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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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A76231.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 17, 2024.

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CHAP. VII.

TERTIANA NOTHA, * 1.1 or bastardly Ter∣tian: it is caused when choller is mixed for the most part with flegme.

In this fever, * 1.2 the time of the fits exceed twelve hours; and there is not such great heat in the state and rigour of this fever, as in the exquisite Tertian; besides, it doth not end in abundance of sweat, as the exquisite Tertian doth.

Give them ptisan, and mulsa, * 1.3 wherein hath been sodden Hyssop, and Origan, fasting: If the Patient be strong, bleeding helpeth much: then take this clyster following.

℞. Malvae, mercurialis, violarum, origani, * 1.4 Hys∣sopi, ana M.j.sem. nasturtii ʒ.iij. coquantur in.s.q. aquae, usque ad consumptionem medieta∣tis; cujus colaturae, accipiatur lib. 1. adde Be∣nedict. laxat. Hierapicra ana ʒ.iij. mel. rosa∣rum ʒ.iv. oleum violarum, cammomeli, ana ℥.i.ss. Salis communis ʒ.ij. fiat enema.
Boyle parslay, fennel, origan, hyssope. and let∣tice in his broath: Also Oximel simplex, and scil∣liticum is good: * 1.5 And I am perswaded that to give a vomit, made with Asaron, and the infu∣sion of stibium mixed together, would prove a sure help; if strength permits it to be admini∣stred: Lastly, this purge following is good for a strong body.
℞. Diaphaenicon. ʒ.ij. elect. è succo rosar. ʒ.ij. * 1.6 benedict. lax. ʒ. ss. Syr. rosarum de rhabar∣bare, ana ℥.ss. Decoct. q.s. fiat potio.

If he cannot sit up, make an Apoz. * 1.7 of the infu∣sion

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of Rhubarb, and Agarick, adding there∣to the aforesaid syrrups, of each half an ounce. Ronde letius hanc ptisanam commendat. * 1.8

℞. Hordei mundati quar. 1. jujub. passular. mun∣dat. cicerum rub. ana ℥.j. glycyrrhizae mund. ℥.ss. fiat decoctio in aqua ad lib. 2. Colatura transfundatur per manicam Hippoc. cum ℥.iv. sacchari, & ʒ.ij. Cinamomi. Chalmet. Enchirid. pag. 357.
Lastly,
℞. * 1.9 Hydromelitis ℥.ij. decocti hyssopi ℥.ij. ss. de∣tur tepidum à coena. Hollerius. lib. 2. fol. 8.

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