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. II.

PARALYSIS, is a deprivation of sense, * 1.1 and motion, but not of the whole body, as hapneth in the Apoplexie, but one side; or all the parts of the body, are infected; besides the head: as the jaw, the tongue, the eye, the foot, the hand, the arm, and sometimes the lip:

The cause are gross, and clammy humours, * 1.2 stopping the sinews, & hindring the animal fa∣culty,

that it cannot come, from the fountain to the members.

For the cure; * 1.3 if you see cause, open a veine of the sound side, and draw blood by degrees, because that nature may thereby send the mat∣ter from the part that is hurt, * 1.4 to the part that is sound: after bleeding, or if perhaps the pati∣ent have not bled, yet neverthelesse frictions and rubbings must be used on the sound part, whereby the matter is diverted, and also light rubbings and frictions to the part affected, whereby natural heat may be stirred up, then purge with such things that purge the flegm, as these Pils following.

℞. * 1.5 Pilularum de hiera Simpl. ℈.ij. Agarici troch. ʒ.ss. misce. cum syrupo de stoecade, & fiant pil. 5.

which must be given to the patient at mid∣night, or if you see cause, you may make a po∣tion that purgeth flegm. The next is to drink often of the syrup of oximel, and take a tent and dip it in mustard, and put it into the nostril, is very good: and to drink of this decoction fol∣lowing is excellent.

℞. * 1.6 Glyzyrhyzae. ℥.ij. Rorismarini, Salviae, Hys∣sopi, Betonicae, Stoecados. an. M.j. Bulliant in sufficienti quantitate aquae, & fiat decoctio.

Also Methridate, * 1.7 drunk in this decoction, a dragm at a time, is said to be very good; Lastly, provoke sternutation, and

℞. Rad. Angelicae, Pyrethri, Acori veri ana ℥.ss. herb. Salviae, Maioranae, Thymi, Hysso∣pi, * 1.8 Origani ana. M.j. Seminis sinapi ℥.ij. Staphisagr. piperis longi ana ℥.j. nucis mosc. ℥.ss. fiat decoctio in aquâ: adde mellis scyl∣litici

vel anthosati ℥.i.ss. misce. Colluat vel gargariset os. Plater us lib. 2. de funct. laesio.

Notes

• * 1.1

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉.
• * 1.2

  Causa.
• * 1.3

  Curatio.
• * 1.4

  Venae sectio
• * 1.5

  Pilulae.
• * 1.6

  Decoctio.
• * 1.7

  Methrida∣tum. Sternuta∣mentum. Gargaris∣mus.
• * 1.8

  Platerus.