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. VI.

EXQƲISITA TERTIANA: * 1.1 febris intermit∣tens: It is caused of choller, carried by the sencible parts of the body, yet it remaineth pure, sincere, and unmixed: and therefore it is called exquisite.

In every fit they feel a vehement cold, * 1.2 ri∣gour, and stiffenesse, and as it were pricked: In the increasing of the fits, the pulse are vehe∣ment, great, and frequent, with thirst; he breathes out as it were a flame of fire, coveting cold water: sometimes they vomit choller, the belly being loose: Their urine is chollerick, the

fit lasts commonly 12. houres, sometimes lesse, according to the quantity of choller, or the qua∣lity of it: or the strength of the patient. * 1.3 If it in∣vade the Patient daily with the signes aforesaid, it is called Duplex tertiana, a double tertian.

Galen in the most hottest fevers giveth coun∣sell to draw blood, even ad lypothimiam: * 1.4 after the third fit it is most proper to be done. At the first opening of the vein, we may draw blood more in quantity then at the second; because the first is for evacuation; the second but for re∣frigeration: let this be done the day before the fit. The next day at the houre of the coming of the fit, give a vomit of the infusion of Stibium, * 1.5 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, or 15. drams, according to the strength of the Patient. The next fit pro∣cure a sweat with Diascordium mithridate, * 1.6 gun∣powder, or the like. Let him use that which cools and moystens, as the flowers of violets, bur∣rage, roses, water-lillies, endive, succory, let∣tice, damascene pruins, purslaine, sorrel, roots of grasse, of these may be made decoctions.

Amongst compounds, there is Elect de prunis damascenis, without diagridium: Diarrhodon Ab∣batis, Diatria santalon in powder, * 1.7 and the con∣serves of the former simples: Also tosted bread infused in rose-vinegar, beaten in a morter, and adding coral ʒ.i. red roses, and cinnamon, of either half a dram, and applied like a plaister is good: also Ceratum santalinum, * 1.8 and clysters doe well: and if the Patient be not able to take a vomit, give him strong Apozems.

For the extremity of heat, * 1.9 remember Aqua sperm, ranarum. If rest be wanting,

℞. * 1.10 Syrrupi papaveris, et nenufaris, ana ℥.j. aq. lactucae ℥.ij. misce & bibat.

Or if you please, * 1.11 you may use unguentum popule∣um mixed with a little opium, and then to drop in 3 or 4 drops of oyle of nutmegs, and bathe the temples of their head with it, is good; the manner of making, with the quantities, are set down in the Chapter of Melancholia, * 1.12 towards the latter end: Also take briony root, slice it: the inward bark of Helder, rew, fether-few, wal∣nut-tree bark, or leaves, and cellindine, of ether a like quantity, stamp them with a little salt, spread them on a cloath, grate a little nutmeg on it; and apply it to the wrists: If you want more, look back into the Chapter of Causos. If you think good, you may minister this potion.

℞. * 1.13 Elect. de succo ros. & diaprun. sol. ana ʒ. v. syr. ros. alex. ex 9. infus. ℥. ij. decocti com∣munis q.s. misce & fiaetpotio. Carolus Amatus.

This is for a strong body. But for a weak body, this that followeth may serve.

℞. * 1.14 Syrrup. de cichor. compos. cum rhab. ℥.i.ss. Elect. de succo ros. ʒ.iij. decocti gram. acetos. & end. q.s.fiat potio. Varandaeus pag. 7.

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℞. Massae pilul. aggr. & de Rhab. an. ℈.ij. diagr. gr.iv. cum aqua foeniculi, fiant pilulae nume∣ro xi, & deaurentur. Carolus Amatus.

Notes

• * 1.1

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

  Signa.
• * 1.3

  Duplex tertiana.
• * 1.4

  Galenus. Curatio. Vena sectio
• * 1.5

  Vomitus.
• * 1.6

  Mithrida∣tum. Victus ra∣tio.
• * 1.7

  Emplastrū.
• * 1.8

  Ceratum.
• * 1.9

  Aq. sperm. ranarum.
• * 1.10

  Haustus.
• * 1.11

  Ʋnguentū.
• * 1.12

  Cataplas••∣ma.
• * 1.13

  Potio pur∣gans.
• * 1.14

  Potio.