Book VY.

Wind-flower, the Foor of Narciffus, of Gladiol or Cornflagge,and of the ‘Reed, Sagapenum ,G al- | banum, Ammoniacum, Pitch, Pine-rofin, and the like, adminiftred in the form of an Em- plafter.
There is alfo commended the Emplafter of Avicen, that isCompounded of Leaven, Honey,or the Propoliscas they cal it of Bee- hives, of each half a pound; Bird-Lime three ounces 3; Ammoniacum two ounces 5 che old- eft Oy| three ounces.
And fo is likewife the Unguent of Betony, | andthe fatofanHare. Ors,
Take New Wax, one pound; Colapbony, and yellore Rofin, of each four ounces; Am-| moniacum, treo ounces ; Bdellium, one ounce 5 the Fuyce of Citrons, tbree ounces 5 the Oyl of | Yelks of Eggs, four ounces 5 of the Load-ftone,
Of Prattical Phy fick.
eeainanenieier ume nn
Parti?
Take Wax,, and Turpentine, of each fix
ounces, Colopbony, Ship Pitch, of eucd ome ounce, Cerug, Roman vitriol, of each four ounces, Lap. Hematites, or the Blood-ftone,
and the Load-ftone,of each treo drams, Maftick, |
balf an ounces ‘Frankincenfe, Camplire, Mummy, Dragons Blood, of each one ounces Oyl of Funtper one ounce and balt 5 Oyl of Bove fix drams, Oylof Clovestwodrams 3 of Saint Fobns-wort, half an ounce; of Earth-worms anounce; And make an Emplaftcr,
Touching the drawing-forch of the Wea-*
pons auc of Wounds you may fee moré in Celf. his 7.B. Cb. 5. andin Pusalus Aigineta his 6. B. and 38. Chap.
Buc ifby no-artificial means the Weap a Cor whacioever elfeit be of any thing Exéra- neous) cannot be drawn forth of the Wound,
five ounces. And. make an Emplatter accor-| dingtoArr.. Or,
Take Virgins Wax four ounces 3. Turpen- tine two ounees, the Load-fhone one ounce and balf, Hulled Beans, one ounce; Harts Fat, balf aneunce; And make an Emplafter ac- cording to, Art, . Ory
Take Rofin. of tbe Pine-Tree, tro ounces 5 dry Pitch, ene ounces Ammoniacum, Sagape- num, Gum Elemt,.of each balf an ounce, Rrot of round Ariftolochy,. and of white Dittany, of | each one dram and balf x. Cretan Dittany three drams-; old. Oyl, or the Feces of the Oyl of white Lillies as much, as voill {uffice. And make a Ceror. Or,
Take Oyl.of Olives one pound and balf 5 new Wax,one pounds; let.them melt togetber 5and then add Litharge of Gold one pound.and balf = ther boy! them, after this adding and mingling there- | with, of Galbanum and,Opopanax, of each one
che whole butinefs is then co be commitred unco Nature; which oftentimes in this kiad worketh wonders, as it were; and expellech thofe preternactural things chac aré chruft in- tothe Body, by any wales whatfoever where
chere is any poflibiliry : of che cruch wheéren€ |
we every where meec wich Hiftories (0 con- firmic. ‘Hippocrates Cas he tels us, 5. Eps- dem.) in one thac had an arrow thot withia hisGcoins, took forth the Head thereof fix yeersaiter, And Guilbelm. Fabricius for one thar had a knife run into the Spii2 Dorfi or Back-bone,’ drew it forth two years afcer 5 as hetellethus, in his firft Cent. Obferwat. 62. The like whereunto (and achiny very Me- morabJe) happened here at Wittederg. a certain Student being wounded withia knife even rothe Root of his Nofe, and che inrer- nal Angle of his right Eye, nalf of the knife being by violence broken Calmoflt as long as
ounce 5 Aumoniacum and Bdellium, of each ixoo ounces : Let thefe Gums be diffolved m Vi- negar, and then add of the Root of round Ari- ftolochy,, Maftickh, Mirrb,. Frankincenfe, and Lapis Galaminaris, of each two ounces ;.and in the.Gonclufion.boyl them all together mith a foft and gentle fire, adding thereunto in tbe latter end of the boyling,.Oyl of Baiess and Oy! of Turpentine, -of each.four ounces and ftir them mel, together. during the boyling: then pag
ones Finger), ftuck there firmly fixed in che
bone: which when neither the Phylician nor Chirurgeon took any Notice of, neither he thac had given the wound would be knowa of any firch ching asthe breaking of the Knife, the wound was fpeedily contolidated, Ig happened notwithitanding, thac after a quar- ter of ayear, the fick perton fele a certain painin the uppes pare of his Palace, before the Colamella, and afterwards there was an
them througb..a- Linen. Cloath. into cold |\Ulcer. opened: and yet neverthelefs, neither
waser 5-,and then foftening all with the OyL of Camomile. or,Turpentine, .Make an Empla- fter, Or,
thedick perfon himfelf, nor che Chirurgeca thought any thing of the Kuife that lay hid
within, bu: haply they chought char this UL
Take Narciffis Onyons, two of them, Reed | cer chat was opened hadits original from che Root oneounce, :Gladiol Root balf an ounce, | rotcennefs of the bone wounded. Yer a little Muliein leaves one bandful; rotten Doves,dung,|afcer info happened, that behind che Calu- one ounce; wild. Cucumber Roots, and the Root| meilachere ftuck forth fome thing ofa black of Round Arifiolochy,..and of white Dittany | colour, which,cthey thoughtto be a-thiver of
Root, of each. tbree drams 5, Cretan Dittany | thé rotten bone,
But the fick perfon coming
balf an ounce, the meal of tbe bitter vetch Oro- | tome for advice, I commanded the Chirur=
bus, alittle quantity thereof, Honey asmuch as|geon that.with his inftrument he fhould’ And make an Emplafter. | fearch, to find whacit was; who immediacly
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that ic was the point of the knife that ftuck forth. And without queftion the edge of the Knife by its motion had opened thac afore- faid Ulcer before the Columella. Buc yer neverthelefs, although the Chirurgeon ar- tempted the drawing of it forth, ¢ the broa- der part of che Knife ftill fticking faft in the bones) the Knife do what he could was noc by any means to be drawn forth 5 but thac when al was done the whole buiinefs muft be committed unto Nature; by whofe affiftance it happened, that the Knife hung forth every day more then other. At length, when che
oinct of the Knife ftuck forth in the Jaws al- moft the length of a Fingers Joyne, and that the fick perfon manifeltly perceived fome
| fenfible motion thereof, (which before he
ted | - tisk | hadnotdone, in regardthac by degrees and NIL
infenfibly it daily conveyed it felf down-
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“)) fearing chat the Knife by teafon of the fharp-
nefs Of its point fhould makes ics way intorhe Bowels3 and therefore with the Chirurgeon comes running untome, to ask my advice. But then fuddenly the broken piece of ‘Knife being freed and fet at liberty by its own mo- tion, and falling more and more downward,
| the point thereof was laid hold on by the
Chirurgeon, and fo brought forth; and very lictle ic wanted from falling intothe Throac. And whereas (the bone being ¢aten through)
ahole was lefc in the upper parc Of ‘the Pa-
fate, which wasavery great impediment un+
‘) tohimin his fpeech,’ ( befides fie and con-
venietic Medicdaments,’ to cleanfe; and dry much) at lengrh J ordered him athin plate of
| ding Gilbelm.Fabriciws denieth it, fuppofing
| lefc fide is annexed untothe Reins) and rhac it was miraculoufly Cured. - But when after this ¢che Wound being covered all over with a Cicatrice) the fick perfon felce neer abotit the parc affected a fharp pricking pain, anda fwelling withal, ic fo happened, chat wher about the ¢nd of the year he had difpatched his affaires, and was returning homewards, inthe mid’ft of his Journey he was conftrai- nedto eafe'and empty his Belly, and chen ce= gether with his Excrements he voided, forth by the Belly the very point of che Sword that was thruftinto him. — But feeing chat now a- daies wounds aré more feldom inflitted by Atrows (thenin former times) therefore alfo in Our daies the Chirurgical Extra@ion of Arrows is very rarely required: but whereas now adaies moft W ounds are made with bul- lets from Guns,there is therfore a greater ne ceflicy ircumbent upon the Chirargeons of our times, that they extract and draw forch thofe Leaden Bullets chat from Guns ate thar and fenc into the Body; touching which I fhall fpeak furcher anon.
Chap. 6. Of the Provifion that i neceffarily to be made for the bine ding up of VVounds.
F inthe W bund there, be nothing fticking thac as extraneous and ofa different Na~ ture fromthe part affected; or if there ha- iming been fomeching fticking therein ie be
(drawn forth, we ought then to endeavour
| chac the ips of che wound may be joyned té-
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Gold, in rhe form of’ a fhield; Which in the! gether. Buc now fecing chat. for the right
back thereof had fomching {ticking forcth,and found asa Globe; this I cauifed to be provi- ded for him, and thén I ordered a little Spungé ro be bound unto it 3 which faid plate by the Spunge being put upon the hole; and there fticking, atid fhutring the hole, hie fpake diftingtly enough to be underftecd: Yer horwithitanuding the flefhi begati afterwatds to grow ahd increafe inthe Lips of the Wound, (although but very flowly) andthe hole be- came fomwhat’ natroiwer. - Aftet L‘had fur- hifhed him with’ this: place; -he\-deparced hence: yet heverthelefs the hole for the gteateft part was filledup wich flefis and it was cold methatiie was now turned prea-
her, and chac he could deliver himfelf very diftindtly without thar Golden Plates “And|.
in Guilbelm. Pabriciws his z Cent. Obfer. 74. Claudius Deodatus relaeth the Hiftory of .a wound, which by a fhatp Sword Was inflicted upon che Pylorus, or atthe topand enterance ahthe {mal Guts Casall the Chiturgeons pre-
performing of this, there is a certain provile on ant preparation to. bemade, as neceflax chereunto (alchough notwithftanding for the moft pare the fame provifion is required like. wile inthe Curing of Fradtures) therefore in the firft place we fhal cepeat fomching in tke general out of our Inflitutions touching th: drefling and: binding up of Wounds 3 and we fhall afterward treat thereof more patticoul+ arly. | :
Unto: the binding up of. Wounds there be.
long fwathing,the injection of theSplenia€ we
fhall fhew you anon what thefe Splenia.are’y the fiteing, ofthe. Splints, ,IMaqueation, | or cafting aboittof a bindery! and the righic pla- cing of the part’when itis bound up. 5
| Of Swathing.
Now aSwatheis 4-binder that is
both‘long and broad; and a due | and fie fwathingis a diawing abour,
rs A fwathe. “What it #.
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bout the Member that isto be cured.
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Of Praktical Phy fick. found place nigh unto the part affected, and at other times-alfo from the oppolite -part. And chen next of all, in what manner the Swatheistobedrawnabout. For fomtimes our becrer’ know ledg inthis Parricalar, we|cthe Swathing isto be begun from one end of are to acquaint our felves chroughly with) the Swathe, and fomtimes from the middle whathehath wnecen. Bucthacwemay brie-|chereof. And Ehirdly, Weare to look wet fly {peak fomching according co our purpofe; | that the Swathe neither bindeand prefs roge- (and as before we promifed you;) Swath=|cther the part too hard, and likewile on the bands may be made of Linen Clothes firft | contrary chat it benotover loofe. Kor ific put unto other ufes and fomwhat worn, that | be coo loofe, ic will not fufticiently keep the thereby they may be made more fofct ‘and | part cogether3and by its overgreat comprei- pliable; but yer they mutt be fo ftrong thac|fion it will occation both pain, and an In- they may not be broken. | For although the flammation, But now that all this may be matter of Swath-bands may be threefold, |rightly performed, the ufe of Swaching will Linen, Woollen, or Skins, yetnow adaies |teach us. Now the Ufe of Swa- we feldom ufe any other but Linen only. |thing is cwofold; one of icfelf, | The efe of Bic then thefe Linen Cloths muft be Clean, | but che other sonly accidentally | fwarbing. Smooth, Soft 5 which have neither any Seams conduceth upto the Cure. Swa- ! ae or Knots fticking forch. ching confidered in ic felt maketh much for ra 4-> Now there are various Differences | ences of Swathes3 which are all | che parcs disjoyned, contracterh rhe parts di- of Swathes | raken fromthe Figure, length and} laced, and detcech ftraight the diftorted and \ breadth... They differ in regard of | writhed pats, their Figure, inthat fome of themare made | Member being {o as to be woon'd up, long and sequally | the conjoyned broad, and rolled; round together: o-| flowing ins an thers of chem Gut 3 which indeed confift of one Linen Cloth, but this is cut, either in) hollow winding impoftumations the binding itsexcreme or middle parts: others that are| 1s begun fromthevery bottom, and endeth fewedtogether, that confift of Swathes and} atthe Orifice of the Ulcer., ; The extenuated ftrings ending in feveral Heads. Swathes differ ia their length, in regard that fome 6f | parts may be prefled together, and that the them are longer, others fhorcers and foin their breadth likewife. And chen of the binding up (that , be
Now touching Swath-bands, Galen Cin his ®B.of Swatbs) hath writcen futhcienc, and indeed fomewhat largely, and therefore for
pets repelleth che Humor if ut be already flownin, ic
ted: which will be done, if che Swathing begun from the found, or the oppofite is done by the Swache) there are , part 5 from-whence toward the extenuated two differences 3 onefiimple, ano- | parc ic may be a lircle loof{ned 5 and at length ther compound, or matiifold. The |rolled about afrer che moft loofe manner up- fimpleiseicher equal, or unequal. The fin | on or neer the exrenuated parc, Burt in the ple equal is only round, which on boch fides bindeth together ‘the Member affected ina | citcular fafhion, without any declining iad is to: be begunin the place affected, and the one fide more then‘another. '- Bucthe fimple | two or threefirft rollings about lec them be unequal is divided'into ‘Afcia and | Sima; |-clofer and harder then ordinarily. ; which yet differ only in-regard of cheir being greater or lets; bécaufe chat Ajcia declineth but alittle from that which istound,buciSima very much. Of various and feveral forts of Swathing chere are matiy differences, ‘caken: from ‘the fimilicude> of the pares that. are bound; or of certain living Creagures, ‘or of otherthingss couching which wemay fee fifiicienc in Galen his B. of Swathes 5 and an }-5° his Second Comment: upon the B.of thofe things |: that areto be donein. curing of Wounds, Text 7.
Differences | an the bin- | ding.
ving back che influx of Humors, the binding
to the: cures when they are fo adminiftred,
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differ- |the Cure, insegard that it bringerh together |§
keepeth within due linuts the | fec inits right frame, as al{o |
drivech and preffech ic)forch again. _ For in |
| parts are fo,to be bound up. that the found ||
Blood may be forcedunto, che paits extenua- |
parts dilated, and when.there is need of dri- |
| Jig But by, accident thefe Swathes conduce.un- | §
that rhey,may contain :thefe Medicaments |} hat are applied for the effecting of the cure. | Touching thete fee Hippocrates in his ‘B, of © ‘Brattures,,Commens..1. Text 21. and inhis —
b For che better binding up, there are‘ like- | wife adminiftred thofe things they cal.Sple- |
But thac the Swathing may be | ue righely performeds it is firft of al a#a@whichiare Linen cloths folded together, | va bint to be confidered, from whence the|'and fo termed from the Figure of the Spleen. | iNted. bitidingis to be begun: For fom- |-They, were by the Ancients called Plumgecolt |
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fewed up between two cloathes: they are hkewife called Puloilli from che .refem- blance they have wich a bolfter., Now they differ invegard of their Figure, which is ei: ther long, broad, orthick. Their Figure is threefold, co wit, according to cheend for which they are propounded, and the manner of che being impoled, For fomtimes they are laidupon che part ftraight.and long waies domctimes in an oblique manner, and {fom- times tran{verfly.. Andindeed they are fom- times laid ondouble, fomtimes treble, and now andcthen four double; fomrimes fingle, and fomtimes more of chem, according to their ule and thar which they oughc ro per- form, cto, wit, the ftrengthening of the bin- ding, for Members that are unequal ia chick-
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from the weight and preffure of the Swath- bands; and Laft!y, for che preffing forch, and drinking up of the Sajzes and Lchorous Ex- crements.. And they are fomtimes impofed dry 5 buc moft commonly they are foaked, and moiftened in fome kind of liquor that is fic and proper for the Difeafe and the parc affe&ed. Touching which fee Hippocrates, in his 3 B. of fuch things as areto be done in the Curing of Wounds, Text 1,2. atid'in his 1 B. of Frat. Text 32. andinhis 3B. of Fraét. Text.2i» As likewife Galen in his Commen- Caries. ;
Of Ferulz, ‘or Splinter.
Somtimes ( for, che more convenient’ bin-
| ding, )chere are adminiftred thofe.things they | call Ferula; to wit, tmooth Splincers, thac
are wont ro be fitted unto bones-that are bree ken and out of Joynt, after fuch cimes as they are {et again, andrermmrenedunco their due and proper place. ‘Hippocrates.and other of the Ancients made them.of the woody bark.of che
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{mooth, equal, plain, and a lictle hooked and floping. atthe very ends, that is, fuch as , are fhaved fnooth on the lower part of their
ends, on both fides fom what fhorter chen the’
Swathinyg lyingunder ir, left chat they prefs together the’ part beyond the Swathing. Now they areimpofedupon the Fracture on every fideround about, fothat they may nor ftand diftanc one from the other lefs then a Fingers breadth; and they are foto be fit- ted, thaccheends of the faid Ferule be nor placed above che Heads of,the Joynts that {tick forth, or che’ Nerves nigh unto the Joynts3 or thac they touch upon the naked Skin. See Hippocrates; touching thof: things ithat ave to be done in the Curing of Wounds, Tit. 11. andin his 1B. of Pratt. . Text 40.
| and in his 2B. of Frat. Text 5.7. 1. 64. 69.’
171+ And Galen inhis Comment. And Paulus Aigineta, in his Sixth B. Chapter oo;
And unto the excream, parts alfothat are grievoufly wounded, or broken, or disjoyn-
|ced, (the Hands efpecially) there are fom-
itumes applied liccle Coffers, or Chefts of f{mooth Wood, fo wrought that they may an{wer unrothe Figure of the Member; or \elfe fuch asiate made of thin plates of Iron, or ahard Skin, or paper glewed together ; that fothey may hold together the parts uni- tedand conjoyned, that fo they ftir nor, neis
ther. move coand fro, and fo again ftact fort;
and fal out of theic places.
Of Laquei, or Binders.
wife belongeth the injeétion of Laquet (as they term them) which we may,fitly cal Lla=- queation. Now. this, Laqueus is properly a bond fo knit andtied, that what is drawn to- gether, or prefled down by weight, ‘may be thuc up andclofed. . And che,ufe thereof is, for the extending of bones broken, and out of
Chap. 6. Of Provifion neceffary to be made for the binding up of Wounds.
Unto the binding up of Wounds there like=
ict | mas | came the cute his Bae | di bean
| Feruia fhrub 5 and.from hence alto they have | Joynt, for the keeping of chemin their places
their Name. Now adaies (in the, want of} When they are fet, and for the ftreighrening other) thefe Frerzl¢are made.of the thin fhi- jand clofe binding of che parts. he. dif- versor, long thin; Chips of Wood,, or thei ferences -of ;chefe Laquei, are very - vari- Barques of Itees, or paper glewed together, | ous, taking, their; Names either. . from and pieces of.a hatdand thick hide.. Butyetjthe inventors; .or -from.cheir.ufe,, or
| we are here admonifhed by Guilbel. Fabri-. from the fimilitude and Figure,.of fome
clus, (.in.his 4, Cent...Obfervat. 98.) thar the; thing or) other, or from. their. manner of barques of Trees Cefpecially. while. they are, knitcing, or from their effect: which fince
| hew and green ) are by, no means to be admi-; that they cannor well. be perceived nor }) niftred in Fractures inftead of the aforefaid underftood without a manifeft Delineati- )| Ferule.... For when they are rhroughly dry~ on, and very hardly from a bare defcrip- P| ed they are apt.co be: contracted about the rion, therefore touching. chis Particular, | Fracture, and cto. excite, pains.;..and fom-: Confult: thar B. de Laqueis, that.is com-
times again to.move,che bones out. of their: monly afcribed unto Oribufims.
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Of Prattical Phy ick.
| Buccthe Member is hing in a ftring and
Of the due placing of the Member afs fapported thereby, when the fick perfon ei bee | ther lieth down,or now beginneth to walk a- ter st 1s bound Up. broad. For alchough’ that while che fick
: beet! | parcy lyeth in his bed ‘it fufficeth if chat
Afterthac the affected Member is rightly, while heisawake he have his hand foftly bound up, ic remaineth that ic be likewile inclining upwards; yet, ‘left chat when he is fitly placed. Now the due and fic placing afleep he fhould unawaers move it, there- of it confifterh in this, thacthe part havethat fore it is not amifs for hint to have it hung in pofition which conferveth the Natural figure g fling ofa {wathband. But itis efpecially thereof, fuch as is without pain, and fic for che cure of che difeafe. Now the member ro walk, that he carry his Arm wrapt up and fhall thusbe placed, ifall irs parts, Bones, hunginafwathe, ( which rhe Greek Phyti- Mufcles, Nerves, Veins, and Arteries, have! tians call Tenia, and Celfus Mitella) the-nar- thacfituation that they are neither diften- row heads wherof lecthem be caft abour the ded, nor preffed together 5 if the Member neck; and forthe breadth of it, in rhac pare be foftly and equally fituated ; ifin a hollow | wherein the Arm is enwrdpped and born up; ulcer or wound the Orifsce (as muchas may | Jet it be fo broad that it may concain the be) look’ downward, that fo the Sanies whol arm, thar fo there may be no pare may be purged forch; and laftly, if in the |chereof that is nor equally fupported. And earn there bea mean kept in regard of the /here forthe more fit under propping of the