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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Medicine -- Early works to 1800.
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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 16, 2024.
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CHAP. XXIV.
EPULIS;* 1.1 is a fleshly excrescence of the gums, which by little and little oft times is increased to the bignesse of an egge, so that it doth hinder the speech, and eating. It casts forth Salvious and stinking filth, and not seldom degenerates into a Cancer, which you may un∣derstand by the propriety of the colour, pain, and other accidents; and then you must not touch it with your hand.
If there be no pain,
* 1.2 begin your cure as spee∣dily as may be. Let it be tyed with a double
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thred, which must be twiched so straight, untill such time as it fall off, then let the place be burnt with a cautery, put through a pipe, or with Aqua fortis, or oyle of vitrial;
* 1.3 but have a great care you hurt not the sound parts: for if so be it be not burnt, it usually returns. Epulis doth oftentimes turn into a grisly and bony substance (for want of a timely cure) as well as into a Cancer. If you would be further satisfied concerning Epulis, read Felix Platerus.* 1.4Tracta∣tus tertius & ultimus cap. 3. de extuberantia. pag. 383. & Fernelius. lib. 5. cap. 8. pag. 163. & 421.
* 1.5& Dioscorides. lib. 1. cap. 80. pag. 164.
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* 1.1
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