About the condition and treatment of the beaten person

A person beaten with whips should be fed peeled and crushed chickpeas and shelled red beans, and given a decoction of soaked chickpeas instead of water. He is also given medicines for the bruised and fallen, and especially Armenian clay, or given rhubarb and ginger to drink - both for two and a half dirhams with hot water.

As for medicines that are applied to a sore spot, it is best to take a freshly skinned sheep skin, still hot and damp, stick it to the sore spot and leave it there without separating it. This often heals on the second day, causing the swelling to resolve and preventing decay, especially if you sprinkle a little finely ground salt under the skin. Sometimes the sore spot is sprinkled with crushed pottery clay, debris from broken stoves and the like, or they take equal parts of lead oxide and lead white and prepare a bandage from them with wax ointment based on rose oil and wax, or they take equal parts of tragacanth and saffron. If there is a trace left from the blow, then it is destroyed by arsenic and pepper stone. In this case, sometimes they also mention bruises; we talk about them in the Book on Cosmetics.