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 XVII.

OZAENA: * 1.1 is an ulcer in the inside of the nose, deep, stinking, and rotten, out of which are sent forth a loathsome and stink∣ing savour, with many crusty and stinking ex∣crements.

The cause is sharp and rotten humours, * 1.2 which flow to the nostrils.

Let the head be dried and strengthened; * 1.3 but first purge him with one dragm of head pills: and

℞. Omphacii ℥.ss. cortic. mali granati, * 1.4 vel confi∣ciantur sic. an. ʒ.iij. myrrhae aluminis, ladani ana ʒ. ij. calchit. aloes, cort. thur. an. ʒ.j. ol. rosat. & myrrh. an. ʒ. ij. cerae rub. q.s. fiat unguentum.

Also the nostrils may be anoynted with the juyce of pomegranate, boyled in a brazen ves∣sel unto the halfe. * 1.5 Monardus commends the urine of an asse. The juyce of Cresses with Al∣lam are good, and

℞. Mel. rosarum ℥.j. cerus. ℈. ij. misce. * 1.6

And anoynt the scabs therewith. Lastly, let him drink of this julep often.

℞. Aqua fumariae p.j. Syr. fumar. ℥. iv. misce. * 1.7

And to mitigate pain Weckerus (in lib. 2. par. 2. pag. 423.) doth commend axungia gallinae cum ol. viol. & pauca cera.

Notes

• * 1.1

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

  Causa.
• * 1.3

  Curatio. Pilulae co∣chiae.
• * 1.4

  Ʋnguentū.
• * 1.5

  Monardus.
• * 1.6

  Mixtura.
• * 1.7

  Julepus. Weckerus.