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. XXVIII.

DOLOR STOMACHI, or pain of the stomach is caused divers and sundry ways, * 1.1 as when naughty, venemous, and gnawing hu∣mours be kept in the stomach, whereby it chan∣ceth, that through intollerable gnawing, they cause swouning, * 1.2 which they call Stoma∣chia, or cardialgia; sometime pain of the sto∣mach is caused through some stroak or fall; and an inflammation may be the cause thereof.

In a hot cause, * 1.3 there is felt a sharp pricking pain, gnawing in the mouth of the stomach, bitternesse in the mouth, vomiting of chollar, and there followeth a great weaknesse and fee∣blenesse of the whole body: in a cold cause the pain is lesse, * 1.4 and more dull, and slow; in a hot cause, give this Apozem following, the one half over night, and the other half in the morn∣ing warm.

℞. * 1.5 Syr. de Rhubarb. ℥. j. Rosarum sol. ℥. ss. De∣coctio. Sennae q. s.f. Apozema.

Or if you see cause, * 1.6 you may vomit with the in∣fusion of Stybium, and afterward you may take the seeds of paeony in water of succory. If it proceedeth through some stroak, or fall, then this ♃ following is good.

℞. * 1.7 Mumiae gran. j. boli arm. gran. xvj. croci gran. vij.

Let it be given the patient, you may adde Sper∣ma ceti: and if the pain be intollerable, then suc∣cour him with this ♃ following.

℞. Syrrupi Rosati & Absynth. an. ℥.i. ss. * 1.8 opii gran. j.

Boyle it very lightly, with one boyling, then let it be mixt with ℥.iij. of the broath of a chic∣ken, give it the patient to drink.

In a cold cause, purge with such a purgation, * 1.9 as you shall think proper by the water, or cly∣sters, according as you shall see cause, such a one as may purge wind and flegme, or per∣haps melancholy with Cassia, and after may be given the seeds of Nasturtium, in Goats milk, administring Syr. de absynth. menthae, mel. rosati, in aqua feniculi, & absynthii; * 1.10 likewise Electuaries and oyles outwards, are good: Also

℞. Spec. Aromat. ros. ʒ.ij. Spec. Diarrhod. Abb. * 1.11 ʒ.j. Sacchari albi dissoluti in aqua menthae ℥.iij. fiant Tabulae secundum artem ponderis ʒ.ij. Rondeletius.

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℞ Spec. Imperialium ℥. ss. pinearum electarum, * 1.12 & subtiliter incisarum ʒ. ij. Spec. aromat. ros. ʒ.i.ss. Sacchari in aqua rosarum dissoluti ℥. xiij. olei cinnamomi gr. iij. moschi gr. ij. fiat confectio in morsulis secundum artem.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Causa.
• * 1.2

  Stomachae cardialgiae.
• * 1.3

  Signa.
• * 1.4

  Curatio.
• * 1.5

  Apozema.
• * 1.6

  Vomitus.
• * 1.7

  Mixtura.
• * 1.8

  Mixturae.
• * 1.9

  Purgatio.
• * 1.10

  Julepus.
• * 1.11

  Tabulae. Rondele∣tius.
• * 1.12

  Tabula. Crato.