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. IV.

PEDICƲLARIS MORBƲS: * 1.1 the lowsie evill, is a miserable sickness: It happeneth that these vermin do breed of moysture of a mans flesh, and begin commonly in the eye∣browes, and in some scabs or scruf, by little and little they creep out of the whole body with such danger, that very skilful Physicians have enough to do therewith.

First purge, * 1.2 and then anoynt with this lini∣ment following.

℞. Ol. amigd. amar. ℥. ij. ol. antiquiss. * 1.3 vel ru∣tac. ℥. j. staphi. agriae ℥. j. centaur. minor. ʒ. ij. myrrhae ʒ. iij. arg. viv. ℥. ij. axung. ranc. dae & salitae ℥. iij. incorporentur simul, & fiat lin••mentum.

Lastly, let him drink the juyce of wormwood, and scurvigrass in his beer, for a week to∣gether. And

℞. Malv. bismal. ciclae ana. m. ij. hord. integ. * 1.4 & leviter torrefacti p. iij. fo. ℥. j. flor. chamo. mellil. ana. p. j. fiat decoctio, qua abluatur Rondelet. lib. 1. cap. 3.

Or the oyntment made with Tobacco ashes, see the first Chapter, and second page of this book, or make this liniment.

℞. Aloes staphydis agriae. an. ℥.ss. olei fraxini, * 1.5 succi genistoe q. s. Fiat linimentum. Weckerus.

Notes

• * 1.1

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

  Curatio.
• * 1.3

  Linimentū. Rondelet.
• * 1.4

  Rondeletius Lotio.
• * 1.5

  Linimentū.