Exposicion of obscuer wordes in phisick: Alopicia, pilorum decasus & genus Leyra' Artetyke, gutta totum corpus l membra tuaskarreus. Apoplexie a palsy suddenly astonysshing the whole body memory & speache. Antrax a fiery impostume Apperitive, opening Possibly "apperitive" antedates the earliest OED citation (1582). Absterc' & Astercion Substersive , extracting & clensing "Substersive" not found in OED. Apostolicon a playster or psalve so called "Apostolicon" may antedate the earliest OED citation (?c1600). Aluia shortnes of breath "Aluia" not found in OED but possibly an error for "asthma." Atrices ertrices all one morbus culi See see Juhani Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary in English, 1375-1550 (2016): 77. Benedcan a medecyn called Bennell or bene­ dict. "Benedict" not found in OED in this sense; and "Bennell" not found in OED. Bolet, a mauer of dead wood growing agaynst trees & is very light. This entry appears to be indebted to the Grete Herball (1526). Colophony is Tarr or softe pitche./ Cordiaca or Cardiaca. passio, ys a siknes & trembling of the harte. This entry seems indebted to J. Hollybush's translation of H. Brunschweig's Apothecarye (1561). Condilomata, vnblody clystys or crestys of the fundament. "Condilomata" antedates the earliest OED citation (1656). all one Consuming Resoluing departing or putting forth, of humours or windes Conglutinatiue, a ioyning togither Cauterie actuall, burning by metall. Cauterie potenciall ys burning by medicines Corrosiue, eating or by­ ting Ciate a measur of ziser Dyssenterie, blody flyx. Diamargariton A con­ feccion "Diamargariton" is without dated citations in the OED. Dyalthea, a salue in the antidotary so named Not in OED (cf. "Althea") but see Juhani Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary in English, 1375-1550 (2016): 289. Dissolve & Dissolutiue , liquyfie & re­ mytt is all one. a medecin mynysshing grosse & slymy humors Diaforetyke is resolutive in spreading & making subtile & avoy­ ding without noyaunces Diafragma the mydriff wherein the impostume pleuresis ingendreth Dragma, the viijth parte of an ounce. Degree ys the quantity in which the patient or sick body is hot, colde, drie, or moyst. Degrees in medecin be iiij or the 4. so hot that it may no more except death. the 3 lesse heate, the .2. yet lesse heate. And the .i. but little heate aboue the complexion of the person./ And when the medecin neither mooveth nor chaungeth the body than it is said Temperate Dissurye, when one cannot pisse without payne by reason of grosse humors stop­ ping the conduyts, or for the ston or great gravell, or febleness of the blader neck not hable to put forth the vrine. Strangury or straugulion when one pisse drop by drop, or cannot kepe his water or blader lost his retentive vertue, or vryne so hevily aggravate that it is not suf­ ferable within the blader but contynually issueth because the blader or neck therof ys parted or perisshed, And assone as it commeth any drop of vryn it so smarteth and brenneth that it must needes yssue./ Dyvretyke, is openyng or vnstopping of conduytes or veynes & avoyding of humors./ Diabetyke passion when one pisseth often & great quan­ tity And assone as one hath dronke he pisseth incontynent after, & it commyth of heate of the reynes/ Eliphantia, astzy one Meselry or lepry ouer all the body. Thother, an arme or legge iij or iiij tymes greater then it ought to be, & yet the feete or handes not swolne. And of Meselry or Lepry be iiij maners viz Alopice/ Leonyne ptisis, & elephans. Alopice is caused of corrupion of hott brennyng blood/ Leonyne is when the myseld hath a face very horrible to beholde & is fierce & cruell as a lyon bycause of colerik hott & brenning humors. Ptysis, pilleth & leeseth the skynne./ Elephance vt etc The final expansion is uncertain. Epilence, called the fallinge evill or foule evill Erisipyle, an ympostome most hottest that can be Emoptoyca, when one commonly spytteth bloode./ "Emoptoica" not found in OED but see Juhani Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary in English, 1375-1550 (2016): 340. Epithime, a cloth of many foldes wetted in waters & Iuyce of herbes & commonly layed vnto the liver, And sometyme it is made a little pillowe of Cotton. Fomenter, is bathing of a member in seethinges of herbes But in the heating that is letten fall of the same holl lycour vpon another hotter thing therto most necessary & all by drops, which is than namyd Embrocium, or embracium. "Formentor" in the OED lacks this sense. Fufures, be small white shilles softened to the skyn of the head & to the hete or here of the head & is named dead skynne. The earliest OED use of "furfur" is 1621; "fufurs" is not found there. Gomorrea or Gonorrea is issuing of sparme or seed against the will without having any pleasur. Herpes estiomenus, a canker that eateth round about it & it is otherwyse named Noli me tangere especially yf it be in the face./ Ierapigra a medecin con­ forting the braynes. Ieralogodion a laxatyue medecyne "hiera logodion" not found in OED but see Juhani Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary in English, 1375-1550 (2016): 508. Iposarca a swelling or dropsy & speciet treplicis: Leuco­ flumancia, Tympanum, & Alchites. Unclear characters and expansions in the Latin text of the second line. Litargie or Litarge, a maner of stomme of mettalls, & also a disease wherin though ther be no hie speache, yet there is answer, & so differeth from Apoplexie./ Malum terre, the roote of Cicla­ men./ Melancoly a maner of folly. Mania, raging madnesse. Mitigative, a medecine swa­ ging dolour & paynes./ Morfue, a disease, etc 2x..6. white and black./ Nefresy a gret payne in the rheynes./ Narcotycke, a medecin so colde of nature that maketh one to swell & benommeth the memmbers of the body Opilacion stopping. Obtalmye a hot impostore in the eyen which is red within. Oxizacre, a drynk to be had at the potticaryes. Pores be the holes thorowe which swett issueth Paralis is palsie Podagra: gutta pedis. Polypus, excrescentia car­ nis in naso maleolens. Penetratyue or persante, a medecin having vertue to perce or penetrate. Vynegre is very penetratiue & therfore vsed in many medecyns. Pessaria, a pessayre pro matrice Picula clere pitch A second word, "artitico", is deleted. Pilitis artitico an electuary. Cf. The Grete Herball (1526). Pleuresis an Impostume as before in Dyaphragma. Ponticity or Pontyke is a soure savour. Ponticity or pontyke stip­ ticity or Stiptyke is all one thinge. Savinge that ponike hath a sharpe savour in sowernesse/ Yet Stiptike hath more soure­ nesse/ ¶ All thinges what maner of savour it hath that reioyneth or closeth mem­ bers enlarged or ratefyed ys named Stiptich Resouder or consolider is all one, for it is a reioyninge of woundes as before in conglutinacion. "consolider" not found in OED. Resolueth, is a sperplinge of humours or ventosities & putteth them out of the body insensible of subtyle vapoure./ Reprymed, rebatinge of force or sharpnes of me­ decins that be to violent./ Relaxing, is a mollifyeng or softening of a member from his closing or hardnes it ought to haue &c Squinancy an Impostome in the throate. Syrope, a maner of drynke for sicknesses & is clere wherin is alwayes put suger or hony. For pty­ sane is no sirope. Synope, a swownyng & syncopizant is the same. "syncopizant" not found in OED. Serpio a tetter whiche creepeth & breaketh al­ way. But the tetter Im­ petigo doth not creepe./ Sapone or sope. "sapone" not found in OED. Splenetike, one that hath an euill mylte Syryng, an instrument to squirte a medecin into the conduyte of the yarde/ Suppository, a long rounde thing to put into the fundament for to sett a clister Also a peg to the same for costyfenesse. Suffocacion of the matrice or Mother, whan a wo­ man her colour advyse & remembrance./ Scynoche, a fervent hotte ague caused of hot and rotten bloode. Not found in OED but see Juhani Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary in English, 1375-1550 (2016): 26. The nasmon or tenasmon whan one goeth to the draught & can doe no­ thing. "tenasmon" antedates the last OED citation (c1425). Tutie, a thing that dooth acte ag­ aynst a forneys. Wherein metall hath bin founded or moulton & is good for sore eyen/ but it must be restreyned ix tymes in a certeyn water. Tisis, a percing of the lyghtes & than the pacient spilleth bloode day by daye, & that ys named tysis Tintimales or tyntymans, est herba corosivum L ac habens "tyntymans" not found in OED. Trosys be figures, all round & a litle flatte. Trites & Atryces bin fluxes or swellinges very softe about & of the fundament & not of the vaynes ther of but only about the fundament And of that place be .3. diuerse diseases, as Ficus, Fiatrices, & Emeroydes or pyles. For "trices," see Juhani Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary in English, 1375-1550 (2016): 1117. Emorroydes or pyles be in the vaynes about the border of the fundament. & sometyme doth swell & nothinge issueth out of it, & sometyme bleedeth tomoche, & sometyme it is full of dolorouse payn Atrites alias glandes bene as afore ys said. But Ficus or fy. is a gret thing about the fundament which is within full of groos graynes like vnto the graynes of figges and therefore it is called Ficus ¶ Condilomata afore said in the lettre C. be dolours of the fundament as clystys & crestys without yelding or avoyding any blood. ¶ But when they render blood they be named Ragadies Vanytie of the eare is a thing as yf it were a sowne contynuyng in the eare. Ver. that is pryme tyme or spring tyme all is one./ Yliaca, is dolour & anguishe in the belly aboue the nombrells,/ And when it is vnder the nombrills than is it the Collick Yposacre or Yposarca is a maner of swellinge or dropsy And there bene iij speces or kindes of dropsy as afore is said in llettera I. Videlicit the first is where all the body is swoln & softe, & thrusting your fynger vpon it there abydeth a pitt & that is called Leucofleuman­ cia. The 2. is named Tympanum, because the belly is swoln harde bent & full of wynde by reason wherof it is lyght/ The 3. is where as the belly also swolne very grett & it wayeth or waxeth right sore & when the sick body remo­ veth from one syde to another, than it geveth a sownde lyke a barrell that is haulf full of licour and is named Alchites.