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.

CHAP. XXIII.

CANINA APPETENTIA, * 1.1 is an im∣moderate or dog-like appetite, or desire of meat, and when they cannot refrain their ap∣petite, they devoure in meat without measure, then being heavy with the multitude of meats, and the stomack being not able to bear the same, they turn to vomiting, then afterwards they fill themselves, and turn again to vomi∣ting like dogs, the part affected is the mouth of the stomack.

The cause is a perpetual gnawing or biting of the mouth of the stomack, * 1.2 like unto a suck∣ing, sometimes it happeneth through a cold distemper of the mouth of the stomack: some∣times through cold, sharp, and vitious humours: sometimes it proceedeth through certain kinds of worms, which do devour the meat that is ta∣ken into the stomack, as fast as it is received:

sometimes through dissipation of whole body.

For the sign, * 1.3 if it be a cold distemper, it is known by windinesse, and rumbling: sharp hu∣mours are known by four belchings, dissipation is known by the excrements, for they be scor∣ched, and lesse in quantity than before.

For the cure, * 1.4 in a cold cause it is good first to take stomacal pills; also Hierapicra Galeni ʒ. 6. with wine infused with water, or given in oxi∣mel fasting, is good, and to drink muscadell is good, he must abstain from all soure and re∣strictive meats; but let his meat•• be meats of good juyce: if a child laboureth in this disease, the body being bound, * 1.5 and a doubt of worms, give it one ounce of Syrrup of Rhubarb, or more, according to the age and strength of the childe, the one half over night, and the other half in the morning warm, either in muscadel, oximel, or the juyce of pruins; also let it have muscadel oftentimes instead of beer: * 1.6 If the child be very young, give it no beer untill it be well. Also oximel is good, give it honey with any thing you give it if the disease be cau∣sed of dissipation, * 1.7 or extream heat, give it all cooling things, and if you fear worrnes, let Wormseed and Rue be boyled in vinegar with honey, * 1.8 and give thereof often. You may boyl the Wormseed in muscadel, if nothing forbid it; * 1.9 if you want more, look in Fernelius, and there you may find plenty of remedies: Also Avicen bids that wine should be given before meat, and Galen commendeth a vomit. * 1.10

Notes

• * 1.1

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• * 1.2

  Causa.
• * 1.3

  Signa.
• * 1.4

  Curatio. Pilulae.
• * 1.5

  Syr. de Rhubarb.
• * 1.6

  Vinum.
• * 1.7

  Mel.
• * 1.8

  Syrrupus.
• * 1.9

  Fernelius. Avicenna.
• * 1.10

  Vomitus.