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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CHAP. XI.

SEMITERTIANA Febris, * 1.1 Haemitritaeon in Greek, in English Half a tertian: Its framed of a continual quotidian; and of an intermit∣ting tertian: * 1.2 It is caused through putrified flegme, that is mixed with rotten choller.

They altogether tremble, and shake daily; * 1.3 being often troubled with unquietnesse, bitter∣nes, (watchings, thirst,) of the mouth; with lassi∣tude. From flegm proceeds the cold, from chol∣ler, a light succession; But from both, trembling:

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He is farre more grievous than a terrian; * 1.4 Hippo∣crates saith, its deadly, because it leaveth no time to nature to nourish the body, concoct hurtful humours, and repaire strength: so that they have often syncops: when the tertian ex∣ceeds the quotidian, there is vehement cold in the augmenting of the fit; Also more burn∣ing: yellow choller is sent forth by vomit, or stoole: If the quotidian exceeds the tertian, there is cold in the extreame parts: but little shaking; and lesse heat: If of like force, it comes with horror and shaking, then it is an exquisite Hemitrice fever.

The remedies must be mixed against chol∣ler, * 1.5 and flegme: The stomach strengthened, and the liver cooled: search the Chapters of Tertiana, Quotid. and Tertiana notha febris.

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