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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Medicine -- Early works to 1800.
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Page 192

CHAP. XXVI.

VTERI EXƲLCERATIO: * 1.1 It is caused through hard child-birth: sharp medi∣cines, fluxes, impostumes, or botches broken: or Lues venerea, may be the cause.

They have pricking pain in the agrieved part: * 1.2 stinking matter, bloody and dreggy, is sent out from the ulcer: They have headache, pain of the great sinews in the neck, The roots of their eyes, and even to their fingers ends.

For the cure, * 1.3 first bleed, if nothing forbid it: If there be much heat, look back into the Chapter of Ʋteri inflammatio: If the ulcer be very foul, cleanse it with ptisan and honey: Also Mulsa with the decoction of Ireos, Aristolochia, wormwood, or Agrimony: eating ulcers must be washed with Mares, or Asses milk, with honey.

The ulcer being cleansed, * 1.4 make a decoction of pomegranate rinds, roses, quinces, myr∣tills, Acatia, with restrictive wine: oyle of ro∣ses and quinces are good. If you want more, look into the Chapter of the ulcers of the rains, bladder, and yard in Lues venerea. Yet this oyntment following is very good. * 1.5

℞. Tutiae ablutae partes ij. lithargyrii, cerusae, sarcocollae, sing. partem j. cum oleo rosaceo, & cera, f. unguentum. Altomarus de exul. uteri cap. 117. pag. 673.

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