and that they may likewise dry even the very bone that is found that so the Expulsive faculty may separate from it that that is vicious in it and that the ossifique or bone-breeding faculty may generate a bone or at least a Callus that may thrust forth the bone that is corrupted The milder sort of Remedies for this purpose are the Root of Sow-fennel Medicaments in case the Bone be corrupted white Briony or white wild Vine Flowerdeluce Myrrh Aloes Alum The stronger sort are the Root of round Aristolochy of Water-dragons the Rind of Allheal of the Pine Tree the Pumice stone burnt the dross and refuse of Brass the Mineral Chrysocol and the Spirit of Wine The strongest of al Euphorbium than which Fallopius writeth that he himself never found any more excellent and that would sooner take away the corrupted bone burnt Copperas the ashes of the Fig-tree Lime Aqua fortis the Oyl of Vitriol and the Oyl of Sulphur Of those Medicaments there are Compounds to be made which are to be applied either in the form of a Pouder or else mingled with Honey Rosin Wax Unguent Aegyptiack or some other such like Unguent and so applied in the form of an Unguent This following Pouder is very efficacious Viz. Take Root of round Aristolochy Flowerdeluce Myrrh Aloes the Rind of Alheal the refuse of Brass the rinds of the Pine-tree equal parts of al let them be al mingled together and made up with Honey into the form of an Unguent This Pouder following is likewise very much approved of Take Mummy and Sarcocol of each half a dram Euphorbium one dram and make a Pouder Or Take the Root of round Aristolochy of Sow-fennel of each half an ounce the rinds of the Pine-tree two drams white Agarick Earthworms prepared of each one dram and half Euphorbium one dram make a Pouder or an Unguent with Honey of Roses as likewise this Oyl Take Citrine Sulphur one pound put it neer unto a gentle fire that it may melt unto which add of burnt Tartar made into Pouder half a pound mingle them with continual stirring until they are cold Afterward let them be pulverised and set in a moist place upon a stone until they melt and with this Oyl let the corroded bones be anointed Or Take the Root of long Aristolochy Briony Sow-fennel Flowerdeluce of Florence of each one dram Euphorbium one scruple make a Pouder and strew it upon the bone Or Take Pouder of the Root of Sow-fennel of round Aristolochy of Opoponax and Euphorbium of each half a dram Turpentine an ounce and half Wax half an ounce boyl them to the consistence of a Cerote Or Take the Roots of both Aristolochies of Briony of Sow-fennel of Florentine Flowerdeluce of each half an ounce Centaury the less the Rind of the Pine-tree of each three drams Aloes two drams flour of Brass a dram and half unto al the aforesaid pour of the Spirit of Wine as much as wil suffice and extract the Tincture But if the corruption of the Bone be so great that it cannot be wholly taken away by Medicaments then there wil be need of Chirurgery and the corrupted bone is to be taken away either by shaving and paring off or else by burning Now for the abrasion or paring it away there are here two Instruments that are made use of the scraping Iron Instrument and the Wimble or Anger The former of there taketh place when the bone is not so deeply corrupted but the Wimble is to be used when the rottenness hath penetrated very deep into the bone Of shaving or paring Celsus in his eighth Book and Chap. 2. thus writeth He that shaveth these rotten Bones saith he must with al boldness and courage make an impression with his Iron Instrument that so he may do somwhat and may the sooner make an end The end is then when we come either unto a bone that is white or unto a bone that is solid for it is manifest by the whiteness of the bone that the fault in regard of the blackness is cured and by that same solidity it is likewise manifest that what was amiss in the bone in regard of the rottenness is in like manner ended We also told you before that unto the sound and whol bone there wil be some smal access of Rosie fresh-colored blood But if at any time it descend deeper we may wel question both of them as very doubtful as for the rottenness our knowledg is indeed therein somwhat quicker A smal and slender Probe is put down into the hole which by its entering more or less sheweth unto us whether the rottenness lie in the top or whether it be descended deeper The blackness may likewise indeed be guessed at if not certainly known from the pain and from the Feaver which if they be mild and moderate then we may conclude that the said blackness is not descended very deep but yet nevertheless it is made more manifest when we come to make use of the wimble for there is then an end of what was amiss when there ceaseth to come forth any black dust And therefore if the rottenness hath descended deep we ought then to make many holes with the wimble as deep as that that is amiss in the bone and then into those holes burning hot Irons are to be let down until at length by this means the bone be wholly dried For withal after this both whatsoever is vitiated and corrupted wil be loosened from the lower bone and that hollow nook wil be filled up with flesh and the humor that afterward issueth forth wil be either none at al or certainly very little But if there be any blackness or if the rotteness be likewise passed over unto some other part of the bone it then ought to be cut out and this same may likewise be done in the rottenness penetrating into some other part of the bone but that which is altogether vitiated must be wholly taken forth if the inferior part be whol and sound then only so far as there is any corrupted it ought to be cut forth And also whether the Breast-bone or whether it be a Rib that is rotten it is rendered by this fault unuseful and therefore there is a necessity of cutting it forth Thus Celsus By al which it appeareth That the Ancients after the paring and shaving of the bone were wont likewise to burn it this burning being the chiefest remedy for the consuming of al the excrementitious humidity But then notwithstanding in the applying of a Cautery we must alwaies beware lest that the flesh that lieth neer be likewise burnt together with the corrupted bone and therefore the Cauteries are to be applied through Iron pipes by which the flesh is to be defended and safeguarded of which Iron pipes we ought to have many in readiness that so after one is grown hot another that is cold may be applied or if we think good to make use of one only then as
daies together by reason of the vehement pain of the Patonychia could not sleep not take any rest at al the skin being shaven off he findeth under the skin in the very tip of the finger a spot of this bigness O in the which there was contained scarcely one smal drop of the Ichorous excrement The spot being opened thereto applied Cotton dipt in Aqua vitae wherein there was Treacle dissolved and about the whol hand and wrist a linen cloth after it had been first wel soaked in vinegar and water doubled and wrapped the pain immediately ceased insomuch that the very next day following the finger was fully and perfectly healed But the same Author addeth further that this incision ought forthwith in the very beginning to be made because that otherwise by the concourse of the Humors there wil be excited an Inflammation and Swelling and so the flesh lying underneath yea and even the bones also wil be in danger of being eaten through For the Skin in that place is of an extraordinary thickness so that the matter of the Paronychia which in it self is malignant when it can by no means exhale it then acquireth the greater acrimony and poysonfulness and the finger also yea and the whol hand by reason of the vehemency of pain is swoln and blown up and this incision very little or nothing availeth unless that the matter be first concocted and converted into Pus Chap. 15. Of Perniones or Kibes THere is also found a peculiar kind of Inflammarion which they term Perniones the Greeks cal this Affect Chimethlon and Chemeithlon from the Greek word Cheimon in regard of their appearing in the Winter time only And it is such a kind of Inflammation as in the Winter time ariseth in the heels and on the toes and fingers I once likewise saw a Noble-man that had such a kind of Inflammation on the very tip of his Nose The Causes Now this kind of Inflammation ariseth from the Winters cold whilest that by it not only the part is weakened and made more apt to receive but that likewise from the pain there is caused an attraction of blood unto the part Yet notwithstanding this is worth consideration how it cometh to pass that he who hath in the Winter time undergone and suffered some notable cooling of the extream parts should yet notwithstanding be wel and altogether insensible of it during the Summer and the Winter following again and thus to continue for some yeers and until the Malady be wholly removed and taken away by cure should be so sensible of an extream itching pain and swelling in the part that was over cooled as aforesaid and that although in the Summer time he felt no ill instantly in the very first entrance of the Winter the Malady should again get head and return and an itching be again felt in the part affected al which argueth that there was some strong impression left behind in the part For those that are thus greatly cooled do not only suffer a bare alteration but that there is likewise somthing that is substantial communicated unto the part affected appeareth even by this That Apples and Eggs when they are frozen if they be cast into cold Water there is then an Ice taken out of them so that it outwardly sticketh fast unto them like unto a crust and then these Apples and Eggs return again to their former Natural state whereas on the contrary if they be put into warm Water they become flaggy turn black and are corrupted which notwithstanding could not possibly happen if there were only a meer and simple alteration and therefore we may conclude that by the pain that afflicteth the part there is blood attracted to the part affected that exciteth and causeth the Inflammation Signs Diagnostick There went before a guarding and preservation of the extream parts of the Body against the injuries of the external Air that was but weak and sleight and not sufficient to maintain a due warmth in them and thereupon an undue cooling befalleth them there is likewise an itching and a pain that is not only once and after that the sick person hath suffered a refrigeration from the external Air perceived but although it cease in the Summer time and Autumn yet notwithstanding about the beginning of Winter it again returneth the part waxeth red and swelleth up and now and then also it is exulcerated Prognosticks This Tumor to tel you the truth hath in it no danger at al yet notwithstanding if the Malady be not speedily â—â—â—ed it wil prove tedious and of long continuance and this pain wil for many yeers be grievous and troublesom unto the Party thus affected and somtimes likewise the part is wont to be exulcerated The Preservation Lest that the parts should be hurt by the external cold it is requisite that in the Winter time they should be sufficiently fenced and provided for against the injuries of the aforesaid external cold Air. And more particularly lest that the feet be hurt it wil be expedient to wear Legharnesses as they cal them or linen Socks wel moistened in the Spirit of Wine especially in that part of them by which they cover the feet But seeing that it cannot wel be that al the parts should be sufficiently kept from and defended against the cold yet notwithstanding lest that any one after he hath for a while been in the cold Air should suffer any dammage the refrigerated parts are not first of al to be altered with the contrary quality but rather we ought to do our endeavor that the cause which hath insinuated it self into any part may be removed and taken away And therefore as it is commonly wont to be done in the cold Septentrional Regions and of which as of a thing very wel known Gulielmus Fabricius takes notice in his Treatise of a Gangrene and Sphacelus Chap. 10. the refrigerated part is not to be put close to the fire neither are those things that are hot to be imposed thereon for if this be done the coldness or indeed rather the cold Atomes retained in the part being by this means thrust down into the deeper parts of the place affected a most intollerable pain happeneth thereupon to arise yea and somtimes also a Gangrene is produced and excited but the cooled part is to be wel rubbed with Snow that so by its like the coldness or cold thing may be extracted out of the affected part after the same manner as Apples or Eggs being frozen and cast into the coldest water are restored unto their pristine Nature the extracted Ice sticking fast without unto the rinds of the one and shels of the other And for this very reason the Inbabitants of the abovementioned Northern Regions when they have been travelling do not accustom themselves to enter into Stoves or Hot-houses or so much as to draw neer unto any fire until they have first throughly rubbed their Hands Nose and the extream parts or tips of
yet notwithstanding several and different affects as Cardanus in the place alleadged hath very rightly determined And therefore Experience is to be consulted 2. From Experience Now Zacutus Lusitanus in the place before alleadged bringeth in and produceth this Experience He there writeth That a certain poor woman having had a Cancer exulcerated in her Breast for many yeers together and lying in bed with her three sons they were all infected with the like contagion that she after five yeers dying two of these her three sons seized upon and dispatcht by this Disease departed this life but the third somwhat stronger of constitution than the other two after that the Cancer had been cut away by the hand of the Chirurgeon with much pains and ado was cured and healed An Answer to the aforesaid Experience But this being but one example Experience is yet further to be consulted and the rather in regard that it may be here objected that those her sons might contract this Disease not by contagion but from an hereditary infection The Cure As for what therefore concerneth the Cure of a Cancer not exulcerated in the very first place and this indeed is generally to be practised in al Cancers whatsoever before any thing else be done we are to use our diligent endeavor to prevent the encrease of black Choler and that none be generated for the future and that what is already in the body may speedily be evacuated The breeding of black Choler and the Melancholy Humor is to be hindered and prevented by the Patients abstaining from those Meats that may any way yield and afford matter to the black Humor such as are al things that are thick feculent salt bitter and such are old cheese flesh that is thick old salt or smoak-dried Garlick Onions Mustard Pepper and al other Spices Let the sick person likewise shun and avoid al those things that do any way conduce to the generating of the black Humor such as are Grief and sadness of the heart overmuch watching and want of rest and the like But rather let the Patient use a Diet that is moderately moistening and cooling viz. Ptisan of Barley Lettice Mallows Borrage Succory the four cold Seeds Veal Wether Mutton Kids flesh Chickens Reer Eggs River fish the Whey of Goats Milk and such like Furthermore If there be any adust Humor already generated in the Body let it be with al speed evacuated And therefore in the first place if it be at al requisite blood may be drawn forth by opening a Vein In Women the provoking and bringing down their Courses wil be most proper and convenient and in men let the Hemorrhoids be opened if it may be done After this let the body be throughly purged with those Medicaments that eâ—â—cuâ—te the black adust Humor among which there is especially commended Epithymum we vulgarly cal it Mother of Tyme black Hellebore Fumitory and the Compounds thence derived viz. the Pils of Fumitory and the Confection Haâ—â—ech But now that the Purgation may the better succeeâ— that thick and gross Humor is first of al to be prepared yea moreover wheras the whol Humor may not at once and al together be evacuated then the Purgers and Preparers are often to be repeated by turns and successively Now for this Affect those things that are very proper and convenient are the Syrup of Apples of Fumitory of the Juyce of Borrage and Bugloss Syrup of Lupulus or the Hop or other Compound Medicaments like unto these Neither wil it be amiss or any whit incongruous likewise to strengthen the Heart and the Liver and if there be any distemper chanced unto either or both of them to amend and rectifie it by Medicaments or Borrage Bugloss Roses Citrons Sanders Corals Margarites Pearls and those other Medicaments that are made and compounded out of these And then in the next place we are to apply our selves unto the very part affected And 1. By Topicks the Matter that hath flown in is a little to be driven back again and discussed and the part is to be confirmed and strengthened and those Medicaments that have in them a power and vertue of Repressing Corroborating and Disucssing are to be applied For by this means so much of the Cancer as is already generated is quite taken away and likewise the further growth and increase thereof is prevented But now let those Medicaments have in them a mediocrity or mean of strength and vertue and let them not be sharp and biting For if the Medicaments be over weak they then afford no help or benefit and again if they be too strong and violent they then indeed either repress or discuss the more thin parts but for the more thick they do not only leave them behind but also render them the more unapt and unfit to be afterwards discussed and dissipated There is for this use and purpose very convenient the Decoction or Juyce of Nightshade and of the several Species of Endive and Succory But more especially there are commended the Cockle-fish boyled River Crabs or Crevishes and principally green Frogs out of which there is a most excellent Oyl to be distilled for the moderating of the pain and the healing of the are Cancer the destillation is by descent after this manner Take Green Frogs living either in the Reeds or in pure and cleer Waters fill their mouths with Butter and afterward put them into an Earthen Pot that is glazed and having in its bottom many little holes Let this Pot be put into another Pot and that other Pot put into and surrounded with the Earth in the which it is to be as it were shut up and then let as wel the Pot that hath the Cover as that Pot which is put into it be carefully luted and stopt that so nothing may exhale Afterward let the fire be kindled round about the Pot on every side and the Oyl wil destil into the lower pot which is to be taken forth and together with the Pouder of the Frogs mingled for the making of an Vnguent Others there are that make up an Unguent with the Ashes of Crabs or Crawfish mingled together with Coriander seed and the Oyl of Roses And here likewise we are to make use of the greatest part of Metallicks washed and so becoming altogether without any biting quality their power and vertue being here of singular use such as are Lead Tutia or Pompholyx Litharge Ceruss Antimony Lead is chiefly and most highly commended by al and it may likewise be administred any manner of way Whereupon it is that al those Medicaments that are to be applied in the Cancer are most fitly and properly made up in a Leaden Mortar with a Leaden Pestle touching which Galen is to be consulted see in his 9 Book of the Faculty of simple Medicaments and the Chapter of Lead which is made by rubbing together two Leaden Plates whereon the Oyl of Roses hath been poured so long until the Oyl become
Oyl of Yelks of Eggs two ounces Wax half an ounce Mingle them c. Or Take live Sulphur one ounce Frankincense and Myrrh of each two drams Camphyre one dram bruise them into a very smal and fine powder and add of Borax one scruple Rose Water a Quart and destil them Or Take the Flour of Cicers one ounce Alum half an ounce Honey as much as wil suffice make an Unguent Or Take the Raddish root make it hollow by taking forth as much of the pith as you please and then fill it up with Salt Mustard and Wine let them stand for the space of one whole night and then anoynt the Lichenes with the Liquor Or Take Chalk beaten to a powder and let it be mingled with the Juyce of Sengreen in the manner of a Liniment with which let the place affected be anoynted But if the Impetigo be fierce contumacious and of a long continuance then there wil be need of such Remedies as do cleanse more forcibly And here we must commend unto you as that which is very efficacious that liquor that is destilled out of the Oyl of Tartar per de liquium or by draining and Quick-silver as for example Take Oyl of Tartar by draining half a pound Quick-silver two ounces destil them by a Retort The Quick-silver wil first come forth and after it a Water that is excellent against all contumacious and stubborn Lichenes Or Take Turpentine washed in Rose Water one ounce Oyl of Roses half an ounce Swines Fat three drams live Sulphur two drams Nitre a dram and half Alum Sugar Salt of each one dram Seed of Stavesacre Litharge of each one scruple Yelks of two Eggs Wax as much as wil suffice and make an Unguent Or Take the Flour of Darnel one ounce Staves-acre seed two drams the Spume or froth of Silver six drams Ceruss two drams burnt Lead and Antimony of each a dram and half Swines Fat one ounce the Juyce of Scabious and of Lemmons of each six drams Quick-silver extinguisht or kil'd with Hogs Grease half an ounce Oyl of the Yelks of Eggs and Oyl of Tartar by draining or as it is usually prescribed per de liquium of each two ounces Mingle and make a Liniment Or Take the Leaves of Willows of Mallows of the Bur of the Ivy Leaves of each one handful boyl them in red Wine Let the place be washed with the Decoction and after the washing let the leaf of the Bur be laid thereon This following Unguent is likewise commended by Valescus and Guido Viz. Take the Seed of Juniper shaken wel together one ounce boyl them and to the straining add of Hogs Grease six ounces Turpentine one ounce dissolve all over the Fire When they are removed from the Fire and cooled let the watry part be poured off from them and then let the remainder be diligently stirred about in a Mortar adding thereto of live Sulphur one ounce and so make an Unguent But if so be that the Malady wil not yield â—or be removed by these Medicaments but that the part become Callous we must then make use of Excoriatives such as Pamphilus heretofore used at Rome touching which and other the like Remedies against the Impetigo we are to consult Galen in his fifth Book of the Composit of Medicaments according to the places Chap. 7. and Aetius Tetrab 2. Serm. 4. Chap. 16. Chap. 31. Of Gutta Rosacea A Tumor neerly allied to this Impetigo is that which the more modern stile Gutta Rosacea and others Gutta Rosea the Arabians Albedsamen or Alquasen and others likewise Albutizaga which is a spotted redness or rather a redness with Tubercles with which the Cheeks the Nose and the Face is defiled and polluted as if it were all to be sprinkled with Rosie drops And somtimes these Tubercles get a growth and increase in so much that the Face becometh unequal and frightful to look upon and the Nose augmented unto an extraordinary bigness and deformity There lived a yeer or two ago not far from Dresda a man affected with this Malady whole Nose grew to such a vast greatness that it hindred him in his reading which Malady brought him to that pass that in the yeer 1629. he was content to have some certain parts and small parcels of his Nose pared away and quite cut off Nicholaus Florentinus Serm. 7. Tetrab 6. Summ. 2. Chap. 15. maketh three Differences of this Malady For there is somtimes present saith he a preternatural redness without any Pustules Bladders or Vlcers and this we call absolutely a red Face and somtimes this redness is accompanied with Pustules or Bladders and then it is called a Pustulous or Bladdery redness and somtimes it hath attending it an Vlcer and then we call it an Vlcerous redness And this last Difference seemeth very little to differ from that Affect that we call Noli me tangere which they thus describe to wit that it ariseth in the Face and especially above the Chin neer about the Mouth and the Nose and they conceive that it is so called in regard that even by those Remedies that seem most fit and congruous it is rather irritated then any waies mitigated and notwithstanding all the means that are used it is more and more carried on by eating and consuming the sound parts And hereupon it is likewise that in one and the same Chapter they treat both of Gutta Rosacea and the Noli me tangere There is notwithstanding another Affect which they likewise vulgarly cal Noli me tangere touching which we have already spoken above in the 20. Chapter The Causes The Cause of this Affect is acknowledged to be a hot blood and the same is likewise thick and gross and generated through some default in the Liver that produceth such like blood the which being carried especially unto the face as otherwise we see even in blushing the blood is easily and soon carried thither and there diffused whenas by reason of its thickness it can neither retire back again nor yet be discussed and scattered it there sticketh fast in that place and first of al it causeth a red color of the Face and soon after likewise if the said Malady continue long it generateth red Pustules Now this distemper happeneth unto some through a default and somthing amiss in their Natural Constitution and these let them live never so soberly and temperately yet notwithstanding they are nevertheless subject and liable unto this Affect But however for the most part this evil is contracted and procured by such persons as are addicted to the pot and given over to drunkenness and swilling and they are not only those that are excessive drinkers of Wine but likewise such as exceed in drinking of Beer and I once knew a Student that was notoriously affected with this Malady and he had gotten a most foul and deformed Face This man travelling afterwards into Italy and France where there is not that plenty of Beer at his return home again was
the Stones becometh much moystened being hereby much effeminated and so by this means the humidity thereof is in great measure retained And that we may conclude this Discourse the Elephantiasis alone as Palmarius writeth more than any other of those Diseases that are of long continuance seemeth to rejoyce it self as it were in the variety and interchange of Remedies And there are in this affect if in any other certain cessations and intermissions almost from all Remedies oftentimes to be allowed unto the sick Person and then the same Remedies are anew to be repaired and new ones to be added since that scarcely ever did any recover of this Disease that placed the hope of his safety in one only Remedy though it were never so generous and prevalent Julius Palmarius puts much confidence in Hydrarge which as he writeth doth every whit as much in this case as the flesh of Vipers or the Viperine Treacle or the Iron Instrument or the Fire But in regard that it wil take up too much of our time and cost much pains here to acquaint you with all that we might touching this subject And in regard also that the same Palmarius in his Book of the Elephantiasis hath taken notice of many other such like Observations as touching this Disease and that Aetius likewise Tetrab 4 Serm. 1. Chap. 121. c. hath collected very many things concerning it and that much also may be found in Forestus his Rosa Anglica and in other Authors that have written upon this Subject and lastly in regard that Schenkius likewise in the sixth Book of his Observations hath collected many strange and rare things touching this Elephantiasis in all these respects I think it not amiss to refer the Reader unto those aforesaid Authors for his more still satisfaction And Petrus Palmarius likewise in his Lapis Philosoph Dogmatic Chap. 24. reciteth an History of a certain Leprous Woman whom he Cured with Aurum Potabile exuberated and exalted upon a Sphere as Chymists speak and with the Antimony of Alexander Suchtenius Chap. 41. Of a flatulent or windy Tumor ANd thus have we now at length dispatched and finished the Explication of al those Tumors that have their original from the Humors it now remaineth that in the next place we treat of those Tumors that arise from winds For there are peculiar Tumors that have their original from flatulency or a flatulent and windy spirit which the Greeks call Pneumatoseis and Empneumatoseis and Emphysemata but the Latines call them Inflationes Now this flatulent Tumor as Galen tels us in his Book touching the course of Diet in acute Diseases Comment 4. Text. 21. is generated after a twofold manner to wit By a flatulent Spirit collected in certain Cavities these Cavities being either exposed to the sense or else such as are Contemplable by Reason Now by Cavities contemplable by reason as he explains himself in his second Book to Glauco Chap. 5. he understandeth those very Pores of the similary parts and those little spaces that are interposed betwixt the said similary parts The Causes The Proxime i. e. the neerest and conjunct Cause of his Tumor is a Wind or flatulent Spirit Now this is generated as Galen writeth in his third Book of the Causes of Symptoms and Chap. 4. from a heat weak and languishing For as absolute Cold cannot possibly excite any Vapor so on the other side vehement heat discusseth the Vapor That which supplieth matter unto these flatulencies is a humor thick flegmatick or melancholick The same do both flatulent Meats and Drinks afford as also a cold moist and cloudy Air an idle and sedentary life and the suppression of accustomed Evacuations The thickness of the part likewise that wil not permit the Vapors to breath forth maketh much for the accumulation and heaping up of Winds The Differences Now there are of these flatulent Tumors many Differences and this especially in regard of the parts affected whiles that somtimes these Winds are collected under Skin and about the Membranes of the Muscles somtimes in the Membranes of the Bowels somtimes in the very Cavities of the Bowels viz. the Stomack Womb Abdomen and Scrotum or Cods Signs Diagnostick The flatulent Tumor is known by this That the part is somtimes lifted up into a greater and somtimes into a less heighth and oftentimes likewise there is from the distension a pain excited but yet notwithstanding there is no kind of heaviness felt and perceived in the parts and unless the wind be shut up in some cavity it doth very seldom continue long in one place but wandereth up and down If the Tumor may be pressed with the finger it leaveth no pit but the Tumor either resisteth the touch of the finger or else the wind passeth unto some other part and if it he smote with the hand it then sendeth forth a noise like hat of a Dâ—um and by how much the cavity in the which the wind is contained is the greater so much the greater is the noise or found The Emphysema differeth from Oedema because that the cause of Oedema doth alwaies stick in the pores and the spaces of the parts that are contemplable be Reason now what those parts are you may understand by what we have said in the beginning of this Chapter But the cause of Emphysema is often collected in some one certain Cavity And albeit that same flatulent spirit be likewise somtimes disperâ—ed through the streghtest passages of the parts yet notwithstanding as we have told you these Oedema's being pressed no leaves hole or pit behind them but as for the Emphysemata â—hey are not hollowed into a pit and for Oedemata likewise if they be touches by the â—â—nd make no noise at al as do the Emphysemata Prognosticks 1. Flatulent Tumors if they be smal and be not cherished by some pertinacious cause they are then without danger 2. It the flatulent Tumor be great it then argueth a great debility of the hear and an abundance of matter and therefore it is more dangegerous because more contumacious and stubborn 3. If the flatulent matter be detained in the Muscles it is then hardly cured in regard that the spirit is dispersed from the ambient Membranes into almost al the parts of the Muscle as Aetius writeth Tetrah 4. Serm. 3. Chap. 2. The Cure The wind that distendeth the part is to be taken away and means used that it may not breed again and flow unto the part and the pain if any there be is to be mitigated and moderated And therefore such a kind of Diet is to be ordained that maketh not for the generation of winds and the matter out of which the wind is bred is to be evacuated and the heat of the part that generateth the windiness is to be corroborated and corrected touching which we have already spoken in the places that shal be presently alleadged Such things as are hot and dry discuss windiness and of this sort are the seeds
for a fomentation and then let them be filtatred and hard pressed according to the usual manner An Astringent and Epulotick Injection followed upon this Fomentation Take the Leaves of Plantane of new Ivy the Flowers of red Roses of each one pugil the grains of Myrtle shaken wel together one pugil and half the Leaves and Flowers of Centaury the less of each one pugil Roch Allum one ounce Pomegranate Rinds one ounce and half let them boyl all together in red Wine and then strain them Of the straining we ordered them with a sraight Syringe Squirt or Injection pipe to cast into the Vlcer the Vlcer being first of all throughly cleansed and purified which cleansing was indeed wholly effected and wrought by the fore-ordained Injections but more sepecially likewise and most speedily with this following Vnguent for it hath an admirable and excellent virtue in the cleansing of Vlcers from all their thin Ichorous excrements and impurities the Ingredients that it consisteth of are these that follow Take Juyce of Smallage half a pint this is admirable in cleansing of Vlcers the best Honey four ounces Barley meal two ounces of the bitter Vetch Orobus half an ounce Choyce Myrrh two drams Turpentine one ounce and half let them be boyled al together and make an Vnguent in which let Linen Rags be wel wet and then put into the Cavities of be Vlcer in purgeth Vlcers most excellently and without any biting at al. For the filling up of the Vlcer with flesh we made use of this following Emplaster Take Litharge of Gold six ounces Oyl of Roses Omphacine one pint and half Vinegar of Roses half a pint boyl them together with a gentle fire continually stirring them about with a Spatter until they shal have gotten a blackish color and the consistence or thickness of soft Bituminous Clay and a Cerot Make a long Roller-like Emplaster of which make an Emplaster fit for the Vlcer and lay it upon the Vlcer But in the end and conclusion of the Cure we made use of the Emplaster Diachalcitis with the Emplaster of Diapompholyx in the curing of which so great and hollow an Vlcer after the throughly cleansing of the same we found by good experience that there was nothing could be better and more available then the applying of pillows or bolsters a little thicker than ordinary round about the said Vlcer and so binding these bolsters on very hard strongly to press down into the flesh lying underneath that other flesh that lay gaping far disjoyned from it for as Experience then taught us this if there be any thing that will do it doth most especially procure agglutination and sodering together Chap. 10. Of Fistula's FIstula's differ from a Sinuous and furrowed Ulcer only in this to wit That they are moreover callous and hard and therefore here after sinuous Ulcers we think it fit to treat o Fistula's If the Sinus or nook be not speedily cured the Pus wil moreover cause furrows such as we usually term Coney-burrows and the part wil contract a callousness or thick insensible brawniness and it wil become so hard that it can by no manner of means be agglutinated and united again unto the parts lying underneath which Malady is after this called a Fistula For a Fistula is a Sinus nook or furrow narrow and long or a Sinuous ulcer that is for the most part narrow and callous and thereupon such as wil hardly admit of any Cure The Causes But now these Fistula's for the most part have their original from Impostumes For these either by reason of the impurity of the body or the too great abundance of naughty humors if they be permitted long to continue or else if by the unskilfulness of the Physitian they shal be over long delayed and not wel cured the Pus then causing the aforesaid Coney-furrows they wil at length become very deep and withal callous and of an insensible brawny hardness The Differences There is moreover of Fistula's very great variety and diversity For of these some are profound and deep others of them straight and others lie transversly and overthwart the flesh again some of them are simple single and alone but others of them taking their rise and beginning from one and the same orifice are double or even likewise threefold or oftentimes they have very many Sinu's or hollow nooks and lastly some of them tend unto and terminate in a Bone others tend unto a Nervous part and a third sort of them â—ven unto the Veins or Arteries Signs Diagnostick But now these Fistula's in the general are known especially by the Probe or Instrument that is conveyed into the Sinus to discover the depth thereof which how it tendeth and passeth along and how deeply it penetrateth it easily seen and discerned And withal when the searching Instrument is drawn forth we may then easily learn whether the Fistula be moist or whether it be dry But if it be oblique so that the Instrument cannot pass along in a direct and straight manner we then are wont to put in a little long plummet of Lead or rather which is much the better a Wax Candle that may be turned about any way And moreover that flesh that lieth round the Fistula appeareth to be white dry hard and without pain or else if there be any pain it is very little and moderate unless haply it be neer unto a Nerve and the Pus that issueth forth is crude and raw and somtimes likewise very stinking loathsom But now whether or no there be one or more of these Sinus's this is altogether to be discovered by the Probe or searching Instrument which the Pus likewise that is now and then sent forth wil sufficiently evidence For if there flow forth more Pus then what probably can be contained and generated in one only Sinus or hollow Nook or if when the sick Person removeth and changeth his seat that Pus that before was stopped shal begin again to flow forth this may be a sure and certain sign and token that there are here present more then one of the Sinus's and that the Fistula penetrateth very deep But if there are more orifices of the Fistula then we cannot so easily discover by the Instrument whether there be one only Fistula or more but then by a Syringe Pipe or Squirt liquor is to be injected by one orifice the which liquor if it flow forth again by all the orifices then it is al but one Fistula but if it issueth not forth at all the orifices then there are more Fistula's then one And this is likewise discovered by the colour of that that issueth forth for if that humidity that floweth forth by all the orifices be of one and the same colour it is then a sign that the Fistula is but one but if it be of a different colour it is then an argument that there are more Fistula's then one But how far the Fistula's reach and in what part they end
Mortification the Radical humidity being consumed and the Native heat dissipated ariseth from thence ulcers hard to cure are likewise from thence excited the motion of the part is abolished and there are filthy and deformed Cicatrices left remaining 2. Burning by Lightening is likewise very dangerous and for the most part deadly 3. By how much the purer the Body is by so much the more easily is the burning cured But if the Body be either Plethorick or Cacochymical then from the pain and heat there is very easily caused an afflux of the humors and from thence Inflammations putrid ulcers and other evils are excited 4. The Burning is likewise somtimes more and somtimes less dangerous according to the Nature and condition of the parts affected For if there be but only one part burnt there is then less danger than if many parts or the whol body be burnt For when many parts or the whol body be burnt it is very rare that the persons thus burnt should ever be perfectly wel and sound but most commonly they die miserably by the very vehemency of the Symptoms 5. If the burning be so deep that it reach even unto the greater Veins Arteries and Nerves it is then dangerous For when the exsiccated Vessels are contracted and shut up the blood and the spirit cannot then flow unto the affected part from whence there is caused an Atrophy a Gangrene and a deprivation of sense and motion 6. The burnings of the Abdomen are not cured without much difficulty for the Skin is there softer and those Muscles by reason of their various motions are variously extended and contracted 7. If the burning reach even unto the Intestines it is then deadly 8. The burning likewise of the Groyns is very dangerous since that those places are moist and therefore the more fit to receive the afflux of humors 9. The burnings of the Eyes are also dangerous For although they be but light yet notwithstanding they may produce either a stark blindness or a deprivation of the sight or at least a dimmution thereof 10. If the hairy parts be ever a whit grievously burnt they alwaies continue smooth and slick for hairs are never generated in that hard Cicatrice that is brought over the affected part The Cure Indeed some there are that from the ordinary and wel known Axiom of Physitians viz. That Contraries are the Remedies of Contraries are of opinion that such Members as are burnt ought so be cooled and therefore they think that unto those parts that are burnt there must Coolers be immediately applied But this their opinion hath its original from that vulgar but false Conceit viz. That the burning is only an alteration and the introducing of a hot quality whenas notwithstanding the very fire it self and likewise its Atomes are communicated unto the part that is burnt and an Empyreuma as al of them are forced to confess is produced for what indeed else is this Empyreuma which al of them tel us ought to be called forth then the smal parts or particles of the very fire that have penetrated themselves into the burnt part and Experience it self teacheth us That cold things wil not cure burnings but that on the contrary by the said Coolers the fiery particles being thereby thrust down much lower the pain is wonderfully augmented and inflammations yea and the Gangrene it self and the Sphacelus excited but that such things as are hot and that cal forth the Empyreuma are very helpful from whence likewise it is as we al wel know that the burnt parts are not to be plunged into cold water but rather to be put somwhat neer unto the fire Which although that Platerus seem to find fault therewith yet use hath tâ—ught even the very vulgar the truth of this and Aristotle long since took notice hereof as appeareth in his Sect. 2. Problem 56. Neither are those things that are applied hot applied in the nature of Anodynes since that al Anodynes wil not do it as by and by in the Cure it wil appear but only those of them which have virtue and power in them of calling forth the Empyreuma But now similitude and likeness begetteth attraction and the external fire calleth forth the incrinsecal fire that is to say that very fire that it self conveyed into the burnt part as Ambrose Parry tels us very truly in his Book 11. Chap. 9. In the Cure therefore of Burnings let the first care be to cal forth the Empyreuma to wit in the same manner like as we have told you in Part 1. Chap. 15. touching Kibes that the cooled parts are not rightly cured if they be put neer unto the fire or plunged into hot water since that hence the pain becometh so much the more intense and vehement yea and that oftentimes a Gangrene and Sphacelus are excited but if they be first rubbed with Snow or dipt into cold water then the cold is drawn forth so if the Empyreuma be called forth by those things that are hot which is done by means of the similitude or likeness then this Malady is soon taken away Which that it may be rightly done the Cure is to be instituted and ordered according to the degrees of the Burning above propounded First of al therefore if the Burning be but light The Cure of a light burning we must prevent what we can the breeding and arising of Pustules or blisters for if this be done the sick person is then already freed from al the evil of the burning But now this is to be speedily done and therefore whatsoever Medicament we have ready at hand we must forthwith make use thereof and therefore the Member if the nature and condition thereof wil so bear it is to be put a little neer unto the fire or else deeply plunged into hot water or else fomented with a Spunge or a Linen cloth doubled and then wel soaked in warm water that so the Empyreuma by reason of the likeness may be extracted or else immediately a Linen cloth dyed in Varnish is to be imposed upon the burnt Member or a Linen cloth wel wetted in the Ley or water in which unslaked Lime hath been extinguished And then presently Onions bruised in a Mortar with Salt are to be laid upon the burnt part or else this Unguent Viz. Take of a raw Onion one ounce and half Salt Venice Sope of each half an ounce mingle them in a Mortar pouring in unto them as much of the Oyl of Roses as wil suffice and make an Vnguent Or Take Venice Sope three ounces raw Onion one ounce Salt six drams the Oyl of Eggs half an ounce Oyl of Roses and sweet Almonds of each one ounce and half the Mucilage of Quince seeds one ounce mingle them and make an Vnguent Or Take the green Rind of the Elder tree or the first shoots of the Elder let them he wel bruised and then boyled in Butter that is new and unsalted and then strain them Or Take Vnslaked Lime
this Take of this Water two parts and of the former Vinegar one part and mingle them Or Take the Citron Vnguent new made three ounces of sweet Almonds throughly bruised and Bean meal of each one dram the bone of the Sepia fish Harts horn and Barley meal of each two drams let them be incorporated with Honey and then wel mingled together Or Take the fresh flowers of Beans as many as you think fit pour unto them a sufficient quantity of Goats Milk let them stand infusing a day and a night Afterwards let them be strained and squeezed hard and into the straining let new flowers be thrown in and so let them stand infusing again for the space of a day and a night and then let them be strained this must be five times repeated And then add of the soft pith of new Bread as much as wil suffice that it may be made like unto a Pultise and then adding thereto a little Goats Milk destil them With this Water let the Face be washed in the morning and evening There are certain things likewise very usefull that shall be propounded in the following Chapter Chap. 4. Of Cosmetical or Beautifying Medicaments BUt yet although we have hitherto in the precedent Chapters spoken touching the taking away of divers of these Skin-spots Women notwithstanding that study little else but their beauty are not herewith contented but they restlessly pursue after those things that procure unto their Faces a lustre and amiableness For their sakes therefore we wil add somthing also even of these Cosmetick or beautifying Medicaments Now these Medicaments are of two sorts some of them do only mend the obsolete dark and blackish colour of the Face and render the Skin somewhat more bright and cleer and these are by no means to be disallowed of since that they only restore unto Man or Woman that beauty which either by the injury of the Air or by any other Cause they have lost and been deprived of and withall do truly and really produce a fair and stable colour and these are called Cosmetick or be beautifying Medicaments but others there are that are only Palliative and these we call Face-sucusses because that unto the Natural colour there is likewise added an adventitious and acquired white or red colour and this is so painted on that continueth if for a while and but for a while only and deceiveth the Eyes of the Beholders We shal speak of the former sort of Medicaments alone But as for the latter sort of these Medicaments in regard that we judge it neither honest nor pious to make use of them we wil therefore say nothing at all of them but pass them over in silence But now as for what concerneth the former of these Medicaments it seemeth altogether a thing unreasonable to reject them in regard that they bring over the Face no Fucus or counterfeit painted beauty but they only restore the Natural whiteness of the body lost upon any Cause whatsoever And this is more especially allowed unto Women who because that they are in Wisdom strength of Body Fortitude and in some certain other things much inferior unto Men therefore in stead of these as the Poet Anacreon tels us Nature on Women doth bestow A Comely form and Beauteous hiew Instead of Lances Targets Shields Their Face a fair bright lustre yields Which puts on Women such a Grace That Fire and Sword to them give place And Plato in his Phaedrus saith That of all things whatsoever Beauty is the most excellent and Amiable and there he calleth a Beautifull Face a Divine Face that is to say a Face shining forth by reason of a kind form that is put upon it But the other is altogether to be rejected by Women and Sr. Cyprian writeth very truly in these words of his in his second Tract of the Habit of Virgins We ought not only saith he to admonish Virgins or Widows but I conceive that even Married Women and all others whatsoever in general are to be admonished that the Handiwork and Image of God ought by no means to be adulterated by adding thereto any yellow color or any black Powder or any kind of redness or in a word any other Medicine that corrupteth the Native Lineaments And a little after They lay wicked hands saith he upon the Work of God when as they go about to transfigure and reform that which he himself hath formed as not knowing that all whatsoever is made and wrought is the work of God but whatsoever is Changed is the work of the Devil Now the Medicaments of the former sort are such as almost all of them do very much scout and cleanse by separating from the Skin that Juyce that deformeth the same with this brown and duskish color and by alluring thereto a new Juyce that may procure unto it a bright and beautiful color Unto which there are somtimes added likewise certain Emollients which have in them a power to soften the Skin when it is hard thick and rough they also make it smoother and more especially they cause an extraordinary softness in the Hands Milk wil satisfie both these scopes and especially Asses Milk and Goats Milk Which Poppaea the Wife of the Emperor Nero being not ignorant of a Woman extreamly proud and luxurious she cause a five hundred Milch Asses alwaies to attend her whithersoever she went and in a great Tub made purposely for her to bathe in she washed her whole body in the said Milk that so it might be all over freed from wrinkles made tender and delicate and preserved white as Pliny relateth the story in his eleventh Book Chap. 41. and Book 28. Chap. 12. Cleansers are these the Roots of the greater Dragon-wort Solomons Seal great Figwort wild Cucumber white Lilies the Elder bitter Almonds Pines the four greater cold Seeds French or Kidney Beans Rice Bean meal the Meal of Cicers of Lupines Starch the White of an Egg Milk Camphyre Salt Oyl of Tartar Frankincense Myrrh the Crumbs of white Bread the Oyly Nut Ben. Of the Roots of Dragon-wort there is a certain Gersa made which is nothing else but the Dregs or Lees thereof as they commonly cal them And so also there may in the like manner be prepared such a like Faecula or Gersa out of the Roots of Solomons Seal and great Figwort And out of the Oyly Nut Ben commonly called Balanus Myrepsica there is an Oyl pressed forth that is called the Oyl of Been And likewise out of divers of these simples together that erewhile we mentioned there are made many destilled Waters and divers Compositions As Take Root of Solomons Seal Dragon-wort great Figwort of each one ounce and half of the Flowerdeluce one ounce of Bean flower two ounces Mastick one ounce Borax two drams let them be destilled Take the soft Crumb of White Bread three pound thereof the Whites of Eggs wel shaken together twelve in number Goats Milk two quarts let them be destilled Or Take
else with a Swans bill or Storks bill or some other dilating instruments to the end that the weapon may be drawnforth the more easily But then the weapon is to be drawn forth either with the Hands if that may conveniently be done as when it standeth out and is fastned in the flesh alone or else with that instrument they cal Volsella when it sticketh deeper then that we may well lay Hands upon it or with those other instruments that the Greeks call Beloulca of which sort are the long Cisers that are ful of Teeth straight or a little Crooked broad in their extream part and likewise round unto which the Chirurgeons of latter times have given divers names from their several Figures and they call them Crows Bills Storks Bills Ducks Bills and Goose Bills several Figures whereof we find extant in Ambrose Parry his tenth B. and 18. Chap. and likewise in Johan-Andreas a Cruce But if the weapons point hath penetrated further then unto the middle part of the Member and that the space and distance by which the weapon is to be drawn back be greater then that which yet remaineth to be passed through and that neither Bone nor Nerve nor Vein nor Artery any way hinder it it will then be more commodious a Section being made to drive the weapon forward by that part toward which it tendeth and so to draw it forth by a wound new made For in this manner it will be drawn out more easily and the wound will the sooner be cured in regard that now the Medicaments may on both sides be applied But yet nevertheless if the Weapon be too broad it will not then be expedient to drawn it forth through the other part lest that we add unto the great Wound it self another likewise as great And if also the Weapon be thrust in between two bones the Members lying next unto them are to be widened according to the usual manner and drawn several waies that so the space betwixt the bones may be the looser and wider for the pulling forth of the Weapon thrust in between them But if some smal piece of a Bone or a Thorn or Splinter or any such like stick in the Wound that can neither be drawn forth with the hands nor any instrument it is then to be extracted by those Medicaments that have in them a power and virture to draw forth And for this purpose there are commended by Dioscorides What Medicaments they are that draw forth those things that stick in a Wound in his 2 B. and 58. Chap. those things that follow to wit the Heads of Lizards bruised smal and imposed thereon Water Pimpernel or Brook-Lime Dittany of Crete the Roots of round Aristolochy or Birth-wort Anemony or Wind-flower the Root of Narcissus of Gladiol or Cornflagge and of the Reed Sagapenum Galbanum Ammoniacum Pitch Pine-rosin and the like administred in the form of an Emplaster There is also commended the Emplaster of Avicen that is Compounded of Leaven Honey or the Propolis as they cal it of Bee-hives of each half a pound Bird-Lime three ounces Ammoniacum two ounces the oldest Oyl three ounces And so is likewise the Unguent of Betony and the fat of an Hare Or Take New Wax one pound Colophony and yellow Rosin of each four ounces Ammoniacum two ounces Bdellium one ounce the Juyce of Citrons three ounces the Oyl of Yelks of Eggs four ounces of the Load-stone five ounces And make an Emplaster according to Art Or Take Virgins Wax four ounces Turpentine two ounces the Loud-stone one ounce and half Hulled Beans one ounce Harts Fat half an ounce And make an Emplaster according to Art Or Take Rosin of the Pine-Tree two ounces dry Pitch one ounce Ammoniacum Sagapenum Gum Elemi of each half an ounce Râ—ot of round Aristolochy and of white Dittany of each one dram and half Cretan Dittany three drams old Oyl or the Feces of the Oyl of white Lillies as much as will suffice And make a Cerot Or Take Oyl of Olives one pound and half new Wax one pound let them melt together and then add Litharge of Gold one pound and half then boyl them after this adding and mingling therewith of Galbanum and Opopanax of each one ounce Ammoniacum and Bdellium of each two ounces Let these Gums be dissolved in Vinegar and then add of the Root of round Aristolochy Mastick Mirrh Frankincense and Lapis Calaminaris of each two ounces and in the Conclusion boyl them all together with a soft and gentle fire adding thereunto in the latter end of the boyling Oyl of Baies and Oyl of Turpentine of each four ounces and stir them wel together during the boyling then pass them through a Linen Cloath into cold water and then softening all with the Oyl of Camomile or Turpentine Make an Emplaster Or Take Narcissus Onyons two of them Reed Root one ounce Gladiol Root half an ounce Mullein leaves one handful rotten Doves dung one ounce wild Cucumber Root and the Root of Round Aristolochy and of white Dittany Root of each three drams Cretan Dittany half an ounce the meal of the bitter vetch Orobus a little quantity thereof Honey as much as will serve the turn And make an Emplaster Or Take Wax and Turpentine of each six ounces Colophony Ship-Pitch of each one ounce Ceruss Roman vitriol of each four ounces Lap. Haematites or the Blood-stone and the Load-stone of each two drams Mastick half an ounce Frankincense Camphire Mummy Dragons Blood of each one ounce Oyl of Juniper one ounce and half Oyl of Eggs six drams Oyl of Cloves two drams of Saint Johns-wort half an ounce of Earth-worms an ounce And make an Emplaster Touching the drawing forth of the Weapons out of Wounds you may see more in Cels his 7. B. Ch. 5. and in Paulus Aegineta his 6. B. and 38. Chap. But if by no artificial means the Weapon or whatsoever else it be of any thing Extraneous cannot be drawn forth of the Wound the whole business is then to be committed unto Nature which oftentimes in this kind worketh wonders as it were and expelleth those preternatural things that are thrust into the Body by any waies whatsoever where there is any possibility of the truth whereof we every where meet with Histories to confirm it Hippocrates as he tels us 5. Epidem in one that had an arrow shot within his Groins took forth the Head thereof six yeers after And Guilhelm Fabricius for one that had a knife run into the Spina Dorsi or Back-bone drew it forth two years after as he telleth us in his first Cent. Observat 62. The like whereunto and a thing very Memorable happened here at Witteberg For a certain Student being wounded with a knife even to the Root of his Nose and the internal Angle of his right Eye half of the knife being by violence broken almost as long as ones Finger stuck there firmly fixed in the bone which when neither the Physitian nor Chirurgeon took
destilled by a gentle fire and there wil come forth a cleer water and a little after there wil follow a reddish oyl then augment the fire ever and anon more and more increasing it unto the end of the destillation This being done separate the oyl from the Water and keep them both assunder This water in a short time will become of a reddish colour and the oyl wil be of the color of a Rubie This oyl is exceeding good for Wounds but especially the Wounds of the Nervous parts of the bones and of the Veins for it Consolidates speedily and without pain Another Take Earth-worms as many of them as you think fit put them into a Vessel filled up with the Moss of the wild Sloe-Tree to the end that creeping through the Moss they may be purged from their filth add likewise unto them the yelks of Eggs hard boyled and sliced that they may serve them for food Of these Earth-worms thus prepared take one pound and let them be well bruised in Mortar and then add Oyl of Roses one pinte boyl them and afterwards strain them and unto the straining add of Mastick and Myrrh of each two drams the Root of Orace and Sarcocol of each six drams Turpentine and Honey of Roses an ounce and half Mingle them Or Take Oyl of Olives one pinte Turpentine three ounces flowers of St. Johns-wort Mullein of each a sufficient quantity that there may be a Masse made unto which pour of the best white Wine a measure and a half and boyl them til the Wine be consumed Let the species be afterwards put in the Sun for two months that so there may be made an Oyl or a Balsam Or Take Roots of the greater Consound as much as you please thereof put them in a new Pot and pour in of the Oyl of Olives unto a good heighth boyl them and press forth the Liquor the Juyce thus pressed forth boyl it again so long until there be none of the Wateriness left remaining and then afterwards Take Of this Oyl three parts Oyl of Turpentine one part Flowers of St. John wort and of the greater Celandine of each as much as will suffice let them be mingled and melted together and so put into a Glass Flagon and so let them stand for fourty daies in horse dung and then you shall have a Balsam which you are to instill Warm into the Wound Or Take Oyl Olive a pinte and half St. John-wort Betony Prunella or Self-heal Centaury of each one handful let the Herbs be bruised together and with the Oyl let them be shut up in the Glass Vessel and then set them in the heat of the Sun for the space of fourty daies there to digest and afterwards press forth the liquor which you may reserve for use The following Oyl as Hieronymus Fabricius tels us is in Spain very much commended for all Wounds of the Nervous parts Take Of the oldest Oyl three ounces pure Turpentine eight ounces whole Wheat one ounce and half Seed of St. Johns wort two ounces Roots of Carduus Benedict and Valerian of each one ounce Frankincense powdered two ounces let the Roots and Herbs be bruised in a gross manner and put into a Pot and then pour in so much white Wine that all may swim in the Wine or at least be covered therwith and after two daies infusing let the Oyl and the Wheat be added and then boyl them all until the wine be wasted away and presently after having first strongly pressed forth the Liquor add the Turpentine and Frankincense then let them be again a little boyled and kept for use in a Glass Vessel The manner of using it is thus The Wound being first washed with cold white Wine the whole Wound is then forthwith to be anoynted with the Oyl aforesaid a little warm but if this cannot conveniently be done it is then with a Pipe or Funnel to be conveied within the Wound and immediatly the Lips of the Wound are to be brought together so close that they may touch either by a Ligature or by sewing or by Gluing And then the parts that lie round about are likewise to be anointed with the aforesaid Oyl Upon the Lips of the Wound now drawn together you are to lay on a Linen Cloth wet in the aforesaid Oyl and above upon this another wet in black Wine and then wrung dry and then upon this another dry Linen Cloth and then Lastly upon al the Swathe is to be rolled about and fastened That Oyl likewise which they cal the Oyl of Hispana is much commended The Oyl of Hispana and it is thus to be prepared and made Take Old Oyl of Olive four pound Oyl of Turpentine two pound Frankincense one pound Valerian St. Johns-wort Carduus Benedict of each half a pound Elect and Choice Myrrh one ounce Cutchioneal four ounces new Rosin of the Pine three ounces Malmesey three pintes Let the Valerian be gathered in the month of May and cast away the Roots The St. Johns-wort may be gathered in the month of July with the Flowers and Seeds The Herbs therefore being broken with the Hands and a little bruised in a Mortar let them be infused in the Malmsey and put into an Earthen Pot covered over with Glass of which said Pot let the third part remain empty of all those things aforesaid that are put into it for four hours In the next place let the Cutcheoneal a little broken in a Mortar together with the Oyl be put upon the rest and so without any Covering let them boyl by a gentle Fire until the Wine be well nigh wasted and here great care must be taken that the Herbs be not burnt in the boyling After this let it be taken from the fire and while it is yet scalding hot let the Herbs be pressed and squeezed very hard in a bag first soaked in Malmsey And then let the Vessel in which the boyling was be carefully cleaned and yet nevertheless it will not be altogether dried for there will still be left some of the Wine sticking to the sides and in the same Vessel let the Oyl be again put to the Fire with the Oyl of Turpentine or that that sweats forth of the Fir-Tree and so soon as ever it begins to boyl let the Mirrh bruised and beaten very smal be added and melted in a Mortar with a little of the Oyl that is in the Vessel over the Fire Let Rosin in like manner be added melted with the same Oyl yet nevertheless it must be first strained through a strainer and then add the Frankincense being very finely powdered let al the other things be in the most exact and curious manner mingled together and when they have boyled a little let the Vessel be taken from the Fire and when they are grown cold let it be kept in a Glass Vessel without any straining at al and so let it be set abroad in the Sun for fifteen or twenty daies Caesar Magatus commendeth
Mindererus Take Turpentine of Cyprus oyl of St. Johns wort of each as much as you think good let them be melted together melt likewise by it self of Gum Elemi a sufficient quantity unto a Just consistence and let it be added unto the rest When they are almost cold add a little of the destilled oyl of Wax and Mingle them Henricus ab Heer in his Physical observations Observat 10. highly commendeth this Balsam Take the flowers of Thapsus or scorching fenel The Balsam of Henricus ab Heer for Wounds and Ulcers St. Johns Wort the leaves of Prunella or Selfheal of each one handful boyl them in the oyl of the seed of St. Johns wort pressed forth and old red Wine of each alike untill the wine be altogether consumed that is untill that a drop of the liquor cast into the fire take the flame without any noyse at all and so keep it for use If you please you may often macerate the same flowers and after you have set them in the Sun for fourty daies or kept them hot upon the fire you may again press forth the liquor which the oftener that you do it the more efficacious you shall find the oyl add if you think fit the Stone called Calaminaris made hot and quenched first seven times in wine and then making it red hot quench it in this oyl And yet notwithstanding in the use of Balsams especially if they be hot there is great caution required as Guilhelm Fabricius likewise acquaints us in his third cent observat 97. not only because that the lips of the wound being over soon conglutinated the Pus that is afterward generated is kept within and so exciteth grievous symptoms but likewise because that those kind of Balsams are not alike and equally convenient for the temperament of all the parts Emplasters The Emplaster of Franciscus Arcaeus is of singular use As Take Oyl of Roses of Violets and of Camomile of each one ounce the soft fat of a Hen the marrow of leggs of Veal of each half an ounce Earthworms washed in Wine one ounce New fresh butter six drams the Mucillage of Marshmallows half a pound Boyl them all unto the consumption of the mucillage and then strain them unto the straining add Litharge two ounces and half vermilion three ounces with a sufficient quantity of white wax make a Cerote adding of Turpentine ten drams Mastick half an ounce or Take the new drawn Juice of Betony Agrimony Sanicle Ladies Mantle Saracen consound of each half an ounce White wax and Goats sewet of each half a pound the best Rosin one pound boyl them and in the end add Mastick one ounce and make an Emplaster or Take Wax Rosin Pitch Vitriol White Frankincense of each four ounces Turpentine six ounces red Myrrh oyl of Juniper and oyl of Eggs of each two drams Camphire one dram and half make an Emplaster adding oyl of Roses as much as wil suffice or Take New Wax and Rosin of each one pound Goats sewet Hoggs fat of each three ounces Turpentine two ounces Vinegar three ounces and make an Emplaster or Take Litharge of Silver oyl of Roses of each half a pound Mucilage of Linseed and of Orace Roots of each two ounces Boyl them unto a Just Consistence and afterwards add Frankincense and Mastick of each one ounce Wax and Turpentine of each two ounces and so make an Emplaster or Take Wax three ounces Rosin and Pitch of each two ounces of White Frankincense Vitriol Ceruss of each four ounces oyl of Juniper berries oyl of Eggs of each two ounces Champhire a dram and half Turpentine half a pound Make an Emplaster The following Emplasters are chiefly useful for Prickings Take Oyl Olive two ounces Rosin Bears fat Goats sewet and Bulls Sewet of each one ounce and half the fat of a Cow-heel three ounces and half May butter six ounces Litharge of Silver one pound the scales of Brass one ounce and half Mastick one ounce New wax or the oyl of the same four ounces and make an Emplaster according to art Raimundus Mindererus likewise most highly commendeth his own Emplaster which he calleth Emplastrum opoteldoch magnum Colcotharnum the description wherof as we find it extant in his Tract of Calcanthum Chapt. 7. is as followeth of which he writeth that it is the best of al that are known for the healing of new wounds and the drawing forth of things extraneous that are fixed in the wound and so likewise in stinking and putrid ulcers Viz. Take of the newest and Cleanest Wax one pound Cleer Turpentine or if you had rather Cyprus or Venice Turpentine six ounces Gum Elemi three ounces oyl of St. Johns wort oyl of Myrrh of each one ounce and half let them melt all together and as so soon as they begin to run abroad add unto them these things following of the purest and cleanest Gum Ammoniack Galbanum Opopanax of each three drams Colophony six drams Choice Mummy white and transparent Amber of each two drams White Frankincense Mastick purified Dragons Blood Sarcocol purged from its excrements of each one dram and half Aloes Hepatick half a dram Myrrh one dram let the Gums be dissolved in vinegar and let them be joyned together in a fit manner and according to art stirring them ever and anon and when they appear to be almost cold then by degrees warily cast in of the Loadstone prepared six drams Crocus Martis according to art prepared without a corrosive and Tutty prepared of each one ounce Lapis Calaminaris prepared five ounces Litharage of Gold one ounce Colcothar sweetened or the Earth of Vitriol mortifyed and dulcified two ounces let them be according to art reduced into an Emplaster which when it is cold wil grow to be very hard The use thereof is thus It is over live coals to be tampered with the fingers until it become soft and then apart of it is to be spread abroad like a Cake and with it the wound is to be covered al over and dayly let it be twice again wiped and made clean and Malaxed and so again let it be put upon the Wound and thus with one smal part thereof more wounds then one may be healed And then in the Conclusion the wound is to be shut up with a Cicatrice but in what manner the sayd Cicatrice is to be brought over the Wound we have shewn you before Epuloticks in the second part about the end thereof and Certain Playsters likewise made of those things that we but even now mentioned may also bring a Cicatrice over the Wound when they have first throughly healed the same Very useful also are those Emplasters that are commended by Franciscus Arcaeus in his second Book and fifth Chapter to wit the Leonine Emplaster and the black The Leonine is thus described Take Ceruss three ounces oyl of Roses half a pound the Basilique Unguent one ounce let them boyl together over a gentle fire stirring them all the while with
is inserted is taken away And so likewise if the Tendon be wholly dissected the motion of the Member is taken away Prognosticks 1. If the Nerve be Wounded in the length thereof then there is no great fear of a Convulsion seeing that the fibres are not so much affected but if it be wounded transversly and yet not wholly cut in two it may indeed bring upon the person all those symptoms to wit pains inflammations a Convulsion and Deliryes or Dotings which the pricking of the Nerve doth because that from the fibres that are cut assunder the pain and hurt is communicated unto those fibres that are not dissected and divided and from hence proceed pains fluxions inflammations and other evils and at length the Malady is communicated unto the brain it self from whence there arise Convulsion fits and Deliryes 2. But if the Nerve be wholly dissected it doth not indeed bring along with it so much danger neither is there any fear of a Convulsion but yet nevertheless there is another incurable Malady that followeth it to wit a debility both in sense and motion of that part into which the Nerve is inserted whenas the animal spirit can no longer be carried by the Nerve into the said part 3. If any Tendon shall be wounded but not wholly dissected it causeth a debility of motion in that part that it moveth but if it be altogether cut assunder then the motion of the said part is altogether abolished and taken away 4. If there flow forth great store of Sanies or thin excrement it is then a sign and token of that ill constituion of the part affected and that it is inflamed and altogether in great danger Now this Sanies floweth forth according to the various disposition of the part affected sometime resembling as it were water and somtimes like whey of milk and somtimes as it were white and milkie but that which floweth forth of the Tendons is more glutinous like unto the white of an Egge And I wel remember that in a certain Student there issued forth of his knee that was much wounded day by day a certain matter like unto the white of an Egg but that it was somwhat whiter and a little thicker and yet nevertheless altogether such as Celsus describeth in his fifth Book and Chapt 26. which he calleth Meliceria because that it is like unto white honey which flowed forth in that abundance that an Eggshel could scarcely contain it The Cure The way and Method of Curing these Wounds is in the most the very same indeed with that which we mentioned in the foregoing Chapter yet notwithstanding there are some things that are peculiarly to be attended As first of all those Nerves that are wounded by a downright cut are most commonly left naked and bare of any skin to cover them and therefore we are to use our best endeavor that they may not be exposed unto the external Air in regard that the external cold Air as we have often told you is an enemy unto the Nerves And therfore we are to do the utmost of our indeavor that as much as possibly may be they may be covered with their own proper covering and the skin that lieth upon it and therefore if the Nerve be wounded according unto its length then with a swath the lipps of the Wound are to be drawn together and conjoyned but if the Wound be transverse and that necessity so require there is then a suture or sewing of the lips to be attempted and yet great care must be taken and all diligence used that if the suture or stiching be wrought with the needle which yet notwithstanding may easily be avoyded as we told yon before the Nerve it self be not touched with the Needle For if in the sewing it should chance to be prickt the very same symptoms may happen that are otherwise wont to arise in the pricking of the Nerves And yet nevertheless the wound is so to be drawn together that there may still stand open a free passage forth for the Sanies which if need so require may be done with a Tent lest that if the said Sanies be retained and kept in it should corrupt and putrify the nerve The nerves also when they are wounded will not bear those stronger biting Medicaments of Euphorbium and the like And therefore in such kind of Wounds as these Galen was wont to use a Medicament of quick or unslaked Lime often washed with much oyl of roses mingled therwith as also that Medicament of Pompholyx if it be mingled with good store of oyl of Roses But those Medicaments that have been found out by those of latter times are safest of all other of which we have already made mention in the Chapter immediatly foregoing But then the Wound it self may be externally covered with the Emplaster Diachalcites or Diapalma or the Nerve Emplaster or any other that shal be known to be sit and convenient Galen in his third Book of the Composit of Medicaments according to their kinds the third Chapt. propoundeth and mentioneth these kind of Emplasters and there are many likewise of them extant in the writings of the latter Physitians of which we have also in the former Chapt. 8 touching vulnerary Medicaments made mention and given you some of the Chief of them And this Unguent is also very good and useful which they usually term the Unguent for the Worms Take Centaury the less the lesser Plantain Hounds tongue Mouse-care the greater and lesser Consound the herb horse-taile and Milfoyl of each of these one handful of Earth-worms half a pound Common oyl one pound Wine one pint and half Vinegar four ounces Let them be al wel mashed and throughly mingled together and so let them stand fermenting for seven daies together And then after this adde thereto of the sewet of a Ram taken clean from the skin one pound ship pitch and Rosin of each one quart Gum Ammoniacum Galbanum Opopanax dissolved in Vinegar of each half a dram let them be all boyled together over a moderate and gentle fire until the wine and the Vinegar be all consumed and then let them be strayned And so soon at they shal be cold add of Turpentine one ounce and half of Frankincense Mastick Sarcocol of each three drams Saffron two drams let th m be wel stirred about with a Spatula or else with a Pestle in a Mortar and if it seem good to cause a Consistence Wax may also be added And whereas by reason of the Scarcity of natural heat in the Nerves there can hardly be made a good suppuration but rather a Putridness and Corruption of the humors a Cataplasm that may inhibite and resist the said putridness is to be imposed which wil likewise perform this good office to wit of defending the Nerve unto which cold is an Enemy from the Injuries of the External Air. This following is also very useful Bean Meal Barley Meal and the Meal of the Pulse Eâ—vum
that the party was wounded with a bullet shot forth of a Gun But now what parts they are that are Wounded this is to be discovered either by putting in the Probe or else it may be known from the very Scituation of the parts with the which Anatomy will acquaint us If the Nervous parts chance to be hurt this the pain will manifest But whether or no the wound be poysoned this is known by the Symptoms following thereupon to wit if the colour of the flesh be more Wan and Leaden-coloured then it was wont to be if there likewise happen an extraordinary heaviness and sluggishness of the whole Body if there be a trembling and palpitation of the heart Faintings and Swoundings and other such like Symptoms as these and that there be no other Cause appearing from which such Symptoms might proceed Which notwithstanding even the very consideration of the bullet if it be there present wil sufficiently teach us For if the bullet differ from all the other things in colour or in any thing else there is then great cause to suspect its being infected with poyson and this is confirmed if the bullet being put into a hot fire we take good notice whether or no there exhale from it any thing that is black and stinking or else whether the bullet it self being again cooled there stick any thing unto the outside of it and change its colour It is known that such a Wound as this will degenerate and turn into a Gangrene by the slow Maturation and generating of the Pus by the extinguishment of the fresh and flourishing colour of the part and its inclining unto a yellow and Leaden colour by the remitting of the pain without any apparent cause and by the ceasing of the beating and by the stupidity of the part and by other like signs of the Gangrene such as we have above shewn unto you in the second Part and 19. Chapter Prognosticks But now that we may not here again repeat those Prognosticks which they have in common with other Wounds and which we have declared unto you above in the third Chapter 1. All those Wounds since that they have Joyned with them an extraordinary and notable Contusion they are therefore far more dangerous then those Wounds that are inflicted with a Sword or Dart. And therefore as we may observe of these Wounds made with the Sword as to instance the Wounds inflicted on the Belly Guts and Bladder many have been recovered but it is a very rare thing for any to be cured of those Wounds that are inflicted by Gun-shot 2. But although that those Wounds be far more dangerous then the wounds that are inflicted by the Sword yet notwithstanding we must not rashly forsake the Patient and give the Cure over seeing that even here Nature is likewise wont oftentimes to work miracles as in were and it hath been observed that very many of those that seemd to have been neer unto the Grave have yet nevertheless recovered and done well and Histories to this purpose we very frequently meet withal and they are well known and Guilhelmus Fabricius giveth us likewise a very notable Observation and a singular way of Curing these kinde of Wounds as we may finde it in the third B. of his Observations 3. If there be many and those the more noble parts that are wounded bruised and torn and especially if withal the Bones be any of them broken and impaired the Wound is then so much the more dangerous and the more difficult to Cure 4. And hitherto are to be referred those parts that can easily draw the principal parts into a consent with them such as are the Joynts as also the great Vessels wounded from which there arise not only Vapors but likewise vitious and corrupt Humors which being received and communicated unto the Heart do easily excite both Feavers and faintings and the Syncope yea and also the Fluxes Diarrhaea And this Ambrose Parry observed in Count Mâ—nsfield who as this Author relateth in his tenth B. and 12. Chap. and in his 16. B. and 49. Chap. having received a Wound in his left Arm out of it Nature sent forth by the Belly a Purulent and stinking Sanies or thin Excrement Yea and in other Wounds also it somtimes happeneth that both Blood and Sanies is emptied forth by siege that is by the Belly and likewise by the Bladder like as Ambrose Parry hath an instance and example of this thing in the alleadged 16. B. and 49. Chapter As I have also given you the like example in the second B. of our Practise Part 2. Chap. 16. Quest 5. where I likewise treated of the way by which this may be done 5. If such Wounds befal a Cacochymical Body they are much more dangerous then if they happen unto a sound Body from whence it is that in Armies in which Epidemical Diseases are wont to reign and rage most of those that are thus wounded die of their Wounds Yea and otherwise also in Camps those Wounds are dangerous and become more difficult to Cure in regard that the Air is for the most part infected with the Nastiness and Defilements of the Camp and that Souldiers for want of better food and fit wholesom drink for the most part use a very bad and corrupt Course of Diet eating any meats whatsoever that come next to hand and drinking filthy and corrupt waters 6. Those wounds wherein the bones are broken are far more dangerous and difficult to Cure then those without this Fracture of the bones 7. These kind of wounds if they be inflicted by a poysoned bullet they are indeed then greatly dangerous and for the most part Mortal and more especially if they penetrate unto the interior parts And yet oftentimes notwithstanding those wounds that are but smal to see to do yet kill and destroy the Patient The Cure These kind of Wounds have especially three indications The First is this the drawing forth of the bullet if it as yet stick in the part The Second is the converting of the battered and bruised flesh into Pus and the Third is that in common with al other Wounds to wit that the Wound be filled up with flesh and then at length shut up with a Cicatrice Of the drawing forth of the Bullets And First of all therefore the Bullets are to be drawn forth of the Wound and this is to be done either at the very first dressing or if it be not then fit to be done or that it cannot then be done we are then to do it at some other time during the Cure Now the bullets are wont to be drawn forth the same way they went in and likewise that way whither they tend for if the bullet shall penetrate very deep so that it be found to be neerer unto the opposite part and that through the Skin and the Flesh lying underneath it may be felt then the part being opened by an incision the bullet is by it to be
each two ounces and half Mastick one ounce Saffron one dram Wax half a pound Common Oyl one pound and half Make hereof an unguent according to Art Or Take the Juice new drawn of Ladies Mantle of Sanicle of Saracen Consound of each alike as much as you think good set them to the fire and then add of old Swines fat and May Butter of each alike as much as wil suffice and make an Vnguent Or Take White Rosin three ounces May Butter six ounces Juice of Ladies Mantile one ounce Sanicle Wintergreen of each an ounce and half Goats beard Oyl of Olive of each two ounces Let the Juices be first boyled with the Oyl until the moisture be consumed then add the Rosin and after that the Butter then let them be strained and stirred well together until they be cold Or. Take the Herb Wintergreen Adders tongue Sanicle Speedwell of each one ounce flowers of St. Johns Wort and Centaury the less of each six drams let them be cut very smal and shut up in a Glass bottle Add Oyl Olive one ounce the fat of a Hog three ounces unsalted Butter four ounces let them stand in a hot place or in Balneo Mariae for eight days afterwards boyl them till the humidity be consumed and then strain them after this add Turpentine one ounce Mastick Frankincense Myrrh of each half an ounce Aloes Hepatick one ounce and make an unguent The Unguent likewise of Caesar Magatus is very useful As Take our Oyl of St. Johns Wort one pound Wax washed in Balsam water three ounces Let them melt together in a narrow mouthed Glass vessell when they are melted ad unto them of our Balsam one pound Gum Elemi three ounces Balsam of Peru Tacamahaca Caranna of each two ounces all these Gums are to be dissolved severally and apart with our oyl of St. Johns Wort Ammoniacum and Galbanum in like manner dissolved of each half an ounce Myrrh Frankincense Aloes Gum hedera of each two drams the Roots of Consound Birthwort Bistort and Tormentil of each one dram and half Cretan Dittany three drams Water Germander two drams Mans fat prepared two ounces Swans fat one ounce mingle them and make an Vnguent and keep it carefully in a narrow mouthed vessel of Glass or Silver Oyls and Balsams natural as the Balsam of Tolu Balsams of Peru and the like and Artificial as Take Oyl of Bayes two ounces Mastick Olibanum Goats sewet of each one ounce and Mingle them or Take the yellow that is in the middle of red and white Roses and white Lilyes of each as much as wil suffice pour in unto them Oyl Olive a sufficient quantity and then set them in the Sun in a Glass close stopped for fourteen daies or Take Turpentine and Oyl of Bayes of each four ounces the Oyl of the yelks of Eggs two ounces Oyl of Roses half a pound mingle them and set them in the Sun until they shall have gotten a yellowish colour or Take Turpentine one pound Galbanum Gum Elemi Gum Hedera Frankincense Mastick Myrrh of each two ounces Aloes Xyloaloes Galangal Cloves Cinamom Nutmeg Cubebs of each one ounce Aqua vitae three ounces Let them be macerated together for a day and a night and afterward let them be twice destilled and keep that destilled oyl as a pretious Balsam Or Take the Liquor of the bladders of the Elm defecated and prepared one pint the best hony purified three ounces Juice of Tormentil of the greater Consound and of the mean Consound of each four ounces mingle them boyl them over a gentle fire to the consumption of the Juices and then ad the following powders Take Dragons Blood Oriental Bole-armenick Manna thuris Horse Tayl Mastick of each two drams Mingle them and make a very fine pouder and ad it unto those things above mentioned The preparation of the liquor of the Elm-bladders is thus in the moneth of May these kind of bladders are to be gathered before there breed any Worms in them and with this liquor a glass vial is to be filled up and stopt with a linen cloth after this a hole is to be made in the earth two or three hand breadths in heigth and in the bottom of the hole we are to put common salt three fingers high upon which the vial is to be placed and then the hole to be filled up with earth so that the vial appear not and so it is to stand for twenty five daies then the dreggs are to be separated from the cleer substance and that which is cleer is to be kept for use which if you put of it self alone unto the disjoyned parts it agglutinateth them Another Balsam Take Frankincense Myrrh Sarcocol Gum Junip Gum Arabick Gum hedera Gum Elemi Mastick Dragons blood Balsam of Peru Tacamahaca Caranna of each one ounce and half The tears or sweat of the Fir tree the liquor of the little leaves of the Elm of each one pinte Rosin of the pine half a pound Tormentil roots Roots of Bistort of Orace Birthwort Consound white Dittany of each half an ounce Juniper berries and Bay berries of each six drams spirit of the best wine three pints mingle them together and destill them and receive the water the spirit and the oyl severally and apart All of them are excellent good for the agglutinating of any Wound Another Balsam Take the oldest oyl you can get four ounces Venice Turpentine ten ounces and half whol Wheat two ounces St. Johns Wort two ounces and half the roots of Carduus Benedict and valerian of each ten drams the finest smal dust or pouder of Frankincense two ounces Hypocistis or the excrescence of Cystus half a dram Bolearmenick and Dragons blood of each half an ounce the ponder of Earth-Worms two drams the greater Consound one handful Horse Tail half a handful let the roots and herbs be bruised after a gross manner and then put up into a vessel and then pour in white Wine unto them and after they shall for a while be thus infused let the oyl and the wheat be added and all boyled unto the consumption of the Wine After this pressing and squeezing forth the Liquor with al your strength ad the powders and the Turpentine and then suffer it again to boyl a little and so keep it in a Glass vessel for your use Or Take Turpentine two pound Common oyl three pints Oyl of Bayes six ounces Oyl of Cinnamom two ounces Oyl of Euphorbium oyl of Cloves and oyl of Bay berryes Gum hedera Ammoniacum Sagapenum Opopanax Galbanum of each one ounce Frankincense Mastick of each two drams Let them be together destilled and make a Balsam for the Wounds of Nerves or Take Clear Turpentine two pound oyl of Linseed one pint Rosin of the Pine six ounces Frankincense Myrrh Aloes Mastick Sarcocol of each three ounces Mace Ligne Aloes of each two ounces Saffron half an ounce put al these into a Reâ—ort and first of al let them be