Ventris fluxiones etiam exiccat ovum, si aceto coctum comedatur: authores sunt Galenus, et Simeon Sethi. Constantinus albumen vel etiam totum ovum combustum, et cum vino, vel aceto potum, vel impositum, omnes fluxiones sistere memorat. Serenus[1] eandem facultatem putamini torrefacto assignat hoc versu.

Torridus ex vino cortex potabitur ovi.

The egg also stops intestinal evacuations if eaten cooked in vinegar: Galen and Simeon Sethi testify this. Constantinus Africanus recalls that the egg albumen or even the entire fried egg drunk with wine or vinegar, or locally applied, stops any kind of flowing. Serenus Sammonicus attributes the same power to roasted eggshell with this verse:

The roasted eggshell will be drunk with wine.

Hippocrates[2] alibi carnibus Gallinaceis assatis citra condimenta in alvi fluxu utendum praecipit. Ius Gallinaceorum, referente Avicenna, coquitur aliquando cum remediis astringentibus ad dysenteriam, et cum lacte ad ulcera vesicae. Aetius ova lacti commixta dysentericis prodesse monet. Talia autem ova oogala nuncupant. Dysentericorum, qui ardorem sentiunt, clysteribus ova cruda adduntur eodem tradente, cum modico, ac largo rosaceo conquassata. Plinius[3] <cruenta excreantibus> quinque ovorum lutea in vini hemina [4] cruda sorberi dysentericis ait cum {iure} <cinere>[5] putaminis sui, et papaveris succo, et vino. Alibi[6] etiam fieri dysentericis remedium prodit singulare ovo effuso in fictili novo, eiusdemque ovi mensura, ut paria sint omnia, melle, mox aceto, <item oleo> confusis, crebroque permixtis. Quo fuerint ea {praestantiora} <excellentiora>, hoc praesentius remedium erit. Alii eadem mensura pro oleo, et aceto resinam adijciunt rubentem, vinumque; et alio modo temperant, olei tantum mensura pari, pineique corticis duabus sexagesimis {denariorum} <denarii>[7], una eius quod rhus dicimus, mellis obolis[8] quinque simul decoctis, ita ut cibus alius post quatuor horas sumatur. Haec ille.

Elsewhere Hippocrates prescribes in case of diarrhea to use roasted chicken's meat, except seasonings. According to what Avicenna reports, sometimes the chicken's broth is cooked with astringent remedies against dysentery, and with milk against bladder ulcers. Aetius of Amida advises that eggs mixed with milk are helpful for dysentery patients. For they call such eggs oogala - eggs and milk. He still reports that some raw eggs are added to clysters of dysentery patients feeling burning, whisked in few or in abundant rose oil. Pliny says that spitting blood patients have to drink five yolks of raw eggs in a hemina [250 ml] of wine, dysentery patients jointly with ash of their shell and with juice of poppy and wine. Elsewhere he also reports to realize a singular remedy for dysentery patients with an egg poured in a new earthenware pot and to take care so that all components are of the same amount of the egg, mixing honey and then vinegar as well as oil, and mixing up repeatedly. The more the components are excellent, the more this remedy will be helpful. Others in place of oil and vinegar put the same amount of red resin and wine; they merge them in a different way too, only a quantity of oil of the same amount and with two sixtieths of denarius [100 mg] of pine bark, a sixtieth of what we call sumac, five obols [around 2.5 g] of honey cooked together, so that after four hours other food can be taken. Thus far Pliny.

Celsus[9] ova dura alvum astringere scribit, magis vero si assa sunt: ita Galenus (legitur autem in nothis ei ascriptis) ova assata in cinere sine fumo, mederi ait solutioni ventris, et dysenteriae, cum sumuntur cum quibusdam astringentibus, et aqua agrestae: item, ut Avicenna addidit, asperitati (ulcerationi) intestinorum, et vesicae: quod Galenus scribit de ovis in aceto coctis, ut paulo ante diximus, maxime vero ita aegros iuveris, quod si etiam admiscueris aliquid eorum, quae dysentericis, et coeliacis prosunt, deinde super igni mediocri, et minime fumoso, qualis carbonum est, frixeris, et exhibueris aegris. Convenienter autem addetur huic remedio omphacium, et rhus, tum ruber dictus, qui obsoniis aspergitur, tum succus ipsius, et galla, et sidia[10], et cinis cochlearum, quae integrae tostae fuerint: necnon vinacea, et fructus myrti, mespili, corni. His medicatiora sunt balaustia, cytini, et hypocistis.

Celsus writes that hard eggs act as intestinal astringent, but more if they are fried: thus Galen (but this is read in spurious works attributed to him) says that eggs roasted in ash without smoke cure diarrhoea and dysentery when taken with some astringent and water of verjons likewise, as Avicenna added, they are helpful in case of roughness (ulceration) of bowel and bladder: Galen writes this about cooked eggs in vinegar, as we said shortly before, and you will be particularly helpful to patients in the following way, if you will also mix something of what is helpful to patients suffering from dysentery and intestinal pains, and then you will fry them upon a moderate fire and almost without smoke as that of charcoals, and you will give them to patients. But it will come in useful to add to this remedy some verjons and sumac, then called ruber, sprinkled on foods, then juice of the latter, and sour wine and barks of pomegranate and ash of snails which have been roasted whole: as well as grape-stones and fruits of myrtle, of medlar, of cornel. The flowers of pomegranate, its calyces and the hypocistis are more helpful than these last ingredients.

Nicolaus Myreps{ic}us[11] dysentericam quandam potionem laudatam describit, in qua membrana ventriculi Gallinacei cum caeteris miscetur. Marcellus[12] vero vestem, id est, tunicam ovi delicatam interiorem siccatam conterit, vino miscet, et colat, et ex aqua dysenterico bibendam exhibet. Et Plinius[13] esse ait, qui dysentericis pullos dent in ipso ovo decoctos, admixta vini austeri hemina, et pari modo olei polentaeque sed nescio num pro remedio, an pro cibo: qui certe ab hoc avium genere, si ab ullo alio, maxime in hoc affectu petitur. Alibi[14] etiam ius e Gallinaceo dysentericis mederi asserit, sed veteris Gallinacei vehementius <salsum ius alvum ciet>. Verum ut iunioris Galli ius in hoc affectu conferre facile dixerim[15], utpote quod astringere ex Galeno dixi, ita an veteris Gallinacei ius dysentericos iuvet, maxime addubito: et verbum vehementius ita interpretari velim, quasi hoc ius vehementius, magisque medicamentosum sit, quam ut dysentericos iuvet: non autem quasi vehementius, aut efficacius illis medeatur. Itaque Galli iunioris ius dysentericis utile dixerim, veteris inutile, salsum, insuper noxium. Quare si torminosi, vel coeliaci propter frequentes desurrectiones viribus deficiant Marcellus prudenter eis Gallinae pinguis in butyro excoctae ius exhibendum esse admonet.

Nicolaus Myrepsus describes a praised potion against dysentery, in which the membrane of chicken’s gizzard is mixed with other components. On the contrary Marcellus Empiricus minces the veil, namely, the inner and delicate tunic of the egg when it has been dried, he mixes it with wine and strains it, and gives it with water as drink to dysentery patients. And Pliny says that some people give to dysentery patients the chicks cooked in the egg itself mixing a hemina [250 ml] of dry wine and the same amount of oil and barley polenta, but I don’t know whether as remedy or food: without doubt, especially in this illness, we get the latter from this kind of birds in comparison with any other. Elsewhere he affirms that chicken's broth also cures dysentery patients, but salted broth of old rooster is laxative with more effectiveness. In truth I would have said that in this illness undoubtedly the broth of young rooster is helpful, in as much as basing myself on Galen I said that it has an astringent property, hence I am very doubtful that old rooster's broth is helpful for dysentery patients: and I would like to interpret the word vehementius as follows, as if this broth were the most effective and curative, rather than it is helpful for dysentery patients: for it is not curing them with a greater potency and effectiveness. And therefore I would say that the broth of young rooster is good for dysenteries, useless that of old rooster, moreover the salty one is harmful. Hence, if those who suffer from colic or intestinal pains are loosing strength because of frequent getting up, Marcellus Empiricus advises to give them prudently broth of a fat hen cooked with butter.

Laudatur item inter cibos dysentericorum ab Aetio edulium quoddam spongiosum ex ovis confectum, quod suo loco describetur. Si iam gravis dysenteria fuerit, intestinaque ulcera, et putrefactionem senserint, Avicenna clysterem ex ovi albumine cum meliloto inijci iubet. Ad dolorem ventris ab ovi testa tale medicamen ponit Serenus[16]:

Praeterea nivei sterilis testa uritur ovi

Quae postquam in tetram fuerit conversa farinam,

Et calidis potatur aquis, et pota medetur.

Likewise among foods for dysentery patients by Aetius of Amida is praised a spongy food made from eggs, which will be described in due time. If the dysentery has been serious and the intestine shows ulcerations and fermentation, Avicenna prescribes to give a clyster made from egg white and melilot - or yellow sweetclover. Serenus Sammonicus for stomach-ache suggests the following remedy made from eggshell:

Furthermore the empty shell of a snow white egg is burnt

Which, after has turned itself into a dark dust,

Is drunk with warm water, and after has been drunk lets recover.

Ileo resistit Gallinaceorum iecur assatum cum ventriculi membrana, quae abijci solet, inveterata, admixto papaveris succo. Alii recentem torrent ex vino bibendam. Secus Aretaeus[17] {Iulio} <Iunio> Paulo Crasso Patavino interprete, videtur sentire, qui in iliaco affectu alimenta alvum ducentia exhiberi iubet, et revera, meo iudicio recte: at quod iuscula Gallinarum ille praescribit, ego minus ob iam dictas causas probaverim. Ulcera renum, et vesicae mirifice tollere tradunt ova ex aceto decocta. Alex. Trallianus ova cruda in inflammatione renum sorberi consulit: et Plinius[18] in eorundem rosionibus prodesse ovi luteum prodidit. Idem Dioscorides de ovo sorbili. Fimum Gallinaceum album, et frictum adversus colicam in potu confidenter exhibet Aetius.

The chicken's liver roasted jointly with an aged gizzard membrane, which is usually thrown away, is efficacious against intestinal occlusion, mixing poppy juice. Others roast the fresh one, which must be drunk with wine. Aretaeus of Cappadocia, in the translation by Giunio Paolo Grassi from Padua, seems to think this otherwise, since in case of intestinal occlusion he advises to give foods stimulating the bowel, and in truth according to my judgment this is correct: but since he prescribes little hen’s broths, I would less go along with him because of aforesaid reasons. They report that the eggs cooked in vinegar swallow up in amazing way ulcerations of kidneys and bladder. Alexander of Tralles suggests to drink raw eggs in case of nephritis: and Pliny handed down that egg yolk is helpful in renal colic. Dioscorides said the same thing about sucking egg. Aetius of Amida against a renal colic trustily gives white and toasted chicken's dung as a drink.