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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CHAP. XXIX.
RANƲLA:* 1.1 is a tumour under the tongue, which takes away the liberty of pronunci∣ation of speech: wherefore the Greeks call it Batrachium; because such as have this disease of the tongue, seem to expresse their minds by crooking, rather then by speaking.
It is caused by the falling down of a cold,
* 1.2 moyst, grosse, tough, viscid, and flegmatick matter from the brain, upon the tongue; which matter in colour and consistence, resembles the white of an egge: yet sometimes it looks of a citrine or yellowish colour.
You shall open the tumour with a cautery of hot iron;
* 1.3 that so it may not return again: when it is opened, thrust out the matter contained therein,
* 1.4 and then wash the Patients mouth with some barly water, hony, and sugar of roses: for so the ulcer will be safely and quickly healed. Or
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℞. Aquae plantaginis lib. ss. balaust. ʒ. i. s.
* 1.5aluminis ʒ.ss. mellis ros. ℥.ss. bulliant: pro lotione usui reservetur. Forest. Tom. 1. lib.* 1.6 14. obser. 29.
Notes
* 1.1
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