CHAPTER XII.

_Of glutinative Medicines._


That is the true cure of an ulcer which joins the mouth of it together.

That is a glutinative medicine, which couples together by drying and
binding, the sides of an ulcer before brought together.

These require a greater drying faculty than the former, not only to
consume what flows out, but what remains liquid in the flesh, for
liquid flesh is more subject to flow abroad than stick to together.

The time of using them, any body may know without teaching, viz. when
the ulcer is cleansed and filled with flesh, and such symptoms as
hinder are taken away.

For many times ulcers must be kept open that the sanies, or fords that
lie in them may be purged out, whereas of themselves they would heal
before.

Only beware, lest by too much binding you cause pain in tender parts.