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species and aromatic confections, diacumini cumin-based preparation, diagalangae, diatrion pipereon preparation with three types of pepper: seeds of anise, carrot, fennel, cumin, used in any manner.
LVII.
Externally are applied warm fomentations, whether dry, from millet, oats, salt, and bran: or humid, from a decoction of pennyroyal, oregano, mint, rue, calamint, chamomile, and the like. Even a large cupping glass applied to the navel, like an incantation, according to Galen, will soothe the pain.
LVIII.
Afterwards, one must look to the parts by whose fault the flatus originates, the stomach, the liver, the spleen: just as the proper affection of each will demand.
LIX.
In the paroxysms of fevers, it is necessary to attend more to the fever than to the pain: since when the fever weakens, it also subsides. But in the overall decline, remedies proper to it can also be adapted.
LX.
When the pain has arisen from a cold humor, it must be led out of the body, either immediately at the start, if it be thin; having first cleared the pathways: or prepared beforehand with incisive cutting/dissolving agents.
LXI.
It shall be led out by a clyster, from the decoction of mallow, mercury, chamomile, dill, pennyroyal, warm seeds: adding rose honey, electuary of diaphoenicon date-based laxative, diacatholicon, Indian, or another, with oils of chamomile, dill, rue, etc. or also by medicines exhibited through the mouth, which lead out matter either by vomiting, if nature leans that way: or through the bowels.
LXII.
The matter is prepared by warm incisive medicines: such as, decoctions of thyme, savory, pennyroyal, rosemary, roots of parsley, celery, warm seeds: syrup of two or five roots, Byzantine, simple oxymel honey and vinegar or squill-based. Where that precept of Galen must be diligently observed, that we abstain from vehemently hot things at the beginning: lest the humors, suddenly fused or resolved into flatus, exacerbate the pains.