The Frenche chirurgerye, or all the manualle operations of chirurgerye , vvith divers, & sundrye figures, and amongst the rest, certayne nuefovvnde instrumentes, verye necessarye to all the operationes of chirurgerye. Through Iaques Guillemeau, of Orleans ordinarye chirurgiane to the Kinge, and sworen in the citye of Paris. And novv truelye translated out of Dutch into Englishe by A.M.

Methodicalle discourse, or rehear∣sall, of the Originalles, & occasiones, Signes, & Tokens, Accidentes, & chaunces, Prognosticationes, and Remedyes, agaynst the Bloodyeflixe, or Dysenterye.

BY all other miserable and piti∣fulle disseases vvhich doe com¦monlye vexe, and trouble the Entralles, and runne through the same, as is the Cholicke, the restrictione, or constipati∣one, Ileus, Lyenteria, Diarrhea, Tenasmus, the vvor∣mes, & many other such like yet me thincketh the Dysenteria, or the Bloodye flixe, of all these to be most intollerable,* 1.1 and most mortall: And also amongst the Commonaltye, amongst our Frenche Martiallistes or vvorriours, amongst the Svvitsers, Countryemen, Englishemen, & farther amongst all sortes, and Kindes of vvar∣riours, it is soe commō, that it seemeth this dis∣sease, as soon as they are gone out of their hou∣ses, that there nothinge els follovveth them, thē the shaddovv of their body, vvherthrough in all leagers throughe this dessease at someti∣mes ther are more poeple deprived of their li∣ves, then throughe all the inqvietude, through all povertye, throughe the Plague, yea & more alsoe then of the enimye are Killede: And tou∣chinge my opinione heerein, I take this sicke∣nes to be a pestilentialle spirit, and a certayne essence of the Plague: Soe that necessarilye ther vnder must be occulted, & hidden, a secreate, & ineffable venoume, or poyson, vvhich through defilinge, and infectione, spreadeth it selfe from the one bodye into the other, Because the inte∣stines or entralles, of a sovvnde, and vvelfaring man, throughe some inclinatione, or Sympa∣thye, are made partakers of such venoumouse vapours, of him vvhose guttes are polluted vvith this dissease, and by that meanes also are imparted vvith the bloodyeflixe: As in the cō∣sumptione vve may see, vvhich proceedeth out of some vlceratione of the Lunges, and also in the Ophthalmye of the Eyes, the same to be as infectiouse, that the on body, may obtayne the same of an other: VVhich commeth to passe,* 1.2 as Aristotle sayeth, because that the Lunges, & the Eyes, are continuallye contayned in a perpetu∣alle motion, vvherthrough the venoumousnes is the easyer imparted to an other body: Health beinge, as it vveare a continuall rest, and an assured estate.

And as the entralles, have also their perpe∣tualle motione, the vvhich in Greeke vve call Peristaltica, in like sorte alsoe may they imparte theire dissease vnto other entralles, as the eyes vnto the eyes and the Lunges doe vnto the lun∣ges.

Of the Causes, Signes, Accidentes, prognosti∣cationes, and remedyes, I vvill somvvhat dis∣course, consideringe more the necessitye ther∣of, therby to instructe the yonge Chyrvrgian, thē because of any pleasure, vvhich I take ther∣in, or anye ostentatione.

The Dysenteria, or bloodyeflixe,* 1.3 is a sangvi∣nolent excrement of the Bellye, vvith greate doloure, and as it vveare scissure vvhich the La∣tinistes, call Tormina: And this dissease may be taken properlye, or improperlye.

The improper Dysenteria, or Bloodyeflixe,* 1.4 is a fluxione of bloode, vvith out any greate pay∣nes, or travayle, vvherof ther are tvvo sortes, or Kindes, ether vvhen vve avoyde pure, & cleane blood, vvhich vve call Sangvinolenta, & Cruenta or els vvhen vve avoyde vncleane bloode, and impure.

The pure cleare bloode issveth forth of the Mesenterium, vvheare a longe time it hath lyen occulted, & cōgregated, as it oftentimes chaun∣ced, in those vvhich are grosse of Belly. And sometimes alsoe it procedeth out of the Liver, of the Milte, of the Hemorrhodes, and someti∣mes also out of some great vaynes, and out of other partes, yea and also out of the vvhole ha∣bitude of the bodye: All vvhich differēces, must throughe their ovvne signes be knovvne, be∣cause the resanatione of the same may be the surer.

As for example it happeneth commonlye,* 1.5 throughe anye greate superfluitye of bleeding, in those vvhich have lost an Arme, or a legge, that on certayne times they have the bloodye¦flixe▪ In vvhich kinde of Mysenteria, vve neede not much to feare, nether neede vve to vse tho∣se remedyes heervnder discribed: But must restraygne such Patientes, from great comesti∣ones, and superfluouse drinckinge of VVyne, and cause him to be vvell phlebotomised: vvherof vve in this place endevoure to adver∣tice,

and instructe the yonge Chyrurgiane, be∣cause that vvithout making any great delaye, he might be adiuvable & helpefull to the patient vvith these remedyes vvhich consequently fol∣lovve: the vvhich in passinge by, it seemed con∣venient vnto me to rehearse: Because it is not my intent, in this place, onlye to speake, of the improper Dysenteria, & curatione therof, but of the true, & proper bloodyeflixe, or Dysenteria, vvhich in all Leagers is common, & familiare, and infectiouse.

The impure Bloodyeflixe, is the truest, & as∣suredst, and is assimilated vnto vvater, vvherin nue slaughtered fleshe, hath binn vvashed: the vvaterye Bloodyeflixe,* 1.6 is called Fluxus Hepaticus, the Liver laske, vvhich is caused, throughe the imbicillitye, of the retentive forces of the liver, through the vvhich the vitall spirites & the na∣turalle calliditye doe exhalate, & the personne, is vvholye bereft of all his forces & therthrou∣ghe also the stomacke is feebled, that it can not any more compraehend, any meate, or drincke, to feede one, nether digest the same, soe that by this meanes the vvhole bodye consumeth and vvithereth.

The black, heavye, & thick bloodyeflixe, pro∣ceedeth especially out of the Milte, vvhich is, as it vveare a Poole, or receptacte, of al melancho∣licke, thicke, and blackebloode.

* 1.7But that vvhich properly, or vprightly is cal∣led Dysenteria, or Bloodyeflixe, that is a commō vlceration of the entralles, out of vvhich first of all the viscositye of the same is driven, & expel∣led out, then the Axvngiousenes therofe, vvith a little redde blood intermingled: Thirdly, the internalle membrane of the intestines, of the vvhich the pellicles, and the little fibres are in the stooles seen, thervnder to be mixed: finallye the vlcerrtiō as yet proceeding, & more, & mo∣re grovving vvorse, as thē consequently follo∣vveth the carnositye, & the verye substance, of the corroded, & corrupted guttes: all vvhich kī∣des, are accōpanied, & associated vvith those cō∣mon accidentes, to vvitt, vvith bitinge, or mor∣dicante payn, vvith continuall punctiōs, vvith continualle concupiscence of goinge to stoole, vvith intollerabilitye, & vvith a continuall cō∣motiō. VVhich foresayed Dysenteria, or Bloo∣dyeflixe, ether happeneth to the small entralles or to the great intestines, the vvhich vve first es∣pye out of the situatione of the payne, & out of the diversitye, and mixture of the matter,

VVhen as therfore the vpright Bloodyeflixe is in the smalle guttes,* 1.8 as then vve see blood, & certayne membranouse pellicles, intermixed vvith the excrementes, ther is also great payn a∣bove on the Navle the time betvvixte the payn & the deiection is slovve, and ther associateth it most commonlye a vomitinge, and a greate oppressione of the harte, and the Hick coughe, in the entrance of the stomacke, through com∣munity vvhich the forsayed entralles have ther¦vvith: For as Galen sayeth, the Harmony, & con∣iunctione, vvhich the partes of the bodye have the one vvith the other, is vvonderfull, & to be admired, because as soone as the actione of one parte is hindered, or suffereth any thinge, al the other partes of the body doe thervvithe cōspi∣re, and sympathise.

If soe be the sayed vlceratiō be in the greate guttes, or entralles,* 1.9 ther as thē driveth one the deiectiones, or excrementes certayne droppes of bloode, and some little parcels of fleshe, and the dolour of the vvounded, or hurte entralies, not so pungent and sharp, but somvvhat more surde, and benumde.

The occasione of the bloodyeflixe is the ve∣noumouse puissance and force,* 1.10 Dynamis of the acute, saulte, and mordicant humoures, vvhich beinge as it vveare on the iournye, to descende right to the guttes, but they come recurvared, & in form of this lettre S. as in the situatione, they must passe by manye recurvationes, & cō∣cavityes▪ vvher they cleaving fast, first of al cru∣difye, and excoriate the foresayed guttes, & in the end throughe theire acuitye corrode the sa∣me: as is the cholericke humiditye, the melan∣cholycke humors, and the saulte Petuita, the vvhich is ether ingēdred internally in the gut∣tes, or els congregate together in other place & are soe driven that vvay, as it happeneth com∣monlye in the Pestilentialle agues, in Causo col∣liqvanti, Phthisi, Athrophia, in the Cacochimia, in the inflammatione, and in the colliquation, of the vvorthyest partes. The humors are also ir∣ritated, and provoacked, through causticke and venoumouse medicamentes, as throughe the Coloquintida Scammonia, or throughe the Subli∣mated poulder of a Diamante.* 1.11 Also through anye viciouse, acute grosse cibaryes and those vvhich are apte vnto corruptione, or els is not sufficientlye dressed: Alsoe throughe any frui∣cte, as by cherryes, Blackecherryes, Plumbes, Peatches, Coucoumbres, Milions, & such like, vvhich vve call Hotatij Fructus, vvhich more, throughe the constitutione of the ayre, vvhich ether is to moyste, and pluviouse, or raynye, to coulde, or to hott, in others through intempe∣rature, and other inordinate victitatione, or de∣bacchatione, by the vvhich it inseparablelye happeneth as vvell in the VVinter, as in the Summer, that this dissease of the bloodyeflixe, afflicteth man kinde.

It is right true, that this dissease,* 1.12 oftentimes reagneth in the Prime, or vernall time of the yeare, and especially in the Harvest, or Autum∣ne, in the vvhich time the humors, doe most impeach, & hurt vs vvith the qvallityes. Ha∣vinge observed all these thinges, vve must con∣sider one the quantitye and quallitye of the

dissease, as on the greatnes of the vlceratiō, and the superfluitye of bloode, and one the greate corrosione, and one the violence of the dissea∣se, therbye to iudge, vvhether the dissease vvith anye facilitye, difficulty, or impossibilitye may be repelled, and cured.

VVe esteeme the cure of the Dysenterya to be of more facilitye, the same beinge in the great guttes, or intestines Caecum, Colon, & Rectum, thē it being in the smalle entralles, Duodenum, Ieiu∣num and Ileum.

VVe take also the same to be lesse daunger∣ouse, in yonge persons, and in the men, then in yonge children, and vvoemen.

In a longevalle, or longe continuing Dysen∣terye, it is a badde signe vvhē the appetite is de∣parted, & yet a farre more vvorse signe, vvhē as ther are associated vnto the same Agues, or Im∣flammationes.

* 1.13As is that vvhich is caused, out of anye Apo∣stemation, beinge burst out of the Liver, or of the Milte, vvhich verye rarelye happeneth, and yet more rare out of the pulmonicalle Aposte∣mationes, vvherof the matter disgorgeth it sel∣fe in the left ventricle of the Harte, and soe into the Artery called Aorta, the truncke, or body of all other Arteryes, frō thence into the Vaynes of the Mesentery, vvhich are extēded to the en∣tralles, the vvhich passage or vvay vve can not then throughe imagination compraehend, and vvhich is very obscure. And if soe be ther follo∣vved any peculiare thinge therout, besides the causticke, and venoumouse matter it might thē inferre fearefull, & daungerouse accidentes, to the hart of the Patiēt, (vvhich is the vvelspring of lyfe) & the onlye originall, of vitall spirites, vvhich are diffused over the vvhole body, & are occasione of the actione, motione, & also all o∣ther agilityes of the bodye.

The evomitiō of the choloricke humors, in the beginning of the dissease, doe beare vvitnes alsoe of the daunger follovvinge.

The bloody flixe, vvhich is caused out of any melācholicke humors, is esteemed to be vvith∣out anye hope.

The convulsiō of synnues, the Hickough, & the parbraking, are forerunners, & as it vveare, embassadoures of death.

In like sorte allsoe vvhen vve espye, a blac∣ke spott behinde the left eare, as bigge as a Vetche, vvherbye is great alteratione, that allso is a signe of Death, as Hippocrates vvithnesseth vnto vs. If soe be this dissease, through negligē∣ce, or through malice, or aulteration, or by any other meanes, came to be inveterated, the Pati∣ent as then vvill vvholye consume, & vvexe so feeble, that vvithout great difficultye he shall not be victor therof.

This therfor is the cause, or occasiō, the spe∣cies, & kindes of this dissease, & the afflicted, & opressed parte beinge aperte, and knovvne, vve must novv proceede to the resanatione of the same.

The finall end of the curatione, is ether ge∣neralle, or specialle.

The generall end is to be noted, ether on the dissease, or on the Physitione, as on both the es∣peciallist, & most principall personages, vvhich acte and sett forth the Historye of this dissease. In all the kindes of Dysenteria,* 1.14 the patient must keepe himselfe reposed, and quiet, because all vlcerationes, desire to be quietlye kepte, and in ease: Notvvithstandinge, Hippocrates in his third boocke de Diaeta councelleth, that vve shoulde cause the Patient vvhich hath the bloodye flixe to vvalke, & alsoe cause him to stirre his bodye, vvherby he meaneth, that vve ought to doe the same, before the foresayed Dysenteria become, & because of the Prophylactica, therthroughe to prevent, the procreatiō of all badde humors, & to defend the same out of the intestines, & cau∣se them to vvithdravve themselves into other externall partes of the bodye.

Farthermore the patient must allvvayes re∣tayne his stooles as longe as he possibly may or can, vvithout constraygninge himselfe ther∣vnto,

The Chyrurgian must first of al consider on the vse of the astringent medicamentes,* 1.15 vvhich before repast, or comestion are vsed: for he cō∣tayninge the viandes, or cibaryes, they helpe al∣so to the digestiō of the same: but by the astrin∣gent thinges I vnderstande, & meane, vvhich a∣re reasonablelye fortifyinge, and confortative, and those vvhich are helpefulle to the concoc∣tione: For it vveare the greatest, & absurdest er∣ror of the vvorlde, if soe be in the first, & especi∣allye in an vnhealthfulle bodye, to vse violent stopping & astringent medicamētes, for it vve∣are nothinge els, thē to shutt & keepe our eni∣mye or theefe vvithin doores.

VVherfore his viandes, or meate & drincke,* 1.16 must onlye be Diureticke, & astringent & cau∣singe to voyde vrine, because through the vrine especially, all aquositye of the blood is evacua∣ted: but if so be you perceave, that the great tou∣ghenes of the acute & sharp adusted Pituita, or aquosity, vvhich is verye retardatelye expelled & conglutinateth vvith the guttes, or entralles, is a cause of the bloody flixe, vvith payn & vvith corrosiō, you must thē vvith discretiō vse the u∣rine expulsors, or vrine provokīg remedyes be∣cause through the vse therof, it expelleth the a∣aquosity throgh the vvhich othervvyse the for∣sayed viscouse & tough Pituita, might by chaū∣ce have binne driven out, so that thervvith it is made more viscouse and tougher, then befo∣re for by hovv much the lesse any thick viscou∣se matter, hath adioyned vnto it anye thinne humiditye, by soe much it is the vvorse. VVe

permit some consideringe the imbicillitye of their stomackes, to vse & drincke a little astrin∣gent vvyne.

* 1.17Farthermore vve must bevvare, and take heede, of all sharpe, & mordicant medicamen∣tes, as Arsenicum, Auripigmentum, Antimonium Sal Gemmae, & manie other such like thinges, & that because of their, to great, & suddayne evacuati∣ones, & because they irritate & provoacke the dissease.

Thirdlye vve must consider on the Liver, & especiallye on the stomacke, because all those vvhich are afflicted vvith the bloodye flixe, can digest noe viandes. The specialle end must be the fluxione, or the dissease it selfe.

The Scopus of the fluxione is, to stoppe, & to diverte the concurrent humors, but vve must in the first gentlely, & easilye reserate the same, & vvith such, consideration, as before vve have sayed, least that in reseratinge of the same you increase the ague, the vvhich vvith reason, and experience may chaunce.

* 1.18The remedyes vvhich may be taken out of the reason, are ether externall, or internalle.

The internall are, ether simple, or cōpovvn∣de. Simple, as Covvemilcke, nue Egges, vvith Masticke, or vvith Ambergreece, Poulder of sovver Mulberryes, flovvers of Peatches, fine Bolus, Terra sigillata, confited Nuttes, Nuttmeg∣ges, beinge thervvith intermixed: Rhabarbarum so acked in Plātine-vvater is alsoe hadde in gre∣ate estimatione, or in the decoctione of Miro∣balanes, Syrope of dryed Roses, & Iulep, of Ro∣ses.

Amongst the compounde Remedyes are the Trociskes of Diacorallum, Dialectrum, De Spodio, vvith the iuyce of Endive, of Cicorye, & more other.

VVe must alsoe content our selves, in this dissease vvith sudoriferouse medicaments, and vvith easye vomites: because throughe diversi∣tyes, vve may reserate, & retayne the fluxione.

This subseqvent poulder, is oftentimes vvith great successe administred, & vsed, the vvayght of a Crovvne, vvith the yolcke of an Egge.

{rum} Boli Armeni, terrae sigillatae, lapidis Haematites, ana drachmas duas, picis navalis vnciam semis, Coral∣li rub. Margaritarum elect. cornu Cervi vsti & loti in aqva Plantaginis, ana scrup. duas, Sacchari rosati vn∣cias duas, fiat omniū pulvis subtilis: capiat drachmam semis, vel scrupulos duos mane.

* 1.19But to commit noe error at all, vve must be∣fore the reseratione, or before the vse of this poulder, administer an ounce of Cassie, by it sel∣fe, or vvith halfe a dragme of Rabarber: or vvith an ovvnce of the double Catholicon, vvith a de∣coctione of Plantine, of Agrimonye, Flovvers of Nenufarre,* 1.20 vvith Tamariscus, to the refrena∣tione, or bridlinge, of this furiouse humoure. Or els vve must take, a gentle infusione, or ex∣pressione of Rubarbe, made vvith Rosevvater, addinge thervnto sixe dragmes, or an ounce, of Catholicon. But besydes all this, vve may not re∣serate, & restraygne this laske at the first, as the common poeple suppose.

But amongst the externall remedyes, Phle∣botomye is verye commodiouse for the same, but must alvvayes be effected vvith Knovvled∣ge of the cause, for that sometimes is more ne∣cessarye then all the other remedyes, & especi∣lye, vvhen as the intemperature beinge caused out of the Liver, vrgeth vs thervnto but not heerby to debilitate the forces & strēgth of the Patient, vvhich in this dissease reqvire to be fir∣med, & cōforted,* 1.21 the sayed phlebotomye must vvith all discretione be done, because the Pa∣tient, throughe the deprivatione of to greate a qvantitye of Bloode at one time, might chaūce to be vvholye superated, & overcome, and fall dovvne deade vnder his packe, or burthen: For it is knovvn vnto all men, that the blood is the treasure of lyfe or the domicille, & habitatione of the soule: Secondly vve may not in Phlebo∣tomizatione be to timorouse & fearfull, for in place of Phlebotomye, & yeeldinge ayre to the Vaynes, the ague chaunceth sometimes to cō∣tinue, & increase alsoe, the bloode also gettinge noe ayre, is thē polluted vvith some sharpenes, or venoumousnes, vvhich therafter corrodeth, & consumeth the entralles.

The Patient is praeserved by his strengthe, throughe goode nouriture, & feedinge, vvhich is easye of digestione, & throughe the Cordialle corroboratinge medicamentes.

Amongst the astringent Medicamētes,* 1.22 ther are the oyles of Quinces, of Roses, of Masticke, & oyle of Mirtles, beinge intermingled vvith a little astringent poulder, in like sorte ther are also confortative Playsters, amongst the rest, is the cōfortative Plaster of Vigo, vvhich vvith cō∣sideratione, must be vsed, as before vve have sayed.

VVe may in this dissease alsoe vse some cer∣tayne fumigationes, & exsiccating Lavamētes.

Those thinges vvhich are most belonginge, to the dissease, are the mundificationes, and the cōsolidationes of the vlcerationes: For the mū∣difyinge of all vlcerationes is nothinge els, thē to cure, to exsic••te, & to cōsolidate thē. VVher fore first of all vve must elavate the vlceratione vvith a clisterye, and if the same be profovvnde, & deepe, a little absterge the same, mixinge thervnder some confortative thinges, to forti∣fye, & strengthen the intestines.

VVhervnto as thē vve may vse, mellifyed, or Honyed-vvater, Barlye-vvater, vvith the yolkes of Egges, Suger, Honye of Roses, & vvith many other such like thinges beinge mixed thervn∣der: and if soe be vve as yet desire more to mun∣difye the same, vve must then vse the decoctio∣ne

of vvheaten branne, & of Vetches: and if soe be ther be calidity adioyned therūto, vve must thē adde thervnto Sap of Roses, of Plantine, or iuyce of Night shade, or Solatri.

* 1.23Touchinge the cōsolidatione, that is effected throughe the providence of nature, or vvith a∣ny incarnatinge medicamētes, vvhich vve call Sarcotica. Vnto cōsolidatione are foure thinges necessarye, to vvitt, the clisteryes of Plantine, of Hogges grasse, and of VVillovvleaves, vnto the vvhich vve adde Goates suet, Butter, oyle of Ro¦ses, or oyle of svveet Almondes, vvhervvith the vlceratiōs be internally annoyneted, the pun∣ctione, & acuitye of the vlceration is somvvhat diminished, vvhich cōtinually soacketh therī.

VVe may also verye fitlye mixe theramōgst, the sealed earth, Franckinsence, Sangvis Draco∣nis, & amongst manye other this one incarna∣teth very much, to vvitt the Lachrima Thuris, but vve must note that all these Poulders, be verye diminutlye pulverisated, least that in the vlce∣rationes of the entralles, they chaunce to cor∣rode, & bite.

* 1.24As touchinge the Clisteryes, vve must at the first vse, payne assvvaginge clisteryes, as ther are those, vvhich are made of freshe milcke, vvher in vve must contunde some yolckes of Egges, oftentimes reiteratinge of the same: and thē v∣singe the absterginge clisteryes, vvhich gentle∣lye vvil purifye the intestines. VVe make also divers other of divers fashons, & formes: vvher vnto this shall serve, for an example of one.

{rum} Rosar. rub. Tapsibarbati, Furfuris Hordei, ana P.j. fiat decoctio in Lacte, in colatura, ad lib. j. vel, ad quartastres, dissolve oleiras. colati, Sacchari albi a∣na ℥ ij. Syrupirosar. siccarū ℥ ij. fiat Clyster, additis duobus ovorum vitellis.

VVe may vse this clister, & reiterate the same as often as vve perceave it to be necessarye: but vvhen vve must vse some astringent Clisterye, vvhich vve may not doe, vnles that the repecca¦ting humors, be cleanlye purged out, and then vve may vse this subseqvent clisterye, or anye other such like.

{rum} Furfuris macri, paleae Hordei, tapsi Barbati, Cen∣tinodiae, Chamemillae, & summitatū Anethi, ana M j. fiat decoctio in aqva Chalibeata, velin Lacte vstula∣to, in colatura, ad lb j. vel ad quartes tres, dissolve syr: rosar. siccarum, vel mirtillorum ℥ ij. Vitellorum ovorū iij. pulveris Mastiches, & sang. draconis, ana ℥ iij. fiat Clyster.

VVe may also cōstitute, & exordinate, to this end divers & Sundrye potiones, & Electuaryes, also the Kindes of Diacorallum, nature of a Harte fine Bolus, sealed earth, iuyce of Berberis, Ribes, conserve of Roses.

The Empiricke medicamētes, vvhich the Me¦thodicall Physiciones, doe so disdayne, & estee∣me of little vvorth, are those vvhich vve throu∣ghe experience, & throughe the divturnall vse have fovvnde to be most excellēt, vvhich being vsed vvith iudgemēt, are not vvholye to be dis∣dayned, seinge that Galen testifyeth, that the Phy¦sition, must be established one tvvo fundamē∣tes or foundations, to vvitt, on the reason, & on the experiēce, vvherof the Reason is, as it vvea∣re the Soule of the same, vvhich measureth, & ponderateth all thinges: and the Experience the body, as a providēt, tutor & Schoolmaster.

Experiēce teacheth vs, that the Rubarbe, on vvhat manner soever vve administre the same, (but especiallye the infusione therof) is verye commodious & profitable in this dissease, as in like sorte also is the Spiritus Vitrioli, vvith Rose∣vvater, & vvithe Plantinevvater, & also beinge administred vvith Cynamomevvater. Ther is a sugerye dulcor, or svveetnes, extracted out of Leade, vvhich never deceaved the hope of the right vvorshipfull M^r. Duion,* 1.25 vvhich is a verye experte, & learned Physition, & vvherof I have attayned the best, of this discours. The Tincture of Coralle, and of yellovve Ambre, extractede vvith Aquavitae is in his operation admirable, also Crocus Martis, Flos sulfuris being administred vvith cōserves of the betryes of the Cornus, Cō∣serve of Roses, Marmalade, Citronpeelinges, vvith manye other such like thinges, are all to∣gether verye commodiouse. Because amongst naturall thinges, I knovv nothing that exsicca∣teth more, & oppugneth it selfe more agaynst all corruptiones: And to conclude ther are an innumerable sortes of remedyes, vvhich vve must so compounde, that they may have one similitude, or one Analogye vvith the dissease.

Finallye, vve must in an extreame Dysenteria, for the last remedye, endevoure to mitigate the payne, vvith Narcoticall thinges, as is the Oleum Iusqviami, Mandragora, the could seedes, the Phi∣lounium. Reqvies Nicolai, & manye othes such like compositiones, vvhich are vnto this dissease v∣sed, & vvhich may not be administred thē vvith great iudgment and advice had therone.

The end of this Treatise of the Dysenteria, or Bloodyeflixe.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Bloodye∣flixe.
• * 1.2

  Reason of Aristo∣tle.
• * 1.3

  Discripti∣on of the Bloodye¦flixe.
• * 1.4

  Dysente∣ria Impro¦perlye ta∣ken.
• * 1.5

  Those vvhich are depri∣ved of a∣nye Ioyn∣cte, are very sub∣iecte vn∣to the Bloody¦flixe.
• * 1.6

  Fluxus Hepa¦ticus.
• * 1.7

  Dysente∣ria pro∣perlye ta∣ken.
• * 1.8

  Signes vvhē the small guttes ate hurte.
• * 1.9

  Signes of the great▪ intestines
• * 1.10

  Occasion & cause of the Dy¦senteria.
• * 1.11

  Ravve fruicte causeth the Bloo∣dyflixe.
• * 1.12

  Indicati•• hovv vve may easi∣lye, or difficult∣lye attayn to the Bloodye∣flixe.
• * 1.13

  They vvhich a∣re of most experiēce may iud∣ge of this poyncte.
• * 1.14

  Cure of the Dy∣senteria.
• * 1.15

  What as∣tringent medica∣mētes the Patient must vse.
• * 1.16

  What his meates, & drinc∣kes must be.
• * 1.17

  Medica∣mentes vvhich vve must eschevve.
• * 1.18

  Remedy∣es vvhich may be taken out of the re∣ason.
• * 1.19

  Admoni∣tione.
• * 1.20

  Infusiō of Rubarbe.
• * 1.21

  Phleboto¦mye must be done vvith dis∣cretione.
• * 1.22

  Astringē∣tia.
• * 1.23

  Reme∣dyes to consolida¦te the vl∣ceratiōs.
• * 1.24

  Clisteryes made on divers fashones.
• * 1.25

  Mons^r. Duion an expert Phisition