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Rosa Anglica (Author: [unknown])
section 48
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Item give nutritious easily-digested foods to those who suffer from wasting of their flesh (consumptives), and give aromatics by degrees in small quantity; and give these sweet-smelling things upwards329 to a woman suffering from syncope through suffocatio matricis, and give them downwards to the men who suffer from weakness. Give these nutritious and easily-digested foods to those who suffer from wasting of their flesh, and give a little of the sweet-smelling things by
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degrees to them who are weakened by330 inanition, not by repletion; for they err who give wine, and sweet-smelling things internally to people suffering from heart-weakness and loss of force through distention; so food should not be given in every weakness called syncope, for there is more need of purging by clysters and vomiting and abstinence, and to cure them by rubbing and by bandaging the extremities.331