Subchapter 6h

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For dropsy. The water under the skin is to come out by cutting, and all purulence cleared out; this done, the leaves of bramble bushes and the tzonpilihuiz-patli are macerated and boiled in water with white frankincense, adding Indian wine. The medicine thus prepared is to be forthwith injected into the putrescent part, which is then covered up.
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Para la hidropesía. El agua bajo la piel debe salir mediante corte, y toda la pus debe ser limpiada; hecho esto, se maceran y hierven en agua hojas de zarzamora y el tzonpilihuiz-patli, añadiendo vino indígena. La medicina así preparada debe inyectarse de inmediato en la parte putrefacta, que luego se cubre.