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. XL.

PROCIDENTIA ANI, the falling down of the fundament, is very frequent to chil∣dren.

It is caused through the relaxation of the muscle Sphincter, which ingirts the fundament; * 1.1 which happeneth by reason of the too much humiditie of the belly. A bloody flux, or a strong endeavour to expell the excrements, or sitting upon a cold stone, a stroak or fall upon the holy bone, or a palsie of the nerves, &c. may be the cause.

The Patient must forbear much drink, * 1.2 or broath, and

℞. Pulegii, marrubii, myrthi, betonicae, * 1.3 ver∣basci, an. m. j. flor. Cypressi, primulae veris, ana. m. ss. florum anthos, stoechados, salviae, an. p. ij. fiat decoctio, in aquae & vino, in hac sedeat, vel spongiis novis foveatur pars. Alterum,

℞. Stercoris lacerti ʒ. iij. columbarum, * 1.4 & hi∣rundinum an. ℥. j. stercoris caprae, ℥. ij. exci∣piantur terebinthina, & applicentur supra os sacrum & coccyngem.

Hippocrates bids, * 1.5 that the Patient (hanging by the heels) should be shaken, but first anoynt the fundament with oyle of roses, or myrtils. If you want more, look into the Chapter of Pro∣cidentia uteri.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Causa.
• * 1.2

  Curatio.
• * 1.3

  Fomenta∣tio.
• * 1.4

  Medica∣mentum.
• * 1.5

  Hippocrat.