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. XXXIII.

NAƲSEA, * 1.1 is a naughty and wicked motion of the expulsive faculty of the stomach.

It is caused of a vitious humour contained in * 1.2

the stomach, being either hot or cold, which humour either swimmeth in the concavity or hollownesse of the stomach, or it is stuffed in the filmes thereof, cleaving like bird-lime, sometimes great exercise after meales, sayling on the seas, and over fat meats, or stopping of the Menstruis, may be the cause.

In a hot cause, * 1.3 you shall find the sign in the Chapter of weakness of the stomach: if vitious humours do swim in the stomach, then for the most part vomiting, followeth; If a tough hu∣mour like bird-lime be drowned in the cotes of the stomach, it causeth a disposition to vomit, but bringeth forth nothing; also a dulnesse throughout the whole body.

As touching the cure of vomiting, * 1.4 you must note in the beginning, it ought not to be stop∣ped, if the sick be the better for it, especially if such things be purged, as ought to be; it is also good, and may be suffered, if not, it is evill: for the cure, * 1.5 the readiest way is sleep, if it may be procured, as in a hot cause: if the body be co∣stive, administer a cooling clyster, adding there∣to oyle of violets ℥.iij. or give gr. iij. of lauda∣num Paracel. which is good: providing the body be first made soluble: also infuse a piece of bread in white-wine vinegar, or rose-vinegar, and bruise it in a morter, * 1.6 and adde thereunto powder of cinnamon, cloves, red-roses, or the like; this may be applyed to their stomachs warm; if children be troubled with vomiting, give syrrup of Rhubarb, * 1.7 such a quantity as fit∣teth the age and strength of the child; and you may take cammomel, wormwood, mint, and

porret, of either half a handfull, boyle them in halfe a pinte of wine-vinegar, and thicken it with crums of white bread, like a poultis, spread it on a double cloth, and apply it warm. If the body be temperate, and a doubt of worms, in∣stead of the syrrup aforesaid, use worm-seed, ac∣cording to the directions, in the Chapter of Canina appetentia; if blood cause vomiting, you shall have directions in the Chapter of sputum sanguinis: * 1.8 In a cold cause procure vomiting with Asaron, if nothing prohibit; * 1.9 and after use stomachal pills, mint-water, and the syrrups of wormwood, if you want more, look in Sitis, and Imbecillitas stomachi; I have often∣times stopped vomiting with Aquamenthae & syrrup. cidoniorum, * 1.10 of either one ounce mixed together.

Notes

• * 1.1

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

  Causa.
• * 1.3

  Signa.
• * 1.4

  Curatio.
• * 1.5

  Clyster.
• * 1.6

  Ceratum.
• * 1.7

  Cataplas∣ma.
• * 1.8

  Vomitus.
• * 1.9

  Pilulae.
• * 1.10

  Mixtura.