estion and flatulency, and by
frugality and exercise they remove every humor and spasm. Therefore it
is unseemly in the extreme to be seen vomiting or spitting, since they
say that this is a sign either of little exercise, or of ignoble sloth,
or of drunkenness, or gluttony. They suffer rather from swellings or
from the dry spasm, which they relieve with plenty of good and juicy
food. They heal fevers with pleasant baths and with milk-food, and with
a pleasant habitation in the country and by gradual exercise. Unclean
diseases cannot be prevalent with them because they often clean their
bodies by bathing in wine, and soothe them with aromatic oil, and by the
sweat of exercise they diffuse the poisonous vapor which corrupts the
blood and the marrow. They do suffer a little from consumption, because
they cannot perspire at the breast, but they never have asthma, for the
humid nature of which a heavy man is required. They cure hot fevers
with cold potations of water, but slight ones with sweet smells, with
cheese-bread or sleep, with music or dancing. Tertiary fevers are cured
by bleeding, by rhubarb or by a similar drawing remedy, or by water
soaked in the roots of plants, with purgative and sharp-tasting
qualities. But it is rarely that they take purgative medicines. Fevers
occurring every fourth day are cured easily by suddenly startling the
unprepared patients, and by means of herbs producing effects opposite to
the humors of this fever. All these secrets they told me in opposition
to their own wishes. They take more diligent pains to cure the lasting
fevers, which they fear more, and they strive to counteract these by
the observation of stars and of plants, and by prayers to God. Fevers
recurring every fifth, sixth, eighth or more days, you never find
whenever heavy humors are wanting.

They use baths, and moreover they have warm ones according to the Roman
custom, and they make use also of olive oil. They have found out, too, a
great many secret cures for the preservation of cleanliness and health.
And in other ways they labor to cure the epilepsy, with which they are
often troubled.

G.M. A sign this disease is of wonderful cleverness, for from it
Hercules, Scotus, Socrates, Callimachus, and Mahomet have suffered.

Capt. They cure by means of prayers to heaven, by strengthening the
head, by acids, by planned gymnastics, and with fat cheese-bread
sprinkled with the flour of wheaten corn. They are very skilled i