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 17, 2024.
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CHAP. LXIII.
IN FLAMMA VESICAE,* 1.1 according to Hippocrates, it is for the most part deadly: he saith, Si vesica sit dura, & dolore vexetur, Fu∣nestum eoque magis si accedat Febris continua.
They are vexed with a sharp fever,
* 1.2 they watch, rave, and speak they wot not what; they vomit pure choller, and they cannot make wa∣ter, the share is hard with vehement pain, and have a desire to the stoole: as in Tenasmus the order is thin, and sometimes the wombe is costive.
For the cure, bleeding first in the arm,
* 1.3 and afterward in the foot is much commended; but first a cooling clyster to ease pain: nourish the bladder with oyle, wherein is sodden dill, linseed, rew, or fenegreek, or Althaea; and re∣member the bladder is full of sinewes, and therefore cold things are hurtfull: I conceive
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that Aq.* 1.4sperm. ran. with syrrup dialtheae given warm, must needs be proper: If there be neces∣sity, use a syringe to draw out the urine, but be∣ware of strong diureticks, wine, sharp things, and spices:
* 1.5 and let their diet be thin, and of a cooling quality. In inflammatione vesicae valent cadem, quae in inflammatione renum. Hartmannus.