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. XXXIV.

CHOLERICA PASSIO, is an immo∣derate perturbation of the stomach, cau∣sed by vomits upwards and downwards, the Latins call it Cholerici.

It is caused through much crudity and raw∣nesse of the stomach, choller, * 1.1 and sharp hu∣mours, with an ill and corrupt digestion.

For the signe, * 1.2 there is pricking and biting about the stomach, and withall vomiting, and a flux of the belly; it is called the chollerick passion in English: there do oftentimes accom∣company this disease, cold sweats, a swift pulse, frequent, little, and short, with Syncope.

If children be taken with this disease, * 1.3 sleep profiteth much, in old men for the most part deadly; the juyce and syrrup of Quinces, with syrrup of Roses and Myrtills, is excellent in a hot cause, as this Recipe following.

℞. * 1.4 Miva Citoniorum ℥. 4. syr. Citoniorum, & Mirtilorum, ana ℥.j.cons. Oxiacanthae ℥. ss. Give of it to the patient often in the best red Rose-water, * 1.5 providing that if you see a pletho∣rick body, and abounding with choller, give a vomit with stybium, if nothing prohibit; or else this Apozem following.

℞. * 1.6 Syr. de Rhabarb. & Rosarum. sol. ana ℥.j.

The decoction of Seene, as much as sufficeth to make an Apozem, give the one half over night, and the other half in the morning warm, they must abstain from all hot things, as strong beer, wine, hot waters, spices, &c. and take soopings of a cooling quality, as broath made with cooling herbs, * 1.7 as sorrel borage, and burnit, Endive, succory, sorrel possets, and lem∣mond possets, barley water, and cooling juleps are very good, * 1.8 made with the waters of En∣dive, purslaine, sorrel, and syrrups of the same.

In a cold cause, * 1.9 the best wine, thin and odo∣rifferous, is sometimes sufficient: in a full body, purge with this or the like purgation.

℞. * 1.10 Diaphenicon. ʒ.ij. Benedict. lax. & pul. San∣ctus, an. ʒ.ss.

White wine, * 1.11 as much as sufficieth to make a potion, or you may give stomachal pills; if their body be not able to bear a strong purge: but these vomitings many times in a hot cause,

syrrups or juyces of quinces, and syrrup of Myr∣tils: in a cold cause the syrrup of mints, and cordial mint water, is sometimes sufficient; Lastly, this emplaster following is excellent, to be applyed either to the stomach or belly.

℞. Olei cotoneorum, myrthini, ana ℥.ij. * 1.12 Hypo∣cistidis, acaciae, Rhu. ana. ʒ.ij. Corall. rub. ʒ.j. cum cera & resina fiat Emplastrum.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Causa.
• * 1.2

  Signa.
• * 1.3

  Curatio.
• * 1.4

  Mixtura.
• * 1.5

  Vomitus.
• * 1.6

  Apozema.
• * 1.7

  Victus ra∣tio.
• * 1.8

  Julepus.
• * 1.9

  Vinum.
• * 1.10

  Potio pur∣gans.
• * 1.11

  Pilulae.
• * 1.12

  Emplastrct. Weckerus.