Ovorum lutea utilia sunt et cervicis doloribus cum anserino adipe et rosaceo, et condylomatis cum [448] rosaceo. item ambustis durata in aqua, mox in pruna putaminibus exustis, tum lutea ex rosaceo illinuntur, Plin.[1] Prodest et tussientibus per se luteum devoratum liquidum, ita ut dentibus non attingatur{.}<,> thoracis distillationibus [destillationibus], faucium {scabriciae} <scabritiae>{,}<.> privatim contra haemorroidum morsum illinitur, sorbeturque crudum, (Dioscorides hanc vim albumini tribuit.) Prodest et renibus, vesicae rosionibus exulcerationibusque, et cruenta excreantibus, Idem[2]. Ova sorbilia prosunt tussi et pleuritidi, et phthisi, et raucedini vocis ex caliditate, et stricturae anhelitus, et sputo sanguinis, praesertim cum sorbetur vitellus eorum tepidus, Avicenna[3]. Et rursus, Vitellus confert ulceri renum et vesicae, praecipue si sorbeatur crudus, (hoc Platina de integro ovo scribit.) Vitelli ovorum crudi quinque cum vini tribus cyathis haemoptoicis prosunt, Constantinus et Aesculapius. Cum vini veteris aut mulsi cyathis tribus permixti, et calide per triduum poti, excreationes cruentas emendant, Marcellus.

The egg yolks are also useful in the pains of the neck together with fat of goose and oil of roses, and with oil of roses in the condylomata acuminata – either rooster's combs or genital warts. Likewise in the burns, hard cooked in water, and as soon as the shells have been disintegrated on embers, then the yolks are applied with oil of roses, Pliny. The yolk alone swallowed liquid is also good for those people having cough, doing so that it is not touched by teeth, in the catarrhal states of chest, against the inflammation of fauces. Especially it is smeared against the pain provoked by haemorrhoids, and is drunk raw (Dioscorides ascribes this power to egg white). It also is good for kidneys, for vesical burnings and pains, and for those people spitting blood, still Pliny. The eggs to be sipped are useful in case of cough and pleurisy and consumption - by pulmonary tuberculosis - and hoarse voice due to the warmth as well as in case of difficult breath and haemoptysis – to spit blood, above all when the yolk is drunk lukewarm, Avicenna. And still: The yolk is good for ulcer of kidneys and urinary bladder, above all if drunk raw (Platina writes this about the whole egg). Five raw egg yolks with three cyathi [150 ml] of wine are good for spitting blood people, Constantinus Africanus and Aesculapius. Mixed with three cyathi of old wine or mead, and drunk warm for three days, make disappear the haemorrhagic expectorations, Marcellus Empiricus.

Suggillata in oculis ovi vitellus impositus discutit: sunt qui mel misceant, Archigenes apud Galenum de compos. sec. loc. 5.1. Ovi assi vitellus miscetur cataplasmatis ad oculos lippientes, inter Asclepiadis medicamenta in eodem opere 4.7. item ad fluxiones cohibendas. Agglutinatorium ad fluxionem oculorum, Ovi tenuis vitellum cum thure fronti imponito, (ὠοῦ λεπτοῦ λέκυθον, vide an legendum ὠοῦ λεπτόν [vel λευκόν] ἤ λέκυθον. nam et albumen et luteum ovi convenit,) Archigenes apud Galenum de compos. sec. loc. 4. 8. Ad haemalopes et hyposphagmata, id est cruentos et sugillatos oculos, statim a principio tum ad inflammationem tum ad dolorem compescendum prodest ovi assi luteum cum vino impositum, Ibidem. ¶ Vitellus apostemati calido in aure medetur, Avicenna.

The egg yolk applied on eyes makes the bruises disappear: there are some people mixing honey, Archigenes in Galen in De compositione medicamentorum secundum locos book V,1. The yolk of roasted egg is mixed with cataplasms for  rheumy eyes, among the remedies of Asclepiades in the same treatise, book IV,7; and the same is worth for stopping the lacrimation due to irritation. Poultice against the lacrimation: Put on forehead the yolk of a small egg with incense (consider if the expression øoû leptoû lékython - the yolk of a thin egg – has on the contrary to be read øoû leptón [or else leukón] ë lékython - the non-thick part, that is the white, or rather the egg yolk; in fact so it is fitting to both egg white and egg yolk), Archigenes in Galen in De compositione medicamentorum secundum locos IV,8. Against haemalopes and hyposphagmata, that is, for eyes with haemorrhages and bruises, immediately starting from their rising, shows itself as profitable the toasted egg yolk applied with wine to restrain both inflammation and pain, still in IV,8. ¶ The yolk recovers a warm abscess of the ear, Avicenna.

¶ Dolores stomachi lenit ovi vitellus tostus et in farina comminutus, cum polenta potus, Archigenes apud Galenum de compos. sec. loc. et Euporiston 1.97. Ovorum vitelli cum vino vel oleo cocti, adiecta polenta, mane sumpti, medentur his qui cibos non continent, Constantinus. In patinis frigitur vitellus ut cibo alvos sistat, per se vel admixta galla aut fructu rhois,[4] Dioscorid. Sistunt et menses mulierum cocta ovorum lutea, et ex vino pota: inflationes quoque vulvae cruda cum oleo ac vino illita curant, Plinius[5].

¶ The toasted egg yolk and minced in flour, drunk with polenta of barley, relieves the pains of stomach, Archigenes in Galen in De compositione medicamentorum secundum locos and in Euporista - of Oribasius - I,97. The egg yolks cooked with wine or oil, with the addition of barley polenta, taken in the morning, make recover those people who don't succeed in keeping the foods - in the stomach, Constantinus Africanus. The yolk is fried in frying pan to stop the bowel, both alone and mixing gallnut in it or the fruit of the sumac, Dioscorides. The hard boiled egg yolks, and drunk with wine, also stop the menstruations: they also recover the swellings of the vulva if they are raw and smeared with oil and wine, Pliny.

¶ De remediis ex eodem cum aliis medicamentis admixto: primum extra corpus, deinde intra. Ad liventia ovorum luteis utuntur: si vetustiora sint, cum bulbis ac melle, Plin.[6] Contra adustionem ignis, unguentum laudatur ex vitellis ovorum recentium, oleo rosaceo, cera alba et {sepo} <sebo – sevo> arietino, Galenus ut quidam citant. Vitelli cum oleo rosaceo et croco inuncti medentur dolori podagricorum: et si valde doluerint, misceatur modicum opii, Idem ut quidam citant. Ovorum assatorum lutea quinque apud Aetium 12.44. adduntur unguento cuidam arthritico anodyno[7]. Ad exanthemata curanda ovi cocti vitellus cum melle et psim{m}ythio tritus rectissime adhibetur, Marcellus. Si quae maligna pustula in facie, vel brachiis vel pedibus, non frangat eam ne forte de vita periclitetur. sed vitellum ovi cum pari sale ad spissitudinem subactum imponat et leniter fricet. vel in ovum albumine eiecto salem iniectum diligenter misce, et cum linteo impone et illiga pustulae, Obscurus.

¶ Remedies obtainable still from the yolk mixed with other medicines: first for external use, then for internal use. They use the egg yolks against the bruises: if the bruises are not too much recent, with onions and honey, Pliny. Against a fire burn is very appreciated an ointment done with yolks of fresh eggs, rose-oil, white wax and fat of ram, Galen, as some are quoting. The yolks smeared with rose-oil and saffron recover the pains of gouty persons: and if the pain will be strong, a little bit of opium has to be mixed, still Galen, as some are quoting. In Aetius of Amida XII,44 are added five roasted egg yolks to an ointment against arthritic pains. To treat the exanthemata with great benefit is used cooked egg yolk minced with honey and white lead, Marcellus Empiricus. If in the face or in the arms or in the feet is present some malignant pimple, who has it doesn't have to break it so that perhaps he doesn't endanger his life. But he has to superimpose a beaten egg yolk with an equal quantity of salt up to thicken it and has to rub gently. Otherwise properly mix salt put in an egg after having removed its white, and apply it using a flax cloth and fix it on the pimple, an unknown author.

¶ Ovi vitellus tostus cum rosaceo et croco utilis est oculorum doloribus, (περιωδυνίαις,) Dioscorid. Lutea ovorum cocta ut indurescant, admixto croco modice, item melle et lacte mulieris illita, dolores oculorum mitigant. vel cum rosaceo et mulso lana oculis imposita, vel cum trito apii semine ac polenta in mulso illita, Plinius[8]. Si chemosis[9] (id est utriusque palpebrae distortio ex inflammatione) fortis contigerit, ovi luteum cum muscae (μυίας.[10] sed in hoc remedio caro muris non muscae adhibenda legitur apud Galenum Euporiston 1.31.) carne terito, atque ubi ad cerati formam deducta fuerint, linteolo excepta impone, confestim sedant, Archigenes apud Galenum de compos. med. sec. loc. 4.8. Et mox: Oblitiones oculorum, Ovi assi luteum cum modico croco ac vino tritum imponito. Vitellus cum croco et oleo rosaceo utilissimus est ictibus (magnis doloribus, Dioscor.) oculorum: et cum ex eo fit cataplasma cum farina hordei avertit fluxionem ab oculis: et cum thure fronti illinitur eandem ob causam, Avicenna. Vitellum ovi (eodem die positi) aliqui cum sale subigunt: et ustum inde pulverem oculis equorum lunaticis inspergunt: quo remedio cicatrices etiam aboleri aiunt.

¶ The egg yolk roasted with rose-oil and saffron is useful for the strong pains (periødyníais) at eyes, Dioscorides. The egg yolks cooked so that become hard, and locally applied after having mixed a little bit of saffron as well as of honey and milk of woman, mitigate the pains of the eyes. Otherwise applied with wool joining rose-oil and honeyed wine, or smeared with seeds of celery minced and barley polenta prepared with honeyed wine, Pliny. If it will happen to have an intense chemosis (that is a deformation of both eyelids due to inflammation), mince an egg yolk with meat of fly (myías in Greek; but it is read in Galen - Oribasius - Euporista I,31 that in this remedy we have to use meat of mouse and not of fly), and when to both ingredients the consistence of a wax poultice will be given, apply them after having put them on a flax cloth, they quickly relieve, Archigenes in Galen in De compositione medicamentorum secundum locos IV,8. And then: Ointments for the eyes: Apply yolk of roasted egg and minced with a little bit of saffron and rose-oil. The yolk with saffron and rose-oil is useful in case of traumata (intense pains, Dioscorides) at eyes: and when by it a cataplasm is dome with barley meal, it stops the lacrimation: and together with the incense is smeared on the forehead for the same reason, Avicenna. Some beat with salt the yolk of an egg (laid in the same day): and they sprinkle the dust so gotten and toasted on the horses' eyes turned white like the moon - from leucoma?: they say that by this remedy also the scars are removed.

¶ Ad cervicum tumores sedandos, ovorum vitelli cocti cum adipe anserina illinuntur, felle caprino, aequis ponderibus permixto, atque inde cervices fricantur, Marcellus. ¶ Ad mamillas Aegineta 3.35. ovorum luteis crudis cum cerato utitur. ¶ Fissuras ac rimas pudendorum iuvat resina fricta cum rosaceo trita ad strigmentitiam crassitudinem, ammixto etiam ovi assati vitello, Asclepiades apud Galenum lib. 9. de comp. sec. loc. ¶ Luteum ovi inassatum cum meliloto sedis inflammationibus prodest et condylomatis, Dioscor.[11] Cum vitello, sale et melle, sunt qui et crocum addant, balani ad alvum proritandam componuntur. Nonnulli cum celeritate opus est, vel alia desunt, vitellum copioso sale mixtum linteolo illigant. Cum propter haemorrhoides locus inflammatur, maxime ubi dura alvus eum locum laesit: tum in aqua dulci desidendum est, et vitium fovendum ovis, imponendi vitelli cum rosae foliis ex passo subacti, Celsus[12]. ¶ Ovorum vitellum (ut alibi etiam candidum) Hippocrates mollitoriis uteri medicamentis admiscet.

¶ In order to attenuate the swellings of the neck, cooked egg yolks are smeared in association with fat of goose which has to be mixed with bile of goat in equal parts, and rubbings are done at the neck, Marcellus Empiricus. ¶ For the mammae Aetius of Amida in III,35 uses raw egg yolks with a wax poultice. ¶ It is good for genital chaps and rhagades the fried resin minced with rose-oil up to bring it to the consistence of skin's scraping gotten by the strigil, also mixing the yolk of a roasted egg, Asclepiades in Galen, book IX of De compositione medicamentorum secundum locos. ¶ The egg yolk roasted with yellow melilot is good for perianal inflammations and condylomata acuminata, Dioscorides. To stimulate the bowel suppositories are prepared with yolk, salt and honey, and there are some adding also saffron. Some people, when hurrying up, or when the other ingredients are missing, make a flax little bundle putting the yolk mixed with abundant salt. When the area is inflamed because of haemorrhoids, above all when the hard faeces injured that area, then the bottom has to be soaked in sweet water, and the disease must be treated with the eggs, the yolks must be applied beaten with petals of rose in raisin wine, Celsus. ¶ The egg yolk (as, in another passage, also the egg white) Hippocrates mixes it with emollient remedies for the uterus.

¶ Intra corpus cum aliis remediis. Gallinacei ovi vitellum semicoctum oleoque permistum si quis sorbeat, sitire desinet, Marcellus. ¶ Cum uva fruticis eius quem rhoa dicunt, aut galla in patinis frigitur vitellus, ut cibo alvos sistat: qui per se etiam offerri solet, Dioscor. Damus et ovorum assatorum lutea dysentericis cum modico aceto ac rhoe, paucissimo oleo admixto, Aetius. Quinque ovorum lutea in vini hemina cruda sorbentur dysentericis, cum {iure} <cinere> putaminis sui, et papaveris [449] succo ac vino, Plin.[13]

¶ Internal employ with other remedies. If someone sips a yolk of a coddled hen's egg and mixed with oil, he stops in being thirsty Marcellus Empiricus. ¶ The yolk is fried in frying pan together with a drupe of that bush they call sumac, or together with a gallnut, so that as food it stops the bowel: it is custom to offer it also alone, Dioscorides. We also give the dysenteric patients the yolks of roasted eggs in association with a little bit of vinegar and sumac, mixing very little oil, Aetius of Amida. By dysenteric patients are sipped five raw egg yolks in a hemina [250 ml] of wine together with the ash of their shells and with juice of poppy and wine, Pliny.