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. XLIV.

ILIACA PASSIO, * 1.1 is a most painfull di∣sease, proceeding from obstructions of the small guts, which suffereth nothing to passe downwards, but their excrements many times issue out at their mouths; it differeth from the chollick in the scituation, in that it hath its place and being in the small guts, and the chollick in the great guts; this disease taketh its name from a gut called Ilion.

It is caused sometimes of crudity of meates, * 1.2 especially fat, which commonly ingenders ob∣structions in the small guts or Ilion; sometimes of stripes in places where the small guts lye, or through vehement cold, restraining the excre∣ments, or through abundant eating, but espe∣cially drinking of cold things in a sweat, some∣times the bowels with the dung fall into the

cods, and being violently thrust back, is infla∣med, or through drinking of deadly medi∣cines, or through hard dung, impact about the thin bowell, yet for the most part Ilia∣ca passio is ingendred, either of inflammation, or obstruction, this disease is common to chil∣dren, but through the help of natural humi∣dity, they easily escape, but in ancient people it is dangerous.

They that have Iliaca passio, * 1.3 have vehement pain, the thin and small guts are swelled, and stretched out with over-much moystness of the stomach, empty belchings, rumbling, and noyse of the bowels; and both wind and dung ••ants evacuation. If the disease waxe greater, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 avoydeth all upward, voyding sometimes ••••gme, and choller, and a coldness of the whole body, to some difficulty and hardnesse of breathing. To them that shall die, there chan∣ceth cold sweats, difficulty of making urin, and the fundament is so close, that it will suffer no small instrument to enter, and sometime dung is cast up by vomit, also there happeneth the hicket, Delirum, and convulsions: their wind and excrements are much stinking; these be dead∣ly signes.

For the cure it must be performed in chil∣dren, * 1.4 with foments, and clysters, as in the chol∣lick, but in the aged otherwise.

1. * 1.5 If it be caused of crudity and fulnesse, provoke vomit; If the stomach be free from crudity, * 1.6 administer clysters as this that follow∣eth. Take Mercury, Rew, leaves of Althaeae, Centory, ana M.j. Hysope, calamint, worm∣wood,

ana M.i.ss. Root of Althaeae, ℥.j. Root of wild cowcumber, ʒ.i.ss. seeds of flax, and fenegreek, ana ʒ.iij. seeds of cummin ʒ.ij. make a decoction, strain it, and adde Benedict. lax, ℥.j. fresh butter, and honey, of Roses ana ℥.ss. oyles of Rew and Difl, ana ℥. i. ss. common salt ʒ. j. make a clyster, you may foment with oyles of Rew, and Dill: after a clyster, if need be purge, * 1.7 a vomit is much commended.

2. If it happen through some venemous or poysonous medicine, give them warm water to drink, after that hot oyle to drink, or fat broath, that they may vomit; after that, * 1.8 give him The∣riaca, dissolved in wine; if it be a corroding me∣dicine, milk is commended.

3. If through inflammation, begin with phlebotomy, cast in cooling clysters, made with mallows, linseed, fenegreek, with oyle, and butter.

4. If through falling of the bowels into the cods, labour presently, (the patient lying up∣right) to thrust back the bowels, and keep them up without violence, and make a trusse. Note that Stircus Lupinum, is a remedy in Iliaca passio, * 1.9 as Album Graecum is in Augna. Lastly, if the pain be violent, use fomentations; and labour to procure rest.

Notes

• * 1.1

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• * 1.2

  Causae.
• * 1.3

  Signa.
• * 1.4

  Curatio.
• * 1.5

  Vomitus.
• * 1.6

  Clyster.
• * 1.7

  Oleum.
• * 1.8

  Theriaca.
• * 1.9

  Stircus Lupinum;