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. XXII.

DOLOR DENTIƲM; the tooth-ache: It is caused sometimes through a hot or cold sometimes through flowing of humours out of the head, unto the roots of the teeth; which through their sharpnesse do gnaw about them.

In a hot distemper the whole body is hot, * 1.1 and the face red, cold is known by the con∣trary judgements. If through the flowing of some humour, then there is pain, not only in the teeth, but also into other parts which it pas∣seth by. An hot humour ingendreth vehement pain, a cold humour causeth lesse pain.

If it come of cold, * 1.2 wash the teeth with warm wine, or this Gargarisme following.

℞. * 1.3 Origan calaminthae, pulegii, rad. verbenae, fol. salviae, betonicae, florum rorism. an. m. ss. nuc. muschatae ʒ. ij. vini albi. q.s. fiat Garg.

And then bathe the cheecks with oyle of cam∣momel, * 1.4 and rew: but if it come through ex∣tream cold, then

℞. * 1.5 Piperis longi, rad. pyrethri, melilot. an. ʒ. j. staphisag. ʒ.ss.

Bruise them, and put the powder into a linnen cloath, and lay it on the aching tooth or teeth, and keep it there a quarter of an hour.

If the teeth ake through heat, * 1.6 seethe in vine∣gar, plantin, roses, purslain, & pillory. If the heat be vehement, seethe in vinegar the seeds of let∣tice

and poppy. * 1.7 And bathe the cheeks with oyl of roses, and water-lillies. If through flowing of humours, cut the Cephalica or media, * 1.8 on the same side the grief is, or the vein under the tongue, then purge him. And make this Gar∣garisme.

℞. Rad hyoscyami ℥.j. pyrethri ℥. ss. staphisag. * 1.9 ʒ.j. galang. ʒ. ss. camphorae ℈. ij. aluminis ℥.j. mellis opt. ℥. ij. aceti l. j. aq. rosarum ℥.vj. fiat Gargarisma.

It preserveth the teeth, and keeps them from pain. Sometimes a hollow tooth, that is much eaten, causeth extream pain; so that the Pati∣ent is forced to have it drawn, to prevent a fe∣ver. These pills following are much commen∣ded for staying a defluxion of rhume upon the teeth, which many times causeth much pain.

℞. Myrrhae drach. vj. Thuris masculi ʒ. v. Opii. * 1.10 hyoscyami, rad. cynoglos. aridi an. ʒ.iv. Stil∣latitii rosarum liquoris, quod satis est. * 1.11 Fin∣ge pilulas & dato dormituris 10. aut 5. Nicol. sect. 3. p. 192.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Signae.
• * 1.2

  Curatio.
• * 1.3

  Gargaris∣mus.
• * 1.4

  Oleum.
• * 1.5

  Pulvis.
• * 1.6

  Decoctio.
• * 1.7

  Oleum.
• * 1.8

  Venae-sectio
• * 1.9

  Gargaris.
• * 1.10

  Pilulae.
• * 1.11

  Nicolaus Myr••psus.