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A77712	Vade mecum or, a companion for a chyrurgion: fitted for times of peace or war. Compendiously shewing the yong artist the use of every severall instrument belonging to a chyrurgion; and the vertues and qualities of all such medicines as are needfull and necessary, with the maner of compounding them, according to the most approved authors. As also the perfect cure of green wounds, either incised or contused, ulcers, fistulaes, fractures, and dislocations. To which is added the maner of making reports before a judge of assize, of any one that hath come to an untimely end. By Tho. Brugis Doctor in Physick.	Brugis, Thomas, fl. 1640?; Cross, Thomas, fl. 1632-1682, engraver.	1651 (1651)	Wing B5225; Thomason E1357_2; ESTC R209491	89,747	252

their beginning from cold humours The composition follows ℞ Succi Necotianae majoris halfe a pound Succi absinthii pontici majoris three ounces Oleorum hyperici Irini vel sambuci of each one ounce and halfe Foliorum absinthii pontici majoris Prunellae Scrophulariae majoris matthioli of each one handfull Vini albi one ounce and halfe Boil them altogether to the consumption of almost all the wine and juices in a vessel of brasse always stirring it with a wooden spatula then straine it in a presse then melt together these things following Cerae flavae foure ounces Sevi Hircini Terebinthinae of each two ounces Mastices of each one ounce finely powdred Myrrhae of each one ounce finely powdred Thuris of each one ounce finely powdred and put them all together to the other Liquor and boyle them a little then coole it and make it up Sir Philip Paris Emplaister THis Emplaister is excellent for divers things if you lay it upon the stomack it provoketh appetite and taketh away any griefe from the same layd to the belly it easeth the Collick speedily layd to the reignes it stoppeth the bloudy flux running of the reines heat of the kidneys and weaknesse of the back it healeth swellings aches bruises it breaketh fellons and aposthumes and healeth them it draweth out humours without breaking the skin it healeth the diseases of the fundament layd upon the head it helpeth the head-ach uvula and eyes layd to the belly it provoketh the months and apteth the matrice for conception The composition is as followeth ℞ Olei communis two pounds Minii of each one pound beaten small Cerussae of each one pound beaten small Saponis castiliani twelve ounces Incorporate these well together in an earthen pan Well glased before you put them to boyle then put them upon a gentle fire of coales for one houre ever stirring it with a spatula then encrease fire till the red turne grayish continuing your stirring drop a little upon a trencher if it cleave not thereto then it is enough dip linnen cloathes therein and smoth them with a sleekstone the rest make up in rolles it wil last twenty yeares Let the Artist observe a true boyling of all Emplaisters for over much boyling not onely makes the Emplaister too hard but also evaporates the vertues of divers ingredients likewise too little boyling doth not incorporate them neither will they stick upon the place besides the inconvenience of carrying them let all your gummes in any Emplaister be finely powdered dissolved in sacke or Vineger and strained through a canvas and the vineger or sacke evaporated at the fire and then put to the rest where turpentine or saffron are added it must be when the rest are boyled enough giving them but two or three walmes after you have put them in and with those emplaisters which I have heere set downe you need not feare to dresse any wound whether incised or contused or any ulcer of what sort soever Next I shall shew you what oyles and unguents it is needfull to have in readines for store and how ●ou shall make them and they are these Unguentum Aegyptiacum Album camphoratū Populeon Mel saporis Dialthaea Arregon Martiatum Agrippa Tutia Spleneticum And first of Aegyptiacum THis unguent doth scoure and mundifie all rotten ulcers and is best used scalding hot for then the usuall paine and corrosion it procureth wil be the sooner past over in like manner it is to be used in any venomous wounds made either with poysoned shot or bitten with mad dogs or any other venomous creature or in great contused wounds wherein for preventing them from the feare of a gangrene it excelleth it serveth also to be used alone or mixed with any lotion for ulcers of the mouth or throat especially in the scurvy This unguent dryeth vehemently and is abstersive of temperament hot and dry and is made as followeth ℞ Eruginis five drams Mellis fourteen drams Aceti fortis seven drams Boyle them altogether to an oyntment thick and red Album Camphoratum THe white oyntment with Campheire is good to coole and heale any hot moyst pustles it cureth excoriation of the skin in any place but chiefly in the yard betwixt glans and praputium it also healeth burnings and scaldings very well and is good to be applyed to any painfull ulcer for it asswageth paine and healeth well it is cold avodine molificative and attractive It is made as followeth ℞ Olei Rosati nine ounces Cerussae bonae in aqua rosarum lotae 3 ounces Cerae albae two ounces Make it into an oyntment according to Art if you will have it with Camphire then adde to this proportion of Camphire two drams Vnguentum Populeon THis Oyntment serveth well to asswage the paines of the Scurvy by annoynting the parts grieved therewith it asswageth paine in any part of the body and it easeth the dolour of a caustick medicine by being applied cold upon a plegent to the place grieved It procures sleepe in Fevers if you annoynt the temples palmes of the hands and soles of the feet therewith it is cold and moyst and is made as followeth ℞ Occulorum populi arboris one pound and halfe Recentium one pound and halfe Axungiae porcinae recentis insulsae three pounds Beat the buds and macerate them in the greace untill such time as you may get these herbs following Foliorum papaveris nigri Mandragorae Cimarum rubri tenerimarum Foliorum hyosciami of each three ounces Solavi of each three ounces Lactucae of each three ounces Vermicularis of each three ounces Sedi seu sempervivi majoris of each three ounces Violarum of each three ounces Umbilici Veneris of each three ounces Burdanae of each three ounces Beat them all and mingle them with the fat and buds and so let them stand ten dayes then powre to them a pint of Rosewater and boyle them with a gentle fire until the water and all the Liquor be consumed coole it a little and strayne it and if need bee boyle it againe untill it come to an ointment In want of Mandrake take a double quantity of Henbane Unguentum Dialthaea THE Unguent of Draschaea or Marshmallows is good against all paines of the breast of a cold cause and against the plurisie it warmeth mollifieth and comforteth all parts of the body which are evill disposed through cold infirmities it is good against stiffenes and paines in the joints in the scurvey It is good for cut nerves paines in the sides and hardnesse of the sinewes and is resolutive and is thus made ℞ Radicum altheae two pounds Sem. Lini Faenugraeci of each one pound Scillae pulpae halfe a pound Olei foure pounds Cerae one pound Terebinthinae of each two ounces Gummi hederae of each two ounces Galbani of each two ounces Colophoniae Of each halfe a pound Resinae Of each halfe a pound Let the Roots be well washed and bruised as also the Fenugreeck seed Linseed and sea Onion

the yard and against all violent painfull and corrosive ulcers there is scarce a better knowne In Noli me tangere in the face it hath beene well experienced and is very usefull in divers occasions it is made as followeth Olei Rosati sixteen ounces Succi Solavi six ounces Boyle them until the juice be consumed then adde Cerae alba five ounces Cerussae lotae two ounces Plumbi usti loti One ounce Pompholigos prae One ounce Thuris puri One ounce Make them into the forme of an Unguent according to Art Unguent Nutritum or Triapharmacum THis Unguent is used in curing Erisipula's excoriations or bladderings of the skin and such as are called the shingles It is good to take out the fire in burnings and scaldings and it hindreth the falling downe of any moyst humour to any ulcer in any part of the body being spread upon cap paper thin and layd over the whole distempered part also against any slight scabbiness or itching humour whencesoever it is It is an especiall good defensative against any scalding or vicious humour flowing to any ulcer I do often mix it with other unguents in curing ulcers the composition is as followeth Lithargyri auri searced very fine halfe a pound Olei Rosati one pound Aceti foure ounces Put the Litharge into a morter powre into it now a little Oyle then a little Vinegar working them up and downe very well until the Litharge hath drunk up all the liquor and come to the consistence of an Oyntment and white Desiccativum rubrum IS used to dry up and siccatrize ulcers that by reason of their moisture are hard to siccatrize it is used spread on Lint either by it selfe or mixed with a little Diapompholigos it is thus made â„ž Olei Rosati omphacini one pound and halfe Cerae albae five ounces Melt them together and put them into a leaden mortar and sprinkle into them Terrae lemniae or boli armeni of each foure ounces Lapidis calaminaris finely beaten of each foure ounces Litargyri auri Cerussae of each three ounces Camphorae one dramme Worke them all very well together in the mortar to the forme of an Unguent These are for the Salvatory next I shall shew you the making of the Emplaisters and then take the rest in order Emplaisters And first of Sticticum Paracelsi IT is an admirable Emplaister for the curing wounds and stabbes and also in the cure of all dangerous wounds whatsoever it hath the precedence aswell for contused wounds as incised for it asswageth paine defendeth from accidents discusseth mollifieth attracteth incarneth digesteth consolidates and is good for any old ache proceeding of a cold cause it is especiall good for ulcers on the legges or elsewhere in any part of the body It is very excellent in wounds of the head it separateth the foule from the good flesh as I have experienced in members amputated in the putride part and hinders the growth of that which is naught It is a sure remedy for cut nerves or bruised It drawes out iron wood or lead from wounds being only layd upon them It cures the biting and sting of venemous beasts and drawes out the poyson It maturates apostumes of any sort being layd upon them It is an especiall remedy against cancers fistulaes scrophula Ignem Persicum It easeth all paines of wounds or strokes It is good for ruptures Where the head is inflated shave away the hairs and lay on this Emplaister and it cures it It easeth the paines the backe being applied It will last in full force at lean fifty yeeres the composition which I use is thus made â„ž Minii of each halfe a pound Lapidis calaminaris of each halfe a pound Lithagyri auri argenti of each three ounces Olei lini olivi of each one pound and half Olei laurini halfe a pound Cerae Colophoniae of each one pound Vernicis terebinthinae of each half a pound Oppoponax of each three ounces Galbani of each three ounces Serapini of each three ounces Ammoniaci of each three ounces Bdellii of each three ounces Succini flavi of each one ounce Olibani of each one ounce Myrrhe Alexandrinae of each one ounce Aloes epaticae of each one ounce Aristolochiae longae rotundae of each one ounce Mummiae transmarinae of each one ounce and halfe Magnetis Hematitis of each one ounce and halfe Corallorum alborum rubeorum Matris Perlarum of each one ounce Sanguis Draconis of each one once Terrae medicatae strigensis of each one ounce Vitrioli albi of each one ounce Florum Antimonii two drammes Croci Martis as much Camphurae one ounce The maner of preparing it is thus THE five gummes must be steeped in Vineger melted and the Vineger evaporated and the gummes strayned through a pretty thicke canvas then boyled againe and againe strayned and because of the dregges which will be strayned out therfore must the dose of your gummes bee increased being thus used let them bee put into a cleane pan upon a gentle fire untill they be thicke Put your Linseed oyle and Sallet oyle into another panne and put to them the litarge of gold and silver and let them boyle ever stirring them untill the oyle be coloured then put in the Calaminaris in powder and a little after adde the red lead working them together for almost two houres and untill they be almost boyled enough which you may prove by putting a drop upon your nayle and if it congeale and run not abroad then it is enough Then adde the vernish oyle of bayes waxe and colophony and when they be all well mixed and melted then warme your pan with the gummes and presently poure into it all that is in the second pan stirring it very fast that it may incorporate as it runnes into the gummes and let your panne stand all this while on warme coales but beware of boyling for then your gummes will goe one way and your oyles another afterwards put in the pouders by degrees still stirring it for about an houre Lastly adde your Camphyre dissolved in oyle of Juniper if it be too hard then put in a little more waxe and Colophony Yon shall know when it is boyled enough by putting a sticke with some drops of the Emplaister on it into cold water if it be soft and sticke to thy fingers then it must be boyled longer untill it wax harder Then take it from the fire and poure it into a great vessell full of fayre water and work it out with your hands anointed with the oyles of camomile roses juniper earthwormes Hipericon of each a like quantity mingled together work it thus about three or foure homes and make it up in rowles and keep them in soft leather In the composition of this Emplaister you shall according to Paracelsus observe three intentions viz. 1 The healing by reason of the waxe and Colophony 2 The taking away of accidents which is by gummes viz. Oppoponax Galbanum Sagapenum

drams Zedoariae half an ounce Anisi of each one dram and half Sem. Faeniculi dulcis of each one dram and half Pastinacei silvestris of each one dram and half Ocymi of each one dram and half Rad. Angelicae of each two drams Caryophyllatae of each two drams Glyrynhicae of each two drams Calami odorati of each two drams Phu minoris of each two drams Foliorum sclareae of each two drams Thymi of each two drams Calaminthae of each two drams Pulegii of each two drams Menthae of each two drams Serpylli of each two drams Majoranae of each two drams Florum rosar rubrarum of each one dram and half Salviae of each one dram and half Rorismarini of each one dram and half Betonicae of each one dram and half Staechados of each one dram and half Buglossi of each one dram and half Boraginis of each one dram and half Corticum citri three drams Bruise what are to be bruised and macerate them for the space of fifteen dayes in twelve pounds of the best Spirit of wine in a glass vessel well closed then distill them in B. M. according to Art afterwards adde to the distilled water Specierum Diambrae Aromaticum rosat Diamoch dulcis Diarcargarit frigid Diaruhodon Albatis Electuaris de gemmis of each 3 drams Santali citrini contusi two drams Moschi of each 1 scruple Ambrae griseae in tela rara ligatorum of each 1 scruple Julepi rosati clari one pound Shake them all well together that the Julep may incorporate well with the water then stop up the glass with wax and parchment and let it stand untill the water be cleared Doctor Stevens his Water IT is a notable cordial-water comforts the head and heart yea and all the principal faculties of the body both annimal vital and natural if it be truly prepared it helpeth all cold diseases palseys convulsions barrenness tooth-ach It killeth worms cureth the dropsie stone stinking breath and prolongeth life and is made as follloweth â„ž Cinamoni of each one dram Zinziberis of each one dram Galangae of each one dram Caryophillorum of each one dram Nucis moschatae of each one dram Granorum paradisae of each one dram Sem. Anisi of each one dram Faeniculi of each one dram Carni of each one dram Herb. Thymi of each one handful Serpylli of each one handful Menthae of each one handful Salviae of each one handful Pulegi of each one handful Parictariae of each one handful Rorismarini of each one handful Flor. rosar rubrarum of each one handful Chamemeli of each one handful Origani of each one handful Lavendulae of each one handful Infuse them all twelve hours then distill them in a Limbeck and take of the strongest water three pounds The common Lotion IS used in ulcerations of the mouth or gums in griefs of the yard as well within the passage as also between glans and Praeputium there are divers sorts according as occasion offers but that which I mean here is onely made of Sage Rosemary Woodbine and brier tops boyled in water adding honey and allome fortifying it as you see cause with Mercury dulcified put a rag on your finger or on a stick and dip it into the lotion warmed and rub the gums hard therewith and the ulcerated parts untill they bleed or you may make a lotion for the mouth thus â„ž Copperas green white or blue â„¥ ij Water lb j. or thereabouts Honey one spoonful Boyl these to the consumption of one third or half then take of lapis medicamentosus or Salt-peter â„¥ sss and if you have no honey take sugar or juice of liquorice or liquorice boyled therein to make it pleasant in taste or without for a need you may well use it Strong-Lye THis is Capital-lees and is very necessary to mollifie the White-caustick when it groweth dry as also if need be by decoction to make a lapis internalis for to make Issues or break Apostumes The Liquid-caustick is made of unslaked-lime and capital-lees boyled together to the thickness of an unguent and applyed as hereafter shall be shewn Vinegar of Wine VInegar helpeth the unnatural swellings of the belly and also cureth the fluxes of the stomach the parts grieved being fomented therewith It stayeth the inordinate menstrual-fluxes the region of the liver or the bearing parts fomented therewith warm namely with stuphes wet therein It is good against vomiting the stomach outwardly fomented with warm stuphes wet therein It also discusseth and dissipateth violent hot tumors in their beginnings yea even those which are named Pavaritiae or as some tearm them fellons Good wine vinegar excelleth in Cataplasms as also in fomentations where avodine medicines are to be used provided the place be not excoriated as namely in hervia humorali in the falling down of the fundament it is approved good sometimes with wine used warm to foment the part withall as also to be cast on bricks to receive the fume thereof In the hot gout and in all inflammations as the Rose or Ignis sacer or as some call it St. Antonies fire by way of fomentation with wine vinegar it is a precious help also by way of gargarisme it is an approved remedy against Squinantia auginae or any sudden inflammation of the columella or the amygdales of the throat and if you mingle with it Oyle of Roses you make it the better for all the aforesaid uses and the more cordial Vingar of Roses VInegar of Roses is very cordial helps the stomach refresheth nature weakned and is good against the faintings and great weakness of the spirits but if the Artist have not Vinegar of Roses ready he may infuse in Wine-vinegar a little Rose-water and it will do almost as well It is thus made â„ž Red-rose-buds almost blown being fresh and the leaves clean picked from them that are clean withered and naught gathered very dry and then spread abroad in the shade to dry about three or four dayes lb j. Wine-vinegar eight sextaries Set them in the Sun forty dayes then strain the vinegar and put it up but if you will have it more strong of the Roses then make a second infusion of fresh leaves Spirit of Wine SPirit of Wine of all vegetables is the most precious thing it is the truest of all cordials it preserveth the body from putrifaction and in every cold oppression of nature it is a true helper for the cough and all distillations of Rhumes and Fluxes it is a perfect help it comforteth the stomack and provoketh appetite It helpeth those which are thick of hearing one drop dayly put into the eare it preserveth a man in health if every morning and evening he take certaine drops thereof and defendeth the body that taketh it from the oppression of infectious ayre and being sick almost in any disease it may safely be given as a true restorative medicine it is good in wounds Ulcers Fistulaes and Fractures of which another place hereafter will make

languages which divers understand not and my desire being to fit my book as near as I can to the title of Vade mecum I will out of the said Authors and mine own practise set down both the vertues and composition of this truly Laudanum And first in all sharp pains whatsoever hot or cold within or without the body yea even when through extremity of pain the parties are at deaths door or almost mad with the vehemency of the same this precious Medicine giveth ease presently yea and quiet sleep and that safely but much better the body being first soluble either by nature or art I mean by suppository or clyster which is better In the Cholick with Mint-water it easeth the griping pains thereof In the pains and gravel of the Kidnies it giveth present ease and likewise in the Plurisie In pains of the joynts it is very good It is good to stay umes as tooth-ache and other like defluxions in the beginnings as namely in the tooth-ache dissolve four grains thereof in Plantine-water and put it into the ear of the aking side and take three grains into the body and lye to rest it is a sure help In all fluxes of the belly whether they proceed of sharp and slippery humors or whatsoever else offending cause taken with Mastick terra sagillata fine bole or with any other appropriate good medicine it is exceeding sure for it fortifieth the other medicine and doubleth their forces adding his own also thereto In extream watchings and want of rest either inwardly or outwardly taken it is profitable if outwardly you would use it take four or six grains with three drops of oyl of Nutmegs made by expression mix them together and binde them in two little clouts and put it into the nostrils it will marvailously asswage pains in the head and cause quiet rest In the extream bleeding of the nose called haemorragis it is an approved secret that sixteen grains thereof divided into two pills and thrust up into the nostrils into each nostrill one part helpeth the same In all kinde of Feavers it is good to be given with water of Wormwood or pill-wise alone and if the heat remain after six hours you may give it the second time and after that again in like time safely not exceeding the dose yet let your own experience lead you that where you see three grains will not cause rest in the next potion you may give one grain more and so encrease paulatim but encrease not but upon good deliberation In burning Feavers it asswageth thirst and provoketh sleep chiefly in those Feavers in which the party seemeth to have some shew of rest with tedious dreams and slumbers mixed In the disease called Asthma and in the Ptisick if it be used in water of hysop it will preserve the diseased Patient a long time It conserveth the naturall heat strengthneth the spirits repaireth strength lost It is also effectuall to be given to melancholy people which are void of reason and are troubled with the passions of the heart It is likewise used with good effect against vomiting and the hickeck proceeding of wind faintness or debility of the ventricle In the superfluous defluxions of the excremental or menstrual blood it is an excellent remedy with crocus martis or red corral In phrensies and madness both inwardly and outwardly it is good mixed with Aqua vitae and the temples anointed therewith In the falling-sickness with Spirit of Vitriol or the quintessence of Camphire with alo oyl of Almond it is usually taken but beware you use not this medicine to any which are feeble through a great cough being oppressed with tough phlegme and shortness of breath for there it is not good The dose is two three or four grains if there be loosness of the belly as is rehearsed it worketh much better It is best given in any occasion accompanied with waters or other medicines which are most appropriate to the diseases and parts diseased and yet may very well be given alone in a Pill which I willingly do for that the Patient then is least troubled with the taste thereof the composition is as followeth ℞ Opii Thebaici Succi Hyoscyami debito tempore one ounce and half Collecti in sole prius inspissati one ounce and half Spec. diambrae diamoschi fideliter Dispensatorum of each two ounces and half Mummiae transmarinae selectae half an ounce Salis perlarum Corallorum of each three drams Liquoris succini albi per alcohol vini Extracti Ossis de corde cervi of each one dram Lapidis bezoartici Unicorni animalis vel mineralis of each one dram Moschi Ambrae of each one scruple In want want of right potable gold not sophisticated you shall adde these things Oleorum Anisi Carvi Arautiorum Citriorum Muistae Caryophillorum Cinamomi Succini of each twelve drops Make of all these a masse or extract according to Chymistry out of which you may form your pils as hereafter shall be shewn As first ℞ The roots and rinds of the younger hemlock casting away the inward woody part thereof the time of the gathering thereof is in Summer the Moon being in the sign Aries or Libra and before the full of the Moon and if it might be done it were best to be gathered in the very hour the Moon enters into one of the said signs this observed let the juice thereof be pressed out and filtred and coagulated then set in the Sun to harden which done extract the tincture thereof with Spirit of wine the opium must be purged in some distilled water as of hysop or the like as you would wash aloes and then extract the tincture thereof with Spirit of wine as also the tincture of the species of Diambrae must be extracted with Spirit of wine The juyce of henbane with the extract of opium mingled together with the Spirit of wine whereinto they are extract before is to be evaporated from them ere that they be mixed with the rest of the ingredients also the opium and juyce of henbane must be digested in chymical manner for a month at least that thereby their sulphurous venemous and dangerous vapours they have may be well corrected which vapours have a yellowish froth or scum seen in the superficiall parts of them and are very obnoxious and dangerous which I thought not amisse to advise the studious and industrious Chymist of let all the extractions be done in the true spirit of wine well rectified and then the longer the extract remaineth in the digestion the better will by your medicine He that intendeth any part of this composition for women must forbeare the Musk and Ambergreece and use with it rather foure grains of good Caster●um I mean in that one dose he intends to give the women the Faeces of the Opium Henbane species of Amber c. after their tinctures are extracted from them are to be calcined and brought into salt namely by infusion in some fitting Liquor after

very necessary amongst the rest that if any obstructions happen either in the passage of the urine or neck of the bladder through slime gravel the stone or the like accident which by the artificial use of a siringe cannot be removed then is this needful instrument to be used as also to make search for the stone in the bladder If therefore you have occasion to use it put it in gently as followeth namely with the crooked or dependent part downward so far as it will be put in being first anointed with a little oyl of Almonds or some fresh grease or some oyl for want of the afore-rehearsed and being put in as you can without much force then feel by the root of the yard near the fundament with the fore-finger anointed with butter or oyl or the middle-finger of thy other hand where the end of the Cathaeter resteth or beareth out then put in the Cathaeter yet further towards the fundament pressing or bearing down as it were a little the lower part of the said instrument with the upper hand which stayeth the Cathaeter then together with the help of the lower finger of the other hand turn the Cathaeter upwards putting it also withall forwards a little and it will slip into the bladder then draw out the wier within the instrument and the urine will come forth still keeping the instrument carefully within the bladder till all be run out that gently will come without forcing Moreover you may by putting in the longest finger into the Patients fundament the Cathaeter being in the bladder and the water drawn out feel easily if any stone be in the bladder the party grieved standing and bending his body likewise forward It will be also necessary to have searching candles of waxe to be used in caruncles or ulceration of the neck of the bladder or passage of the urine and by that you shall finde out the place where the said grief is and also be able to convey apt medicines to the place grieved but indeed it is a work that requireth good deliberation well to effect it for an expert workman may easilly be seen herein to erre except he take good regard Wherefore when by the candle you have found the certain place of the grief which you shall perceive when you thrust the candle into the yard by the stops and stayes which it will finde in the said passage be carefull to observe the just length to the further end of the said stop of place agrieved and there if you mark your candle well you shall perceive the full length and breadth of the disease then upon the said candle you shall fasten the medicine you intend for the grief as namely if the disease be a kinde of spungy flesh as often it is then a little alumen ustum or vitriolum ustum will be fitting medicines or what else you know most fit for such an occasion and print it according to the depressed part of the waxe into the waxe-candle and convey it warily to the place and let the candle remain in the yard but have a care you keep it not in till the waxe melt too much then draw it out and arm it as before and put it in again and ever alter your medicine upon the searching candle as you see cause and forget not to use good injection also which will helpe much Of the Cupping-glasses YOu shall finde these to be very useful in many businesses namely to fasten upon a bubo to bring it forward for which they are very good sometimes also to set upon the upper part of the shoulder blade to draw back humours which oppresse the head eyes or teeth or against Lethargie or on the thighs against aches or pains there and to bring down womens courses or for the cure of the Sciarica they are very good or to draw blood or spirits to a member withered or benummed with the dead palsey sometimes also they are applied without scarifying to attract humours to a place at another time they are set with scarification to draw blood and choller out of any member offended with them They are used divers wayes some with tow some with a small waxe light fastened to the bottome some with a great candle but for my self I have used all those wayes yet finde none better then to fasten a little dry tow to the bottome of the g●…ss with a little waxe and then rub well the part with hot water and a sponge where you will set your glasse then light your tow with a candle and clap it upon the place and it will stick fast and draw up a great bump then presse the skin with your finger close to the glasse and it will come off then if it be fitting take a lancet and lightly scarifie the place and then set on your glasse again and draw as much blood as you shall think fitting then wish the place with fair water and dry it well with a sponge and anoint it with a little fresh butter and it will be whole scarifie not to deep for that is dangerous and needlesse you must have several Cupping-glasses some bigger then others for the greater are for the thighs a little lesse for the arms and the least for the hands and feet for if your glasses be too wide they will not take hold Of Blood-porrengers BLood porrengers are necessary for any Chyrurgion thereby to be the more certain of the quantity of blood which is let forth for since the blood of man is so precious it behooveth to be very carefull how and what proportion is taken away The Porrengers which we ordinarily use hold about three ounces and to fill two and a half of these at a time although the Patient be very strong is enough although you be forced to open the vein again the next day for it is alwayes better to take away a little blood at a time then to let forth so much as to the swouning of the Patient by which happen many dangerous accidents except the party have a plurifie or some such urgent occasion shall offer it self for I hold it a great deal better to offend in taking away too little blood then too much but indeed our Country is now so stored with a company of empiricall Ideots who whatsoever the disease be presently upon sight of the urine by which they discern as much as in a glasse of beer cry out to open a veine and then they must either bleed twelve fourteen or sixteen ounces or else they think their Patient counts not his money well given and thus people are abused feeling either ache numnesse or a chilling cold in that part so long as they live after Of the Spatula mundana THis instrument I have divers times used though it be but lately invented and with good successe in extream costivenesse when no purging medicine either upward or downward would do any good you may if occasion offer open the fundament with a