Rursus Plinius, si bene memini[1], ad sanguinem fluentem [280] e naribus, aliqui, ait, thuris farinam cum calicis ovi cinere, et vermiculato gummi ex ovi candido linamento in {mares} <nares> conijciunt. Ornithologus[2] ex libro Germanico manuscripto ad sanguinem sistendum tale medicamentum recenset: Cortices ovorum in aceto acri, donec molliantur, maceratos, in sole siccabis, conteres, et insperges, ubicunque sanguis fluit: vel pulverem ex ovorum corticibus cum fuligine pistoria mixtum insperge, et mox sistetur. Si vero sanguis immodice ex inflicto vulnere fluat, fimi caballini cum putaminibus ovorum cremati cinis impositus mire sistit, teste Plinio[3], et Sereno[4], dum ait.

Si vero infrenus manat de vulnere sanguis

Fimus equi recte cum testis uritur ovi.

Sunt qui fimi Gallinae parte alba duntaxat intus sumpta sanguinem concretum {reijci} <discuti>[5] tradant.

Again Pliny, if I well remember, says that some people for nosebleed by a gauze place in nostrils dust of incense with ash of eggshell and worm-shaped gum done with egg white. The Ornithologist quotes from a German manuscript the following remedy to staunch blood: You will dry in the sun eggshells soaked in sharp vinegar until they are softened, you will grind up them and sprinkle them wherever the blood flows: or sprinkle a mixture gotten from dust of eggshells with baker’s soot, and suddenly it will stop. But if blood runs immoderately because of an inflicted wound, an ash obtained from cremation of horse’s dung jointly with eggshells, and placed upon, will staunch it in an amazing way, as are bearing witness Pliny, and Serenus Sammonicus when the latter says:

But if blood runs unchecked from a wound

It's  good to cremate horse dung with eggshells.

Some affirm that coagulated blood is dissolved by intake of only white part of hen’s dung.

Raucedini vocis a causa calida [6]{acrochilaron} <acrochliaron>[7] ovum prodesse asserit Avicenna, quod ex Dioscoridis[8] libris transcripsisse videri potest, qui tale ovum ad gutturis scabritiem commendat. Plinius[9] vero luteum duntaxat inquiens faucium scabritiae {illinitur} <devoratum> luteum ovi. Celsus[10] albumen, Galenus Dioscoridi subscribit: Ova sorbilia, ait, in quibus liquidum, id est, albumen, coactum adhuc, densatumque non est, ad leniendas gutturis asperitates idonea sunt: et alibi[11] in inflammationum arteriae principiis lenissima remedia sunt ova sorbilia. Et rursum: Ovum sorbile, inquit, miscetur iis, quae contentos in thorace, et pulmone humores in{s}cidunt[12], et usurpatur in illis quorum guttur exasperatum est clamore, vel acrimonia humoris. Tenacitate enim sua partibus affectis adhaeret, et immoratur instar cataplasmatis, et pariter substantiae suae lenitate omnis morsus experti easdem mitigat, curatque qua ratione asperitates etiam circa stomachum, ventrem, intestina, et vesicam obortas curat. Elluchasem[13] ova sorbilia vocem clarificare dixit, et Marcellus[14], si raucus, inquit, ova incocta recentia per triduum ieiunus hauserit, statim remediabitur: quod pariter in nothis Galeno attributis reperitur. Sed forte Marcell. incocta ova ad exasperatam vocem commendat, ut iam subito a partu, dum adhuc naturali calore intus, ac extra calent, sorbeantur.

Avicenna affirms that lukewarm egg is helpful in hoarseness of voice - obviously of voice! the only other uttered sounds are the anal ones! - due to a warm cause, a thing that it seems he could have transcribed from the treatise of Dioscorides, who recommends such an egg against the inflammation of the throat. But for Pliny only the yolk, when he says that egg yolk must be gulped down against inflammation of fauces. Celsus recommends the egg white, Galen joins with Dioscorides. Galen says: sucking eggs, in which the liquid, that is, the albumen has not yet coagulated and grown dense, are proper for soothing the irritations of the throat: and elsewhere he says that sucking eggs are very soothing remedies at the beginning of trachea’s inflammations. And he says again: The sucking egg is mixed to those substances acting against the liquids contained in thorax and lung, and is used in those whose throat is irritated by noisiness or sharpness of inflammatory liquid. For with its toughness it sticks to the affected parts and stays there like a poultice, and likewise with the softness of the material by which is composed, devoid of any irritating effect, softens them and recovers them, which is why it recovers also burnings arisen  in stomach, belly, bowels and bladder. Elluchasem Elimithar said that sucking eggs clear up the voice and Marcellus Empiricus says that if a person with hoarse voice will suck for three days on empty stomach recent raw eggs, immediately he will recover: this is also found in the spurious works ascribed to Galen. But perhaps Marcellus recommends raw eggs for hoarse voice so that they are sucked as soon as are laid, as long as are still warm because of natural heat both inside and outside.

Hippocr.[15] ei, cui pulmonis arteria exulcerata est Galli carnem assam conferre scripsit: et Avicennae caro Gallinae vocis claritatem efficit. Ad occultas anginas Nicolaus Myrepsus[16] Galli stercus album, et cerussam colore referens exiccatum reservari iubet, et usu postulante cum aqua, aut mel{l}icrato[17] subigi, coclearque propinari, et desperatos sanare pollicetur: quod si vero aegri nequeant bibere, praecipit ut cum melle subactum intimis partibus illinatur. Plinius[18] thoracis destillationibus {illiniri} <devorari> ovi luteum testatur. Ius Galli veteris asthmati prodest; et defectum cordis patientibus[19]. Et Avicenna ovum {acrochilaron} <acrochliaron>[20] ad dyspn<o>eam laudat. Edulium in asthmate, et aliis pectoris affectionibus, cum aegri admodum infirmi sunt, tale praescribit Arnoldus[21]: pullum, vel Gallinam iuvenem pinguem cum hordeo puro discoquito, donec liquefiat. Tum tere pullum cum pulpa, et ossibus, et parum ptisanae infunde, exprime, cola. Praestabit quidem pullo, dum teritur, aquam rosarum affundere, et diligenter miscere. Idem alibi[22] album ferculum, inquit, de pullis Gallinarum frequenter sumi poterit, modo ne fiat de pulpis effilatis (sic loquitur) sed ex transverso subtiliter inscisis, et postea contritis, ac ligatis cum lacte amygdalarum, paucove amylo, vel polline oryzae.

Hippocrates wrote that roast flesh of rooster is helpful for one having an irritated trachea: and according to Avicenna hen’s flesh clears up the voice. Nicolaus Myrepsus suggests for sore throat of unknown origin to preserve rooster’s white dung dried up, that one which because of its color is remembering white lead, and when the employ is requiring, to mix it with water or mead, and to give a spoon of it, and he promises that it recovers sick persons believed as unrecoverable: but if patients cannot drink it, he prescribes to smear it inside mixed with honey. Pliny reports that egg yolk must be gulped down in catarrhal states of the thorax. The broth of old rooster is helpful for asthma and for those suffering from cardiac insufficiency. And Avicenna praises the lukewarm egg for breathlessness. Arnaldus from Villanova prescribes the following food in case of asthma and other thorax diseases, when patients are very ill: cook properly a chicken or a young fat hen with pure barley until became mash. Then grind up the chicken with pulp and bones and mix a little barley decoction, squeeze, strain. But it will be useful to pour on the chicken, while it is minced, water of roses and to remix carefully. The same author elsewhere says that a white dish often will be eaten made with chicks of hens, as long as it is not done with stringy fleshes (he says so), but cut in thin bits transversally and then crushed and amalgamated with milk of almonds or with little starch or rice flour.

Pleuritidi, teste Avicenna ovum {acrochilaron} <acrochliaron> confert, et id Laurentius Ioubertus Medicus praestantissimus statim a Gallina depositum, et exhibitum magis convenire ait, quam igne calens: {sangninem} <sanguinem> vero iam spuentibus aegris, idem ovum, ut Dioscorides[23], et Avicenna asseverant, leviter calefactum, vel materno tepore calens proderit, sed id valentius forte praestabit, si quid amyli adijciatur. Plinius[24] enim alibi amylon cum ovo his dari refert, qui sanguinem reiecerint. Si autem exasperata pectoris loca, unde sanguinem plerunque excreamus, l{a}evigare duntaxat velimus, sola id ova meo iudicio praestare poterunt: quare alibi dicebat Avicenna: Ova sorbilia prosunt tussi, et pleuritidi, phthisi, et raucedini vocis ex caliditate[25], et stricturae anhelitus, et sputo sanguinis, praesertim cum sorbetur vitellus eorum tepidus. Et Constantinus, ac Aesculapius {vitellus} <vitellos> ovorum quinque crudos cum vini cyathis[26] tribus haemoptoicis prodesse tradunt[27]. Denique Marcellus vitellos totidem cum vini veteris aut mulsi cyathis tribus permixtos, et calide per triduum potos excreationes cruentas emendare dixit.

As Avicenna affirms, a lukewarm egg is useful in case of pleurisy, and the very talented physician Laurent Joubert says that it is more helping if given as soon as laid by hen rather than heated with fire: but the same egg, as Dioscorides and Avicenna assure, slightly heated or still warm because of maternal warmth, will be helpful for those who spit blood, but perhaps it will be more effective for this purpose if some starch is added. For Pliny elsewhere reports that starch must be given with the egg to those who vomited blood. But if we want to soothe only the inflamed parts of the breast whence mainly we spit blood, in my opinion only the eggs can achieve this: hence somewhere Avicenna said: Sucking eggs are useful in case of cough and pleurisy, of phthisis and hoarse voice due to something warm, and of difficult breath, and spitting of blood, above all when their yolk is drunk lukewarm. And Constantinus Africanus as well as Aesculapius report that five raw egg yolks with three cyathi [around 150 ml] of wine are useful to those who spit blood. Finally Marcellus Empiricus said that the same number of yolks mixed with three cyathi of old wine or sweetened with honey and drunk hot for three days recover from blood expectorations.

Sunt qui etiam ad sanguinis e pectore reiectionem ovorum cinerem testante Sereno, prodesse putent. Si vero malum iam inveteratum est, ac simul cum sanguine pus expuatur: valentioribus remediis opus fuerit, quae tamen et ipsa ab his avibus peti possunt. Marcellus in tali casu ad sanguinis scilicet, atque puris excreationem ovum crudum cum pari mensura succi de porro sectivo expressi, tantumdemque optimi (Graeci, Plinius[28]) mellis permixtum, calefactum aegros {ieuinos} <ieiunos> bibere iubet. Hippocr.[29] Galli carnes ad pectus, et dorsum dirupta commendat, sed cum hac cautela, ut probe cum iusculo praeparentur, et aeger iusculum absorbeat, et sorbitionibus priusquam cibo utatur.

As Serenus Sammonicus testifies, some are thinking that egg's ash is helpful against emission of blood from thorax. But if the illness is by then engrained and also pus is spitted jointly with blood, there will be need of more effective remedies, which however can be obtained from these birds. Marcellus Empiricus in such a pathology, that is against bloody and purulent spitting, prescribes to the patient to drink on empty stomach a warmed up raw egg jointly with the same quantity of juice from squeezed kitchen-leek and mixed to the same amount of best honey (Pliny says Greek honey). Hippocrates recommends rooster’s fleshes for torn breast and back, but with this precaution, that they are prepared with a little broth, and that the patient sips the little broth and that he drinks it before eating.