The workes of that famous chirurgion Ambrose Parey translated out of Latine and compared with the French. by Th: Johnson

CHAP. XL. Of stopping the fluxe of the belly.

VIolent and immoderate scourings, for that they resolve the faculty, and lead the patient into a consumption and death, therefore if they shall ap∣pear to be such, they must be stayed in time by things taken and injected by the mouth and fundament. To this purpose may a pudding be made of wheat flower boyled in the water of the decoction of one pomegra∣nate, * 1.1 berberies, bole armenick, terra figillata, and white poppie seeds, of each ʒi. The following Almond milke strengthens the stomacke, and mitigates the acrimo∣ny of the cholericke humour, provoking the guts to excretion. Take sweet Almonds boiled in the water of barly, wherein steele or Iron hath been quenched, beat them in a marble motter, and so with some of the same water make them into an Almond milk, wherto adding ʒi. of Diarhodon Abbat is you may give it to the patient to drink.

This following medicine I learnt of Dr. Chappelaine the Kings chiefe physitian, who received it of his father, and held it as a great secret, & was wont to prescribe it with happy successe to his patients: It is thus, ℞. boli àrmen. terrae sigil. lapid. haemat. * 1.2 an. ʒi. picis navalis, ʒiss. coral rub. marg. elect. corn. cervi ust. & loti in aq. plant. an. ℈i. sacchar. ros. ℥ii. fiat pulvisc. of this let the patient take a spoonefull before meat, or with the yolke of an egge.

Christopher Andrew in his oecoiatria much commendeth dogges dung, when as the dogge hath for three dayes before bin fed onely with bones.

Quinces rosted in embers, or boyled in a pot, the conserve of cornelian cherries, preserved berberies and myrabalans, rosted nutmeg taken before meat, strengthen the stomack and stay the laske; the patient must feed upon good meats, and these ra∣ther

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reasted than boiled. His drinke shall be chalibeate water of the docoction of a some pomegranate beaten, or of the decoction of a quince, medlars, cervices, mul∣beries, * 1.3 bremble berries, and the like things, endued with a faculty to binde and waste the excrementitious humidities of the body: these waters shall be mixed with syrupe of red currance, Julep of roses, and the like.

Let the region of the stomacke and belly be anointed with oile of masticke, Mos∣chatelinum, myrtles and quinces. Also a crust of bread newly drawn forth of the o∣ven * 1.4 and steeped in vinegar and rose water, may be profitably applyed; or else a cata∣plasme of red roses, sumach, berberies, myrtles, the pulpe of quinces, mastick, bean flower, and hony of roses made up with calibeate water.

Anodyne, abstergent, astringent, consolidating and nourishing glysters shall bee injected. These following retund the acrimony of humours, and asswage paine. ℞. fol. lactuc. hyosc. acetos. portul. an. m. i. flor. violar. & nenuph. an. p i. fiat decoctio ad * 1.5 lb i. in colatura dissolve cassiae fistul. ʒvi. olei rosat. & nenuph. an. ℥iss. fiat clyster. Or else, ℞. ros. rub. hord. mund. sem. plant, an. p i. fiat decoctio, in colatura adde olei ros. ℥ii. vitel. ovor. ii. fiat clyster. Or, ℞. decoctionis Capi, crur. vitellin. & capit. vervicin. una cum pelle, lb ii. in qua coquantur fol. violar. malv. mercur. plantag. an. m i. hord. mund. ℥i. quatuor sem. frigid. major. an. ℥ss. in colaturae lb ss. dissolve cass. recenter extract. ℥i. ol. viol. ℥iv. vitellor. ovor. ii. sach. rub. ℥i. fiat clyster. Or, ℞. flor. chamaem. melil. aneth. an. p i. rad. bismal. ℥i. fiat decoctio in lacte; colaturae adde mucag. sem. lin. foenugr. extract. in aqua malv. ℥ii. sacchar. rub. ℥i. olei cham. & aneth. an. ℥iss. vitellor. ovor. ii. fiat clyster.

Such glysters must be long kept that they may more readily mitigate paine. When shavings of the guts appeare in the stooles, it is an argument that there is an ulcer in the guts; therefore then wee must use detergent and consolidating glysters, as this which followes.

℞. hordei integr. p ii. ros. rub. flor. chamoem. plantag. apii, an. p i. fiat decoctio, in co∣latura dissolve mellis rosat. & syr. de absinth. an. ℥iss. vitel. ovor. ii. This following * 1.6 glyster consolidateth. ℞. succi plantag. centinod. & portulac. nu ℥ii. bol. armen. sang. dracon. amyl. an. ʒi. sebi hircini dissoluti, ʒiii. fiat clyster. Also cowes milke boyled with plantaine and mixed with syrupe of roses is an excellent medicine for the ulce∣rated guts.

This following glyster bindes. ℞. caud. equin. plant. polygon. an. m i. fiat decoctio in lacte ustulato ad quart. iii. & in colatura adde boli arm. terrae sigil. sang. dracon. an. ʒii. * 1.7 albumina duor. ovor. fiat clyster. Or else, ℞. suc. plant. arnoglos. centinod. portulac. resi∣dentia facta depuratorum quantum sufficit pro clystere, addendo pul. boli armeni, terrae si∣gil. sang. dracon. an. ʒi. ol. myrthin. & rosat. an. ℥ii. fiat clyster.

If pure blood flow forth of the guts, I could wish you to use stronger astrictives. To which purpose I much commend a decoction of pomegranate pills, of cypresse nuts, red rose leaves, sumach, alome, and vitrioll made with smithes water, and so made into glysters, without any oyle. It will bee good with the same decoction to fo∣ment the fundament, perinaeum, and the whole belly.

Astringent glysters ought not to bee used before that the noxious humours bee drawne away and purged by purging medicines, otherwise by the stoppage hereof, the body may chance to be oppressed.

If the patient bee so weake that hee cannot take or swallow any thing by mouth, nutritive glysters shall be given him. ℞. decoctionis capi pinguis, & cruris vitulini, * 1.8 coct. cum acetosa, buglosso, boragine, pimpinella, lactuca, ℥x. vel xii. in quibus dissolve vitellos ovorum, num iii. sacchari rosati, & aquae vitae, an. ℥i. butyri recentis non saliti, ʒii. fiat clyster.