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. III.

SYNOCHƲS PƲTRIDA, * 1.1 aut continens fe∣bris, a constant fever: It proceedeth chief∣ly from blood; yet all the humours do putrefie and rot equally together within all the vessels, by reason of a feverons heat kept within the body.

The signes are an unseparable redness in the face: * 1.2 an inflation of the veines, arteries, and temples: with lassitude and wearisomeness of the body with a sleepy disposition: The urine is red and gross; difficulty of breathing: a full, high, and swift pulse.

First administer a cooling clyster. * 1.3 Secondly, draw blood out of the Basilica, Galen counselleth even to the fainting of the patient: * 1.4 If it cannot be done, apply Sanguisugae, to the thighes, legges,

and shoulders: or provoke the Hemorrhoyds, Menstruis, or bleeding at the nose: sometimes purge the body with strong Apozems, * 1.5 of the infusion of Rhubarb, with the syrrups of fumi∣tory, and cichory: To resist putrefaction, give Syrrupus de limonibus; Aqua graminis ℥.iv. * 1.6 of the syrrup two ounces make a julip. Also the syr∣rups of Bugloss, fumitory, and cichory, given in the waters of Roses, and sorrel, with a few drops of oyle of vitriol do well: * 1.7 let clysters be often repeated, made with lettice, endive, pur∣slaine, in the streining put Diapru. sol. and oyle of violets: Also let him drink Aqua hordei; * 1.8 If there be Asthma put in liqueris, he must abstain from hot things, flesh, or anything that nourish eth: If you would comfort the heart, [ 1] use Bugloss and Borrage.

If you would coole the liver, [ 2] use cichory and lettice.

[ 3] If you would cool the reins, use the cold seeds.

[ 4] For constivenesse, use violets, roses, pruines, Mallowes, Tamarinds, &c. Lastly, to give him of Aqua spermat. ranarum, * 1.9 a spoonfull or two at a time is most excellent. Yet this Apozem fol∣lowing is very good to cool and open.

℞. Cichorei cum rad. acetosae, endiviae ana M.j. * 1.10 sem. 4. frig. ma j. ℥. ss. rad. graminis, aspara∣gi, maceratarum in aceto an. ʒ.iij. fi. decoctio ex aquâ ad lib. 1. Colaturae clarae adde saccha∣ri albi, succi aurauciorum, vel granatorum, aut syrrupi acredine citreorum ana ℥. iij. vel in fine decoctionis, adde aceti acerrimi, & mellis optimè despumat. ana ℥.iij. fi. Apoze∣ma clarum, Heurnius, lib. 1. pag. 28.

Notes

• * 1.1

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Causa.
• * 1.2

  Signa.
• * 1.3

  Curatio: Venae-sectio
• * 1.4

  Sanguisu∣gae.
• * 1.5

  Apozema.
• * 1.6

  Julepus.
• * 1.7

  Clyster.
• * 1.8

  Aq. Hord.
• * 1.9

  Aq sperm. ranarum.
• * 1.10

  Apozema. Heurnius.