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. LXV.

ISCHƲRIA in Greek, * 1.1 Suppressio urinae in Latin; it is a disease in which the urine of the Patient is stopped.

It is caused sometimes through weaknesse of the bladder, * 1.2 not being able to thrust out

that which is contained in it; it is also caused of grosse humours, or of a stone congealed: some∣times of inflammation, or of hardness: some∣times by a piece of flesh, or hard knob ingen∣dred in the passage of urine: also of clodded blood: also it is caused of matter sent down to the reines or liver, or from some other part: also through over-long holding of the urine: also through the obtuse sence of the bladder.

If stopping of the urine be caused through weaknesse of the bladder, * 1.3 it may be known by their diet, and course of life: If of the stone, you may know that by the signes in the Chap∣ter of the stone. If through inflammation or swelling, it is known by pain, fever, and sight; if through a piece of flesh or knob, is may be known by putting in an instrument; and also if the knob or boyle be broken, there com∣eth out blood, or fragments of flesh: if clotted blood be the cause, there went before pissing of blood.

1. * 1.4 For the cure, if it be caused through im∣becillity of the bladder, use heating things; as pasneps, * 1.5 fennel, Apium, sperage, smalledge, &c. after diureticks, the palsie drink were good.

2. If through gross humours, then use those things that cut and divide, * 1.6 as oximel, decoction of hysope, peniroyal, origan, thime, and inject oyle of lillies, &c.

3. If through clodded blood, horse-radish roots infused in white-wine is good: * 1.7 in drink motherwort, stichas, wormwood, sothern∣wood, &c.

4. If through inflammation, look into its proper Chapter.

5. If through a piece of flesh, give such things as spread abroad the pipe and conduit of urine, * 1.8 as in the Chapter of the stone in the reines: also the using of a syringe is good.

6. If through a dull sence of the bladder, it must be cured, even as the weaknesse thereof is cured, onely beware of strong diureticks.

7. If through holding their urine too long, stand so as the neck of the bladder may leane downward, and lay both your hands about the share, & press it, thrusting out the urine by little & little; and thus he may do, in the dull sence of the bladder, which some I think do but suppose may be the cause of Ischuria; some commend clysters of parietary, cammomel, Nasturtium, * 1.9 majoram, peniroyal, Origanum: plenty of reme∣dies you may find in the Chapter of the dropsie and stone. * 1.10 Crato commendeth these pills fol∣lowing.

℞. Terebinthinae coctae ℥. j. * 1.11 Rhabarbari electis∣simi ʒ. iij. Succini albi, succi Glycyrrhizae ana ʒ.ss. Cinnamomi electi ʒ.j. misce, & fiat massa, de qua formentur pilulae mediocres.

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R. Olei Terebinthinae arte chimica extracti ʒ.j. * 1.12 syrrupi violati ℥.j. aquae raphani aut ononidis q. s. fiat julep, capiatur. Petrus Salius capite 14. scribit in extrema necessitate dentur gr. 11. cantharidarum integrarum cum semen. ameos ℈.j. quod est cantharidarum anti∣dotum, ut probari, verùm ut dulcis fiat remedium adde zacchari candi pul∣verizati

ʒ. ss. Fontanus lib. 3. cap. 36. pag. 437.

Notes

• * 1.1

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

  Causa.
• * 1.3

  Signa.
• * 1.4

  Curatio.
• * 1.5

  Apium.
• * 1.6

  Decoctio.
• * 1.7

  Raphanus Rustica.
• * 1.8

  Syphon.
• * 1.9

  Clyster.
• * 1.10

  Crato.
• * 1.11

  Pilulae ex Terebinth.
• * 1.12

  Julepus. Fontan.