CHAP. XX. The generall cure both of the scalding of the water, and the virulent strangury.
WEe must diversly order the cure of this disease, according to the variety of the causes and accidents thereof. First, care must be had of the diet, and all such things shunned as inflame the bloud, or cause windinesse; of which nature are all diuretick and slatulent things, as also strong and * 1.1 violent exercises. Purging and bleeding are convenient, especially, if fulnesse cause the affect. Womens companies must be shunned and thoughts of ve∣nereous matters; the patient ought not to lye upon a soft bed, but upon a quilt or matterice, and never, if he can helpe it, upon his back; boyled meats are better than roasted, especially boyld with sorrel, lettuce, purslain, cleansed barly, & the four cold seeds beaten, for sauce, let him use none, unlesse the juice of an orange, pomgranate, or verjuice; let him shun wine, and in stead thereof use a decoction of barly and li∣querice, a hydromel, or hydrosaccharum with a little cinamon, or that which is termed Potus divinus. In the morning let him sup of a barly creame wherein hath beene boyled a nodulus of the foure cold seedes beaten together with the seedes of white poppy; for thus it refrigerateth, mitigateth and cleanseth; also the syrups of marsh-mallowes and maiden-haire are good. Also purging the belly with halfe an ounce of Cassia, sometimes alone, otherwhiles with a dram or halfe a dram of Rubarbe in pouder put thereto, is good. And these following pils are also convenient. ℞. mas∣sae pi••ul. sine quibus ℈i. rhei electi ʒss. caphurae gr. iiii. cum terebinthina formenntur pilul••; * 1.2 let them bee taken after the first sleep. Venice turpentine alone, or adding thereto