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. XLI.

CONDYLOMATA, * 1.1 are certain wrinkled and hard bunches, and as it were excrescen∣ces of the flesh rising especially in the wrinkled edges of the fundament, and the neck of the womb.

Cooling and relaxing medicines ought to be used against this disease, * 1.2 for which purpose

℞. * 1.3 Ol. ovor. sem. lini, an. ℥. ij.

Beat them together a long time in a leaden morter, and therewith anoynt the grieved part. If there be an inflammation, put thereto a little camphir.

Chaps, * 1.4 or Fissures, are cleft, and very long little ulcers; with pain, very sharp and burning; by reason of the biting of an acrid, salt, and drying humour; making so great a contraction, and oftentimes narrownesse in the fundament, and the neck of the womb, that scarcely the top of ones finger may be put into the orifice there∣of; like unto pieces of leather or parchment, which are wrinkled and parched by holding of them to the fire. They arise sometimes in the mouth, that the Patient can neither eat, speak, nor open his mouth; so that the chyrurgion is constrained to cut it. In the cure thereof, all sharp things are to be avoided, and those which mollifie, are to be used; look Ʋteri Phymosis.

Notes

• * 1.1

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

  Curatio.
• * 1.3

  Ʋnguentū.
• * 1.4

  Fissurae aui.