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. XXIV.

VTERI INFLAMMATIO: * 1.1 It is caused through a stripe: the stopping of the men∣struis, abortion, exulceration, unmeasurable le∣chery, or immoderate deambulation may be the cause.

There is an acute fever, * 1.2 pain of the head, share, loynes, and roots of the eyes; convulsion and cramp of the armes, fingers, and neck: pain of the stomach, and womb. If the hinder part be inflamed, there is pain about the loyns: if the fore part, there is pain about the privities; so that a strangury, or difficult making of urine do follow: when it affecteth the mouth of the matrice, the mouth is hard, shut up, and burning hot: If the sides be inflamed, the parts above the privities are distended, and the legges grieved.

First open a vein on the foot (if it came not by abortion or a flux of blood) Secondly pti∣san, * 1.3 and cooling clysters are exceeding good: Apply to the share cataplasmes of fenegreek, * 1.4 Althaea, mallowes, motherwort, melilot, with the meal of linseed, put in wool moystned in the juyce of Plantin, knotgrass, and purslain, or in oyle of roses: Lastly,

℞. * 1.5 Aq. sperm. ranar. p. 1. Syr. de althaea ℥. iv. misce.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Causa.
• * 1.2

  Signa.
• * 1.3

  Curatio. Venae. sectio
• * 1.4

  Cataplas.
• * 1.5

  Julepus.