Iura decrepitorum gallorum prosunt [394] asthmati et defectum cordis patientibus, Albertus.

The broths prepared with decrepit roosters are helpful for asthma and patients with heart failure, Albertus Magnus.

Amatus Lusitanus pro muliere quadragenaria, quae maximo dolore ab ore ventriculi ad imum pectinem cruciabatur, febricitabat, vomebat, nec quicquam alvo reddebat, post caetera remedia, ius galli praescripsit huiusmodi. Gallum veterem quatuor ad minimum annorum, defatigatum interfice, et exenterato immitte, salis gemmae drachmas tres, seminis cnici, polypodii de quercu recentis et contusi, ana unciam unam, seminis dauci, anethi, am<m>eos, ana semunciam. turbith drachmas tres. misce et in libris duodecim aquae fiat decoctio ad medias, Huius decoctionis (inquit) uncias sex ieiuna bibebat: et ex eadem interdum clyster parabatur, quibus alvus secessit, ac dolor ex toto levatus est. Alypon ad purgationem datur e gallinaceo iure, Plinius[1]. Lathyridis grana stomachum laedunt, itaque inventum est, ut cum pisce aut iure gallinacei sumerentur, Idem[2]. Alvo solvendae Mercurialis decoquitur quantum manus capiat, in duobus sextariis aquae ad dimidias, bibitur sale et melle admixto, nec non cum ungula suis aut gallinaceo decoctum salubrius, Plinius[3]. Heliotropii tricocci illitum semen, et potum in iure gallinacei decoctum, aut cum beta et lente, spinae ac lumborum sanguinem corruptum trahit, Idem[4]. Clyster ad omnem colicam ex descriptione Io. Goevroti[5] medici regis Galliarum. Gallus quem vetustissimum inveneris, virgis verberatus decolletur, et in situlam aquae inijciatur. deplumati exenteratique ventri immittantur haec medicamenta: Anisi, {foeniculi} <faeniculi>, cumini, polypodii, seminis {cneci} <cnici>[6],  singulorum semuncia. turpeti, senae, agarici in subtili linteo ligati, de singulis drachmae binae. florum {chamaemali} <chamaemeli>[7] manipulus. decoquantur usque ad ossium separationem. Huius decocti libra cum oleis de anetho et de {chamaemalo} <chamaemelo> (duabus vel tribus unciis utriusque) et duobus ovi vitellis misceatur, fiatque clyster, qui tepidus ventriculo vacuo exhibeatur.

Amatus Lusitanus - alias João Rodriguez do Castelo Branco - to a forty years old woman worried by a strong pain from stomach’s mouth right down to pubes, who was feverish, vomiting and didn’t eliminate anything from bowel, after other remedies he prescribed a rooster's broth prepared in this way. Kill a rooster at least four years old and worn-out, and after you removed its entrails put inside three drachmas of rock salt [around 10 g], an ounce each [around 27 g] of seeds of safflower, fresh polypody grown near an oak and crushed, a half-ounce of seeds of carrot, dill and Ammi majus - bishop’s weed or bullwort. Three drachmas [around 10 g] of turbith. Mix and the cooking is to be done in twelve pounds of water [around 4 liters] until to reduce them to half. João says that on empty stomach she was drinking six ounces of this decoction: and that sometimes a clyster was prepared with it, and thanks to these remedies the bowel was emptied and the pain completely removed. The alypum - Globularia alypum - is given as purgative with broth of chicken, Pliny. The seeds of chickling pea injure the stomach, and therefore they found out that must be taken with fish or broth of chicken, still Pliny. The Mercury herb, with the purpose of relieving bowels, is cooked for a long time in dose of a handful in two sextarii [1 l] of water until to reduce them to half, is drunk adding salt and honey, moreover a decoction prepared with a nail of pig or with a chicken has a greater effectiveness, Pliny. The seed of heliotrope endowed with three seeds or turnesole - Chrozophora tinctoria ex Croton tinctorium of Linné - locally applied, and drunk after has been cooked in broth of chicken, or along with beet and lentil, makes to go out the altered blood of back and loins, still Pliny. A clyster suitable for every kind of colic, drawn from the treatise of Jean Goevrot physician of the king of France - Francis I: A rooster, the oldest you will have found, after has been beaten with sticks has to be decapitated and has to be placed in a bucket of water. In the belly of the plucked bird and freed from entrails put the following medicaments: a half-ounce each [around 14 g] of anise, fennel, cumin, polypody, seeds of safflower. Two drachmas each [around 7 g] of turbith, sena, agaric wrapped up in a thin napkin. A handful of camomile flowers. Cook them a long time up to separation of bones. Mix a pound of this decoction [around 327 g] with dill and camomile oil (two or three ounces [50-75 g] of both) and with two egg yolks, and made a clyster, that must be inserted lukewarm in an empty rectum.

¶ Chiron[8] Centaurus pro remedio malidis[9] sive pestilentiae iumentorum, praecipit catulum lactentem vivum in aqua ferventi missum ac depilatum ita decoqui, ut ossa separentur a carne: quibus diligenter ablatis, eius caro cum aqua in qua decocta fuerit, liquamine optimo, vino veteri et oleo et pipere cum melle condita, usque ad sextarium debere servari, ac singulis animalibus binas cotylas tepefactas donec ad sanitatem perveniant, diebus singulis dari per fauces. De gallo quoque gallinaceo albo eadem quae de catulo observanda demonstrat, Vegetius 1.17. Idem remedium Absyrtus in Hippiatricis[10] describit capite 128. enchymatismum catharticum, id est infusionem purgatoriam appellans, nec aliud admiscens, sed solum catulum aut gallum in aqua discoquens. Contra malidem humidam equo infunditur per os ptisana ex avena percolata, cui incoctus sit canis κουτάβιος[11] (malim γαλαθηνὸς, id est lactens, ut supra) bene purgatus et depilatus: sin minus, gallina, Hierocles. Gallina alba cocta cum decem cepis albis, et cum manipulo de aluiule[12], donec bene cocta sit et comedatur, et bibatur aqua, addit in appetitu coitus, Rasis ni fallor.

¶ Chiron the Centaur, as remedy for malanders, that is, for a pestilence of draught animals, prescribes that an alive and still sucking doggy placed into boiling water and depilated is cooked for so a long time that bones separate from flesh, and after they have been carefully removed, its flesh with water in which was cooked, seasoned with very good sauce of fish, old wine, oil and pepper jointly with honey up to reach a sextarius [500 ml], must be preserved, and to each animal two warmed up heminae [500 ml] have to be given until they are recovered, and to give this dose each day through the throat. Vegetius in 1^st,17 gives the same guidelines regarding the doggy also concerning a white rooster. Absyrtus in Hippiatrica chapter 128 describes the same remedy he calls enchymatismum catharticum, that is, infusion with purgative action, and without adding any ingredient, but cooking in water only the doggy or the rooster. Against exudative malanders to the horse is infused by mouth a tisane gotten from oat then strained, in which a koutábios dog has been cooked (I would prefer galathënòs, that is, sucking, as in previous recipe) well polished up and depilated: otherwise, a hen, Hierocles. A white hen cooked with ten white onions and a handful of aluiule until is well cooked, and then eaten, and drinking together some water, increases the desire of intercourse, Razi, if I am not mistaken.

¶ Ius ex gallinaceis potum praeclare medetur contra morsus serpentium, Plinius[13]. Ius gallinaceorum coquitur aliquando cum remediis astringentibus ad dysenteriam, et cum lacte ad ulcera vesicae, Avicenna. Plinius[14] etiam simpliciter ius e gallinaceo (iuniore nimirum, ut supra monuimus,) dysentericis mederi scribit. In febri {h}epiala[15], in qua exteriora calent et frigent interiora, iis cibis utere qui {haemitritaeo} <hemitritaeae>[16] phlegmaticae conveniunt. Gallus antiquus post longam cum altero dimicationem occidatur: coquaturque cum hordeo, passulis enucleatis, pulegio, hyssopo, thymo et violis: tempereturque cum oxymelite acri. propinato quantum uno haustu sorbere possit aeger, Brudus Lusitanus. Et rursus pro eadem febri cum a simplici pituita dependet, praesertim in homine frigidae naturae: Senescentem gallum (inquit) praedicto modo defatigatum, parato ad hunc modum: Chamaemeli[17] manipulum sesqui: ficuum aridarum, passularum enucleatarum, singulorum manipulum: hordei ab uno cortice exuti manipulos tres, coquito sufficienter et colato. Cum libra huius iuris misceto adipis anatis recentis uncias tres, aceti albi e pulegio unciam, salis parum. bulliant iterum donec permisceantur. Dato calidum, quantum uno haustu sorbere possit, efficacissimum est ad crassos humores et lentos febrem generantes. Idem Brudus passim in opere suo de victu febricitantium, diversa remedia cum gallinis aut pullis coquenda praecipit, febribus diversis salubria, ut cucurbitam, pruna, uvam acerbam etc. quae propter prolixitatem omittimus. 

¶  To drink broth of chicken is a marvelous treatment against the bite of snakes, Pliny. The broth of chicken sometimes as anti-dysenteric is cooked with astringent remedies, and with milk against the ulcerations of bladder, Avicenna. Pliny writes that also merely the broth of chicken (without doubt young, as before - at page 393 - we have highlighted) is useful in treatment of dysenteric patients. In the fever with shivers, in which external parts are scorching and those inside are frozen, you will use those foods that are proper for half-tertian fever caused by phlegm. An old rooster has to be killed after a long fight with another rooster: and has to be cooked with barley, small raisin from which grape-stones have been removed, summer savory - Mentha pulegium, hyssop, thyme and violets: and has to be mixed with sour-honey – a mixture of vinegar and honey. It is given as much as the sick can swallow with only a gulp, Manuel Brudo. And again, for the same fever, when is depending on a simple cold, especially in a person of cold constitution, he says: You have to prepare as follows an old rooster worn out in the above-mentioned way: a handful and half of camomile: a handful each of dry figs, raisin without seeds: three handfuls of barley deprived of only an inner glume, cook enough and strain. Mix with a pound [327.45 g] of this broth three ounces [around 82 g] of fresh fat of duck, an ounce [27.28 g] of white vinegar spiced with summer savory, little salt. They have to boil again until they are well mixed. Give it warm in the quantity can be swallowed with only a gulp, it is very effective against dense and viscous humors causing fever. Still Manuel Brudo in his treatise on food of fevered patients prescribes different remedies that must be cooked with hens or young chickens, useful in different kinds of fever, as pumpkin, plums, unripe grape, etc., which I skip because of prolixity.

¶ Gallinacea iura salubriter bibuntur, ubi sumpti veneni suspicio est, nam alvum subducunt, et stomachum resolventia proniorem ipsum ad vomitionem reddunt: et venenorum acrimonias hebetant: atque meatus obstruentia, celerem virium (veneni) penetrationem inhibent, Dioscorides: cum ad hunc usum non tantum haec iura nominasset, sed etiam pisces praepingues, vetustas carnes pinguesque, et quae adipe aut recenti butyro parantur. ¶ His qui toxicum biberint, iusculum pulli gallinacei pinguis absorbendum dato postquam vomuerint, Aetius.

¶ The broths of chicken are drunk with beneficial effects when is existing the suspicion that a poison has been swallowed, in fact they make the bowel to move, and having a ridding action on the stomach they make it more prone to vomiting: and they damp the irritating effect of poisons: and since they obstruct the ways of access, they inhibit the fast penetration of the devastating powers (of the poison), Dioscorides: but he had quoted for such an employment not only these broths, but also very fat fishes, old and fat meats, and those prepared with fat or fresh butter. ¶ Those who drunk a poison have to sip a little broth of fat chicken after they vomited, Aetius of Amida.

¶ Veneficiis ex mustela sylvestri factis, contrarium est ius gallinacei veteris large haustum: peculiariter contra aconitum, addi parum salis oportet, Plinius[18]. Pinguis gallinae ius contra aconitum bibitur, Galenus libro 2. de antidotis et Nicander. Dioscorides[19] adversus idem malum {lixiviam} <lixivium>[20] laudat cum vino et gallina {decoctam} <decoctum>. Ius salsum ex gallina vel ansere auxiliatur illis qui coriandrum sumpserint post vomitionem irino oleo concitatam, Dioscor.[21] Gallinae pinguis de pectore caro cocta, vel iusculum inde potum remedio est contra dorycnium[22], Nicander et Dioscorides.

¶ Against the poisons prepared with wild weasel the broth of old rooster is effective drunk in abundance: particularly against the monkshood it is necessary to add some salt, Pliny. The broth of fat hen is drunk against the aconite, Galen in De antidotis book 2^nd and Nicander of Colophon. Dioscorides against the same kind of poisoning praises the lye cooked with wine and a hen. A salty broth of hen or goose, after the vomit with oil of iris has been provoked, is effective for those who swallowed coriander, Dioscorides. The boiled meat of the breast of a fat hen, or to drink its little broth, represents a remedy against the dorycnium, Nicander and Dioscorides.

¶ Caro gallinarum claritatem vocis efficit, Avicenna. Adversus exitum ani (resolutionem vel tenesmum) pullam gallinaceam assam edito, Obscurus. Cimicum natura contra serpentium morsus [395] et praecipue aspidum valere dicitur: item contra venena omnia {argumentum, quod dicunt} <, argumento, quod dicant> gallinas quo die cimices ederint, non interfici ab aspide: carnes quoque earum percussis plurimum prodesse, Plinius[23].

¶ The meat of the hens makes the voice ringing, Avicenna. For the anal orifice (in case of incontinence or of tenesmum) eat a roast pullet, an unknown fellow. They say that the components of the bugs are effective against the bites of snakes and above all of vipers: likewise against all the poisons, and the proof is that they say that hens in the day they ate bugs are not killed by the viper: and that also their meats are of great benefit for those who  have been bitten, Pliny.