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Wednesday, 14 October 2009

from the "flos medicinae salerni" (the salernitan rule of health)


IC. De phlebotomia et primo de aetate secondae venae

(Del salasso e, prima, dell'età in cui conviene trar sangue)

(On bleeding and, first, about the age in which is opportune to draw blood)





the cut of the vein get clear the reason, 
and purge the brain, and mind... 







and is good for the young ones too, and for the older men
at each month, when the blood abound, 
to open up the vein...







in part before, and in part when you open up the vein
you have to be careful about these things,
and to grease up, and to wash up, and to drink a little bit,
preparing bandage, and make a certain amount of exercise








and the wound, you will make it quite large,
so that the blood, and the vapours, escape





(sorry for my - very - bad translation...)



from: "La regola sanitaria salernitana", Roma, 1993