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. XLII.

TENASMƲS, is a continual desire to go to stoole, * 1.1 with extension and straining out of the right gut, called Inte∣stivum rectum, being stopped, avoyding nothing except it be a little blood, or filthy matter, like snivel, or snot.

1. * 1.2 The cause is sometimes through outward cold.

2. Sometimes through sharp chollerick humours.

3. Sometimes through salt flegme.

4. Sometime through impostumation.

5. Sometimes through inflammation in∣gendred in the streight gut.

6. Sometimes the blind gut is stopped with hard dung.

1. * 1.3 The sign is as various: if it be caused of cold, it is known by the tale of the sick, whe∣ther he hath set on any cold stone, &c.

2. If chollerick, it is known by the colour of the humours, or excrements that com∣eth out.

3. If an impostumation, botch, or bile, there is mattery corruption flowing forth, and he feel∣eth a pricking in the fundament.

4. Inflammation causeth swelling in the right bowell, with grievous pain, together with a fever.

5. If a flegmatick humour, it is also known by the colour of the humours, or excrements.

6. If abundance of dung, it causeth distension, and streching out about the bottom of the belly.

1. * 1.4 The cure is diverse, according to the di∣versity of causes: if it be caused of cold, use hot oyles, * 1.5 as of Lillies, and Rew, administer clysters made with mints, origan, calamints, cammo∣mel, sothernwood, aniseed, and sennel-seed, ad∣ding oyles of dill, cammomel, or lillies.

2. If through chollerick humours remain∣ing

in the bowells, and fundament, you must cast in this clensing clyster.

℞. Decoct. Hord. lb. ij. Mel. Rosarum ℥.j. ol. * 1.6 Rosarum ℥.iij.

Sugar Roset. ℥.i.ss. two yelkes of egges, make a clyster, eschew all sharp things and let things be used that be cold and moyst, which do stop and temperate, the sharpnesse of choller.

3. If it be caused of flegmatick humors, it shall be cured like as that which is caused of cold: only commix with the the clyster aforesaid in a cold cause, such medicines as purge flegme, * 1.7 as Diaphaenicon, aut Benedict. laxativa.

4. If of inflammation, * 1.8 then I would have you to take this clyster of the liquor of the de∣coction of plantin, ℥.5. oyle of Roses ℥.ij. the white of one egge, make a clyster; outwardly use oyle of Myrtills, and when there is need of suppuration, use fenegreek, and roots of Althaea, boyled and injected, or fomented.

5. If through an ulcer, impostume or botch, look into Dysaenteria, for many times Tenasmus follows that grievous flux; * 1.9 use a fume of fran∣kincense, and pitch, which is said to help sud∣denly, also use cooling oyles, or clysters afore∣said. If the pain be intollerable, procure rest with ungentum populi cum opio. * 1.10 Adding two or three drops of oyle of nutmegs, or else minister Laudanum.

6. If through abundance of dung, use gen∣tle clysters, as little in quantity as may be. Take Mallows, Althaea, Mercury, Beets, Violet leaves, * 1.11 of either M.j. fenegreek, & Linseed, ana ℥. ss. boyl them in a sufficient quantity of water, strain it,

and adde Cassia ℥. i. ss. common oyle ℥.iij. salt finely powdered, ʒ.j. make a clyster, but be∣ware of purging by potions. Sometimes Tenas∣mus is caused of wind, and then

℞. * 1.12 Sem. carui, cymini, sesel. ameos, rutae aqui casti an. ʒ.j. mell. q.s. misce fiant suppositoria. Mar∣quardus.

Notes

• * 1.1

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• * 1.2

  Causa.
• * 1.3

  Signa.
• * 1.4

  Curatio.
• * 1.5

  Clyster.
• * 1.6

  Clyster.
• * 1.7

  Benedict. laxativa.
• * 1.8

  Clyster.
• * 1.9

  Fumigatio.
• * 1.10

  Ʋnguentū.
• * 1.11

  Clyster.
• * 1.12

  Suppositor.