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. LXVIII.

VRINAE INCONTINENTIA, is an in∣voluntary pissing, by reason of the palsie of the bladder.

1. * 1.1 The muscle Sphincter being resolved through coldness and moysture, or the nerves that spring from os sacrum, being ill affected; the urine goeth away against the will of the pati∣ent. * 1.2 Galen defineth 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 to be 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, The way of the humours in the veines.

2. Besides imagination, which doth chiefly

work in us when we are asleep; there happen∣eth also a laxness of the round muscle, caused by the abundance of urine; and the sharpness thereof do provoke urine, as that some persons pisse their bed.

For the first, * 1.3 a purgation of the infusion of seane and Agarick.

1. A bag of primula veris, Ina arthretica, * 1.4 Sal∣via, majorana ex floribus Anthos, Stacados, and cammomel; which may be applyed to the pubes, perinaeum, and also to the loines: also anoynt those places with oyles de castoreo, costi, * 1.5 cinnamomi, vulpis; remember to make that strengthening decoction set down in paralysis, * 1.6 but make it with wine: you may inject the oyls and waters of sage, primroses, rew, * 1.7 and Steca∣dos; promise no short cure, for it ever proves long and difficult.

2. For the latter, some use Pil. de quinque gener. * 1.8 myrobolanorum: or you may infuse two dragmes of rhubarb in the decoction aforesaid: or a cly∣ster, wherein dissolve Oleum nervale; * 1.9 some commend Vesica capre, suis, Tauri, being dried in an oven, and powdered; and ʒ. j. or two given in wine, or the decoction aforesaid: * 1.10 Aetius commends the lungs of a goat to be rosted, and eaten fasting a mornings: the testicle of a hare boyled in wine, the wine to be drunk, and the stones eaten: It is a common thing, and confir∣med by Galen, to give Farcimen ex muribus. * 1.11

FINIS.

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Notes

• * 1.1

  Causae.
• * 1.2

  Galenus.
• * 1.3

  Curatio.
• * 1.4

  Sacculus.
• * 1.5

  Oleum.
• * 1.6

  Decoctio.
• * 1.7

  Injectio.
• * 1.8

  Pilulae.
• * 1.9

  Pulvis.
• * 1.10

  Aetius.
• * 1.11

  Galenus.