PART FOUR: Necessary counsels for villagers on bloodletting, purgatives, and emetics, and several rules for the preservation of health. CHAPTER I.

To remain free from external disease, one must observe the following rules: 1. In the summer, bathe in river or spring water, and in the winter, in the bathhouse [*baghnis*]. 2. Change clothes at least once a week. 3. To remain safe from the bloody stomach-ache [dysentery], do not eat unripe fruits, especially in hot weather. 4. In order that choking [nausea/heartburn] or difficulty of breathing may not occur, the windows or doors must be opened four times a day, especially in the autumn and winter. 5. The yard must be kept clean; in the mornings, after feeding the livestock and the chickens, it must be swept. 6. To be preserved from being affected by the smell of coal-fumes [*gortslu hot* / carbon monoxide], they must not cover the chimney [*bukhar*] until the fire has completely settled, and they should look carefully to ensure that no half-burned coal-ends remain. 7. To guard against being seized by the cold, when it is necessary to go outside in cold weather, one must rub tallow [*chragu*] or oil on the nose, the temples, the ears, [and] the fingers and toes, and also dress warmly. 8. To remain protected from pleurisy [*kurtzk‘i khēt‘k‘*] and sore throat, if [the clothes] become wet from rain, they must be changed quickly; and if the wet clothes have remained on the body for a long time, [they must] remove the clothes and rub grain [*hats‘i*] or common *aragh* [spirits] over the entire body, have [the patient] drink hot tea, and make [them] eat plenty of fresh onion or radish so that perspiration may be opened. 9. To remain free from inflammation of the lungs [pneumonia] or inflammatory fever, on hot days when the body is boiling [sweating/overheated], especially [after] working in the fields, and in the winter [after] much work...