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.
Author
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 8, 2024.
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CHAP. VII.
LIPPITƲDO, blear eyes:
* 1.1 or blood-shot eyes, is nothing else but a certain white filth, flowing from the eyes; which oftentimes agglutinates or joynes together the eye-lids.
Sometimes it is hereditary,
* 1.2 and then not to be cured: Rhasis saith, that when the white of the eye is turned to rednesse, it is caused of some salt humour, or super-abundance of Rhume, with corruption of blood: Also excre∣mentious flegme may be the cause.
Some commend Emplast. contra rupturam,* 1.3 to be applyed to the shaven crown: frictions and cupping-glasses applyed to the hinder part of
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the head are good, and a collyrium made with rose-water,
* 1.4 and a little vitrial dissolved there∣in. Lastly,
℞.
* 1.5Salviae, betonicae, hyssopi, serpilli, an. m. j. flor. stoechados m. v. rad. faeniculi peoniae, ana ℥.j. sem. anisi, faeniculi, ammi an. ʒ. j. nucis mus∣chatae, cinnam. an. ʒ. j. misceantur & co∣quantur usque ad consumptionem tertiae par∣tis, deinde coletur, saccharoque dulcis red∣datur potio, cui denique addantur syrupi de bet••nica. ℥.iv.
Let him drink thereof often;
* 1.6 but first purge him and bleed him, and an issue made in his neck, cannot but be very effectual to turn the course of the humour: unguentum tutiae cannot but be very good.
Notes
* 1.1
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