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. XII.

FEBRIS PESTILENTIA; * 1.1 is a disease which hapneth unto many: Having his beginning from an un-usuall putrefaction; also having its beginning likewise sometimes in our selves; the humours do degenerate so much from their na∣tural temperament, that they take unto them∣selves a pernicious and venemous quality: some∣times it is caused by outward means, as putre∣fied exhalations communicated to the ayr from dead carcases not buried: Fennes, Pools, stand∣ing waters, stinking channels, venemous dens, and mettalin spirits arising out of the earth: Al∣so from the variable commistion of the pla∣nets:

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and then it is the scourge of the most high God for our sinnes: Also a corrupt ayre may be the cause: I mean diet: It rageth com∣monly at the latter end of Summer, and the beginning of Harvest or Autumne.

The outward members are cold, * 1.2 the inward hot: There is heavinesse, wearisomenesse, sloth, difficulty of breathing, pain in the head, careful∣nesse of minde, sadnesse, marvellous sleepy, and sometimes raging vexeth him; with losse of appetite, thirst, often vomiting, bitternesse, and drynesse of the mouth: a frequent, small, and deep pulse: the urine thick and stinking: yet sometimes it is like a hail bodies urine. Last∣ly, the sure token is botches behind the eares, or under the arme-holes, or about the share: also small spots all over the body, with great faintnesse.

First, burn juniper, oken wood, laurel, * 1.3 or Ta∣mariscus in the house: or strew juniper berries, mirrhe, frankincense, rew, Angelica (in pow∣der) upon coales: Also sprinkle vinegar upon the pavement.

Secondly, If a plethorick body, open a vein, * 1.4 on that side the botch is on: and on that vein that comes from thence: some commend a sti∣bium vomit, especially if choller abound: also Electuarium de ovo, * 1.5 which maximilianus the Emperour once used with marvellous successe, ʒ. j. at a time in scabious water: Also

℞. Theriaca Andromachi ℈. ij. * 1.6 Mithridatum ℈.j. Bolus arm. prae. ℈.ss. Aqua rosarum, Buglossae ana ℥.j. misce, fiat potio:
Let him sweat upon it: Diascordium, treakle, or

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mithridate (applied in the forme of a linament upon the region of the heart, * 1.7 mixed with the juyce of lymonds) is good: make him broath, in which boyle Buglosse, Borrage, Marygolds, and Harts-horn; Also

℞. * 1.8 Diascordii ʒ. j. Syrrupus lymonibus ℥. ss. Aquae cardui benedict. ℥. ij. Spirit. vitriol, Gut. 4. misce & fiat Haustus.
Let him take 2, or 3, of the same draughts: mi∣thridate drawes poyson to it; * 1.9 though Gentilis, and Valescus affirme, that it drives it from it: If there be a botch; * 1.10 rot it with a poultis made of fenegreek, linseed, roots of Althaea, white lillies, and figs; or goose-dung dissolved in oyle of Cammomel: for his sawce vinegar is good, and lymonds: he may drink wine that is thin and watery: And let him often smell on Rew: He must eschew Venus that fears this fever; and bleed after the body be well purged, * 1.11 with pil. pestilentialis: and remove into a clear ayre.

In this fever, * 1.12 a clyster is to be administred, if the body be much costive: also make this electuary.

℞. * 1.13 Cons. rosarum rubr. Buglos. Borrag. an. ℥.ss. confect. caryophil. ℥. j. Theriaca Androm. ℥. ss. Diamargariti frigidi ʒ. ij. Syr. Luulae. q, s. fiat Elect. molle.
For dainty stomachs, you may leave out the treakle, and put in two drams of Aqua Mariae. * 1.14

Lastly, this julep following is most excellent.

℞. * 1.15 Aqua endiviae scabios, ana ℥. ij. aqua dracon. milis. ana ℥.iiij. aqua Theriacal. ℥.ij. Syr. ex infusione rosarum viridum ℥.ij. Syr. Luiulae, endiviae, an. ℥.j. aqua menthae cord. ℥.j. misce.

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Let him drink of it often, 3, or 4, spoonfuls at a time thus much shall suffice for this kind of evil; only this powder following is much cōmended.

℞. Radicis heptaphylli & pentaphylli an. ʒ.j. * 1.16 Ze∣doariae, dictamni cretensis, seminis mali me∣dici, & cornu cervi ustising. ℈.ij. Cyperi, bac∣carum juniperi cujuslibet ℈. j. Ossis de corde cervi ℈. ss. croci gr. iij. misceantur & fiat pulvis tenuissimus.
Vel,
℞. Theriacae ʒ.iv. terrae lemniae & santal. rub. * 1.17 an. ʒ.j. aquae rosaceae, & aceti parum, f. ad modum unguenti. Altomarus. de feb. pest. cap. 9. pag. 980.

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