CHAP. XV.
PRIAPISMƲS, * 1.1 is a disease in which the yard is extended in length and bignesse, without any lusting.
It is caused either through immoderate opening the mouthes of the arteries; or else of a
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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vaporous spirit ingendred in the hollow and fistulous sinew, or through long absti∣nence from carnall copulation: * 1.2 If there be panting, and beating of the yard, with a desire to the act of generation, then it is called Sa∣tyriasis.
They suffer as it were a cramp, * 1.3 the yard being puffed up, and stretched out: they quickly pe∣rish, without sudden help: And when they die, their bellies be puffed up, and their sweat is cold.
First open Mediana of the armes; * 1.4 then clysters made of beets, mallowes and mercury; adding Manna, and Cassia: but beware of purges, and things that be diuretical: to procure gentle vo∣mits are good: * 1.5 give him to drink a little Aqua sperm. ranar. with sugar. And keep him from sights, and stories appertaining to lechery: Let him drink barley water: If a virulent Gonorrhaea be annexed with it, then frictions (on the fistu∣lous sinew) of ung. argenti vivi, helps him: In this disease, Forestus in his first Tome, and 26. * 1.6 Book, and ninth observation, commendeth a vomit made with Asaron.
Notes
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* 1.1
〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Causa.
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* 1.2
Satyriasis.
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* 1.3
Signa.
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* 1.4
Curatio. Clyster. Venae-sectio
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* 1.5
Aq sperm. ranarum.
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* 1.6
Forestus.