¶ Ad auris dolorem a calore, Ovi album instillato meatui auris, Nicolaus Myrepsus. Dolores aurium leniuntur ovi candido, Galenus de compos. sec. loc. Et rursus, Ad dolorem auris ex inflammatione obortum, Miscetur opium muliebri lacti et ovi candido, quae ipsa etiam per se saepe aurium inflammationibus profuere. Ad aurium nocumenta ex aqua, Ovi aquato, modo eodem quo in oculorum inflammationibus uti ipso consuevimus, praeparato utitor, Galenus Euporiston 1, 16.

¶ Against the earache due to the warmth: Instil egg white in the ear hole, Nicolaus Myrepsus. The earaches are attenuated by egg white, Galen in De compositione medicamentorum secundum locos. And still: Against earache arisen from an inflammation, opium is mixed with milk of woman and egg white, all things that alone have often been useful in case of otitis. Against the lesions of ears due to water: We have to use a watery solution of egg prepared like that we got into the habit to use in ocular inflammations, Galen - Oribasius - Euporista I,16.

¶ Summe tepidum (ἀκροχλίαρον) prodest vesicae rosionibus, renum exulcerationibus, gutturis {scabriciae} <scabritiae>, reiectionibus sanguinis, destillationibus, et thoracis rheumatismis, Dioscorides[1]: tanquam de candido ovi tantum haec remedia accipienda sint. ego de toto ovo acrochliaro, id est non cocto, sed leviter calefacto sorptoque haec vere scribi putarim[2]. Aiunt et calculos pelli candido ovi, Plin.[3] Ex albumine fit clyster cum meliloto propter ulcera intestinorum et putrefactionem eorum, Avicenna. Dioscorides quidem vitellum cum meliloto utilem esse scribit ad inflammationes sedis et condylomata[4]. Ex albumine fit pessarium cum oleo de alcanna, quod ulceribus vulvae salubre est, et vulvam lenit, Avicenna. Ovorum quinque candida adijciuntur cerato cuidam podagrico refrigeranti apud Aetium 12.43.[5]

¶ Lukewarm (acrochlíaron) it is good a lot in case of vesical burnings, violent renal pains, irritation of throat, haemoptysis – to spit blood, catarrh as well as sputum of pulmonary origin, Dioscorides: as if these remedies had to be meant as gotten only from the egg white. In truth in my opinion these things are to be written about the whole acrochlíaron egg, that is, not hard boiled, but slightly warmed and drunk. They say that also the stones are expelled by the white of egg, Pliny. With the egg white a clyster is prepared together with yellow melilot. for intestinal ulcerations and related fermentations, Avicenna. But Dioscorides writes that the yolk with yellow melilot is useful against anal inflammations and condylomata acuminata – either rooster's combs or genital warts. From the egg white a vaginal suppository is prepared with oil of henna, which is curative for the ulcers of vulva, and mitigates the troubles in vulvar area, Avicenna. In Aetius of Amida XII,43: Five egg whites are added to a wax poultice with refrigerant effect for a gouty person.

¶ Est quando albumen ovi aliis et potentioribus fere medicamentis admiscetur, ex quibus nonnulla privatim hic conscribere libuit. Ulceribus ex ambusto cum candido ovorum tostum hordeum et suillo adipe, mire prodest. Eadem curatione ad sedis vitia utuntur. infantibus quidem etiam si quid ibi procidat, Plin.[6] Ad combusta igne, Ordea vel franges atque ovi candida iunges: Adsit adeps, (mira est nam forma medelae,) Iunge chelidonias, ac sic line vulnera succis, Serenus. Ad ignem sacrum candido ovorum {trito} <trium> cum amylo utuntur, Plinius[7]. Sunt qui sex aut septem albumina cum thure albo permisceant, et emplastrum inde paratum ossibus fractis imponant, Obscurus. Ad sanguinem sistendum, Cum ovi candido mistae et pilis leporis exceptae aloes pars dimidia et thuris pars una, medicamentum sunt optimum, Galenus quinto Methodi et in libro de curandi ratione per phlebot. Felle tauri cum ovi albo collyria fiunt (ad oculos,) aquaque dissoluta inunguntur per quatriduum, Plinius[8]. Aetius lib. 15. cap. 28. describit emplastrum ex ovis optimum, quod accipit spumae argenti, cerussae, ana unc. iiii. cadmiae unc. ii. cerae lib. i. rosacei lib. ii. ovorum albumina decem. Metallica (inquit) ex aqua et vino terito, deinde cum ovorum albuminibus subigito. postea liquatis quae liquari oportet admisceto, unito et utere. Usum ipse non exprimit, videtur autem ad ulcera maligna[9] facere, quaeque circa sedem sunt, quae citra morsum siccari convenit.

¶ It occurs that the egg white is also mixed with remedies almost more effective, about which I want to report here some specific datum. For ulcers from burns will be good in a marvellous way the toasted barley associated with egg white and fat of pig. They use the same therapy against perianal diseases. And in the infants if some prolapse exists in this area, Pliny. Against the fire burns: Otherwise you will grind barley and you will add whites of egg: keep fat available (for it is a type of marvellous remedy), put together celandines, and so smear the lesions with the poultices, Serenus Sammonicus. Against the lesions from holy fire - Persian fire, carbuncle, erysipelas, herpes zoster - they use three whites of egg joined with the starch, Pliny. There are some people mixing six or seven egg whites with white incense, and they apply on the fractured bones the so prepared poultice, an unknown author. To stop a haemorrhage: Half a dose of aloe and a whole dose of incense joined with the white of egg and gathered in a skin of hare, represent a very good medicine, Galen in the 5^th book of Methodus medendi and in the treatise De curandi ratione per venae sectionem. Eyewashes (for eyes) are prepared with bile of bull together with white of egg, and dissolved in water are applied for four days, Pliny. Aetius of Amida, book XV chapter 28, describes a good poultice obtainable with the eggs, which contains four ounces each [109.12 g] of litharge and white lead, two ounces [54.56 g] of oxide of zinc, a pound [327.45 g] of wax, two pounds [654.9 g] of oil of roses, ten egg whites. Mince (he says) the metallic ingredients in water and wine, then beat together with the egg whites. Then mix with the liquefied ingredients which must be made liquid, make the whole homogeneous and use it. He doesn't say what use to do of it, but it seems that he prepares it for the ulcers rebellious to the therapy and for those appearing in perianal area, which it is worthwhile to dry without provoking burning.

Describitur et apud Galenum alicubi, in opere de comp. sec. genera (ni fallor) ceratum quoddam ex ovis. Ut splendescat facies: Farinam fabarum misce cum albuminis ovi, et inunge, Furnerius Gallus. Candido ovorum in oculis et pili reclinantur, ammoniaco trito admixtoque et vari in facie cum pineis nucleis ac melle modico, Plin.[10] Asclepiades apud Galenum in opere de compos. sec. loc. ad catapotii adipsi[11], id est sitim extinguentis compositionem, seminum cucumeris et portulacae ana partes duas capit: et tragacanthae partem unam ovorum crudorum recentium candido dissolvit, et probe tritis aliis addit, et catapotia inde facta in umbra siccat, atque unum sub lingua teneri iubet, ut liquor inde solutus devoretur. Ramicosis cochlearum cinis cum thure ex ovi albi succo illitus per dies XXX. medetur Plin.[12] Ad pedum rimas ovorum candido decocto cum cerus<s>ae denariorum duorum pondere, pari spumae argenti, myrrhae, exiguo deinde vino utuntur, Plinius[13].

Also in some passage of Galen, in the treatise De compositione medicamentorum secundum genera (if I am not mistaken), is described a wax poultice prepared with the eggs. So that the face shines: Mix flour of broad beans with egg white and apply, the French André Le Fournier. With the white of egg on the eyes also the eyelashes are straightened, mixing crushed gum ammoniac, and the pimples on the face disappear if it is associated with pine nuts and honey, Pliny. Asclepiades Junior in Galen in the treatise De compositione medicamentorum secundum locos in order to prepare the catapotii adipsi, that is the compound medicine able to remove the thirst, he takes two doses each of seeds of cucumber and purslane: and dissolves a dose of gum tragacanth with fresh and raw egg white, and after having properly minced the other components he adds them, and after having prepared pills he desiccates them  in the shade, and he prescribes to keep one of them under the tongue so that the liquid contained in the dissolved tablet is swallowed. The ash of snails applied for thirty days with incense in egg white treats those people having the hernia, Pliny. For the chaps in the feet they use egg white cooked with white lead for a weight equivalent to two denarii [6.42 g], an equal weight of litharge, myrrh, and then little wine, Pliny.

¶ Sunt qui ad vulnera quaedam sananda, ovi albumen cum sale subactum in olla nova urant donec solvatur et clarum fiat, hoc deinde lapide calido in pulverem atterunt, ut in libro quodam Germanico manuscripto reperi. ¶ Liquor de albumine instrumentis chymicis destillatus, oculos refrigerat et confortat: utiliter miscetur collyriis aliisque oculorum remediis. Facies et manus eo ablutae nitore et claritate proficiunt. Cicatrices etiam foedas, combustionis aliarumque noxarum cutis vestigia emendat frequenti illitu, Ryffius ex Brunsuicensi ni fallor.

¶ There are some people that to treat some wounds toast in a new pot egg white beaten with salt until it dissolves and becomes clear, then they pulverize this compound with a hot stone, as I have found written in a manuscript German book. ¶ The liquid distilled with the instruments of the chemistry starting from egg white, refreshes the eyes and gives them vigor: it usefully mixed with eyewashes and other ocular remedies. The face and the hands washed with this product earn in shine and brightness. Through a frequent application it reduces the entity of the scars even if marring as well as the remnants of burns and other damages to the skin, Walther Hermann Ryff inferring from Hieronymus Brunschwig, if I am not mistaken.

¶ Pars IX. De remediis vitelli. Vitellus ovorum eandem albumini vim obtinet, (hoc est similiter convenit iis quae remedia minime mordacia postulant:) quamobrem miscetur cerotis lenientibus (ἀδήκτοις) ovis elixis vel assis exemptus. interest autem parum aliquid, eo quod ova assa, paulo magis exiccent, eodemque nomine minus leniant aut mitigent. Miscet et cataplasmatis[14] adversus inflammationes, ut in iis quae circa sedem fiunt, cataplasmati<bu>s e meliloto, Galenus et Serapio. Ovi vitellus extrinsecus illitus paregoricus[15] vel stypticus invenitur, Inter notha de simplicibus Galeno adscripta. In ovis est astrictio, et proprie in vitello eorum assato, Avicenna. Corn. Celsus[16] scribit vitellum crudum mollire, discutere quae in aliqua parte corporis coierunt et vulnera purgare. Vitelli ovorum incoctorum (id est crudorum) coagitati et inliti, livores qui ex tumore aut collisione aliqua facti erunt, etiam veteres, extenuant, Marcellus. Ad liventia luteis ovorum utuntur: si vetustiora sint, cum bulbis ac melle, Plin.[17] Vitellus assatus et tritus cum melle, utiliter imponitur panno et nigredini, (sug{g}illatis et livoribus,) Avicenna: sed hoc de sug{g}illatis oculorum apud Galenum legitur, ut inferius recitabo.

¶ Section 9 – The remedies gotten from yolk. The egg yolk has the same property indwelling in the egg white (that is, practically it has the same indication in those people who don't need at all irritating medicines), that's why it is mixed with wax-based and lenitive poultices (adëktois) drawing it from hard-boiled or roast eggs. Actually it is of little importance that the roasted eggs dry a little more, and that because of this they are able to soothe or mitigate less. Galen and Serapion mix it also with the cataplasms against the inflammations like in those occurring in perianal area, cataplasms with melilot. The egg yolk externally applied shows a lenitive or an astringent action, among the spurious works related with the simples attributed to Galen. In the eggs is present an astringent action, and in specific way in their roasted yolk, Avicenna. Aulus Cornelus Celsus writes that the raw yolk has an emollient action, it dissolves what thickened in some part of the body and cleans up the wounds. The yolks of eggs not cooked (that is, raw) beaten and locally applied, reduce the bruises coming from a swelling or a crush, even if of ancient date, Marcellus Empiricus. They use egg yolks against the bruises: if the latter are not too much recent, associating them with onions and honey, Pliny. The roasted and minced yolk with honey is usefully applied with a cloth also on blackish areas (contusions and bruises), Avicenna.: but this is read in Galen about ocular contusions, as I will say afterwards.

¶ Vitellus assatus miscetur medicamento cuidam ad sedem ex Andromacho apud Galenum in opere de comp. sec. loc. Sedis etiam vitiis utilia sunt ovorum lutea, durata igni, ut calore quoque prosint, Plin.[18] Extalem (id est anum[19]) nimis prominentem reprimit gallinaceus vitellus si coctus integer ab ipso aegro illic calidus assidue contineatur, Marcellus.

¶ The roasted yolk is mixed with a medicine for perianal diseases, as it can be inferred from Andromachus in Galen in the treatise De compositione medicamentorum secundum locos. The egg yolks, hardened on the fire, so to also help with the heat, are useful also in perianal diseases, Pliny. The egg yolk of hen makes regress the straight bowel (that is the anus) too much prominent if, cooked whole, is held there warm by the patient himself with tenacity, Marcellus Empiricus.