Praxis medicinæ, or, the physicians practice vvherein are contained inward diseases from the head to the foote: explayning the nature of each disease, with the part affected; and also the signes, causes, and prognostiques, and likewise what temperature of the ayre is most requisite for the patients abode, with direction for the diet he ought to obserue, together with experimentall cures for euery disease. ... Written by that famous and worthy physician, VValter Bruel.

An Appendix seruing for the cure of the COLLICKE.

IF the paine be immoderate, first that shall be asswaged, and the cause also by degrees must bee taken away, the paine shall be eased by lenitiue medicines, and if these will not pre∣uaile, stupifying medicines must be then vsed: these may be vsed also at the first, for in delay there is danger; and yet they must not be vsed, except the case be desperate, for if the cause be first taken away, the paine will be mitigated. This disease for the most part is caused by windes and phlegmy matter, and then the paine will also be mitigated, if the cause bee taken away, (which is the matter that doth cause the Collicke) by a gentle Clyster, and this is better then that which is taken in at the mouth: but in the Iliaca passio, medicines giuen at the mouth are best. Yet because the Collicke and Iliaca passio haue one, and the same cause, one and the same way of curing shall bee vsed, onely here∣in they doe somewhat differ, because Iliaca passio is caused by an obstruction in the thinne bowels: the Collicke is caused by obstructions in the thicke and low∣er bowels. Wherefore at the first a purging medicine is good, and within one houre after, a Clyster will bee good. Amongst all medicines that are vsed, discussors of the wind, and asswagers of the paine shall be mixed, and then such me∣dicines shalbe prescribed that doe strengthen the bowels, and amend the distemper. For this purpose a clyster made of Hyppocras is best. If part of the matter be voyded by cly∣sters from the inward parts, and if the residue doe fall from some other parts into the belly, then the whole body shall be purged; whenas preparing medicines haue bin duly vsed. In strong obstructions ℥ v. of common oyle with the broth of Chickens, wherein the flowers of Cammomile haue bin boyled, may be taken; and then for the space of 4. houres

nothing else shalbe admitted. The patient must not drinke water. And also strong purging medicines must be auoy∣ded, especially in the beginning of the disease; lest the matter that is at a stand, should fall downe into the belly, and so the disease wilbe made worse then it was. Beauer-stone often drunke, is a very good remedy against this disease.