Enchiridion medicum: containing the causes, signs, and cures of all those diseases, that do chiefly affect the body of man: divided into three books. With alphabetical tables of such matters as are therein contained. Whereunto is added a treatise, De facultatibus medicamentorum compositorum, & dosibus. / By Robert Bayfield.
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Enchiridion medicum: containing the causes, signs, and cures of all those diseases, that do chiefly affect the body of man: divided into three books. With alphabetical tables of such matters as are therein contained. Whereunto is added a treatise, De facultatibus medicamentorum compositorum, & dosibus. / By Robert Bayfield.
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Bayfield, Robert, b. 1629.
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London, :: Printed by E. Tyler for Joseph Cranford, and are to be sold at his shop at the sign of the Phenix in S. Pauls Church-yard,
1655.
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Medicine -- Early works to 1800.
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"Enchiridion medicum: containing the causes, signs, and cures of all those diseases, that do chiefly affect the body of man: divided into three books. With alphabetical tables of such matters as are therein contained. Whereunto is added a treatise, De facultatibus medicamentorum compositorum, & dosibus. / By Robert Bayfield." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A76231.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 16, 2024.
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CHAP. XI.
MANIA AƲT INSANIA FƲ∣ROR, that is, madnesse,
* 1.1 they that have this disease be woode and unruly like beasts, it differeth from this frensie, that because this di∣sease comes without a fever.
The cause is much blood,
* 1.2 flowing up to the brain, & yet the blood is temperate, sometime it happeneth through a sharp chollerick humour, and sometime melancholy and choller do so prevail, that they are forced to be bound in their beds some are of opinion, that sometimes a spirit troubleth this kind of evil, which say they, is known by discoursing with him, after the fit.
For the cure: if it be caused of blood,
* 1.3 you must begin with blood-letting, and in women cut the inward vein in the anckle, anointing the head with unguents or oyles that be cold and moyst, to procure sleep. And purge if you see cause
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with a cooling clyster.
* 1.4 If it be caused of choller, purge or vomit with such things as purge chol∣ler, if the fits be violent and strong, take this powder following.
* 1.5 ℞. Take Brimstone, Gun∣powder, Hypericon, Mugwort, Vervine, pow∣der of peony roots; of each a like quantity in powder; mixe them altogether, cast a little on coles, and hold his head over it.
Notes
* 1.1
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