer gribau sanftVed a sych hwynt, a gwna yn
bylor, a chyramer o'r pylor hwnnw a ellycli rwiig pennau
dy ddeufys ddwywaith, a dod tt gydag ef o win a berw hyn
el ei draian, ag yf ef yn yraprydiol, a da yw.
RHAG CLWYF A DOLUR Y TRAED.
§ 715. Berw wraidd y greulys fendigaid a bwrw ar faidd,
a mortyra y * perwedd gyda hen floueg, a dod yn blasder
wrthynt ag iach fydd gyda Duw.
RIIACr YSSIG MEWN EWIN.
§ 716. Cymysg flawd gwenith a mel a dod arno.
RHAG DY FLINAW YN CERDDED.
§ 717. Yf y bore lonaid coccwy wi o sugn y ganwraidd
Iwyd, a liynny a'th ddiflina.
I OSTWNG HWYDD O DRAED.
§ 718. Cais y meddygyn, a llysiau'r uclien, a'r syrlyn,
a*'r dryw, a llydain y fibrdd, a rlmddaur, a llygaid y dydd, a
blawd haidd, ag ymenyn heb halen, a saem gwynn, a gw^nin
wi, a gwneutbur plasder, a dod wrtho, ag os gwresawg fydd,
hynny ai gostwng ; os bydd oer y clwyf, cais ferwr y fiyn-
honau, aV hiddigl, ag cgll^'riaid, a'r rliut, a"'r ddiden, a
dynaid cochon, a berw trwy win coch a dod wrtho.
Achos bod yn anwybodedig natturiaeth llawer o amrafael-
ion ddolurau, a pha ddelw y gwaredir y nesno gweled
angerdd a cliadernyd y clwyf oV tu mown, ag am liynny y
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242 MEDDYGON MYDDFAI.
manegir pa fodd yr agorir ar y cnawd dyn yn ddiberigl tra
foer yn gwared y clefydon, iiid anigen.
DIAWD Y\V IIONN IW ORCHYMYN I BERI I DDYN GYSGU TRA'H
AGORER PLE BYNNAG Y BO'R CLWYF.
719. Yf sugn yr orpin tebaice, y morgelyn, y papafer sef
yw liynny y bwlwg fFrcngig, a'r mandragore, ag ciddew y
ddaiar y niwya, y cegid, y gwylaetli sef y lactuca, cymaint
bob uu ai gilydd, cymysger pridd glan a hwynt a thrawer
yndaw, a gwneler diawd, yn ddiau y cwsg, a phan ddarparer
egori ar y claf parer iddaw wiliaw yn liwya ag y galler, ag
wedi liynny bwrier petli yn ei fFroeneu, ag ef a gwsg heb air.
Pan fynnecli ei ddeflfroi mortyra ysbwng mewn gwin egr
a bwrw yn ei firoenau.
• mynni na ddeffroo o fewn pedwar niau cais yr liwn a
fydd fewn clust ci pwys ceinioix, ag o byg yr unbwys, a
dyro iddaw i\v yfed, ag ef a gwsg.
Pan fynnecli ei ddeffroi cymmer wynwyn, a gwin egr
cyfladdedig a bwrw yn ei enaii, ag ef a ddeffry ; a gwiliaw ei
ddiogelu yn llonydd, ai rybydd partli yr egor, rhag ei
anuhrefnu.
ELIAU GWERTHFAWR.
720. Yn unig am fratliau a dyrnodau, namyn anfcddyg-
lunau a pliob meddyginiaetheu oddieithyr eliau gwerthfawr
fal y tystia y gwr doeth a elwir Tliolomews, fal liynn.
Pan foV lloer yn bennaf ar yscorpio, neu gancero, neu ar
peseau bod hwyntau dan arglwyddiaeth sygyn y liun ar
lloer dan guddiedigaeth y ddaiar, arwyddon da fydd y rliai
hynny i roddi meddygiiiiaetli regedawg, oV bydd liitheu ar
yr awyr yn uchcl dywcdir y feddyginiaeth hynny a drosa
ar ormodd othrymdcr a digofaint, o achos hynny edrych a
ifar i"'r neb a gymmero feddyginiaeth redegawg gerddcd i
MEDDYGON MYDDFAI. 243
gymraeryd awyr y Dvvyraiu, a phan gauer arnaw dewised y
Gorllewin ag arfercd o hanaw, ag ni jiliara Arglwydd y
sygn hwn ar yr arwyddon onid dau ddydd gyntaf o bob
arwydd or dcuddeg ; a chwedi y dau ddydd hynny yn
ddirgel arfered feistrolaethau ai gywreindeb fal y perthyn-
asawl.
Llyma eli mawr weithiog yr hwn a arferir o honaw yn
erbyn amryw dymestloedd a chledau nid amgen no'r rliai
hynn, cans da yw ef rbag pob rhyw grawngwd neu bostwn,
a phob iddw, aV cancar sef yw b^vnnw y cle or ais i'r Hall i
gilydd, ag ef a gartha pob parth o fewn ag o faes i gorpli
dyn bid yn fawr bid yn fyclian hyd na bo iddo yr ail fedd-
yginiaetb, ba bynnag o ryw a niaint y bo yr arclioll, a
phynnag eraill o dymestloedd y byddont ar gorpli dyn nid
amgen.
Cymraer y llysseu bynn, glesyn y coed, tafod y ci sef y
pigl, y samylen sef yw y pumpeol, y torfagl, y tryw, y
llannol, y llwynhidydd, y filwydd, llygad Crist, y fFraig sef
dail y syfi, llygad y dydd mawr, llygad y dydd bychan,
surion y coed, y fabcoll, y droedrydd, dyrnaid o bob un, ag
oV mol lysiau sef y wale minus, gymaint ag o'r rhai eraill
oil, ag ymenyn puredig banner pwys y llysiau oil, neu
yehwaneg ; yna briw y llysiau a'r emenyn ynghyd, a gad
scfyll felly hyd ymhen v dieu, ag ymhen v men berw, a
gwasg trwy liain teg newydd olcbiad, au dodi mewn lie
cadwedig, a phan fynnech fcddyginiacthu rhyw glaf oV
clefyd a enwyd ucliod, dyro iddo y bore yn y peth cyntaf
gymaint a fFafen ©""r eli i\v yfcd nou i fwytta, ag ychydig o
win gwyn, a^' cyfFelyb y nos yn Invyr liyd pan fo iacli, aV
eli hwn a clwir bwyttaedig.
Llyma feddyginiaeth ddiballedig a elwir rliat tuw, a'r
enw a gafas yn achwysawl achos lie y dodir wrth frath hen
neu newvdd ni clicffir aball awcitliiogrwvdd arnaw. air
244 MEDDYGON MYDDFAI.
vnililith \v lioU cliocdd a lililasderoii diogelacli a gwell a
pheffeitliiach yw ef i iacliau yn un nos na'r rhai eraill oil
mewn mis, drwy wneutliur mwy tuag at lanhau gwelioedd a
phob peth gwrthmyn a gwrthwaith heb ddim arall o fedd-
yginiaeth Vr cig drwg yn y lie y bo ef, a phob giewyn a
dorro neu a chwyddo ef ai cyssyllta, neu wythi, neu gyrn-
aleu, yn gystal a chynt y buasont oreu erioed, a da yw rhag
pob liwydd cadarn, ai coch ai gwynn y bo, ag yn y modd
hynn y nodir ag y ellir ei wneuthur.
Cais bwys y bunt o'r llysewyn a elvvir y tresgl sef y
febilion, ag o gwm ystor boneddig bedair dramen, aV un faint
o gwyr gwyry, ag o ryw bran y sydd debyg i'r fauhadlen a
elwir y maglys, ag yn y Lladin maglisse dair dyrnaid o
bob un o'r llysiau hyuny, ag o'r rhai hynn hefyd yr un faint
sef cribau sanftred a elwir dannedd sanfFred, a'r pympiol, a'r
torrfagl, a briw'r meirch sef y * vervene, a mynt y twynau
a elwir calamynt, ag ystor bendigaid sef y strepuledium, a
flfrwyth neu win a elwir balm balsami, a berw Invynt ym
mewn galwyn o win gwynn, hyd pan el i'r banner dan ei
ferw, ag yna ymyscu yr ail waith ai ddodi ar y tan i ferwi,
a dodi y mastic, a chwyr gwyry, ag yehydig o laeth y bo
niab yn sugno ai fagu, ag yn y modd liwnnw y gymyscu yn
dda ai ymodi fytli heb orphwys, ai dynnu oddiar y tan, a
dodi ynddaw y tresgl, a"'r ystor bonheddig, a'r balm, bid
hyd pan el y gwres o hanaw, ai ddodi mewn llestr glan i
gadw, ag felly i gwneir rhad tuw, o'r strepuldwm pwys dau
ronyn o wenith.
MAL HYNN Y GWNEIR ELI GWRESOG.
§ 721. Cymmer y llysewyn a elwir gwarchwydd ueu'r
warchlys, sef y vitex goch, a'r try w, a'r greynllys fawr, au
• Verbena. I. M.
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mortyru'n dda, ai dodi ar y tan gydag ymenyn a *
*
au gwascu trwy liain, ag yn dwyni gwneutliur plasder
ynghylch y * penn.
ELI FFRWYTIILAWN RIIAG POB CYFRYW WAYW OERFELOG.
§ 722. Cymmer y geidwad, a'r sewyrllys sef y satwreig,
a'r ambros, a chwerwyn y twyu, a blodau banadl, a'r tryw,
a gwraidd y bumustl, a'r greynllys fawr, a'r grug, a mor-
tyra'n dda, a dod ef mewn ychydig o win a thalm o eliw
gliwyddeu, a doder mewn llestr i addfedu saith nieu, ag yna
berwer am benn bloneg, a gwer gafr, ag ymenyn gwyra, a
gwer dafad, a chwyr, a gwasc trwy liain yn dda, a dod
yndaw godarsin a rliosin, cadw yn anwyl, ag arfer o hwnnw ;
profedig yw.
ELI GWERTHFAWR RHAG POB RUYW GLEFYD.
§ 723. Cymmer wer dafad, a gwer bwch, a hen floneg, a
chwyr, a berwr iwdeu chwerw, a'r fabcoll, a'r chwerwyn, a'r
samwl, neu yn eu lle'r priellau, au mortyru au berwi ynghyd
au gwasgu trwy liain, a dod i gadw a da yw yn wir.
LLYMA ELI A WNAETII IPOCRAS RIIAG YR EFRYDDAINT, SEF
Y PARLYS, A RHAG POB CYFRYW AVAYW OERFEL.
§ 724. Cais geiliagwydd bras, a thynn y bloneg o hano,
a chymaint arall o floneg cath gwryw, a chymaint o floneg
cath •fgoeg, a bloneg llwynog, a thalm a bubyr, a bloneg iar,
ag ystor, a dau benn o wynwyu, a phwys o gwyr newydd,
a berwr, a'r fabcoll, a'r isob, a phricllau, a'r fydden chwerw,
a mortyra i gyd, a dod mewn y ceiliagwydd, a phob o flaeu
y tan tra rhetto dim o hano, a chymnier hwynt oV ceiliog-
wydd, a berw yr ail waith mewn ymenyn, a rhwsin, a thodd
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24G MEDDYGON MYDDFAI.
ystor albanwm gyda nliwy, a liidla trwy liaiii a dod i gadw
yn dda ag yn anwyl, ag a h^VIlnw iro yn dda wrth y tun
pob cyfryw wayw oerfel.
ELI I lACHAU BRATHAU.
725. Cais hen floneg, a thus, a chwyr, a dod ar y tan i
ferwi, a gwasc ef tnvy liain, a phan fo yn oer tann ef ag
yscif ar liain, a symud ef ddwywaith yn y dydd, a thwym a
dod drachefn wrtho, a phob gwaith ai twymer gweitliio'r
yscif ar hyd a lied iddo.
ARALL.
§ 726. Cais sydd y dynaid, a sydd gwraidd llyseu Cadwgan
neu'r pylor, a sydd gwaed y gwyr sef yr ysgaw bendigaid,
a mel gloyw, a gwynn wi, a gwin, pob un o honynt gymaint
au gilydd, a dod gyda hynny gann gwenith, a gwaith yn
blaster a thanu ar liain a dod ar y brath nos a bore hyn fo
iach.
RHAG Y MANWYNNON.
§ 727. Cymmer yr erllyriad, a llygaid Crist, a dail yr
ysgaw, a'r tryw, a'r edafeddog, a''r bengaled, a'r syfi, a'r
fywydog sef yr orpin, gydag ymenyn heb halen, a gwascu
trwy liain glan ai gadw, ag elio'r dolur ag ef, a gwna ddiod
i'r claf a dail y syfi, a'r fywydog, a'r dderwen fendigaid
drwy bwyo am ben gwin neu gwrw, neu drwy ferwi drwy'r
dwr, a dyro yfed i'r claf yn unig ddiod, a da yw hynny
yn wir.
LLYMA LYSIAU ELI TWF, NID AMGEN.
§ 728. Yr wruerth, y wiolydd, y glcsyn, y llwynliidydd,
y bittain, y diwythl fedi, isub, cyniaiut bob un ai gilydd, au
mortyru ynghyd, a bwrw attyn ymenyn ai buro oddidano
ag oddiarno yn gynta oyn rhoi y llysieu. a berw y llysicu
MEDDYGON MYDDFAI. 247
gydaV ymenyn ferwad cig oen iieu hysgod gleisiaid, ai yniod
a ftrenn, ai hidlo trwy liaiu crai, a dodi ar gadw.
ARALL.
§ 729. Cais wertli dwy gciniog o rwsin, a ffiolaid o wer
defaid, a cliymaint arall o gwyr newydd, au cydtoddi, yna
tynnu i'r llawr, ai liidlo ; rlian y tawdd yn ddwy rann, a
lliwa'r naill raun a iii ob o rwd gwyrdd, a gad liw y llysieu
ar yr banner arall.
LLYMA FEL Y GWNEIR ELI MELYN.
§ 730. Copel rwsin, ar gymaint arall o wer, a banner
liynny o gwyr, ag ymenyn puredig banner llonaid cw])a, a
berwi a bidlo trwy liain, a lliwa'r banner a rbwd yr efydd,
neu rwd gwyrdd, a'r banner arall dod ycbydig o fel yngbyd
ag ef, a gad ferwi, ai gadw yn felyn.
I WNEUTHUR TRED MELYN.
§ 731. Cais gwyr newydd, a rbwsin melyn, a menyn
puredig, a gwer mybaren yn drccb na"'r cwyr, a^* rbwsin
noV ymenyn a'r gwer, a berw yngbyd encyd, a tbyn i'r
llawr, a bidl drwy liain.
I WNEUTHUR ELI TWF, A HWNNW YN WYRDD.
§ 732, Cais gwyr, a rbwsin, ag ymenyn puredig, a cbribau
sanffred, aV wiolydd sef y fioled, a'r glesyn, a'r llwynbidydd,
a tbawdd y toddedolion a'r llysiau, pwya nbwy yn dda a
berw am benn y tawdd, au gadacl ennyd fecban ar y tan,
yna eu tynnu i'r llawr au bidlo drwy liain glan a gad oeri,
yna dod i gadw.
I LADD Y CANCAR.
§ 733. Cais -tastic, a cbamfFyr, a tbus, yn gyfamcan, a
ffracca, a maedd mewn llcstr glan, a dod gadw ym mown
248 MEDDYGON MYDDFAI.
pledren Ian, a phan elych i feddyginiaothu cais lonaid tan-
gwll, sef liwnnw siattrwm, o dan coed derw, a chymmer
lonaid 11 wy ariau o'r pylor a bwrw yn y tan a dod y cancar
uwch benn y mwg, a hwnnw ai Uadd, end dilyn aruo yn dda.
I WNEUTHUB Itoltom NEU IRoItom.
§ 734;. Cymmer chwechoccwyaid o eliw'r eliwydden, a
dau cymaint o blwni cocli, a mal y plwm am benn yr eliw
a rho mewn posned pres ar y tan, a chymmer brenn a
chymysg yn dda, a chymmer ddysgl beytyr i'th law, a
tharaw y pren ar y ddysgl bob amser hyn y welych yn ddu,
yna tynn i'r llawr, a gad sefyll hyd pan fo yn dechreu oeri
yna gwna ef yn rholau, a dod mewn papur cyn y llwyr oero,
a gad oeri digon, yna dod gadw.
I WNEUTHUR TRED SUGN.
§ 735. Cymmer gwyr, a rhwsin, a therr, a bloneg moch,
a dod ar y tan, yr un faint o'r cwyr ag o'r rhwsin, a'r Hall
wrth fesur a gad fervvi hyn fo fal cwyr caled.
I WNEUTHUR PLASDER RHAG YSSIC, NEU CHWYDD, NEU
FRATH DRAEN.
§ 736. Cymmer y gleyrllysc ag ymenyn, a mortyra
yng nghyd a thwym ar y tan ennyd fechan, a dod wrth y
chwyf deir gwaith neu bedair.
I WNEUTHUR PLASDER SYCH.
§ 737. Cais wraidd marchalan a briw a berw yn dda, a
bwrw am eu penn Uaeth buwch unlliw, a chymysc yn dda,
a bwrw ymaith y gwraidd, a bwrw cann gwenith, neu gann
haidd am ei benn, a mel, ag ychydig o rwsing, a berw hyn
fo tew, a thyn Vr llawr, a rho mewn llestr glan, a phan
ddottych ef wrth ddolnr rho beth bloneg am ei benn, rhag
ei fod yn rhy sych.
MEDDYGON MYDDFAI. 249
I WNEUTHUR PYLOR O WYx\N WIAU.
§ 738. Cais lechfaen lydan a dod ar y tun, a dod wynn y
wiau arno hyd pan fo yn duo, yna eu casglu ymaith au
cadw yn anwyl.
RIIAG Y CLEFYD A GERDDA FAL TAN GWYLLT, SEF YW
HWNNW CIG DHWG NEU GIG YN AEL TN GANCAE, AG EP A DDESGVN I FOD
WEITUIAU VNG NGl'DDFEU DYNION, A GWEFUSEDP, A THAWLOD X OENEU, A
THANN WREIDDIAU Y TAFOD, A CHANCRO YNO A GWRESCVN, AG FEL HTNN Y
GWAREDIR.
§ 739. Cais fRoled o win egr, a ffioled o sudd y perllys,
a banner ffiolaid o fel, a chysted o driagl, ai gyniyscu ynghyd
yn dda a phylor elyf ai gvvasanaetlio fal y bo yn gymbesur
o dewder fel iwd peilliaid, ai weitbio wrtbo hyn fo iacb, a
bynny sydd brofedig, a goreu o'r boll feddygyniaetbeu ond
gwneutbur bynny yn ddiwall byn fo iacb.
ELI BRATH.
§ 740. Cais y fabcoll, a'r wiolydd, a llygaid y dydd, a
glesyn y coed, a'r llwynbidydd, a'r meddygyn, a pbwya'n
dda, a berw yn dda am ben ymenyn gwyra a bidla, a dod
gadw, a da yw yn wir gwir.
ELI RHAG Y MANNWYNNON. .
§ 741. Cais ddail y bae, a'r wiolydd, a llygaid y dydd, a'r
bengaled, a'r wilfrai, a pbylor y glyf, a raer ben cidon, a
pblasia yngbyd, a berw, a bidla.
ELI TWF LLE Y BO CROEN TWNN.
§ 742. Cais ymenyn gwyra a dod ar y tan, a digrawena
yn dda a ddel ar ei wyneb wrtb ferwi, a cbymnier yr
wrnertb, a glesyn y coed gyuiaint o bob un ai gilydd, ag
oni cbei y glesyn y wilffrei, a berw bwyut yn dda am ben
y menyn, ag o mynni roi ycbydig o gawu ni bydd gwaeth yr
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250 MEDDYGON MYDDFAI.
eli, a dod ar y tan gan roi amcan oV llysiau uchod fal y bo'r
eli yn gymraesur o dewdwr, a gad ferwi ferwad cig ocn, a
dod yndo ychydig o gwyr newydd a cliymysc yn dda a gad
ferwi ychydig, a phan fo yn dyfod i lawr bwrw ynddo Ivvyaid
o fel puredig a cliymysg i gyd yn dda, a gad fyned un ias
drwyddo, a tliynn i'r llawr ag ymod yn dda, a liidl yn Ian
trwy liain bras, a dod gadw. mynni wncuthur petli i
losgi y marw cais faen elyf neu goprys glas a briw ycliydig
hano a dod ar wyneb yr eli mewn blwch neu ddysgl lydan
annofn a chymysg yn dda a gad rewi, a hwnnw sy dda rhag
y cig marw ; i losci a wna hwnnw.
LLYMA FAL Y GWNEIR ELI MELYN.
§ 743. Cais bottel o rwsin, a chymaint arall o wer dofaid,
a maint hynuy o gwyr, ag ymenyn puredig banner louaid
cwpa, ai ferwi ynghyd, ai dynnu i'r llawr ai liidlo trwy
liain. A banner yr eli hwnnw lliw a'r rhwd gwyrdd, a rho
ychydig fel ynghymysg a'r banner arall ai ferwi yn well o
ycliydig a hynuy ai ceidw ef yn felyn, ai gadw yn dda
mewn llestr glan at dy gelfyddyd.
GOLCH I DYFU CROEN TWN AR ESGAIR NEU LEOEDD ERAILL
AG Y BO RHAID LLOSGI'R MARW.
§ 744. Cais y llyriad, a llygaid y dydd, a'r llwynbidydd,
a galwyn o ddwr ffynon oer. a phwya"'r llysiau a bwrw at y
dwr ai ferwi, a chymmer bwys punt o elyf a bwrw yndo, a
gad ferwi hyd pan el dan ei draian, a llyna'r golch yn
barod.
ENNAINT NEU OLCH RHAG LLOSC NEU BOETHNI COCH ACHOS
TRALLYNNORGASGL, NEU WRES TAN, NEU HAUL, NEU YSSTG, NEU FWTTH
BRWD YN GAFAELU AR Y LLE.
§ 745. Cymmer lefrith a dwr banner yn banner, a chym-
mer y malw, a blodeu, neu emmau, neu risg gwyrdd yr
MEDDYGON MYDDFAI. 251
ysgaw, a llysiau'r geiniog, a lie au ceffir, surion y coed, neu
suran y waun, neuV surau ffrengig sef un yr ardd, a berw
am benu y dwr aV llaeth, ag onneiniaV dolur ag ef yn led
wresog, a gwedi liynny cymmer y llysiau berw a fo raid o
honynt a dod yu blasder wrtli y dolur, a chadw rhan yn
syinud ymlieu cliwcch awr.
RHAG Y TAN IDDWF.
§ 746. Cais * fwg, a'r fywydog, a llysiau pen tai, a''r glys
sef y price maed, a chlustiau'r iddew a dyfont ar yr ysgaw,
lonaid maneg o bob un, neu o'r rhai a ellir o honynt, a
mortyra yn dda, a berw trwy fenyn gwyry, a gwasc trwy
liain, ag a'r eli liwn ir y dolur, a hynny ai diffydd, ag ai
diflfrwytlia, ag ai iacliiia ar hynt, ai roi y bore yn fynycb.
O BYDD CRAWN MEWN DYN.
§ 747. Cais war dafad, a blawd ceircli, a dail f ffiol y
flfrwyth, a'r diwlith, au berwi hyn elont yn iwd, a dod liwnnw
wrtlio, ag ef ai sugn allan.
RHAG LLYGAID GWEINION RHEDEGOG.
§ 748. Cymmer lestr pridd ystaenaid a tliodd llosglist
yndo a elo hyd a lied y gwaelod deudrwch neu dritlirwch
ewin bawd, a phan elot i'th wely'r nos g^vna dy ddwr yn y
llestr hwnnw, a'r bore golcli dy lygaid ag -ef ; yna bwrw y
dwr ymaith a gwna dy ddwr bore yn y cwpa a gad ei sefyll
hyd nos a golch dy lygaid wrth fyned i'th wely ag ef, a
goreu dwr y bore, cans cryfach hwnnw na dwr y nos ai
ddarpar o fore fal hyn i fore ; ag os trwm y clybod gwlych
wlan du yn y dwr hwnnw a dod yn dy glustiau y nos wrth
fyned i wely.
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252 MEDDYGON MYDDFAI.
RHAG Y CYLLWST, SEP Y COLIC.
§ 749. Cais y ganwraid Iwyd, a''r egllyriad, a dynaid
coclion, a bcrw trwy faidd geifr, a hidl trwy liain, a dyro iV
claf i yfcd.
RHAG IIWYDD DYRNOD.
§ 750. Cais y gleyrllysc, a'r erllyriad, a flfenigl, o bob uu
gyraaint ai gilydd, a mortyra gyda blawd rliyg, a mel, a
gwynn wiau, a dod yn blaster wrtho, ag iach a fydd.
RHAG COSSI A NIWL AR LVGAID.
§ 751. Cais sudd y melynllys, o bwyaw'r llysiau yn dda
am benn llaetli bronneu y bo mab yn eu sugno, neu am ben
trwnc mab blwydd, a hidl drwy wasg, a dod y sudd ag asgell
yn dy lygaid.
ARALL.
§ 752. Pwya'r melynllys am ben llaeth geifr a hidl drwy
wasg, a chymysg ag ychydig fel, a dod ar dy lygaid ag
asgell, dair gwaith yn y dydd.
RHAG Y CLEFYD MELYN.
§ 753. Cais ddant y Hew, a'r benlas wenn, a pherllys
gardd, au mortyru ynghyd yn dda, yna eu berwi trwy hen
gwrw iachus a chadarn, ai roi raewn cunnach geneugul i
gadw yn glosgacdig, ag arfer yn gyntaf y bore awr cyn
bwyd, a'r diweddaf y nos awr gwedi bwyd lawn bedwar
coccwyaid neu ffibl banner chwart o hano.
ARALL.
§ 754, Cymmer frig, a dail os byddant, y prcn melyn, sef
y pren ysbin, a briw a berw yn dda mewn hen gwrw cadarn
iachus yn y diflan ei draian, ag yf yn unig ddiod.
MEDDYGON MYDDFAI. 253
HIIAG BRECHLYDRWYDD YN Y LLYNNOR.
755. Cymraer wraidd ncu had djnaid, a pliwya''n dda,
yna berw mown ossai da o haniicr blwydd i flwydd oed, ag
yf yn unig ddiod ; gorcu yr ossai a wneir ag afalau cadw
lied surion.
ARALL.
§ 756. Cymmer afalau, a phob hwynt, neu berw, a dod am
ben llefritli gwartlieg ncu eifr, a chymmer yn unig fwyd a
diod fis i naw wytlinos fal y bo grym yr afiechyd, a da
iawn yr ymborth hwn rhag brech yr ysgyf, a brech y gwaed,
ag a ddinistr wenwyn y maenwynnou, ag a'r feddygiuiaetli
honu y iachiiodd Hywel Feddyg o Langynwyd y Brenin
Edwart gyfiesor pan nad ocdd o feddyg yng nglired a
addawai awr o fywyd iddaw gan faint angerdd brech yr
ysgyfaint, a'r amherawdr Antwninws ai arfcrai bob cwymp a
phob attardd dail, ag a waredai o hynny bob breclilydrwydd
gwaed a llyunor yr hynn yw achos gorescynawl pob dolur
tardd a chrawn ynghorph dyn.
RHAG GWAEDING FFROENAU.
§ 757. Cais ddyuhaden a phwya'n fal mal, a dod yn dy
ffroenau.
I LADD PRYFED.
758. Cais y milddail a phwya'n dda, a dod aruo ef.
RHAG GWAYW YN Y LLYGAID.
§ 759. Gosod melyn wi a blawd gwenith ar bob un o'r
arleisoedd, a iach fydd.
RHAG HAINT Y MARCHOGION.
§ 760. Cymmer galcli a gwraidd rhedyu a mortyra yng
nghyd a dod wrtho, ag iach y byddi.
254 MEDDYGON MYDDFAT.
ARALL.
§ 7G1. Bcrw gwraidd y rhedyn me\vn dwr ffynon yn yr
el dan ei lianner, a bwrw ar gneppyn o galch newyddlosc, a
plian loyw diwal i lestr arall y gloywon a golcli y dolur.
I DDYNABOD CLAF, AI BYW AI MARW Y BYDD.
§ 762. BriwV wiolydd a dod ar ei arleisoedd, ag o chwsg
byw a fydd, oni chwsg marw f'ydd.
I WARED DAFADENNAU.
§ 763. Pwya risgl yr helig am bcnn eisel neu win egr, a
dod wrtho.
RHAG GWRES A GWAYW MEWN BRATHAU.
§ 764. Cais wraidd y malw bendigaid, a rhisgl canol yr
ysgaw, bob un gymaint aV Hall, a dod attynt win gwynn
o"'r un gyffelyb fesur, a berw yn dda liyd pan el yn dew,
yna cynimer liain ai dynnu yn dynna byth y gallech, a
dod y plaster arno a gosod ar y brath, os cau yn fawr a
wna'r brath cais y llysewyn a elwir bloneg y ddaiar a gwna
ef yn blasder a dod wrtho, ag ef ai egyr.
Pwy bynnag a yfo sudd y wiolydd ef a deifl allan escyrn
twn, byddant mewn aelod dyn.
RHAG MYNED ALLAN.
§ 765. Cymmer felyn saith wi, ar gymaint arall o fcl
puredig, a bywion bara cann Avedi ei I'riwsioni yn fan niiin,
a chais worth ceiniog o bubyr pyloraid, au berwi yngliyd, ai
fwytta ef yn dwym, ag nag yf ddim o ddiod ar ei ol yn
hwyaf y gellych, ag ymarfer a'r ymborth hynn yn y bot
iach, ag oV meddyginiaetheu goreu hwn, parth iachusder.
Amryw afiachus benydiawl glefydoedd o fagant amgyn-
null amgylch calon dyn yn wascfa a mogiant, a mwyglder
MEDDYGON MYDDFAI. 255
calon, a tlirwy ddirfawr astudrwydd ag esgudrwydd celfydd-
yd, a flfrwythlawn feddyginiaeth y gwaredir hwynt nid
amgen.
RIIAG IIAINT AR GALON DYN.
§ 766. Cais y ganrliif gocli a berw mewn cwrw hen da, a
chwedi hynny mortyra'r llysiau a bcrw eilchwaith dnvy'r
un llynn, yna hidla drwy liain gl^in, a dod atto Iwyaid o fel
puredig, ag yna berw dracbefn, a dod mewn bhvcli yn
gaedig, a dyro i'r claf dair llwyaid beunydd yn ymprydiol,
a hyn a dyr y fogfa oddiwrth y galon, ag a wna iddo chwant
bwyd a diod yn wir i Dduw.
RHAG MOGFA YNGHYLCH CALON.
§ 767. Cais sudd y fFunegl a mel, a berw ynghyd hyd pan
elon yn galed, a bwy tta hwnnw yn gyntaf y bore aV diwethaf
y nos awr cvn a^ ar ol bwyd, as; iacli a fvddi 2;yda Duw.
I WNEUTHUR GOLCH GENAU.
§ 768. Cais rosmari, a'r geidwad, ac isob, a mel, ag elyf,
a chwrw da, a dod ar y tan a berw hyd pan el y chwart yn
beint, a thynn i'r llawr a dyro yn dwym yn ei enau, a daled
ef yno encyd hir, ag felly beunydd gosod wythnos.
LLYMA FEDDYGINIAETH RHIWALLON FEDDIG I BERI GWARED
Y BOLA A FO YNDAW LLE BO RHWYM Y BOLA.
§ 769. Cais gwrw main, a menyn heb halen, a bran
gwenith, a berw yn dda, yna hidla, a bwrw mewn pledren,
a dod bibell o fon asgell gwydd yn y bledren, a rhwym i
bledren am y bibell, a gyrr y bibell ynglnvndid y claf, a dod
ef ai ben yn isel ai eisteddfa yn uchel gyfuwch ag y
gellir, a gyrr y llynn i gorff y claf, gan wasguV bledren yn
ochwarien.
256 MEDDYGON MYDDFAI.
I BERI CYFOD, SEF BWRW ALLAN A FO YN Y CYLLA.
§ 770. Cymmer had llysiau'r cyfog, a berw mewn cwrw
da, a hidl, a rho yfed Tr claf.
ELI I lACHAU GWEWYR A GWAED-YSSIG.
§ 771. Cymmer gig liwch dew o Iwdn hen, a thawdd, a
gad sefyll hyn el yr halen i'r gwaelod, a chymincr gymaint
a hynny o gwyr newydd, a berw ynghyd, a bwrw pylor
mastic a thus, a dod gydag ef, am ei benn, ag ymod yn ffest
hyn fo^n dew fel mel, a chadw hwnnw'^n dda a than ag ysgiw
ar gadechyn brethyn neu' ledr, a dod wrtho, ag ef a dynn y
maes y dolur a'r gwewyr, ag ir ag ef ddwywaith beunydd, a
iach fyddi.
RHAG Y CYLLWEWYR, SEF Y COLIC.
§ 772. Pwya ferw'r ffynhoneu yn dda a bwrw dwr ffynon
rhwyog am a chymraer rynnion ceirch a gwna *wiscon a
hwynthwy yll dau yn dda, a hidl yn Km, ag yf dri bore a
thair nos, yn gyntaf a diwethaf o gymmeryd, awr cyn a
gwedi bwyd.
I BERI CWSG.
§ 773. Med y lili yn arwydd y Hew, a chymysg a sudd y
pren a elwir llorwydden, ag yn lladin lawrtcs, ai ddod ennyd
mewn dom a digon arnynt o dom, a hwy a fagant bryfed, a
chymmer y rhain a gwna yn bylor a gosod y pylor hwnnw
am fwnwgl y dyn, neu yn ei ddillad, ag ef a gwsg nes ei
dynny drachefn eilwaith.
I AVYBOD BETH A FO DYN A GURER, AI BYW AI MARW.
§ 774. Cais sugn y dorllwyd a gwin gwynn, a dyro iddo
yfed, bwrw loeson byw a fydd, ag onis bwrw marw a fvdd.
* Gwiscon, 2"'0 gwyscon.
MEDDYGON MYDDFAI. 257
ARALL ER YR UN GWYBOD.
§ 775. Cymmer laeth bronnau y bo mab yn sugno, a dod
ychydig oV Uaeth ar dorr dy law, a chymraer drwnc y claf
ag edifera y llaeth ar benn dy fys Tr trwngc, os Tr g^vaelod
yr air trwngc, raarw a fydd, os ar yr wyneb y trig, byw
a fydd.
I ADNABOD CLAF.
§ 776. Briw y wiolydd sef y mill, a dod ar ei arleisedd,
o chwsg byw fydd, oni chwsg marw fydd.
ARALL CYFARDDANGOS.
§ 777. Cymmer y feddyges a briw hi, a rhwym am y
meddygfys, ag os byw ef a gysg, ag oni chysg, ef a fydd
marw, a mynn wybod hynn o beth cyn y gwnelot ag ef yn
y byd.
RHAG Y CHWARREN.
§ 778. Cais wraidd y lili a golch yn Ian a briw yn fan, a
berw mewn gwin gwynn onid el iV banner, a hidl yn Ian
trwy liain crai, a rho Vr claf a hi a dyrr, ag ef a iir dyn yn
iach.
RHAG CORNWYDON.
§ 779, Cais lysieurV sein, a bloneg twrch, a Uynger y
ddaiar, a briw hwynt ynghyd, a dod ar y dolur.
CORNWYDON.
§ 780. Cais felyn wi a halen, a maedd yn blasder, a dod
wrtho.
OS BYDD DYN YN GLAF O'R WHARREN, A'R MANNAU DUON.
§ 781. Cais y sensegl y rhai a f o a chalonau duon iddyn,
a'r tresgl, a rhuw, ag os mvnni dod ddalen o'r baewydd, a
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258 MEDDYGON MYDDFAI.
golch yn Ian, a pliwya drwy ddwr fal garlleg, ai roi ar
gwrw cadarn i'r claf mor dvvyin ag y gallo ei gymnieryd, a
gwna felly iddo wrth y tan ar wely a lliain arno a tliano, a
gad yno i cliwysu, a chadw tan da, ag ef a ad y frech ar y
lliain, gyda Duw.
RHAG BRATII DRAEN.
§ 782, Cais floneg moch, a gwraidd y dynad cochon, au
pwyo'n dda, a dod wrtho nawpryd, a iach a fydd, gyda Duw.
RHAG TRAUL A RHEDEG NATTUR.
§ 783. Cais bylor y mynt rhiol, a phylor annys, a dyro
hwyut iV claf ar ei bottas neu yn saws, a hynny ai hettyl
rhag rhedeg, gyda Duw.
RHAG Y COSDARDD, SEE Y TARDD CRAFU.
§ 784. Cymmer wraidd marchalan, a berw yn dda, a berw
amcan o arlleg mewn dwr arall, yf ferwyn y marchalan
lawn ddiod naw bore, a cliymysg y deuddwr berw a golch
dy holl gorph bob bore, a chymysg y garlleg berw, aV
marchalan berw ag ymenyn heb halen, a gwna yn eli, ag
elia dy holl gorph ag ef hyd ymhen y nawnydd bob bore.
Llyma rinweddau a chyferddonau amrafaelion o lysiau er
meddyginiaethu dyn.
RHINWEDD Y GEIDWAD.
§ 785. Da yw eu berw ar les y giau, os yfer eu berw gyda
mel da yw ar les y cylla, ag os bydd gwraig a dyn marw
gyda hi cymmered y geidwad a berwed gyda gwin gwynn
ai hidlo'n Ian ag yfed hi hwnnw yn oer a hi a gaifF ei gwared
jn ddiberigl o"i bywyd. Hefyd cymmer y llysewyn hwn a
phwya ef yn fal a dod wrth frath gwenwynig ag ef a ddyrr
allan y gwenwyn, a hefyd o bydd un llawn dod y llysewyn
wrtlio ag cf a garth ei waelod, a chymmered y llysewyn
MEDDYGON MYDDFAI. 259
hwn a phwyed yn fal a gwasged ei sudd am ben gwin gwyuii,
neu duded i sefyll yn bwyedig mown gwin gwynn neu frccci
du neu hen fedd da dros noswaith ag yfed e^n dwym hidlaid
yn wag, ag iacli y bydd drwy Dduw, a da iawn yw Vr iach
yfed y ddiod honn banner Uwnc sycbed y bore yn wag er
cyunal iecliyd a hwyhau bywyd ag einioes.
RHINWEDD Y GAMYD.
§ 786. Llysewyn yw'r gainyd a blodeuyn gwynn arno, ai
rinwedd yw, o chym merer ei sudd gyda mcl a gwin ef a
dyrr y maen tostedd, ag hefyd ef a ddiuistraV cryd a''r
clefyd melyn, ag a wna haint y giau yn iach, a lie na bo
gwin cymmerer y sudd mewn medd iachus a chadarn, neu
mewn brecci du brag haidd ; gwresog a sych yw.
LLYMA RINWEDD Y DDYNHADEN.
§ 787. Cymmer sudd y llysewyn hwn am ben gwin
gwynn, ai hidlo yn liin, ai adael i oeri, ag yf ef yn ddiod
nos a bore ag ef a'th iachiia oV clefyd melyn, ag a fywha'r
gwaed gan waredu pob afiechyd a fo ynddo, ag o chym merer
ei sudd gyda brecci du brag haidd yn ddiod banner yn
banner ef a wellhaV pigyn poctli yn yr ystlys a'r balfais ; a
hwn hefyd abair i ddyn mewn oedran ednwyf a bywusder
corph a meddwl. Ag o chymmerer had y dynaid yn bylor
gyda mel, da iawn ai ceir rhag y cyllwst wynt, a rhag y
tostedd, a rhag hen beswch, ag i estwng hwydd ar y claf, ag
a bair wared dwr o'r corph heb niwedu'r gwysigen.
LLYMA RINWEDD CRIBAU SAINT FFRLD.
§ 788. Y neb a arfero yfed eu sudd nid a gwraidd y
tostedd arnaw, a<j oi berwi mewn iiwin gwynn ai yfed yn
ddiod ef a iacheir y folwst a hwydd yn y bola, ag o'u
niortyru^i fan, a gwa.sgu'r sudd, ai ddodi ag asgell ar lygad
260 MEDDYGON MYDDFAI.
dyn efe a loywa'r olwg ag ai cryfha, ag a wared pilendod oV
llygad. A da yw^r sudd i fwrw yn y clustiau a font yn
myned yn fyddar ; a da y w yn bylor gyda rnel Vr neb a fo'n
myned i beswch, ag ef a dyrr y peswch, ag a wna les i lawer
o glefydon yn y cylla. A da y\v rhag y cryd a ddaw, ag
OS cymnierir cyn y del y cryd, ni ddaw y flvvyddyn honno.
Ag oi ferwi gyda had cennin efe a wella lygad dyn ag ai
gloywa, ag a gryfha'r olwg. A gwr doeth o gelfyddyd a
ddywad pel gwnelid yn had mae cynt yr elai y neidr yn
ddrylliau nag yr elai hi drwy'r had. Ag o bydd hwydd yn
y bola efe ai estwng o'i fenvi gyda gwin a ffigys ai roi i'r
claf mewn gwely. A da fydd ei fwytta yn gymysg a sudd y
ffunel cochon a gloywon rael gydag ef, ag a yrr y llygaid yn
iach ag yn loywon yn wir, ag a grylia'r pump synwyr yn
ryfeddawl.
LLYMA RINWEDD Y PERLLYS, A ELWIR YN Y LLADIN
PETROSILIWM.
§ 789. Y perllys sydd lysewyn da twym ei nattur, a
gwresog, a gwlyb yn y drydydd radd ; da yw ymhob bwyd i
amlhau gwaed, ag efe a egyr y gwythi gwaed, a gwythi'r
llynnor, a'r rhedweliau yughorph dyn, fal y cerddo'r gwaed
aV llynnor, a'r dwr yn rwydd y fiyrdd y dylynt, a hynny a
wna yn wir.
Hefyd da yw arfer oV perllys rhag y galon ddiffyg, a rhag
mwyth y tridiau, a''r ystlysan, aV gwlybyrwst, o arall o
wlybyn yr amser hynny. A llawenhau'r galon yn ddirfawr
y gwna, ag iachau'r cylla.
Y mae rhyw oV perllys a elwir yn y Gymraeg perllys yr
hel, achos y tyf o ryw a nattur ar heloedd agos i'r mor lie
delo'r dwr hallt amser gorllanw mor, ag yn y Lladin gelwir
ef petorsil"' marina, da yw ymhob achos attal ar ddwr a
llynnor yn y corph, a rhag y cylhvst a'r tostedd, o gym-
MEDDYGON MYDDFAI. 261
meryd ei sudd ef, a da yw ei sudd i ddifa cig niarw mewu
clwvf dwn ag arholl, a hwn a dyf raewn gerddi, y lie y
dylid ei gadw yuihob lie pell oddiwrth for.
LLYMA RINWEDD Y FFUNEL, A ELWIR Y\ Y LLADIN FUNI-
CULWM.
§ 790. Y ffunel sydd o nattur dwym a sycli yn yr ail
radd, a da yw rhag clefydau'r llygaid, a da yw rhag pob
rhyw wenwyn ynghorph dyn o'i yfed yn bylor mewn gwin
gwynn, neu mewn hen fedd cadarn ; a da yw rhag mwyth y
tridiau, a mwyth gwerseddog. Ag o berwer yr had neuV
llysiau mewn dwr oni fo cryf a ffrwythlawn o nattur y
llysewyn a golehi pen dolurus a'r dwr hwnnw efe a wna les
mawr ag ai iachila, lie boV dolur o aclios oerfel a mwyth, ag
efe a dyrr y gwayw yn y pen yn ebrwydd iawn.
LLYMA RINWEDD Y RHOSMARI, A ELWIR HEFYD YR YSBWYN-
AVYDD, AG YN LLADIN ROSA MARIXA.
§ 791. Eihosmari sydd bren a llysewyn twym ei nattur a
sych yn y drydydd radd, a llyswydden ai gelwir am ei fod
o rywogaeth rhwng llysewyn a gwydden.
Cymmer flodau rhosmari a chymysg a mel ai fwytta yn
ymprydiol beunydd, ag ni chyfyd na gwrthlys na dim
gwenwynig arall arnat tra arferych y feddyginiaeth hon.
Hefyd y blodau sydd fwy enwedigol yn dda ai berwi gyda
mel, neu win gwynn hyd am yr banner, ai hidlo yn Ian, ai
yfed yn oer y bore Iwyaid neu ddwy, ag ychydig o fel gydag
ef, ag ychydig ronyn yn ei 61 a ddyrr ymaith y collie oddi-
fewn i deirawr, ag or mynni ei ddodi wrth dy fola oV tu
allan na ddod ddim oV mel ynddaw ef.
Hefyd, cymmer ddail y rhosmari, a dail y chwerwyn, a
gwna }'n edlyn yn yr un modd, a mel ynddo yn un modd,
ag ar ei ol. A meddyginiaeth dda iawn ydyw rhag y tostedd
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nuien, uV tostedd llysnafedd, ag ef au dettyd ag au gyrr
yinaith yn y dwr.
Hefyd, dod eu blodau iieu eu diiil dan dy ben yn dy wely,
ag nith derfysca na breuddwyd gwrthwynebus, na gwag
yspryd profedigaethgar.
Hefyd, or dygi gyda tlii ftonn ncu ddryll o'r llysewyn
hwunw ni ddychyn ysbryd drwg ddyfod i'th gyfyl, na
ffwneuthur o neb brofedio-aeth arnati.
Ag y mae ar y rhosmari lioll rinweddau y maen a elwir
y muchudd.
Hefyd, luyn wneuthur Ihvy o^r bon neu o wreiddyn y
Uyswydden yma, aV dydd y hyfecli gawl a'r llwy honno
nith wenwynir di y dydd hwnnw, a chadwedig y byddi
drwy'r dydd hynny rliag tAvrw neu Inched, a chadwedig
fyddi rhag pob gwaith adwyth.
Hefyd, casgl ddail y rhosmari a phwya nhwy yn fal a
hidla ef, ag yf y sudd, ag ef a dyrr y llysnafedd o'r pen a'r
ysgyfaint, ag ai difa, yn wir yn wir.
Hefyd, y mae yn dda rliag gwres yr afu ag ai dyrr allau,
ag a dynn o hanoV gorwyth, ag ai gwna''n iach.
Hefyd, or bydd dyn a rhwystr gwneuthur dwr arno
ceisied y blodau neuV dail a berwed gyda gwin gwynn ag
yfed yr edlyn hwnnw yn gyntaf o beth y bore, a'r diweddaf
y nos.
Hefvd, <jvmineryd v blodau au dodi grvda j^-win jjwvnn
mewn callor distyll au distyllu, cystal yw'r edlyn a geir o
honynt a''r distyll bendigaid, a da yn lie hwnw ymhob petli,
a da iawn yw i olchi penn rhag gwayw oerfelog ag o fwyth
ynddo, a rhag dyfod gwallgof ar ddyn, a llwy aid o'r edlyn
hwnn gyda llwyaid o fol, a llwyaid o ymenyn toddcdig, neu
hufen tew ffrcs y sydd dda rhag y pesswch ag i dynnu
llysnafedd o"'r ysgyfaint.
Hofvd. V dwr v bcrwer hwvut vnddo v svdd dda i'l' dvn
MEDDYGON MYDDFAI. 263
y bo gwall bwyll arno neu yn myned i maes oi gof, da hefyd
yr isgell hwnn rliag pol» rliyw glefyd ag y sydd mewn
corpli dyn.
Hefyd, da yw y blodau a'r dail au berwi mewn dwr, ag
a'r dwr hwnnw ymolch bob bore heb sycbu a lliain, eithr
gadael iddaw sychu oM natur ei hunan, ag o ymolchi fel
hynny yn dda fc wna hen yn ieuangc yr olwg arno bvth ; y
dwr hwn a drych y llysnafedd ar ymhennydd dyn, ag a
drych y poen wrth garthu'r myscar a'r cylyddion, ag a yrr
ymaith y gwlybyrwst, ag a iacha'r afu, ag a ddwg wres i'r
giau a'r gwytlii ag a ddinistr y bystwn, ag a lawenha'r
galon, ag a Avna'n gedyru esgyrn ag a fag nier ynddynt ag
a iacha'r mer ynddynt, ag ef a iacliiVr llygaid, a da yw rhag
myned allan, au berwi mewn gwin egr au dodi wrth fola'r
claf, ef a bair magwriaeth gwacd ; a da yw rhag y mwyth
tridiau, ag o bydd gwr wedi ci wanhau gan wragedd ef a
gyfyd drachefn o ymarfer a hwn yn unig ddiod a gwlyb hyd
ymhen naw diwarnod.
A hefyd, or bydd dyn heb ddwyn plant, gwr neu wraig y
bo, arfered o'r llysewyn hwn ar fwydydd ag efe a egyr yn
berffaith. O'r bydd gwr neu wraig heb gael plant ar wraig
yn ifanc, arfered o'r rhosmari.
A hefyd, o bydd gwr ag anwyd yn ei benn megis gor-
mwyth, cymmered y rhosmari, a llosged, a golly nged y mwg
hwnnw yn ei ffroenau, ag ef a fydd holl iaeh.
Hefyd, cymmered ddwr y berwed ynddc'r blodau neu'r
dail, a doded ynddaw ychydig fel puredig a phybur, au yfed
yn dwym, a da yw rhag y pesswch, o ba ryw bynnag y bo,
a gwir yw hynn. A hefyd cais wreiddiau llysewyn a rhost yn
ddaynydelynlludwabriwyn fanadodOfPU 6 36 6^|>nt
A hefyd, da ydyw ci rise rag y cosi afrwyog a fo ar ddyn
obleoid drvirwaed.
264 MEDDYGON MYDDFAI.
A hefyd, da yw ei wreiddyn ef wedi ei ferwi mewn gwin
egr a golchi'r cymmalau a f o a gwewyr yiiddynt, ag hefyd,
ychydig o lionyn ag ychydig o gribau sanffred mewn dwr
gljin yn bwyedig, a golchi pob rhyw frath nefail neu bryf
arall gwenwynig, ag ef ai gwna'n iach heb achos eli arall yn
y byd.
LLYMA ETTO DDANGOS RHINWEDD Y GEIDWAD A ELWIR
YN Y LLADIN SALFIA.
§ 792. Y geidwad sydd lysewyn twym ei nattur a sych.
Da yw ei ferwi ymhob bwyd a diod ar les y giau, a da yfed
ei isgell drwy ddwr berw yn iinig ddiod, a goreu ar les y
cylla ei yfed gyda mel da, a hefyd o bydd gwraig a dyn
marw dan ei gwregys, cymmered y geidwad a gwin g^vynn
au berwi yn dda ynghyd ag yfed hwnnw yn oer, a hi a gaiff
ei gwared yn ddiberigl oV plentyn marw. O'i bwyo''n fan
ag yn fill ai ddodi wrth frath gwenwynig ef ai sugn allan y
gwenwyn ag a iacha'r brath.
Hefyd, o bydd brath yn llawn gwaed, ystwmpa'r dail yn
fal, a dod wrth y brath, ag ef a garth ei weli yn hin.
Hefyd, os bydd gwayw dan ais dyn, cais y geidwad a
gwin, a thwyma'r gwin ar y tan cyndwymed ag y gellir ei
yfed, ai gymmeryd yn ddiod, ac iach y bydd.
Hefyd, y mae'r isgell drwy'r dwr, ag edlyn drwy win neu
fedd, neu gwrw yn ddiod dda dros benn i iachau y gwlyb-
yrwst, a'r pas, a'r gwayw yn y penn, yn Avir.
LLYMA ETTO AM RINWEDD Y DDYNHADEN.
§ 793. Y ddynhaden sydd lysewyn tanbaid twym a sych.
Oi berwi ynghyd a gwin gwynn ai hidlo yn Ian trwy liain
ai adu i oeri, da yw i yfed y bore aV nos i hclpu dyn yn y
clefyd raelyn.
Cynimer had y dynaid a gwna'n bylor, a berw yn dda
mewn dwr ffynon neu mewn Uaeth geifr, neu mewn gwin
MEDDYGON MYDDFAI. 2G5
gwynn da, neu mewn lien fedd cadarn, a da ywV cdlyn hwn
rluig hen bcswch, a rluig y colic, ag i helaethu y cyniinliihau
a chwythiau craill ynger y gwaed, o dodir halen yngliyd
ag ef.
Hefyd, cais had y ddynhadcn a bwrw ynghyd a phupiir,
a thynihera nhwy a gwin neu fel, a dyro i yfed, ag cr
gwyllted fo corph gwr neu wraig ai hyfo, ef a fydd cyn
ddofed a'r dofa oil.
RHINWEDD YR YSGA.LLEN FENDIGAID.
§ 794. Y mae ar yr ysgallen fendigaid i agoryd corph a
pheri myned wrth faes, aV llysewyn hynn wrth ei fwytta a
wna les rhag dolur yn y penn ar llieiugig, ag a bair clywed
yn dda, ag y mae yn gwellhau yr ymhennydd aV golygon,
nid yn unig wrth ei fwytta, ond wrth iro y llygaid ai sudd,
a phryd nas ceffir y sudd, arfer oV llysewyn yn byloraid ai
roi ynghymysg a dwr, a dod y sudd i ddyferu yn y llygad,
a hynny sy dda rhag y gwaed a lithrodd ynddynt. Da
hefyd yw'r llysewyn hwn i wellhau y synwyr a'r cof, a da
hefyd rhag ysgawnder yn y penn ; hwn hefyd y sy dda rhag
y waedling o'r Sroen a"'r genau, a phylor y llysewyn hynn
ai gyniysg a mel a bair gwaredu llysnafcdd ai boeri allan,
ag y mae yn lleshau cylla gwann, ag yn peri chwant bwyd
ag yn esmwythau y galon, ag y mae yn gwaredu gwaed
drwg ag yn magu gwaed da. O berwer y llysewyn mewn
dwr ai yfed ef a wareda hwnnw o'r drwg ag a geidw hwnnw
yn dda, ag wrth fwytta y llysewyn ef a gryflia yr aelodau
a cfryder gan haint y giau a elwir y parlys, ag a gryfluVr
madruddyu a'r ymhenydd, ag ai gwared o'r llynnor oer yr
hwn sydd yn per gwall ag efrydd ar bwyll a nerth corph a
synhwyr. Ag ef a wellha golyddion dolurus, aV llysewyn
wedi ei ferwi, neu ei yfed gyda gwin, a dyrr y garreg, a phynag
pwy ai hyfo ar drwnc dyn bychan iaclius cfe a gaitf iacluid
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oV chwarren aV gwlybwrwst, ag a wna i gornwydon dorri,
ag ef a ortrccha'r cancar a chlefyd y ffcintiau ond cael pvlor
y llysewyn cyn pen deuddeg awr ef a dyrr y tfeintiau, a
blodauV llysewyn or gosodir liwynt mewn archoU ef a
iaclioir yn ddiddolur, a da yw cnoiV llysewyn yn y genau
er iachau cadernyd yr anadl ; ag efe a iacha o'r cryd oi ferwi
mewn gwin ai yfed yn dwyni ynghylch chwarter awr cyn
dyfod y cryd a rho dillad ddigon arno i beri chwysu. A
hynny a wared rhag y mwyth gryd, a'r mwyth poeth, a
niwytli y cymmalau. A'r un modd pylor y llysewyn hwn
gyda gwin twym, neu edlyn distyll y llysewyn a weryd dyn
dolurus mewn byrr amser o bob gwenwyn a dderbynir i'r
giau i liefyd. Os yfer y llysewyn drwy isgell, neu ei sudd
ef, neu ei ddistyll, a chwedi hynny chwysu dros yspaid
teirawr, ef a iacha'r claf. A phylor y llysewyn y naill ai
fwytta ai yfed fe esmwytha y gwewyr yn yr ystlysau a'r
ddwyfron ; dyraa rinwedd yr ysgallen fendigaid.
LLYMA RINWEDU Y GWLYDD, SEF GWLYDD Y PERTHI.
§ 795. Cymmeryd eu sudd yn unig ddiod yn y gwanwyn
a'r haf a Iwyr ddinistra'r frech yn y gwaed a'r llynnor, yr
hwn yw achos pob tarddant, a chrach, a chornwydon, aV
maenwynon, a'r ddarwyden fawr, a'r cancar, a'r iddwf, a'r
ysgyfeinglwyf, a'r dyrglwyf, a'r gymmalwst, aV gwst mawr,
aV tostedd, a pliob mwyth a thwymyn, a phob brech ar
gnawd a chroen, a phob dolur rliedeg ar lygaid, a phob
Uysnafedd pen a chylla, a phob hwydd gwynn ar gymmal
neu arall o fann, a phob poethni a llosg yn y gwaed aV
llynnor, a phob poethwayw yn y penn, a phob cyfyngder
yn y bryst a'r cylla, a than y fronglwyd, a phob hwydd yn
y coesau, a'r traed, a phob mannau eraill o'r corph, ag nid
oes nemmawr os un o'r doluriau hanbod ynghorph dyn nad
achos brech yn y gwaed a'r llynnor y mae.
MEDDYGON MYDDFAI. 2G7
Y inodd y ceir eu sudd y sydd fal hynn ; cymnicr y
llysiau, yn ddail ag yn flodau ag yn liad yn yr amser y bo
arnynt a'r adeg, y cvvbl yiighyd, a phwya'n dda a dod
mewn llestr pridd diystaen, a llaiiw y Uestr heb wasguV
llysiau, yna dod attynt a wedd yn eu rhynged o ddwr
rhedegog gldn a gad sefyll uoswaith, a rhai a ddywcdaut y
byddai gwell o ddodi un pedryran oV dwr yn ddwr nior,
neu ddwr a helltir yn unias a dwr mor dros yr wythnos
gyntaf o'r yfed, ag yna peidio a'r hallt ag ynigadw ar y
croyw, ag yfed yn unig ddiod dros naw wythnos, a rliyfedd
o gadarn os nid iach y byddi ymhen liynny o yspar.
Casgl y llysiau yn y gwanwyn a'r haf, a sych yn dda
mewn haul bore, au troi au trafod fal y gallo'r haul eu
trwyedu au sychu'n dda, a chadw ar dro a thrafod yspar y
dydd, a'r nos eu cymmeryd dan do, ag oni fyddant sych eu
gwala dod yr ail ddydd yn yr haul a gwna fal y dydd o'r
blaen, ag os bydd achos ynihellach o ddydd, lie gall fod
achos gan wlaw a chrwybr, a goehel ei gadu allan ar grwybr
a niwl cans tynnu ffrwyth y llysiau o gwbl a wnant, a
chymmer y llysiau yn eu dail ag yn eu blodau ag yn eu
had, a sych bob un ar ei ben ei hunan mewn cistiau derw
neu ga%Yneni gwellt gwenith yn gaecdig, a phan fo achos
cymmer y llysiau trwy'r dail a gwna ferwyn o honynt ag
yf hwnnw dair wythnos, yna gwna ferwyn trwy flodau, ag
yf dair wythnos, ag yna gwna ferwyn drwy had ag yf dair
Avythnos, ag fel hynn ydd ci di yn nhrefn Duw a chyfarpar
nattur, ag anian a syrth y flwyddyn.
Y modd y gwueir berwyn o'r llysiau yw hynn, briw'r
llysiau cochon yn filn man a'th ddwylaw, a dod mewn llestr
pridd div'5taen ci lonaid, a bcrw ddwr rhedegawg a diwal ar
y llysiau a wedd yn eu rhynged, a chyn diwal dod hidlen
Uaeth sef y gwaelod heb gylch ar wyneb y llestr i gadw'r
llvsiau rhag nawf dros ymyl y llestr pan ddiwaler y dwr
268 MEDDYGON MYDDFAI.
orwd arnynt, yna cau yn glos ar y llcstr a gad sef chwech
awr, yna yf yn unig ddiod aV nos dod y llysiau dan wasg
caled a derbyn y sudd drwy hidlen i lestr glan ag yf hwnnw
wrtli fyned Tr gwely yn Uedtwym, ag os bydd ar dy gorph
ryw yn y byd o darddant, neu gornwyd, neu addwyd, neu
ddarwyden, neu grach, neu gosi, neu loscfan, neu arclioll,
neu glwyf, neu dwnn, golch a llynn y llysiau, ai sudd ai
berwyn y bo, a lie bo mawr y dolur, dod y llysiau drwy
sudd yn blaster wrtho, ag y raae hyn o gyfarpar yfed a
phlasteru wedi iachau y maenwynnon, aV ddarwyden fawr,
a elwir yn Lladin lepra^ a'r cancar gwedi bwytaV cnawd
hyd yr escyrn.
Cymmer had y gwlydd yn eu haddfedrwydd, a sych
mewn IFwrn ar ol tynuu'r bara, ddwywaith neu dair, ag yna
digon eras, gwedi hynny pylora nliwy mewn mortyr meinin,
a chadw y pylor mewn llestr gwydr yn gaeedig lawn, a dwg
gyda thi ar bob ymdaitli oddigartref a chymmer lawn Iwyaid
honaw ar ddwr glan deirgwaith yn y dydd ag ef aHli
geidw yn iach rbag pob dolur, ag a wna yn He bwyd itti
wrth achos caled a daw yw trin had y malw yn yr un modd,
a'r un modd eu harfer.
LLVMA RINWEDD Y GWYSGONLLYS, A ELWIR O FODD ARALL
YR UCHELFAR.
§ 796. Yr uchelfar a dyf gan fwyaf ar efeillgoed ag ar yr
yspyddaid, ag ef ai ceir o ddigwydd ar y dderwen, a gwell
hwnnw lie ai ceffir na'r lleill, hagen da a da iawn pob un o
honyn. Rhinwedd y gwysgonllys yw cryfhauV corph yn
anigen ag yn rhagor nag a wna un llysewyn arall. Casgl y
llysewyn yn nyddiau y Nadolig, pan fo'r gwyfon sef ei
faccwyon neu'r fl'rwyth yn eu llawn addfedrwydd, a chasgl
y gwyfon oddiar y brig a bwrw ddwr berw arnynt a chau
ar y llestr y bo, a dod ynghlais y tan lie nas berwo yspar
MEDDYGON MYDDFAI. 269
diwarnod a noswaitli, yiia liidla'n wysgonaid i lestr gluu
lennen rawn ghin ; a cliymmer y dail a'r brig scf y cwbl o'r
llyswydden, a briw yn fan nuui, a dud ar fuen bara brwd, a
chras yn dda gan droi a thrafod rhag llosci, a phan fo mor
gras ag y gellych ei bylori gwna liynny, gan gymmeryd at
hynny o ddarpar banner a fo ar y maen o'r llysiau, a gadu'r
banner arall i olosgi onid clo^n lludy miin, dod y pylor aV
lludy bob un ar ei ben ei hunan mevvn llestri gwydr yn
gaedig tracbwbl.
Os gwendid a fydd yn y corph, ai yn y gcwynod, ai yn y
cymmalau, ai yn y cefn, ai yn y pen a'r ymbenydd, ai yn
y cyllau, neu'r galon, neu ysgyf, neu'r arenau, cynimer dair
llwyaid o'r gwysgon a dyro mewn berw o ddwr, neu o gwrw,
neu fedd, neu o laetb, a gad ei anidawdd yn y llynn brwd,
yna bwrw ar y llyn llawn ddiod o bono Iwyaid o'r pylor ag
yf bob bore yn wag, a banner died o'r un peth y nos wrtb
fyned i'r gwely, a da yw rhag pob haint yr ynihennydd, a'r
gewynod, a'r cefn, a rhag yr haint digwydd, a gwallgof, a
gwendid pen o bob rhy w, a'r efryddhaint sef y parlys, a phob
gwendid cymmalau, ag ef a gryfha'r llygaid a'r clyw, a'r
boll synhwyrau, ag a bair ffrwythlondeb corph a chacl plant,
a da yw i wr a gwraig rhag yr hadred neu goll nattur, a
dyn ag a yfo Iwyaid o'r pylor unwaith bob dydd ar ei ddiod
syclied a gaiif iechyd di dorr, a chryfder corph, a n^vyf
gwrawl, a'r un peth hefyd o gynnneryd llwyaid o'r gwysgon
yn ei gawl neu arall o ddiod frod unwaith yn y dydd.
Os claf o'r tostedd, neu'r cyllwst wynt, neu'r dyrglwyf,*
cymmer Iwyaid o'r llydy ar ddiod dairgwaith y dydd, a lie
gallech bydded y ddiod o ferwyn y Uyscwyu hwn, ni waeth
ar ir ai sycli y bo, ag ef a'th wared, ag ymiachau a wnai.
Lie tyfo'r llysiau yn agos, nid rhaid ond isgell y gwyfon
newydd a newydd, au casgl o ddydd i ddydd fal y bo gofyn,
a berwyn y llysiau ftres a Arcs, cithr He bo j)t'll oddiwrth au
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ceffir gwneuthur fal y dywetpwyd, a chadw y llysiau yn
sychon yn y ty drwy'r flwyddyn, au casglu haf, gauaf, a
gwanwyn fal au ceffir ymhob ansawdd.
Goreu lie cael y llysewydd yraa yw Gwent, a gwlad yr
Haf, a Brecheiniog, a'r Mwythig, a goreu amser eu casglu
dyfnder y gauaf o wyl Andras i wyl Fair y Canhwyllau, a
da casglu 'r llysewyn gwyrdd o wyl lago i Galangauaf, ag er
cael eu llydy Uosg nhwy'n wyrddon, cyn y collont eu haliw.
LLYMA RIN\YEDD Y DDERWEN.
§ 797. Y dderwen a ddyry feddyginiaetliau amrafaelion
rhag pob dolur a ddyfydd o wendidau yn gewynod, ar
madruddyn, a'r ymhennydd, a llawer tfordd y ceir meddyg-
iniaeth o'r dderwen.
Cymraer asglod derw newydd eu trychu a dod mewn dwr
rhedegog oni waedont eu gwnedd, yna tynn allan a dod
asglod ffres, a gad fal o'r blaen, gwna felly hyd ymhen y
naw dodiad, ag yna berw y llynn yny bo'n ei banner, yna dod
ynddo fel, pwys punt at bob dau alwyn, a gwna ef yn
fragodlyn, ag os bydd dod ynddo beth gwysgon y gwysgon-
llys, guwcb ag a fo o'r rael, os bydd, neu yr hyn a fo, a lie
nas bo da iawn er hynny y llynn bwn, ag ef a elwir bragodlyn
y derw, a goreu o bob diod yw i gryfbau corph, a nattur,
a'r gewynod, a'r ymhennydd, a'r madruddyn, ag ef a
wellhaa'r clefydon a ddyfyddant o wendidau, ag yfed lawn
ddiod bono y bore ar y cythlwng.
Rhisgl y derw, y nesaf i'r pren y sydd dda rliag pob
gwendidau, cymraer ef a chras a phylora, hefyd sych ef yn
gras eras a chadw yn y raodd hynny, fal y bo hwnnw aV
pylor gennyt rhag angen, a da ydynt ar ddiod neu eu hisgoll
rhag pob gwendidau, a rhag pob haint o fwyth ai parhaus
ai gwerseddog y bo ; a'r mwyth trydedydd a phedrydydd, a
da yw rhag pob nattur brech yn y gwacd a'r llynnor; ag
MEDDYGON MYDDFAI. 271
isf^ell y rbisg yn ir y sydd dda iawn rhag yr uii doluriau,
aV berw mewn cwrw, ag mewn llaeth gwartheg neu eifr.
Cymmer mes y dderwen yn eu haddfedrwydd a chras yn
gras eras a phylora, a chadw mewn Uestr derw yn dra
chaeedig, a bwrw llwyaid ar dy ddiod nos a bore, a He bo
gwendid a clioll neu draul nattur ar wr neu wraig cymmer
dair llwyaid oV pylor bwn, a berw mown Uawn ddiod o laetb
geifr neu wartheg a dod fel ynddo, ag yf nos a bore, ag ef a
weryd y clefyd, a da yw rbag yr boll weudidau a soniwyd
eiswvs am danvnt, a da rhaij s^vaedliuG: frwraiir, a rbajr v
tradd ar bob dyn, a rbag ysgyf dolurus, a da yw o fwyd
gyda bara crasdafell o wenitb i bob dyn gwan o gorpb a
rhag traul yr ysgyfaint, a phob traul corpli a nattur ai
gymmeryd yn fwyd cyfarpar.
Cvmnier fes a jrwna fracj a nliwv, a ijwna cwrw a'r bras:
hynny, a gorau ag iachus o bob cwrw yw, a da rbag pob
gwendidau ag au dyfyddant o doluriau.
Casgl ddail y deri ym mis Awst neu fis Medi, a sycli yn
dda a cliadw yn gaeedig, a dod ar bob twn o groen, ag ar
ddofynau dyfrllyd, ag iach y byddi.
Cymmer fes eras, neu risgl nesa i'r pren eras, a mal
gyda'r yd bara, a gwna fara o bono, a goreu o bob bara i
gryfbau corpb dyn yw hwnnw, a goreu i wared rbag pob
dolur gauaf ag oerfel a gwlybin yw.
LLYMA RINWEDD Y DDERWEN FENDIGAID.
§ 798. byddi claf o'r maenwynnon cymmer isgell neu
ferwyn y dderwen fendigaid, a chasgl ef wreiddiau a cliwbl
yn amser ei had a chras yn dda, a phylora, a chadw y pylor
yn anwyl dan gaead trachaead, a bwrw ar dy ddiod yn
gyfarpar di dorr. Berw hefyd y llysewyn drwy wraidd a
hadau mewn cwrw, neu fedd, neu laetli geifr neu wartheg,
ag yf yn ddiod cyfarpar ; cymysg y pylor hefyd a blawd dy
272 MEDDYGON MYDDFAI.
fara ai gymmeryd yn fwyd cyfarpar gyda llaeth geifr, ag
oni bydd geifr llaeth gwaitheg ; ag os clwyfau rhedegog
bwrw y pylor arnynt, a cUymmer y llysewyn drwy wraidd
a clivvbl a phwya'n dda a berw gyda menyn gwyra ag
ychydig gwyr, a hidla"*!! dda a dod wrtho, a chymmer sudd
y llysewyn drwy wraidd a dail, ag ira glwyd y ddwyfron ag
ef bob dydd hyd y boV llysiau ar gaftaeliad, ag yn y gauaf
cymysg y pylor a mel ag ira yn yr un niodd, a daV cwbl
rhag pob doluriau a ddyfyddant o wenwyn y raaenwynnon,
ar yr ysgyf, a''r afu, a'r arenau, a'r ymhennydd, a'r llygaid,
ag ymhob man arall, casgl ef a pliob llysewyn arall yn enw
Duw, ag na ro goel i'r rliai a ddywedant y dylid ei gasglu
yn enw y cythraul, gan nid oes a wna'r cythraul a daioni.
LLYMA DDANGOS PEDAIR ELFEN DYN, AG O HONYNT Y
PEDWAR CVFNYWYDD NEU BEDWAR ARDYMMYR DYN, CYXTAF Y GWAEDRYAR,
AIL YR ULIAR, TRYDYDD Y GERl, PEDWERYDD Y DUEG.
§ 799. I adnabod pobl o'r cyfnywydd gwaedryar, neu waed-
lawn. Un a fo'n waedryar, neu o'r cyfnywydd gwaedlawn, a
fydd tew naturiol, ag nid yw yn dew yn unig, cans liynny
sydd arwydd o natturiaeth oer, canys fel y dywaid Avisen,
digonedd o gnawd a arwyddocca natturiaeth dwym. A
digonolrwydd o gig a fegir drwy amlder y gwaed, mal y
dywad Avisen. Pob dyn coch lieb frasder o't gwaedryar y
niae mal y dywad Galen. Dynion gwaedryar a fyddant Ha wen
ag a wrandawant chwedleu a digrifwch, ag o't achos hynuy
hefyd byddant odinebus ag yn cliwannog i ewyllys y cnawd,
a hwy a yfant win yn llawen hefyd. Dyn gwaedryar a
fynn ei fwyd or goreu, canys y gwaedryarion bobl a fynnant
y bwyd nesaf at eu natturiaeth : hefyd, dyn gwaedryar a
hwardd yn hawdd, canys y gwaed a fyn lawenydd ; hefyd, ef
a fydd teg o natturiaeth ei gyfnywydd, ag ef a ddywed yn
obrwydd, ag ef a f^'dd hyddysc i ddysgu pob gwybodau, a
chelfyddodau a dosparthau dyfnion a bydd awengar ag ef a
MEDDYGON MYDDFAI. 273
gar ddychymygiaetliau ag ymgcisiadau ag ni ddigia ef yn
hawdd, ag cf a fydd hael ei galon ag anchwcnnychgar, ag ef
a fydd gariadus, ag a fydd serchogaidd ei yniddwyii, a
hawddgar ei weithred ai gamp, ag ef a fydd coch o liw, mal
y dywed Avisen lliw coch ar groen dyn arwyddocca digon-
olrwydd o vvaed, a hwnnw ag gydnabyddir o liw coch cglur
a gloyw, ag nid tywyllgoch, mogis y rhai a fyddant ag ef yn
y wyneb o waith yfed gormod, ag a font yn ymarfer o
lyseuau, canys y rhyw hw a hynny a arwyddocca gwahan-
glwyf, a brechlydrwydd, a llwyr llynnor, a gwaed ; hefyd, ef
a gan yn beraidd a serchog ei lais, ag a wrendy ar ganu, ag
a ymgyfeillacha yn fynych a chaneugar, a llawen, ag
lawengar, ag ef a gar dannau a phob peiriangerdd, ag a fydd
buan a diwith yn ei orchwyl ai ymgyrch, hefyd ef a fydd
dewr a hyderus gan dwymder y gwaed, ag a fydd fonheddig-
aidd drwy natturiaeth y gwaedlonder, a lie nis caffb athraw
efe a dyb yn ry dda am dano ei hunan, ag a fydd croesan a
geneugoeg ag amhwyllus aclios rhysgyr gwaedlonder, ag ar
y cyfagos gweithred a meddwl, ag nid mynych ar y pell ; ag
hefyd ef a ddysg o awen ag nid o ddambwyll, a gnawd
iddaw fod yn dra choegeddus a byrr yn a ddywetto, ag a
wnelo, a mynych y daw yn wall arnaw chwerthin ag ym-
groesanu am nas gwypo gan chwiwder a gwylltineb y
cyfnywydd gwaedryorr.
I ADNABOD CYFNWYDD YR ULIAR.
§ 800. Un a fo ai ardymmyr o'r uliar a fydd wineu o
herwydd nad yw ei nattur ond egwan, yn yr ail gyfarwel
hwy a fydd fyrrion a thewon y bobl a font o'r uliar, o
herwydd nid ydyw eu nattur cyngryfed ag y gallont dyfu o
hyd, hefyd hwy a fyddant ditlrwythach na phobl or
cyfnwyddeu eraill o herwydd eu hoerfel, a hynn a bair iddynt
gvscu fwv nag y cvsg eraill, a phobl gvall a fvddant,
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274 MEDDYGON MYDDFAI.
hefyd liwynt a fyddant diog a hynny o achos oerfel, canys
mal y gwiia twymder dyn yn ysgawn ag yn rwyfoin, felly y
gwiia oerfel ddyn yn drwm ag yn ddiog ; hefyd pobl o't
uliar a fyddant dewon o achos amhuredd y corph ; hefyd
hwy a fyddant drwm feddwl a chysglyd, neu gysgu mawr,
ag o chaffaut athraw hwy a fyddant yn ddeallus ag a
wybyddant a weddai wybod arno, ond achaws eu hoerfel au
trymder gweinion y byddant ym mhob ymgais ag a ddiffyg-
iant yn dra hawdd, ag ni chofiant yn dda, ag ni charant ond
er eu lies iin hynnill; ag ni fynnant lawenydd, na chanu,
na digrifwch, a chyd y ceffir tryw ynddynt ni cheffir awen,
eithr y lie y bo cymysg o'r gwaedryar yn y cyfnywydd, a
lie bo hynny mynych y gwelir doeth o ddyn ag yn gadarn
ei awen, ag yn amyneddgar, ag yn ddioddefgar, ag yn ddyn
pwyllgar, ag ni char ymgroesanu, nag ymwageddu, nag
ysmaldodi, achos ni char ond a fo gweddus a chadarn.
I ADNABOD CYFNYWYDD YR AGER A'R BOBL A FYDDANT O'R
ARDYMMYR HYNNY.
§ 801. Un a fo ai ardymmyr o'r ager neuV geri a fydd
ammhwyllog o achos arddigonedd o dwymder, yr hynn ai
try ar wylltineb ; ag un a fo o'r cyfnywydd hwn a fydd dra
chwennychgar i gael uchclder ag urddas a bod yn benn ag
yn feistr ar eraill, o achos twymder natturiol a wna feddwl
dyn ar fFolineb, Hefyd y bobl a font agerddawl a ddysgant
yn hawdd achos twymder y geri, ag ni fawr ymbwyllant ar
a ddysgont ; hefyd hwy a fyddant o galon uchel, sef yw
hynny ni allan hwy oddef dim camwedd gan eu twymder
hwynt, a hwy a ddeisyfant uchelder mawr, a swyddau, a
derchafedigrvvydd, a dyn geriawl a fydd mor odinebus ar
afr, a threch gwj^-n na serch pob telm a geir arnaw, a
thwyllwr y bydd efe, ag ef ddigia yn hawdd am bethau
bychain, a hynny a arwyddocca twymder yr ager, a gwaed
MEDDYGON MYDDFAI. 275
berwedig ynghylch y galon, ag ef a fydd fl'el ag yu cliwini-
wth ag annoeth ei ystryw ai ddychymyg, a tlirecli rbysgyr
iia thryvv yn a wnelo ag a feddylio, ag cf a fydd yn gul yu
ei aelodau, ag yn sur, ag yn unlliw a'r saffar ; raal y dywaid
Aviseu, y Uiw liwnnw a arwyddocca uchelder, a chul y bydd
corph ag aclod, ag un a wel yn arall y bai lie na bo, ag ni
wyl a fo arno ei bunuan yn fai, befyd cf a fydd garedig iV
i'r neb ai anrbydeddo, ag yu falcli sarrug wrtli na wnelo
bynny, a dialgar ag a wnaut gam ag ef ar drais ag ar
gelwydd, ag nis gellir cyuiysg o'r uliar arno, a jibei gellid
uiyned yugbyfuywydd y gwaedryar a wnelai o bynny, ag
auff'yddlawn a syraudgar y byddant y bob oV ardymniyr
bwu ; ag o'r pedwar cyfnywydd niewn dyn, liwnn vr an-
bawsaf ei wellbuu a gyrru moddoldeb arnaw ; a'r ardymniyr
bwn a elwai Rys Feddyg yr agerdde, achos ager y berw
amgylch y galon a chwerwedd y bustl mewn dyn.
LLYMA DDANGOS AMNABOD NATTURIAETH A CHYFNYWYDD
Y DDUEG, AC ARDYMMYR Y BOBL A FYDDANT DDUEGAWL.
§ 802. Un a fo ai gyfuywydd o'r ddueg a fydd sur ag
anfoesol megis yr liwn a ymladdo ei bunan ; befyd, y rban
fwyaf o'r bobl a font duegawl a fyddant drist, ag ycbydig
eu cbwedleua bwynt o acbos eu boerfel, befyd, bwj'nt o
fyddant astudawl, a myfyrllyd, a myfyrgar, a chwennycb<;ar
a fyddant i fod yn unig ag ar eu pennau eu bunain, ag ni allaut
gyscu yn banner da aclios sycbder yr ymbcnnydd ag a bair
iddynt fryddwydaw a dyliuuaw oi cwsg, a Iiwy a fyddant
astud feddwl a cbofaduriaid da, ag anbawdd eu ^wasan-
aetbu, a cbenfigenus a cbwenycbgar, ag a wnaut yn ddrwg
acbaws gweudid a bair nas gallant yn dda fal y cbweuuycb-
aut, acbaws bynny taliadwyr drwg a tbwyllodrus fyddant.
A dyn duegawl a fydd ddarllenwr uiawr, ag yuiprydiwr, ag
ofuus, a lliw y ddaear a fydd iddynt y bobl u'r ardymmyr
27G MEDDYGON MYDDFAI.
hwn, yr hwn liw os gwyrdd fydd a arwyddocca urddas fal y
dvvvaid Cassys y gwr doeth, a pliob un o'r rliyw y sonier am
danynt a fyddant ar y gormodedd yrn mhob peth os trist a
tlirvvm iliwy fal hyniiy, os llawen rhylawen ag nid oes
gyniniesur yn y byd arnyut, carant ganu yn yr unigfa, a
charant oV unig wraudaw cerdd a tliannau, a cliarant
ddangos eu meddyliau am eraill, ag ni charant ddangos modd
y bydd arnynt eu hunaint, awengar a chywraint y byddant,
ag nid mawr y carant ei ddangos, a nliwy a wellhant wybodau
a clielfyddyd, ag a ddysgant yn llwyr ag a fyddant fanol yn
a wnelont ag a ddywedont, ag os cymysg o'r gwaedryar
ynddynt doethion aragenach nag eraill am gwelir, ag os
oV geri fydd y cymysg, chwerwon a.surion fyddant, angnat-
tach na neb eraill, ag os o'r uliar cymysc, hwy a gollant
arnynt eu hunain ag a yraladdant eu hunain. Cul o gorph
ag aelodau y byddant, a mynych o brydydd a geffir o'r
cyfnywydd yma, ag ami y gwelir traserch a thrachas
ynddynt.
Llyma gyferddonolion a gorchestolion o feddyginiaethau a
gafwyd o rad Duw, a gwybodau doethion a duwiolion yr
hen amseroedd, nid aragen y cyferddonau a ddaugosir yma,
I BERI I DDYN GYFFESU BETH A WNAETH.
§ 803. Cymmer froga o'r dwr yn fyw, a thyn ei dafod, a
dod eilwaith yn y dwr, a dod y tafod hwnnw ar galon dyn
yn cysgu, ag efe a eddyf beth a wnaeth trwy gwsc.
RHAG Y DDANNOEDD ; CYFERDDAWX YW.
§ 804. Santes Fair a eisteddodd ar garreg, ar faeu yn
ymyl ei meudwyfa, a'r Yspryd Glan a ddaeth atti pan
oedd drist. Pani drist ti fam farglwydd, a plia ddolur a'th
flin ? Dolurio mae fy nannedd, ag au amddarwauodd pryf
a ddaeth yma a elwir migram, ag mi ai cnoais ag ai lleweis.
MKDDYGON JIVDDFAI. lit t
Mi a'th djnghedaf di daffin o negrbiua trwy yr Tad, a'r
Mab, a'r Yspryd Glun, Mair Forwyn, yr hael feddig Duw,
na bo itti allel na chlwyf na dolur na molest i wasanaethwr
y Dduw ynia, yu gyndrychol yr awr honn nag raewn dant,
nag mewn llygad, nag rnewn penn, o gwbl or dannedd bob
gwir yt. Amen.
CYFERDDAWN RHAG Y FAM, A RIIIWALLOxN FEDDYG AI DODES
I WYRFYL FERCH RHYS AB GKUFFUDU AB RHYS AB TEWDWR.
§ 805. Rwyf yn dy dynghedu di y fam ddolurus drwy'r
Tad, a'r Mab, a'r Ysbryd Glan, fcl na ellech di ddolurio na
chael pwyer ynof fi Gwyrfil ferch Rhys gwasanaethwraig i
Dduw, nag ei phenn,nag yn ei breichiau, nag yn ei brounau,
nag yn y cylla, nag yn lie yn y byd o'i chorff, o gorfydd
Duw Dad, o gorfydd Fab Duw, o gorfydd Duw Yspryd
Gbiu : poed felly y bo. Amen.
RHAG Y DDANNOEDD.
§ 806. Cais hoel haiarn, ag ysgrifenna ami y geiriau hynn,
-|- agla -J- Sabaoth -\- athanatos - - a tharo yr hoel dan y
dant claf, ag oddyna mewn pren derwen, a tbra fo hi yno
dannoedd i'r dyn, ac a'r hoel ysgrifenna enw y dyn ar y
dderweu, dan ddywedyd fal hynn : Trwy rymiant y Tad a'r
geiriau cyssegredig yma, fel yr ei di yn y prenn, felly yr el
y g^vyn a'r dolur o ddant y claf; poed felly y bo. Amen.
FAL HYNN Y GWNAETH RHIWALLON FEDDYG RHAG GWAED-
LI.NG I LOGKAINVS FAUCllOG, SA.NGIWS FARCIIOG A DDYWA.NODD YSTLYS CRIST
FAB MAIR WyRY AG AR HV.NT DOETH V GWAED a'R DWR.
-(- Saf waed -|- yn enw'r Tad, saf waed -|- yn enw'r
Mab, saf waed -|- yn enw'r Yspryd Glan, gorphwys waed,
-|- yn enw'r Trindawd bendigedig na red well, -|-.
Fnnfiti)Bctus^atris,bnnRilji3ctosiPtIius,bnnatI)<3clus
^piritUS SanttUS -|- (E\)xis\i Amen — Amen -:- Amen --
Amen -- poed felly y bo.
278 MEDDYGON MYDDFAI.
I BERI CYSGU.
§ 807. Cymmer gorn gafr ag ysgrifenna enwau y saith
gysgadur ami, a dod hi yn gam cyllell, a dechreu yr ysgrifen
oddiwrtli y llafn, a llyma eu hcnwau, Anaxeimcys, Malchws,
Marsianws, Denys, Thon, Serapion, Constantynn; a gwedi
ysgrifenu yr enwau dod y gyllell dan benn y claf heb yn
wybod iddo, ag ef a gwsg.
^ro morbo feaUcnUo, HYNXY Yw y clefyd cadarn, pan ddel
A CHWYMPO DDY.V.
§ 808. Dyro dy feddwl at Dduw yn dda a dywed y geiriau
hynn dair gwaith yn ei glust ^tt^ttt^Sptcl, a phan gotto'r
dyn oV llygfa dyro iddo fustl ci, a clirog ef yn y ty y boV
claf yn preswylio, a dod ef lie y cafFo wynt hyd ymhen y
tridiau, yna * bwrw mewn chwart o gwrw hyn el yn beiut,
a dyro yfed i"'r claf cyn y delo y chvyf eilwaith.
Llyma swyn a wnaeth yr Arglwydd lesu Grist ei Hun,
ag a ddangoses i'r tribrodyr gan ofyn iddynt pa le yr aent,
ni awn ebent hwy i fynydd yr Olifer i gasglu llyseuau i
iachau bratliau a dyrnodau, yna y dywad Ef ymhoelwch
drachefn a chymmenvch elivv"'r eliwydden, a gwynn wi, a
gwlan du, a dodwcli wrthynt gan ddwedyd fal hynn : Mi
a'th dynghedaf di frath drwy rad a grymiant yr wyth
archoll yr rhain a fuant yn y gwir Dduw aV gwir Ddyn, ac
au cymmerth yn y santeiddaf gorph er yn prynu ni, ac er
yr hwn a ddymyneisti dy hun, ac er y blinder a gefeisti, ag
er y bridwerth a bryneisti dy Hun, lesu Grist, hyd na
ddolurio ag na ddrewo, ag na ddrygroglo y jbrath hwn y
mau, yn enw y Tad, a'r Mab, a'r Yspryd Glan ; poet gwir.
Amen,
* Berw 'III ddiau.
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RIIAG Y MWYTH GRYD CYFERDDAWN.
§ 809. Dod yr ysgrifen honn ar bwll calon y claf yn
grojiedif!: am ei fwiiwiil.
Pan weles eiu Harglwydd lesu Grist y grog a ddarpar-
esid iddaw, Efe a grynes yn ddirfawr, a'r luddewon a ofyn-
asant iddaw yn llynn, ai ofni ydd wyd o weled y grog honn,
neu ynteu y mwyth gryd y sydd yn dy ddoluriaw, ar
lesu au hattebes yn llyn, Myli nid wyf yn ofui y grog
honn, ag niui doluria'r mwyth gryd, eithr cryau ger bronn
fy Nhad nefawl ydd wyf gan weled ei ddarpar Ef i'r rhai
am crogant, ag wrthych yn lie gwir y dywedaf y neb
o ddyu a glywoV ijeiriau a ddywettwyf ag au cretto ag
a wnelo yr hynn oil a ddodais yn orchymynedig ynddynt
gann ymgrynu ger bron ei Dad nefawl, efe ni ddolurir fyth
gan y mwyth gryd, ag ni ellir a bair iddaw ofnau. Ag yn
awr o Arglwydd lesu Grist poed o'th drugarcdd na chaiied
y mwyth gryd ddoluriaw a blinaw dy was hwnn a gwasan-
aethwr Duw Dad oV nef, nag yn awr gyndrychol nag yn
un amser arall ynghyffryd ei fywyd ai einioes yn y byd
hwnn, yn enw y Tad, aV Mab, aV Yspryd Glan, a phoed
felly y bo. Amen fyth.
I WYBOD PAX FO DYN YN GLAF PUN FYDD EF AI BYW AI
MARW.
§ 810. Cymmer wi a ddydwer ddydd lau yn y if lie bo y
claf, ag ysgrifenna y llythyrennau hynn arno,
J^. <Sr- ©• iGr- ¥". it- <Sl. lb- Sb. a dod hwnnw mewn lie saf-
edio- y maes o'r t\% a thranuoeth y bore torr y wi, ag o daw
o-waed y maes marw fydd, ag oni ddaw gwaed byw fydd.
RHAG Y DYFRGLWYF, SEF YR [DROPS.
§ 811. Ira wenholod bychain a saflFar, a chyn nemmor o
ennvd fe ddaw yr hen wenholod a maen iddynt hwy, ag a
hwnnv V Uesheir y clnf oV Tdrops.
280 MEDDYGON MYDDFAI.
AM ELLWNG GWAED I YMDDIFFYN GOLWG DYX.
§ 812. Pwy bynuag ag y gellyngir gwaed arno y ddeu-
nawfed dydd o fis Mawrth yn y fr.aich ddeheu, ag ar yr
ugeinfed dydd y fis Ebrill ar y fraich asswy ni bydd byth
ddall, canys hyn a brified yn fynych.
RHAG DAFADENNAU.
§ 813. Golch y dafadennau a dwr o'r bedyddfaen lie y
bedyddiwyd y seithfed fab i yr ud gwr a gwraig o briod.
Y FFORDD Y CEIR GWELED Y PETH NAS GALLO ARALL EI
WELED.
§ 814. Oymmer fustl cath a bloneg giar, a cbymysgc
hwynt ynghyd a dod ar dy lygaid ag di a gei weled y petli
Jia chaifF arall ei weled.
MODD Y GEILL DYN DDALA TAN YN EI LAW.
§ 815. Cyramer y malw bendigaid, a gwynn dau wi, ag
ira dy ddwylaw ag hwynt yngliymysg, a dod bylor elyf arno
ar dy ddwylaw, ag felly di a elli deimlo tan yn ddi ddolur,
a dala tan a harn brwd yn dy law yn ddiofn.
Llyma ddeuddeg cyffredinrwydd y sydd ar groen neidr y
rhai a dystia Alphibam ei bod yn dda, ag a ddwad i fod yn
wir ag yn fFrwytlilawn iV sawl a arferei o honynt, a minnau
o'r iaith Arabaidd ai troes i'r Llading, ag o'r Llading {""r
Gymraeg, nid amgen.
Pan fo y lleuad ar dyfiant cyntaf oV arwydd a ehvir
Aries sef yr Hwrdd, ys sef jw hynny gwydyr yr arwydd,
hwn a ddigwydd ynghylch banner mis Mawrth, y trydydd
dydd o Galan Ebrill yno y bydd yr had cyntaf i'r arwydd
vn yr hwn ar yr amser hwnnw llos<rwch irroen neidr vr hwn
a fwr hi oddiwrthi amser cynhauaf, a dwg y Uudw hwn
genit, a chadw ef yn dda o achos niawr werthfawrogaf yw
MEDDYGON MYDDFAI.
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ef or lioll eliau, yr liwn iii ddichon tafod dyn i i^yfarvvyddo,
y cyfarwyddyd cyntaf yw liwnn. Pwy byimag y fai yndo
fnitli nevvydd doded ycliydij; o'r lliulw hwiiinv yiido, a ia<'li
o fewn tridiau fydd.
LI Vina boUaeli ddangos enwau y lly.siau, aV ftVwytliaii,
a'r dcfnyddiau Llyscugacl ag eraill a ddylai pob iiicddyg eu
gwybod ag yraarfer a nlivvy er iachau doluriau, a clilefydaii
ynghorpli dyn.
A.
Aguus castus, y bendigaid, dail
y twrch, dail fendigaid.
Asarabacca, llysiau'r cyfoij, y
fflamgoed.
Anigiiioliwin, y pump dalen.
Atliemesia, y mas.
Agrimouia, y tryw.
Anibrotaiia, llysiau'r corph.
Absinthiwn, chwerwyii, ch^\•er-
■vvyn y twyn.
Abrosianwm, chwerwlys yr
eithin, llysiau'r bystwn.
Apiwm, yr halogan, y perllys }'
mor.
Aliwn, garllcg, craf y gerddi,
craf ftVeiigig.
Arnoglosa, llydan y ffordd,
Agrigida, rhuddos, gold, rhudd-
aur, sensegl.
Aleluia, surion y coed.
Arnogloswin, y llwynliidydd.
Agrioselinwm, dulys, alisantr,
march berllys, perllys y bcr-
llan.
Agriophyhvm, ysgall y mocli.
Anetiwui, anis, gwcwyrllys.
Asiantws, y rhydd redyn.
Acanthws, treed yr ai'tlu
Artlplex, y llygwyn.
Arunda, corsen.
Aurantiwm, auronwydd, auron-
en, afal eurnn,
Anuncia, y fabcoll.
Amarista, amranwen, y tor-
mwyth.
Amarica, yr cliniawg.
Aliscandriwm, marchberllys y
gerddi, alisantr.
Acriioliwm, y chvt, yr egrai.
Asblebion, tafod yr hydd.
Andram, y dorllwyd.
Amatoria, fFrwt i wared.
Artemisia, y ganwraidd Iwyd.
Agrium, y torwynt, llysiau Cad-
wgan, y faleriun.
Alum, y gieulys, llysiau'r giau,
y glydlys.
Agripalina, babaullys, dynliaden
ddall, torloes.
Auricula, clustiau'r arth, y
ffrydd, blodau'r fann.
Alaria, adain y Hew.
Anemonia, blodau'r gwynt, y
ffrithogen.
Auri|)iment\vm, aurbib, yr aur-
blbau.
Agria molosia, miilw'r pertlii,
malwen y meusydd.
Agrostis, dant y ci.
xVgrociuaria, ysgall Mair, ysgall-
cu fraith.
Agrifoliwm, celyn.
Apia'^trwin, llysiau'r gwcuyn,
gwenyiuld.iil, nielorllys.
Accdula, jieiilon.
Archaugclica, dalfedol.
Assa uigrwm, y bengakd.
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MEDDYGON MYDDFAI.
Attranicndwm, yspargam yr
lies-, y gellesc.
Asparagws, y merllys, magwr-
llys, gwillan.
Aristologia, yr henllydan.
Assafetida, baw diawl, y drewgi.
Argilla, dail y clas.
Avalana, cnau'r gerddi.
Amaranthws, ammorlys, blodau
ammor.
Aletorolofws, arianllys.
Acopus, drewgoed.
Abiga, y dorlhvyd.
Acorwra, gellesk, elestr.
Argentaria, y dinwen, y din-
llwyd.
Apios, clor, clorlys
Alicubi, ffiol y ftVith.
Acetabwlwni, crynddail,
Acipitrina, gwlaeth y waun,
llaethygen y waun.
Aconitwm, llysiau'r blaidd,
bleiddan, bleiddlys.
Anaglis, llysiau'r cry man.
Aptiaca, gwjg, pys gwyllton.
Apolinaris, y belai, Uewyg y iar.
Aristologia, llysiau'r galon, ys-
garllys.
Angelica, llysiau'r angel, y
wreiddber.
Alsinc, gwlydd y perthi, llau'r
perthi.
Asphodelwm, y gilgain.
Anethwm, gwcwyrllys.
Athanasia, tanclys, llysiau'r tanc,
tanced, tancedlys.
Antylys, palf y gatli.
Asplenwra, rhedyn y graig,
rhedyn y gwelydd.
Alliarwm, troed yr assen.
Andrachne, troed y cyw,
Anti rliinwm, trwyn y llo, safn
y llo, Ihvnc y trotliwy.
Arwm, pidyn y gwccw.
Alcea, mahven Alis.
Alicampania, marchalan.
Aquileia, troed y ceiliog.
Acetaria, melynsur.
Amera, had y rhos, grawn y
rhos, gwyt'on rhonwydd.
Anatolia, llorwydden.
Ardaliwm, corsen, cyrs.
Alga, gwimon, gwigmor.
Alwmen, elyf.
Andonica, gwrlys.
Argimonia, y dinllwyd.
Argentina, arianwen, y dinllwyd.
Alcca, mahven Alis.
Arbutus, mefynwydd, mewydd,
mewydden.
Aquilegia, madwysc.
B.
Bacca, gwyfon, gwyfonen, mac-
cwn, maccynen, grawn coed,
greol, egroes, manaeron coed.
Baccalina, bae, baewydd.
Balania, greol gwin, grabon,
ffrwyth gwinwydd.
Balsam wm, balmwydden.
Balsaminwm, balm.
Bambata, morwynwyn.
Betonica. cribau sanffred, y bit-
tain, y bitton, y feddyges
hvyd, dannogen.
Betonica aquatica, dannogen y
dwr, y feddyges ddu.
Barba aeron, pys y ceirw, pwj^s
y ceirw.
Barba sacti, y ganwraidd Iwyd.
Buglosswm, taf'od yr ych.
Bursii pastoris, pwrs y bugail,
11} siau'r tryfal.
Batinwm, mwyar y perthi.
Buboniwm, y serlys, serenllys,
dail y tenewyn, blodiau
gwj-dion.
Botrus, gwinA\yfon.
Byglosa, glesyn y coed.
Beneria, grug, grel.
Bibilis, brwynen.
Burneta, y rhwyddlwyn.
Borago, tafod yr ych, tafod y
fuwch.
Barba Jovis, llysiau pen tai, y
ferllys, berllys.
Bellis, llygaid y dydd.
Bipnelia, gwyddlwyn.
Biciona, pys y Uygod, gwyg.
Barba capri, barf y bwch, er-
waint, barfogan.
Batis, corn y carw mor, eliglys.
Bardana, cyngaw, caresgar.
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Botris, derweii Gaersaloin.
Bransi, crynllys, crynddail, y
gron doddaid.
Brassicca, broswp, bresych.
Brionia, coedrwyni, greol y cwn,
oiriii gwion, gwion y perthi.
Belliwra, priellau Mair, diigrcn
Mair, saminwl.
Beats, ) inelgc'd, sewlys,
Beta, > y chwecclys.
Bardana, cyiigaw, baw rawcci.
Barl)a scnis, barf yr hen wr.
Branca, trigon, tygron.
Bonia, hiawl.
Boletus, grion, grionen.
Bacca palustris, llus, Uusi.
Bacchar, niunig iMair, nieddyg y
bugail.
Bacciferia, gruglys.
Barl)aroca, bcrwr Ffrainc.
Batws, mwyarwydd, mwyar.
Benedicta, y fabcoU.
Berberis, y pren melyn, drain
ysbin, greol ysbin.
Bifoliwm, gefellys.
Bipennula, gwlydd Mair.
Bisnialva, nialw yr hel.
BJephara, alaw, llynnon.
Blitum, blithan.
Caro, garddwy.
Chamaerops, dail yr ysgyr.
Chelidonia, melynllys, Uysiau'r
wenol, y ddilwydd felen.
Centauria, bustl y ddaiar.
Calanientha, uiynt y mynydd.
Cariojihiliwui major, benigan,
clawen tlrengig.
Carioi)hiliwm minor, pine, ceian,
ceilys.
Cumminwn, Uysiau'r hedydd.
CocLlearia, chwerfwr, y chwer-
fell, golofan.
Cyperus, ysnodeu Fair, gelinllys.
Consolida rcgia, yspardunllys,
yspardun y marchog.
Ceraswm, ceiros.
Capiua, corwynwyn, ceninog.
Coepa, gwynwyu, egryn, egrau.
Chamaedaplme, pert'agl.
Clematltis, yagarllysc bychan.
Cardiis niger, ysgull duon.
Cardusmaculatus, ysgallen fraith.
Crassula minor, y tt'aflys, yr
orpin.
Cardanionia, grawn Paris.
Capillis Veneris, gwallt y For-
wyn.
Caprifoliwm, gwyddBd, gwyddfel.
Cynantliemis, llygad yr ych.
Capiionia, mwg y ddaiar.
Carex, licsg, gelle^g, gelesg.
Cassytliia, Uysiau'r liindag.
Cardus Veneris, cribau'r i)annwr.
Calendula, sensogl, rlmddos.
Cliimilla, y teidiog las.
Coronopus, dant y Hew.
Consolida major, cyfardwf.
Crithmwin, ysgyrydlys y mor.
Cardus benedictus, ysgall ben-
digaid.
Chamepitys, palfygath.
Cornus silvestris, ])isgwydden.
Camilon, ysgall y blaidd.
Cineria, Uysiau'r Uydw.
Capsella, mwstarth.
Consolida minor, llygaid y dydd.
Coronopus, erllyriud y mor,
Cyclamenis, didol, didcnol.
Carota, moron, dawcan gocb,
ciwig yr ardd.
Calamintlms, mynt y gath, mynt
bendigaid.
Cynosrhodes, rhos y cwn, breilwy
y perthi.
Convolvulus, y taglys.
Cicerbita, ysgall y moch.
Canopican, oyf'oglys.
Cimbaria, Uysiau'r geinog.
Consolida media, gUsyu y coed.
Crispinus, yspiuwydd, y pren
nulyn.
Cucumerasinus, dynaid g«yn-
non.
Crithamon, eliglys, glthrcll.
Cannabis, cywarch.
Cawlis, cawl, callorlys.
Castania, cestin, cnau cestin,
cestinen, cestiiiwydd.
Chaineleucis, troed yr ebol.
Cinamoniwm, caiiel.
Crocus, sattar, y feddyges felen.
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MEDDYGON MYDDFAI.
Consolla, mader, llysiau Mair.
Cliamaciiiiliwin, inilwydd,
Cedrus, ccdryswydd, lliljanwydd.
Clobina, dulys, alisantr,
Clutumws, yr engraft".
Cladiolws, yr hylythr, y gloria.
Carioj)hilis, claw, chuven, y
clawan, y clewyn.
Centoria, ystol Crist.
Concloida minor, yswinfri.
Cetra, redyn y gogau,
Cisampelis, berthlj's.
Cristagalli, avian gwion.
Comeria, barf y bwch.
Cicuta, cegyr, cegyr oer, ccgyr
Bened.
Cnita mattifera, y bumystl,
pymystl.
Catabrica, blodau'r gog.
Cynoocranibia, yr yscedd, ys-
cedd y cwn.
Crambe sativa, yscedd y gerddi,
yscedd lledfegin.
Ciglesia, pigle, woodstarre.
Coliandria, coliawndwr, colian-
drwn, coliandr, brwysg-
cdjys.
Cyanws, y clafrlys.
Crenaria, bwlwg yr yd.
Calendula, swyn-ystres.
Craspula, y ganhewin.
Cardamwni, berw'r lledfegin.
Culaniwm, llysiau'r dom, y din-
llys, dail y dindost.
Confeiria, gludoglys y c^Ymffri,
llysiau'r cwlan.
Cadania maria, berwr.
Casofoliwm, craf y geifr.
Canfeged, cyfiaith.
Colocasia, niynt y meircb.
Castania, castain, cueuwydden,
gestin, cestineu.
Convolvulws major, cloffrwym y
cythraul, cloffrwym y mwcci.
Codyla, yr aniranwen.
Cam, claer, orcbwyrydd.
C-alemintwm, myut y feisdon.
Cifrwni, erwaint,
Carifoliwm, y fabcoU.
Cessesta, banadl, banal.
Cucnander, us maeldaf, zona.
Crimillimwm, y gromil.
Canufenta, corfanadl.
D.
Dans Iconis, dant y Hew.
Dast^-s, nele, y gandoU.
Dragontia, neitrlys.
Diapensia, clust yr artli, yr
olcbyddes.
Digitalis, ffiol y ffiith, byssedd y
cwn.
Dancus, nytli yr aderyn, pan-
ygan, panwg, ciwig.
Daphnoides, clust yr ewig, glas
y gaiaf, nidwyddeu las.
Dictamen, y ddittain.
Dactytia, gofyslys.
Dardana, cyngaw.
Deliteria, clych Enid.
Damasconia, llydan y ffordd.
E.
Enulacampana, marchalan y
llwyglas.
Ebulwm, ysgaw bendigaid, gwaed
y gwyr, corysgaw.
Endiva, yr ysgellog.
EUeborwm, pelydr ysbain, y
torrgos, y torrlaetb.
Enfragon, y waedlys fawr.
Erythrodanwm, y wreiddrudd,
y gochwraidd, madr.
Erygiwm, ysgall boglynog.
Ervwm, pys yr aran.
Ebulusia, y greulys fawr.
Erigerwm, y benfelcn.
Enfatorwm, y feon chwerw.
Efatica, cj-nglennydd.
Erratica, treigledlys, elinog goch,
y benrudd.
Eleboniwm nigrwm, y gloerllys
fawr.
Eruca, y pybyr gwynn.
Erisimwni, berw'r gauaf.
Ebuntia, ysgaw bendigaid, gwaed
y gwyr.
Elebiarni, cyflaith.
Equisetwm, rhawn y march.
Elatinc, llysiau'r gerwyn.
Eleborws, 'troed yr arih, Uewyg
y llynger, Uyugerllys.
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Eupatoriwni, y drydon, troed
dryw, dry wlys.
Euphrasia, golwg Crist.
Eringo, luorgelyn, y cwsglys.
Erica, grug, y grelys.
Eleniwni, niarchalan.
Ervilia. gwyg, pys yr adar.
Fabaria, berwr Taliesin, yr orpin,
ffiiflys, y fy wydog.
Febrifuga, tormwyth, chwerwyn
gwynn, yr aniranwen.
Fungus, grion, iiiadarch, fFwngc
y ddaiar, mwg y ddaiar.
Farfara, troed yr ebol, pesyclilys.
Farfaria, y bittain, dannogen,
cribau santtied.
Filex, rhedyn, ffil-lys.
Fragaria, gwlydd syfi.
Fraga, syfi.
Fistularia, bolog y waun, llys-
iau'r cwn.
Flos Veneris, boled Olwen, y
taglys mawr, y tagwydd.
Felterre, y ganrlii goch.
Fi'urfur, y greifiDn.
Funiws terrje, mwg y ddaiar.
Ffenicula, ffunel, ffenigl.
Ffascoli, tFa ftreinig.
Filix boretica, llawredyn.
Ficaria, gwenitii y gog.
Flos Adunis, pabi Iledfegin,
l)wl\vg lledfogin.
Filix aqiiatica. rhedyn y gors,
rhedyn Crist, rhedyn eyfr-
dwy.
Ffebilion, y tresgl.
Ftlamula, y fHamboeth, blaen y
gwayw, y fflamniog.
Filix aquatica, rhedyn y gors,
rhedyn Crist, rhedyn bendig-
aid.
Faba, fFa, panar.
Ffeniolin, ffunel, ffenigl.
Filipendula, y grogedyf.
Fontinalia, llyriad y llynn.
Farinaria, cannllys, y paill, rhe-
dyn y niynydd.
Fascula aurca, ysgubaur, llwyn
euron, yr eurwaith.
Filicula virginca, gwallt y For-
wyn.
Fragania, corwynwyn, cibeUau,
cibellys, y cebyddlys.
Filitis, tafod yr liydd,
Funda sexsanet, ysgall.
Filape, dywlath, dywla.
G.
Gicuiuala, y ddalen ddu, y goed-
wyrdd, glas y gauaf.
Grosula, gwyfon barfog, gwyfon-
en farfog, grwys eirin, grwys
eirin .Mair.
Grossularia, grwyswydd.
Galingal, ysnoden Fair, ysnoden
liys.
Gingibera, sini, sinsyr, ginber, y
torwynt.
Gallicristi, y geiniogwellt.
Granien, glaswellt, porwellt. ton-
■WL'llt, niaeswellt, ftVynwcllt,
gwcirwLllt, gwyran.
Grifoliwni, emeillion.
Grifoliwni minus, nieillion.
Grifoli\vmalb\nn, meillionOiwen.
Grifolium rubrwni, marchfeill-
ion, meillion cochion, rhudd-
feillion.
Glastwm, gweddlys, Uasarlys, y
glaslys, glaston.
G ran wm gnid wm, pyby r y niyn-
ydd.
Graphaliwn, Ihvydym y ffordd,
y llwydlys,
Gith, llvsiau'r bara, gith, y gith-
lys. '
Geminalis, y gatihewin, y clym-
lys, clymmogan.
Gabsus, y flewog, blewlys,blew-
ynog.
Grinaletwm, yr iororth, llysiau
iororth.
Gi-uina, y droedrudd.
Galiwm, mclynllys, llysiau'r
cower, melyn y twyn.
Glycyrrhiza, melottai, glyr, glyf,
melanllys.
Gladiolus, gelesc, yr hylythr.
Geraniwm, robinllys, y drocd-
i-udd.
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Gyrytelaetli )
barbatus /
Grana Parisi, grawn Paris.
Gesticlws, salnuaiog, craf y nad-
redd.
Garaseca, tanclys, tanced, tan-
cedlys, tansi, tansli.
Generuni, hefyd yw.
Glaucis, marchfeillion, meillion
cochon.
Geribiwm ola, perwaint.
Geuni, y fabcoll.
Gromentwin, magmodor, ystraf
Hob.
Gratia Dei / gras Duw,
Gratiola ' y r y rddon, y r orddon.
Guadwm, y glaslys, y glaiarllys,
y lasog.
Geribiwm ola, perwaint.
GranuJii, grawii, had, ceri, ascer,
cnewyll.
Glans, mes, iiiesen, castinen,
cneuen, cestin.
Gitli, grawn Rhufain, hefyd yd.
H.
Herba regia, yr odrwyth.
Herba perforata, eirinllys, erin-
llys, godwallon, y gandoll.
Herba Roberti, y droedrudd.
Herba sardonia, troed yr er-
Herba pulicaris, y chweinllys,
llysiau'r chwain, Uewyg y
chwain.
Herba prati, chwys Arthur, er-
waint, melys y waun.
Herba paralysis, priellau , samwl,
samylan, llysiau'r parlys, y
dewbannog, cly'ch Euron.
Herba Joanis, llysiau leuan, y
gandoll.
Herba Jovis, llysiau'r gway w, y
fy wlys fawr, by wlys mawr.
Herba pedicularis, y llaullys,
llewyg y llau.
Herba crucis, llysiau'r grog.
Herba Walteri, llysiau Gwallter.
Herba stipiti, wodsawr.
Hedora, eiddew, iddicu, iorwg,
eiddionwg, eiddan, eidwydd.
Hedera terrestris, y feidiog las,
llysiau'r gerwyn, eiddiau'r
ddaear, y cyrflys, y gerwyn-
llys.
Hedopnis, dant y Hew lleiaf.
Heliochrysos, blodau'r haul,
euros, eurbenn.
Helnus, hesg, gelesg.
Ileptapleurws, llwynhidydd.
Ileptapleuron, Hydan y fFordd.
Heleniwm, inarchalan, llysiau'r
eli.
Helionwm, tafod yr hydd.
Ileptaphylwm, tresgl melyn,
melyn yr eithin.
Hepatica. ysceni ly s, llysiau'r af u,
goferllys, clust yr assen,
cynglennydd y dwr.
Helleborus niger, troed yr arth.
Helxiue, y berthlys, y gynghaf-
og, cwlm y gwydd, cwlm y
coed, y gylmog.
Hirudinaria, melynllys, llygadlys,
llygadlym, llysiau'r wenol.
Hieraciwm, y felenydd.
Hipposelinon, dulys, alisantr,
marchberllys, perllys y ber-
llan.
Horminiwra, clais, had Uygaid,
y werddonell.
Hyacinthus, sanau'r gog, groeso'r
hafjglas y ll\vyni,clycliyr eos.
Hyperia, llysiau leuan, y gan-
doll fechan.
Hpericwni, llysiau leuan, y gan-
doll fawi', y godwaUon fa\\T.
Hipoglosswm, tafod y march.
Hypogesia major, llysiau'r gway w,
y fyddarllys, by wlys mawr.
Hypogesia minor, bywlys bach,
Uysiau'r to, briweg y cerrig,
cynffonllys.
Hypomarathrwm, ffunel y own,
iororth.
Hyoscyamos, llewyg y iar.
Hydrolapathwm, suran hirion,
tafol y dwr.
I.
Jaceaalba, y benlas, y gaswenwyn.
Juncus, brwynen, pabwyr*^-^
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.lacea nigra, y bengaled.
Janis harba, llysiau pen tai, Uys-
iau tai, tola's, y toflwyn.
Janipiwm, ej^roes.
Jayrys, y fyddarllys.
Introlt'wm, y ieuawd, yr wr-
nerth.
Jarucia, iarwf^, niadar.
Jassa nigra, mad felen, llysiau'r
liadftden.
Ibiscus, nialw y morfa, mahv
yr hel, meddalai.
Jecoraria, c.yngleniiydd, y llefan-
og, llinwysg yr at'on.
Inguinal!^, daii tencwyn, tene-
wynllys.
JuNiperus, beryvs", berywydd,
eithinen ber, eithin y cwrw,
berwediHys.
Ischas, liuddygl y march.
Iris, elestr, elestroii, y gelcsg, y
-Iciflys.
Inguinaria, y dinllwyd.
Ipericon, curinilys, y gaudoll,
godwallon.
Ipia minor, y wenolydd.
Junonis, alaw'r dwr, y gannaid,
gwili.
Isopus, isob, ysgyllys.
Labwrnwm, jiyswydd.
Laurus, Uorwydd, dail y cwrw,
diodwydd, 3' bae, y bae-
wydd.
Lactuca, gwylaetb, Uaethoglys,
llaethlys, llaethogan.
Lactuca saliva, llaethlys, gwy-
laetb, lledfegin.
Lactuca sylvatica, llaethlys y
maesydd, gwalchlys.
Laver, perllys y nant, dyfrllys.
Lactucella, ysgall y modi.
Lavandula, llat'ant, llatanllys,
llysiau'r dillatl, llogellys.
Lanceolata, llwvniiidydd.
I^ippago, cribau'r j)aun\vyr.
Latt^ris, llysiau'r cyfog.
Lagoj)us, nieillion cedenog.
Lappa, y cyngaw.
Laureola, clust yr ewig.
Laurentiana, glesyn y coed, glas
y coed, y goedwyrdd.
Labeo, dynhaden ful.
Lapathwni, suran y maes.
Lanandula
Lestagiwm omnigawne, tafod
yr hydd.
Lapa, tafol, " parel dock."
Laparwm, f athulm, trwython,
Lapacwm, ^ trwythlys.
Lactuca agrestis, y gwla.
Latacea ortril diwTpletus.
Lapaciwm rocudiwm, cyngaw,
Lemoniwm, lemwn, euronensur.
Lentistws, yr yswydd.
Ledea, y benlas, y glafrllys.
Leucacantha, ysgallen wenn,
gwynysgall, ysgallen fraith.
Levisticwm, perllys y meirch.
Leucophyllwm, y dewbaniiog
fawr, gwynllys.
Lencacanthaniis, amranwen.
Lepidwm, berwr gwyllt.
Lens palustris, bwyd hwyaid,
llmhad y llynn.
Libadiwm, y ganrlu goch, yr
heinllys.
Liliwm, alaw, lUi, blodau Essyllt,
elestron.
Liliwm convaliwm, clych Enid,
gwenonwy, alaw crewyll.
Liliastrwm, y taglys, llindag y
perthi, y llinclwni, cyfnydd.
Libanotis, pyglys, ffenigl y moch.
Limonia, ffrithlys, y ffrithogan,
y goedwyrdd.
Ligwstrwm, gwyros, gwewydd.
Lichen, yscenllys, y llefanog, y
Ueglyn, cynglynydd.
Linagina, llindag, llindro.
Lithospemwm, tormaen.
Lingua canis, tafod y ci.
Lingua cervina, tafod yr hydd.
Lingua leonis, tafod y Hew.
Lingua hircina, tafod y bwch.
Lingua bovis, Uxfod yr ych,
bromwerth yw.
Ligustrwm, priellyn, priallen.
Lingen avituli, glesyn y coed.
Lingua avis, tafod yr edn.
Lintistws, yr yswydd.
Litoria, yr un y w.
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MEDDVfiOX MYDDFAI.
Jiodw in, jiys y ccirw.
* * pabi y w.
Loliwni, gwyg, bwhvg yr yd.
Lotus urbanus, ])ys y ceirw.
Lolia, crat'y nadredd.
Ligna omnia, tafod yr hydd.
Lobgyry, y tewlaetli.
Lucoion, nielyii y gauaf, inclyn
y gwelydd, murwyll.
Lupinus, Uewyg y blaidd
Lycopus, llysiau'r fam.
Lychnis, rhoscampau, yr elfau-
nog, bannogan.
Lvsimacliiwm, liclyglys, gwaed-
; lys.
Lichen marina, llaswyr.
Libanws, Uibanwydcl, y tns-
wyddcn.
Lycopsis, tafod yr ych mawr.
Lycopodiwm, crafanc y blaidd,
gwinedd y blaidd, mwswu y
mynydd.
Lychnitis, cas gan y cythraul.
Luttiola, aurfanal, y corrfanal,
melynog y waun.
Lunaria, gwlanllys, y wlanog,
cadenllys, y lloerlys, can-
wyll adar.
Luciola, tafod y neidr.
M.
Malva, mahv, malwedlys, mal-
wottan, malwedlys, mahved-
og, mal\v3'dd, y feddalac,
melfcdlys, hoccys.
Malva sacra, malw bendigaid,
yr holihocc yw, hoccys
Mair.
IMalvaviscus, malw y morfa,
mahv yr hel.
Mastic, gwm, llysnof, llysnofedd
y gwydd, Uysnodd.
Macia, y mas.
iMatrisilva, gwyddfid, y mcl-
wydd, melw^'dd y ])ertlii.
Mamoria, crafanc yr artli.
Maturalis, craf y geifr.
jMarmorilla, y drydon, llysiau
cychwlyn, cychwlyn.
Majorana, eidran.
Magistrantia, pclydr ysbain.
^larubiwm nibens, morddynaid
cochon, morddynaid duon.
Marabiwm albwm, mordd^-naiil
gwynnon, morddynaid ilwyd-
on, llwyd y own, llwydyn
chwerw, perwherwyn.
Mala, afalau, pwmmod.
l\Iahvm aurantiwm, afal curon,
euronen, eurbwmp.
Malwm terric, bara' r moch, y
mochwraidd, cgel.
Melampyrwm albwm, biwlith,
buelith.
Melilotus, meillion y ceirw.
Melisa, gwenynllys, gwenyn-
ddail, llysiau'r gwenyn, llys-
iau'r mel, gwenynog, llys-
iau'r mel, mellys.
Melaniwm, ysgidiau'r gog.
]\[elanthiwm, bwlwg Rhufain,
bwhvg lledfegin.
Mentha, mynt, Itlorlys.
Mespihvs, ceri, cerion sarph-
wydden, sarphwydd.
Mcticuhvm, dail meiwon.
Mercurialis, sawdl y crydd, llys-
iau'r gwr da.
Melitotwm, y ^^'ydroeth, y wew-
yrllys.
jMercuralia, craf y geifr.
Mercuriwm, argyry, arian by w.
iNIentastiwm, mynt y meirch.
IMentha aquatica, mynt y dwr.
Merica, l)anal, banadl.
Minera, glist, mynor.
Mezerion, llosglys, llysiau'r llosg,
y bliwyn, bliw, bliwlys,
godrwyth.
Mezerion albwm, yr odrwyth
wenn, canys blodau gwyn-
non a fydd arno, nidwydden
wenn.
Mezerion rubwm, yr odrwyth
rudd, l)lodau rhuddgochion a
f^'dd avno, nidwydden goch.
]\Iirica, dynhadcn, opome.
IMillifoliwm, y hhvydd, llysiau'r
gwaedlin, milddail.
Morwm, mwyaren.
I\Iorus, mwyarwydd, mieri,drysi.
Morns arbaria, mwyarbren,
mwyarwyddcn, raorwydd .
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MorcUfi major, iiioclilys.
Morella minor, y droedrudJ.
Morsiis ciilinc, y ghvvild.
Morsus galina, jjwlydd, brcch-
lys, y llynnorlys
Morsus diuboli, y gaswenwyn,
biira'r cytliraul, tainaid y
cythraul.
Milcsolis, y gromil, y gromel.
Miety atorcu, yr yswydd, ys-
w^-dden.
Morsclla major, Ilysiau'rmor, y
morllys.
Morsella minor, llyslau Bened,
bencdiglys.
Myrta, llysiau'r giau, gieulys,
gewynllys.
Myrtns, myrtwydd, mordywydd.
Myrtus silvostris, gwyrlin, gwir-
linwydd, gwyrlinun, lielygen
ber, Iielyg y waun, helyg y
chwain, mordywydd y gurs,
lielyg y gors, corrlidyg y gors.
Myrtus liortensis, gwyrliii y
y gerddi, gwirlin lledfegin,
myrtwydd, mord^'wydd.
Muraliwin, y iiuirhvyn, pelydr
y gWL'lydd, llysiau'r murddin.
Muscus, mwswrn, mwswgl.
Mysotis, clust y lygoden.
Myacanthon, celyii y mor, mor-
gelyn, y cysglys.
Myriophylhvm, milddail ior-
orth, milwydd.
Jlyrra, myrr, gwm.
Myrtoselinon, clust y lygoden.
N.
Napus, eriinen, erfin.
Nappiwm, yr erfinog, crfinllys.
Nasturtiwm, bcrwr, mwstartli.
Nastwrtiwm liortensis, berwr
gerddi.
Nastwrtiwm aqaticwm, berwr
dwr, l)erwr ffynonau.
Nastwrtiwm gallicwm, berwr
ft'rengig, berwr gerddi.
IS'astwrtiwm porcinwm, berwr
moob.
Nastwrtiwm pratcnsis, berwr
meusydd.
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Nastwrtiwm ngrestis, berwr
gwyllt.
Nastwrtiwm lapidwm, berwr
cerrig.
Nastwrtiwm sylvestris, garlleg
y f'erwr.
Nanfus, nardd, yr eliog, gwrtblys
yr ardd.
Nectaria, marcbalan.
Neurosp;iston, mieri Mair, rhos
y cwn, breik'uUwyu ber.
Narce, ysgyllys.
Nepta, mynt y gath.
Nepte, erfin.
Nicea, y bengalcd.
Nice alba, y benhis.
Nigea nigra, y bengaled.
Nigella, ysgitlilys, gitlilys, llys-
iau'r gitii, bcfyd dynaid.
Nigella Roniana, bwlwg Rhufain.
Nomma, y Uwyn gyfagwy, y
faccwyog, baccwyog.
Numularia, y canclwyf, yr hoU-
gur, aiianllys.
Nuxjuglans, cnau ffreinig.
Nux avelana, cnau ccstin.
Nyni))iiea, alaw, rhos y dwr,
In-eilen y dwr.
N ucus , coUen, cneu wy dden, coU-
wydden.
Nucus sylvestris, coUen wyllt.
Nucus barbaratus, collen led-
fegin.
O.
Odorata, rliocclys, fflorlys, ys-
pigan, yspiglys, bleision,
sychlysiau.
Occularia, llysiau'r olwg, y
wyrddonell.
Occulis Dei, ut spensolis, llysiau
Crist, golwg Crist.
Occulis Christi, y wyrddonell,
gwerddonllys, golwg Crist,
llygad Crist, goleudrem.
Occulis bovis, llygad yr vch.
Olusatrwm, march berllys y
gerddi, perliys y cestyll.
Olus, cawl, march ferwr, berwr
teulu.
Olibanwm, ystor, tus gwyllt.
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MEDDYGON MYDDFAI.
Occiilus caninuR, llygad y ci.
Oleoseliiioii, marcli l)L'i-llysyr hd,
inaicli beillys y luor, yr hel-
ogan.
Occulus Icporis, llygad yr ys-
gyfarnod.
Ocnunthe, y tormacn, yr cglyn,
y gromil.
Os mundi, pf s y Ih'^god, gwyg.
Osimwm, brenhinllys.
Organ, mesuriaid, mcswraidd, y
niysyriad.
Oreoselinon, perllys y mynydd,
gwidigdda.
Origanwiu sativwm, corfynt y
gerddi.
Origanwm sylvestris, corfynt y
crieigiau, mynt y creigiau.
Oricvvm, blorlys, bloran.
Orchis, yr erith, ccilliau'r ci, y
galdrist, tegeiriau ystongroes.
Orpina, y fywydog, ' yr orpin,
briweg.
Orobanche, tagwyg.
Ostris, y ging^roen.
Osiliwm, tringol, suran.
Organ wm, iiiyntmaenau,maenau-
llys, niaenllys, mynt y giaig,
Olewm, eliw, gliw, olew.
Olea, gliwydden, iliwydden, ol-
ewydden.
Ophioscorodon, garllcg gwyllt,
craf y meusydd.
Oxys, suran y coed.
Oxalis corvi, suran y fran.
Oxalys, suran yr yd.
Oxylapathwm, tafol Mair, tafol
surion .
Oxytriphylhvm, meillon cocli-
on, rliuddfeillion, Lefyd sur-
an, tringol.
Ophioglosswm, tafod y neidr.
Pacitaria, coantafawl
Patoria, bibasin])en, gyta y ifer
* * * rhag pob
gweli.
Perctus, pelydr.
Pauls oncli, surion y coed.
Pctilion, peuros, breilau segli.
Paralys, samwl, samylen, dcigreti
Mair,liygad Ebrill, corlaiinog
y waun, y dewliannog fechan,
priellau penclwin.
Poliantbys, corfannog yr ardd,
saniniwl y gerddi, prielhiu'r
ardd, priellau corbi, corbien,
corbiod.
Panis cuculi, suran y gog, suran
y coed, surfeillion.
Phalaris, yr eigryn, gwenith yr
ysgyfarnog, crydwellt.
Panicwni, y gibog, ciboglys.
Panis porcinws, dor, cnau'r
moch, bara'r liwch.
Parietaria, llysiau'r pared, par-
edlys.
Partheniwm, tonnwyth gwynn,
amranwen.
Palmus, y llyniddreiniog, y llew-
ydd, y ])alflys.
Papaver, bwlwg, pabi y cysglys,
drewiys,
Papaver erraticwm, bwlwg yr
yd, cysglys yr yd.
Papaver sativwm, bwlwg yr
ardd, bwlwg Uedfegin.
Palma Christi, llun llaw Crist,
llysiau'r f'am.
Pastinacia hortcnse, pannas.
Pastinacia agrcstis, pannas y
moch, efyrllys.
Peplws, llaeth y cythraul.
Petalitis, corn y carw, corn jt
hydd.
Pedram, y bybyrllys.
Pespalle, het'yd' ) gwrthlys, yr
l*escaballe, /alanhen.
I'escoliwm, bing, y droedrydd.
Pelitaicwni, Hawredyn y ddaear.
Porrwm, cenin.
Pes leonis, troed y Hew, y feid-
iog Iwyd, (gwel ymlaen I.G.)
Perlsterios, y dderwenfendigalH,
cas gan gythraul, gwvlldarf,
tarfellyll.
Persicaria, dail y dindost, eliniog
gocli, y bengoch.
Perforata, y gandoU, gowallon,
godwallon.
Pes leporina, troed yr ysgyfarnog.
Pes niilvi, troed y barcud.
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291
Pes corvi, trocd y fran.
Pes an-<crina, troed yi- wydd.
Pes pnli, trocd y cy \v.
Portulaca, trocd y cyw.
Potamo^^itwni, llynnwullt, dyr-
vvcllt, gwellt y dwr.
Perpacantha, troed yr arth.
Pes alauda, troed yr hedydd,
l)lodau'r hedydd,
Pesvituti, y fal)coll.
Pcntafbliwin, pump dalen.
PerviiK'ia, perfas?!.
Periphoron, pluf y waun, pluf y
gors, pluf y brw}!!.
Pes muli, y fabcoll.
Pesiliwni, llysiau silin.
I'esleonis, troed y Hew, y feidiog
las, llysiau'r gerwyn, y ger-
•wyiillys, llysiau'r cwrw, cyr-
flys.
Perpensa, bolgvirn yr ardd, y
gwrthlys.
Pencedanwin, fFenigl y moch,
piglys, pyglys.
Pedicularia, y Ueulys, llysiau'r
llau, llewyg y llau.
Pentaffilwin, dail y punipys.
Philistis, tafod yr liydd, y tan-
llys, dail y tanllosg.
Philochares, chwerwyn llwyd,
llwyd y own, llwyd y galchen.
Phaseolus, ffa ttreinig, ft'a mar-
chcll.
*Petrosiliwm perllys, niynach-
lys, sewlys.
tPetrosiliwm olioselinwm, yr
lialo.;i:an, yr helogan, marcli-
berllys yr hel.
Piganiwin, hefydl blodau'r
Pipnia J brenin, rhos y
brenin, rhosy niynydd, pioni.
Pisosella, clustiau'r Uygoden.
Pilocella, y dorllwyd.
Pimpinela stepmodo, llysiau
ll^-syrawt, llysyrlys.
PliUitago major, llydan y ffordd,
yr egorllys.
Plantago minor, y Uwynhidydd,
ystelynes, ystelynllys.
* Petroselinon. I, M.
t Petrosilion Olcosclinon. I.
Pix, pyg.
Picea, pygwydden, ffyrwydden,
terrwydden.
Pit,'ula minor, tafod yr edn, tafod
y deryn.
Polygonwm, y ganhewin.
Polyanthemwm, blodau'r menyn,
y beneurail, troed y fran.
Poconica casta, * * ♦
blodau'r brenin
Poconoia, blodau'r brenin, coron-
llys.
Polypodiwm, rhcdyn y deri,
rbedyn y canddo, Uawredyn
y derw.
Polii)opiwm, Uawredyn y Uwyf,
llwyfredyn.
Pinus, pinwydilen, ffinydwydd.
*Polipopi\vm liliawm, llawredyn
y llwyf.
Pneunomanthe, blodau Mihang-
cl.
Portulaca, porpin.
Polygalwm, llysiau Crist.
Potamogeton, llyriad y llynn,
llyriad y dwr.
Potentilla, y dinllwyd, y dorr-
llwyd.
Pulegiwm, pigle y brymlys,
breflys, coluddlys.
Pulmonaria, llysiau'r ysgyfaint,
callodr y derw.
Pros, qiis, cyngaw, y gyccwallog,
cyccwallys.
Prunioli, bwyd llyfFaiut, ellyllys,
yr ellyllog.
Pursa pastoris, pwrs y bugail,
llysiau'r tryfal.
Prunella, y feddyges ddu.
Pulngiwm, berge.
Puenica, puingc.
Pseudo narcissus, yr ylfinog,
croeso gwanwyn.
Psillion, llysiau'r chwain, y
chweinllys.
Psychotri»pbon, bittain, dan-
nogen, y ddeiniog.
Pulicaria, llysiau'r chwain.
Pternica, ystrewlys, trewlys, dail
y trew.
* Polypodiuiii, vii ilili.'uiiau. 1, M.
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MEDDYGON MYDDFAI.
Pungentia, sinsir y gors, yr ith-
rog, githran y gors, y boetli-
wniidd.
Primilavois, priellan, priellcn,
samwl.
Pympyrnel, Uysiau'r cryman,
brathlys.
Pyretrwm sylvestris, pelydr
gwyllt.
Pyrola, y goedwyrdd, gwyrdd y
gauaf, gwyrdd y coed.
Pynis, geligwydd, peranwydd,
Pyrwm, perancn, geligen, grwn-
en, grwnigen, rhwnigen.
Pyren, ceiien, ccii, had ncu
gnewyll, ttrwythau a llysiau.
Pyrethrwm, pelydr, y pelydre.
Q.
Quercus, derwen, darwydden,
deri, derwydd, derw.
Querculus, derwen Gaersalera.
Quercula benedicta, y dderwen
fendigaid, cas gan gytliraul.
Quinquefoliwm, y pumpys, dail
y pumpys.
Q,uiiiquenervia, ystylynes, y
llwyn liidydd.
R.
Rapum, crfinen, erfin.
Ranunculus, troed y fran, chw^s
Mair, blodau'r nienyn, eg-
ylit.
Raspis, afan, mafon, meiwon,
meiwydd, mef'ynwydd, mef-
ynen.
Rhaphanus hortcnsis, rhuddugl
Ikdfogin.
Rhaphanus agrestis, rhuddugl y
mcirch, rhuddugl gwyllt.
Rhamiins, rliafn, pren rhafn,
rhaf'iien, rhafnwydden, mwy-
ar ff'rengig.
Rhabar1)arwm, y suranog fawr,
march datbl y gerddi.
Rhesta bovis, cas gan arddwr,
liwp yr ychcn, drain y gaf-
aelon, tegwch uieinwen.
Ronilla, cunof, owuof gwyllt.
Rosa, rhos, brail, breilw}', cgroes-
wydd.
Rosa canina, rhos gwylltion,
breilwy gwyllt, rhos crewyli,
ciros, rhos y cwn, rhos y
perthi.
Rosa solis, y dawddrudd, todd-
edigrudd, y dawddlys, ♦arian-
llys, gwlithlys.
Rosmaris, rhosmari.
Rhibes, rhyf, rhytVydden, rhyf-
on, rhyfonwydd.
Rhibes aquatica, rhyf y nentydd,
rhyfon y nentydd, rhyfon
duon.
Rhibes hortensis, rhyfon lled-
fegin, rhyfon y gerddi, rhyfon
cochon.
Rubia silvestris, y fandon, Uysi-
au'r erydd.
Rubia minor, friwydd wenn,
briwydd, briwlys.
Rubia, y wreiddrydd, coch-
wraidd, cochlys.
Rubus, mwyarwydd, mwyaren.
Rumex, tafol, suranog.
Rumex medicinalis, marchdafol
y meddig, tafol briwddail.
Ruscus, celyn Mair, celyn
Ffrainc, celyn Gwent, cor-
gclyn, celyn y wrach.
Ruta, rhud, rhuw, torrwenwyn,
gwenwynllys, Uysiau'r ech-
rysaiut.
S.
Sata, yd, ceri, cnewyll, had,
gwyfon, grawn.
Satoria, yr heonllys, yr uchelfar,
^ g^vysglys, gwysgonllys.
Satella, ydig, etr, gwenith y cyth-
raul, had y drwg.
Satyriwm, tegeiriau.
Satureia, sewyrllys, y selsiglys,
Uysiau'r selsig, y sorelys.
Salix, helig, gwielwydd.
Salix equina, rhawn y mai-ch,
cedor y wrach.
* Aiienllys, undoubtedly. I. M., i.e.
the same as gwlithlys.
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293
Salvia, y geiJwad.
Salvia ne;restis, }• geidwad wyllt.
Sanibucus, yscaw, yr yscewydd,
Saiiguiuaria, y canclwin, y gan-
hewin, y waedlys.
Sanicula, clust yr arth, yr olch-
wraidd.
Sananiwndi, y bendigeidlys, y
fabcoll.
Sardonia, trocd yv erydd.
Saxifragiwm, tonnaen, llysiau'r
tostcdd.
Saponaria, y r olchyddes, y sebon-
llys.
Savina, y gyrllys, gwaredlys.
Saurion, mwstwrth, y llyinmin-
og, llymmiullys,
Seda Maria, ystoi Fair.
Sedwm major, llysiau'r gwayw.
Sedwm minor, briweg y ccrrig,
maenllys, cynfFon y lygoden,
y friweg.
Sempervivwm, y fyw fyth, by w-
lys.
Senccio, y benfelcn, y greulys
fawr, y greulys feny w, llycli-
lyn y dwr.
Septinea, yr henllydan.
Sesarwm, grug, grelys.
Securiadaca, llowyg y iAr.
Seriphiwm, chwerwyn y mor.
Serpentaria, llysiau'r neidr.
Serica pratense, sidan y waun,
serig y waun, seriglys, sidan-
llys, serigwcllt, sidanwellt, y
sidanog, serigog.
Scabiosa, y bcngaled, y glafrllys.
Scandwlaciwm, mwstarth.
Scaiidix, nodwydd y bugail.
Scclerata, trued yr erydd.
Scirpws, brwynen y mor.
Scopa regia, y milddail, llysiau'r
gwaodling.
Scolopendria, rhedyn y gwelydd,
tafod yr liydd.
Scrofularia major, dauogen y
y dwr, y feddyges ddu.
Scrofularia minor, dyuhadea
fenw, dynhadeu ful.
Scolopendriwm. rhedyn y fam.
Scorodwm, garllog, craf.
Scorodiua, y gcidwad wyllt.
Sinani silvestre, berwr yr yd,
nresycli yr yd, y carl, y cer-
lyn.
Sinilax, cocdgwlm, cwlm y coed,
cyngliafo!?.
Sinyrnion, dulys, perllys y ber-
llan, marchherllys y gerddi.
Solanwni somnil'era, y gedow-
racli.
Solanwm lignoswm, y manyg-
log.
Solidago, glesyn y coetl, y goed-
wyrdd, gwyrdd y gauaf.
Souilana, gwynwyn y moch,
gwynwyn gwyjltion, gwyn-
wyn y meusytld.
Sorbus, cerwydden, cerwigen,
ccrdinwydd, sarphwydd.
Spinus albus, draenen wenn, ys-
pyddaden, draen yspyddaid,
egfaenwydd.
Spinus, duddraenen, draenen
ddu, eirinwydd.
Spineolus, coreirin, eirin y
perthi.
Spina, draen, draenen.
Spinacia, yspinllys.
Spicus, tywysen, hefyd llysiau
sychon, yspiglys, yspiccedl^'s.
Sparganiwm, yspargan, y glcdd-
yflys, y glciflys, gellesg, yr
inclys.
Staphys agria, llewyg y llau,
llysiau'r llau, y lleulys.
Stapliylinws, paunas y moch.
Stachys, y fedwen chwerw,
chwerwlys yr eithin, dail y
bystwn, y geidwad wyllt.
Strobilwni, Ilydylys.
Struthiwm, cribau'r pannwr.
Succus, sudd, sugn, sug, nof,
llynnor, irder, gweis^gion,
gwysgon.
Secisa, bara'r cythraul.
Sulphur, ufelfaen, llosglist.
Syrjnga, jiibellwydd, pibwydd,
chwibcllwydd.
Syriac • « * ♦
•dd*su • « •
T.
TauaccL'twni, taucedlys, tauclys,
dail y tuuced, tansli.
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MEDDYGON MYDDFAI.
Thalictrwin, arianllys.
Thliispi. mwstaitli.
Thryalis, rlioscanipau, bannogan
yr ardd.
Thymus, gryw, grywlys, teim.
Thymus agrcstis, grywlys, y
twynau.
Thymus hortensis, grywlys, lled-
fegin.
Tipha, calaf felfed, cynfFon y
gath.
Telephiwm, orpin, Ilysiau Tal-
iesin, y ffaflj'S.
Tithymal, Uysiau'r cyfog.
Tormentilla, tresgl y moch.
Tremularia, yr eigryri crydlys,
crydwellt, gwenith yr ysgyf-
arnog, crydwellt.
Triorchis, teircaill.
Trif'oliwm, mcillion.
Trituliwm ruhwni, meillion coch-
on, marchfeillon.
Trifoliwm albwm, meillon
gwynnon, meillon Olwen,
corfeillon.
Trifoliwm aurewm, meillion aur,
l)ig y deryn.
Trifoliwm siivestre, meillon ed-
ring.
Tubera, bwyd y llyfFaint.
V.
Vaccinia, llus duon, llus y myn-
ydd, llusi.
Vacciniwm, llygeiriau, ceiroes y
waun.
Valeriana, Ilysiau Cadwgan, cyn-
ffon y cabwllt, gysynorllys.
Verbena, y dderwen fendigaid.
Vernilagiwm, 3'r ysgallen ddu.
Veronica, yr ornerth.
Verbwrnwm, cwyrwiail, ffyll-
wydd.
Verbascwni, y dewbannog, ys-
ccdlys, panliys.
Vetonica, crihau St. Ffrcd.
Viola, mill, gwiolydd, y fioled.
Viscus, gwy.-glys, gwysgonllys,
uchelfar, yr heonliys.
Ulmus, elmwydd, llwyf, y clas-
wydd, elmenwychl.
Ulmus Romanus, Uwyfen Rhu-
feinig, llwyf Rlmfain, y clas-
■wydd.
Umbilicus Veneris, bogail y for-
wyn, bottymog.
Volucrwm major, taglys, tag-
wydd.
Volucrwm minor, yr yttag, tag-
lys yr yd, taglys bychau,
ti^ob's y gerddi.
Volubilis, cwlm }- coed.
Urtica, dynaid.
Uvae, gwyfon, greol, baccwyon,
gwyfon, gwin, gwinwyfon.
Uv£e passae, rhesinod, rhesinau,
rhesinwyf, gwynwyfon sych-
on.
Uvffi ursina, gwyfon yr yspin-
wydd, greol y jtren melyn,
ffrwyth yr arthwydden.
Uvularia, tafod y march.
Z.
Zura, hegfaen, gwyfon, yr ys-
pyddaden, yr yspyddwy.
A'r gwydd a'r Ilysiau hynn, sef y
nifer a aller o honynt, a ddylai
bob JMeddyg eu cadw mewn gardd
yn lledfegin, ag mewn perllanau,
a hynny mewn parel o dir a fo
da'r ddaear, ag yn wasgodig, a
chcrwyneb haul, fal au caffef
wrth raid ag achos.
mi:ddygon myddfai.
Llyma ddangos y pwysau a'l
yniarfer ag wynt, fal y gwypo
o bob peth yn ei raid ai aclio.s
Pwys a mcsur Tafawl,
XX gi'onyn gwenith a Avna un
grofelyn.
HI grol'flyn a wnaun coiniogbwys,
Hiij cciniogbwys a wna uncyn
neu wiicyn.
Xlj wncyn a wna bynt.
Ag fal hynn au Uytliyrrer yn
llyfrau y Meddygou.
Gionyn fal hynn O
Grofelyn fal hynn ^
Ceiniogbwys fal hynn Oi
Wncyn fal hynn ^
Punt fal hynn S
Ag fal hynn ai dospaithir hcr-
Avydd y Uythyriad hynn iiid
anigcn.
XX <? i 9
iij 9 1^
••' ^ i ?
? i s
xij
Pwj's Hynn a gwlyb a ddos-
parther fal hynn : —
Podair niasglenaid a wna un llw}--
aid.
Pedair Ihvyaid a wua un coccwy.
Pedwar coccwy a wna un ftiolaid.
IV'dair ftiolaid a wna un paeol sef
chwait.
Pedwar chwart neu bacol a wna
un galwyn.
Pedwar galwyn a wna un celwrn.
I'cdwar celwrn a wna iin grenn.
I'edwar grenn a wna un niydd.
Pedwar niydd a wna un myddi.
Ag fal hynn y dosperthir mesur-
au llynn a gwlyb.
Llyma craill o fesurou a notta-
ynt y Mcddygon : —
Dau goccwy, hanncrpan.
Dau hannerpan, pan.
295
inesurau y dylai bob Mcddyg
yu gadarn y uiaiiit a ddylid
; nid aingoii,
Dau ban, ftiolaid.
Dwy ftiolaid, cwppa.
Dau gwppa, jjanol sef chwart.
A'r hull fesurau pwys, a'r holl
fesurau llynn a ddylynt ftjd yn
warantedig o bwys a nicsur, er
gwybod gwarantedig a gofynedig,
fal na iytho naa; anffrwytlilawn,
na gwcnwynllyd y feddyginiaeth
a ddoder i glaf, ag fal y bytho
pol) c3-ninieriad y niaint y dylid
ei ddarbod.
Llyma fesuron amcan her-
wydd deall y Mcddyg : —
Pedwar gronyn gwenith, pysen.
Pedair pysen, niesen.
Pedair mesen, wi colommen.
Pedwar wi colommen, wi giar.
Pedwar wi giar, wi gwydd.
Pedwar wi gwydd, wi alarcli.
Ag nis gellir gwarant ar y meint-
oliun hynn, namyn deall y
Meddyg.
Pedwar ])rif achos clcfyd a dulur,
a fyddant fagedig ynghorph dyn,
nid an)gen : —
I, Mwyth, sef y daw achos rhyf
o wres ag oerfel.
jj^ Brech yn y gwaed neu'r Uyn-
nor, sef y daw aclios angliyw-
eirfaint defnyddiau bwyd a
llynn.
in, Attal yn y cylla, neu'r
gwythi, neu eraill o f^eudodau
y corpli, fal nas gallo'r hwyd
a'r llynn, a'r gwaed, a'r llyu-
nor, i'yned yu eu hansawdd.
HIT. Ball, sef echrysaint, neu
blag, ag o wenwyn yn myn-
ned yn y corph y daw. Ag o'r
pedwar j)eth hynn y bydd
magedig pob clefyd a dohir
ynghorph dyn, ag o ffrwyth-
lawn feddyginiaethau axi
gwaredir.
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MEDDYGON MYDDFAI.
Llyina bctliaii da cu bod ar wybod gan bob Mcddyg, a pliob
Pen Teulu, uid amgen.
Bervvyn, bwrw dwr neu avail o
lynn yn ferw ar y llysiau
neu'r anii^cn a fo'r aclios neu
raid Avrtho.
Isgell, berwi'r llysicu neu'r
amj^en yn y dwr neu
avail Ij'nn a fo gan raid ag
achos.
Gwysg, hefyd gwysgon, bwrw
berw neu oer o ddwr,
neu amgen o lynn fal
y bo gofyn ar lysiau neu
amgen o ddarbod a gadacl
sefyll, ag yna liidlo drwy
wasg.
Mwyd, bwrw oer neu fevw o
ddwr neu avail o lynn ar a
blyddhao, ag a elo yngbyni-
ysg ar gwlyb a fwrer
avno.
Cyftaith, defnyddiau llynnovaid
ynghyniysg, a phylorou neu
eraill o betliau a ellir ar
ddiawdlwnc.
Edlyn, diawdlwnc, neu lynn a
wneir o gelfyddyd.
Ednyw, anwedd neu roglaeth, a
gymmer ar Iwnc anadl i'r
genau, neu'r ttVoenau, a'r
cylla, a'r penn, a'r werddyr,
neu amgen
Cyflaith, cyfladd ar ddefnyddiau
yn does yn l)wydlwnc.
Cyfnyw, hefyd cyfnywydd, y
gnif a fytho mewn dyn neu
greadur byw arall, neu lyse-
■wyn, neu amgen o beth, sef
y rhinwedd, neu'r gyfer-
ddawn, neu'r nattur a fo
iddaw ac arnaw.
Pelennau, defnyddiau meddyg-
giniaetliol cyfiaddedig a wnel-
ev yn belcnnau bychain, i'w
cymmeryd ar draflwnc.
Ennaint, isgell neu fevwyn a eler
iddaw, neu a ddodir aelod
ynddo.
Agolch enneinllyn a olcher dolur
ag ef, brwd neu oer fal y bo
gofyn.
Cyforpar, unig o fwyd a llynn
wrth gyngor Meddyg.
Llyma bethau a ddylaint fod gan Feddyg, ar cynneddau a
ddylynt fod arnaw, ac a elwir anhepcorion Meddyg, nid
amgen,
|. Llafnen waedu, er gollwng gwacd, ag agor ar ddolur, a chyllell a
fo ychydig yn fwy.
fj. Ysciw dduv neu ariant i dannu plasderon ag cliau.
f(j. Chwistrell, a plilcdren, i fwrw gellwng i'r cwndid, neu'r
werddyr.
(iff. Ei blasteron, ai eliau, ai belennau, ai bylorau, ai edlynnau, yn
gadwedig ganthaw, er gofyn ag achos.
b. Gardd coed a llysiau er cadw yn lledfegin y rhywiau ar lys-
iau, a llyswydd, a choedydd, nas ceffir ymhob niann yn grewyllion,
ag er cynnal coed a llysiau pellenigion o wledydd a ofynont wasgawd
a thrjnaeth avnynt cyn y tyfont yn gadwedig yng Nghymru.
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bj. TTcfyd, ofo n ddylai fod p;,inthaw ci l^'siau sychon, ni wreiddiau,
ai hadau, ai risgloodd, yn gadwedig f:yda Haw, fal ai ceffir yn y gauaf,
a'r amscroedd eraill nas hyddant ar dwf, ag uwchlaw dacar.
b({. Ilcfyd, ofe a dd^-lai pyda Haw yn gadwedig, ci fi^l, ai pw^-r, ai
byg, ai ystor, ai rwsin, ai yinniau, ai cliw, ai wer, ai saeiii, ai floneg,
ai fynorau, ai gwrw, ai win, ai fedd, ai opeion, ai ddistyH, ag eraill o
bethau rhaid ag achos.
bH\. Ilcfyd, cfc a ddylai gyda Haw ei fortyron, ai hidl, ai wasg, ai
Icstri pridd, ai lestri gwydrynaid, ai lestri coed, ai lestri tftn, ai lestri
cadw yn wydrynaid, neu }ti briddaid,neu yn arianaid, a chaeadau da
iddynt, fal nas anftVwythlono'r meddyginiaathau, na myned gwenwyn
ynddynt, na chael ci gwenw^'naw o angliadw, a gwall, ag anncall.
fi. Hefyd, efe a ddylai gyda Haw ei bwysau, ai dafolan, yn arianaid,
neu yn alcanaid, rhag myned gwenwyn yn y feddyginiaeth, ai holl
fesurau Hynn a gwlyb yn arianaid neu yn alcanaid, gan jt un pwyll,
ac hefyd ei holl gelfi cnawd digerth gwaedlafneu, a chyll}-]!, ag eraill
o gelfi torii, ai ysciwiau.
I. Efe a ddylai ci holl bwysau, ai fesuron, ai gwlyb ai sych y bont,
yn warantedig o fesur a phwys, fal y gwj'po'r meintiau ar bob peth
rhag bod rhy o fawr, nag o fach, cans hynny a wnelci y naill ai
diffrwythaw neu wenwynaw y feddyginiaeth.
ij. Efe a ddylai gyda llaAv ei lyfrau gwarantedig o gelfyddyd, ag
awdurdodawl o athraw, fal y gallo fedru ar farn a gwybodau y
Alcddygon doethion a chelfyddoliou a fuant oi flaen ef, ag a ysgrifen-
asant cu llyfrau yn awdurdodawl yn y Gymraeg, ar Lladin, ag yn
iaith Arafia.
xij. Ilcfyd, efe a ddylai fedru ar ei gelfyddyd o feddyginiaeth, yn
warantedig ym uiarn Doethion, ag Athrawon, a Dysgedigion y
gelfyddyd.
lilj. Efe a ddylai fod yn wr caredig, a mwyn, a thirion, a llaryaidd,
a deallus, a doeth, a boneddigaidd, ar gamp ag ar ddefod, ag ar air, ag
ar ymddwyn, a gofalu rhag cywilyddio a orfytho arno ci holi, ag yn
bcnna dim He gortto anio holi mercli neu wraig.
liiij Efe a ddylai fedru ar bob gwybodau parth ei gelfyddyd o
feddyginiaeth, a medru ar bob lliw ag arwyddon clcfyd a dolur, a
holi y claf hcrwydd gofyn y dolur, ai gwr, ai gwraig, ai niab, ai mcrch
y bo, hcrwydd oedran, ag anicwydd, ag ystlyncdd, a gwneutliur
liynny yn dra gweddus o fodd, ag yn eifwyn a boneddigaidd ei foes ai
lafar.
II. Efe a ddylai gadw cyfrinaeh yn gadarn, ag nas dadrino er dim
bcth, neu o ddyn, neu o gyfrif vn y l)yd.
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298 MEDDYGON MYDDFAI.
Ilj. Efe a ddylai ymgadaw yn gadarii rhag meddidi, a Ihiina, a
phutteina, a godinelju yn angliywclyfawg o wraig, can nas gellir coel
ag ymddiricd ar feddyg a wnelo y drygau hynny, ag nis gellir y parch
a ddylid i ddysg, a gwybodau cclfyddyd iddaw.
xxi\. Efe a ddylai fod yn wrtwng gwlad a gorwlad, rhag gwneuthur
lirad a brydyniaeth o lionaw parth ei gelfyddyd ar na brodor nag
cstron, nag ar gkr nag ar clyn, canys nid lladd swydd Meddyg eithr
gwared rhag a laddai, a bod wrth fodd Duw ai heddwch, ag nid wrth
fAr a gelyniaeth dj'n at ei gyd ddyn.
Iliij. Efe a ddylai ddwyn yn ei gylch bynnag o le yr elo ei gelfi
cnawd, ai gyfodau, ai waredau gautho, fal y gallo a fo achos wrthynt.
XliC. Efe a ddylai ymgadw cylch ei gartref hyd eitha gallu, fal ai
cafFer yno pan ddelo gofyn am dano.
nil. Efe a ddylai fod yn ddwyfolion ei gynneddfau, ai ddefodau, fal
y bo rhad Duw arno ag ar a wnelo, ag y bo cydwybod ynddo i wneu-
thur a fo iawn a llesgar parth ei gelfyddyd.
A'r pethau hynn a elwir anhepcorion Meddyg.
Ag felly y terfyna y Llyfr Meddyginiaeth yma, a myfi
Hywel Feddyg ab Rhys ab Llewelyn ab Philip Feddyg, ai
tynnes i maes o lien lyfrau aAvdurdodawl y Meddygon cys-
efiniaid o Fyddfai, sef oeddynt Khiwallon Feddyg ai dri
nieibion, nid amgen Cadwgan, a Gruffudd, ag Einion, a'r
Meddygon eraill o blant ag eppil iddynt a fuant gwedi hwynt.
A niinnau Hywel Feddyg ydwyf yn dyfod llin o lin o
dadidad, o\ Einion hwnnw ab Rhiwallon Feddyg o Fyddfai,
ag yr ydwyf yn byw yng Nghil Gwryd yng Ngwyr, a phoed
Dduw^ rad a phenllad ar y llyfr hwn, ag ar ai gwypo ag a
wnelo yn ei ol ef, herwydd gwybodau'r gelfyddyd er bodd
Duw, ac er iachau claf a chlwyfus.
Amen. Peed felly y bo gyda Duw.
IMyfi William Bona ai ysgrifenodd o Lyfr Sion Jones, Feddyg o
Fyddfai, yr hwn oedd y diweddaf o dadidad o'r Meddygon ym M^-ddfai ;
Anno Christi, 1743.
A minnau lolo Morganwg, ai cyfysgrifenais yn ofalus o Lyfr y
"William Bona uchod, yn awr ym mcddiant Thomas Bona, Feddyg o
Blwyf Llanfihangel lorwerth, yn swydd Gaerfyrddin, ym jMesyryd
y flwyddyn 1801 ; a chyda'r lieu Hywel Feddyg }• dywedaf,
Pocd rhad Duw arno. Amen.
THE PHYSICIANS OF MYHDYAI.
THE
P!li|0iriiii!5 iif jHijiiiiiuii.
IXTRODUCTION.
The following Work is a book of remedies, which have
been proved to be the best and most suitable for the liunian
body, through the research and diligent study of Rhiwallou
the Physician, and his three sons, even Cadwgan, Griflith,
and Einion, who were Physicians to Uliys Gryg, ab Griffith
ab llhys ab Tewdwr, their Lord, who gave them rank,
lands, and privileges at Myddvai, for their maintenance in
the practice of their art and science, and tlie healing and
benefit of those who should seek their help.
Herein, therefore, by the help of God, is exhibited the art
of healing the injuries and diseases to wliich the human
body is most subject, and the method of their management.
In the name of the Father, of the Sox, and of the Holy
Ghost. Amen, and so may it ever be.
FLATULENT DYSPEPSIA.
§ 1. Take parsley seed, bruise well, and boil in the juice of
the same. Let it be drank warm, the pain being present.
ACUTE GASTUODYNL\.
§ 2. Take buck bean and powder well. Also, burn a
(juantity of gorsu or broom seed in an iron pot, and reduce
to fine powder. Pour a gallon of strong old mead upon the
ingredients, then cover it up well and boil, and let it stand
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covered till cold. You should then drink as much thereof
as vou may require, night and morning fasting; at other
times you should drink nothing but water till you have
recovered your health.
ANOTHER.
§ 3. Drink a decoction of blessed thistle for nine morn-
ings, and refrain therefrom for nine mornings following,
then drink and refrain as before for nine mornings ; and
again in the same way for nine mornings more. Let your
diet be wheaten bread, and the milk of kine.
A COLYRIUM.
§ 4. Take a penny pot full* of the best white wine, and
as much in quantity as a hen"'s egg of copper ore, heat the
ore in the fire till it is of a red heat, and quench it in the
wine, repeating this process nine times. This fluid being
put in a well covered glass vessel, and kept so covered for
nine days, will be fit for use when wanted ; a drop or two
being put in the eye night and morning. When wine
cannot be got, strong old mead, or old cider (which is the
wine of apples) may be used.
TO BREAK AN IMPOSTUME OR ABSCESS.
§ 6. Take a small portion of the herb called the herb of
grace,-}' a portion of leavened bread, and half a spoonful of
glue, boil these ingredients in the sediment of old ale, mix-
ing them well together until the mass thickens ; when
required for use let it be applied hot to the impostume.
FOR THE TOOTHACHE.
§ 7. Take distilled water of red roses, a small portion of
beeswax, and a little fresh butter, say an equal quantity of
each; let the ingredients be mixed together in a dish upon
embers, then let a linen cloth be dipped therein, and
applied to the affected jaw as hot as it can be borne.
OINTMENT FOR AN ULCER.
§ 8. Take four portions of rosin, two of wax, one of lard,
and four of verdigris ; let these ingredients be boiled
* Half a Piut. t Rue.
PHYSICIANS OF MYDDVAI. 303
together on a slow fire, and strained through a coarse cloth.
It should bo kept in a well covered leaden vessel.
FOR ALL KINDS OF ACHES.
§ 9. Take linseed, boil in milk, and apply to the painful part.
TO HEAL A WOUND.
§ 10. Take yellow wax, melt on a slow fire, and take
bruised cummin seed, mix with the molten wax, then stir
these ingredients with a stirrer until cold. Apply this as a
plaster to the wound.
ANOTHER.
§ 11. Take bruised linseed, the white of an egij, a small
portion of sheep's cream, and a little honey, make them into a
plaster and apply to the wound.
FOR A BURN OR A SCALD.
§ 12. Roast a dozen eggs stone hard, then take out the
yolk and put in a frying pan, fry them till they become an
ointment, and strain ; anoint the injured part with the
same, then take a bladder, spread mucilage of lime twigs
thereon, and apply to the injured part.
FOR HCEMORRHOIDS.
§ 13. Take smoke dried goat's flesh, desiccate completely,
and reduce to as fine a powder as you can ; lay some thereof
on live coals in a fire-proof utensil, and put the same in a
commode and sit thereon.
AN OINTMENT TO PROMOTE THE REMOVAL OF A SLOUGH
FROM AN ULCER.
§ 14. Take a spoonful of good vinegar, a spoonful of
honey, a little verdigris, and the same quantity of aloes,*
boil together and keep ready at hand for use.
A LOTION TO WASH AN INFLAMED PART.
§ 15. Take the greater plantain, honey suckle,-f and
white roses, distil together, and iu the product put some
camphor, and let it remain in this water constantly.
* Elyf pro Elyw or aloes. It cleanscth wounds and suddenly liealeth them.
Lond.bisi). 167!>.
+ Gwinwydd pro Gwyddwydd. It is a corruption used in many parts of
Wales.
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FOR AN INFANTILE AGUE OR INTERMITTENT FEVER.
§ IG. Boil the leaves of the common cinquefoil in milk,
using as much of the herb as will be expedient. Lot this
be the child's only drink till ho is well. This is also gen-
erally the most successful remedy for those of mature years.
ANOTHER.
§ 1 7. Let some crab apples be roasted, and take some of
the pulp, and half as much honey ; let this be the child's
only sustenance for a day and a night.
FOR A MALIGNANT INTERMITTENT PROCEEDING FROM THE
HEART.
§ 18. Take some white wine whey and reject the curds,
then take some horse dung warm as it comes from the beast,
and mix well with the posset, then strain and boil a small
portion of the blessed thistle therein, or if more convenient
add thereto a spoonful of the distilled water of the same ;
let the patient drink as much as he can of this for nine
morninjxs fasting.
FOR AN OPACITY OF THE CORNEA.
§ 19. Take the juice of parsley, and half as much of
honey, and drop into the eye with a feather, keep the eye
closed afterwards as Ion 2: as a hundred is counted, and let
this treatment be perseveringly followed.
ANOTHER.
§ 20. Take the juice of celandine, drop into the eye, and
close as long as a, hundred is counted ; let this treatment be
perseveringly continued.
TO CURE A PAIN IN THE CHEST.
§ 2] . Take wall pepper * in small fragments, the dregs
of small beer, wheat bran, and mutton suet ; pound well in a
mortar, then boil together on a slow fire and apply to the chest.
TO OVERCOME HABITUAL CONSTIPATION.
§ 22. Take a new layed egg and remove the white, fill uj)
the egg with fresh unsalted butter, then warm and cat it; do
• Clarllysg pro Clauarlys.
PHYSICIANS OF MYDDVAI. 305
tliis frequently if you are naturally di.sposed to consti-
pation.
TO PROnUCE A DIURETIC EFFECT.
§ 23. Take some haws, put them in a vessel of red earth-
enware, mix therewith a good quantity of honey, then put
in an oven with bread ; of this take four spoonfuls three
times a day.
ANOTHER.
§ 24. Separate the stones of haws from the pulp, and dry
well, then reduce to a fine powder and keej) in a dry place ;
then, when you need it, take a spoonful of this powder and a
spoonful of honey, and irtakc a confection thereof; this
should be taken at niffht by ffoin": to bed, and ajjain in the
morning fasting, food being refrained from for three hours
subsequently. If needful, let this be repeated, and you will
have a thousand chances of being cured.
FOR WORMS IX CHILDREN.
§ 25. Take as much as will stand on three golden crowns
of wheaten flower bolted through a fine silken sieve, put it
in a glass vial, and pour thereon as much spring water as
will suffice to bring it to the consistency of milk, and no
more ; then let it be given the child to drink, and dead
worms will be seen in his evacuations. This is a very
excellent recipe.
ANOTHER.
§ 26. Take the child's hair, cut it as small as you can, and
mix as much as will stand on a golden crown with the pulp
of a roasted apple, or with honey, and this will kill tlie
worms.
FOR A MALIGNANT SCALD OR RINGWORM.
§ 27. Take some snails and prick them all over with a
needle till a kind of water exudes from them, and with this
water wash the scald or ringworm, then bind some honey-
suckle leaves on the part ; let this be done night and morn-
ing, and in a short time you will be cured.
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306 I'HYSICIANS OF MYDDVAI.
FOR A HCEMOFTYSIS, THE CONSEQUENCE OF THE RUPTURE
OF A BLOOD VESSEL IN THE LUNGS.
28. Take the dung of mice and diy in the sun, or at a
distance before the fire, then powder ; let as much as will
stand on a groat be put in half a -svineglass of the juice of
the plantain mixed with some burnt honey, and let the
patient drink thereof night and morning, continuing this
treatment till he is cured.
TO CURE A FETID BREATH.
29. Take rosemary leaves and flowers if to be had, and
boil in white wine with a little myrrh and pellitory of the
wall,* and you shall witness a wonderful result if you gargle
your mouth therewith frequently.
FOR A VESICAL CALCULUS.
§ SO. Take the powder of golden rod, called in Latin
Virga aurea^ and mix a spoonful thereof with a newly laid
Qg^ gently roasted, and give it the patient for breakfast, he
not being permitted to take any food for four hours after-
wards, and he will pass urine in less than half an hour
afterwards. Let him continue to do this for ten or twelve
days and he will get rid of the stone without pain. This is
also very useful in flatulent dyspepsia.
FOR AN EPIPHORA,
§SJ. Take red cabbage leaf, and spread some white of
egg thereon, then cover your eyes therewith in going to bed.
FOR THE BITE OF A MAD DOG.
§ 32. Take as much as can be contained in half a wallnut
of the powder of the spear thistle, dried in the shade, mix
with a wine glassful of the best white wine, and drink it
three times daily for three days, and by the help of God you
will be cured.
FOR INFLAMED EYES.
§ 83. Take juice of ground ivy, and woman's milk, equal
parts of each. Strain through fine linen, and put a drop
in the painful eye, and in both eyes, if needful.
* Canel pro Canliauawl.
PHYSICIANS OF MYDDVAI. 307
ANOTIIEU.
§ 34. Take distilled fennel water, and a portion of new
honey, then mix togetlier. Put a drop or two in the eye.
It is proven.
ANOTHER.
§ 35. Take the leaves of the red fruited bramble,* and the
leaves of the common plantain, boil in sprin<,f water till it is
reduced to the half, and apply to the diseased eye.
ACOLLYRIUM FOR AN ACUTE OPHTHALMIA.
§ 36. Take a handful of red sage, and boil in as much
smith's water as will cover it-f* till it evaporates to a half,
then filter well. Put a pennyworth of aloes, and as much
white copperas;]: in the liquor when removed from the tire,
then wash thine eyes therewith.
FOR A PTERYGIUM OR WET IN THE EYE.
§ 37. Take the white of an e^g warm from the nest,
rejecting the yolk, add thereto the size of a small nut of
aloes in powder, and a little burnt honey, incorporate well
together and add as much water as will enable you to filter
the mixture through a fine cloth. Put a drop or two in
each eye (or rather in the one requiring it) three times
a day.
FOR AN ACUTE PAIN IN THE LEG.
§ 38. Take a quantity of leavened dough in a very ad-
vanced state of accidity, the same weight of mutton suet,§
and of black soap, incorporate them together and spread on
linen cloth ; then apply to the inflamed leg, changing twice
a day, and by the help of God it will be cured after three or
four dressinjis.
TO STRENGTHEN THE SIGHT.
§ 39. Take eyebright and red fennel, a handful of each,
and half a handful of rue, distil, and wa.«?h your eye daily
therewith.
• Drysi pro Dyrysi, i.e. Rubiis Suberectus.
+ Tl)e water in which Smiths quench Iron.
t Sulphate of Lime.
§ Gwer man pro manllwyn, i. e, the "umall onem of the wood," — a very
primitive term for shet p.
308 PHYSICIANS OF MYDDVAI.
FOR A HEADACHE.
§ 40. Take a piece of raw beef, and lay it on the nape of
the neck, taking it away each night in going to bed ; do
this as often as needful. It is proven.
FOR THE GOUT.
§ 41. This disease is mostly confined to the feet and
hands. Take wood sage, pellitory of the wall, wheat bran,
cow's dung, and salt, boil together in wine or cider vinegar,
and apply as a plaster to the painful part.
TO MAKE A PLASTER FOR ALL KINDS OF ACHES.
§ 42. Take a pound of crude wax, half a pound of rosin,
one sixth of a pound of thus, and a pound and a half of ram's
suet, boil together and strain into a clean basin, then place
the basin on a cinder fire in a stove ; saturate a piece of
linen in this, and apply to the painful part.
FOR A COUGH.
§ 43. Take mustard seed coarsely powdered, boil with
some figs in strong ale, and drink.
FOR A RINGWORM.
§ 44. Take the roots of red dock and salt them, then put
the same in vinegar, and give them a boil, then wash the
ringworm with the liquor.
FOR HYSTERIA.
§ 45. Take rosin and pound it well, then put it in white
wine, and the gum of the bay tree,* swallow it, and you
will obtain benefit thereby.
TO CUKE ONE WHO TALKS IX HIS SLEEP.
§ 46. Take southernwood, and pound it well, and add
thereto some wine or old mead, strain well and let the
patient drink a portion thereof night and morning.
FOR THE TOOTHACHE.
§ 48. Take shepherd's purse and pound into a mass, then
apply to the tooth.
* LUwydden pro Ll.iwrwvilJcn.
PHYSICIANS OF MYDDVAI. 309
ANOTHER.
§ 49. Take the root of the water flower de lys,* and
masticate. If there be a cavity in the tooth put therein a
fragment of the root, but avoid swallowing the saliva, as the
juice of this root is poisonous, and if you swallow it you
will become delirious for days, if it does not prove fatal.
FOR A DANGEROUS COUGH.
§ 50. Take sage, rue, cummin, and pound them like
pepper, then boil together in honey, and make into a con-
fection. Take a spoonful thereof night and morning, and
by the help of God you will obtain benefit.
FOR SORENESS AND GANGRENE OF THE MOUTH.
§ 51. Take rosemary tops, sage, honeysuckle, and mal-
lows, of each half a handful, and boil together well in as
much spring water as will cover them, until it is reduced to
a third, then take some pure honey boiled in spring water
with as much as a pigeon''s egg of alum, and boil in the
filtered decoction of herbs till reduced to a third, then keep
in a glass bottle well corked, and wash your mouth therewith.
A DRAWING OINTMENT.
§ 52. Take mercurial ointment, May butter, rosin, suet,
and new wax, then take round birthwort, great ox eye,
betony, milfoil, hoary plantain, sage, smallage, marigold, and
pound well ; boil the butter and herbs together on a slow
fire for two or three hours, and if the butter dries up add
more as there may be occasion. When this boiling is
finished strain oft" the butter well under a press, and add the
wax and the mercurial ointment thereto as well as the rosin
and the suet, and boil together on a fire for an hour, then
let it cool in a clean vessel and keep.
AN ANTIDOTE FOR POISONED FOOD OR DRINK.
§ 53. Take rue, bruise well and pour white wine thereon,
(as much as will cover it) and if there be no wine, then
ale, or mead ; let the liquor and the herb be stirred well
* Vide Davics, un«lor '• Gollhcsgon."
310 PHYSICIANS OF MYDDVAI.
and strained. Let a draught of this be given to the patient
in tlie morning fasting, and another in an hour, and he will
be cured.
FOR INFLAMMATION OF THE MAMMJE.
§ 54. Take agrimony, betony, and vervain, and pound
well, then mix them with strong old ale, strain well, and
set some milk on the fire ; when this boils add the liquor
thereto and make a posset thereof, giving it to the woman
to drink warm. Let her do this frequently and she will be
cured.
FOR A HOARSENESS.
§ 55. Take the spotted persicaria and boil, then pound in
a mortar well ; rub the throat with it, and the patient will
be cured.
FOR A STRANGURY.
§ 56. Seek some mouse chickweed, and wild sage, as
much of the one as of the other ; then make into a powder,
and mix with drink, cider being best, or else old mead, if no
cider can be got.
TO EXTRACT A TOOTH WITHOUT VAIS.
§ 57. Take some newts, by some called lizards, and those
nasty beetles Avhich are found in ferns during summer time,
calcine them in an iron pot and make a powder thereof.
Wet the forefinger of the right hand, insert it in the
powder, and apply it to the tooth frequently, refraining
from spitting it off, when the tooth will fall away without
pain. It is proven.
FOR HCEMATURIA.
§ 58. Take agrimony, bruise Avell, and mix the mass with
wine, ale, or mead to drink, and you will obtain a cure.
FOR A DIARRHCEA.
§ 59. Take the roots of the red fennel, (pyrethrum
inodorum) pound in a mortar well, and mix with goat's
milk, drinking for nine mornings ; it will be of benefit, and
stay the purging. It is proven.
PHYSICIANS OF MVDDVAI. 311
FOR AN OBSTINATE PAIN IN THE STOMACH.
§ 60. Drink tlio juice of tlio tansy in old ale, and you
will be effectually cured.
FOR DYSPNffiA IN THE CHEST.
§ 61. Seek the roots of the elecampane, wash clean
and scrape, then boil in white wine vinegar when scraped.
Dry them, reduce into powder, and boil the powder in
honey, and add powdered pepper thereto ; keep in a box and
take a spoonful night and morning. This will euro the
patient.
If there is dyspnaa and cough with expectoration in a
person, seek three cinders and set before the sick person,
then let him spit upon the cinders ; if the expectorated
matter smells offensively ho will die, if not he will recover.
FOR THE BITE OF A MAD DOG.
§ 62. Seek some plantain, and a handful of sheep's sorrel,
then pound well in a mortar with the white of eggs, honey,
and old lard, make into an ointment and apply to the bitten
part, so that it may be cured.
TO PROMOTE THE FLOW OF MILK IX A -WOMAN'S BREAST.
§ 63. Seek some red fennel, and administer to a woman
in ale, and it will produce enough milk to nurse her child.
FOR DEAFNESS
§ 64. Seek red onion, and boil in oxymel, then add
thereto a handful of oat malt, rue, and red fennel, and boil
in the liquor; put this, in the warmth of niilk, in the ear
night and morning, plug the ear with black wool, so that
it may not come out; it will improve the hearing wonder-
fully. It is proven.
TO PREPARE A BLESSED COLLYRIU.M TO CLEAR THE EYE.
§ 65. Take red roses, wild celery, vervain, red fennel,
maiden hair, house leek, celandine, and wild thyme, wash
them clean and macerate in white wine for a day and a
night, then distil from a brass pot. The first water you
312 PHYSICIANS OF MYDDVAI.
obtain will be like silver, this will be useful lor any
affection of the eye, and for a stye.
FOR AN EPIPHORA.
§ 66. Take the flowers of betony, and eat, and it will clear
the eye.
ANOTHER,
§ 67. Anoint the eye with the juice of celandine and fresh
honey, and you will obtain great benefit.
ANOTHER.
§ 68. Take white wine, the juice of celandine, and the
juice of red fennel ; boil in the white wine until it is reduced
to a third ; anoint your eye with this and it will keep it
clear and stronir.
FOR A STYE OR PAIN IN THE EYE.
§ 69, Obtain the yolk of an egg, and wheaten meal, add a
little sulphate of copper, incorporate them together and lay
upon a cloth, and apply to the eye in going to sleep. It will
cure it by the following day; let this be done for three days.
FOR PAIN IN THE EYE.
§ 70. Seek the gall of a hare, of a hen, of an eel, and of a
stag, with fresh urine and honeysuckle leaves, then inflict
a wound upon an ivy tree, and mix the gum that exudes
from the wound therewith, boiling it swiftly, and straining
it through a fine linen cloth ; when cold insert a little
thereof in the corners of the eyes, and it will be a wonder if
he who makes use of it does not see the stars in raid-day,
in consequence of the virtues of this remedy.
TO STRENGTHEN THE EYE.
§ 71. Seek house leek, red rose leaves, and celandine,
pound together and boil in white wine, or strong and clear
old ale ; boil briskly, and strain through a fine clean linen
cloth, wash your eyes therewith niglit and morning, and you
will be cured.
FOR A COLD OR CATARRH, AND ALL KINDS OF PAIN IN THE
SHOULDERS, ARMS, AND LEGS.
§ 74. Take wild thyme, and bruise small, boil in the lees
of strong ale till it is thickened, and apply thereto as hot as
PHYSICIANS OF MYDDVAI. 313
the pationt can bear it. Let this be persevered in for nine
(lays, and he will be ell'eetually cured.
FOR A THORN IN THE FLESH.
§ 75. If a thorn enters into a man's body either in his
feet or hands, take the root of the black chameleon thistle
or the leaves, and the white of e^gs, and refined rye meal,
(or barley if there be no rye) apply thereto in the form of a
poultice, and it will extract it.
FOR tp:iitian ague.
§ 76. Take a large handful of betony, a liandful of year
old broom, and a handful of sage, wash clean and bruise in
a mortar, mix with strong ale, strain an<l let it be drank
nine times successively. This will restrain it,
FOR SUPPRESSION OF URINE.
§ 77. Seek broom seed, and ground into fine powder, mix
with drink and let it be drank. Do this till you are quite
well.
ANOTHER.
§ 78. Take broom seed, counting nine, and devoting the
tenth to God ; grind the seed into fine meal and take in
drink, or as a confection in boiled honey. If a woman or
maid should do this, neither pain or abscess will ever take
place in her maramie.
FOR A SPRAIN.
§ 79. Seek the lees of strong old ale, the suet of a black
wether, or a goat, and wheat groats, boil well and spread
on a cloth as warm as can be borne, and apply to the injured
part three times. This will cure it.
FOR THE GOUT.
§ 80. Seek the avens, pimpernel, betony, the vervain, an
equal portion of e.ach, of ground ivy four portions ; boil
them in as much white wine as will cover theni, and let a
good draught thereof be drank night and morninc; ; tims you
will obtain a cure. Let this be drank the first thing every
morning, and the last every night, for nine mornings, in
order to relieve the stomach ; then apply a piece of fresh
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beef half an inch thick to the foot or hand, and this will
coniplctely cure you.
FOR DYSPNCEA AND HOARSEXESS,
§ 81. Take a large quantity of the vervain, boil in water
till reduced to a third, and strain ; add the root of the
mallow, cut small, and boil again. Let this be taken warm
at night and cold in the morning, keeping it in an earthen-
ware grenn.*
FOR THE EVIL.
§ 82. Take the juice of rue, cummin, and powdered
pepper, boil in honey and make a confection thereof. Let
this be taken the first thins: in the moruinfr and the last at
night.
FOR A BLACK JAUNDICE.
§ 84. Seek the tail of salmon, dry slowly and reduce to a
powder, let it be taken on ale, and the patient will be cured.
FOR DEAFNESS.
§ 85. Take some elm rods, and lay them upon the embers,
then receive the water that exudes from the rods in a clean
vessel, and get the oil of a black eel, as much honey, and as
much of the juice of betony, mix them together, drop into
the car and plug with the wool of a black lamb. This will
effectually cure the patient.
FOR PLETHORA.
§ 86. Seek bean meal, honey, and the yolk of eggs, form
a cake thereof and bake on the hearth under a pan, with
embers covering the pan ; let the patient have some of this
cake to eat frequently.
« TO AVOID ENEMIES,
§ 87. If one goes to battle let him seek the vervain, and
keep it in his clothes (on his person,) and he will escape
from his enemies.
TO MAKE HEALING PLASTER.
§ 88. Seek half a pound of pitch, quarter of a pound of
wax, half a pound of suet, and powder of gall stone, boil
* Grenn, a measure equivalent to the J of a ton. ''The load of two mon
upon a bar in every grenn." — Welsh Laus.
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these ingredients together, stirring them well so that they
may be thoroughly incorporated ; then it should be poured
into a pot or into water, so that it may be formed into a
roll. This plaster being spread on linen or white kid, is
useful for all ulcers from which there is a profuse watery
secretion.
FOR SUPPRESSED MENSES.
§ 89. Seek rue, and pound well, and express the juice
into wine or strong ale, strain and let it clear, then let the
woman drink thereof, and she will recover.
TO IMPROVE THE HEARING.
§ 90. Seek young ash shoots (of the size of rods,) cut,
and lay on a tripod over the fire, then receive the drops which
will exude from the ends, and take a spoonful of honey, the
ends of house leeks, the heads and stalks of leeks, some
mustard in flour, and a shell full of the oil of eels ; let the
whole be boiled together, carefully stirring them whilst boil-
ing. Let it be injected warm with a syringe into the ear,
the same being filled with the wool of a black lamb, and the
jjatient will be cured.
A PLASTER FOR ERYSIPELAS, AND THE REMOVAL OF
PROUD FLESH.
§ 94: Take the juice of wood sage and honey mixed with
salt and vinegar, mix the ingredients together well, then
add a portion of rye meal and boil so that a cataplasm may
be formed thereof. Make use of this cataplasm in conjunc-
tion with the drink recommended for the gout, and the
patient will soon recover.
FOR AN AGUE OR ARDENT INTERMITTENT.
§ 95. Take two pennyworths of treacle, a pennyworth of
saffron, and a little hartshorn grated fine, put in a cupful of
ale and mix well together drinkino; it for three morninirs :
then seek some sprigs of red raspberries, the leaves of sweet-
briers, wood sorrel, and malt, make a drink, and take a
hearty draught thereof three or four times a day ; whoever
does this will recover.
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AN APERIENT DRINK.
§ 96. Take a pennyworth of stibium * and grate as fine
as flour, then mix with half a ])int of sound ale, warm and
let the patient drink it in the morning fasting, afterwards
get a quart of posset, and in half an hour let him drink it
at thrice ; when it has acted, make a warm drink with
spring water, put some good butter and honey therein, then
let the patient drink it two or three times and he will
recover.
ANOTHER.
§ 97. Take the fruit of the buckthorn, express the juice
and mix two spoonfuls thereof with a full draught of good
ale Avort, let the patient drink it, and if it does not act let
him drink another draught without the buckthorn ; when it
has acted let him take for food some warm oatmeal gruel
made with spring water, mixing therewith some honey,
butter, and unsifted wheaten bread, let this be done three
times in nine days and it will purge from the body all
corrupt humors ; after this course let him live for nine days
farther on milk food and wheaten bread with the bran
retained, alternately with the warm water and flour before
mentioned.
ANOTHER.
§ 98. Take a handful of leaves of damask roses, boil in
the wort of good ale, and drink, attending to the diet as
aforesaid for nine days.
ANOTHER.
§ 99. Take of honey, and the juice of the fruit of the
buckthorn, an equal quantity, boil together on a slow fire,
and keep in a glass bottle well covered, take two or three
spoonfuls thereof when required, and in half an hour after-
wards a hearty draught of the wort of strong ale.
A CONFECTION FOR A SORE MOUTH.
§ 100. Take a spoonful of the juice of sage, a spoonful of
the juice of elder, two spoonfuls of the juice of cloudberry,
the pulp of a hot apple, and three spoonfuls of honey, boil
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on a slow fire stirring continually till it becomes a thick
confection. Keep it in an earthen pot, covering it well, so
that it may be kept for use. When a case of sore mouth
occurs, take as much as a pigeon's egg and let it be retained
in the mouth till it is dissolved, and it will be of service.
ANOTHER.
§ 101. Take elder leaves, honey suckle leaves, sage, rose-
mary, and briers, boil well in as much water as will cover
them, then sweeten with honey and wash your mouth there-
with, retaining the liquor in your mouth as long as you can ;
then eject it three times, and afterwards drink a hearty
draught thereof to cool your stomach.
ANOTHER.
§ 102. Take four spoonfuls of honey, the juice of four
oranges, three spoonfuls of the juice of sage, three of the
juice of blackberries, and three of the juice of cloudberries,
boil on a slow fire till it becomes a thick confection ; keep
in a covered pot, and put as much as a pigeon's egg in thy
mouth, retaining it till it dissolves.
FOR A COLD HUMORAL CATARRH.
§ 103. Take half a pint of the juice of cleavers, and a
spoonful of honey therein night and morning.
ANOTHER.
§ 104. Take half a pint of blackberry juice, containing a
spoonful of new honey, night and morning.
FOR AN INFLAMMATORY CATARRH.
§ 105. Take the juice of cleavers, the juice of water cress,
the juice of sorrel, and the juice of elder, equal parts of each ;
drink half a pint of this night and morning for nine days,
and live the next nine days upon milk diet and wheaten
bread, ground through and through ; let no other food or
drink be taken, and it will be well to take a cathartic two
or three times before this medicine, in order to clear the
system of corrupt humors.
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FOR HUMORAL FLATULFNCE, WEAKENING THE BODY.
AND MIND.
§ 106. Take the juice of apples, raspberries, plums, or
blackberries, strained ; set upon a slow tire, adding; thereto
a spoonful of honey for every draught, and giving it a slight
boiling ; then drink a hearty draught thereof for nine days,
and take for food bread made of highly roasted acorns, no
no other food being taken during the time, and you will
recover.
The best juice of fruit, should they be in season, is the
juice of sloes, and of blackberries. When no acorns can be
procured, dry the roots of nettles before the fire at a dis-
tance, and grind to powder ; make it into bread, and subsist
thereon.
ANOTHER
§ 107. Take a spoonful of mustard seed three times a
day, wash down the throat with good old mead, and subsist
upon a milk diet with well baked wheaten bread ; let your
meals be slight and frequent.
AN OINTMENT FOR THE ANKLES AND JOINTS.
§ 1 08. Take the rhodri, or (as others term them) radishes,
and the suet of sheep or goats, pound them well together
till they become an ointment, then put the ointment in a
pan, adding thereto a little honey and salt, boil them well
on a slow fire, and strain well ; with this anoint the painful
joint, and it will be cured by the help of God.
TO EXTRACT IRON OR FRAGMENTS OF WOOD FROM A
WOUND, AND TO OPEN IT.
§ 109. Take the roots of nettles, goose grease, and honey,
pound them into a plaster and apply to the Avound. It will
mysteriously open the wound and extract what may be in it.
FOR INFLAMMATORY WOUNDS, WHEREBY THE PATIENT
IS PREVENTED FROM SLEEPING.
§ 110. Take holly bark, mallow, the middle bark of the
elder, equal quantities of each, and add thereto lard and
wine in the same proportions; boil well until it becomes
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thick, then take a cloth and spread tlie ointment theri'on,
and spread some warm on a tent also ; insert this in the
wound, and cover it over with the anointed cloth ; apply
some powdery unguent on the wound with the tent, and by
the help of Gud it will be healed.
A GOOD HEALING SALVE FOR WOUNDS.
§ 111. Take oil of olives, or, if none can be-got, some lard
and wine, in equal quantities, boil together well, stirring it
continually whilst boiling; when it has thickened keep in an
earthen vessel or bladder, covering it well. When required
anoint the wound therewith.
AN OINTMENT FOR AN EXTERNAL INFLAMMATION.
§ 112. Take the cream of kine, and white wine or strong
apple cider, or else hard old mead ; boil well together
(equal quantities of each) till it becomes thick, stirring it
continually ; when cold, keep in a bladder or box, and when
needful anoint the part therewith.
FOR BRONCHITIS WITH DYSPNOEA.
§ 113. Take the roots of parsley, red fennel, river star
tip, and pound well ; take three quarts of strong black wort
and boil what is proper of the herbs therein till the three
quarts are reduced to one, then take six pennyworth of
powdered anise, as much as will sweeten it well of clarified
honey, and boil in the above liquor, and set aside to
keep in a warm place ; this is termed an expectorant medi-
cine, and will certainly destroy the cough.
TO PREPARE CLARIFIED HONEY.
§ 114. Take one proportion of honey, four of spring
water, and put in a clean brass pot to boil ; when the wax
and other impurities rise to the surface, remove it with a
bassel* until it ceases to produce scum, then boil on a
moderate fire till the water is completely evaporated, and
the honey left clarified in the pot ; put it afterwards in an
*From Basclanl an ornamental dagger much worn in tlie time of Henry V.
A spatula is llie term now in use.
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eartlien pot, and cover it up well. It is the best sort of
honey for medicine or dietetic purposes.
AN ANODYNE OINTMENT.
§ 115. Take the pulp of crabs and boil in wine until the
wine is evaporated completely, mix rosin, clear honey, and
old lard therewith, then boil well and strain; anoint the
painful part with this ointment frequently, and by the help
of God the pain will be removed.
FOR A BURN OR SCALD.
§ 117. Take the roots of the lily, wash them clean and
boil briskly in water, then mix them well with the white of
e"-"-s, ointment of petreolum, or the ointment of lime twigs,
(or if the last cannot be got) good kine's cream, or fresh
unsalted butter ; apply this to the burn, and the more the
better of it.
FOR A SWELLING, HEAT, OR SPRAIN,
A RIGOR, SUCCEEDING A JOURNEY, OR FOR ERYSIPELAS ON THE LOWER EXTREM-
ITIES ; HOWEVER GREAT MAY BE THE PAIN, REDNESS OR CORRUPT CONDITION OF
THE DISEASED PART, EVEN THOUGH MANY OTHER MEDICAMENTS MAY HAVE FAILED,
THIS WLIL HEAL IT.
§ 118. Take white alum and reduce to powder, then mix
it with spring water giving it three boilings, and should any
scum appear, remove it carefully until none remains, then keep
it most carefully. A pennyworth of this solution in a quart
of water will be enough to make a lotion, Avhich should be
applied frequently to the diseased part with a linen cloth,
and it will reduce the swelling, the heat, the redness, and
the pain. Indeed if you continue to wash it in this way,
any disease even phagadeuic ulcers, or gangrenous erys-
elas will be cured by this water, thus perseveringly applied by
a fire. When the whole is used make another supply, and
observe that a pennyworth of the alum will be enough in a
quart of water ; do this and you will be cured. It is proven.
FOR A SUNBURN OR THE LIKE EFFECT FROM ANY OTHER
HEAT.
§ 119. Take marsh pennywort and cream, half and half,
and boil on a slow fire till it becomes a thick ointment ;
keep it in a box covered.
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FOR ITCH OR PSORIASIS.
§ 120. Take the root of elecanipano waslied clean, boil
in pure water ; when the roots are softened, pound, then
add thereto thick kine''s cream. Mix it for an ointment and
anoint your whole body with it as you go to bed, once in
three days, (that is three times in nine days,) and drink a
hearty draught of the water in which the roots were boiled,
three times a day for nine days, and you will be cured of
the eruption, and will bo strong in body, for the w^ater is
useful to heal and strengthen the stomach and lungs.
AN OINTJIENT FOR PNEUMONIA.
§ 121. Take suet and honey, boil together, and when they
have boiled enough take nine pieces of fine flannel and dip
in the ointment ; let each cool, and when cold apply the
nine to your chest, from one armpit to another, and from
the shoulder to the navel j let it remain there for nine days,
then remove one away daily till the whole arc removed.
When this is coinij on, take wheaton bread ground throuirli
and through, with some pure honey spread thereon every
morning, and some of the same bread with cow''s milk at
noon, then baked apples and goat's milk at night, taking
between the meals a spoonful of pure honey. This by the
help of God will cure you.
ANOTHER MEDICINE FOR PNEUaiONIA.
§ 122 Take the white horehound, and pound well, then
add some pure water thereto, letting it stand for three hours,
then strain well through a fine cloth, add a good deal of
honey to the strained liquor, and put on a slow fire to
warm ; take half a draught thereof every three hours, and
let your diet be the best wheaten bread and milk ; when
thirsty, take an apple, and cover it with good old cider, eat
the apple, in an hour drink the cider, and let this be your
only diet.
ANOTHER.
§ 123. Take half a man's meal of kine's milk, and add
thereto two spoonfuls of pure honey. Take for food some
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good wheatcn bread with this drink three times a day.
Between tlie meals take a spoonful of the juice of hore-
hound, and a spoonful of honey mixed.
AVhen neither these herbs nor any other can be got fresh,
in order to get their juice, then get the herbs dry, and boil in
what will cover them of water in an iron pot, till it evapor-
ates to the half, then express well through a fine cloth, after
this add half the quantity of honey, boiling the second time
till it is evaporated to a third, keeping it in a glass bottle
well corked.
ANOTHER.
§ ]24. Take for your only food a slice of the best wheaten
bread with honey, and for your only drink the breast milk
of a healthy young woman, for nine days without inter-
mission ; then instead of the breast milk, take goat's milk
for another nine days, and subsist upon that for a longer
period if needful.
FOR STRANGURY AND THE STONE.
§ 125. Take the milfoil, and saxifrage, pound with
warm water, and let the patient have this liquor for nine
days as drink, nor let him take any other drink, and by
God"'s aid he will recover.
ANOTHER.
§ 126. Take the blood and skin of a hare and make a
powder thereof, mix with the cider of red rinded apples,
mead, or beer, and drink it with either, but prefer cider or
mead. Let the patient drink this only, and it will disinte-
grate the stone, causing it to be expelled. If you should
wish to prove this, take a spoonful of this powder in water,
and put in a hole made in an acid stone, and by next day it
will certainly have dissolved it.
FOR STRANGURY AND RETENTION OF URINE.
§ 127. Take smallagc, a herb very much like the garden
parsley, having a roast meat sort of taste, rue and betony,
with a quart of white wine ; pound the herbs well, and boil
in the wine till it is reduced to the half, then strain well
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tliroimli a, fine cloth, and give it to the patient at three
draughts, and he will certainly be cured.
FOR A PAIX IX THE CARDIAC REGION.
§ 128. Take the centaury, pound well, boil in old ale and
express well, afterwards bdil to the half, take that with twice
as much honey, and boil moderately; take a cupful thereof
fasting for nine days, and it will remove the pain and
oppression from the region of the heart without fail.
ANOTHER WAY OF PREPARING THE SAME MEDICINE.
§ Vld. Take the centaury, boil well in old ale, then re-
move the herbs from the ale, and pound well in a mortar,
boil again well, and express through a fine cloth, take this
juice mixed with twice the quantity of honey, boil moder-
ately and habituate yourself to take it fasting for nine days,
and through the help of God it will heal the oppression and
pain about the heart.
A VALUABLE OINTMENT FOR ALL KINDS OF ACHES.
§ 130. Take old lard, a he-goafs and a sheep''s suet,
yellow wax, wormwood and primrose, bruise in a mortar,
boil in butter, then put in the suet, lard, and wax, boil
well and express strongly through cloth, keep carefully and
it will ease all sorts of aches.
AN OINTMENT FOR ALL NERVOUS DISORDERS.
§ 131. Take earthworms and the bulb of an onion, make
a hole, and put the earthworms in, then light a fire under-
neath to roast them, after that apply to the affected part,
leaving it there for three uiiihts without removing.
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AN OINTMENT FOR GENERAL USE.
§ 132. Take a gander's fat, the fat of a male cat, a red
boars's fat, three drams of blue wax,* water cress, worm-
wood, the red strawberry plant and primrose, boil them in
pure spring water, and when boiled stuft' a gander with
them, and roast them at a distance from the fire, the grease
issuing from it should be carefully kept in a pot. It is a
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324 PHYSICIANS OF MYDDVAI.
valuable ointment for all kinds of aches in a mane's body, and
is like one that was formerly made by Hippocrates. It is
proved.
FOR AN OPACITY IN A MAN'S EYE.
§ 133. Take a rook's gall and mix well with the white of
an egg, put in your eye, and take a little fine linen and lay
thereon ; do this night and morning, you will surely be
cured.
FOR AN INJURY IN THE ELBOW, KNEE, OR LEGS.
§ 134. Take lard, or pig's fat once melted, f^pread on a
cloth or flannel, and apply to the swellings. If to the elbow
or knee, mix some juice of rue therewith, and it will cure an
injury of the joint. It is proved.
FOR A SWELLING, AND HEAT, OR INFLAMMATION
OF AN ERYSIl'ELATOrS NATURE, OK ANY OTHER KIND.
§ 135. Take elm bark and bruise well, rejecting the
epidermis, boil down to the thickness of honey, remove the
bark, and add barley meal and unsalted butter, boil into a
cataplasm, lay on a flannel and apply to the disease. If it is
supposed that there is a fragment of bone therein, use a
large quantity of bark in the poultice, and it will bring it
into union with the adjoining bone, if it is used with
perseverance.
FOR PAIN AND NOISE IN THE EAR.
§ 136. Take a loaf of wheaten bread (ground through) hot
from the oven, divide in two, and apply to both cars as hot
as it can be borne, bind, and thus produce prespiration, and
by the help of God you will be cured.
FOR CARDIALGIA IN A MOIST STOMACH.
§ 137. Take grains of paradise, and powdered cloves, eat
for a week, and by God's aid you will be cured.
A PLASTER TO REDUCE A SWELLING.
§ 141. Take the tutsan, cinquefoil, vervain, mallows, lard,
and butter ; boil the herbs well in water, then remove and
pound the herbs well, setting them on the fire in the water a
second time, with butter and lard, mix and boil till it forms
a cataplasm, and apply to the swelling, and it will reduce it
without fail.
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FOR TIIK JAUNDICE.
§ 145. Take the leaves which grow on the branches of the
hawthorn and the mistletoe, boiling them in white wine or
good old ale, till reduced to the half, then take it off the fire and
strain. Drink this three times a day and you will be cured.
A DRINK FOR RIGOR OF STOMACH AND BODY.
§ 147. Take a handful of rosemary, a handful of hyssop,
a handful of sage, a handful of feverfew, a handful of red
fennel, pound well and boil in a gallon of good strong wort
made from barley malt, keeping it in an earthen vessel,
covering it carefully, and setting aside for three days ; then
take three draughts thereof, fasting every morning, and
another at night warmed blood heat. Take also a penny-
worth of grains of paradise, a pennyworth of saffron, and a
pennyworth of canella bark powdered fine in a mortar, and
cast a portion on the surface of the drink, doing this in the
drink as long as it lasts. It has been proved valuable
for all pains in a man''s body.
FOR PNEUMONIA.
§ 148. Take a proportion of the sea beet (called in Latin
beta) rejecting the branches and tops, and take three gallons
of pure water, boiling therein ; then take the beet out,
letting the decoction boil, after a while remove from the
fire, and let it cool to the temperature of wort, then pour it
upon some fresh lees (of ale) permitting it to ferment
as long as, it will do so, then give it the patient for nine
meals as his only drink ; then take the beet and mix with
butter and powdered melilot, giving it the patient to eat for
nine meals, and by the help of God he will recover. It is
also an excellent medicine for tertian ague.
FOR AX AGUE,
§ 149. Take a handful of the water flower de lys, three
quarts of j^ood strong ale, pound the herbs, and boil in the
ale till it is i-educed to three quarts, then strain ; then take
a pennyworth of the powder of the grains of paradise, and
boil a second time slightly. Take it at four times a day
before the ague fit, and you will recover.
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FOR THE INTERNAL PAIN CALLED STONE,
§ 150. Take tlie herb called butterwort, which grows' in
meadows and on mountains, its leaves embracing the earth,
and having a blue barren flower, gather your cowl full of
these herbs, and pound them well in a large wooden milk
pail. Then take twice as much water cress, and pound
those briskly, afterwards take a red cock, kill, feather, evis-
cerate, and clean well ; then put in a brass pot, in at least
two gallons of pure water, and boil in the water with the
herbs, till the bones become loose, when they should he taken
out, and the bones removed; return the flesh again to
the pot as well as the herbs, boil briskly the second time till
you find the mixture thickening, and the ebulation ceasing
in consequence of its thickness ; now take it off" the fire, and
strain the whole throuirh a stron"; cloth. Take the strained
matter and set on the fire, then take a half-pennyworth of
powdered pepper, and cast into this liquor, afterwards re-
move it from the fire to cool, stirring the meanwhile ;
administer some of this to the patient with his food and
drink each meal, till the morbid product is found passing
away from him in a dissolved condition. I have proved
this to be eff"ectual in the case of those of all ages. It is
called " The blue confection for the Stoned
"VVIIEX A MAN IS SWOLLEN FROM THE POISON OF A SPIDER,
§ 151. Take nine cloves of garlic, and peel carefully, a
spoonful of treacle, a quart of strong new ale, mix these
together and give them to the patient to drink freely, at the
same time cover him with abundance of clothes so that he
may perspire well. If he can retain this position for an
hour he will escape, even though the integument had be-
come mottled. This medicament is also useful for a person
bitten by an adder.
FOR SWELLING AND PAIN IN THE SHOULDERS, OPv THE JAWS,
AND UNDER THE EARS.
§ 152. Take the celandine, the roots of red fennel, the
heads of leeks, red wine and butter, pound them together
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and apply them cold as a plaster to the part, and you will
truly recover by the help of God.
FOR SCABS AND ERUPTIONS ON A MAN'S FLESH.
§ 153. Take the celandine, the root of the elecampane,
and wood sorrel, boil them in as much water as you please,
till it is evaporated to the half, wash the diseased part with
this fluid and it will be healed.
FOR PAIN IN THE BACK.
§ ] 54. Bleed from the back of the foot near the great toe,
and fillet the limb, havinc^ bathed it in warm water, and the
patient will surely get well.
FOR A PAINFUL ERYSIPELAS IN THE LEGS AND MEMBERS.
§ ] 55. Take the herb called the buckthorn plantain, and
boil in three gallons of water, till it is reduced to a quart,
bottle, then add a gallon of ale, and boil till it is reduced into
a bottle again, finally straining it. Keep it in a clean vessel
and let the painful part be anointed therewith frequently.
FOR STRANGURY AND THE ATTENDANT PAIN.
§ J 56. Take saxifrage and parsley, pound them well
together, and boil with honey in old ale, finally straining.
Drink of this night and morning, and you will be cured in
the name of God.
FOR ULCERATION OF THE EARS.
§ 157. Take the seed of the ash, otherwise called
ashen keys, and boil briskly in the water of the sick man.
Foment the ear therewith and put some therein on black
wool. By God's help it will cure it.
FOR THE JAUNDICE.
§ 1 58. Take the largest apple you can have, and scoop
the eye out, removing the core of the apple with a bone or
wooden scoop, fill it up with the juice of the white ox eye,
(by some called the great daisy) and saffron, then re-insert
the eye in its place, and bake the apple under the embers,
when sufficiently baked remove from under the embers, and
pound thoroughly. Let the patient eat it. and he will cer-
tainly recover.
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FOR A CHRONIC GASTROCKLK.
§ 159. Take the bark of the black thorn, scrape ofl the
epiderniis, and boil the under bark in water as long as
beef is boiled ; afterwards boil an egg hard, and take
the yolk and fine wheat flour, mixing well together ; then
take the third part of the liquor wherein the bark was
boiled, and the mixture of meal and yolk, make bread of
them and bake on the hearth stone ; this should be eaten
night and morning. The patient should carefully abstain
from any other drink than the liquor of black thorn or red
wine, and he will recover. — Philip the Physician.
FOR FAINTINGS OF THE HEART.
§ 160. Take the juice of fennel, and honey, measure for
measure, boil well, eating as much in quantity as a hen's
eorcT niaht and morninjj, and you will recover.
FOR HARDNESS OF THE ABDOMEN.
§ 161. Take two spoonfuls of the juice of holly, drinking
it three times a day for nine days, and by God's help you
Avill recover.
FOR A MOIST STOMACH.
§ 162. Take the roots of leeks, and make into powder by
desicating them at a distance from the fire, and powdering
in a mortar ; take a spoonful of this powder in a good
draught of red wine, and drink it the last thing at night,
two hours after your supper for three days, when by God's
help you will recover.
FOR A PNEUMONIA.
§ ] 63. Take the three following herbs, even mugwort,
tansy, and red fennel, a handful of each, pound well and
make them into a potion with good sound old ale, boil them
on a slow fire, straining carefully, and drinking it cold for
three meals, and by God's aid it will remove the pain under
the pectoral muscle and shoulder, curing the patient.
Another way of preparing it is to pound the herbs well,
pouring thereon tiiree cupfuls of ale or old mead. Having
left them to stand to cool for half an hour, strain well
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through a clean cloth, giving it in three portions to the patient
once every three hours, and by God's help he will recover.
AN OINTMENT FOR ALL SORTS OF DOLOURS.
§ 164. Take broom flowers, or (when not to be liad) the
branches and leaves, primroses, the roots of water hemlock,
the leaves of eryngo, mugwort, and red dock, pound them
well in a mortar, and make an ointment by means of
butter ; anoint the diseased part frequently and it will be
cured.
FOR SOLUTION OF THE LIVER.*
§ 165. Take a little wild tansy, pound well with wine,
ex])rcss, and then drink it three times a day for tiiree
days, and by God's help you will recover. AVhen no wine
can be got, take strong sound ale or mead instead.
Borage will remove the red hue [of the evacuations,] if it is
pounded with wine and drunk. It will strengthen a man's
memory and intellect, being truly a warm astringent tonic.
TO RESTRAIN THIRST IN A HEALTHY OR SICK MAN.
§ 166. Take centaury, and pound with warm water, then
strain, when cold let it be drunk, and it will remove cardial-
gic pains, and cure the patient.
FOR PAIN IN THE FEET, AND SWELLING IN THE LEGS.
§ 167. Take the roots of the dwarf elder, and remove the
bark, boiling it well, then pound them in a mortar with old
lard, and apply as a plaster to the diseased part.
FOR AN OPACITY OF THE CORNEA,
§ 1 68. Take the leaves of the red garden strawberry, and
pound with a hen's fat and unsalted butter, anoint your
eye when you go to sleep with this ointment, so that it may
enter into your eye, and you will recover.
ANOTHER.
§ 169. Take a hen's fat, unsalted butter, and powdered
aloes, boil them together and let them cool, then anoint
your eyes when you go to sleep.
* One of the imaginary diseases of the old humoral pathuloiry, i>nili.i!ily bilious
dinrihooa or dysentery.
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830 PHYSICIANS OF MYDDVAI.
FOR STRANGURY.
§ 170. Take the juico of the leek, honey, powdered
pepper, and vinegar, pound well till they are incorporated,
and administer to the patient in three doses, and it will
cure him.
FOR DYSPEPSIA, STRANGURY, AND PAIN IN THE PERINCEUM.
§ 171. Take two handfuls of tansy, pounding them in a
mortar, then boil them in spring water for the time required
for beef, when they will become a thick mass. Cast some
barley meal upon the surface, mix well and lay upon a cloth or
flannel. Apply this cataplasm to the painful part frequently,
repeating it until nine times ; afterwards take two quarts of
perry, a quart of the blessed water* of rulandus, (or the
emetic water,) add some to the wine as warm as the patient
can take it, and let him drink it night and morning. Do
not permit him to take the warm drink first and then the
emetic water afterwards. Let him follow this plan as long
as the liquor lasts. Whilst taking . these things procure
some ram's flesh, boil well in spring water, then remove
from the fire, take out the meat and let the water cool.
Eeraove the surface fat, make it into a ball and melt, boil
this tallow with some of the blessed water on a slow fire till
it becomes an ointment, the vessel containing it being
covered well meanwhile.-f Let the affected part be rubbed
backward and forward with this ointment. Take some
oven baked or gridle baked bread, and ram's flesh for food,
and do not take any other kind of food for a long while,
for in persevering in this plan you will recover, as has indeed
been fully proved.
TO HEAL A BURN, EVEN WHEN INVOLVING THE JOINTS
OR VEINS.
§ 172, Take the shield fern, (by some called the great
fern,) extract the juice of the roots, (the out side being first
scraped) and mix the same with some white of eggs. Spread
* Aqua Benedicta Rulandi was a wine of antimony, and identical in property
and strength with that now in use.
t This again has its modern representative in the antimonial ointment of the
Lend. I'h.
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in the injury with a feather night and morning, and the
patient will recover.
TO REMOVE A DEAD BONE IN MAN OR BEAST.
§ 173. Take the cucumher, (called in Latin ciicumer)
the hugle, and pepper, in wine, drink this nine times fasting,
and you will certainly recover.
FOR INFLAMMATION OF THE MAMM/TI.
§ 1 74. Take groundsel, tutsan, and old lard, pound them
well in a mortar and apply to the inflamed organ, as an
emollient first, then next day take the ])lantain, and a glove-
ful of betony, boil them with water to the half, lay them on
a flannel or cloth, and apply to the part, when the patient
is going to rest, giving her a cup of wine, and she will
obtain natural sleep that night, i. h. u. y.
TO DESTROY PARASITES ON THE HUMAN BODY.
§ 175. Take rue, pound well, wrap up in a cloth, and rub
the flesh smartly therewith, this will destroy them. It is
also excellent for those hectic prespirations which so weaken
a man.
FOR ANY KIND OF WOUNDED INTEGUMENT,
§ 176. Take the feverfew, bruisewort, ribwort plantain,
common plantain, and sage, an equal portion of each, bruise
them bris^kly in a mortar, and boil in unsalted butter till
the butter disappears, then strain well and keep in a box.
Anoint any bruised skin with this.
THE FOLLOWING IS A POTENT OINTMENT FOR EXTRACTING
EVIL HUMORS FROM WOUNDS.
§ 177. Take feverfew, mugwort, the devil's bit, plantain,
and mallows, ])ound them well and add some unsalted
butter, fresh yellow wax, rosin, and suet, boil well, and the
virtue of the herbs will be communicated to the butter, suet,
wax, and rosin, strain through a cloth, and keep in a box.
It will extract the venom from all sorts of wounds, and
heal them.
There are three wounds of membrane which the surgeon
should not meddle with, even the membranes of the brain,
a wound of the intestines, and the urinary bladder, for they
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sliould 1)0 left to God, nevertheless tlioy will be frotjuently
healed as is often the case in men wounded in battle.
Neither food nor drink should be allowed such patients,
save sweet milk, and woman's milk.
FOR AVORMS IN THE STOMACH.
§ 178. Make a powder of turnips, by slicing them and
roasting them before the fire. They should be ground and
given to the patient to eat cold, for nine mornings fasting,
or at nine separate times, and he will be cured.
FOR THE BITE OF AN ADDER.
§ 179. Take the juice of plantain, of ground ivy, and
olive oil, equal quantity of each. Give the patient a good
draught thereof, and anoint the wound with the same. It
will destroy the poison and cure the patient.
ANOTHER FOR AN ADDER'S BITE.
§ 180. Take the brain of a red cock, and the juice of the
fern, called hart's tongue, pound them Avell and mix well with
white wine or milk. Let the patient drink a full draught
of this, washing the wound therewith, and he will be healed.
FOR A FRECKLED FACE.
§ ] 81 . Anoint it with a bull or a hare's blood.
FOR SWELLING IN A MAN'S JOINTS OR LIMBS.
§ 182. Take centaury and pound well, strain it well in
combination with water through a clean linen cloth. Let
the patient drink it.
FOR EXCESSIVE THIRST.
§ 183. Take centaury, and a little bastard pellitory, pound
them Avell, and express into a strong wort of barley malt,
or let the herbs stand in the wort, in an earthen vessel till
next morning ; this given to the patient to drink in the
morning will remove his thirst.
FOR AN INTERNAL SWELLING.
§ 184. Take plums, boil in goat's milk, and when cold let
the patient drink it in the morning, and as late as he can in
the eveuinff.
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FOR THE RINGWORM.
§ 186, Take some brimstone, and grind fine, also ox
tallow and dock root, boil the root and tallow together, and
Avhen cold add the powdered brimstone and mix with the
tallow as much thereof as will make a hard ointment.
This will destroy the ringworm.
FOR A HEADACHE.
§ 187. Whoever is frequently afflicted with a headache
let hira make a lotion of the vervain, betony, chamomile,
and red fennel ; let him wash his head three times a week
therewith, and he will be cured.
FOR DEAFNESS.
§ 188. Take ram's urine, the oil of eels, the house leek,
the juice of traveller's joy, and a boiled egg, let him mix
and drop into the ear little by little, and it will cure him.
AN OINTMENT FOR AN OLD SPRAIN.
§ 189. Take a handful of ivy leaves, and pound well with
the dung of goats, and fresh butter, mixing them together
well. Lot this be applied as a plaster to the sprained part,
and it will be healed,
FOR A HEADACHE.
§ ] 90. Take ground ivy, pound well with red wine, and
apply as a plaster to the forehead of the patient.
He that will not take food when hungry, his stomach will
be filled with wind and disease, which will produce headache.
Taking as food dry bread with salt mutton will cure it.
FOR ALL KINDS OF PAIN.
§ 191. Take a quantity of broom flowers, water flower dc
lys, primrose, a handful of the roots of red nettle, water
hemlock, the leaves of eryngo, and the leaves of plantain
when in seed, with a quart of seeds,* mix and pound well
with unsalted butter, and boil briskly, strain through linen,
and keep in a covered box. This is a precious ointment
for any kind of pain,
* Probably " the four gicator hot seciis — Anise, Carui, Cummin, and Fennel."
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TO DESTROY WORMS IN A MAN'S STOMACH, WHEN NAUSEA
IS PRODUCED.
§ 192. Take the herbs called honeywort, pound it well
with some white wine, warm some thereof and administer
to the patient fasting for three mornings, and it will
cure him.
FOR PAIN IN THE BACK OR HIP.
§ 193. Take the mouse-ear chickweed, and pound well,
boil it with butter, and strain, then anoint the back with it
before the fire, and the patient will get well.
FOR CHRONIC HEPATITIS.
§ 19-1. Take the root of the melilot, anise-seed, betony,
and elecampane, pound them well with strong wort or white
wine, strain carefully and drink night and morning, till the
pain is removed, when by God's help you will obtain
a cure.
TO CURE DIMNESS OF SIGHT.
§ 195. Take the juice of red fennel, celandine, a little
vinegar or verjuice, an eeYs blood, and a cock's gall, mix
these ingredients toirether, and set aside in a clean vessel
till fermentation takes place ; take some of the clear liquor
and put in a blind man's eyes. Science tells us that by this
means, sight lost may certainly be recovered.
FOR THE PAIN AND SAVELLING OF ERYSIPELAS,
§ 196. Take fern root, and pound well, then mix with a
little warm water, rubbing it with your hands; then express
through linen, and make a plaster thereof with barley meal
and the white of eggs, spread with your thumb on a cloth,
and apply to the disease.
FOR ALL COMPLAINTS OF THE EYES, PARTICULARLY
OPACITIES.
§ 197. Take the wild or garden tansy, and boil well in
white wine till the virtue of the herbs is extracted ; then
remove from the fire, strain clean, and permit it to cool and
clear. Afterwards take of the clearest portion, and put
some camphor therein, and leave it till it is dissolved.
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Introduce some of this collyriurn to the eye, and whatever
disease afflicts the eye, it will cure it. Aristoholis states
that this is proven.
FOR GASTRIC PAINS.
§ 198. Take a little tansy, and reduce to fine powder.
Take with white wine and it will remove the pain.
ANOTHER.
§ 199. Take some tansy, and southernwood, then boil
together well with salt, eat them frequently when fasting,
and you will recover.
FOR AN CEDEMATOUS WOUND OF THE SCALP, IN CONSE-
QUENCE OF A FALL.
§ 200. Take an ounce of bay salt, three ounces of crude
honey, one of cummin, and two of turpentine, mix these
ingredients well on the fire, then spread on a linen cloth for
a plaster, and apply to the head warm ; it will remove the
oedema and contusion. Let neither oil, tallow, nor any
other grease whatever be added to any plaster required for
the head.
FOR A IMALIGNANT DISEASE OF THE MAMMJE.
§ 201. Take hemlock leaves, bruising them well and boil-
ing with fresh butter in a pun on the tire. Apply it to the
breast as warm as possible on a white cloth, and it will cure
it ; or the leaves may be pounded well with some fresh
butter, or olive oil, being spread as before on a white linen,
and applied as hot as it it can be borne to the breast.
FOR CANKER OF THE MOUTH.
§ 202. Take a cupful of wine or claret, and a sprig of
rosemary, boiling them together ; put in a piece as big as
a nut of frankincense, a spoonful of honey, and two of water,
mixing them well together. Wash the mouth frequently,
and it will be cured.
TO PRODUCE GOLDEN HAIR,
§ 203. Take the bark of rhubarb, and infuse in white
wine, wash your head therewith, dry with a fine clean
336 niYsiciANS of myddvai.
cloth, then by the fire, or in the sun if it be warm. Do this
once and again, and the oftner you do it the more beautiful
your hair will become, and that without injury to the hair.
TO REMOVE WARTS FROM THE HANDS.
§ 204. Take the juice of sheep"'s sorrel, and bay salt, wash
your hands and let them dry spontaneously. Do this again
and you will see the warts and freckles disappear. It is
also an useful remedy for eruptions and ringworms.
TO KNOW V/HETHER A PATIENT WILL LIVE OR DIE,
§ 205. Take breast milk where a boy is nursed, and some
of the urine of the sick person, drop the milk from the end
of your finger to the urine, if it remains on the surface of
the urine, the sick person will live, if not, he will certainly die.
ANOTHER.
§ 206. Take the flower of the daisy, and pound well witii
wine, giving it the patient to drink ; if he vomits it, he will
die of that disease, if not, he w- ill live, and this has been
proven true.
FOR A BURN.
§ 207. Take fern roots, and pound well with butter, apply
it as a plaster to the injury, and it will remove the ardent
pain.
FOR A VIOLENT HEADACHE.
§ 208. Take the leaves of foxglove, and pound with milk
and mutton suet, till it becomes a plaster, apply to the head
as warm as it can be borne.
HOW TO PREPARE ANOTHER REMEDY.
§ 209. Take oaten groats, the leaves of the foxglove, suet,
and sweet milk, pound together till the ingredients become
incorporated into a plaster, set upon the fire till it is warmed,
and apply to the head as warm as it can be borne.
FOR THE SMALLPOX.
§ 210. Take quicksilver, oil of turpentine, white lead,
blue stone, and lard, melt these ingredients into an ointment,
mixing them well in order to kill the quicksilver, one
PHYSICIANS OF MYDDVAI. 337
portion bein^r taken in hand (to kill the mercury) when the
other is finished. Long pepper and treacle in sage wine
should be administered in order to drive out the eruption.
A HEALING OINTMENT FOR BRUISES.
§ 213. Take feverfew, ribwort plantain, garden sage, and
bugle, equal parts of each, pound them well and boil in
unsalted May butter, then express through a fine linen,
and keep in a box. Anoint the disease therewith and it
will cure it. If there be dead flesh therein, take some aloes,
or sulphate of copper, or red precipitate of mercury in
powder, and mix with some of the ointment, then it will
destroy the dead flesh, and promote the healing of the sore.
FOR WARTS ON A MAN'S HANDS OR FEET.
§ 214 Take pufi"balls, and pound with salt butter or
fresh, make a plaster, and apply to the part where the
the warts are situated, and it will unroot them.
FOR A WART,
§ 215. Take an eel and cut its head off, anoint the parts,
where the warts are situated, with the blood, and bury the
head deep in the earth ; as the head rottens, so will the
warts disappear.
FOR A THORN OR ARROW-HEAD, WHICH HAS ENTERED A
MAN'S BODY AND CANNOT BE EXTRACTED.
§ 216. Seek the roots or leaves of the spear thistle, and
the white of an egg, mix together and apply to the wound.
It will extract the foreign substance.
FOR THE BITE OF A MAD DOG.
§ 218. Seek some cowslips, pound them, mix with milk,
and administer to the patient as his only drink for nine
days, being first strained through a fine cloth ; others boil
the cowslips with the sweet milk, straining them under a
press, and administering as a drink to the patient, for nine
days. The patient should drink as much as he can thereof,
abstaining from all other aliment for the time.
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338 PHYSICIANS OF MYDDVAI.
TO PREVENT DREAMS.
§ 220. Take the vervain, and hang about a man's neck,
or give him the juice in going to bed, and it will prevent
his dreaming,
TO DESTROY A V.'ORM IN THE TOOTH.
§ 221. Take the roots of the cat's ear, bruise, and apply to
the patient's tooth for three nights, and it will kill the worm.
TO CURE ALL KINDS OF ERUPTIONS.
§ 222. Take some onions and pound in water or vinegar,
wash the affected part therewith, and it will remove all sorts
of eruptions.
FOR NOISE IN THE HEAD, PREVENTING HEARING.
§ 223. Take a clove of garlic, prick in three or four places
in the middle, dip in honey and insert in the ear, covering
it with some black wool. Let the patient sleep on the other
side every night, leaving the clove in the ear for seven or
eight nights unchanged. It will prevent the running of the
nose, and restore the hearing.
A SAFE PLASTER FOR ALL SWELLINGS.
§ 224. Take some cream, (or in the absence of cream, fresh
milk,) set on the fire, adding thereto some crumbs of white
bread, wax, and a little honey : when it has boiled nearly
enough, add a portion of mutton suet, and oil of olives. If
the heat in the swelling is considerable, add some white of
eggs, mix well and apply to the swelling.
A PLASTER TO REMOVE PAINS, ACHES, AND INFLAMMATION.
§ 225. Procure (if you can) the milk of a one coloured
cow, oatmeal, a little mutton suet, and a handful of parsley,
pound together and boil well, then apply warm to the
disease, and it will speedily ease it.
TO DISPERSE A SWELLING.
§ 226. Take the juice of plantain, the white of eggs,
clarified honey, and barley meal, mix them together and
apply a.^ a plaster to the swelling. Provou.
PHYSICIANS OF MYDDVAI. 339
ANOTHER.
§ 227. Seek the juice of water pimpernel, the white of
eggs, honey, and wheat or barley meal ; make a plaster, then
apply to the disease, and it will heal it.
TO REMOVE PAIN AND SWELLING.
§ 228. Take rye meal, white of eggs, and the juice of
plantain ; then apply as a plaster to the disease, anointing it
first with honey, and by God's help it will cure it. If required,
this should be done two or three times.
TO REMOVE A SWELLING.
§ 229. Take the leaves of foxglove, mutton suet, oatmeal,
and milk, apply as a plaster to the swelling, and it will
cure it.
TO PROMOTE THE FORMATION AND POINTING OF AN ABSCESS.
§ 230. Take the leaves of foxglove, pound with wine, suet,
and barley meal, applying it thereto as a plaster warm.
ANOTHER.
§ 231. Take curds in ale, together with sheep's milk.
TO DESTROY FLEAS.
§ 232. Take a hedgehog, roast it, receiving the oil in a
vessel, anoint a stick with some of this oil, and lay it where
there are fleas, and as many as are to be found in that room
will be attracted thereto.
FOR ALL MANNER OF ACHES IN THE THIGHS, FEET, ARMS, OR
ANY OF THE JOINTS.
§ 233. Take a small quantity of broom flowers, lily
flowers, eryngo leaves, and red dock leaves ; pound them well
and make an ointment of them with butter, then anoint the
diseased part therewith, and it will be cured.
FOR THE VERTIGO, CALLED MIGRAN, OR HEMICRANIAL
HEADACHE.
§ 234. Take a live hare, behead it, skin, and boil or roast,
then open the head, taking some rosemary flowers, and
powder the same, put them in the head, mixing with the brain,
and baking or roasting it. Let the brain be then eaten, the
patient sleeping afterward:?, and it will be found really useful.
340 PHYSICIANS OF MYDDVAI.
FOR THE FALLING SICKNESS. CALLED FFLAMGWST, AND IN
LATIN EPILEPSIA.
§ 235. Take the blood of a newly brought forth lamb, who
has never suckled, mix with two spoonfuls of good ale,
and drink it fasting for three mornings. Tliis is proven
and wonderful.
TO ALLEVIATE HOOPING COUGHS WHEN PRODUCING
CEREBRAL DISTURBANCE.
§ 236. Seek a pennyworth of cummin seed, two penny-
worths of the seed of the English galingale, called glingal,*
and the same of cannella ; powder these ingredients well
together, then take on warm drink, and it will be of benefit.
FOR THE MALIGNANT CARBUNCLE OR PLAGUE.
§ 237. Seek a good handful of red sage, a handful of rue,
the same of garlic, pound well in strong ale, or wine, or
good mead, finally straining through a fine cloth, and by
God's help you will recover.
FOR A PROLAPSUS ANL
§ 238. Take the herb called cleavers, whose seed adhere
to the hose of those who iiet amonf; them, and are found in
round grains of the size of pepper on the terminal branches
of the plant ; pound them well and boil in butter till an
ointment i.s formed, which should be expressed and the anus
anointed tlierewith.
FOR THE MIGRAN OR VERTIGO.
§ 239. Get frankincense, yellow wax, and honey, com-
pound tliem well together, then apply in the form of a
plaster to the forehead, and it will be truly useful.
FOR A CHILD WHO HAS BECOME PARALYSED IN HIS LIMBS.
§ 240. Perhaps that he has lost the power of his limbs
from weakness in his spine, if so, take oil of turpentine, and
oil of olives, and mix together, anointing the child's back
therewith night and morning. This will strengthen him.
FOR PAINS IN THE THIGHS, FEET, ARMS, AND ALL JOINTS.
§ 241. Take oil of turpentine, butter, sheep and goat's
suet, boil in a pan well, straining through a cloth. Anoint
the painful part with it well.
* Cyperus loiigus.
PHYSICIANS OF MYDDVAI. 341
FOR A STICH ORIGINATING UNDER THE ARM OR BREAST, AND
EXTENDING THROUGH THE SHOULDER.
§ 242. Make an ointment with thick cream, broad leaved
dock, and nettles ; apply this as a plaster so as to bring it
to the surface. It is indeed a good application.
FOR THE BITE OF A MAD DOG.
§ 243. Take primrose, pound small, express the juice
under a press, and mix with milk, giving it the patient to
drink nine times.
FOR RHEUMATISM, OR STIFFNESS IN THE SHOULDER AND
LIMBS.
§ 244. Make an ointment with butter, rue, frankinsence,
and three pennyworth of the blessed water,* anoint three
times a week for a summer's month, or if it be winter,
remain in a warm room, and beware of cold.
FOR AN INSANE PERSON.
§ 24.5. Take betony, boil in a quart of strong ale, and use
for drink, and you will certainly recover.
FOR A MAN WHO IS WEAK IN HIS INTELLECT OR MAD.
§ 246. Take a quart of red wine vinegar, and half as
much of the juice of celandine,-!* mixing them together;
then take a cupful of a potion prepared from spring water
and betony, (bruised together and strained) the first thing
in the morning, and the last at night. Let the same herbs be
boiled for him in order to strengthen his head, an emulsion
being prepared from linseed, in which the herbs should be
boiled. The patient should bo confined in a dark room.
This is an effective treatment.
FOR THAT INFIRMITY OF THE HEAD WHICH IS TERMED
BRAI.N FEVER, OR FRANTIC DELIRIUM, OCCASIOMXG DERANGEMENT OF MIND,
AND CALLED IN LATIN PHRENESIS. In THIS COMPLAINT THE PATIENT IS HARDLY
CONSCIOUS WHAT HE UTTERS; IT IS OCCASIONED BT WATER UNDER THE FONTENELLE,
PRESSI.NG ON THE BRAIN AND MEMBRANES, AND HINDERING SLEEP AT NIGHT.
§ 247. Get hnseed, pound in a brass mortar, make an
emulsion therefrom with pure water, boiling it as you
do porridge. Powder as much as can be contained in
* Aqua Benedicta Rul&ndi. t Celandine is an active drastic Cathartic.
342 PHYSICIANS OF MYDDVAI.
the hollow of your hand of anise-seed and ginger, let
tho same be mixed with the emulsion and given to the
patient to drink, four times in the day and night for nine
days. The diet should be nourishing, the drink of a tonic
nature, and the patient should be put to sleep in a dark room
FOR INFLAMMATION, ATTENDED WITH SWELLING AND
PAIN IN THE MEMBERS, FEET, AND HANDS.
§ 248. Take asparagus, pound well and make into an
ointment with butter, then anoint the diseased part there-
with. It is truly useful.
FOR ALOPACEA.
§ 249. Take water cress, bruise well and express the juice,
wash your head therewith and scrub it well. The same
juice may also be taken internally, and you will be cured.
FOR HYSTERIA.
§ 250. First take an emetic, then the following dry herbs,
cloves, mastic, grains of Paradise, and wood of aloes, a
pennyworth of each, pound together well, let a portion
be taken dry every morning, and in an emulsion at other
times.
TO REMOVE AN EXFOLIATION OF BONE FROM THE SKULL.
§25]. Take betony, vervain, and rue, pound well with
honey, wheaten flour, and the white of eggs, making it into
a plaster, and applying to the injured part.
A PLASTER TO REDUCE A SWELLING.
§ 252. Take barley flour, and the white of an egg, mix,
and apply as a plaster to the injury.
FOR A HCEMATUREA.
§ 253. Take a handful of each of the following herbs, even
parsley, plantain, and shepherd's purse ; pound thoroughly,
and strain with goat's whey, drink a cupful fasting every
morning. Continue this and you will recover.
FOR AN EPITHELIAL C.\NCER.
§ 254. Take ground ivy, and foxglove, pound well, boil
in stale urine and tallow or suet, strain, and anoint the
injury therewith.
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TO OBTAIN SLEEP.
§ 255. Take eryngo, and mugwort, called orpin, mix with
milk, and form into pills, administering unto the patient,
and he will sleep presently.
FOR AN INFLAMMATION THE RESULT OF MECHANICAL
IRRITATION, BOTH HEALING IT, AND SOOTHING TIIK ITCHING.
§ 257. Get parsley, and pound small, boiling well in
butter, cast a pennyworth of black soap to the boiling
ointment, mixing it well ; strain, and anoint the diseased
part night and morning. It is proved. In order to promote
the healing of the skin, so that it may be white as the
whole skin, get oatmeal gruel made with water, and
apply an oatmeal poultice as a broad cake to the part, first
washing it with the gruel. This will presently heal it.
FOR THE SCROFULA, CALLED BY SOME THE EVIL.
§ 258. Take oil of olives, four pennyworth, white lead,
two pennyworth, frankincense, a pennyworth, blue stone,
and wax, a pennyworth, oil of turpentine, the same,
mercury, three pennyworth, colophane,* a pennyworth,
and lard ; mix these ingredients together, and apply repeat-
edly to the afi'ected part, removing the former previous to
each fresh application.
FOR A SWELLING IN A MAN'S THROAT THAT PREVENTS HIM
FROM SPEAKING.
§ 259. Take bogy's lard, and stale urine, boil together, and
dip a piece of flannel therein, wrapping it round the
throat, use for three days ; but if it be an abcess, put
some clarified butter on flannel, and it will mollify it,
and also prevent it from suppurating.
A PLASTER TO REDUCE A SWELLING, RESULTING FROM
AN ACCIDENT.
§ 260. Take mallows, chamomile, maiden hair, chickweed,
and ground ivy, boil them well in the stalest urine you can
get. Apply to the afi'ected part as a plaster, and it will
reduce the swelling.
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TO STRENGTHEN THE TEETH AND MAKE THEM WHITE.
§ 261. Take elecampane, and scrub your teeth therewith
briskly, it will make them firm, white, and healthy.
FOR A LIVID INFLAMMATION OF THE FLESH.
§ 262. Get eryngo, the leaves of the red alder, parsley,
broom flowers, and the stinking iris, pound them well
together and make into an ointment by means of butter and
black soap. Anoint the painful part therewith, and it will
heal it.
TO RESTRAIN A HCE1\I0RRHAGE.
§ 263. Get beans, or rather bean meal and suet, boil them
together and apply as a plaster to the injury. It is really
useful,
FOR A NAUSEA,
2 65. Get a pint of the juice of fennel, and boil it with a
pint of clarified honey, taking a spoonful every morning fast-
ing as well as the last thing at night, for nine days.
FOR A MAN WHO TALKS IN HIS SLEEP.
§ 266. Take a pint of the juice of betony, and a pint of
ale wort mixed together. Drink, and by God''s help it will
do you good.
FOR ABSORPTION OF THE GUJIS.
§ 267. Take two pennyworth of the blessed water,* of
the distillation of white wine,"|' and of white wine vinegar,
of each two pennyworth, mix them together, and wash your
mouth with the same as long as it lasts.
FOR HCEMATUREA.
§ 271. Take milfoil, and a third part of the juice of red
fennel, temper it with red Aviue, and let the patient drink it
warm, and he will be cured.
FOR THE DYSENTERY AND ITS ATTENDANT PAIN.
§ 272. Take sloes when fully ripe, and dry them either
in a strong sun heat, or before the fire, (but at a distance,)
that they may become so dry, that they may be powdered,
* Aqua Benedicta. + Brandy.
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Let it be kept in a <,'lass bottle, well corked. When there
is a person ill of this complaint, mix a spoonful of this
powder with a pint of good, strong, and sound old ale, strong
old cider, or good old mead, warming it well and giving it
to the patient to drink for three mornings fasting. It will
remove the pain and cure the disease.
Also for this disease get some strong new linen cloth, and
put in it as much in quantity as a goose"'s e^^g of the finest
wheaten meal you can get. Tie up the meal in this new
cloth, and boil in a gallon of spring water till reduced to a
quart; then let it cool, and boil a little with milk as a gruel.
Let the man have this for his daily food. It is proven.
TO REMOVE THE PAIN ATTENDANT UPON DYSENTERY.
§ 273. Take %vheaten bread and old cheese, slice it thin
and boil in milk, mixing a good quantity of pepper there-
with. Make use of this, for it is good.
FOR PARALYSIS OR HEMIPLAGIA, THE BLOOD BECOMING
SLUGGISH AND VISCID IN THE VEINS.
§ 274. Take a handful of the leaves of foxglove, and a
handful of the leaves of red nettles, pound them well, then
boil in a quart of good honey, strain carefully and keep in
a vessel. Boil therewith three pennyworth of the blessed
water,* or distilled wine,-f* or cider ; then take two gallons
of stale urine, boiling it well, and skimming it carefully as it
boils. Take a quantity night and morning, and anoint
your joints well therewith by the fire, rub them afterwards
with the preserved ointment, rest your shoulder on an
elevated place, and exercise yourself in walking frequently.
It is good.
FOR A SWELLING UNDER THE NAVEL, SOMETIMES LONG,
SOMETIMES ROUND, LIKE A BALL BETWEEN THE FLESH AND SKIN.
§ 275. Take a quart of red vinegar, pound a handful of
leeks, roots and leaves, boiling a pennyworth of stale bread
therewith well. Apply this as a plaster fresh every night,
and it will remove it.
* Of Kulandus. t Brandy.
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FOR A THORN.
§ 277. Take betoiiy, (by some called bitton) old lard, and
agrimony, pound them together and apply thereto. This
will extract it.
FOR A POISONOUS THORN.
§ 278. Take boar's lard, black soap, and the yolk of
eggs, mix them together and apply as a plaster to the part,
and it will extract it.
FOR PAIX IN CONSEQUENCE OF A THORN.
§ 279. Take broom tops and a boy''s urine, boil them
briskly, and apply as a fomentation to the part, and it will
ease it. The fat of a wild cat is also good. Take also oil
of olives, and a pennyworth of camphor, pounding them well
together and applying as an ointment to the part.
FOR A WHITLOW ON THE FINGER.
5 280. Take rue, cummin, the fat of bacon, and wheat
flour, boil in white wine and oil of turpentine, mix together
carefully and apply to the part ; when ripe let it be opened
and dressed, it will then heal like any other wound or
contusion.
FOR AN IMPOSTUME.*
§ 281. Take mugwort, and bruise briskly, mix with the
yolk of eggs, apply to the part and it will cure it. There
will be a spreading inflammation of the skin, — a livid hue, —
a burning pain at the bone, — and the tendons will slough
away in an impostume of the finger. Thus is the disease
known.
ANOTHER.
§ 282. Take a snail out of its shell, and bruising it
small, pound into a plaster and apply to the finger, this
will ripen and break it, then it should be dressed like any
other wound.
ANOTHER.
§ 283. Take water pimpernel and pound well, mix care-
fully with oil of roses, and apply as a plaster to the part.
♦ Or Whitlow.
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ANOTHER.
§ 284, Take rue, and wild valerian, pound them well and
boil with rosin and yellow wax, a])ply as a plaster to the
part. It is useful lor all kinds of swellings in a finger or
any other joint.
ANOTHER,
§ 285. Take rue, water pimpernel, southernwood, wild
valerian, a snail, and lard, pound them into a plaster and
apply to the part, changing every night. Others boil the
bruised herbs in lard, adding the snail (bruised and boiled
carefully) thereto, compounding the whole into a plaster, so
using it.
ANOTHER.
§ 286. Take a little sulphate of copper dried and powdered,
mix it w^ell with the yolk of eggs, and apply to the part and it
will heal it quickly, easing the pain and reducing the swelling.
TO IMPROVE THE SIGHT.
§ 287. Boil fennel in water, and wash your eyes with the
same water morning and evening, and it will improve it
for you.
FOR A WEB IN THE EYE.
§ 288. Take a cow's, a hare"'s, and an old cock's gall with
a small quantity of the blue matter formed of rue and celan-
dine. You should have equal parts of each, (the cow's gall
only being in excess,) and they should be tempered together
with wine. Being applied to the eye it removes the web.
AGAINST INTOXICATION.
§ 289. Take a handful of betony and pound well, express-
ing in water and straining carefully ; drink some of this
before you have taken any food or drink, and you will not
get drunk that day.
A GOOD EMETIC FOR THE HEAD AND STOMACH.
§ 290. Take three spoonfuls of the juice of betony for
three mornings successively, put in your nostrils with the
tip of a wing, and it will be a good emetic for the head and
stomach.
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FOR INTERMITTENTS AND FP:VERS.
§ 291. Take dandelion and fumitory, and add to some
drink, of whicli take a good quantity morning and noon,
and YOU will be certainly cured.
TO DESTROY A CANCER.
§ 292. Take a piece of unburnt limestone, black pepper,
orpiment,* called in Latin auripigmentum, stron^; vinegar,
rue, honey, barley meal, equal parts of each, boil in a pan or
pot till they can be reduced to a powder, then they should
be powdered and boiled a second time. This powder is
good to destroy a cancer or scrofula.
ANOTHER FOR THE SAME.
§ 293. Take the root of the dragons,-}- cut them small,
dry and make into a powder, take nine pennyweights of
this powder, boil in wine well and give it to the patient to
drink, warm, for three days fasting, and it will cure him ;
and I warrant him he will never have it again.
FOR DEAFNESS,
§ 294. Take a small branch of ash, a foot in length, putting
the middle part in the fire, and keeping the water proceed-
ing from the two ends ; then take the juice of rhubarb,
wine, and the fat of a newly caught eel, take an equal part
of these substances, mixing all together, and put in the
ears as you go to sleep. It is also useful in these cases to
drop some stale urine into the ears, covering it over with
black wool.
THUS IS A MAN PRESERVED FROM HYDROPHOBIA,
§ 295. Let him not eat cheese, nor butter, nor eg^s, nor
sea fish, nor beef, nor rye bread, nor new bread, and let him
drink nothing but sweet milk, water, or buttermilk, with a
draught of wine or mead once in twenty four hours. Let
him also refrain from venery, and by help of God he will
be preserved.
• Vellow sulpluiiate of Aracnic. + Arum draciinculus.
PHYSICIANS OF MYDDVAI. 349
FOR AS IXCISKD WOUND OR INJURY OF A TKNDON, VKIN,
AnUOMINAL WALl-S, OR UONK, WHEN INFLAMING ANI» Sl'PHL llATINO.
§ 296. Take goat^s milk and linseed, boiling them to-
gether, then take tlie milk of a one coloured cow and
bean meal, mix together, boiling it for a long space of time,
then removing it and applying as a plaster to the part, leave
it there till the next day or longer, and it will reduce the
swelling and pain, extract the venom from the flesh, promote
the union of the tendons, remove dead flesh, disperse con-
tusions, and procure sleep for the patient. If needful some
healing salve should also be used.
TO RE-OPEN A WOUND OR ABSCESS WHICH HAS CLOSED OVER,
AND TO HEAL IT.
§ 297. Again, to the same ointment * add a portion of
wax, rosin, black soap, a small quantity of honey suckle
leaves, and plantain, pound together, boil on the fire, strain
through a cloth and keep in a pot. Apply this in the
manner of a salve, and the wound will be healed.
TO PROMOTE THE SECRETION OF URINE, THE GROWTH OF
FLESH, SKIN, AND BONES.
§ 298. Take a handful of red roses, spring water, the juice
of celandine, honey, juice of hemlock, fennel, tutsan, burdock,
a spoonful of a suckling child's urine, and red wine, mix
these ingredients together, warm them a little, then remove
from the fire, strain and keep. Let this be applied to a
slouirhiuff wound, and it will cleanse and heal it.
FOR AN ILL CONDITIONED ULCER.
§ 299. Take good cheese, pound it carefully, mixing there-
with some clear honey, anoint it frequently with this, and
cover it with cabbage leaves. This will cleanse it in three
days, for it is excellent,
FOR A WHITLOW.
§ 300. Take honey, yolk of eggs, and wheaten flour, mix
together and apply as a plaster to the diseased part as may
be needful. It is indeed a good application.
* i. e. the healing salve.
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FOR A DISEASK OF THE LEG, CHARACTERISED BV GATHER-
ING AND SUPPURATING, RED GRANULATIONS, SPREADING TOWARDS THE TOES,
BEING OP A I.IVID REDNESS.
§ 801. Procure three pennyworth of roses, two penny-
worth of olive oil, a pennyworth of oil of turpentine, a spoon-
ful of honey, a little wax, three pennyworth of red lead, a
little mutton or stag's suet, a small quantity of sulphate of
copper in powder, and a spoonful or two of the blessed dis-
tillation,* or the distillation of red wine,-f- mix and temper
them in a pot on the fire till the whole are thoroughly
warmed. Anoint the disease therewith and it will benefit it.
FOR AN OFFENSIVE SORE.
§ 302. Take barberry, called in Latin hoxus, boiled in ale
or wine, wash the sore therewith and it will benefit it ; or
take the leaves and pound well wdth wine or mead, straining
it under a press, keeping in an earthen vessel on the fire till it
is warmed thoroughly, washing the sore therewith.
TO PREPARE AX OINTMENT FOR SCROFULA.
§ 303. Take yellow wax, rosin, suet, elecampane, and
celandine, pound them well together and boil, then strain
through a clean cloth, and anoint the part so as to heal it.
FOR THE SCROFULA.
§ 304. Take the vervain and pound well, filling some
vessel with it to the brim, add thereto as much water as
will fill it, and let it stand over night, then strain ; let this
be taken as the sole drink. You may add white wine to
the pounded herbs instead of water, and drink of it as much
as you wish once in the twenty four hours. Take this herb
also and pound small, with oil of olives, boiling together and
straining under a press ; after this add thereto some yellow
wax, honey, and stag''s suet, boil till it becomes an oint-
ment, keep in a vessel and anoint the diseased part there-
with. If you also take the roots of this herb, wash it clean,
dry it well, reduce it to powder, and mix it with wheaten
flour in the proportion of a third, in order to make bread,
* Aqua Benedicta liulandi. f Brandy.
PHYSICIANS OF MYDDVAI. 351
then subsist upon this bread and goat\s milk as your onlv
food, you will recover sooner. This is well proven,
A PLASTER TO REDUCE THE SWELLING, AND TO EXTRACT
WORMS* FROM SCROFULOUS ULCERATIONS.
§ 305. Take the milk of a one coloured cow, and oatmeal,
boil well to the consistency of a child's pap, spreading it
thick on a cloth, adding honey on the surface, this will
extract the worms and reduce the swelling, disenvenom the
flesh, remove the hardness, and heal the sore. This is
proven.
FOR HEAT AND INFLAMMATION IN THE LIVER, HYSTERIA,
PAIN IN THE LOINS, AND PAIN IN A MAN'S SHOULDERS.
§ 306. Take centaury, and livergreen, pounding them well,
and filling a vessel therewith, adding an equal quantity of
water and wine; let it stand covered for about six hours,
then strain under a press, and drink as much as you can
fasting night and morning. Take for food a broth made of
mutton, and the following herbs, viz : — borage, lettuce,
fennel, parsley, and a little honey ; let it be your only food.
Make also a lay with wood, fern, or nettle ashes, and boil in
it two or three pennyworth of lard, let it cool till next day,
then remove the surface and preserve in a vessel. Anoint
your shoulders and other painful parts, then by God's help
you will recover,
FOR A BURN.
§ 307. Mix your own urine with cow dung, let it clear,
pour this portion to a vessel, and wash the part therewith.
FOR SWINE POX.
§ 308. It is an eruptive skin disease forming white ves-
icles, from which clear water is poured forth. Take broom
seed and lard, boiling and straining them ; mix two penny-
worth of black soap well with it, and anoint your whole
body therewith. It is truly good,
• These '• worms ■' were generally imnginarv, being only portions of disinteg-
rated structures.
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FOR A WOMAN AT THE CHANGE OF LIFE.
§ 309. Make a gruel with oatmeal and spring water, add
thereto a pinch of cummin, and a pinch of the stone called
cryth,* or in Latin creta, or when this is not procurable, a
lime stone powdered as fine as possible and sifted through
a fine cloth or silk. Mix this with the gruel, and let her
take a cupful thereof each end of the day for a week, and it
will be useful to her.
TO EXTRACT A TOOTH WITHOUT PAIN.
§ 310. Seek some ants with their eggs and powder, have
this powder blown into the tooth through a quill, and be
careful that it does not touch another tooth.
FOR TREMBLING OF THE HANDS.
§ 311, Put pounded mugwort in water over night, and
wash your hands therein. It will benefit you if you wash
your back and nape of the neck with this water, — it will
strengthen you miraculously.
FOR HYSTERIA.
§ 312. Get feverfew, wormwood, and the inner bark of ash,
boil well in perennial spring water, strain, and drink, fasting
for three mornings. This will procure you a recovery, so
that you will not be afflicted ever again.
FOR BLEEDING OF THE NOSE.
§ 31 3. Take a handful of nettles, and put in a cloth to
your nostrils, plugging your nostrils with some of the same.
It is good.
ANOTHER.
§ 314. Take a small sheet of iron and put in the fire till
it is hot, but not red hot, drop the blood thereon, and when
there is a sufficient quantity, scrape it off, and blow into the
nostrils with a quill, and this will restrain the bleeding from
the nose, from a wound, or a cut, wherever it be on a man's
body.
FOR A PATIENT WHO IS BURNT.
§ 315. Take a handful of mallows, of snails shells,
of pennywort and linseed, pound tlicm in a brass mortar,
* Chalk .
PHYSICIANS OF MYDDVAI. 353
and mix them together, so that they bo intimately incor-
l)orateJ ; -ipply this to the swelling or sore, and retain it
there continually, never leaving it uncovered. If you like
you may syringe it with soft water so as to wash it. In
consequence of the plaster, a watery discharge will come
from the nose. It is a good application.
TO KNOW WHETHER THE PATIENT WILL LIVE OR DIE.
§ 316, Anoint the patient''s heel with some hog''s fat, and
give the remainder to a dog to eat. If the dog will eat it,
the patient will live, if not he will die.
TO CAUSE THE HAIR TO GRO^V.
§ 318. Take the barberry, and fill an iron pot therewith,
fill it up with as much water as it will contain, then boil on
a slow fire to the half. With this water, wash your head
morninfj and evenins:. Take care that the wash does not
touch any part where hair should not grow.
ANOTHER.
§ 319. Take two spoonfuls of olive oil, two spoonfuls of
new honey, and an onion as large as a pigeon''s egg, pound
them together in a stone mortar till it becomes an ointment,
and anoint your head therewith night and morning. Wear a
leathern cap till the hair is grown. It is best to pound the
onion well before it is added to the ointment.
TO REMOVE THE HAIR SO THAT IT DOES NOT GROW AGAIN.
§ 320. Take ants with their eggs, and reduce to powder,
mix the seed of henbane in powder therewith, and apply to
the place required, rubbing it on well till the part is warm,
twice a day. This will destroy the hair at the roots so that
it will not grow in that place again. You may mix it with
water so as to form a paste, and anoint the place therewith
night and morning.
TO DESTROY PKDICULI.
§321. Take the gum resin, called olibanum, and lard.
Boil them together and anoint the head, or any oilier part
requiring it. This will destroy them.
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FOR FRECKLES OF THE FACE.
§ 322. Anoint ;yiour face with a hare or bulPs blood at
night, before you sleep, and wash it in the morning with
sonic butter-milk.
TO EXTRACT A TOOTH.
§ 323. Take ivy gum and leaves, burn them into a pow-
der in a new earthen pot, mix this powder with the juice of
the herb petty spurge, and insert the paste in the tooth so
as to fill the cavity. It will cause it to fall from your jaw,
but have a care that it does not touch another tooth.
FOR STRANGURY.
§ 324. Pound mallow leaves and garlick together with
white wine, drink it and in any case you will make water.
HERE IS A METHOD OF PREPARING A STOMACHIC BEER WHICH
IS USEFUL FOR PARALYSIS, SHAKINti PALSY, LATENT AGUE, FULLY DEVELOPED
INTERMITTENTS, COLDNESS ABOUT THE HEART, RIIEUSIATISM, CARDIALGIA, STRAN-
GIRY, HERNIA HUMORALIS, AND COLD IN THE NERVES AND VEINS.
^ 825. Take a handful of rosemary, of sage, of agrimony,
of bedstraw, of hyssop, both the leaves and branches, of
the roots of mallows, of elecampane, of radish, of saxifrage, a
handful of each, pound them well in a mortar together, and
boil in three gallons of strong ale wort till it is reduced into
one gallon, remove it from the fire to cool, and strain through
a clean linen cloth ; take a quart of pure honey and add to this
wort, boiling until it is reduced to a quart, meanwhile skimming
it carefully ; remove it to cool, and take six gallons of strong
new ale, dregs and yeast included, and put in a clean brew-
ino- tub, cover it and let it stand for three days and ni^lits ;
then put in a strong cask, and take a pennyworth of cloves,
of ginger, of grains of paradise, a little fennel seed, a penny-
worth of caraway, a small quantity of the seed of English
galingale, and as much as the whole of canelle bark ; powder
them fine as the finest wheatcn meal, and put them in a
small linen bag, hang this in the cask, (a small stone being
included in the bag to weigh it down) and leave it there.
Drink some of this liquor the first thing in the morning,
and the last in the evening. It is as safe for a man to drink
it as spring water.
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The following are the special virtues of these various
herbs, — the rosemary is a stimulant, the sago will remove
the fever, bedstraw is for the paralysis, hyssop for the chest,
agrimony for the bowels, saxifrage for the bladder, radish
for the stomach, elecampane for the joints, cloves and ginger
for the nerves, pink for the kidneys, grains of paradise for
the brain, galingale and canelle for the lungs and veins. It
is proper that every person should take of this drink for the
cure of the diseases above mentioned. If he should be the
subject of any other disease, let him add the herbs proper
for the same, and partake of this drink frequently. You
will in consequence have a healthy body, a more youthful
look, greater elasticity of limbs, a stronger sight, a more
determined will, more freedom in walking, and a sweeter
breath. This is the best beer of all, and the most healthy
drink in the world.
A GENTLE APERIENT.
§ 326. Take a hen"'s egg, removing the embryo, and mix
with some sound ale, both egg and ale together ; drink it
fasting in the morning, fast subsequently for three hours
and you will be benefited.
FOR NAUSEA OF STOMACH IN CONSEQUENCE OF COLDNESS
IN TOE SAME, THE FOOD BEING REJECTED, AND TUE BOWELS CONFINED.
§ 327. Take two cupfuls of white wine, or an emetic every
other day, take treacle, a quart of red wine, a pennyworth
of mustard, three pennyworth of aloes, boil these ingre-
dients together and keep in a vessel; take two spoonfuls
warm in the morning fasting. Take a pennyworth of pepper,
two pennyworth of fennel, boil them in clarified honey.
The leaves of the fennel are superior to the seed.
FOR A DRY OR OBSTRUCTING COUGH, SO SEVERE THAT THE
FOREHEAD BECOMES COVERED WITH PERSPIRATION, YET WITHOUT
ANY EXPECTORATION.
§ 328. Get these ingredients — a pennyworth of pepper, a
pennyworth of fennel seed, two pennyworth of anise-
seed, a pennyworth of cummin seed, two pennyworth of
liquorish root, a pennyworth of cauella bark, a pennyworth
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of grains of paradise, powder these fine, and boil in a quart
of honey on the fire till it becomes a clear bay colour ; re-
move and keep in a clean vessel. Take a spoonful fasting
in the mornini!', and another the last tliini; in jroinj; to bed,
avoiding meat diet, and eating nothing but food made
of corn.
FOR SPASM IN THE LEG OR OTHER MEMBER.
§ S29. Take a pennyworth of black soap, three penny-
worth of quicksilver, two pennyworth of oil of olives,
frankincense, the vital water called the blessed distillation*
four pennyworth, and boar's lard, compound these ingre-
dients effectively till they become as white as a neck cloth,
let the painful part be rubbed briskly with this ointment
morn and eve. It is proven.
FOR A COUGH.
§ 330. Take a quart of milk, and a pennyworth of garlick,
then pound together, boiling in milk and straining; drink as
you can thereof, and use garlick also with your food. Let
lean and fresh meat be your diet.
FOR ARTICULAR RHEUMATISM, AND PAIN IN THE HIPS OR THE
SHOULDER BLADE AVHEN V/ALKING.
§ 331 . Take two pennyworth of black soap, three penny-
worth of quicksilver, three pennyworth of water of life,-f- a
pound of red boar's lard if one can be procured : W'hen the
lard is molten cast in the soap, and strong water; mix
greatly, and when cold cast in the quicksilver, rub the in-
gredients together till tliev are as white as lawn. Rub the
painful part with this ointment by the fire night and morn-
ing as long as required.
FOR THE PLICA POLONICA.
§ 332. Shave the head once a week for a year, and wash
every night with a strong decoction of sage, then every
morning with cold sea water, or salt and water once a week,
* Aqua Buncdicta.
+ Aqua vita. It was pnpiire'l at this time by distilling ale, t^maU wine, and
tlie lees of strong wine, in which anise-seed hail been mascerated. The same
name has been also given to brandy and spirit of wine.
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anoint your head witli a lien or an et-rs fat ; when you liavo
so anointed it apply the following cataplasm as warm as
possible to your head. Take the whitest fermented wheaten
bread, boil in sheep's milk, add thereto a spoonful or two of
honey, a largo spoonful of oil of chesnuts, and the yolk of
an egg, incorporate these ingredients well together, and
apply as a plaster to your head, let it remain there twenty-
four hours, and when you have removed it wash your head
well with a decoction of fennel and soap, scrubbing it care-
fully. Let your diet be an abundance of milk, and a sparing
quantity of meat, or roasted or boiled apples, witli milk, as
often as you can procure them.
FOR PULMONARY COUGH.
§ 335. Get the roots of mallows, figs, and elecampane, in
powder, make it into a confection with honey, by incorpor-
ating together in a mortar. Take a large spoonful, at least
morning and night, two hours before and after food, and
accustom yourself to a diet of goats'" milk, and apples.
TO EXPEL THE POISOX OF ERUPTIVE DISEASES FROM THE
BLOOD. IT IS IN CONSEQUENCE OF TUE ERUPTIVE POISO.N THAT SCROFULA, TU-
BERCLES OF THE LUNGS, ALL ERUPTIONS OF TUE SKIN, AND ALL PHLEGM OF
TUE HEAD AND STOMACH, WITH MANY OTHER DISEASES OF THE HEAD AND
EYES, COME.
§ 836. Take cleavers,* (which are recognised by their
round seed which adhere to the clothes when ripe) and
pound them well ; fill up an earthen vessel therewith, and
pour thereon as much boiling spring water as the vessel will
admit, let it stand an hour and strain through a clean linen
cloth ; let this be your only drink for nine days. When
cleavers cannot be obtained, water-cress may be used. For
food take milk, and as many roasted or boiled apples as you
can, with the milk, and a slice of wheaten bread and honey.
Do not take any meat save fresh nmtton, or soup made of
the same, cleavers, water-cress, and white field trefoil being
boiled therein; boiled nettles, or water-cress and vinegar
should be taken with the meat instead of bread. It is proven.
* It is remarkable that Cleavers has again come into much credit as an anti
scorbutic. The whole section is worthy of attention.
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FOR DKRANGEMKNT OF MIND.
§ So 7. Take linseed, pounding them thorouglily, and
jnakinu^ a thin gruel therewith (as you would oatmeal por-
ridge,) with a cupful of pure water, pound and mix betony
with this gruel, finally removing the herbs, then boil the
gruel till it has become as tliick as porridge, — upon some of
this porridge cast powdered betony, aloes wood, fennel, and
anise-seed ; let the patient drink three or four spoonfuls
daily, and he should be put to sleep in a dark room. It is
proven.
FOR COUGH AND DYSPNCEA.
§ 338. Take the root of elecampane, two pennyworth of
black pepper, and the same of the roots of mallows. Let them
be powdered and made into a confection with clarified honey.
Take as much as a pigeon's egg the first thing in the morn-
ing, and the last at night. It is proven.
TO DISPERSE SWELLINGS FROM HANDS OR FEET.
§ 340. Take red nettles, hemlock, and sage, with wliich
make fomentation for the patient, surround the affected ])art
therewith, and wash it with your own water daily. It is
proven.
TO RELIEVE CONSTIPATION.
§ 841. Take the roots of the gladwyn, the inner bark of elder
and the juic^of the house leek ; pound them well in a mortar,
and mix them with old ale, then strain through a clean
cloth and give to the patient to drink when fasting. This
will speedily relieve him of his constipation, and he should
not take any other drink till his bowels are moved.
FOR A HCEMATURIA.
§ 342. Take fennel seed and the seed of parsley, or the leaves
when the seed cannot be had ; pound them well and mix with
goafs whey, strain carefully, and let the patient drink a
quart thereof for fifteen days, night and morning ; let him
avoid salt and acid diet, and use light and hot fresh meat
with whcaten bread well fermented ; also a broth made with
parsley and oatmeal, boiled in water. Let this be used and
he will recover.
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FOR UNCONSOLIDATED CANCEFi.
§ 344. Take dog's dung become white, and glass, powder
the glass as fine as you can, mixing the two together with
some oil of olives ; (rancid oil is the best ;) heat them together
on the fire, then apply to the disease, and the patient will
be cured.
FOR A CARBUNCLE OR CHRONIC ULCER.
§ o45. Take a portion of virgin wax, the same quantity
of frankincense, and pitch, with half as much of walnut
wood, pound these four ingredients, adding some verdigris,
grind them fine and put in a pan, melt and stir them well
so that they may not adhere to the pan ; when they have
completely melted and become incorporated, remove from
the fire, strain carefully and apply to the disease. It is
truly useful.
FOR THE FRENCH CARBUNCLE OR PLAGUE.
§ S4G. In dangerous times when contagious distempers
prevail, thus may the contagion be avoided; get three small
branches of rue, as much of the walnut, and a fig or two ;
eat them together and you will be preserved. It is proven.
ANOTHER TO CURE THE DISEASE.
§ 347. Take the foeces of a young child between ten and
twelve years of age, and reduce hito fine powder, then put
two spoonfuls at most thereof in a cupful of white wine.
Let it be administered to the patient six hours at farthest
after he has sickened; the sooner the better it is done.
Many have proved this.
FOR THE CRUSTED TETTER,* CALLED KING'S WORM.
§ 848. Get ivy leaves, pound and boil in mutton and the
lees of stale urine, boil them well and strain, then mix two
pennyworth of black soap therewith, and anoint the part
with it.
FOR HEMATE.MASIS.
§ 349. Take betony and sage, scrape and powder, then
cast a pinch of this powder into an hen's egg, roast it and
* Impetigj.
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cat before it is hard, do this daily for a week or more, and
use some acorn powder with your soup, and drink (warm)
daily till you recover. Let your diet be light, fresh, and
warm, with wlicaten bread well leavened, as it is beneficial
This is also useful for seminal weakness.
FOR SPASMS.
§ 351. Take sixteen figs, sixty nine bees, and remove the
heads, legs, and wings away, reduce the bees to a powder,
and add to the figs, with as much honey as may be needful,
pound the whole together, and make into pills of the size of
haws ; let the patient have one at the commencement of the
spasm, another smaller in the end, — mean while he should be
kept walking about. This treatment should be persevering-
\y followed till the patient recovers.
A COLLYRIUM.
§ 353. Take a quart of spring water, situated in a shady
place, and add thereto as much in quantity as a nut or two
of sulphate of lime, boil for twenty four hours in a well
covered earthen pot, for an hour it should boil briskly, and
for an hour it should cool on the ground, when it should be
strained through a fine clean linen cloth. It should be kept
in a bottle, and it will be none the worse for seven years.
A drop at a time should be inserted in the patient's eye.
AN OINTMENT TO CLEAR THE EYE.
§ 354. Get the daisy, eye bright, strawberry leaves, red
fennel, betony, milfoil, field scabious, knapweed, roots of the
burr-reed, leaves of the honeysuckle, ground ivy, and ver-
vain ; take equal parts of each, and pound well with butter.
Let them stand for a week, and on the ninth day boil them
well, finally straining through a clean linen cloth ; keep it in
a well covered glass vessel, and insert as much as a grain of
wheat thereof in the eye. It should be used for two days
and nights in order to remove an opacity, web, or mem-
brane from the eye. This ointment should be put in the eye
the third night, and it will become clear and bright. It is
proved.
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TO PREVENT SPEAKING DURING SLEEP.
§ 355. Take the seed or leaves of rue, and pound with
vinegar till it becomes a mass, tlien mix it well in old ale,
strain through a clean linen, and let the patient drink it.
TO PREVENT DREAMING.
§ 356. Take the vervain, and hang about a man''8 neck,
or let him drink some of the juice in going to bed ; certainly
he will not dream if he does so.
TO RELIEVE THE PHLEGM IN BRONCHITIS.
§ 357. Take unsalted butter and honey in equal parts ;
mix together carefully, and anoint your chest therewith.
It is a good remedy.
ANOTHER FOR THE SAME THING.
§ 358. Take wild celery, and boil in good wine vinegar,
wash your chest with the hot vinegar, and apply the boiled
herbs to your chest for three or four hours.
FOR A PUNCTURED WOUND IN A JOINT FROM A THORN
OR NEEDLE, THE SAME BEING HEALED OVER.
§ 359. Take the finest wheaten flour and temper with
white wine, then boil the same till it becomes thick, bind
this about the injured part as hot as it can be borne, and it
will open the puncture, extracting the corruption and poison.
In the absence of wine use good ale.
A MEDICAMENT FOR ULCERS IN A LEG, ARM, OR
OTHER PART.
§ 3G0. Take water cress, wash clean and boil in pure
water till they become tender, then pound them well in a
mortar, put then in a clean frying-pan on the fire, mixed with
a stag or buck's tallow, or with mutton suet and a quantity of
the lees of wine, and the bran of wheat ; fry the wiiole
together for a poultice, and apply warm to the painful part.
Do this three or four times as may be needed.
THINGS THAT ARE USEFUL TOR THE BRAIN.
§ 361 . Smelling musk and camomile, drinking wine moder-
atclv, eating the leaves of sage frequentlv, keeping the head
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warm, wasliini;; tlic hands frequently, walking moderately,
sleeping moderately, listening frequently to a little nmsic
and singing, smelling red roses, washing the eyebrows with
rose water, drinking water in going to sleep, reading a little
before going to sleep, and light diet.
THINGS THAT ARE HURTFUL TO THE BRAIN.
§362. For all brains the following things are hurtful;
gluttony, drunkenness, late eating, much sleeping after food,
tainted air, anger, depressed spirits^ much standing bare
headed, eating much or hastily, too much warmth, excessive
watching, too much cold, curds, all kinds of nuts, frequent
bathing, onions, garlick, 3-awning, smelling a white rose,
excess of venery, two much music, singing and reading,
strong drink before sleeping, restless sleep, too frequent fast-
ing, frequent wet feet.
FOR A BURN OR SCALD.
§ S63. Take the white of an egg, lay on a pewter plate
and mix with a little frankincense, rubbing them together
into a uniform consistency ; then take some fine linen and
dip in some oil of olives, the oil of pinetops,* or some other
oil most easily obtained. Apply the same linen to the
part, spread the ointment of white of eggs and frankincense
over it.
AN OINTMENT FOR CONFUSED NOISE IN THE HEAD,
HINDERING HEARING.
§ S64. Take a head of garlic, then peel and perforate it
five or six times about the middle, and dip in new honey ;
insert it in your ear, covering it over with black wool, and
rest each night on the other side. Let this remain seven
or eight days, and it will remove the noise from the head,
and restore the hearing.
FOR A BURN.
§ 367. Take linseed oil, and apply to the part with a
feather, it will extract the fire, and heal the injviry in as
beautiful a way as any other remedy.
* Turpentino.
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FOR THE STONE OR STRANGURY.
§ 368. Take a quart of white wine and make a posset
thereof, remove the curds, and add four pennyweights of the
scrai)ings of white soap to the whey ; hoil and drink thereof
as warm as you can. It is really useful.
FOR RETENTION OF URINE.
§ 369. Take a flint, heat it wliite in the fire, and warm
your drink of strong ale therewith.
A DIURETIC.
§ 370. Take the fourth part of a handful of parsley, and
as much of red fennel, bruise them well and put in a cupful
of old ale, drink the ale and it will benefit you. It is proven.
TO RESTRAIN BLEEDING FROM RECENT WOUNDS.
§ 371. Take the leaves of leeks, pound with honey and
wheaten flour, incorporate these together carefully away
from the fire, and apply cold to the wound.
A GOOD COLLYRIUM.
§ 372. Take rotten apples, and strain with some spring
water ; wash your eyelids therewith, and it will cleanse and
brighten your eyes.
ANOTHER.
§ 373. Take sulphate of zinc and dissolve in spring water,
and when you go to bed wash your eyelids therewith, drop-
ing some to your eyes.
FOR DISEASE IN THE SHOULDERBLADE, THE LIVER, AND
THE BREAST.
§ 374. Habituate yourself to eat nine pepper daily, arid it
will do you good.
FOR ALL KINDS OF HEAT AND INFLAMMATION IN THE
FACE, EVEN IF IT WERE ERYSIPELAS.
§ 375. Take a quart of smithy water, a handful of the
leaves of sage, a handful of the leaves of the elm, or of the
inner bark thereof, and a pennyworth of frankincense ; boil
these together to the half, and keep in an earthen vessel ;
anoint the face therewith.
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FOR PAIN IN TIIF LIMBS, BACK, OR SHOULDERS.
§ 870". Take the blessed distillation,* or brandy, and
slieejrs foot oil, put in a vessel and warm together well, anoint
the painful part therewith, covering the patient with an
abundance of clothes afterwards.
AN APPROVED REMEDY FOR A PAIN.
§ 377. Pound wild celery, and put in some blessed dis-
tillation, or brandy, strain and add some molten boar's lard
thereto ; mix it well and anoint the painful part therewith.
FOR PAIN OR S\VELLING IN THE THIGHS.
§ 378. Take a quart of sage wine, and a handful of tliyme,
boil together, and when lialf boiled add some fresh butter,
then boil down from a quart to a pint, when you go to bed
wash your feet well therewith ; then dip a linen cloth therein,
and apply three or four fold to the painful members as hot as
you can bear it for six or seven nights, it will do much good
without doubt. If you have any brandy or blessed distilla-
tion, add a spoonful thereto when sufficiently boiled, mixing
it well.
TO RESTAIN IICEMORRHAGE FROM A AVOUND OR THE NOSE.
§ 379. Take an old linen cloth, and wet it thoroughly in
red wine vinegar, or if you have not that, then in any
vinegar, burn the linen and apply the powder to the wound ;
it will restrain the bleeding quickly. If the bleeding should
be from the nose, blow up some of the powder through a quill.
A PLASTER FOR A SORE, WOUND, OR S\VELLING, NOT YET
MATURE.
§ 380. Take some meal and boil in fresh milk till it is as
thick as stirabout ; put in a pan with a portion of suet, and
boil well ; mix it thoroughly for a plaster, and apply as hot
as you can to the part.
FOR THE BITE OF A DOG.
§ 381. Take the dittany, garlick, and the white of an egg,
nuikc it into a ])lastor, apply to the wound, and it will cure it.
* Aqua Bciiedicta Riilaiuli.
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TO MATURK CAUBUXCLRS.
§ 382. Take a pint of fresli milk, set on the fire and adtl
thereto a portion of bruised mutton suet, and a handful of
oatmeal, break and beat it carefully whilst boilinij ; lot it
boil till it becomes thickened, so that you may spread it on
a clean linen, then apply it to the diseased part. When it
breaks, dress it with some turpentine on white leather,
piercing it with many holes.
FOR DEAFNESS OF THE EARS.
§ 883. Take some juice of leek and goat's gall, mixing
them well together, drop some of this into the ear, and
cover it with wool.
FOR BLINDNESS.
§ 384. Take some celandine seed mixed with the morn-
ing dew, and pound well in a mortar, strain the juice and
mix it with an equal part of clear honey, boil it briskly to
a third, keep in a glass vessel, and drop to your eye when
needful.
FOR TUE ITCH.
§ 385. Take dock root and butter, pound the roots and
strain through linen, purify the butter, boil the juice and
butter, and keep in a pan, when needed melt it, and anoint
the skin three times, i.e., every other day, and you will be
cured,
FOR A SLOUGHING ULCER.
§ 386. Take black wool, soap, and the powder of baked
beef, pound them together and apply to the sloughing part.
It wall cure it.
FOR PAIN IX A JOINT.
§ 387. Take the crumbs of wheatcn bread, fresh from
the oven, crab apples, betony, and dandelion, pound them
together well in a mortar in equal parts, boil them in good red
wine till they become a plaster, apply to the painful part as
hot as it can be borne, and it will break out in the form of boils.
THINGS HURTFUL TO THE HEART.
§ 388. Onions, peas, cummin, garlick, sorrow, anger, too
much care, too much travelling, drinking cold water after a
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jo irney, and bad news. If a man wislicth health and long
life, let him carefully maintain a merry heart, let him neither
eat, drink, nor do what will harm it, for as the wise man says,
— " A merry heart and all is well."
FOR PAIN IX A JOINT.
§ 389. Take water chickweed, the leaves and blossoms of
primrose, and a flintstone, pound them well together and
boil with May butter ; anoint the painful part with it warm.
Let it be kept in an earthen pot.
FOR A BOIL.
§ 390. Take mallows, boil in spring water and make into
a plaster, then apply to the disease.
ANOTHER.
§ S91. Boil pennywort in sheep's cream, and apply thereto.
FOR CHILBLAINS.
§ 392. Take dry dead leaves gathered from the surface of
a bog, and pound well. Take the white of an egg and
pound with the herb.?, adding some May butter thereto;
incorporate the whole together and apply as a plaster. It
will cure it.
FOR THE TOOTHACHE.
§ 393. Take the roots of the water flower de lys and
bruise smartly, strain through linen, and inject through a
quill to the nostril farthest from the painful tooth.
FOR A BURN.
§ 394. Take fern and pound well with sheep's milk, let it
be ap])lied to the burn with a feather, it should be stirred
carefully before it is used.
TO RESTRAIN HCEMORRHAGE FPtOM A WOUND.
§ 395. Take rue leaves, pound well and apply to the wound.
ANOTHER.
§ 39 G. Scrape off the rind from a branch of broom, make
it into a ball, insert in the wound, and bind firmlv.
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FOR CUTANKOUS ERUPTIONS.
§ 397. Take the leaves of the lily and f;rouiiJ ivy, jjouiid
them well together, then take mutton suet and fry the whole
conbined, express through a cloth and anoint the part there-
with.
ANOTHER.
§ 398. Take oat straw and burn, cover the scald therewith
and rub it. It will dry and cure it.
TO PREVENT DREAMING.
§ 399. Take the leaves of bctony, and hang about your
neck, or else drink the juice in going to bed.
FOR A CANCER IN THE MOUTH, OX THE BROW, OR ANY
OTHER PART.
>§ 400. Take eight or nine leaves of sage, and pound well
with some salt and vinegar, apply it as a plaster to the part.
A MEDICAMENT FOR BLINDNESS.
§ 401. Take twelve grains of fair wheat, and lay upon
some cold clean polished iron, then press another iron (red
hot) upon the wheat ; a substance like honey will exude
from the M'heat, which apply to the j)ainful eye with a
feather.
TO RESTRAIN HCEMORRIIAGE WHEN ONE OF THE PRINCIPAL
VEINS IS DIVIDED.
§ 402. Take a piece of salt beef, both fat and lean together,
as much in size as Avill fill the wound, lay it on the embers
till it is warmed through, and insert it warm in the wound;
it will stay the bleeding.
FOR A PAIN IN THE LIMB, WHETHER ATTENDED WITH
SWELLING OR NOT.
§ 403. Take water pimpernel and mix with honey, the
yolk of an egg, and best whcaten meal ; let this be applied
as a plaster to the painful part ; if the part be disposed to
suppurate it will hasten that termination, if not it will re-
move the pain, and heal the disease.
FOR THE KING'S EVIL.
§ 404. Take the root of the lily and bake under the
embers till it is dry, reduce it then to a powder, and mix
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with goose grease or lard, dress the sore therewith and it
will heal it.
TO REMOVE EXFOLIATIONS FROM THE SKULL OR ANY
OTHER BONE.
§ 405. Take bctoiiy, vervain, and rue, mix them with
wheaten meal and the white of eggs, pounding the wliole
together till they become completely incorporated. Let it
be applied as a plaster to the part.
FOR ALL SORTS OF CUTANEOUS ERUPTIONS, INCLUDING
RINGWORM.*
§ 406. Take onions, pounding them small and boiling in
water or vinegar, let the affected part be washed with this,
and it will heal a scald head or any other eruption on any
other part of the body.
FOR THE ITCH.
§ 407. Take dock roots, bruising them thoroughly in new
butter, and then frying the whole mixing and compounding
the mass whilst so doing. Anoint the patient therewith
and he will be cured.
ANOTHER.
§ 408. Take the roots of elecampane and clean them well,
then boil them in spring water, and when boiled sufficiently,
incorporate them with good thick cream, or unsalted butter,
so that they may be made into an ointment ; let your flesh be
anointed Avith this three times in nine days, viz., once in
three days. Drink also a good draught of the water in
which the roots were boiled night and morning, for this is
an antidote to the specific virus whose existence in the blood
and fluids occasions eruptions on the skin, carbuncles, and
such like.
FOR CARBUNCLE.
§ 409. Take black wool and incorporate it with some
black soap, and bind this upon the disease or carbuncle.
FOR CANCER OF THE MOUTH.
§ 410. Takq the juice of plantain, vinegar, and the di.s-
tilled water of red roses, mix and wash the mouth therewith
frequently.
* Favua.
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FOR AN ERUPTIVK VIRUS IN THE BLOOD AND FLUIDS.
§ 411. Take water duckweed, pound well and express tlio
juice under a press ; drink a cupful three times a day on an
empty stomach. It is truly good.
ANOTHER.
§ 412. Take duckweed, the leaves or the inner bark of elm,
water cress, and scurvy grass, pound them well and express the
juice under a press, let it be your only drink for nine days,
and as a diet confine yourself to good whcatcn bread pre-
pared with yeast and goafs milk ; it is proven. This
medicine and the former one will destroy the eruptive
poison in the blood and humors, also that of the inveterate
eruption called in Latin Scabies,* and every kind of erup-
tive poison in the blood. Pneumonia and numerous other
diseases, more than an ignorant person would believe, are
occasioned by this kind of blood poison.
FOR A BURN OR SCALD.
§ 413. Take black soap or white, and bind to the injured
part.
FOR AN ERUPTION OF THE FACE.
§414, Take best wheaten meal, mix with vinegar and
honey, and apply to your face.
FOR CARBUNCLES AND BOILS.
§ 415. Take wheaten meal refined, lard. May butter, and
sage, pound together and make a plaster thereof, which
apply to the carbuncle till it maturates and draws out the
matter.
FOR PAIN OR SWELLING IN THE MAMMAE.
§ 41 G. Take the bark of the thoniless holly, pound well
and mix with good old ale, strain and administer it to the
patient as a drink ; it is proven that by the use of this the
gathering of the breast will be prevented.
* Scaliics or itcli — Scaliies does not depend upon a virus, hut upon the pre-
sence ol"au insect, — the Acuitu /•"ullicularum.
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ANOTHER.
§ 417. Take milfoil, and an egg (with its shell,) pound
together carefully, and apply as a plaster to the breast ;
it will certainly cure it.
FOR PAIN IN THE LEGS.
§ 418. Take the herb called coltsfoot, (they are like bur-
dock in appearance,) boil them well in the milk of a cow of
one colour with oaten groats and May butter, and apply warm
the painful part.
FOR TIGHTNESS OF THE CHEST.
§ 419. Take hyssop and centaury in equal portions,
pound them well and strain carefully, mix white of eggs
with the strained juice, and drink for three days fasting.
ANOTHER.
§ 420. Take rue, and boil well in vinegar, and administer
to the patient.
FOR HYSTERIA.
§ 421. Take mugwort, red fennel, and red mint, boil well
in old ale, and strain carefully through a cloth ; drink it
warm and you will recover.
FOR A TERTIAN AGUE.
§ 422. Whoever drinks the juice of betony and plantain,
mixed together, will recover.
FOR PAIN OR SWELLING OF THE LEGS, FEET, OR ARMS.
§ 423. Take oatmeal, cow's milk, the juice of house leek,
and mutton suet, boil together till it becomes a thick mass,
apply as a plaster to the painful part, and it will remove the
pain and swelling.
FOR AN EPIPHORA OF THE EYE.
§ 424. Take some black snails, and boil in pure water,
mix the oil which floats on the surface, and anoint the eye
with the same.
ANOTHER.
§ 425. Take lead and melt in an iron pot, remove, and
pour vinegar thereon, cover it up carefully so that the
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vapour may not escape ; when cold and settled, let the clean
liquor be decanted and kept in a glass bottle ; deposit in the
bottle a fragment of elyf* as big as a large nut. When
required, mix it with equal parts of decoction of mallows,
and wash your eye therewith, or mix the vinegar with white
of eggs in equal parts, beating them together well. Let
your eye be washed with the same.
FOR HEADACHE.
§ 42G. Take an apronful of sheep's sorrel, and boil in the
milk of a one coloured cow till it is nearly dry, apply as a
plaster to the head, the patient keeping his bed, being covered
with clothes, so as to cause him to perspire.
FOR A COLD IN THE LIMBS.
§ 427. Take the seed of nettles and boil in honey, anoint-
your feet and arms or other parts requiring it with the
same, and it will remove the cold.
FOR A PARALYSIS AFFECTING A MAN'S SPEECH.
§ 428. Take sage leaves, marjoram leaves, (roots when
the leaves cannot be got) and pound the whole together in
equal parts, strain, mix with good ale, and administer to the
patient. It is well proven.
FOR AN ULCER WHICH HAS HEALED OUTWARDLY, BUT IS
INWARDLY PAINFUL.
§ 429. Take barley meal, the white of eggs, and honey,
mix theui together and make a plaster, apply to the painful
part and it will benefit and heal it.
FOR ONE WHO HAS DRANK POISON.
§ 4S0. Take fresh rue, wash and bruise well, then mix
with white wine, strain and let the patient drink a good
draught thereof.
FOR SWELLING OF THE WOMB, OR HARDNESS OF STOMACH.
§ 431. Take linseed and boil in goat''s milk, applying it
as a plaster thereto.
* I am not satisfied as to what is intended by Elyf, it is usally rendered aloes,
but what use aloes could be of here I do not sec. Tr.
372 rnysiciANs of myddvai.
FOR VMS OF THE WOMB.
^ 432. Take liorso mint or tansy, bruise well, and strain
carefully, boil with old ale and drink as warm as you can.
FOR WORMS.
§ 433. Take the juice of tansy and milk, strain and boil
well till reduced to a third, drinking it warm.
FOR A SCALD HEAD.
§ 434. Take pitch and wax, boiling them together, shave
the scald head carefully, applying the plaster to the same as
warm as it can be borne, leaving it on for nine days.
FOR PAIN AND OPACITY OF THE EYE.
§ 435. Take the yolk of an eg^, fine wheaten meal, and a
little sulphate of copper, mix briskly, applying it to the eye
and it will remove the opacity.
FOR AN OPACITY OF THE EYE.
§ 436. Put the juice of ground ivy in the eye, and it will
cure it.
FOR A RINGWORM.
§ 437. Take the white of an egg baked, and apply as a
plaster on a linen cloth.
FOR PAIN IN THE BACK.
§ 438. Take young broom, boil in spring water, and wash
your back with the same.
FOR DYSPNOEA.
§ 440. Take the strained juice of hyssop, and of centaury
in equal parts, mixing them with as much again of the white
of eggs ; let this be your only drink for three days.
FOR PAIN OF THE CHEST.
§ 441. Take parsley and sage, pound together and apply
to your chest.
FOR PAIN UND R THE SHOULDER.
§ 442. Take the juice of sage, and warm wine, one pro-
])ortion of the juice, and two of the wine, drink it and it will
benelit the jiain under the shoulder, pain of the womb, and
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of the stomach. It is also useful for headache, paralysis or
muscular weakness ; it is proven.
FOR THE BLACK JAUNDICE.
§ 443. Take tliymo, rue, pennyroyal, hyssop, parsley
roots, fennel, the leaves of hirthwort, (called in Latin cham-
oerops) and two spoonfuls of the anise-seed, boil the whole
in a quart of water containing three spoonfuls of honey ;
strain through a clean cloth, and drink blood-warm.
TO CURE A CANCER.
§ 444. Take a cupful of red wine, three or four spoonfuls
of honey, and as much as a large hazel nut of frankincense,
mix and boil till reduced to a third, then strain and put in
a bottle to keep, let the affected part be washed therewith
frequently and it will cure it.
FOR A HEADACHE.
§ 446. Take a spoonful of the juice of betony, a spoonful
of wine and honey, mix with it nine pepper corns, and drink
morning and evening for nine days.
TO HEAL A WOUND OR SWELLING, AND TO EASE PAIN.
§ 447. Take a portion of oatmeal, the milk of a mys-
wynog* the juice of house leek and mutton suet, bruise
together till they become a thick mass, a])ply warm as a
plaster to the painful part, this will ease the pain and re-
move the swelling.
FOR HCEMOPTASIS.
§ 448. Take wild celery, mint, rue, and betony ; boil
in fresh milk, drinking it warm and it will cure you.
FOR THE STRANGURY.
§ 449. Take red nettles and parsley, pound well together,
and apply as a plaster to the stomach.
TO STRENGTHEN THE UTERUS.
§ 450. Take acorns, roast hard and reduce to a powder,
put a spoonful thereof in a drink of good ale, and drink warm
* A cDw which has been a year without calving.
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every morning for a week or nine days, lying in bed for
an liour or two.
A GOOD EYE WATER.
^ 451. Take rotten apples, strain with spring water and
wash your eye therewith. This will clean and clear your
eye wonderfully.
FOR THE TOOTHACHE.
§ 452. Take holly leaves and boil in spring water till they
are tough, then remove the pot from the fire, and put a
kerchief about your head, holding your mouth over the pot
in order to inhale the vapour. It Avill cure you.
A PROVED REMEDY FOR THE TOOTHACHE.
§ 453. Take the roots of pellitory of Spain, wash clean
and bruise well, and form of them three small balls with your
hand, each about as big as a plum ; retain the first between
your cheek and the painful tooth as long as you walk a
mile with moderate steps, and as the saliva collects spit it
away. When you think that the ball has been there as
long as that, put in another and walk backwards and for-
wards for the same space of time ; after that put in the third,
then lie in bed, and warm yourself well, and when you have
slept you will be free from the pain. This I have often proved
and have found to be a present remedy for the toothache,
TO FIND WHETHER THE SKULL IS FRACTURED.
§ 454. If the integument is entire, shave the hair where
the bruise is, and apply a thick new linen cloth doubled,
spreading the w'hite of an egg thereon, and binding it on the
part for a night ; in the morning, let it be removed and see
whether the linen be wet, for if the linen be moist and wet,
there, certainly the skull is fractured.
FOR FLATULENCE OF STOMACH.
§ 455. Take wild carrot's seed and make into pills of the
size of peas by means of honey, take four every morning and
evening for three days.
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FOR SORE LIPS.
§ 456. Take the root of the knapweed and pound well,
adding some cold milk cream thereto, and mixing carefully,
straining through a clean cloth. Anoint your lips with this
salve.
TO PROVOKE AN APPETITE.
§ 457. Boil centaury in clear spring water, and let the
sick person drink nine spoonfuls thereof fasting for three
days, and it will help him.
FOR EVERY KIND OF VENOMOUS BITE.
§ 458. Take plantain leaves and drink their juice, take
also the yew, and celandine in equal parts, and pound well
together, tempering them Avitli stale urine, then apply to
the wound and it will ease the pain, reduce the swelling,
and extract the venom.
FOR THE BITE OF A MAD DOG.
§ 459. Take a handful of betony, a handful of wild sage,
a handful of bitter night shade, and a cupful of standing
water, pound the herbs well mixed with the water, and
strain, mix a pennyworth of treacle therewith, and let the
patient drink it two or three mornings. It is proven.
FOR AN INFLAMED EYE.
§ 460. Seek cream, and as much again of the white of
eggs, then dip a linen cloth of the size of the eye therein,
and apply thereto.
TO HINDER INEBRIETY.
§ 461. Take a handful of bctony, bruise well, mix with
spring water, and strain carefully ; let it be drank fasting,
and you will not get drunk that day.
A GOOD EMETIC FOR THE HEAD AND STO.MACH.
§ 462. Take three spoonfuls of the juice of betony for
three successive mornings, and inject it through a quill into
the nostril.
FOR PAIN IN THE LIMBS.
§ 463. Take a handful of the herb called colt's foot, and as
much of the leaves of burdock, pound and mix with the
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milk of a one coloured cow, oaten groats and butter being
added, the whole being boiled well, and applied as a plaster
to the painful parts as hot as you can bear it ; it will ease it.
FOR THE SAME THING.
§ 464. Procure the same herbs, and wrap them (unbruised)
about your feet night and day ; they will extract the
poisonous water from your feet. At other times brown
paper should be used in the same way instead of a hose ; it
is proven.
FOK THE CHILBLAINS OR PUSTULAR ULCERATIONS ON
THE FEET AND HEELS.
§ 465. Take hot wax Avhen combs are strained, and im-
merse your feet therein as hot as you can suffer it, stand
therein a long while and you will be cured. It will absorb
the purulent matter.
TO REDUCE SWELLINGS OF THE WOMB.
§ 466. Take mercurial ointment, and May butter, or the
lard of pigs slaughtered in that month, also wax and rosin,
melting therewith orpine bruised, in equal proportions, onlv
minding that the butter or lard should exceed the wax and
rosin in quantity ; let them be boiled well and strained.
With this ointment anoint the side in which the pain is
situated, by rubbing it up and down as hard as you can.
It is proven.
FOR CONSTIPATION
§ 467. Take the roots of gladwyn, pound them as you
would garlic with good old ale, letting it stand aside a space of
tiuie, straining, and warming as a potion for the patient; it
will certainly act as a laxative, for it is proven.
FOR A BOIL ON THE BACK, WHEN THE SKIN IS ABRADED.
§ 468. Take a quart and a half of the best ale you can
obtain, and boil it to a spoonful ; it is a good ointment for
all sores of the back, being spread on new linen, and applied
thereto ; the use of this will extract the impurity. Then
dress it with a healins: ointment. If there is a swellin2,- in
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the leg, get the leaves of foxglove, bruise and apply thereto,
covering the leaves with potter''s clay. It is good.
ANOTHER TO REDUCE THE SWELLING, AND EXTRACT
THE POISON.
§ 469. Dress the ulcerated part with clarified honey, and
it will benefit it.
FOR MENORRHAGIA.
§ 470. Take the inner bark of the black thorn, rejecting
the outer, and pound it well in the milk of a one coloured
cow; this mixture being administered to the woman, will
certainly be of use to her.
ANOTHER.
§ 471. Take archangel, and pound well with strong red
wine, straining it carefully ; let this be given the woman
to drink night and morning freely. The use thereof will be
of great benefit to her. The archangel should be kept dry
for winter, being taken as a powder then ; a spoonful in
in the wine warmed, as warm as it can be drank. The root
pounded with the wine and strained is also useful, or the
powder may be taken with the wine ; the herb should be
grown in a garden apart from other plants.
FOR A THORN.
§ 472. Take common soap, apply to the part and it will
draw it well. Leave on till it is extracted.
FOR A SICK ANIMAL.
§ 473. Take black soap and boil in ale, let it be given the
animal and it will purge him.
FOR INFLAMMATION OF THE BREAST.
§ 474. Take plantain leaves and lard, pound them together
and apply to the part.
FOR A SWELLING OF THE STOMACH.
§ 475. Take goafs whey, and pound the herbs called
ramsons, mixing together and straining. Let it be yuur
only drink for three days.
3 c
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FOR RETENTION OF URINE.
§ 47G. Take red nettles and parsley, pound them into a
plaster together, and apply to the perineum.
A GOOD HABIT FOR THE PRESERVATION OF HEALTH.
§ 477. Whatever sex you be, wash your face, hands, &c.,
with cold water every morning, scrubbing thera well after-
wards; wash your back and nape of the neck once a week
also, scrubbing them well afterwards with a coarse cloth.
TO DESTROY A WORM LODGED IN A MAN'S FLESH.
§ 478. Take the lard of a red pig, May butter, sage, and
acorns, pound them well togelher till they become an oint-
ment, and apply the same to the part.
ANOTHER.
§ 479. Take the juice of sage, and a little of the distillation
of wine,* anoint the part where the worm is lodged, and it
will kill it.
FOR BLEEDING OF THE NOSE.
§ 480. Take an e^^g shell and receive the blood in the
same, then set on the fire to bake till it becomes a powder ;
blow this powder into the nostrils, and it will stop the
bleeding. It is proven.
FOR INFLAMMATION OF THE MAMM^.
§ 481. Take the bark of the -thornless holly, and pound
well, mixing it with good old ale, and straining; let this be
administered to the patient and no doubt she will be cured.
It is an approved remedy, and will prevent the formation of
an abscess in the breast.
ANOTHER.
§ 482. Take yarrow, and an egg, shell and all, pounding
them together, and applying to the breast. It will not fail
to cure it.
FOR AN ACUTE PAIN IN ANY PART OF THE BODY.
§ 483. Take the lees of wine in the cask, half a gallon,
the same quantity of the lees of good old ale, a ^ffiol h\\\f
* Spirit of Wine or Brainly.
+ Sec about this measure at the end of the Voltinie. Lit. a cii|'ful.
PHYSICIANS OF MYDDVAI. 370
of wheat bran, and the roots of the ciiiqucfoil ; boil well,
pound the herbs carefully, then boil the whole together till
the mass becomes tough ; the more it is boiled, the better the
plaster will bo. Let this be aj)plied to the painful part, and
with God's help you will certainly bo cured. It is proven.
FOR GASTRODYNIA.
§ 484. Take camomile, bruise well, and boil in a pint of
wine till it is reduced to the half; let it be given to the
patient, and he will certainly recover.
ANOTHER.
§ 485. Take wild carrots, and infuse in as much as will
cover it of water, using it for drink. It is proven.
TO HEAL A BRUISE, AND TO DRAW WATER FROM THE
l.NJURED PART, OR FROM THE BRUISED BONES, AXD DISPERSE THE SWELLING
RESULTING FROM THE SUPERABUNDANCE OF HUUOR, TAINTED BLOOD, OU
CORRUPTED FLESH.
§ 486. Take half a pound of mutton suet, and half a
pennyworth of black soap, melt together, and add six eggs
well beaten, yolk and white together, the whole being well
mixed. Eemove the mass from the fire to cool, mix it well
and spread on a cloth carefully. Let this be applied to the
injury daily or every other day till it is cured.
TO DRAW HUMOR OR TAINTED BLOOD FROJI A BRUISE
OF THE SCALP.
§ 487. Wash your mouth clean, and anoint your head with
oil of olives, letting some of it drop into the cars. Let this
plan be followed for eight days, and you will be cured.
FOR HAZE OF THE EYE CALLED THE ONGLE.*
§ 488. Take pepper and reduce to powder, mix with the
marrow of the wing bones of an old goose, and bind up in a
linen cloth, burning it upon a bake stone, till it can be
reduced into fine powder. Let this be blown into the eye
till it is cured.
* UnvJt.
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AXOTIlElt.
§ 489. Take the flowers of the hawthorn, and the willow,
making a distillation of them, use this night and moruin",
for it is useful for inflamed, painful, and watery eyes.
ANOTHER.
§ 490. Inject the juice of the celandine into your eye
through a quill twice a day.
FOR THE ITCH.
§ 491. Take the leaves of the betony, pound and strain
the juice, rub the skin well with the same night and morn-
ing for nine days. It will cure it.
FOR A CONTUSION OF THE HEAD, OR A FALL, FRACTURING
THE SKULL, AND LACERATING THE BRAIN.
§ 492. Take betony and pound briskly in a mortar, then
boil Avell in the lees of red wine, let this be applied as a
plaster to the head. This will cool the head, and bind the
bones together.
FOR A PAIN OF THE NATURE OF CARDIALGIA OR
STRANGURY.
§ 493. Take clean oats, and fry in unsalted butter till they
are browned ; apply to the painful part upon a cloth, and it
will be most certainly cured.
FOR ERYSIPELAS.
§ 494. Take the dung of geese feeding on grass, hartwort,
daisy, betony, and unsalted May butter, pound together,
boil on the fire and strain ; let it be kept in a clean vessel,
and the patient anointed therewith. It will cure him.
TO STRENGTHEN THE LUNGS, THROAT, AND CHEST.
§ 495. Get red fennel, and the top of hyssop bruised, also
mallows, which boil in perennial spring water. Let the
patient drink the same and he will certainly recover.
FOR THE BITE OF A MAD DOG.
§ 496. Boil wild sage in as much as will cover it of ale or
water ; let it be used as ordinary drink for nine days.
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FOR ALL KINDS OF HURTFUL ACHES IX WHATEVER WAV
THEY COME.
§ 497. Get parsley, plantain, daisy, garlic, and grains of
Paradise, pound well in a mortar, strain and take the juice
in ale. If the patient can obtain beef, he should not cat it
when ho recovers.
FOR HOARSENESS.
§ 498. Take mugwort, red nettles, and plantain, boil them
well in goat's whey ; let a cupful thereof be drank every
morning, and it will cure you.
FOR HOOPING COUGH AND BRONCHITIS.
§ 499. Take ground ivy in milk and water, and admin-
ister to the patient every morning fasting, and in the
evening. It will cure him.
FOR A COUGH.
§ 500. Take a handful of white sage, pounding it well
in a mortar, mixing with good old ale, and straining care-
fully under a press ; make a posset of this ale, using the
clear part, and you wnll be cured,
ANOTHER FOR THE COUGH.
§ 501. Take powder of orpimcnt, and hard boiled eggs,
twice a day for thirteen days, and you will recover.
ANOTHER.
§ 502. Take the fat of a duck and of a hen, with the
marrow of a fresh bone, make them into an ointment, and
anoint your chest therewith, but not your stomach, then you
will be cured.
FOR AN ERUPTION OF THE HEAD IN CONSEQUENCE OF
SUMMER HEAT.
§ 503. First get the Ices of good strong ale, rosin, and rye
meal, make three plasters thereof, and apply to your head for
a week each, then wash it with stale urine, scrape it well
remove all the loose hair, bleed if the countenance is flushed,
between each application, then get white of eggs and rye
meal, and make three plasters, three times, washing the
head clean after each application. This being done get
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elecampane root, dock root, fumitory, and the herb Robert,
pound together, boil them with ox taUow, and .strain
carefully ; when cold get sulphate of copper, and a portion
of sulphur, reduce the same to fine powder and mix with
the strained ointment; incorporate the whole well with a
spatula, stirring it from the centre till it becomes like thick
honey, anoint the head well with this, then get butter and
the above mentioned herbs of the earth, (not the powder of
minerals), make an ointment thereof, and anoint therewith.
It will cure it.
HERE IS A MEDICAMENT FOR A MAN WHO HAS AN ERUPTION
OF THE HEAD, WHICH HAS PROVED INTRACTABLE.
§ 504. Get pitch and fresh wax, melt together, and apply
as a plaster, as warm as can be borne, leaving it unchanged
for nine days.
ANOTHER.
§ 505. Take sulphur and mercury, incorporate together
with roasted garlic and fresh lard, mixing them well ; with
this anoint your head.
ANOTHER.
§ 506. Take two handfuls of crown imperial, (called
petilius in Latin) before it is in flower, boil in a'pot of strong
whey till it is reduced to the half ; then wash your head
therewith warm, scrubbing the scabs away. Again make a
plaster of crown imperial, and apply to your head warm,
leaving it there a night and a day, when it should be re-
moved, a plaster being afterwards prepared with rye meal
and spring water, applied on a linen cloth over the dis-
eased part, leaving it on three days and nights ; then it
should be removed and the head washed with stale urine,
the head being scraped to the flesh. Then take a red onion
and make into a plaster, boiling and tempering with the
juice of mountain mint and the lard of an old boar. This
practice will cure it.
ANOTHER.
§ 507. Take pitch and wax, equal parts, melt them to-
gether and pour into a box, letting it stand in water till
PHYSICIANS OF MYDDVAI. 383
cold, scrub the head, and wash as directed above, then take
a linen, apply to the head, and then apply another upon
that ; then take a portion from the box, reduce to powder
and spread upon the linen, after this apply another linen,
and then a bandage about the forehead and all, so that the
powder be not lost, letting it remain there seven or eight
days ; each time you change it, the head should be washed
as before said. When you perceive that this process is no
longer needed, take the fat which is obtained from the feet
of rVCTrtCSl when boiled, blow it from the surface of the
water wherein they are boiled into another vessel, preserving
it in a box, and anointing the head therewith till it is well.
It is proven.
TO PROMOTE THE GROWTH OF HAIR.
§ 508. Shave the head clean with a razor, and take honey
with the juice of onions in equal parts, anointing and scrub-
bing the head well with the same every morning and night;
the head should be washed with the distilled water of honey.
It is proven.
ANOTHER.
§ 509. Shave the head carefully, anoint with honey, and
sprinkle the powder of molliputts upon it.*
TO CURE BILIOUSNESS, OTHERWISE CALLED HYPOCHONDRIA-
SIS, OR DISEASE OF THE BILE.
§ 510. Take male fern, (the best is that Avliich grows upon
the oak,) boiling it in strong ale wort, and drinking a hearty
draught thereof every other day, for eight days, subsisting
meanwhile upon a corresponding diet, consisting of fresh
meat, avoiding vegetables, and preferring well baked wheaten
bread, your drink being good wine, or ale, and milk mixed
in equal quantity, partaken of temperately. I'ake also
caraway seed in powder, fennel seed, wild carrot seed, anise
seed, canella, and such dry herbs mixed with your drink,
walk hard daily, and amuse yourself with song and harp,
* Lycopenlon Rovista.
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another being the performer, not yourself. By following
this plan you will (by God's help) recover.
TO RELIEVE NAUSEA OF THE STOMACH.
§ 511. Take an infusion of the blood red pink, called in
Latin cariophilum major* mixed with honey, the powder of
anise seed, and the powder of fennel, being sprinkled there-
on, a good draught should be taken night and morning, and
the flowers should be kept dry so that they may be at hand
at all times.
A PLASTER TO REDUCE A SWELLING THE RESULT OF A
WOUND, BLOW OR OTHER INJURY TO A MAN'S BODY, OR ON A MEMBER
WHERE THE SWELLING CONCEALS THE INJURY.
§512. Take a handful of the leaves of smallage, (called
in Latin oleoselinon) fine wheaten meal, and the white of
four eggs, pound them well in a mortar, beating the white
of eggs till it becomes thin, then adding the meal thereto,
let the whole be mixed for a plaster, and applied to the part,
and it will reduce the swelling completely, till the nature
of the injury can be plainly discovered.
FOR THE DROPSY, IN LATIN CALLED HYDROPS.
§ 513. Take fresh dough, and make thereof a large pie so
that a goose or two capons at least may lie therein, and fill
the same with the following salutary herbs, even two liand-
fuls of sage, two haudfuls of dwarf elder, one handful of
betony, a handful of water cress, a handful of hart''s tongue,
a handful of parsley or smallage roots bruised, half a hand-
ful of hyssop, and half a handful of columbine, (called in
Latin aqilegia) ; let all these herbs save the parsley be put
in the cavity of the pie, then get an ounce of the powdered
rootlets of leeks, an ounce of powdered anise seed, two ounces
of powdered marsh mallows, put the whole in the above
cavity, covering them w^ell with dough ; this pie being put in
a hot oven for the time required for bread, and baked well,
should be taken out, divided in four parts, put in an earthen
pot of sufficient capacity whilst still hot, and two gallons of
* Diantlius Carvophjlus or Clove I'iiik.
PHYSICIANS OF MYDDVAI. 385
strong old alo, racked carefully from the lees poured thereon ;
cover the vessel carefully, and leave it to macerate for a
night, and from henceforth drink a fair quantity of the same
three times a day, morning, noon, and night. This pution
will prove a more effective diuretic to thee than anything
else, a little hroom ash being mixed therewith. Let it be
drank as directed, and it will preserve thee from the dropsy,
for it is proven.
THE WAY TO PREPARE BROOM ASH, WHICH IS EXCEEDINGLY
USEFUL 1-OR DROPSY AND STRANGURY, liKIXG MIXED WITH DRINK OF LIKH
NATURE, OR MADE INTO A CONFECTION WITH HONEY, OR INTO UGLUSES ; NO
LFSS THAN FOUR OF THE BOLUSES, OR AN EQUAL QUANTITY OF CONFECTION
BEING TAKEN NIGHT AND MORNING.
§ 514. Take a large sheet of iron, or a bake-stone, heat
it to a red heat, and put fresh broom (in full seed is best)
thereon, turning them about well, that they may so burn,
as to afford you a sixpenny cupful of ashes. The vessel in
which it is kept should be covered carefully, so that no air
can get into it or from it ; when it is required, let a spoonful
thereof be taken mixed with a good draught of strong old
ale, good old mead, or good white wine.
FOR ACUTE ERYSIPELAS ATTENDED WITH SWELLING, HEAT,
AND BURNING IN A JOINT OR OTHER MEMBER.
§ 515. Take barley meal, and well made butter, moderate-
ly salted as if for eating, mix them together gradually in
equal portions, and keep in a clean well covered vessel as
long as you wish. Let some of this be spread on a cloth or
linen and applied to the affected part ; should it ferment it
ought to be worked with a wooden spatula, or if it becomes
hard, tempered with white of eggs ; from the use of it you
Avill recover through God's help. It is proven.
FOR A MALIGNANT ERUPTION.
§ 516. Take glass, powder and mix with black soap, then
ap})ly frequently to the part, and it will certainly heal it.
FOR ANY STIFF OR SAVOLLEN ERYSIPELAS OF AN ACUTE
NATURE BEGLXNING IN A MAN'S LLMBS OUTBACK.
§ 51 7. Take hemlock, mudwort, marsh mallows, red fennel,
and the flowers of the water lily if you can obtain them,
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or if not the common mallow, bruise them between your
hands, and boil in the urine of the sick person for a
lon^' time, then put some uusalted butter therein, and boil
briskly, remove from the fire and wash the affected part there-
with whilst hot ; apply the herbs also as a plaster thereto
on a cloth, leaving them a night ; then warm again and
apply thereto a second time, and continue this application
till it is cured. The patient's own water is better than that
of another man least he should be diseased, and the use
thereof will certainly cure him.
FOR THE ITCH ON A MAN, BEING A WATER THAT WILL CURE
IT ON WHATEVER PART OF THE BODY IT BE.
§ 518. Take a bottle full of pure water, and put in a clean
vessel on the fire, then take some aloes and an ounce of
sulphate of copper, adding it to the water, boiling it well
and removing it from the fire to clear ; afterwards put it in
an earthen pot and cover it well. When wanted, warm
some thereof, and wash the part with a cloth. It will cure
you and dry the eruption, so that it will fade away.
FOR PARALYSIS.
§ 519. Take a few bay leaves, wild sage, wild straw-
berries, brookweed, the leaves of honeysuckle, and rosemary,
pound them in a mortar separately, mix with lard, divide
into small balls, put in an earthen pot for ten days, then in
a pan, bruising them well, warm them over the fire mixed
with May butter or animal oil, and strain whilst hot through
a cloth. It should bo kept in a glass vessel and warmed by
the fire when about to be used, which should be night and
morning; by God's help it will cure the patient. It is proven,
FOR THE GOUT, CHARACTERIZED BY SWELLING AND AGON-
ISING PAIN IN THE JOINTS, FEET, HANDS, AS WELL AS THE STOMACH, THIGHS,
AND THE HEAD, INDUCED BY THE DESICCATION ON THE HUMOURS INTO A
CALCAREOUS EARTH. ThIS COMPLAINT IS CALLED ArthrilU* IN LATIN.
§ 520. Take the juice of tansy and clarified honey, equal
parts of each ; if the complaint be hot, fry the ingredients
*" Gout (remarks Good) is one of the maladies wkich seems to have been
common to England in its earliest ages of barbarism. It is frcriucnlly noticed
PHYSICIANS OF MYDDVAI. 387
in a pan, keep carefully (but if cold, tlicu lot tlic remedy be
also cold) and spread on a fine flannel, and let it be apjdied to
the painful part. It is a good and proven remedy, as I can
witness, for a woman lay bed ridden for four years of this
disease, and she was restored in a month by the use of this
remedy.
ANOTHER REMEDY.
§ 521. Take a portion of rue, of coarse salt, of the white and
yolk of an egg, and a little black soap ; let the rue and salt
be bruised together in a mortar, the egg and black soap
being added thereto, mixing the whole well together. Apply
it as a plaster to the affected part, and it will be cured.
ANOTHER FOR THE SAME DISEASE.
§ 522. Get one or two onions, and roast thorougly before
the fire, then get some blessed distillation,* and put it over
the fire in a retort, then bruise the onions small, and boil in
the blessed distillation for a while, straining them into a
dish through a clean cloth ; with this let the painful part be
anointed night and morning till it is well. Many Physicians
state that this is a proven remedy, though such a cheap one.
FOR THE SAME DISEASE.
§ 523. Take linseed, the lees of wine, and quick lime,
equal parts of each, let them have a prolonged boiling, and
apply as a plaster to the painful part. If the part be hot,
let pennywort bo bruised fine, and apply thereto ; it will
reduce the swelling and the heat. It is proven.
FOR THE SAME DISEASE.
§ 524. Take a handful of sage, a handful of liverwort,
and a handful of honeysuckle, boil in a gallon of standing
by tbc Anglo Saxon historians, and tlic name assigned it is fot adl, (foot ail.) In
tlie Cottonian MSS. at the British Museum, lib. Vitel c. 3, wo have the follow-
ing prescription, which was once regarded as a specific. ' Take the herb datulus
ortulosa, which we call greata cranleac (a species of iris or tlag flower,) take the
heads of it, and dry them very much, and take thereof a pennyweight and a
half, and the pear tree, and the Roman bark, and cunmiin, and a fourth part of
laurel berries ; and of the otiier herbs half a pennyweight of eacii, and six
pepper corns, and grind all to dust, and put two egg sliells full of wine ; this is
a true Icaeh craft. Give it to the man to drink till he be well.' "
* Anna Beiieilieta Uulaiida.
388 niYsiciANS of myddvai.
water till it becomes a quart, wash the painful part there-
with, and when you have done washing it, apply the herbs
thereto, and by God's help it will be cured.
ANOTHER FOR THE SAME DISEASE.
§ 525. Take the yolks of three eggs hard baked, and re-
duce to a powder in a pan on the fire, strain them carefully ;
this is an useful ointment for the gout, and for divers others
diseases.
ANOTHER FOR THE SAME DISEASE,
§ 526. Take the juice of pennywort, a little frankincense,
the juice of plantain, (if in season) and two spoonfuls of the
powder of madder, boil them well together in a gallon of
spring water, (but do not let it be over boiled) and anoint
the affected member therewith as hot as it can be borne ;
let a linen cloth be also dipped in the decoction and applied
thereto ; it will cure it.
A NOBLE PLASTER FOR GOUT IN THE HEAD.
§ 527. Take two handfuls of barley bruised in a mortar,
a handful of betony, bruised separately, viii of wine,* and
half as much of wort, mix these with the barley and betony
till it becomes a thick plaster, spread it on linen, and apply
to the painful head as hot as can be borne, from the tempor-
al bones to the middle of the forehead ; it will cure it.
ANOTHER FOR THE SAME PAIN IN THE HEAD.
§ 528, Take rose water, vervain water, a woman'^s milk,
and the white of an egg, mix together ami apply to the head.
If there is pain in the eye, drop some therein and it will
cure it.
FOR THE GOUT.
§ 529. Take half a measure of white wine, and of stajr''s
tallow, or when that is not procurable, mutton suet with
moderately coarse ground wheat ; boil these ingredients till
they become thick, take a quantity of garlic, peel carefully,
pound well, and add to the former ; beware however that it
' 8cc \Vci>;lil.- and Measures at the ciul of the Vnhmic.
PHYSICIANS OF MYDDVAI. 389
be not hot, or the garlic will lose its effect. Mix the
whole together, and apply as a plaster between the affected
part and the healthy, so that it may attract it till it is cured.
FOR EVERY KIND OF ACHE.
§ 530. Take tender brambles, sprigs of broom and rue,
pound well, being first washed, and temper with oil of olives
so as to prepare an ointment, wherewith the affected part
should be anointed.
FOR A COLD OR HOT DROPSY.
§ 531. Take anise-seed, and the seed of loveage, called in
Latin Letieticum Vulgaris^* powder and mix the same with
your food and drink. Spikenard of Spain may also be
carefully added to that and any other kind of drink.
A FOMENTATION FOR EITHER A COLD OR HOT DROPSY,
§ 532. Take some, sprigs of white bryony, roots of red
fennel and herb benuet, boil together in a pot till the herbs
settle in the bottom, then pour it into a convenient vessel
so that the patient may wash and foment himself therewith.
INIako also a soup with water cresses, and pork or mutton
boiled together, giving it colour with saffron ; this is useful
through Jesus for all kinds of dropsies, whether hot or cold.
FOR BLEEDING PILES.
§ 533. Get some blessed distillation of the best sort,-f-
and dip a piece of fine soft linen therein, and push it up the
rectum as far as you can, if the piles be internal ; if external,
let them be washed with the distillation for three or four
days, at bed time.
FOR THE SAME.
§ 53-i. Take viper''s bugloss, and the leaves of the bar-
berry tree, and pound together, forming them into small
balls. Put a pan containing burning charcoal under a com-
mode, casting the balls thereon, and let the patient sit well
covered over the same.
" Ligustjcum levisticuni.
t Spirit of wine.
390 PHYSICIANS OF MYDDVAl.
ANOTHER,
§ 535. Lot the patient sit in a chair over a hot fotnent-
taton, composed of mallows, marsh pennywort, and cow''s
milk.
FOR THE COLIC.
§ 536. Boil mugwort, spear-mint, dill seed, and fennel
seed, in equal parts of milk and water, then drink a good
draught thereof as hot as you can, [and another draught
when quite cold, using no other drink than water, and
living by rule, rejecting butter, fat meat, and good ale.
Dine upon mutton, and sup and breakfast upon the milk
of kine or goats, with well baked wheaten bread. A good
potion for this disease is finely powdered unburnt lime, a
small spoonful thereof being taken at a time in milk and
water.
THE FOLLOWING IS A GOOD METHOD OF TREATMENT FOR A
PERSON SUBJECT TO FREQEUNT ATTACKS OF COLIC.
§ 537. Two hours before breakfast every morning' take
a good slice of wheaten bread, made with the best barm, and
toast brown and crisp before the fire, but be careful not to
burn it ; eat this by itself, and do not drink anything after
it. If you eat meat reject the fat, and prefer mutton to
any other, well baked oven barm bread being used with it.
You should only drink water or milk and water with your
meals, habituating yourself to oaten cakes and gruels, with
milk or honey, wine or cider, all garden vegetables being
avoided. House fennel seed, caraway seed, and dill seed,
ground also with your bread wheat, avoiding buttei', pork,
(particularly if old,) rich cheese, goose' flesh and duck.
FOR AN ABCESS OR IMPOSTUME.
§ 538. Take cow"'s milk, linseed, and a few garlic, pound-
ed ; boil them together, make into a plaster, and apply to
the part.
A WATER FOR ALL SORTS OF GOUT.
§ 539. Procure the seed of eriugo, fill an earthen pot
thereof, covering it very carefully, and bury it fully half a
niYSICIANS OF MYDDVAI. 391
yard in the earth, wlicro it should bo left from the first
Lady-day in harvest time, till the last Lady-day in s])ring ;
it should then be opened, and you will find some clear water
in the pot ; keep this carefully in a glass vial, for it is most
useful for all sorts of gout.
TO CLEAR THE EYE.
§ 540. Obtain some fresh sprats, lay in the sun, or at
such a distance from a fire as will subject them to a like
heat till an oil exudes therefrom ; mix this oil with honey,
and anoint your eye therewith.
FOR A WATERY EYE.
§ 541. Take the leaves of red cabbage, and hen's fat, com-
pound together thoroughly, and cover the eye therewith at
night, securing the same with a bandage.
FOR PAIN IN THE EYE.
§ 542. Procure some of the juice of centaury, and of
celandine, boil them together, and apply the same to the eye.
TO REMOVE EXFOLIATIONS OF BONE FROM THE SKULL.
§ 543. Drink the juice of betony three times a day fast-
ing, the dose being three spoonfuls each time, and they will
come away.
FOR A CANCER.
§ 544. Take knap-weed and goat's feet, calcine in furnace,
reduce to a powder, and apply to the cancer.
FOR A GOUT, ATTENDED BY AN OFFENSIVE SUPPURATION.
§ 545. Procure the juice of bugle, and of ribwort plantain,
the white of an egg, mouse ear duckweed, and fine rye meal,
which make into a plaster, let this be ap])lied upon the part
daily, being secured by a linen cloth, and it will cure it.
FOR A BOIL
§ 546. Get sonic plantain, make a plaster and apply to
the part. It will cure it.
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for an abcess or impostume of the head, with
deafnf:ss,
§ 547. Tako wood sage well pounded and oil of almonds,
boil and mix well in a silver spoon on the embers, then take
some clean linon, give it a twist, dip in the ointment and
insert in the painful ear, binding it till the matter is dis-
charged. It is proven.
TO EXTRACT A TOOTH BY MEANS OF A POWDER.
§ 548. Take the roots of nightshade with black berries,*
and pound them well in -goafs milk, then add the black
berries separately pounded thereto, incorporate the whole
into a pulp, and macerate in vinegar for xiii days ; renew
the vinegar three days, then powder the residue and add
vinegar thereto for three times more, when this has cleared,
decant the vinegar, and dry the sediment in the sun or near
the fire in the like heat. Let the powder be put in the
tooth if there be a cavity therein, and it will extract it with-
out pain, and without delay.
FOR HEADACHE AND WHOOPING COUGH.
§ 549. Take a red onion, pound small with a little bile,
adding some honey thereto. Let this be boiled, and when
boiled, let the patient •}* be put on his back, and pour some
to his nostrils ; then let him get up and sneeze, when he
will be cured and eased.
TO MAKE A CERECLOTH.
§ 550. Take two ounces of cod oil, two ounces of pitch, two
ounces and a quarter of mastic, and an ounce of frankincense ;
mix them well together, and set on the fire, taking a quan-
tity of plantain juice, and mixing therewith. Put the cloth
in this molten fluid, so that it may absorb as much as
possible thereof. Then set it aside to cool, warming it by
the fire, when required, for a bruise or other injury on a
man''s body.
* SolanuDi nigrum.
f " Y dynn ai dorr, &c."
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A METHOD OP MAKING A PLASTKR ACCORDING TO ART,
THOUGH TO CRUDE FOR INFLAMED ULCERS.
§ 551. Tako smallage, senna, tho roots of tlio lily, of the
nightshade, (called morel,) and of the plantain ; let these bo
pounded very small, honey, clarified white of. eggs, and fine
meal being added thereto. Let them bo carefully com-
pounded, and mashed together, (not on the fire mind,) till
they become thick like porridge ; spread on a cloth, and
apply to tho wound. It will remove tho anguish, and
restore tho wound to its natural condition. This is the
most excellent of plasters for all sorts of injuries.
TO PREPARE A GOOD RESOLVENT APPLICATION TO REMOVE
DLOOD OR BRUISE FROM AN INJURY.
§ 552. Tako old bacon, melt in a pan, and let it stand till
the salt settles in the bottom ; then take virgin wax in equal
quantity, and frankincense in powder, melting and mixing
them well with lard. When it has somewhat cooled, take a
moderate quantity of mastic and frankincense, setting it on tho
fire airain, and mixing; well. When cold, add as much airain
of flour of sulphur to the frankincense, and mastic, mixing
them well and diligently, till the whole resembles honey.
Let it be kept in a box till required.
TO PREVENT TEETH BECOMING YELLOW AND ILL SMELLING.
§ 553. Take the leaves of sage, powder with as much
again of salt, and make it into balls. Bake them till they are
burnt, and powder. Let your teeth be rubbed frequently
therewith. It will render the teeth clean, white, and sweet.
FOR CANCER.
§ 554. Take quick lime, pepper, horse mint, strong bile,
honey, and barley meal, equal parts of each. Boil them
well in an earthen vessel, powder, and apply to the cancer ;
it will destroy it.
ANOTHER.
§ 555. Take quick lime powdered, red precipitate of mer-
cury, equal to a fourth part of tho lime in quantity, and
mix with as much honev as will make it into a mass. Put
3 E
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it in an cartlion crucible, in a furnace, lieatcd as for bread.
When cold, keep it carefully covered in a glass vial, and
apply as much as may be required upon the cancer. It will
completely destroy it. Then apply a detergent plaster to
the ulcer; when quite clean, dress it with healing salve
or lint, and it will cure the patient.
FOR DROPSY BETWEEN THE FLESH AND SKIN.*
§ 556, Take the parings of white sheep skins, boil until
they become a glutinous mass, and apply thereto on linen.
TO BREAK OR RE-OPEN ANY GATHERING.
§ 557. Take a portion of black soap, another of honey,
and a third of fine wheaten meal, incorporate them together,
and apply to the part. If you wish it to break quickly,
add much soap.
FOR MALIGNANT ST. ANTHONY'S FIRE, OF WHICH, IF A
MAN SICKEN, HE WILL MOST PROBABLY DIE.f
§ 558. Take the warm dung of a pigeon, | and rye meal,
a pound of each, pound together, and add thereto half a
pound of vinegar, mix well, and apply cold to the diseased
part, covering it with cabbage leaves, and binding the same
carefully with a linen cloth. Let it not be removed for
three days, and what is covered with the plaster, will be at
any rate cured.
FOR THE GOUT.
§ 559. Take wood sorrel, rue, agrimony, tansy, pimpernel,
celandine, avens, ivy leaves, and ground liver wort, in equal
parts ; pound together well, strain, and drink the strained
liquor. It is good.
TO PREPARE AN OINTMENT FOR THE GOUT.
§ 560. Take the lard of a young pig, a horse's fat, a
boar\s lard, and the herb called feverfew, or in Latin feh-
rifnga^ pounded well. Mix them well 'together, and set on
the fire till they boil, and when boiled till the virtue of the
* Ascites. t Erysipelas Phlegmonoides. J Just killed.
PHYSICIANS OF MYDDVAI. 395
herbs is cxtractctl, .strain, kccj)ing the ointment in a qlass
well covered, and anoint the painful part by the heat of a fire.
ANOTHER.
§ 5G1. Take wall cress, southernwood, sage, and as much
as an egg of sugar; half fill a glass vessel with the same,
and then fill up quite with salt.' The herbs should be
pounded well in old ale, the vessel being left in the sun for
a week, or near the fire in a like heat, and you will obtain
an ointment therefrom, which should bo kept carefully.
Anoint the painful part therewith, then get wheat bran,
white wine, and boar's lard ; boil them together, and make
into a plaster, applying the same as warm as it can be
sufiered to the swelling. This application will disperse it.
ANOTHER.
§ 562. Take black snails, and bake them before the fire in
an earthen vessel. Keep the oil in a clean vessel, and
anoint the painful part therewith. It is beneficial for hot
and cold gout.
ANOTHER.
§ 563. Take pitch, virgin wax, frankincense, mutton suet,
and boar's lard. Fry well together, strain, and keep in a
pot ; with this anoint the painful part.
AN USEFUL OINTMENT FOR ERUPTIONS AND WOUNDS.
§ 464. Take the fat of bacon, melt and let the salt settle
in the bottom ; then take the fat, and add pitch, and frankin-
cense, making an ointment thereof. Let it bo applied as
may be required.
AN OINTMENT FOR A HEADACHE.
§ 565, Take the juice of dwarf elder, honey, wax, salt and
frankincense, boil them together. With this anoint your
head and brows.
FOR THE GOUT IN THE STOMACH.
§ 566. Take a handful of tansy, j)ound the same, pour a
quart of bottled wine thereon, and let it stand well covered
for a night in an oaken vessel; then put it in an unglazcd
39G PHYSICIANS OF MYDDVAl.
earthen vessel, l)oil gently, and strain. Let three dranghts
be taken thereof, one each night for three nights, the patient
being covered well in bed afterwards, so that he may per-
spire, and this will cure him. It is well to sleep in flannel
sheets or blankets.
ANOTHER.
§ 567. Take an armful of tansy, of mallows, of worm-
wood, half as much of garden sage and rosemary ; boil
the same well in a pot, put a pound of salt in the water,
and pour out the decoction into a vessel large enough to
bathe in. Get in, and sit therein so that it may cover your
ancles, then cover yourself with blankets, so that you may
be kept in a full perspiration for two or three hours, adding
more hot liquid as may be required, so as to keep up the
heat. Drink three table spoonfuls of good old mead, mixed
with powdered fennel seed, every half hour ; then at the
end of the time specified, let the bath cool, and when it is no
warmer than new milk, get out, go to bed and cover yourself
well with blankets, taking a spoonful every hour of the
decoction of blessed thistle, for six hours, carefully avoiding
cold for some days.
PAIN IN THE JOINTS FROM COLD, WEARINESS, OR SPRAIN.
§ 568. Take sea weed, boil in sea water, and anoint the
painful part with the same, as hot as you can bear it; then
apply the boiled sea weed thereto, well pounded in the
manner of a plaster, as warm as it can be borne easily. This
is a good remedy for every painful swelling, resulting from
a fall or blow.
FOR THE WHOOPING COUGH.
§ 569. Take pig^s lard, powdered garlick, and a little
honey, boil well, and anoint the feet of the patient therewith;
then cover the feet with a flannel, and the bed in which the
patient must lie with an abundance of blankets. The
blankets should be removed when he luib j»erspircd freely,
and thc,/atient will certainlv recover.
PHYSICIANS OF MYDDVAI. 397
FOR THE CANCER.
§ 570. Apply the juico of rod onions to tlic nicer, and
make a plaster with the loaves of cow parsnip, stalks,
flowers, and seed included, compounding the same with
honey, vinegar, and a little frankincense,
FOR INFLAMMATION OF THE LUNGS.*
§ 571. Take elder flowers, or in their absence, eringo
flowers, or the leaves, or the green inner bark, and wood
sorrel ; boil in the whey of goat or kine's milk, and let it
be your only drink for nine weeks. So that you may not
be in want of the flowers, let them be gathered in their
season, and dried in the sun. Keep them and boil them in
the whey as required. When wood sorrel cannot be got,
boil bruised a])ples with the flowers in the whey. This is
useful for all sorts of fevers in the blood and humors.
FOR A COLD.
§ 672. Take a pound of garlick, and pound well, adding
thereto a quart of good bottled wine, or in the absence
thereof good strong old mead ; let it macerate well covered,
strain under a press, and drink lukewarm. If the cold
affects a joint, warm the remains of the garlick and apply
to the part as warm as it can be borne. It is proven.
FOR A WEB OF THE EYE.
§ 573. Take the juice of celandine, and a little honey, mix
well and apply to the eye with a feather night and morning.
It is proven.
FOR THE BLACK FEVER.f
§ 574. Take anise-seed, fennel seed, and rue well powdered,
to which add good white or bottled wine ; let it stand six
hours, and when given to the patient, give it a slight boiling,
so that no time be lost, then strain and let it be given to the
sick person as his only drink.
ANOTHER.
§ 575. Take the surface of new ale in the wort, and
administer a good draught to the sick person every three
* Lit, Lung Pock, t Typhus.
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Iiours, for twenty four hours ; tlien lot liim have a slice of
whcaten barm bread toasted by tlie fire, wine being poured
upon it whilst hot. This bread and wine should be taken in
small portions during four hours. It is proven.
FOR A BRUISE OF THE EYE.
§ 576. Take parsley and pound well with unsalted butter,
then apply it as a plaster to the eye warm.
FOR SPECKS ON THE CORNEA.
§ 577. Take the juice of celandine, of fennel, and a little
honey, let some be dropped into the eye morning, noon, and
night, the eye being covered in the mean time so that the
light might not affect it. Proven.
FOR VERTIGO.
§ 578. Take the roots of cowslips, and sage leaves, in
equal quantities, boil well, the roots being first pounded.
The boiling should be carried on till the herbs are hardly
covered, when they should be strained under a press ; a
jjood drauMit thereof should be taken two hours before and
two hours after food.
FOR A SUNBURN.
§ 579. Take the leaves of marsh pennywort rudely pound-
ed with cream, boil them together on a gentle fire so as to
form them into an ointment, and anoint the aflfected part
tlierewith.
A good; eye SALVE.
§ 580. Take vinegar, white wine, the juice of celandine,
and plantain, mix them together in a pan, cover over and
let them stand therein three days and three nights, take it
hence, keep it in a box, and anoint thine eye therewith.
THE TREATMENT OF BOILS AN BLEEDDING SORES.
§ 581. Take the fat of an old boar, half as much of virgin*
wax, frankincense and mastic, boil together, and when
nearly cold, add as much flour of sulphur, as of the frank-
incense, then mix for an ointment and keep in a box.
* The wax of honey combs, not brood combs.
niYSICIANS OF MYDDVAI. 399
roil AN INDOLENT ULCKH.
§ 682. Get frankincense, and aruanientuni,* <^rind together
in powder, and apply to the ulcer.
AN USEFUL UNGUENT.
§ 583. Take plantain, pimpernel, and wild tansy, pound
well in a mortar with fresh lard, lot it ferment for nine days,
when it should be boiled and strained through linen, wax,
frankincense, and pure rosin being added thereto ; when all
are molten together, the unguent is ready.
AN OINTMENT FOR THE HEADACHE.
§ 584. Take the juice of dwarf elder, new wax, and rosin,
boil together, and anoint your temple therewith.
TO PREPARE A GOOD OINTMENT.
§ 585. Get the juice of wild celery, tansy, nightshade,
plantain, and marsh pennywort, equal parts of each ; also,
honey, fine wheaten meal, boar"'s lard, and sheep's suet, let
them be boiled on the fire till the mass becomes thick, then
strain through linen. It is useful.
FOR DEFECTIVE SIGHT.
§ 586. Take the juice of ground ivy, fennel, celandine,
sow's lard, honey, a little vinegar, an eel's blood, put the
whole in a vessel till it ferments, anoint your eyes therewith,
it will restore lost sight. Proven.
FOR PAIN IN THE EYES.
§ 587. Fill an egg shell with the juice of fennel, and rue,
clarified honey, wine, and the urine of a child. Anoint
your eye therewith.
AN EVE OINTMENT.
§ 588. Get a black snail in the month of May and roast
on the embers, preserving the oil till required ; anoint your
eye therewith with a feather.
FOR A STYE IN THE EYE, OR AN INFLAMMATION.
§ 589. Get the yolk of an egg, wheaten meal, and a little
sulphate of copper, let it be applied to the eye when going
* A corruption of " Auripiguieutum," or yellow sulphate of arsenic. It
should be used ^\ith great caution.
400 PHYSICIANS OF MYDDVAI.
to sloop, it will produce porspi ration during tho night. Do
this tlirce days and it will cure it,
FOR DEAFNESS.
§ 590. Get a sow's gall, goat's milk, and clear honey,
drop it warm in your ears. It is an unfailing remedy.
FOR A SLOUGH, BEFORE AND AFTER IT HAS SUPPURATED.
§ 591. Take a good handful of sage, half a handful of
plantain, and tho same quantity of red fennel, let them be
boiled in a quart of water, a quart of honey, (or two quarts
of water would be better so that it may stand a longer boil-
ing,) and a pound weight of white frankincense, let it be
boiled long and well, so that it be reduced to a third. Let
it bo kept, and the herbs simply bruised between your hands
be left therein, in a vessel. It is a good water to foment
any cancer, dead flesh, (slour/h,) painful swelling, or blister-
ed, inflamed, or painful part. By God's help it will cure it.
FOR AN INDOLENT ULCER OF RECENT STANDING, WHEN
YOU WISH TO DESTROY THE UNHEALTHY GRANULATIONS.
§ 592. Get honey, treacle, frankincense, sulphur, white-
lead, and mercury, make them into a plaster, apply to
the part frequently and it will heal it, if not, let a plaster
of honey and black soot be applied thereto, and this by the
help of God will cure it.
A SLEEPING POTION. -
§ 593. Take the juice of opium, (poppy) and of eringo,
or the seed of the latter, compound them into pills with
milk, let these be ministered to tho patient. One will in-
duce sleep in general, but if not let him take another, and
another again if required, taking care that two or three
hours should intervene between each dose in order to watch
their efi'ect before another is given.
FOR AN ERUPTION OF TETTERS.*
§ 594. Take lard, black soap, and mercury, rub them
together into an ointment, anointing the aft'ected part there-
with, and it will be healed.
* Herpes.
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FOU RINGWORM.*
§ 595. Take toadstool,-}- or (when not to he h.ul) agario,
red alder leaves,:}: and clarified butter; boil thetn together
in ^ilieej/is milk and strain through new linen, anoint the i)art
fre(|uently with this, and with (jiod's hclj) you will he cured.
FOR CRUSTED s^ OR HUMID || TETTER.
§ 596. Take the roots of red dock, and boil in sheep's
milk for two hours at least, remove from the lire and add
some clarified butter thereto, straining it through new
linen, anoint the diseased part with this ointment, and it
will heal it.
FOR SCABIES.
§ 597. Take the white of an egg, strained ra[)idly through
linen, the juice of red fennel and celandine, clear honey, a
child's urine, and white wine in equal parts ; mix briskly and
anoint your body therewith, even your eyes if needful.
FOR LEPRA.
§ 598. Get the roots of the red dock, the roots of the
elecampane, honey-suckle leaves, wild hyacinth, broom
sprigs, bugle, violet, heath shieldfern, and avens ; pound
them well together in a mortar with unsalted butter, boiling
them well, removing from the fire and straining through
new linen ; add thereto a portion of flour of brimstone and
verdigris. Anoint the diseased part frequently with this
ointment, and by God's help it will cure it.
FOR RING\V0RiM,ni BEING A DISEASE SOMEWHAT LIKE
HUMIU TETTER, ATTENDED WITH MUCH IRRITATION.
§ 599. Take crude honey, a fox's marrow, and rosin, mix
well together by pounding them in a mortar till they
become an ointment, anoint the disease therewith.
FOR BOILS.
§ 600. Take the juice of the nightshade,* and of plantain,
barley meal, and the white of eggs, make a plaster thereof
and apply thereto.
* Favus. + Boletus. * Wlien changing their hue in autumn. § Impetigo.
II Eczema. "I Favus. • .\f'<ritl in tiie text must be iiiten<)<'"l ("it morella,
i. e. nightshade.
• 3 F .
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ANOTHER.
§ GOl. Take feverfew, knapweed, mugAvort, bugle, devil's
bit, and daisy ; wash clean, and pound with old ale ; a
spoonful at a time should be given to the patient, and if
given in time it will ever preserve him from the complaint.
This is an excellent potion.
FOR AN INTRACTABLE PAIN.
§ 602. Drink the juice of tansy, pounded carefully with
strong old ale, and strained.
FOR A PAIN OF THE THROAT WHEN THERE IS AN ERUP-
TION,* OR SUPPURATION IN THE PHARYNX, ATTENDED
WITH A FEVER.
§ 603. Boil sage and rue in water, when it has boiled a
a little while add vinegar and honey so that it may be
somewhat sweet ; then gargle your mouth and throat there-
with warm, ejecting the same carefully, so that none be
swallowed. When you have gargled well, drink a good
draught of the same as a potion ; do this for three or four
times in the day and night. Take also equal parts of
mallows, sage and rue, pounding the same well, and adding
thereto sheep''s milk, or any other milk covenient, as much
as may be needful to give it the consistency of a cataplasm ;
let this be applied warm to the throat, changing it as it
dries, keep dissolving in your mouth also as much twice in
quantity as a nut of pure old honey boiled hard. Do this
U)Y three days, and by God's help you will recover.
ANOTHER.
§ 604. Take sage, rue, and the berries f or flowers of the
elder tree (or inner bark when neither can be got,) mallows
and feverfew, put them in a mortar mixed with a little
honey, white wine, or vinegar, pounding them well together,
let a portion of the pounded ingredients be applied warm to
the throat as a plaster on flannel, the other portion being
strained, two table spoonfuls of the same being taken every
two hours, and a spoonful used as a gargle before each dose,
this being afteswards carefully ejected, so that none be swal-
* Diptheria + Lit. " Gems," a beautiful term for these ruby like berries.
PHYSICIANS OF MYDDVAI. 403
owed, as it would bo charged witli the poison of the disease.
Instead of using the plaster you may foment your throat
with the liquid caeh time you drink. Do this for three
days ; keeping a flannel about your throat, and with God's
help you will recover.
ANOTHER.
§ 605. Boil rue in white wine, strain and drink four
spoonfuls thereof every three hours, fomenting the throat
(covering it afterwards with a flannel) at every dose. Before
each dose gargle your mouth and throat carefully with the
decoction and vinegar, half and half, ejecting the same after-
wards. By God's help you will recover in consequence.
ANOTHER.
§ 600. Take a large apple, extract the eye and core as well
as some of the pulp, then take rue, bruise small, filling the
apple therewith, and covering it over with the eye first re-
moved, roast the apple before the fire, when sufficiently
roasted, pound the whole together, mixing a little honey
therewith, also a spoonful of white wine, making a confection
thereof; take a spoonful of this every two hours till you
have recovered. Before yoii take it, however, you should
wash the mouth and throat with a decoction of rue and
vinegar in equal proportions.
THE FOLLOWING IS A GOOD GARGLE.
§ 607. Take sage, rue, mallows, and elder flowers, either
fresh or dry, boil them well in water, then when you have
done so for a while, add a spoonful of vinegar, and as much
of honey, continuing the boiling some time longer, then
strain carefully through a linen cloth and keep ; when re-
quired for use, warm from two to four spoonfuls, take a
mouthful thereof and gargle well as long as you can, taking
care not to swallow any, then finally eject it ; do this from
twice to four times with a spoonful at a time. It is useful
for every affection of the mouth and throat, and should be
used in all dangerous seasons, when epidemic sore throats
prevail, this with God's bUssing will preserve you. When
404 niYSiciANs or .myddvai.
you have a sore throat, after garghiig, take a draught of the
potion, and by God's help it will benefit you.
FOR INFLAMMATORY FEVER IN A CHILD.
§ 608. Boil a handful of cin<juefoil in cow"'s milk, and
administer a spoonful to the cliild every hour for three days;
by God's help it will cure him.
TO DESTROY UNHEALTHY GRANULATIONS IN AN ULCER
RESULTING FROM A WOUND OR BLOW.
§ 609. Take old tallow, stale gander's dung, a crust of
rye bread, egg shells, and salt, in equal parts, put them iu
a ])ot, calcine and reduce into fine powder, and apply thereto.
ANOTHER.
§ 610. Take a pound weight of burnt lime, and the same
quantity of orpiraent, boil in water in a porringer for a
great length of time, then remove from the fire and set
aside to dry where no dirt can come to it, then when it is
perfectly dry let it be reduced to a powder. If some of this
is applied to the unhealthy granulations it will destroy' them.
It should be left upon the part from one to three hours, and
then washed away with sheep's milk, or with cow or goat's
milk, when that cannot be j)rocured ; this should be done
once a day till you sec that the cancer is destroyed, then
dress the part with healing ointment, the patient all the
time using no other drink than a decoction of cleavers * and
betony, restricting himself to a milk diet, preferring that
of goat's, twice a week he should partake of mutton of
mature a^e.
FOR A WOUND.
§ 611. Take a nettle, roots and all, wash the roots clean,
pound it well, then boil in unsaltcd butter, make an oint-
ment, apply to the wound and it will cure it.
THE TREATMENT OF WOUNDS,
§ 612. Take lard, honey, wine, and rye meal, boil these
ingredients together, and aj)ply to the wound on a cloth, it
* This is admirablo practirc so far .is this diet drink is coincriicd at any rate.
PHYSICIANS or myddvai. 405
■will clear and heal the nv(juiu1, but should it do so too ^oon,
procure the herb called wild nep,* make a plaster thereof,
apply it to the part and it will re-open it.
ERYSIPELAS.
Erysipelas has divers constitutions even hot and cold,
the hot being the most dangerous of the two, and is attend-
ed with more extensive ardency,-f- the cold being less so ; in
consequence of this they must be treated difierently, the hot
requiring cold remedies, and the cold hot ones : thus the
cold form is treated ; this disease being (lancole ? ) take the
white of eggs, and rye meal, make a dough of them and
leave it on tbe part till it falls away of itself. Let this be
done till the part is healed.
A MEDICAMENT FOR PUTRID FLESH, ATTENDED WITH LOCAL
INFLAMMATION IN AND ABOUT THE ULCERS.
§ 613. Take fine rye meal and clear honey, of which
make a dough and apply to the ulceration ; when required
let it be renewed, and this will restore the patient to health
and activity.
A GENERAL REMEDY FOR ALL KINDS OF ERYSIPELAS.
§ 614. Take tow and cut it jBne, wash in lees pro-
cured from wheat ale, boil well and apply to the affected
part for a night and half a day, let it then be removed and
the part washed with male urine ; afterwards cover it
with a powder thus prepared : — take some wings of geese,
pluck off the featiiers, calcine them, powder and apply to
the disease, this again should be covered with the fat of a
wild cat, or pig's lard and a cabbage leaf, then get some
good old ale made with Avheat unmixed with barley, fill a
pitcher therewith, add salt, arfemeint X and pitch in eijual
parts, with more bees wax than either ; boil them till they
become thick, then remove from the fire and let it cool
*Ncp wjllt — Rape, or biassica napus. Vide nepte, in the list of the inudi-
ciiial plants at the end.
+ i. e. liiflamniatoiy. It maj- be a question what sense " ffroenau " has in
the text, 1 have assumed it to be derived from •' ffro " — ardent, as erysipelas never
exliibits any charaeter to whicli the term " nostrils" (Ifrocnau) could be applied
in any way
J A popular corruption of " orpiment," I believe.
400 PHYSICIANS OF MYDDVAI.
tliis sliould bo applied as a plaster thereto ; first the
above iiientioncJ powder, then the plaster of fat, and tlie
cabbage leaf upon that ; it should be renewed morning and
niiiht. Let an infusion or decoction of avens bo iriven the
patient, and in the day he drinks thereof, the progress of
the disease will be arrested.
ANOTHER.
§ 615. Take the juice of the avens, of mallows, and liu
seed, mix with honey and the milk of a one coloured cow,
j)ut in a ])itcher, boil it well and apply to the disease as hot
as it can be borne.
ANOTHER.
§ 616. Powder pepper and boil in vinegar till it is quite
dried up, then mix powdered frankincense, rosin, verdigris,
and honey therewith ; incorporate them well in a mortar,
and apply on a cloth to the affected part.
A MEDICINE FOR PAIN IN THE BONES, SOMETIMES ATTENDING
ERYSIPELAS.
§ 617. Put the seed of eryngo in an earthen pitcher,
cover it over with the embers so that it may roast thoroughly,
express carefully through a linen cloth, and with this strained
liquid anoint the disease. If you can not get the seed take
the entire plant, roots and all, and treat in the same way.
ANOTHER.
§ 618. Get oil of roses and anoint the part therewith,
then infuse sage and hyssop in wine, or mix the juice of
these herbs with wine ; let the patient drink the same till
he recovers.
ANOTHER.
§ 619. Take white peas and roast them well on the fire,
then powder, anoint the part with clear honey, and sprinkle
the powder thereon, let it remain till it falls oft" spontaneous-
ly ; let this be repeated till the part heals.
FOR A PAINFUL ERYSIPELAS ATTENDED WITH SWELLING.
§ 620. Take the roots of fern, and pound them in a mor-
tar well, mix carofullv with a little warm water, then
PHYSICIANS OF MYDDVAI. 407
express through a cloth, and make it into a poultice with
harloy meal, mixing the white of an egg therewith ; spread
it tliinly on a cloth, and apply it to the affected part.
AN APPLICATION TO A PAIN, WHICH WILL SHOW WHETHER
IT PROCEEDS FROM BRUISED FLESH OR CONTUSION.
§ 621 . Anoint the whole of the aftected part with honey,
and get fresh cheese and rye meal, put these ingredients in the
eartli for a night, then apply it to the openings in the pain-
ful part. When you remove this plaster next day, if there
are holes therein, know that there is a worm in the ulcer.
ANOTHER,
§ 622. Take a black snail and apply to the part, and if
you find a portion of the snail eaten next day, know that
there is a worm therein.
THE WAY IN WHICH THE WORM MAY BE DESTROYED.
§ 623. Take the root of the gladwin, and bruise in honey
and wine, apply a black snail to the part, and cover it with
the above plaster, and it will destroy the worm.
ANOTHER.
§ 624. Take pepper, rue, linseed, and feverfew, dry these
three last, powder and apply to the part ; it will destroy
the worm.
AN APPLICATION FOR A BITE, OR A SUPPURATING ULCER,
EVEN WHEN IT IS A CANCER.
§ 625. Take marsh pennywort, powder and cover the part
therewith.
ANOTHER,
§ 626. Take old lard, quicksilver, frankincense, mastic,
and a little pepper, bruise these ingredients separately, then
mix and incor])orate with the lard when cold, then rub the
quicksilver tlierewith till it is killed, anoint the part there-
with by the fire.
ANOTHKR.
§ 627. Take a little of the juice of the bloody veined dock,
the juice of the avcns, the juice of the field mint, a little of
the juice ef the marsh mallow, and the juice of the plantain,
408 PHYSICIANS OF MYDDVAI.
]>\it them in a pan on tlio fire with lard, and form an oint-
ment tlicrcof, anoint the diseased part tlierewitli, it will
cure it.
Amongst all dangerous diseases Mhich are to be dreaded,
mortified flesh and cancer are the worst, and by careful
treatment only can they be cured, not otherwise.
FOR ALL KINDS OF MORBID FLESH OR ERYSIPELAS EVEN.
§ 628. Take wheat grain, hen\s dung, black beans, garlick,
salt, goafs dung, horse bones and fragments of blue elotli,
put them in a pot, cover carefully, set on the fire and leave
there till the whole are calcined, mix i^ with as much as
there is of pepper, of powder of white glass and garlick,
wash the part with vinegar and stale urine night and morn-
ing, covering it with the powder afterwards. It will heal it.
Cover the powder with goats'' dung and butter, also take
water-flag and new wax, cover the parts with the powder,
and apply the wax over it. When the venom is extracted,
dress it with the juice of plantain, honey, white of eggs, and
rye meal, drink the juice of plantain, avens, and agrimony.
Let the patient avoid cheese, nuts, and women, then he
will recover.
FOR THE SAME THING.
§ 629. Take a mole and burn it in an earthen pot till it
is reduced to powder, powder finely, and cover the part
where the mortified flesh is with this powder. Take hart-
wort and knapweed ground in a mortar carefully, adding
some honey and butter, make the whole into a plaster and
ap])ly it to the part, it will destroy the dead flesh and the
disease.
Sprinkle sage powder thereon, it will bind it and cure it.
FOR THE SAME THING.
§ 630. Take gum sandarach, frankincense, copperas, natron,
and verdigris, powder carefully and sprinkle thereon, leave
it there two or three days, then cover the part well with
agrimony carefully pounded with honey, clean and dress
carefully twice daily and it will cure it.
PHYSICIANS OF MYDDVAI. 409
If you can not get the above, seek some soot, the ashes of
old shoes, and stale urine, mix well and apply thereto so
that it may remove the disease, then treat it with ag-
rimony and honey as above.
FOR TIIK CANCER.
§ 631. Take copperas and pepper, bruise them together,
and temper with white of eggs and honey ; when it has
cleared on the fire, anoint the cancerous part well,
FOR THE CANCER.
§ 632. Powder white frankincense, and apply thereon.
FOR A FOUL BREATH.
§ 633. Take the juice of orpine, feverfew, angelica, and
pennyroyal, mix with honey, and administer a spoonful to
the patient night and morning fasting, and he will recover.
FOR A PERSON WHO HAS LOST CONSCIOUSNESS OR SPEECH,
IN CONSEQUENCE OF ILLNESS.
§ 634. Take pennyroyal gathered on Whit-sunday, or
the eve of St. John the Baptist, boil, dry the decoction, and
make a powder thereof ; let this powder be administered
to the patient in some drink, and it will be of benefit.
FOR AN OFFENSIVE ULCER ON THE LEG.
§ 635. Boil oak leaves in white or red wine, and apply the
wine and leaves to the part, and it will be of use.
ANOTHER.
§ 636. Take oil of olives, and white wine, mix well, anoint
the ulcer therewith, it will remove the evil smell, and heal
the disease.
TO HASTEN A TEDIOUS LABOUR.
§ 637. Take the juice of savory, and administer it in
water.
TO RESTRAIN HCEMORRHAGE FROM AN ULCER OR WOUND, OR
FROM WHATEVER OTHER CAUSE.
§ 638. Take nettles, pound well, and pour vinegar there-
on, applv this to the wound, but beware lest the patient
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410 pnysiciANS of myddvai.
should faint ; if ho does so, anoint his eyebrows with
vinegar, and give him some drink.
FOR UTERINE HCEMORRIfAGE.
§ 639. Take nut shells, powder finely, then make a
decoction of the inner bark of the black thorn, addinir a
little honey, mix the powder therewith, and let it be the
only drink for a month or two if required.
FOR A PAINFUL CONDITION OF THE MOUTH,
§ 640. Take a spoonful of the juice of sage, of the juice of
rue, of white wine or vinegar, and of honey, and mix them ; let
the patient first wash his mouth with salt and water, then let
him take a spoonful at a time of the above mentioned liquor
in his mouth, and gargle it well, but let him have a
care not to swallow it, but eject it; then he should take
another mouthful and swallow it, and it will cure him ; lot
him repeat this proceeding again and again till he recovers.
It is a valuable remedy for dangerous afiections (of the
mouth and throat.)
TO PRESERVE FROM DANGEROUS EPIDEMICS.
§ 64)1. When dangerous epidemics prevail, take the juice
of rue, and white wine, or strong old mead in equal parts,
and drink a spoonful or two, morning, noon, and night in
going to rest, at least an hour before or after food.
ANOTHER.
§ 642. Take a handful of rue, four heads of garlipk, and
a handful of sage, pound them together with wine or strong
mead, and strain carefully ; drink four spoonfuUs thereof
every morning fasting as long as the epidemic prevails.
A GOOD CATHARTIC.
§ 643. Take a spoonful of the juice of spurge, mixed with
powdered frankincense; it is beneficial to the chest and
stomach.
ANOTHER.
§ 644. Take a spoonful of the juice of hyssop, and boil in a
quart of red wine till it is reduced to the half, let the patient
drink it warm at night, and cold in the morning.
PHYSICIANS OF MYDDVAI. 411
PRO MORBO CADENDO, OR EPILEPTIC; DISEASE.
§ 645. Take the mistletoe of the oak, and put in an un-
glazed earthen pot, cover it well and set it on a slow fire, but
not too near, dry the herb till it can be powdered, being care-
ful that it does not burn, reduce to powder and give to the
patient in every drink and food he partakes of. Make also
a mass as big as a pigeon's egg thereof with honey, and give
to the patient between his meals, and continue this practice
for nine weeks. It is proven.
ANOTHER.
§ 646. Gather the mistletoe at Christmas, branches, leaves,
and berries, make a confection of the berries with honey in
equal parts, and keep well covered. The other portion of the
plant should be powdered as above mentioned. And when-
ever a person is subject to this disease, mix as much of the
powdre with the confection as you can, carefully preserving
both from mouldiness. Let the sick person eat a good mouth-
ful thereof fasting morning, noon, and night. It is proven.
FOR CARDIALGIA.
§ 648. Take ash keys, linseed, and a pear, pound together
well with white wine, and administer the whole lukewarm to
the patient mixed with as much wine as will make it
drinkable.
FOR SWELLING OF THE STOMACH.
§ 549. Take the roots of fennel, and the roots of the ash,
pound them well, and temper with wine and honey ; let the
expressed liquor be given to the patient to drink, and he
will recover.
TO KNOW WHETHER A WOUNDED PERSON WILL LIVE OR DIE.
§ 650. Get pimpernel, milkwort, or trefoil, administer to
the patient, and if he vomits he will die. The herbs should
be pounded with water, and strained.
TO HEAL WOUNDS.
§ 651. Get hog's lard, melt it with honey, wine, and rye
meal, boil carefully, spread on linen, and apply to the wound ;
it will draw and cleanse the wound, and heal it efiectually.
412 PHYSICIANS OF MYDDVAI.
TO OPEN A WOUND.
§ 652. Take -wild turnips, pound to a plaster, and apply
to the wound; it will open the wound and heal it. Proven.
TO HEAL A WOUND.
§ 653. Take the herb called centaury, powder and cast
into the wound ; by God's help it will cure it,
TO RESTRAIN BLEEDING FROM THE NOSE.
§ 654. Get the periwinkle and hang in a bag about the
neck of the patient. Proven.
Many diseases and fevers of all kinds are bred, and affect
the body of man in consecjuence of the scrophulous diathesis,
and they can only be avoided by the use of efiective
remedies.
FOR SCROPHULA.
§ 655. Take daisy, and plantain, mix with strong drink
till it is thickened thereby, and cast some powdered sulphate
of copper on the potion. If this is habitually given the
patient ere he sleeps, it will cure him.
FOR SCROPHULA BEFORE SLEEP.
§ 656. Bruise daisy, yellow stone cr®p, and plantain, and
apply it as a plaster to the complaint ; drink the juice also.
ANOTHER FOR SCROPHULA.
§ 657. Take the flowers or leaves of knapweed, bruise
.vitli the yolk of an egg and fine salt ; apply to the part.
ANOTHER FOR SCROPHULA.
§ 658. Take the roots of the red nettle, and the roots of
mugwort, when budding ; boil in milk and water, and
add butter thereto, drink of this night, morning, and noon,
and take no other drink till you are well. Proven.
FOR A SCROPHULOUS ULCER WHEN IT HAS DISCHARGED
ITS CONTENTS, AND INFLAMMATION.
§ 659. Take chamomile, and prepared sulphur in powder ;
boil in goats"' milk and water, till all moisture has evap-
PHYSICIANS OF MYDDVAI. 41 :>
orated. Dry, and reduce to fine powder, sprinkling- it uii
the ulcer. This will contract all manner of sores.
FOR SCROPHULOUS SWELLINGS.
§ 660. Take honey, and white rosin, incorporate them
together, and apply to the part.
FOR FRACTUED BONES.
§ 6G1. To promote the union of fractured bones, take
celandine, and boil with Avine, pepper, and honey. Use it
nine days as drink, and they will unite.
MEDICINE FOR FRACTURED BONES.
§ 662. First bind the limb, then take roasted acorns, and
powder. Put four spoonfuls of the powder in a quart of
milk and water, half and half; boil well, and add as much
as will render it sweetish of clarified honey. Let the patient
have it for his only drink till he recovers. Also take wine,
honey, salt, and rye meal in equal parts ; mix together for a
plaster, and apply to the part. This will unite them. Who-
ever drinks a decoction of the violet, will greatly promote
the extraction of broken bones.
TO KNOW WHETHER THERE BE LOOSE FRAGMENTS OF
BONE IN A MAN'S LIMB OR NOT.
§ 663. Take the white of eggs, linseed, and a woman''s
milk ; make a plaster thereof, and apply to the wound. If
the plaster does not dry, know that there is a bone therein ;
if there is not, it will dry crisp.
FOR MEN WHO HAVE LOST THEIR REASON.
§ 66-i. Take daisy, field southernwood, and sage; pound
well, and mix with wine. Put it aside well covered for three
hours ; then strain, and let the patient drink it.
TO RESTORE SPEECH WHEN LOST FROM DISEASE.
§ 665. Take sage, or pimpernel, extract the juice, and
pour it into the patienfs mouth. It will restore his
.speech.
414 PHYSICIANS OF MYDDVAI.
TO PROCURE SLEEP.
§ 66G. Take corn poppy, (for it is better than the foreign
popj)y) and eringo, or the seed thereof; pound them well in
a mortar, and mix with wine. Wash the nostrils, eyes, and
ears of the patient frequently therewith, and he will sleep.
ANOTHER.
§ 667. Take the seed of eringo, and henbane, pound
them well in a mortar; mix with milk enough to make
them into small pills. Let the patient have one every half
hour, till he has taken six or eight if need be, and he will
sleep without fail.
ANOTHER.
§ 668. Boil poppy heads in ale ; let the patient drink it,
and he will sleep.
ANOTHER.
§ 669. Boil a goat''s horn in water ; wash your head there-
with when cold, and you will sleep. You should also place
the boiled horn under your pillow.
FOR INFLAMMATION OF THE MAMMAE.
§ 670. Pound plantain and lard well together, and apply
it to the part till it is well.
FOR A PAINFUL BREAST.
§ 671. Take the roots of wild rape, scrape the outer rind,
make a cavity in the top, (of what you scrape) and put a
fragment of sulphate of copper therein. Put it in the earth
for four or five days, then remove, take what juice there may
be therein, and keep in a glass vessel. Anoint the painful
breast with this.
FOR AN ABSCESS OF THE MAMMAE.
§ 672. Take virgin wax, spread before the fire, and make
a mask to cover the breast. This beinjr used to cover the
breast will extract the venom therefrom.
FOR THE SAME.
§ 673. Take the roots of hemlock ; pound fine with barley
meal, and the milk of a one-coloured cow ; make a warm
plaster therewith, and apply to the part.
PHYSICIANS OF MYDDVAI. 415
ANOTHER.
§ 674. Take the sediment of verjuice and new wax ;
make a plaster thereof, and apply. You should make the
plaster by boiling.
PAIN IN IN THE MAMMiE.
§ 675. Pound mint into a plaster, and apply thereto.
A WORM IN THE JIAMM.E.
§ 676. Burn crow's eggs and powder ; mix with the juice
of wood sage, and administer as a drink.
A MEDICINE TO PRESERVE FROM EPIDEMICS.
§ 677. Take mutton suet, fresh hog''s lard, of each equal
parts : melt and strain carefully ; then put on the fire again,
and add some well pounded rue. Boil briskly for a time,
strain, and anoint thy whole body therewith, rubbing it well
and soundly as long as the plague continues.
ANOTHER.
§ C78. Take a spoonful of the juice of rue, and a spoonful
of honey every morning fasting, as long as the epidemic lasts.
This, as well as the remedy before mentioned, is a good
preservative against all sorts of dangerous epidemics, whether
the sweating sickness,* eruptive fevers, typhus, or yellow
fever.
A POTION PREPARED BY DIVINE AUTHORITY, FOR THE HELP
OF A WOUNDED MAN, WHICH WILL BE DISCHARGED BY THE
WOV.ND, AND HEAL IT FROM WITHIN, WITHOUT FAIL.
§ 679. Take the tansy, sprigs of hemp, red nettles, rasp-
berry, red cabbage, plantain, avens, and madder (of the
last as much as of all the rest.) Pound them well in a
mortar, boil in strong ale, strain, and let it be drank in the
night warm, and in the morning cold. A red cabbage leaf
should be applied to the wound, and nothing more, in order
* A remarkable epidemic which prevailed in England in the 16th century,
and to which those of the English race were saifi to be subject at home or abroad,
and only they. This doubtless was an exaggeration, and we may infer from our
text that it was not quite unknown in Wales, though Willan states that it did
not uft'ect the Cymry or the Scotch. This authority thinks that some unsound-
ness in the wheat of the period must have been the cause.
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to cure tlie j)atie/it. If you collect the above ingredients in
the month of May, or at furthest at Midsummer, pounding
in a mortar, makeing into small pills, and drying without
much wind, or sun, you will be able to have them at hand,
when they could not otherwise be had. It is better even to
keep what is needful, and then they may be bruised in ale,
and used as above directed.
THIS IS A MODE OF PREPARING MEDICINES FOR FLATULENT
DYSPEPSIA.
§ 980. Take spirits of wine, and pour upon a powder
composed of the following dry herbs, even dry juniper
berries, fennel seed, the seed of wild carrots, parsley seed,
and dill seed. Keep them in a glass bottle, well stoppered,
lest the liquor should evaporate. Let a spoonful or two
be taken when the pain is present.
THE OIL CALLED IN LATIN OLEUM FCENUM, OR HAY OIL.
§ 681. Get fresh mown grass, of the finest you can get;
cut it small, and fill therewith a two gallon vessel ; then
add as much wine as will fill it ; let it putrify for three
days and nights, and boil. Then add hog's lard, boil till
the half is evaporated, and strain carefully. When this
is done, boil it again till another half is evaporated, and
remove it to cool. Let it be kept carefully and clean. It
is useful for all sorts of internal complaints, attended with
shivering, and also colics. It is called oleum fcenum.
Many dangerous diseases exist, and here are exhibited a
variety of medicines to cure them.
FOR THE ITCH AND SCABIES.
§ 682. Take sulphur, and unburnt lime ; put them in a
vessel, and pour thereon a quart of decoction of sage.
Cover it well, and set aside for six hours, then decant the
clear liquor. "NVash yoffr body therewith before you go to
a dangerous house or bed, and you will be preserved from
contajjion.
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AXOTITER.
§ 683. Take the leaves of sage, pound well with vinegar,
and strain under a press. Wash your body with this.
ANOTHER.
§ G84. Take spirits of wine, and pour on powdered sage ;
cover it carefully so that tlie spirits should not evaporate.
Let it stand three hours, and wash your body therewith.
A PROTECTION AGAINST FEVER IN SPRING.
§ 685, Take the inner bark of oak, sage leaves, and val-
erian ; boil in good ale, and drink a good draught thereof in
tlie morning fasting, three times a week, and it will preserve
you from disease.
FOR TYPHUS FEVER.
§ 686. Take a handful of rue, sage, and a portion of
fennel seed, pound them together ; pour two quarts of good
bottled wine thereon. Let it stand well covered for three
hours, so that the spirits may not evaporate. Drink four
spoonfuls in the morning fasting. It is good for all pestilent
diseases.
ANOTHER.
§ 687. Take rue, sage, rosemary, and the inner bark of the
mountain ash, a handful of each. Take vinegar, mix the
lees, and pour upon the herbs in a distillery, so as to extract
the spirits by distillation. Drink a spoonful night and
morning. Pour some also into your nostrils, and wash
your brows, pcrinoi'um, loins, wrists, soles, pit of stomach,
chest, and neck with the same. This will preserve you
from every pestilence.
ANOTHER.
§ 688. Boil some vinegar, put in an earthen jar, and add
a portion of spirits. Inhale the vapour into your mouth and
nostrils ; then drink some of the liquid the first thing in
the morning.
ANOTHER.
§ 689. Bruise the leaves of sage and rue, a handful of
each, and put in a glass bottle, with spirits of wine. Let
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it be carefully stoj)pcrc(l, so that the spirits may not evap-
orate. Let a spoonful be drank every morning.
ANOTHER.
§ 690. Take a good handful of rue, sage, and wood sage ;
bruise carefully, and put in an unglazcd earthen vessel.
Pour two quarts of white wine vinegar thereon, cover care-
fully, and let it stand six hours ; then wash your whole body
therewith in the morning when you get up, and drink a
spoonful thereof. This by God's help will preserve you.
It is an excellent protection against a pestilence.
ANOTHER.
§ 691. Wash in sea water, and scrub your whole body
well daily. In addition to this, wash your whole body with
wine or vinegar once a day, and drink a spoonful of sea
water every hour.
ANOTHER.
§ 692. Take marigold, pound well with good wine, vinegar,
strong mead, or strong old ale. Strain carefully, and drink
a good draught in the morning fasting, whilst the pestilence
lasts. If you are taken ill, you need no other than this as
your only drink. It is a good preservative against the
foreign pestilence, called the plague.
ANOTHER.
^ 693. Gather wood sage, rosmary, sage, red mint, and
southernwood. Dry thoroughly, and fill a mattress there-
with, on which sleep an hour every morning, where there
may be a person at hand to awake you. Take care not to
sleep thereon for more than an hour, lest the sleep becomes
too heavy. Having risen, wash your hands and face with
vinegar, drinking a mouthful thereof also. You should
drink some good wine once a day, avoiding meat, except
mutton two or three times a week, with well baked wheaten
bread.
ANOTHER.
§ 694. Take a portion of rue, mint, sage, and rosemary ;
pound them well, sprinkling with vinegar, or white wine
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nicanwliilc. Then strain under a press, boil till it becomes
thick; add a little honey and marigold seed. "When cold,
make this extract into pills, of the size of peas, and take
one every two hours of the day, as long as the pestilence
continues, and if the sweating disease be the epidemic, then
incorporate as much as you can * • * i instead
of the marigold seed, with the extract, when making it
into pills.
FOR PARALYSIS.
§ 695. Rub your whole body with oil of olives once a
day, and scrub it well. Then anoint the nape of the neck
and spine as far as the sacrum, with warm honey, scrubbing
well. The whole body should then be rubbed soundly, and
the patient should go to bed, and cover himself well, till
ho perspires. When the perspiration has ceased, go to the
seaside, and wear flannel about your back and chest. This
plan, with God's help, will cure you.
FOR THE MEASLES.
§ 696. Take apples, and cut small ; also the same weight
of honey, and put in an unglazed earthen pot on the fire, or
before the fire, till it is sufficiently baked. Then mix well,
and add some fine scrapings of new ^wax thereto. Boil it
so that the whole may be made into a confection. Take a
spoonful fasting each day.
FOR PAIN IN THE JOINTS, FROM COLD, SPRAIN, OR INJURY.
§ 697. Take a cupful of good old ale, some scrapings of
•wax or honey : boil together till it becomes thick ; spread on
a cloth, and apply to the painful part.
A CONFECTION FOR A PESTILENCE.
§ 698. Take rue, sage, andbetony ; pound well with honey
and some vinegar, till they are so thoroughly incorporated,
that one cannot be distinguished from another. Take as
much as an acorn thereof every two hours, and an hour
afterwards take three spoonfuls of strong wine. Take honey
^ Text ilocs not state what.
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also, and suet ; incorporate thorouf^hly in a mortar, and keej)
as much as an acorn of this confection in your mouth to
dissolve gradually. Anoint your whole body also with the
same once a week at least.
COMMON AND ERUPTIVE FEVERS.
§ 699. Take ground ivy, pound well with wine, and strain
under a press. Drink a spoonful or two every hour. Drink
an infusion of the same herb when thirsty.
FOR HOARSENESS.
§ 700. Take wood sorrel, or garden sorrel, and garlick ;
pound them well till they are thoroughly incorporated ;
then take mutton suet, melt, strain, and mix with honey,
in equal parts. Let this mixture be incorporated carefully
with the pounded herbs, and take a portion of the confection
into your mouth, so that it may dissolve gradually, and
swallow as it dissolves. When it is done, take some again
and again, till the hoarseness is removed.
ANOTHER.
§ 701. Take the roots of nettles, dry thoroughly, and
powder. Let this powder be incorporated with honey and
unsalted butter. A spoonful should be taken night and
morning.
SQUAMOUS ERUPTION.*
§ 702. Take the leaves of burdock, pound them well with
a little wine, and strain. Take three spoonfuls, night,
morning, and noon, and let a decoction of burdock be your
only drink. The part should be fomented with the decoction
also, as hot as you can bear it, and anoint it afterwards
with an unguent composed of wine, olive oil, and honey.
Proven.
There arc two kinds of painful and dangerous affections ;
even wounds inflicted by poisonous reptiles, and poison. To
these the human body is subject, and it is needful to avoid
them. Thus are they treated.
* Lepra, psoriasis, !uiil pityriasis.
PHYSICIANS OF MYDDVAI. 421
FOR THE BITE OF AN ADDER.
§ 703. Take plantain, and knapweed, mix thcni with water,
and let them be your only drink. By God's help it will
cure you.
ANOTHER.
§ 704-. Take the juice of plantain, and oil of olives ; drink
a portion, and anoint the part with the remainder.
ANOTHER.
§ 705. Drink decoction of mu^^wort, and foment the part
therewith as well.
ANOTHER.
§ 70G. Take the brains of a red cock, the juice of rue, and
sweet milk, or butter milk : apply it to the part ; or you
may apply a raven warm to the part, milk being your only
drink or food till you arc cured.
ANOTHER.
§ 707. If the patient is a man, hold a red cock by the
anus to the wound, till he dies ; if a woman, let the same
be done with a hen.
ANOTHER.
§ 708. Take a thong of buck skin, and bind the limb each
side of the wound, then procure a living hen, feather it about
the rump, and hold the part to the wound, till you find it swell-
ing ; then apply another in the same way, till the poison is
extracted, and let the patient drink a decoction of the follow-
ing herbs, even the elder and knapweed, or centaury ; or he
may take a decoction of feverfew, and subsist upon milk.
This will cure him, be he man or beast.
FOR THE BITE OF AN ASP.
§ 709. Take bull's dung, and apply thereto warm.
FOR THE BITE OF A DISEASED DOG.*
§ 710. Take plantain, and agrimony, pound them with
white of eggs, honey, and old lard. Prepare an ointment
of them, and anoint the part.
* A mad dog.
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ANOTHER.
§711. Take leeks, vinegar, the seed of red fennel, and
honey ; mix well, and apply as a plaster to the part.
FOR POISON.
§ 71 2. Take two nuts, and three dry figs, rue leaves, and
thirty-five grains of salt. Let it be administered to the
patient fasting, and let him subsist upon milk alone for forty
eight hours.
ANOTHER.
§ 713. Take centaury, betony, sage, fennel, and scentless
dame's violet ; pound them well, mix with wine, and express.
Let an egg shellful be taken thereof every hour. This is
useful for the bite of a mad dog, or an adder, applying also
mallow leaves to the bitten part.
ANOTHER.
§ 714. Take betony, dry and powder ; then take twice as
much as you can raise up between your two fingers of this
powder, and mix with L L of wine, boiling till it is reduced
to a third. This beino; drank fastinjr will be of service.
FOR DISEASE AND PAIN OF THE FEET.*
§ 715. Boil the roots of tutsan, and pour upon curds.
Pound the same with old lard, and apply as a plaster. By
God's help it will cure it.
FOR A CONTUSION OF THE NAIL.
§ 716. Apply a mixture of wheaten meal and honey
thereto.
FOR WEARINESS IN WALKING.
§ 71 7. Drink an egg shellful of the juice of mugwort, and
it will remove your weariness.
TO REDUCE SW^ELLING IN THE FEET.
§ 718. Take violet, wild campion, sorrel, agrimony, plan-
tain, marigold, daisy, barley meal, unsalted butter, lard, and
the white of eggs. Make them into a plaster, and apply
* Chilblains.
PHYSICIANS OF MYDDVAI. 428
thereto, and if it be liot it will reduce it ; but if the disease
be cold, take water cress, radish, plantain, rue, dittany, and
red nettles, boiled in red wine, and apply.
As the nature of many diseases is unknown, and the way
in which they should be treated uncertain, unless the inter-
nal character of the same be demonstrated, it is herein
stated in what way a man\s flesh may be layed open whilst
the diseases are being relieved.
THE FOLLOWING IS A POTION WIIICII WILL INDUCE SLEEP,
WHILST ANY DISEASED PART IS BEING OPENED.
§ 719. Drink the juice of orpine, eringo, poppy, mandrake,
ground ivy, hemlock, and lettuce, of each equal parts. Let
clean earth be mixed with them, and a potion pre-
pared, then without doubt the patient will sleep. When
you arc prepared to operate upon the patient, direct that he
should avoid sleep as long as he can, and then let some of
the potion be poured into his nostrils, and he will sleep
without fail.
AVhen you wish to awake him, let a sponge be pounded in
vinegar, and put in his nostrils.
If you wish that he should not awake for four days, get a
pennyweight of the wax from a dog''s ear, and the same
quantity of pitch ; administer it to the patient, and he
will sleep.
When you would that he should awake, take an onion,
compounded with vinegar, and pour some into his mouth,
and he will awake. Take care that you keep him quiet, and
warned of the operation, lest he should bo disturbed.
SOME PRECIOUS UNGUENTS.
§ 720. As to bites and contusions (noxious potions and
all medicaments, other than precious unguents being except-
ed,) that wise man, Tholomeus testifies thus : —
When the moon is in the ascendant in scorpio, or cancer,
or pisccs, they being influenced by the sign of the sun,
the moon being obscured by the earth, these are favour-
able aspects for administering fluid medicines. If the
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moon should be high in the sky, it is said that sucli medi-
caments will turn aside excessive oppression and anger, on
■which account see that you order such as take a fluid
medicine, to walk, and inhale the eastern air. But when
he is confined to his room, let him prefer a western aspect,
and use it. The lord of this sign will not continue to
govern the signs, save for the first two days in each of the
twelve ; and when those two days are passed, let the physi-
cian exercise his craft and skill as may be most proper.
The following is a most notable unguent, useful for a
variety of bodily disturbances, that is to say ; it is useful
for all abscesses and impostumes and diseases, every kind of
erysipelas, and cancer, even when extending from one rib to
another. It will cleanse every part within and without a
man's body, whether a child or a man, so that he will not
require a second remedy, whatever be the nature or extent
of the wound, or the amount of constitutional irritation
present.
Take the following herbs ; bugle, hound's tongue, brook-
weed, cleere eye, agrimony, scurvy grass, ribwort, plantain,
chamomile, wild clary, strawberry leaves, white ox eye, daisy,
wood sorrel, avens, herb Robert, a handful of each ; honey-
wort, as much as all the herbs together, and half as much
as the weight of the herbs of clarified butter ; then pound
the butter and the herbs together, and let it stand for five
days. In five days boil the mass, and strain through a fine
linen cloth, just washed. Keep it in a safe vessel, and when
you desire to cure some patient of the above disease, let him
swallow or eat as much as a nut of the above unguent, with
some white wine, and the same should be done at night till
he is well. This is termed edible ointment.
The following is an infallible remedy, called The Grace of
God, and this name it obtained in consequence of its unfail-
ing effects, upon any wound, old or recent. In one night it
will heal more safely and perfectly than all other ointments
and plasters in a month ; by doing more to cleanse ulcers,
11 intractable diseases, or morbid granulations, unaided.
PHYSICIANS OF MYDDVAI. 425
wherever it is used. It will restore any ruptured or swollen
tendons, veins, or joints, into as sound a condition as they
ever were in. It is a powerful remedy for any great swelling,
whether an inflamed or a white swelling.
It should be prepared in the following manner. Take a
pound weight of tormcntil, fine rosin four drams, as much
of virgin wax, and of a certain shrub, similar to the broom,
called maglys and in Latin mariUsse* three handfuls. Take
as much also of the following herbs, betony, brook weed,
wild clary, vervain, and calamint, the blessed rosin, -f- or
strepuledium, and a product or sort of wine, called bahi
halsami.^ Boil them together in a gallon of white wine, till
they are reduced to the half; then incorporate and mix them
again, when mastic, virgin wax, and a small quantity of
woman"'s milk, who suckles a boy, should be added. And
thus should it be mixed and stirred without ceasing ; then
removed from the fire again, the tormentil, fine rosin, and
balsam being added previously. When cooled, it should be
kept in a clean vessel. Thus is the " Grace of God " pre-
pared. The weight of the strepuledium should be that of
two wheat strains.
THUS IS A STIMULATING UNGUENT PREPARED.
§ 721. Take the plant called chaste tree, or red vitex,
agrimony, and dwarf elder ; pound them well, and set them
on the fire with butter, and * * * * * §
and strain through a linen cloth; applying it to the head
warm as a plaster.
AN EFFECTIVE OINTMENT FOR ANY PAIN OF A COLD NATURE.
§ 722, Take sage, birthwort, ambrosia, || wood sage, broom
.flowers, agrimony, the roots of the cinquefoil, dwarf elder,
and heath. Pound them well in a mortar, and put them in
a little wine, and a quantity of oil of olives, then let them
* Medicago.
+ Frankincense in all probalulity.
X Balm of (xilead, or Balsanium Gileadense.
§ Corner of MSS. torn. || Atriplex olida.
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42G PHYSICIANS OF MYDDVAI.
digest for seven days, After that let tliern be boiled, mixed
with lard, goat''s suet, unsalted butter, mutton suet, and wax.
Strain well through a cloth, and add f/odarsia-f and rosin
thereto.
A PRECIOUS OINTMENT FOR ANY KIND OF SORE.
§ 723. Take mutton suet, a he-goafs suet, old lard, bitter
ladies'* smock, avens, wood sage, and brook weed, or when
not to be had, privet. Pound, and boil together, straining
through linen. Keep it carefully, as it is truly useful.
THE FOLLOWING IS AN OINTMENT PREPARED BY HIPPOCRATES,
FOR PARALYSIS, OR SUCH ACHES.
§ 724. Get a fat gander, and extract the fat, also twice as
much of the fat of a torn cat, and as much of that of a wild
cat, the fat of a fox, a quantity of pepper, a hen''s fat,
rosin, two onions, a pennyweight of new wax, bitter ladies'"
smock, avens, hyssop, privet, and hemp agrimony ; pound
them all, and stuff the gander therewith, roasting it before the
fire as long as any thing exudes. Take them from the
gander, and boil afterwards in butter and rosin, olibanum
being added. Strain through linen, and keep well and care-
fully. Anoint any such cold ache well by the fire.
AN OINTMENT TO HEAL WOUNDS.
§ 725. Take old lard, frankincense, and wax ; put them
on the fire to melt, and str^n through linen, then when cold,
spread with a spatula on linen. Remove it from the part
twice a day, then warm, and re-apply. Each time it is
warmed, run the spatula all over it.
ANOTHER.
§ 726. Take the juice of nettles, the juice or powder of
valerian, the juice of dwarf elder, clear honey, the white of
an egg, and wine in equal parts. Add some wheat flour
thereto, and incorporate them as a plaster. It should be
spread on linen, and applied to the wound night and morning,
till it is cured.
* Gondron do Iwrdcaiix, French tar prepared from tlie Pimis inaritiinus.
PHYSICIANS OF MYDDVAI. 427
FOR SCROPHULA.
§ 727. Take plantain, clary, elder leaves, agrimony, cud-
weed, knapweed, strawberry leaves and orpine, with unsalted
butter : express through clean linen, and keep for the pur-
pose of fomenting the part. Prepare a potion for the patient
also, with strawberry leaves, orpine, and the vervain, pound-
ing them with wine or ale, or boilinjj them in water. Let
the patient have this for his only drink, for it is truly useful.
THE FOLLOVriNG IS A HEALING SALVE.
§ 728. Take the male speedwell, violet, borage, ribwort,
plantain, betony, pimpernel, and hyssop, in equal parts.
Pound, and add butter thereto, being first thoroughly clar-
ified before it is added to the herbs. Boil the herbs with
the butter as long as you would boil lamb, or salmon,
straining it through a new cloth, and keeping.
ANOTHER.
§ 729. Take two pennyworth of rosin, a cupful of mutton
suet, and twice as much of new wax. Melt them together,
remove from the fire, and strain. Divide the molten matter
into two parts ; colour one part with three obolus weight of
verdigris, leaving the other simply coloured by the herbs.
TITUS IS A YELLOAV SALVE PREPARED.
§ 730. A couple* of rosin, twice as much of tallow, half as
much of wax, and half a cupful of clarified butter : boil and
strain through linen. Colour half with verdigris, and boil
a little honey with the remainder, leaving it yellow.
TO PREPARE A YELLOW UNGUENT.
§ 731 . Take new wax, yellow rosin, clarified butter, and
more mutton suet than the whole together. Boil them to-
gether for a while, remove from the fire, and strain through
linen.
* Cwj)l ill CaidigansUire sigiiiH<-.- .i .-...,... ,...aitity.
428 PHYSICIANS OF MYDDVAI.
TO PREPARE A GREEN HEALING SALVE.
§ 732. Take wax, rosin, clarified honey, betony, violet,
borage, and ribwort plantain. Let the meltable articles be
molten, and the herbs pounded well and boiled therewith,
Let them be on the fire for a short while, then remove,
strain through a clean cloth, and let it cool, when it should
be kept.
TO DESTROY A CANCER.
§ 733. Take mastic,* camphor, and frankincense, in equal
parts : bruise, and incorporate in a clean vessel, then keep
it in a clean bladder. When you proceed to treat the disease,
get a shovelful of burning oak, cast a silver spoonful of the
powder thereon, and hold the cancer over it. This, if con-
tinued, will destroy it.
TO PREPARE A ROLL OF PLASTER.
§ 734. Take six egg shellfuls of oil of olives, and twice as
much of red lead. Grind the le^d wiih the oil, and put on the
fire in a^brass vessel, mixing it well with a stick. Take a pew-
ter plate in your hand, and strike the stick thereon from time
to time, till you find the plaster becoming black. Then remove
it, and let it stand till it begins to cool, when you should
make it in rolls, covering it with paper before it is quite cool.
Let it cool fully, then keep.
TO PREPARE A DRAWING PLASTER.
§ 735 . Take wax, rosin, tar, and lard, and place them on the
fire. There should be equal parts of the wax and rosin, the
proportion of the tar being a pennyweight. Let the whole
be boiled to the hardness of wax.
A CATAPLASM FOR A SPRAIN, SWELLING, OR THORN.
§ 736. Take biting stone crop, and butter, pound them
together, warm a short while by the fire, and apply three
or^four times to the swelling.
* " Tastic " must be a corruption of nia^tif ,
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TO PllEPARE A DRY PLASTER.
§ 737. Take the roots of elecampane, bruise and boil well :
add the milk of a one coloured cow ; mix well, then reject
the roots, and mix fine wheat meal, or barley meal with
the decoction. Honey, and a little rosin should also be
added, the whole being boiled till thick ; then remove from
the fire, and keep in a clean vessel. "When you apply it to
the diseased part, mix some lard therewith, so that it might
not be too dry.
TO MAKE A POWDER OF THE WHITE OF EGGS.
§ 738. Take a broad baking stone, and lay on the fire,
lay white of eggs thereon till it becomes black, then scrape
it oif, and keep carefully.
FOR PHAGEDENIC ULCERATION ;
BEING A DISEASED OR CANCER-LIKE CONDITION OF THE FLESH, SOMETIMES
SPREADING I.NTO THE THROAT. A.ND ABOUT THE LIPS, PHARYNX, OR ROOT OP
THE TONGUE.
§ 739. Take a cupful of vinegar, the same of the juice of
parsley, half a cupful of honey, and as much of treacle ; mix
powdered frankincense therewith, till it is of the thickness
of pap. Let it be applied till a cure takes place. It is the
best application, if continued without interruption till the
sore is well.
HEALING OINTMENT.
§ 740. Take avens, violet, daisy, bugle, ribwort plantain,
and feverfew; pound, and boil them well with fresh butter,
and strain. Keep it, for it is useful.
AN UNGUENT FOR SCROPHULOUS SORES.
§ 741. Take bay leaves, violet, daisy, knapweed, milfoil,
the powder of marsh mallows, and the marrow of an aged
ox ; compound, boil, and strain.
A HEALING SALVE WHEN THE SKIN IS WOUNDED.
§ 742. Take unsalted butter, and set on the fire, skimming
the surface as it forms ; then take male speedwell, and
bugle, in equal parts, (or milfoil, if bugle is not at hand,)
and boil them well with the butter. If you add bur-reed, the
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ointment will be no worse. Let them be on the fire, adding a
portion of the above herbs, so that the ointment may be of
adequate thickness. Let it boil as long«s lamb ; add a little
now wax, mixing it thoroughly. Boil a while again : when
removing from the fire, add a spoonful of clarilied honey,
carefully mixing the whole, and warming it thoroughly.
Remove, stir well, strain through a coarse linen, and keep.
If you wish to prepare some that will act as an escharotic,
get some alum or sulphate of copper in powder, sprinkle
some therof on the surface of the salve in a box, or a wide
shallow dish, stir it well till it cools. This is useful as an
escharotic for the destruction of proud flesh.
THUS IS A YELLOW SALVE PREPARED.
§ 743. Take a bottle of rosin, twice as much of mutton
suet, as much of wax, and half a cupful of clarified butter ;
boil together, remove from the fire, and strain. Colour half
of this salve with verdigris, and mix a little honey with the
other, boiling it longer, so that it may retain its yellow
colour. It should be kept carefully in a clean vessel for use.
A LOTION TO HEAL A WOUND OF THE INTEGUMENTS,
BONES, OR WHATEVER OTHER PARTS MAY REQUIRE THE USE OF AN ESCHAROTIC.
§ 744. Take plantain, daisy, ribwort plantain, and a gallon
of cold spring water; pound the herbs, and boil in water.
Add a pound of alum thereto, and let it boil down to a third.
The lotion is then ready.
A FOMENTATION OR WASH FOR A BURNING OR RED
INFLAMMATION, THE RESULT OF DROPSY, FIRE, OR SUN HEAT, A BRUISE, OR
HURTFUL DISEASE AFFECTING THE PART.
§ 746. Take equal parts of milk and water, mallow
flowers, the berries, or middle bark of elder, pennywort, and
(Avhen obtainable) wood sorrel, common sorrel, or French
(garden) sorrel ; boil in the milk and water, and anoint the
part therewith somewhat briskly. Then apply as much as
may be required of the boiled herbs to the part, as a poultice,
changing it every six hours.
PHYSICIANS OF MYDDVAI. 431
FOR ERYSIPELAS.
§ 746. Take fumitory, stone crop, house leek, yellow stone
crop, Jew's ear, gro^vn on the elder, a glove full of each, or of
as many as you can obtain ; pound well in a mortar, boil in
unsalted butter, and strain through a cloth. This will
quench, and cause it to fade away, so that it will cure it, if
it is applied in the morning frequently.
FOR AN ABSCESS.
§ 747. Take mutton suet, oatmeal, foxglove, and maiden
hair ; boil them till they become a thick mass. Apply it to
the part, and it will draw it.
FOR WEAK WATERY EYES.
§ 748. Take an earthenware vessel, and melt brimstone
therein, till two or three times the thickness of your nail
covers it. When you go to bed at night, make water in the
same vessel, and in the morning wash your eyes therewith ;
then pour it off, and make your morning water, therein.
Let this stand therein till night, washing your eyes therewith
in going to bed. The morning water is best, being stronger
than the evening one. If your hearing is hard, dip some
black wool therein, and put it in your ears at night in going
to bed.
FOR THE STOMACH ACHE OR COLIC.
§ 749. Take mugwort, plantain, and red nettle; boil in
goat's whey, strain through linen, and administer to the
patient.
FOR A SWELLING FROM A BLOW.
§ 750. Take water pimpernel, plantain, and fennel, in
equal parts ; pound them with rye meal, honey, and the
white of eggs. Apply it as a plaster, and the swelling will
be healed.
FOR IRRITATION AND CLOUDINESS OF THE EYE.
§ 751. Take the juice of celandine, pound the herb well
with breast milk, whereon a male child is nursed, or the
urine of a yearling child. Strain through a press, and apply
the juice on a feather to your eye.
432 PHYSICIANS OF MYDDVAI.
ANOTHKR.
§ 752. Pound celandino witli goafs milk, and strain
through a press. Mix with a little honey, and apply to your
eye with a feather, three times a day.
FOR JAUNDICE.
§ 753. Take dandelion, corn blue bottle, and garden
parsley ; then pound them well with good strong old ale,
and keep it carefully in a narrow mouthed water bottle. Let
it be used the first thing in the morning an hour before food,
and the last thing an hour at night after food. The dose
should be from four egg shellfuls to a pint.
ANOTHER.
§ 754. Take the sprigs of barbary, and the leaves if obtain-
able ; bruise, and boil well in sound strong ale, till it is re-
duced to a third, and let it be your only drink.
FOR EXANTHEMATOUS CONTAMINATION OF THE HUMORS.
§ 755. Take the roots and seed of nettles ; pound well,
then boil in good cider of half a year or a year old. Let
this be your only drink. The best cider is that made with
good sour winter apples.
ANOTHER.
§ 756. Take apples, and bake or boil them ; mix them
with kine or goat's milk, and let it be your only food or drink
for a month or nine weeks, according to the strength of tlie
disease. This food is exceedingly good for lung pock^* or
blood pock,t and it will also neutralize the poison of scrophula.
It was by means of this treatment that Hywel Feddyg, of
Llangynwyd, cured Edward the Confessor, when there was
not a physician in Christendom who would promise him an
hour of life in consequence of the violence of the lung disease.
The Emperor Antonius also made use of it at every
spring, and the fall of the leaf, and was thereby preserved
* Inflammation or tubercles of tlie lung,
•f- Scurvy.
niYSICTANS OF MYDDVAI. 433
from every eruptive poison of the blood and humors, wliich
is tlie active cause of all eruptive and suppurative diseases
incident to a man''s body.
FOR BLEEDING AT THE NOSE.
§ 757. Take a nettle, pound it well, and fill your nos-
trils therewith.
TO DESTROY PARASITES.
§ 758. Take milfoil, pound them well, and apply to the
part affected.
FOR PAIN IN THE EYE.
§ 759. Apply the yolk of eggs and wheat meal over each
brow, and it will heal them.
FOR IIEMORRIIOIDES.
§ 7G0. Take lime, and the roots of fern ; pound them
together, apply to the part, and they will cure it.
ANOTHER.
§ 761. Boil the roots of fern in spring water till it is re-
duced to the half, and pour upon a small lump of quick lime.
When it has settled, pour off" the clean liquor, and wash
the piles.
TO KNOW WHETHER THE PATIENT WILL LIVE OR DIE,
§ 762. Bruise violets, apply to the patient''s eyebrows ; if
he sleep, he will live, if not, he will die.
TO DESTROY WARTS.
§ 763. Pound willow bark with verjuice or vinegar, and
apply them.
TO EASE HEAT AND PAIN IN WOUNDS.
§ 764. Take the roots of marsh mallows, and the
middle bark of ekkr, equal parts of each, add thereto an
equal quantity of white wine, and boil well till it becomes
thick ; then spread this on a well stretched linen cloth as a
poultice, and ai)plv to the wound. If the wound closes
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434 PHYSICIANS OF MYDDVAl.
prematurely, get the herb called white bryony, make it
into a plaster, apply thereto, and it will open it.
FOR DIARHOEA.
§ 765. Take the yolk of seven eggs, twice as much of
clarified honey, the medullary portion of a wheaten loaf re-
duced to fine crumbs, and a pennyworth of powdered pepper ;
boil them together, and eat warm, refraining from drinking
subsequently as long as you can. Use this food till you
recover, for it is the most salutary article of diet in the
world.
There is a variety of chronic diseases which oppress the
heart of man, producing faintness, difficulty of breathing,
and heat in the cardiac region. It is only by much studious
and diligent science, aided by eflfective medicines that they
can be cured.
FOR DISEASE OF THE HEART.
§ 766. Take the centaury, boil in good old ale, then pound
the herbs, and boil again in the same liquor. After this
strain it through a clean cloth, add a spoonful of clarified
honey, and boil again. Let it be kept in a covered pot, and
three spoonfuls given daily to the patient whilst fasting.
This will indeed remove the oppression from the heart, and
restore the desire for food and drink, if God will.
THE OPPRESSION OF THE HEART.
§ 767. Take the juice of fennel and honey; boil together
till they become hard, and eat a portion of the same the
first thing in the morning before food, and the last thing in
the evening after food. It Avill cure you by God's help.
TO PREPARE A GARGLE.
§ 768. Take rosemary, sage, hyssop, alum, and good ale ;
set on the fire, and boil till the quart is reduced to a pint.
Having boiled it, let it be used warm, and that daily for a
week.
PHYSICIANS OF MYDDVAI. 435
THE FOLLOWING IS THK TREATMENT EMPLOYED BY RIIIW-
ALLON FEDDYG FOR THE UELIEF OF CONSTIPATION,
§ 769. Take small beer, unsalted butter, and wheat bran ;
boil them well, strain, and pour into a bladder, in which in-
sert a quill, firmly binding; the bladder about it. This pipe
should be passed into the patient's rectum, his head being as
low, and his pelvis as high as can conveniently be. The
bladder should then be compressed, and the fluid forced into
the body.
AN EMETIC.
§ 770. Take the seed of asarabacca, boil in good ale, and
strain. Let this be given to the patient.
A SALVE TO RELIEVE PAIN, AND CURE A CONTUSED WOUND,
§ 771. Take the flesh of a fat sow of ripe age, and melt the
fat, letting it stand till the salt falls to the bottom. Take
as much of new wax, and boil therewith, adding powdered
mastic, and frankincense thereto, incorporating them well, till
the mass becomes thick as honey. It should be spread with
a spatula, on cloth or leather, and applied to the affected
part twice daily. It will heal it, and remove the pain.
FOR THE COLIC.
§ 772. Pound watercress well, adding soft spring water
thereto, and oat groats, boiling both to a gruel, straining
carefully. Let it be taken an hour before or after food, the
first thing and the last thing for three succeeding days.
TO PROCURE SLEEP.
§ 773. Cut the lily whilst the sun is in Leo, and mix the
juice of the shrub called laurel, or in Latin laicrics,'^ there-
with ; put them in a heap of manure, covering them with
plenty of the same, and they will generate worms. Take
these Avorms and powder, then put the powder about the
patient's throat, or in his clothes, and he will sleep till it is
removed.
* Laurus.
436 rnYsiciANS of myddvai.
TO KNOW WHETHER A MAN "WHO HAS BEEN SEVERELY BEATEN
WILL RECOVER OR NOT.
§ 774. Take the juice of mouse ear hawk weed, mixed
with white wine, and let the patient drink it. If he vomits,
lie will live, if not, he will die.
ANOTHER METHOD OF PROGNOSIS.
§ 776. Bruise some violets, and apply to the eyebrows of
the patient ; if he sleep, he will live, if not, he will die.
ANOTHER PROGNOSIS.
§ 777. Take the violet, bruise and bind about the fore-
finger; if he sleep, he will live, if not, he will die. You
should accertaiu this before you interfere with the case.
FOR THE CARBUNCLE.*
§ 778. Take the roots of the lily, wash carefully, bruise
well, and boil in white wine, till it is reduced to the half,
strainincr through new linen. Let it be administered to the
patient ; it will break the carbuncle, and cure the patient.
FOR BOILS.
§ 779. Take musk mallow, lard, and earthworms; bruise
together, and apply to the affected part.
ANOTHER.
§ 780. Take the yolk of an egg, and salt ; pound into a
plaster, and apply thereto.
WHEN A MAN IS AFFECTED WITH PLAGUE, OR BLACK
POCK.t
§ 781. Take white ox eye, (when the centre has become
black) tormentil, rue, and if you like add a leaf of bay;
wash these carefully, bruise with water, and administer to
the patient in strong ale as hot as he can take it. Let this
be done whilst the patient is in bed between sheets, and near
a good fire, so that he may perspire freely. By God's help,
the eruption will be transferred to the sheets.
* I'laguu.
f Alaligiiaiit Huiall pox, mostly in cachcclic subjects, the pustules being black
from effused blood.
PHYSICIANS OF MYDDVAI. 437
FOR A THORN WOUND.
§ 782. Take lard, and the roots of red nettles j pound
well, and apply thereto nine times. With God's help it
will cure it.
FOR SEMINAL WEAKNESS.
§ 783. Take powdered pennyroyal, and powdered anise-
seed, and administer them to the patient in soup, or sauce.
This will prevent the flux by God's help.
FOR SCABIES.
§ 784. Take the roots of the archangel, boil well, and boil
a portion of garlick in another water. Take a good draught
of the decoction, and wash your whole body therewith every
morninir. Boil the residue of the archancjel and irarlick in
uusalted butter, make into an ointment, and anoint your
whole body therewith for nine mornings.
The following arc the virtues and properties of various
medicinal herbs useful to man.
THE VIRTUES OF SAGE.
§ 785. They are useful when boiled to strengthen the
nerves. If an infusion sweetened with honey is drank, it is
useful for the lungs. If the foetus in utero is dead, let the
woman boil sage with white wine, strain it carefully, and
she will be delivered of the same with safety to her life.
Also pound this herb, apply to a poisoned wound, and it
will extract the venom ; though the wound be full of cor-
ruption, it Avill be cleansed to the very bottom, if dressed
with this herb. Let some thereof be taken, pounded small,
and the juice mixed with white wine, or the pounded herb
macerated in white wine. Strong wort, or old mead for a
nio^ht and strained, then drank fasting. By God's help it
will cure the patient. It is a good thing for those in health
to drink half a drauirht in the morninfr fastin*' of this
potion, in order to preserve health, and prolong life.
438 PHYSICIANS OF MYDDVAI.
THE VIRTUE OF THE IRIS.
§ 786. The iris is a herb, having a white flower, and its
virtues are, that its juice, mixed with honey and wine will
dissolve urinary calculus. It will also cure the ague and
jaundice, as well as nervousness. When you have no wine,
take the juice in strong sound mead, or strong malt wort.
It is hot and dry.
THE FOLLOWING ARE THE VIRTUES OF THE NETTLE.
§ 787. Take the juice of this herb mixed with white wine,
strain carefully, and let it cool. Drink some thereof night
and morning ; it will cure you of the jaundice, renovate the
blood, and remove any disease existing therein. If the juice
is taken, mixed half and half with barley wort, it will cure
the pleurisy in the sidcj and will renovate and invigorate an
aged man in body and mind. If the seed of the nettle in
powder is taken, mixed with wine, it is very useful for wind
colic, strangury, or a chronic cough, and will reduce a swell-
ing, producing a flow of urine without harm to the bladder.
THESE ARE THE VIRTUES OF THE BETONY.
§ 788. He who will habituate himself to drink the juice,
will escape the strangury. If it is boiled in white wine, and
drank, it will cure the colic, and swelling of the stomach.
Pounding it small, expressing the juice and applying it with
a feather to the eye of a man, will clear and strengthen his
sight, and remove specks from the eye. The juice is a good
thing to drop into the ears of those who are deaf. The
powder mixed with honey is useful for those who cough ; it
will remove the cough and benefit many diseases of the lungs.
It is good for the ague when it comes, and if taken in
its absence, it will not attack a man that year. If boil-
ed with leek seed, it will cure the eye, and brighten as
well as strengthen the sight. And a wise man has said that
if reduced to powder, a snake would rather be broken to
pieces, than pass through the powder ; and should there be
swelling in the stomach, it will reduce it, if boiled with wine
and figs, and then given the patient in bed. It is a good thing
PHYSCIAINS OF MYDDVAI. 439
to mix it with the juice of red fennel, and clear honey, fur
it will certainly clear the eyes ; curing them if diseased, and
strengthening the five senses wonderfully.
THE FOLLOWING ARE THE VIRTUES OF PARSLEY, CALLED
PETROSJLIWM* IN LATIN.
§ 789. The parsley is a good herb of a warm hot nature,
and moist in the third degree. It is useful in all food as a
generator of blood. It will remove obstructions of the veins
and arteries in a man's body, so that the humors may cir-
culate properly as they should. This it will certainly do.
It is also well to employ parsley for the relief of fainting,
tertian ague, pleurisy, and dropsy, the juice being taken
for three days successively, without any other drink. It
will stimulate the spirits greatly, and strengthen the stomach.
There is a kind of parsley called in Welsh perllys yr hel,
because it grows in such places as are occasionally overflowed
by the tide, and is of a salt nature. In Latin it is called
petroselinwm marinwm^ and is good in all obstructions of
the urine and humors of the body, as well as colic and
strangury, the juice being taken. The juice is useful
to destroy unhealthy granulations in a wound. It will grow
in gardens, where it should be kept wherever the sea is
distant.
THE VIRTUES OF THE FENNEL, CALLED FUh!ICULWM\ IN
LATIN.
§ 790. The fennel is warm and dry in the second degree,
and is useful for diseases of the eye. It is good for every
kind of poison in a man's body, being drank in the form of
powder mixed with white wine or strong old mead. It is use-
ful for tertian ague, and inflammatory fever ; and if the
seed or herb is boiled in water, till it is strong of the virtues
of the herb, and the head, when subject to the headache,
washed therewith, it will greatly benefit and cure the same,
when the headache is occasioned by cold or fever. It will
remove the headache very quickly.
* I'ctrosi'liiium. f Funiouhini.
440 PHYSICIANS OF MYDDVAI.
THE FOLLOWING ARK THE VIRTUES OF ROSEMARY, CALLED
v.'inu'yNU'VDD, and 7205^1 marixa* in latin.
§ 701. Rosemary is warm and dry in the third degree,
and it is termed a shrub, because it is of a kind between a
herb and a tree.
Take the flowers of rosemary, mix with honey, and eat
them daily fasting. You will not suffer from nausea, or any
other noxious condition, as long as you use this remedy.
The flowers also are specially useful, being boiled with
honey, or white wine to the half, and strained carefully. A
spoonful or two should be drank cold in the morning, a little
honey being taken with it. A small quantity taken when
one is attacked by the colic, will remove it in three hours.
If you wish to apply it to your stomach externally, no
honey should be added thereto.
Take also the leaves of rosemary, and wood sage ; making
them into a potion, and adding honey in the same way. It
is an excellent remedy for the strangury, stone, and catarrh.
It will disintegrate and expel it in the water.
Also, put their flowers or leaves under your head in bed,
and you will not be troubled with disagreeable dreams, or
oppressed with anxiety of mind.
Also, if you carry a stick or fragment of this shrub, no
evil spirit can come near you, or any one do you any harm.
The rosemary has all the virtues of the stone, called jet.
Also, if you procure a spoon made of the stock or root of
this shrub, in the day you drink some broth with it, you will
not receive harm from poison, and you will be preserved all
that day from thunder and lightning, as well as all injurious
assaults.
Also, gather the leaves of the rosemary, pound them
small, strain, and drink the juice ; it will remove all phlegm
from the head and lungs, curing it with all certainty.
Also, if a man has an urinary obstruction, let him seek the
flower or leaves, boiling them with white wine, and drink
thereof as a potion, the first thing in the mornings and the
last at night.
* IJosa Maria.
niYSICIANS OF MYDDVAI. 441
Also, if tlic flowers arc put with white wine in a distillery,
and distilled, the product will be equal to spirits of wine,
and will prove a fit substitute in all cases. It is useful as
a lotion for the head when affected with a headache from
cold or fever, or when a man is threatened with insanity.
A spoonful of this liquid with a spoonful of honey, and a
spoonful of melted butter, or thick fresh cream is useful for
a cough, or the expulsion of phlegm from the lungs.
Also, a decoction thereof is helpful to an insane person,
or one threatened with delirium ; indeed it is good for every
disorder which can exist in the human body.
It is also well to boil the flowers and leaves in water, and
to wash 3'ourself well therewith every morning, omitting to dry
it with a cloth, but leaving it to do so naturally. I3y washing
thus with perseverance, the aged will retain a youthful look
as long as they live. This water will expel phlegm from the
brain, and restrain griping in the use of purgatives. It
will expel dropsy, cure the liver, bring warmth to the nerves
and veins, dis])erso an impostume, elevate the spirits,
strengthen the bones, and increase the quantity, and im-
prove the quality of the marrow therein. It improves the
sight, and constipates the bowels, when boiled in vinegar, and
applied to the stomach of the patient. It will promote the
formation of blood, and cure the tertian ague. Should a
man have debilitated himself by venery, he will be restored
to his usual strength, if he confines himself to this as his
only drink for nine days.
It will also cure impotence, in either sex, if used with
food. When a couple are childless, let the wife, if young,
use rosemary.
Also, if a man has a cold attended with fever, let him take
rosemary, burn it, and convey the smoke into his nostrils.
It will cure hiiu perfectly.
Let him also take the water in which the flowers and
leaves shall have been boiled, addinir a little honev and
pepper, drinking it warm. It is useful for all kinds of
coughs ; this is true. Also, take the roots of the shrub, roast
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442 PHYSICIANS OF MYDDVAI.
them till they become a powder, then put O^U ^S6 d^put
<^4f/7^r f ^ 2P ^6jp'^d'zl, f4z<^ in truth.
The bark is useful for intolerable cutaneous irritation,
in consequence of a deteriorated condition of the blood.
Its root also boiled in vinegar is good to foment painful
joints with. Also rosemary and betony pounded and mixed
with pure water, is a good wash for all venomous bites,
whether animal or reptile. It will cure them without the
help of any other ointment.
THE FOLLOWING ARE THE VIRTUES OF THE SAGE, WHICH IS
CALLED SALVIA* IX LATIN.
§ 792. The sage is a herb of a hot and dry nature.
Boiled in all kinds of food and drink it is useful in nervous
cases. It is well to take a decoction thereof as the sole
drink ; honey being added renders it more useful for the
stomach. If a woman has a dead foetus in utero, let her
boil sago in white wine, and drink it cold ; she will be safely
delivered of her burden. When carefully bruised, and
applied to a poisoned wound, it will extract the poison, and
heal the Avound.
If a wound also be full of blood, let it be applied well
bruised to the same, and it will cleanse it.
When a man also has pain under his rib, let him obtain
some sage, boil it on the fire as hot as he can drink it, and
it will cure him.
Also the decoction in water, or a potion prepared with
wine, mead, or ale, is a very excellent drink for the cure of
dropsy, whooping cough, or headache.
HERE FOLLOW THE VIRTUES OF THE NETTLE.
§ 793. The nettle is a very hot and dry herb. If it
is boiled in white wine, and strained carefully through
linen, left to cool, and drank in the morning and night, it
will help a man in the jaundice.
Take the seed of nettles, make into a powder, and boil
well in spring water, goat's milk, good white wine, or strong
* Saluia.
PHYSICIANS OF MYDDVAI. 443
old mead. Tliis potion is good for an old cough, and the
colic. It will also strengthen the absorbent, and circulating
vessels, if salt bo added thereto.
Also, take the seed of the nettle, mix with pepper, and
temper with wine and honey. Let it be given as a potion,
and however untamed the body may be, it will completely
subdue it.
THE VIRTUES OF THE BLESSED THISTLE.*
§ 794. The blessed thistle is an aperient; being eaten it
will benefit headache, and the midriff, also, strengthen the
hearing. It strengthens the brain and sight, not only by eat-
ing it, but also when the juice is applied to the eye. When
juice cannot be obtained, let the powder be taken in water, the
juice being dropped into the eye. This is good for the removal
of extravasation of blood in the eyes. This herb is also a
strengthener of the intellect and memory. It is also good
for vertigo, and bleeding from the nose and mouth. The
powder mixed with honey, will promote the expectoration of
phlegm, strengthen the digestion, restore the appetite, ease
nausea, and renovate the blood. If the herb is boiled in water
and drank, it will prevent deterioration of the blood, and
preserve it in a healthy condition. If it is eaten it will
strengthen members that are weakened by paralysis, as well
as the spinal marrow and brain. It will expel the cold
humour which weakens the power of the mind, and the
strength of the body. It will also ease painful bowels, and
boiled or drank with wine, it will destroy the stone. Who-
ever will drink it in a male child's urine, will be cured of the
plague and dropsy. It will mature the carbuncles, cure
cancer and hysteria. The powder will cure hysteria in
twelve hours, and if applied to a wound, it will heal it pain-
lessly. If the herb is masticated, it will strengthen the
breath. It will cure ague if it is boiled in wine, and drank
warm a quarter of an hour before the paroxysm, the patient
being covered well with clothes, so that he may perspire. This
* Cardus Benedirtiis.
444 riiYsiciANs of myddvai.
will also cure intermittent, inflammatory, and rheumatii;
fevers. The powder also taken on warm wine, or some of the
distilled water of the herb, will quickly deliver the patient
from every poison affecting the nerves. If the decoction,
juice, or distilled water is drank, and the patient perspires
for three hours subsequently, it will cure the patient. The
powder of the herb, eaten or drank, will case pain in the
sides and chest. These are the virtues of the blessed thistle.
THE FOLLOWING ARE THE VIRTUES OF CLEAVERS, OR GOOSE
GRASS.
§ 795. The juice taken in spring and summer as the only
drink, will expel and completely destroy eruptive poison
from the blood and humors. This virus is the cause of all
eruptions, boils, scalds, scrophula, lepra, cancer, erysepelas,
pneumonia, dropsy, rheumatism, gout, strangury, all sorts
of fevers, pocks of flesh and skin, all watery diseases of the
eye, all phlegm of the head or stomach, all white swellings
of joints or other parts, every inflamed condition of the
blood and humors, every headache attended with fever, every
oppression of the chest and stomach, or submamary region,
every swelling of the legs, feet, or other parts of the body,
for there is hardly a disease affecting the human body, but
that it is occasicftied by an eruptive poison in the blood and
humors.
Their juice is thus obtained. Take the whole herb,
leaves, blossoms, and seed included, (as the season may be,)
and pound them together well ; then put in an unglazed
earthenware vessel, and fill it up without pressing them ;
then pour thereon as much as it will admit of pure spring-
water, and let it stand a night. Some say that it is best
that a quarter of it should be sea water, or water salted
as much as sea water, for the first week of drinking ; then
ceasing from the salt water, it should be taken fresh as the
only drink for nine weeks. It is wonderful how strong and
healthy you will become in that time.
Gather the herbs in spring and summer, and dry well by
the morning sun, turning them about so that the sun may
PHYSICIANS OF MYDDVAI. 445
dry them completely ; doing this during the day, and hring-
iuir them under cover at night. If not drv enouirh, do this
another day, and another again, if in consequence of rain
and fog they are not dry enough. Take care not to leave
tliem out in foggy muggy weather, as the whole virtue of
the herbs will be destroyed thereby. Gather the leaves,
flowers, and seed, and dry them separately, keeping them in
an oak chest, or a basket of wheaten straw, covered over
well. When required, take the leaves, make an infusion
thereof, and drink for three weeks ; after that make an in-
fusion of the blossoms, and drink for three weeks ; then
make an infusion of the seed, and drink for three weeks.
Thus you will proceed in God's order, the consistency of
nature, and in accord with the constitution and season of
the year.
This is the way in which an infusion is made of these
herbs ; bruise them small with your hands, and fill up an
unglazed earthen vessel therewith, covering it with running
water boiled. Before you do this, cover the herbs with the
hair-bottom of a milk strainer, so that the herbs may not
get over the edge of the vessel when the water is poured
thereon. Let the vessel stand well covered for six hours, and
use the infusion for your sole drink. The herbs should be
expressed at night under a press, and the decoction received
through a strainer into a clean vessel. It should be drank
warm in going to bed. Should there be any sort of eruption,
boil, impostumc, ringworm, scab, itching, burning, wound,
ulcer, or contusion on your body, wash it with a lotion of the
herbs, either juice or decoction. If the disease be consider-
able, apply the herbs bruised thereto. This treatment with
potions and local applications has healed the scrophula, the
skin disease called in Latin lepra, and the cancer, when it
had destroyed the flesh to the bones.
Take also the seed of the herbs when ripe, and dry in an
oven after baking two or three times. When dry enough,
powder them in a stone mortar, keeping the powder in a glass
bottle, well covered ; carry this with you on a journey, and
44G PHYSICIANS OF MYDDVAI.
take a spoonful on clear water three times a day. It will
preserve you from all kinds of complaints, and will servo
instead of food in case of necessity. It is well to do the
same with mallow seed, and to use it in the same way.
THE FOLLOWING ARE THE VIRTUES OF THE MISTLETOE.
§ 796. The mistletoe most frequently grows on the apple
tree, or the hawthorn, and occasionally on the oak, which
should be preferred, though it is a most excellent plant
wherever it grows. Its property is to strengthen the body,
more than any other plant. Gather it in Christmas time,
when the berries are quite ripe, and pick the berries from
the branches ; pour boiling water thereon, covering the
vessel in which they are contained, and setting it to stand
near the fire, so that it may simmer a night and a day.
It should be then strained to a clean vessel, through a
hair cloth. Let the leaves and sprigs of the plant be
bruised small, and laid on a hot baking stone, where
they should be thoroughly roasted, being stirred about
meanwhile so that they may not be burned. When roasted
enough, they should be powdered, the half thereof being used
for that purpose, and the remainder burnt to fine ashes.
The powder and the ashes should be carefully preserved in
separate glass vials.
In any case of bodily debility, whether in the nerves,
joints, back, head or brain, stomach, heart, lungs, or kidneys,
take three spoonfuls of the decoction, and mix with boiling
water, ale, mead, or milk ; then add to a good draught there-
of a spoonful of the powder, which should be drank in the
morning fasting. Half as much should be taken the last
thing at night. It is good for any kind of disease of the
brain, nerves, and back, epilepsia, mania, or mental infir-
mity of any kind, paralysis, all weakness of joints, sight,
liearing, or senses. It will promote fruit fulness, the be-
getting of children, and restrain seminal ilux. The man
who takes a spoonful thereof daily in his drink will enjoy
uninterrupted health, strength of body, and manly vigour.
* i.e. Misseltoe.
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The same result will follow if he takes a spoonful of the
decoction in his drink daily.
If a patient is ill of strangury, flatulent dyspepsia, or
dropsy, let him take a spoonful of the ashes on drink three
times a day, and when practicable let him drink an infusion
of the plant, either fresh gathered or dry. It will preserve
and cure him.
When the plant grows near at hand, he need only
gather the berries fresh daily as wanted, for a decoction, and
the plant fresh for an infusion. But when it can only be had
far oft', let it be used as directed, the plants being kept dry
in the house all through the year, gathering them summer,
winter, and spring, as they can be procured.
The best places to procure them is Monmouthshire, Somer-
setshire, Brecknockshire, and Shropshire. The best time
to gather them is in the depth of winter, from the feast of
St. Andrews to Candlemas ; and it is also well tn gather
the green herb from the feast of St. James to the Calends
of November. In order to procure their ashes, it is best that
they should be burnt green before they have lost their sap.
THE FOLLOWING ARE THE VIRTUES OF THE OAK.
§ 797. The oak will supply a variety of remedies, for all
diseases proceeding from weakness in the nerves, spinal mar-
row, and brain. Remedies are procured from the oak in a
variety of ways.
Take fresh chips of oak, and macerate in running water, till
their virtues be extracted ; then take them out and put in
some fresh chips, treating them as before. This being done
nine times, boil the liquor to the half, put in a pound of
honey to each two gallons, and ferment. A quantity equal
to the honey, or any less quantity of the decoction of the
mistletoe, may be added if there is any at hand ; but if not,
it will be a very excellent drink nevertheless, and is called
Oak Beer. It is the best drink of any to strengthen the
body, constitution, nerves, brain, and spinal marrow. It
will also cure the diseases which proceed from weakness, a
ffood drauirht bcinir drank everv morninir fastincr.
448 riiYsiciANS of myddvai.
The inner bark of the oak is an excellent tonic. It should
be kept, driod and powdered, as well as simply well dried,
so that it may be at hand when needed, in either form. It
is excellent when taken in ale, or as a decoction in all cases
of debility, in all fevers, whether continued or inflammatory,
in tertian or quartan intermittants, or when eruptive poison
is present in the blood or humors. A decoction of the fresh
bark boiled in ale, or the milk of kine or goats, is very
good in the same diseases.
Take ripe acorns, let them be very crisply roasted, and
kept in a well covered oak vessel. Take a spoonful on your
drink night and morning. Whenever a man or woman is
the subject of functional or seminal weakness, three table
spoonfuls of this powder should be boiled in a good draught of
goat's or kine's milk, then drank mixed with honey night
and morning, for it will remove the complaint. It is use-
ful for all the before mentioned diseases, for uterine he-
morrhage in ^A'omen, for eruptions in all manner of men, and
for diseased lungs. It is an excellent ordinary diet, (mixed
with well baked wheaten bread) for all weak persons, or those
subject to affections of the lungs, or bodily or constitutional
debility of any kind.
Malt some acorns and make ale therewith. It is the best
and most healthy of any, and an excellent tonic in cases of
debility, or diseases proceeding therefrom.
Gather the leaves of the oak in August or September,
dr}' well, and keep covered. If applied to any contused
integument, or watery excoriation, they will heal it.
Take roasted acorns, or the inner bark roasted, ground
with bread corn, and make bread therewith. This bread is
the best of any to strengthen a man's body, and to remove
all complaints resulting from the winter cold or Immidity.
THE FOLLOWING ARE THE VIRTUES OF TH^ VERVAIN.
§ 798. Should you be affected with scrophula, take a
decoction or infusion of vervain, gathering the entire plant
when in seed ; roast it well and powder. Keep this very
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carefully in a well covered vessel; mix it with your ordinary
drink for habitual use. Boil the entire plant, root and seed
included, in ale, mead, goat's or kine"'s milk, and let it be your
habitual drink. Mix the powder also with your bread, and
let it be your habitual diet, with goat's milk, or with cow's
milk, when you have no goat's. If one is aflFected with
running sores, the powder should be sprinkled thereon; and
take the plant, root and all, pound, and boil with fresh
butter, and a little wax, strain well, and apply it; and take
the juice of the entire plant, and rub it on your chest daily,
as long as the plants can be procured. In Winter mix the
powder with honey, and anoint in the same way. The
whole plant is good for all diseases proceeding from the
poison of scrophula, whether affecting the lungs, liver, kid-
neys, brain, eyes, or any other part. Gather this, and every
other herb in the name of God, and give no heed to those
who say that it should be gathered in the name of the
devil, as the devil has nothing to do with goodness.
THE FOLLOWING IS AN EXPOSITIOX OF THE FOUR ELEMENTS
OP MAN ; WHENCE PROCEED THE FOUR CONSTITUTIONS OR TEMPERAMENTS OF
MAN, VIZ., THE SANGUINEOUS, THE CHOLERIC, THE PHLEGMATIC, AND THE
MELANCHOLIC,
§ 799. To recognise persons of a sanguineous constitution.
A person of sanguineous constitution will be naturally fat,
but he is not simply fat, as that would show a cold nature ;
for as Avicenna* says, an abundance of flesh indicates a hot
nature ; and plenty of flesh is the result of an abundance
of blood, as Avicenna says. Every ruddy red haired spare
man, is of a sanguine temperament, as Galen says. San-
guineous men will be merry, and fond of listening to tales
and merriment, and for the same cause they are incontinent,
and apt to give way to their animal propensities. They will
* Avicenna, or Alou-Ali-Alhussdti-Ben-Ahdallah-Ehn-Sina, the Prince of
Arabian Philosophers and Physicians, was born in the neighbourhood of Bokhara,
in '.'lO, and died of intemperance, a.d. 103S, after having experienced the
vicissitudes of fortune, and being reduced from the post of Grand Vizier to the
Sultan Mahmoud to the condition of a fugitive. He wrote "CanoruraMedicinoe";
•' He Medicinis C'ordialibus " ; " Cantica " " Opera Philosophica " &c., of which
different versions have been made in Hebrew and Latin. Ed.
8m
450 PHYSICIANS OF MYDDVAI.
also drink ^v•ino jovially. A sanguineous man will have liis
foot! of the best kind, for sanguineous people -will seek that
which corresponds mostly with their nature. A sanguineous
man Avill also be apt to play, for his blood will have merri-
ment. He will also be fail-, from the nature of his con-
stitution, eloquent of speech, apt to acquire all knowledge,
arts, and deep systems. He will be poetically inclined, and
will delight in imagination, and ambitious projects. lie will
not easily be instigated to anger ; will be of a generous dis-
position, not covetous, amiable, of an affectionate behaviour,
and kindly conduct. He will be of ruddy complexion, for
as Avicenna observes, a ruddy complexion of the skin in-
dicates an abundance of blood. It should be of a clear trans-
parent red, not livid red, as is the case with those whose
countenances are florid in consequence of drinking to excess,
or subsisting upon avegetable diet ; for such a complexion
indicates lepra, scurvy, excess of humour and blood. He
will sing sweetly and amiably with his voice, he will delight in
music, and social intercourse with singers, and with the merry
and j)oetical. He will delight in the harp, and all instru-
mental music ; will be quick and industrious in work, or on
errand; he will also be brave and confident from heat of blood,
and will be gentlemanly in his deportment from activity of
circulation. When uneducated, he will be apt to become con-
ceited of his own parts, as well as cross grained, impertinent
and disagreeable, in consequence of the over excited state of
the blood. He will be more disposed to fix his mind, and act
upon the near than the distant. He will also learn from
genius rather than study, and will be satirical and curt in
what he says or does. He is apt to laugh and be jolly with-
out reason, save the excited and untameable tendency of the
sanguineous temperament.
TO RECOGNISE THE PHLEGMATIC TEMPERAMENT.
§ 800. One who is of a phlegmatic temperament will
have brown hair, because his constitution is but weak. In
the second place, phlegmatic persons will be short and fat,
PHYSICIANS OF MYDDVAI. 451
as their natural strength is not such as to permit them to
continue growing. They will be also less energetic than
persons of the other temperaments, in consequence of their
coldness, which will render them more sleepy also. They
will he a prudent people. They will be also idle, and
that in consequence of cold, for as heat renders a man light
and brisk, so cold makes him heavy and idle ; phlegm-
atic people will also be fat in consequence of bodily im-
purity. They will also be sluggish in mind, or sleepy, or
given to much sleep. If instructed they will be intelligent,
and will acquire what will be expected of them ; but in con-
sequence of their sluggishness, they will come off but in-
differently in all competitive efforts, and will soon succumb.
The memory will be bad, and they will not love, but from
selfish motives. They will not seek merriment, song, or
jollity, and when possessing knowledge, they will be found
wanting in genius. But when there is a mixture of the san-
guineous in the constitution, then we may often find him a
man wise in knowledge, and of strong genius ; being patient,
long suffering, and discreet. He will not love contention,
mimicry, nor flippancy, because he will not love, save what
is seemly and substantial.
TO RECOGNISE THE VAPOURISH CONSTITUTION, AND THE
PERSONS WHO ARE OF THAT TEMPERAMENT.
§ 801. He who is of a vapourish or choleric constitution,
will be impatient, in consequence of a superfluity of heat,
disposing him to precipitancy. One of this constitution
will be very ambitious of obtaining superiority, dignity, and
authority over others, in as much as natural heat disposes
the mind of the man to folly. Vapourish persons will also
have a facility of acquiring learning in consequence of the
heat of bile, but they will not retain what they have learnt.
They will also be high spirited, that is, they will not pati-
ently sufler injustice, in consequence of their heat. They
will aspire to great eminence, official position, and social
elevation. A choleric man will be as voluptuous as a goat,
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and passion, rather than h)ve, will direct liim in every thin"'.
He will bo a deceiver, and will be soon angry on account of
trifles, exhibiting in this the heat of vapour, and sanguineous
ebullition about the heart. He will be cunning, quick, and im-
prudent in his policy and plans ; being more distinguished for
violence than constancy in what he does and thinks. He will
be slender in his limbs, ungracious in his address, and yellow
as saffron in his complexion. As Avicenna says, this com-
plexion indicates haughtiness, one of slender body and limbs,
and one who sees a fault in others where it does not exist,
and is blind to his own imperfections. He will be kind to
those who honour him, cold and haughty to those who do not,
and revengeful towards those who wrongly and falsely injure
him. The phlegmatic character cannot be commingled with
this constitution ; and if it could, a sanguineous temperament
will be unfaithful and capricious. Of the four constitutions of
man, this is the least capable of amelioration and improve-
ment. Rhys the Physician has termed this the vapourish
temperament, as it is occasioned by cardiac ebullition, and
the bitterness of the bile in man.
THE FOLLOWING ARE INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE RECOGNITION
OF THE NATURE AND CONSTITUTION OF MELANCHOLY, AND OF THE TEMPERAMENT
OF THE PERSONS WHO ARE MELANCHOLIC.
§ 802. He who is of a melancholic constitution, will be surly
and unmanly, as if at war with himself. Most melancholic
people will be also sad and unsociable in consequence of
their coldness. They will be also studious, meditative, and
thoughtful, as well as disposed to seek solitude. In con-
sequence of the dryness of the brain, their sleep will not be
sound, being broken and disturbed with dreams. Of stu-
dious minds, their memory will be good. They will be
diflicult to please, envious, covetous, apt to evil from moral
weakness, little able to follow up their good intentions, con-
sequently bad paymasters and cheats. A melancholic man
will be a great reader, abstemious, fearful, and his complex-
ion will be earthlike, which, if it has a shade of green, will
indicate dignity, as the wise Cassius says. All men of this
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sort will be exposed to extremes in all things ; if sad and
sorrowful they will be exceedingly so ; if joyful, there will
be no limit to their jollity. They love singing in solitude,
and from a solitary place, to listen to song and harp. They
like to say their minds of others, but in no manner to
reveal their own internal feelinjis. Thev are lovers of sonfj
and curious research, but do not much care to show it. They
are apt to cultivate the arts and sciences, taking care to
understand what they are about, and to be careful as to what
they say and do. If there is a mixture of the sanguineous,
they will be found a superior class of men. If choleric be
the mixture, they will be bitter, surly, and most disagreeable
men. If there is a phlegmatic admixture, there will be a
tendency to insanity, and mental strife. This class of men
will be slender of body and limbs. Many a poet will be
found of this constitution, and often will they exhibit in-
ordinate love, and excessive hate.
Here are recorded the following charms and medical feats
discovered throuirh the irrace of God, and the intellifjence
of the sages and saints of olden times.
TO OBLIGE A MAN TO CONFESS WHAT HE HAS DONE.
§ 803. Take a frog alive from the water, extract his
tongue, and put him again in the water. Lay this same
tongue upon the heart of a sleeping man, and he will con-
fess his deeds in his sleep.
FOR THE TOOTHACHE; A CHARM,
§ 804. Saint INIary sat on a stone, the stone being near
her hermitage, when the Holy Ghost came to her, she being
sad. Why art thou sad, mother of uiy Lord, and what pain
tormenteth thee ? My teeth are painful, a worm called
megrim has penetrated them, and I have masticated, and
swallowed it. I adjure thee dafhn o negrbina by the Father,
and the Son, and the Holy Ghost, the Virgin Mary, and
God, the munificent Physician, that tiiou dost not permit
any disease, dolour, or molestation to aficct this servant of
454 PHYSICIANS of myddvai.
God lierc present, either in tooth, eye, head, or in the whole
of her teeth together. So be it. Amen.
A CHARM FOR UTERINE DISEASE WIIICFI WAS GIVEN BV
Rlinv.VLLON THE PHYSICIAN TO GWYKVYL, THE DAUGHTKR OF GRUFFVDD AP
TEWDWR.
§ 805. I adjure thee, thou diseased uterus^ bv the Father,
the Son, and the Holy Ghost, so that thou mightest not
inflict pain, nor have power (for evil) in me Gwyrvyl, the
daughter of Rhys, the servant of God, either in the head,
breast, stomach, or any other part of my body. Let God
the Father prevail, let God the Son prevail, and let God the
Holy Ghost prevail. Even so be it. Amen.
FOR THE TOOTHACHE.
§ 80G. Get an iron nail, and engrave the following words
thereon, -|- agla -(- Sabaoth -\~ athanatos -j-and insert the
nail under the aSected tooth. Then drive it into an oak tree,
and whilst it remains there the toothache wmU not return. But
you should carve on the tree with the nail the name of the
man aftected with toothache, repeating the following : By
the power of the Father and these consecrated words, as thou
enterest into this wood, so let the pain and disease depart
from the tooth of the sufferer. Even so be it. Amen.
THUS DID RHIWALLOX THE PHYSICIAN RESTRAIN A BLEEDING
IN THE CASE 01" THE KMGHT LOGRANIUS. SANGUIS THE KNIGHT PIERCED THE
SIDE OF CHRIST, THE SON OF THE VIRGIN MARY, AND IN CONSEQUENCE THERE
ISSUED THE BLOOD AND WATER.
-|- Stay thou blood -|- in the name of the Father, stay
^thou blood -j- in the name of the Son, stay thou blood -|-
in the name of the Holy Ghost, rest thou blood -]- in the
name of the blessed Trinity, thou wound bleed not -j-.
^nnfit]^ iBehjs gain's, Fnnfii]^ Befos JFilius, Fnnfit]^
IDctoS ^piritUS ^anCtUS -|- €i)riStl Amen -i- Amen -j-
Amen -]- Amen -|- so be it.
TO PRODUCE SLEEP.
§ 807. Take a goat's horn, and carve the name of the
seven sleepers thereon, making a knife haft of it. The
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writing should begin at the blade, and these are their names,
Anaxeimeys, Malohus, Marsianus, Denys, Thon, Scrapion,
Constantynn. When the names are inscribed, lay the knife
under the sick man's head unknown to him, and he will sleep.
Pro morbo feaUentJO, OR EPILEPTIC DISEASE, WHICH CASTS A
MAN DOWN IN AN INSENSIBLE STATE.
§ 808. Set thy mind upon God, and say these words three
times in the patient's ear, ^nam^aptil, and when he is re-
stored from the fit administer him some dog's gall. The
gall bladder should be hung in the house where the sick man
dwells, for three days, in a place where it may be exposed to
the wind ; then it should be boiled in a (Juart of ale, till it is
reduced to a pint, and given to the patient to drink in the
intervals of the fit.
The following is a charm which was made by tlie Lord
Jesus Christ Himself, and shown to the three brethren, ask-
ing them where they went ; we go said they to the mount of
Olives, to gather herbs to heal wounds and contusions. Then
said He, return again and take some oil of olives, the white
of eggs, and black wool, applying them to the injured parts,
saying thus : I adjure thee, wound, by the grace and power
of the eight wounds which were in the true God, and true
Man, which He received in His most holy body in order to
our redemption, by that which Thou, Jesus Christ, didst
Thyself desire, by the weariness which Thou didst suffer,
and the atonement which Thou didst Thyself make, that
this wound shall neither pain, nor smell, nor putrify, in the
name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost ; let it
be so. Amen.
FOR AN AGUE ; A CHARM.
§ 809. Put the following writing on the sick man's stom-
ach, hanging it about his neck.
When our Lord Jesus Christ beheld the cross which was
prepared for Him, He trembled greatly, and the Jews asked
Him thus, dost Thou fear this cross, or is it the ague
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that affects Thee? Jesus answered them thus, I fear not
this cross, nor am I yet affected with the ague, but I tremble
before my Heavenly Father, in contemplating what He
prepares for those who shall crucify Me ; and for a truth to
you I speak, that whatsoever man shall hear the words I
say, and sliall believe them, and shall do all that I have
commanded therein, prostrating himself before his Heavenly
Father, he shall never suffer from the ague, nor shall he
have any fear. And now, Lord Jesus Christ, grant that
of thy mercy, the ague may not afflict or trouble thy servant,
and the servant of God the Father from Heaven, neither
now at present, nor at any other time during his life and
existence in this world, in the name of the Father, and the
Son, and the Holy Ghost. So be it. Ever Amen.
TO KNOW WHETHER A SICK MAN SHALL LIVE OR DIE.
§ 81 0. Take an egg layed on Thursday, in the house in
which the sick man dwells, and write the following thereon :
dF<&0(i!^V^(!^V^f and put it in a safe place,
outside the house. On the following morning break the egg,
if blood conies out of it, he will die, if not, he will live.
FOR THE DROPSY, OR HYDROPS.
^811. Rub young swallows with saffron, and in a short
time the old swallows will bring them a stone ; with this
stone the patient will be cured of the hydrops.
HOW TO LET BLOOD SO AS TO PRESERVE A MAN'S SIGHT.
§812. Whosoever is bled in the right arm on the eight-
eenth day of March, and the 20tli day of the month of
April, in the left arm, will never be blind, for it has been
often proved.
FOR WARTS.
§ 813. Wash the warts with the water from a font in
which the seventh son of the same man and wife is baptized.
A WAY IN WHICH A THING CAN BE SEEN, WHICH IS INVISIBLE
TO OTHERS.
§ 814. Take the gall of a cat, and a hen's fat, mixing
them together. Put this in your eyes, and you will see
thing's which arc invisible to others.
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TO ENABLE A MAN TO HOLD FIRE IN HIS HAND.
§ 815. Take marsh mallows, and the white of two eggs,
anoint your hands therewith, mixed together ; then cover
your hands with powdered alum, and you may handle fire
without harm, or hold fire and hot iron in your hand with-
out fear.
A SNAKE'S SKIN.
The following are the twelve characteristics of a snake's
skin, which Alphibam testifies of, and states to be true and
effectual to those that use it. I have translated them out of
the Arabic to Latin, and from Latin to Cymraeg also.
When the moon is in her first increase, under the sign
called Aries, or the Ram, which falls about the middle
of the month of March, on the third day of the Calends
of April, when the first seed under this sign are formed, then
burn the skin of a snake, which has been cast in the time
of harvest. Take the ashes, and keep them carefully, for
they are the most precious application which any human
tonoue can order. Let the first instance at hand suffice :
whosoever has a fresh wound, let him cover it with a little
of this ash, and it will heal it in three days.
Here follows a list of the names of the herbs, fruits, and
vegetable substances, which every Physician ought to know
and use, in order to heal wounds and diseases in the human
body.*
The above herbs and plants, that is to say, as many as
possible of them, ought to be grown by every Physician in
his garden and orchards, in a plot of good land, sheltered,
and facing the sun, that they might be at hand when there
is need and occasion for them.
* A* the names are also given in Latin, and the English Synonyracs are not
properly translations of the Welsh terms, it has not been considered necessary to
insert the list in this i>Iace. The reader is referred to page 281.
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WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.
The following exhibits the weights and measures, which
every Physician should employ, so that he may know cer-
tainly what proportions to use, when necessary.
Weights and measures of propor-
tion.
XX grains of wheat make one
scruple.
Ill scruples make one dram.
Hill drams make one ounce.
XlT ounces make one pound.
And thus are they written in the
Books of Physicians.*
A grain thus q
A scruple thus 9
A dram thus ^
An ounce thus ^
A pound thus S
And thus are they aiTanged in
accordance with these characters.
XX
q
to
3
iij
9
to
<>
nil]
s>
to
^
xi\
}
to
s
Fluid or liquid measures are
arranged thus.
Four podfulls make one spoonful.
Four spoonfulls make one egg-
shellful.
Four eggshellfulls make one cup-
ful.
Four cupfulls make one quart.
Four quarts make one gallon.
Four gallons make one pailful.'
Four pailfulls make one grcnn.f
Four grenns make one mydd.
Four mydds make one myddi (or
hogshead.)
Even so are fluid and liquid
measures arranged.
The following are other measui'es
noted by Ph^'sicians : —
Two eggshellfulls make half a pan.
Two halfpans, a pan.
Two pans, a phioled.
Two phioleds, a cupful.
Two cupfulls, a quart.
All the measures of solids and
fluids should be of warranted
weight and measure, so that they
may afford warranted and just in-
formation, in order that the me-
dicines administered to the sick
may neither be ineffective nor
poisonous, and that every dose
may be of the proportion intended.
The following are conjectural
measures, dependent upon the
Physician's judgment.
Four grains of wheat, one pea.
Four peas, one acorn.
Four acorns, one pigeon's egg.
Four pigeon's eggs, one hen's egg.
Four hen's eggs, one goose's egg.
Four goose's eggs, one swan's
egg.
' Those signs are now thus written
Ounce 5.
Grain (j)-.
Pound III.
.Scruple 9. Dram 5.
t " A large earthen ves.sel.'' W. O. P.
PHYSICIANS OF MYDDVAI.
450
These proportions cannot he war-
ranted farther than the Physician's
judgment.
There are four principal exciting
causes of fever and disease in the
human body, even : —
t Fever, excited by an excess
of heat or cold.
Jt Eraptive poison in the blood
'* or humors, produced by
irregularities in eating and
drinkine;.
"!■
>"!
Obstructions in the stomach,
veins, or other hollow vessels
of the body, so tliat the food,
drink, blood or humors, can-
not pass on as usual.
A boil, carbuncle, or plague,
' and they are occasioned by
the entrance of poison into
the system. From these four
proceed all fevers and diseases
incident to the human body,
and by the aid of active re-
medies are they cured.
USEFUL THINGS.
The following are things useful to be known by every
Physician, and head of a family even : —
Infusion. Pouring water or other
fluid in a boiling state upon
herbs, or whatever other in-
gredient that may be required.
Decoction. Boiling the herbs or
ingredients in the water or
iluid required.
Pottage or Porridge. Pouring
boiling or cold water, or other
fluid such as may be required
ui)on the herbs or other ingre-
dients, leaving them to stand,
then straining under a press.
SoAKAGE. Pouring cold or boiling
water, or other fluid on any
substance capable of being in-
fluenced thereby, so as to
become incorporated with
what is poured thereupon.
Confection. Fluids mixed with
powders or other substances
capable of being administered
as a draught.
Potion. A draught or fluid pre-
pared axicording to art.
Essence. An amorphous or odo-
riferous substance, which may
be taken in a draught by
mouth, or injected into the
nostrils, head,* rectum, or
other part.
Electuary. Substances incor-
l^orated into a dough so as to
be eaten.
CoNTsiTUTioN. The disposition
which is in a man, or other
living being, or herb, or other
matter ; being their virtue, in-
herent property, or nature.
Pills. Incorporated medical sub-
stances, formed into small
balls so as to be taken at a
gulp.
BATii.t An infusion or decoction
in which the patient or his
limb is to be put.
Fomentation. To be applied as
a wash to a hurt, whether hot
or cold, as may be wanted.
Regimen. The food and drink as
regulated by medical advice.
* External ear.
t Tliis word (cnnaiut) is imiuoperly rendered "ointment" in tlie Mabinogi
of (icraint ab Erbin.
460 PHYSICIANS OF MYDDVAI.
THE ESSKNTIALS OF A PHYSICIAN.
These things should he in the possession of a Physician :
and then follow the characteristics which should distiniruish
him, which are called the Essentials of a Physician.
I. A lancet to bleed or open an abscess, also a knife somewhat
larger.
ij. A steel or silver spatula to spread plaster.
llj, A pipe and bladder in order to inject to the urinary organs or
rectum.
iiij. His plasters, his ointments, his pills, his powders, his potions,
carefully preserved to meet any demand and occasion.
n, A garden of trees and herbs, where such herbs, shrubs, and trees,
as do not everywhere grow naturally, may be kept cultivated, and
where foreign trees and plants, which require shelter and culture
before they will tlirive in Wales, may be grown.
DJ. lie should also have his dry herbs, roots, seeds, and barks kept
at hand, so that they may be had in winter, and other times when
they are not to be obtained growing, or above ground.
Uij. He should also have at hand, his hone}^, his wax, his pitch, his
rosin, his gums, his oil, his tallow, his grease, his lard, his marble
slab, his ale, his wine, his mead, his distillations, and other articles as
may be required.
lliij. He should also have at hand his mortars, his strainer, his press,
his stone ware, his glass ware, his wooden vessels, his fire utensils, and
his vessels for keeping articles, whether of glass, earthen, or silver,
w ith good covers, so that the drugs may not become inert, or poisonous
from want of keeping, carelessness, or ignorance.
il. He should also have weights and balances at hand, either of
silver or tin, so that nothing deleterious might get into the drugs.
All his liquid or fluid measures should also be made of silver or tin,
for the same reason. Likewise his surgical instruments generally, with
the exception of lancets, cutting scalpels, and probing needles.
I, All his weights and measures, whether of solids or of liquids,
should be of warranted weight and cajiacity, that he may be certain
of the proportions of all ingredients, so that he may neither exceed
or come short of the quantity required, as this would render the
remedy either inert or poisonous.
IT. He should also have his warranted Books of Art authorized by
a master, so that he may be cunning in the judgment and science of
the wise and skilful Physicians who have preceded him, and who have
written with authority in the Cymraeg, the Latin, and the Arabic.
lij. He should be also declared competent to practice by authority
of the wise and learned masters of the art.
iiij. He should be a kind man, gentle, mild, meek, intelligent, wise,
and gentlemanly in act and deed, in word and conduct, being careful
not to shame those whom he has to examine, particularly when he
has to examine women.
PHYSICIANS OF MYDDVAI. 4G1
liiij. He should lie skilletl in all professional acquirements, and
should know the complexion and sign of every feminine disease. He
should be able to examine the sick, whether man, woman, boy or girl,
in regard to age, constitution, sex, and that in a mild, gentlemanly
way, both as to address and voice.
in. He should carefully keep all professional secrets, nor should
he divulge them on any account, to any man, nor on any consideration.
.Tilj. He should most carefully avoid intoxication, tippling, or in-
continence in any shape, as there can be no trust or dependance upon
those Physicians who arc addicted to such evil deeds, nor can that
respect, which learning and professional intelligence are entitled to be
accorded them.
inij. He should be a faithful subject, lest he should practice treachery
or treason in the exercise of his profession, on native or foreigner,
friend or foe ; for the office of a Physician is not to shi}', but to pre-
serve from what would slay, and to be in accord with God and His
peace, and not with the rage and enmity of man to his fellow man.
.Tniij. fie should always have his case of instruments, his emetics and
antidotes about him, in case of need.
lil. He should keep about home as much as he can, so that he may
be found when wanted.
I.V. He should be constitutionally and habitually devotional, so that
the blessing of God may be upon him, and what he does, and that he
may be conscientious to do what is right and beneficial in the practice
of his art.
And these things are called the Essentials of a Physician.*
* It will be interesting to compare these wise " essentials " with the oath of
the Asclepiada;, in old Greece, boing a formula not unlike that in use among
the Pythagoreans, and which was in the following words : —
" I swear by Apollo, the Physician, by ^sculapius, by Hygeia, Panacea, and
all the gods and goddesses, that, according to my ability and judgment, I will
keep this oath and stipulation, to reckon him, who teaches me this art, equally
dear to me as my parents, to share my substances with him, and relieve his
necessities if required, to look upon his offspring in the same light as my own
brothers, and to teach them this art, if they shall wish to learn it, without fee
or stipulation ; and that by precept, lecture, and every other mode of instruction.
I will impart a knowledge of this art to my own sons, to those of my teachers,
and to disciples bound by a sti])ulation and oath according to the law of medicine,
but to none others. I will follow that system of regimen, which, according to
my ability and judgment, I consider for the benefit of my patients ; and abstain
from what is deleterious and mischievous. I will give no deadly medicine to
any one if asked, nor suggest any such counsel ; and in like manner, I will not
give a woman a pessary to produce an abortion. With purity and with holiness
I will pass my life, and practice my art. I will not cut persons labouring under
the stone, but will leave this to bo done by men who are practitioners of the
work. Into whatever houses I enter, I will go into them for the benefit of
the sick, and will abstain from every voluntary act of mischief or corruption ;
and farther, from the seduction of males or females, of freemen or slaves. What-
ever in connection with my professional practice, or not in connection with it, I
see, or hear, I will not divulge, as reckoning that all such should be kept secret.
While I continue to keep this iiath inviolate, may it be granted me to enjoy life,
and the practice of my art, respected by all men at all times. But should I
trespass and violate this oath, may the reverse be my lot."
Adams' Hippocroles, Vnl. If. p. 799.
462 PHYSICIANS OF MYDDVAI.
And thus ends this Book of Medicine, and I, Howel the
Physician, the son of Rhys, the son of Llywclyn, the son
of Philip the Physician, have selected the same from the
authorized old hooks of the original Physicians of Myddvai,
even Rhiwallon the Physician, and his throe sons, Cadwgan,
(jlruiiudd, and Einion, and the other Physicians, their sous
and descendants who succeeded them.
And I, Howel the Physician, am regularly descended in
the male hne from the said Einion, the son of Rhiwallon
the Physician of M^^ddvai, being resident in Cilgwryd, in
Gower. May the grace and blessing of God attend this
Book, and him who studies it as a directory of the art, for
the love of God, and the health of the diseased and mained.
Amen. With God"'s help even so let it be.
I, William Bona have transcribed this Work from tlie Book of John
Jones, the Physician, of Myddvai, who was the last of the descendants
of the Physicians of Myddvai, Anno Christi, 1743.
And T, lolo Morganwg have re- written the same carefully from the
Book of the above William Bona, now in the possession of Thomas
Bona, Phj'sician, of the Parish of Llaufihangel lorwerth, in the
County of Carmarthen, in the year 1801 ; and with old llowul the
Physician I say,
The grace of God attend it.
I, John Pughe, Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, of
Penhelyg House, near Aberdovey, Merionethshire, have finislied trans-
lating the same into English, this 12th day of February, 1861.
INDEX.
AnDOMEN, tumour of tlie 43, 51
Abdomen, hardncs-s of the . 328
Abdominal complaints . 43, 51
Abscess or Impostume 302, 390, 392
Abscess, to promote an , 339
Abscess, to re-open an . 349
Abscesses, ointment for 424, 430
Absorption of the gums . 344
Aches, all kinds of, 303, 308, 323,
381, 338, 339, 340, 389
Acorn bread .... 448
Adder, bite of an . . 332, 421
Agues, 41, 51, 65, 304, 313, 315,
348. 370, 438. 443, 448, 455
Alopacea or falling of the Hair 342
Anal Warts 44
Ankles and Joints . . . 318
Animal, purge for a sick . 377
Anodyne ointment . . . 320
Antidotes for poison 65, 67, 309,
371, 422,440, 442,444
Aperient drinks . . 316, 355
Appetite, to provoke an . . 375
Arm or breast, stitch under the 341
Arms, aches in the . 339, 340
Arms, pain in the . . . 312
Arrow head, how to extract an 337
Articular Rheumatism
Ascites
Asp, bite of an
Back, boil on the
Back, pain in the
Barrenness,
Bath, hot air
Beer, stomachic
Betonv, virtues of the
Biliousness .
Birds and flies
Bite of an adder.
Bite of an asp
Bite of a dog .
Bite of a mad dog
356
. . 43
. . . 421
. . . 376
327, 334, 364,
372, 375, 385
45, 76, 441, 446
44
354
438
383
74
62, 64, 332, 421
. . 421
. 364,421
60,76.306,311,
337, 341, 364,875, 380, 421, 422
Bite of a viper . . , 53, 64
Bite of a spider . , 48,326
Bite, an application for a 375, 407
Black Fever .... 397
Black Jaundice . . 314, 372
Bleeding 74
Bleeding, dangerous days for 57
Bleeding, good days for . 56, 57
Bleeding from the mouth . 443
Bleeding of the nose 59, 61, 66,
352, 364, 412, 433, 443
Bleeding, to restrain 363, 366, 454
Bleeding sores . . 398, 409
Blessed Thistle, virtues of the 443
Blindness .... 365, 367
Blood or bruise, to remove from
an injury .... 393
Blood, eruptive diseases of the 432
Blood, restoration of . . 443
Blood, eruptive virus in the 369,
444, 448
Blood, vomiting of , . . 64
Blows or wounds , . . 404
Bodily debility, . . 446,448
Boils, 77, 366, 369, 376, 391, 398,
401, 402, 436, 444, 445
Bones, fractured . . . 413
Bones, loose fragments of . 413
Bones, three which will not unite 50
Bones, union of . . , 78
Brain fever . , . ; 341
Brain, things hurtful to the . 362
Brain, things useful for the . 361
Brain, weakness of the . 447
Breast, stitch under the . . 341
Breast, inflammation of the 49, 60
310, 361, 335, 369, 370, 377, 378,
414
Breasts, painful . . 414, 415
Breath, to cure a fetid breath 306, 409
Breath, to strengthen the . 443
Breathing, difficulty of 311, 314,
358, 372
Bronchites, . . 319, 361, 381
Bruises, to heal, . 379, 393, 430
Bruise of the scalp . . . 379
464
INDEX.
Burns, plasters for . . . 60
Burns or Scalds 60, 63, 303, 320.
330, 336, 351, 352, 362, 366,
369, 430
Calculi, urinary, 44, 75, 306, 438
Calculus, for a vesical . . 306
Cancer, 342, 348, 358, 367, 368,
373, 391, 393, 397,407. 409, 424,
428, 444,445
Cancer in the mouth, &e. 367, 368,
373
Canker of the mouth . . 335
Carbuncle , 48, 359, 368, 369
Carbuncle or Plague 340, 359, 436,
443
Carbuncles, to mature . 365, 443
Cardiac region, pain in the . 323
Cardialgia . . 324, 380, 411
Cardus Benedictus . . . 443
Cataplasm for a sprain, &c. 428
Catarrh . . . 312,317,440
Cathartic, a good . . . 410
Cautery for deafness . . 47
Cautery for pain in the eye 39
Cerecloth, to make . . . 392
Change of Life . . . 352
Charm for an ague . . . 455
Cliarm to restrain bleeding 454
Charm to cause confession . 453
Charm for the dropsy . , 456
Charm for epilepsy . . 455
Charms and medical feats . 453
Charm to see things invisible to
others 456
Charm to know whether a sick
man shall live or die . . 456
Charm to produce sleep . 454
Charms for the toothache 453, 454
Charm for the uterine disease 454
Charm for warts . . . 456
Charm to cure a wound . 455
Chastity, how to preserve . 52, 75
Chest and stomach, oppression of
444
Chest, pain in the , . 304, 372
Chest to strengthen the . . 380
Chest, tightness of . . . 370
Chilblains . . 366,376,422
Children, weeping ... 54
Choleric temperament .. . 451
Chronic cough . . 438,441,443
Chronic ulcer .... 359
Cleavers, virtues of . 357, 444
Cock crowing, to prevent . 54
Cold or Catarrh . . 312, 317
Cold, to cure a . . . 397
Cold in the limbs . . 371,397
Colic 390,416,431,435,438,440
Collyrium for the eyes 302, 307,
311, 360, 363
Confections for sore mouths 316, 317
Confession, charm to cau&e . 453
Constipation 61, 62, 64, 304, 358,
376, 435
Constitutions, fat and dry . 82
Contused integuments . . 448
Contusion of the head . . 380
Cooling drinks .... 41
Cornea, opacity of the 54, 304,
324 329, 334, 360, 372, 398
Cough, chronic . 438, 441, 443
Cough, remedies for 61, 303, 309
355, 356, 357, 353, 331, 440,
441, 442
Cranium and Scalp, preservation
of 38
Crusted Scall, or Impetigo capitis
47, 359, 414, 445
Crowing, to prevent a cock . 54
Cutaneous eruptions . 367, 368
Cutaneous irritation . , 442
Dangerous days in the year . 58
Dead bone, to remove . . 331
Dead bone from the skull 45, 342
Deafness 47, 66, 311, 314, 315,
333, 338, 348, 362, 365, 392, 400,
438,446
Deafness after a fever . . 66
Death, prognosis of . . 75
Debility, bodily . . 446,443
Delirium 441
Derangement of the mind . 358
Diarrhoea .... 310, 434
Digestion, healthy ... 82
Digestion, to strengthen . 443
Digestion, a theory of . . 81
Diptheria .... 402, 403
Diuretic drink .... 363
Dreams, to prevent 338, 361, 367,
440
Drinks, aperient . . . 316
Drinks, cooling . . . 41
Dropsy 384, 385, 389, 394, 430,
439, 442, 444, 447 456
Drunkness, to remove . . 52
Diuretic drink . . 3t:;3, 433
Diuretic effect, to produce . 305
Dura Mater .... 38
Dysentery . . . 344, 345
Dyspepsia 78,301,306, 330,416,447
Dyspnosa in the Chest 311,314,
358, 372
Ear, for pain and noise in the 324
Ears, swelling under the , 326
INDEX.
4G5
P^ars, ulceration of the . 327
Kating and drinking, rules for 84
Eczema, or humid tetter . 4G
Elbow, knee, or legs, for an injury
in the 324
Elements of man . • . 449
Emetic, an 435
Emetic for the head and stomach
347, 375
Enemies, to avoid . . . 314
Envy, to cure .... 52
Epidemics, preservation from 410,
415
Epilepsy, 51, 74, 340, 411, 446, 455
Epiphora of the eye 306, 312, 370
Epistaxis - . . . . 69
Epithelial Cancer ... 342
Erethema 60
Eruption of the face . 369
Eruption of the head 381, 382
Eruptions, cutaneous . 367, 308
Eruptions, malignant . : 385
Eruptions, squamous . . 420
Eruptions, to cure all sorts of 338, 444
Eruptions and wounds, ointment
for 395
Eruptive diseases of the blood 432
Eruptive diseases, to expel . 357
432, 444
Eruptive virus in the blood 369, 444,
448
Erysepelatous Erethema . 60
Erysipelas 315, 320, 324, 327, 334
363, 380, 385, 394, 405, 400, 408
424, 430, 444
Essentials of a Physician . 460
Evil, for the 314, 343, 350, 357, 367,
412 427, 429, 444, 448
Evil humours from wounds 331, 437
Evil Spirits . . . . 440
Exanthematous contamination of
the humours . . . .432
Exfoliations from the skull or
other bone . 45, 342, 368, 391
Extremities, swelling and pain in 59
312
Eye, a bruise of the . , 398
Eye, to clear the . 311,360,391
Eye, cloudiness of the 379, 380,
431, 432
Eye, collvrium for the 302,307, 311,
360, 363
Eye, epiphora of the 306, 312, 370
Eye, haze of the 379, 380, 431, 432
Eye, irritation or cloudiness of the
431, 432
Eye, membrane from the . 360
Eye ointment .... 399
Eye, opacity of the 54, 304, 324.
329, 334, 360, 372, 398
Eye, ongle or onyx of the . 379
Eye, ophthalmia . . . 307
Eye, pain in the 39, 312, 399, 433
Eye salve . . 78, 302, 398,
Eye, speck in the 74, 304, 324,
329, 398
Eye, stye on the 311, 312, 399
Eye water .... 374
Eye, a web in the 347, 360, 397
Eyelids, remedy for diseased 39, 307
Eyes, blood in the . . . 443
Eyes, inflamed 306, 307, 312, 375
Eyes, watery, . 39, 307, 391, 431
Eyes, seven things injurious to the 50
Eyes, to strengthen the 312, 138, 439
Paintings of the heart . . 328
Falling fits, treatment of 51,74, 330
340,411,446, 455
Falling of the hair, or Alopacca 342
Falling sickness 51, 74, 330, 340,
411,446, 455
Fatness, to reduce ... 64
Favus, see " Ringworm'"
Feet, aches in the . 339, 340
Feet, swelling in the . 358, 422
Fennel, virtues of the . . 439
Fever, black .... 397
Fever, brain .... 341
Fever, inflammatory in a child 404
Fevers, various kinds of . 40
Fevers, common and eruptive 420
Fevers, inflammatory 404, 439,
441, 444, 448
Fevers, intermitent . . 41
Fevers, protection from . . 417
Fevers, rheumatic . . 444
Fevers^ tj-phus . 397,417,418
Fflamgwst 340
Fii-e, to hold in the hand unhurt 457
Finger, whitlow on the finger 346,
347, 349
Fish, wholesome ... 46
Flatulence . . . 318, 447
Flatulent dyspepsia 301, 300, 416
Fleas, to destroy . 53, 339
Flies, to destroy . . 53, 74
Fcetus in utero, dead . 437, 442
Food for weak or strong stomachs 82
Food, sayings of the wise as to 79, 80
Fowls, flesh of .... 46
Freekled face . . . 332, 354
Fruits, herbs, &.c. . . 457
Gangrene of the mouth 309, 316
Gargle, to make a good 403, 434
4G6
INDKX.
Gastric paitis .... 335
Gastrocele. or Hernia of the
stoniiich 328
Gastrodynia . . 30] , 302, 379
Gatlicring, to break or re-open a 394
Gulden li;iir, to produce . 335
Goose grass, virtues of . . 444
Gout 308, 313, 386, 387, 388, 390,
391, 394. 395, 444
Gout in the stomach 386, 395. 396
Gout, a plaster for the . . 388
Gravel 44
Greatest and least remedies . 76
Green healing salve . . 428
Gums, absorption of the . 344
Habit, hot, cold, humid, or dry 82
Hands swelling . , 342, 358
Hands, trembling of the . 352
Hay oil for colics, &c. . . 416
Hair, growth of . . 353, :^83
Hair, to remove superfluous . 353
Headache 47, 308, 333, 336, 371,
373, 392, 395, 399, 439, 441, 442,
443, 444
Head, contusion of the . . 380
Head, diseases of the . 38, 333
Head, emetic for the . 347, 375
Head, eruption of the 381, 382
Head, noise in the , 333, 362
Head, observation on the . 37
Head, wound on the . 38, 380
Healing ointment . . 337, 429
Healing plaster , . . 314
Healing of wounds 303, 348, 411,
412, 41.5,426, 443
Health, preservation of 80, 378, 437
Health, to secure constant 74, 80
Hearing, to improve the 315, 362
Heartache 77
Heart, disease of the . . 434
Heart, faintings of the . . 328
Heart, oppression of the . 434
Heart, things hurtful to the 365
Heat or sunburn . . . 320
Hematemasis .... 359
Hemicronical headache . . 339
Hemiplagia . . . . 345
Hemorrhage . .49, 344, 364
Hemorrhage from the nose 364, 378
Hemorrhage, to restrain from a
vein .... 344, 367
Hemorrhage from a wound or
ulcer . , . . 366, 409
Hemorrhage, uterine . 410, 448
Flemorrhoides 42, 76, 303, 389,
390. 433
Hfpatitis, for chronic . . 334
Herbal in Latin and Welsh 281, 294
Herpes, eruption of . . 40(1
Hips, pain in the . . 334, 356
Hoarseness , 49, 310, 314, 381, 420
Hcrmaturia . 310, 342, 344, 358
Hcemoptasis .... 373
Hajmoptysis, or spitting of blood 306
Hooping' cough 340, 381, 392, 396,
442
Honey, to prepare clarified . 319
Hot air bath .... 44
How to be merry ... 52
Humoral flatulence . . 318
Humid tetter .... 46
Hvdrophobia 60, 76, 306, 311, 337,
341, 348, 364
Hygean of the year . . 55, 56
Hygenic instructions . . 83
Hypochrondriasis • . . 383
Hysteria 308, 342, 351, 352, 370,
443
Impetigo capitis ... 47
Impetigo, or crusted tetter 359, 401
Imposthume, an 46, 302, 34*5, 347,
390_, 392, 424, 445
Impotency 50
Indigestion, symptoms of . 82
Inebriety, to hinder . . . 375
Inflamed parts, lotion for , 302
Inflammation in the face . 363
Inflammation of the flesh . 344
Inflammation, fomentation for 430
Inflammation from friction . 343
Inflammation of the lungs 397, 432
Inflammations or swellings 324, 326
332, 339, 341,342
Inflammation, ointment for an
external . . . . 319
Inflammations, plasters for . 338
Inflammatory catarrh . . 317
Inflammatory fever . . . 404
Inflammatory wounds . 318, 349
Insanity, to cure GO, 341, 358, 413,
441
Integuments, contused . . 448
Integuments, wounded . . 331
Intermittent fevers 41, 50, 51, 65,
304,315, 348, 448
Intestinal worms
Intoxication
Intoxication, to prevent
Invisibility
Iris, virtues of the .
Irritability of mind
Irritations, cutaneous
Issues and seatons .
Issues and worms
.'".5
49, 65
4,347
375
456
438
64
442
4 5
45
INDEX.
4G7
Itching 445
Itch or psoriasis 321, 365, 368, 380,
386, 416, 417, 420
Jaundice 314, 325, 327, 373, 432,
Jaws, swelling of the . . 326
438, 442
Joints and Ankles . . . 318
Joints and limbs, swelling in 332
Joints, pain in the 47, 339, 365,
306, 419
Joints, weakness of . . . 446
Kidnevs, pain in the . . 63
King's Evil 314, 3 ! 3. 350, 367, 412,
427, 429, 444, 448
King's "Worm .... 350
Knee, an injury on the . . 324
Labour, to hasten a tedious . 409
Leek, virtues of the . . 06
Leg, disease of the . . . 3-'i0
Legs, injury on tho . . . 324
Legs, swelling and pain of 63, 307,
312, 329, 339, 342, 367, 370, 444
Lepra . . 401, 420, 444, 445
Life, change of ... 352
Life, to prolong ... SO
Limbs, pain in the 364, 372, 375, 376
Limbs, swelling in tho . . 332
Lips, sore 375
Liver, adhesion of the . . 61
Liver complaint . . . 441
Liver, intlumniation of the . 351
Liver, solution of the . . 329
Live or die, to know whether a
patient will 52, 75, 330, 353,411,
433, 436, 450
Loins, pain in the . . . 351
Loss of reason or speech 54, 409, 413
Loss of reason or speech 54, 409, 413
Lotion to heal wounds . 430
Lotion for inflammation . 303
Lung diseases ... 39
Lungs, diseased . . 448
Lungs, inflammation of the 397, 432
Lungs, to strengthen the . 380
Lungs, tubercles of the 357, 432
Mad dog, bite of a 60, 70, 306, 311,
337, 341, 364, 375, 380, 421, 422
Mannn;c, abscess of the 414, 415
Rlammte, inflanmiation of the 49,
60, 310, 331, 335, 369, 370, 377,
378, 414
IMamniro, malignant disease of the 335
Mammie, pain in the . 415
Mammae, worm in the . 415
Measles . . . . 419
Measures and weights . 458
Meats, wholesome . . 46
Medical feats and charms . 453
Medicine, dignity of . . 78
Melancholic temperament . 452
Meiiorrhngia . . . 377
Menses, suppressed . . 315
Menstruation . . . 45, 315
Mental infirmity . . 446
Merry, how to be . . 52
Migran or vertigo 339 340, 398
Milk in the breast . . 311
Milk, pork, and mutton . 46
Mind, deranged . . 358
Missletoe, virtues of tho . 446
Moderation .... 79, 80
Morbid flesh .... 403
Morbo Cadendo . . 411, 455
Mouth, the canker of the . 335
Mouth, painful condition of the 410
Mouth, soreness or gangrene 309,316
Mustard, virtues of . • . 68
Mutton, Pork, &c. ... 46
Nail, contusion of the . . 422
Nausea . . 344, 355, 384, 440
Navel, swelling under the . 345
Neck, swelling and pain in the 59
Nerves, weakness of tho . 447
Nervous disorders . . 323, 438
Noise in the head . . . 338
Nose, bleeding of the 59, 61, 66,
352, 304, 412, 433, 443
Nettle Rash .... 60
Nettle, virtues of the . 438, 442
Oak, virtues of the . . 447
Oak bark, tonic effects of . 448
Ointment, an anodyne . . 320
Ointment, a drawing . . 309
Ointment, external inflammation 319
Ointment for general use 323, 328
Ointment, healing . . 337, 429
Ointment, to prepare a good 399
Ointment for nervous disorders 323
Ointment for pain of a cold
nature 425
Ointment for pains or sores . 426
Ointment for pneumonia . 321
Ointment for scrophula . . 350
Ointment for wounds . 331, 395
Oleum Fo;num, or hay oil . 416
Onglc or onyx of the eye . 379
Ophthalmia .... 307
Opprobium Medici ... 50
Pains 77, 307, 311, 312, 323, 326,
827, 329, 333, 334, 338, 339, 340,
351, 364, 365,307, 373, 375, 376,
378, 388, 395, 402, 407, 425, 42i:,
435,442, 444
Pain in the breast . . . 411
4G8
INDEX.
I'ain in the cardiac region
I'ain in the chest
Pain in the extremitiea .
323
304
59, 312
329,
Pain in the feet . . 329, 422
Pain in the hips . . . 356
Pain in a joint 47 , 340, 365, 366,
396,419
Pain in the leg ... 307
Pain in the limbs, back, or shoul-
ders . 364, 367, 372, 375, 376
Pain in the loins . . . 351
Pain under the ribs . 442, 444
Pain in the stomach . . 311
Pain in the throat . . 402, 403
Pain in the womb . . . 372
Pain in wounds, to ease . 433
Palsy, to cure .... 61
Paralysed limbs in a child . 340
Paralysis 315, 371,386,419,426,443
Parasites, to destroy . 331, 433
Parsley, virtues of tlie . . 439
Parturition, difficult . . 62
Perdiculi, to destroy . . 353
Perinoeum, pain in the . . 330
Paritonites .... 43
Pestilence, a confection for a 419
Petergium 307
Phagedenic or corrading ulcera-
tion 429
Pharynx, suppuration in the 402, 403
Phlegm . . 440,441,443,444
Phlegmatic temperament . 450
Phrenesis 431
Physician, the essentials of a 460
Piles 42, 76, 303, 389, 390, 433
Piles, bleeding .... 389
Plague or malignant carbuncle 340
359, 436, 443
Plaster for aches, pains, and in-
flammations • . 308, 338
Plaster, drawing . . . 428
Plaster, a dry . . . . 429
Plaster for erj-sipelas . . 315
Plaster, healing . . . 314
Plaster for pains, aches, and in-
flammations .... 338
Plaster, roll of . . . . 428
Plaster for a sore . . 364, 393
Plaster for scrophulous ulcera-
tions 351
Plaster for all swellings 338, 342, 343,
384, 393
Plethora 314
Pleurisy .... 438, 439
Plica I'olonica .... 356
Pneumonia 39. 321, 325, 328, 444
Poison, antidote for 65, 67, 371,
422, 440, 442, 444
Poisoned food or drink, antidote
for 309
Pork, wholesome ... 46
Pregnancy, diagnostic of . 54
Preservation of health 74, 378, 437
Preservation of sight by blood
letting ..... 456
Prognosis of life or death 52, 75,
336,353, 411, 433,436, 456
Prolapsus ani .... 340
Prolapsus uteri ... 53
Proud flesh . 67,68,315,408
Psoriasis 321, 365, 368, 380, 386,
416, 417, 420
Pterygium or wet in the eye 39, 307
391, 431
Pustular ulcerations on feet and
hands 376
Putrid flesh .... 405
Quinsey 4 5
Reason, loss of . . 54, 413
Reptiles in the stomach . 64
Requisties of a Physician . 460
Resolvent application . . 393
Rheumatism . . 341, 356, 444
Ribs, pain under the . 442, 444
Rigor of stomach and body 320, 325
Ring worm 50, 305, 308, 333, 368,
372, 401, 444
Rosemary, virtues of the . 440
Sage, virtues of the . 437, 442
St. Anthony's fire, malignant 394
see Erysipelas
Salve, a healing . 427, 428, 429
Salve to relieve pain and wounds
319 435
Salve, yellow . . 427, 429, 430
Sanguineus temperament . 449
Scabies 401, 416, 417, 437, 445
Scabs and eruptions . , 327
Scald or Ringworm 50, 305, 308,
333, 372,401,444
Scalds or burns 60, 63, 303, 320, 330
336, 351, 352, 362, 366, 369, 430
Scalp, bruise of the , . 379
Scalp, preservation of the . 38
Scalp, wound of the . . 335
Scrophula 314, 343, 350, 357, 367,
412, 427, 429, 444, 448
Scrophulous swellings . 413
Scrophulous ulcerations 351, 412,
429, 445
Scrophulous virus . , . 449
Scurvy 432
Seatons and Issues ... 45
Seminal weakness 437, 441, 446, 448
Shoulderbladc liver and breast 363
Shoulder, pain under the 364, 372
INDEX.
469
Shoulder, stiffness in tlic . 311
Slioulilere, pain and swelling in
the. . . 312, 32{), 351, 356
Sighing and vomiting . . 65
Sight, defective ... 399
Sight, dimness of . . . 334
Sight, to improve . . . 317
Sight, preservation of . . 456
Sight, to strengthen 307, 312, 347
Sight, weakness of . . 446
Signs, the twelve . . . 457
Skin, wounded . . . 429
Skull exfoliations from the 3C8, 391
Skull, fractured . .374, 380
Sleep, to induce or obtain 50, 343,
400,414,435,454
Sleep during surgical operations 423
Sleep, talking in . 308,361,3-14
Sleeping potion . . . 400
Slough after carbuncle and cau-
tery 48
Sloughing ulcer . 303, 365, 400
Small Pox ... 63, 336
Small Pox, malignant or black 436
Snakes, bites of, antidotes 62, 332,421
Snake's skin, virtues of a . 457
Solution of the liver . . 329
Sores, bleeding . . 398, 409
Sore, ointment for any kind of 426
Sore, an offensive . . . 350
Sores of the mouth . 309, 316
Sores, running .... 449
Spasms 3'JO
Spasm in the leg, &c. . . 356
Speaking during sleep 308, 361, 344
Speech, loss of . 54, 409, 413
Spider's bite . . . 48, 326
Spinal marrow . . 443, 447
Spitting of blood from the lungs 306
Sprains 313, 320, 333, 396, 419, 428
Squamous eruption . 401,420
Sterility . . 45, 76,441,446
Stitch under the arm or breast 341
Stomach ache or colic 390, 416, 431,
435, 438, 440
Stomach, emetic for the . 375
Stomach, flatulence of . 374
Stomach, hardness of . . 371
Stomach, a moist . 324, 328
Stomach, nausea of the . 384
Stomach, jiain in the . . 311
Stomach, oppression of the 444
Stomach, reptiles in the . 64
Stomach, rigor of . . 325
Stomach, to strengthen . 439
Stomach, swelling of the 50, 332,
377, 411,438
Stomach, worms in the 332, 334
Stomachic beer . . . 354
Stone, the 322, 326, 363, 440, 443
Strangury 44, 77, 310, 322, 327
330, 354, 363, 373, 380, 385. 438.
440,444, 447
Sunburn, or other heat 320,398,430
Surfeit, to relieve a . . 63
Surgical operations during sleep 423
Swelling from an accident . 343
Swelling from a blow . 384, 431
Swelling, cataplasm for a . 428
Swelling, to disperse a 320, 338, 339,
313
Swelling in the extremities 59, 312
Swelling in the feet . 358, 422
Swelling of hands and feet 342
35«, 422
Swelling after an injury 77, 384
Swelling in the joints 332, 385
Swelling of the legs 63, 307, 312,
329, 339,342, 367, 370, 444
Swelling under the navel . 345
Swelling in the neck , , 59
Swelling of the stomach 59, 332,
377,411,438
Swelling in the thighs . 364
Swelling in the throat . 343
Swelling of the womb 371, 376
Swelling or wound . 373, 364
Swellings or inflammations 324, 326,
332, 339, 341, 342
Sw-ellings, internal . . 332
Swellings, plaster for . . 338
Swellings, scrophulous . 413
Swine pox . . . 351
Teeth, to strengthen and whiten 344
Teeth,to prevent becoming yellow 393
Temperaments of man . 449
Tertian ague 313, 325, 370, 439,
441 448.
Totter, crusted . . 359, 401
Tetter, humid ... 46
Tetters, for an eruption of . 400
Thick incurable organs . 75
Thighs, aches in the . 339, 340
Thighs, swelling in the , 364
Things to be avoided . . 57
Thirst, to r8lieve extreme 63, 329, 332
Thirst, te restrain . . 329
Thistle, virtues of the blessed 443
Thin incurable organs . 76
Thorn in the flesh, 313, 337, 346,
377, 437
Three complaints causing con-
finement ... 76
Throat, pain with eruption in the
402, 403
Throat, swelling in the . 343
J
470
INDEX.
Throat, to strengtlien the . 380
Tightness of tlie chost . 370
Tonic effects of oak bark . 448
Tooth, to extract without pain 310
352, 354, 392
Tooth, worm in the . . 338
Toothache 46, 49, 51, 53, 302, 308,
309, 366, 374, 453, 4 -,4
Tubercles of the lun^s 357, 432
Tumours 43, 51, 53, 54, 74, 77
Tympanitis . . . 43
Typhus fever . 397,417,418
Ulcer, chronic . . . 359
Ulcer, an ill-conditioned . 349
Ulcer, to destroy granulations in
an . . . . 404, 439
Ulcer, healed outwardly . 371
Ulcer, an indolent . 399, 400
Ulcer on the leg . . 409
Ulcer, ointment for an . 302
Ulcer, a sloughing 303, 3G5, 400
Ulcer, suppurating . . 407
Ulcer or wound, hemorrhage
from . . . . 409
Ulcers in a leg, arm, or other
part. . . . 361, 409
Ulcers, pustulars on feet or hands 376
Ulcers, putrid flesh in , 405
Ulcers, scrophulous 351, 412, 429,
445
Ulcers, worms in . . 407
Unguents, some precious . 423
Unguent, a stimulating . 425
Unguent, an useful . . 399
Unguent, yellow . . 427
Union of bones, to promote 78
Urinal diagnosis. . . 70
Urinal pathology . . 69
Urinary calculi , 75, 306
Urinary disorders 44, 63, 69, 70, 71,
72, 77, 313, 322, 349, 363,
378, 441
Urinary obstructions . . 440
Urine, retention of 63, 322,363, 378
Urine, secretion of , . 349
Urine, suppression of 313, 433
Useful information . . 459
Uterine disease . . . 454
Uterine hemorrhage . 410, 448
Uterus, to strengthen the . 373
Vegetable substances . . 457
Venemous bites . 375, 442
Venison . . . . 46
Vertigo, or hemicronical headache
339,340,398,413
Vervain, virtues of the . 448
Viper's bite 47, 50, 53, 64, 375, 421
Vinegar, to make
Virginity .
Virus, scrophulous
Vomiting of blood
Vomiting .
Walking, weariness in
Warts, anal
Warts, to remove
78
54
449
64
65, 66, 67
422
44
53, 77, 336, 337,
433, 456
Watery excoriations . , 448
Weakness of the brain . 447
Weakness of intellect . 341
Weakness of joints . . 44i)
AVeakness of the nerves . 447
AVeakness of sight . . 446
Wearniness, to prevent . 52
Weariness in walking . 422
AV'eeping child ... 54
Weights and measures . 458
White of eggs, powder of . 429
AVhitlow on the finger 346, 347, 349
Womb, pain in the . . 372
Womb, swelling of the 371, 376
Worm in the tooth, to destroy a 338
Worms, 45, 48, 49, 61, 62, 64, 65,
305, 372
Worms lodged in the flesh . 378
Worms in the stomach 332, 334
AVornis in ulcers . . 407
Wound or abscess, to rc-open a 349
Wonnd, to cleanse a . . 442
Wound, to extract iron, &c. from
a . . . . 318, 337
Wound, to heal a . 303, 412
Wound, punctured . 48, 361
Wound of the scalp . . 335
Wound or swelling . . 373
Wound of a tendon or vein 349
Wounded integuments 331, 430
AVounded skin . . . 429
Wounds or blows • . 404
Wounds, contused . 435, 455
AVounds, to extract evil humors
from . . . 331,437
AVounds, to heal 303,349,411,412
415, 426, 443
AA'ounds, inflimmatory 318, 349
AVounds, ointment for . 395
AVounds, to re open . 318, 412
AVound, pain in . . 433
AVounds, salve for , . 319
Yellow salve . 427,429,430
Yellow unguent . . 427
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