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.
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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.
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Bayfield, Robert, b. 1629.
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London, :: Printed by E. Tyler for Joseph Cranford, and are to be sold at his shop at the sign of the Phenix in S. Pauls Church-yard,
1655.
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Medicine -- Early works to 1800.
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A76231.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 16, 2024.
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CHAP. LI.
OBSTRƲCTIO LIENIS:* 1.1 It chanceth not only through weaknesse of the attractive vertue in the spleen, but also through stopping of the passage from the liver unto the spleen; after that naughty blood is distributed over the whole body, it being corrupt, and inclineth to blackness, and sometimes hath uncurable ul∣cers: the causes are the same with that of Ob∣structio hepatis.
It is known by heaviness on the left side,
* 1.2 by the colour of the face, difficulty of breath∣ing, and troublesome dreams.
The diet, with plenty of remedies,
* 1.3 you shall find in the Chapter of obstruction of the liver;
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but remember the spleen requires strong medi∣cines, and hath need of preparatives before purging: the purging medicines you shall find in the former Chapter. Lastly,
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* 1.4Conserv. borrag. cichor. flor. genist. an. unc. j. rad. condit. helenii. cort. citri condit, an. unc. ss. pulv. cortic. tamarisci, cinamomi an. ʒ.j. spicae ʒ. ss. cum syrrupo borag. f. Ele∣ctuarium. Si libet, potest chalybis praeparati. ℥. ss. addi.
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* 1.5Flor. genist. unc. iij. butyri sine sale, axung. porcian. lb. ss. cerae parum. f. s. a. unguen∣tum. Sennert. Tom. 2. lib. 3. part. 4. cap. 3.