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. XLIII.

COLLICA PASSIO, * 1.1 hath his name of a gut called Colon, it is a disease accompanied with grievous pain, it happeneth very often, when excrements are retained beyond custom.

It is caused many wayes, * 1.2 as through chole∣rick humours, sometimes through humours in the stomach, gathering wind from the liver, and milt, or from the reines of such as have the stone, or from an impostume in the wombe, sometimes from all the parts in mans body, as in fevers, where the humours are expelled from the veines to the guts, so that either it may pro∣ceed from hot and drie, or cold, and drie di∣stemperatures, but never of moyst: there are many causes, but I shall treat but of these four especially that follow.

1. Sometimes it is ingendred through gross and flegmatick humours, fallen down within the skin of the gut Colon.

2. Sometimes through windinesse, which have no room to get out.

3. Also it is caused through inflammation of the grosse and thick gut, nexing, and stretch∣ing out.

4. Lastly, through sharp and gnawing hu∣mours, which afflict the aforesaid bowell, vehe∣mently.

1. They that have it ingendred of a grosse, * 1.3 and flegmatick humour, they be nexed aloft, all over their Abdomen, that is, the place which is under the mouth of the stomach, especially they are grieved, where the gut Colon lyeth, for the pain is as though it is brayed, or bored with a bodkin, having a disposition to vomit, with belchings and costivenesse.

2. If it be caused of windinesse, they feel ex∣tension, and stretching forth.

3. If through inflammation, there is felt in∣ward burning, and heat, with no small fever, and costivenesse, with retention of urine, trou∣bled with thirst, vomiting of choller, without ceasing; and this is most grievous, and threat∣neth Iliaca passio.

4. If of sharp humours there is thirst, and watching, small fevers, the urine sharp, and cho∣lerick humours are sometimes thrown out; go∣ing to stool, easeth the torment, hot drinks do the same, but beware of cold drink.

1. * 1.4 When gross and clammy humors do cause the chollick, there diet must be extenuate, flesh of birds, hens, Partridg, Turtles, black-birds, and doves, the flesh of calves, beware of pulse, * 1.5 for pot-herbs use fennel, Apium, Asperage, let his food be easie of digestion, ingendring good juyce, and eschew fulnesse, * 1.6 he may drink wine, (a little) thin, shining, of mean age, tem∣perately allayed, yet beware of medicines, heating vehemently, * 1.7 Clysters made with

Rew, Cammomel, Dill, Althaea, mellilot, with the oyles thereof, also cummin, and fenegreek, Mercury, Mallowes, and if need be hierapicra, benedicta lax, Mell Rosarum; If the patient can vomit before supper it helpeth much, some do commend a vomit after a clyster to be exceed∣ing good, * 1.8 and to sit in the decoction of Althaea, peniroyal, * 1.9 laurel leaves, fenegreek, cammomel, Motherwort, dill, &c: wine wherein worm∣wood is infused, is much commended, also Ca∣storeum one dram at a time, * 1.10 continually drunk in Aqua mulsa, destroyeth the disease utterly.

2. * 1.11 If it be caused through windinesse, then this clyster, take Sothernwood, origan, peni∣royal, calamint, cammomel, ana M. j. Rew, wild mints, ana M. ss. seeds of Annise, fennel, carawayes, commin, dill, ana ʒ. ij. boyl them in a sufficient quantity of water, strain it, and adde Hierapicra, benedict, lax, ana ℥. ss. castore∣um ʒ. j. powder of Diacuminum ʒ. ij. oyles of rew, and dill, ana ℥. i. ss. common salt ʒ. i. ss. make a clyster, there may be added thereto the confection of bay-berries, which is effectual to drive away windinesse, * 1.12 also a poultis out∣wardly of wormwood, mint, bay-berries, cina∣mon, pepper, and such like; beware of any thing that ingenders windinesse.

3. * 1.13 If it be caused through inflammation of the bowels, open a vein in the arme, if there be suppression of urine, cut the vein in the Ankle, you may use some of the aforesaid, and follow∣ing remedies, except hot and sharp things, and vehement purges, rather use clysters easing pain.

4. If it be caused of sharp and gnawing hu∣mours,

give such things as wash, without cau∣sing mordacity, and gnawing, as broath of ptisan, or the decoction of fenegreek, linseed, cammomel, Althaa, fresh Goose-grease, * 1.14 Hens∣grease, and oyle of Roses, compound a clyster, or take violet leaves, Endive, Althaea, cammo∣mel, ana M.i.ss. seeds of fenegreek, and flax, of either ʒ.ss. make a decoction, adde Cassia ℥.j. hierapicra ʒ. 6. Oyle of Roses ℥. ij. of dill. ℥. j. Goose-grease, and Hens-grease, ana ʒ. iij. two yelks of egges, make a clyster, * 1.15 let his diet be cold and moyst; If the pain be inveterate, use Laudanum, &c. * 1.16

Notes

• * 1.1

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

  Causa.
• * 1.3

  Signa.
• * 1.4

  Curatio.
• * 1.5

  Victus ra∣tio.
• * 1.6

  Vinum.
• * 1.7

  Clyster.
• * 1.8

  Vomitus.
• * 1.9

  Decoctio.
• * 1.10

  Castoreum.
• * 1.11

  Clyster.
• * 1.12

  Cataplaf.
• * 1.13

  Venae sectio
• * 1.14

  Clyster.
• * 1.15

  Clyster.
• * 1.16

  Laudan. Paracel.