march and often cannot put off their cloaths for many nights together yet let them use such sudorifique means for though they cannot sweat outright yet they may fall into a dampish moisture which if it strike not in again may prove as good as a sweat Yet in this case he must turn his shirt Quod non facit sudor praestat id tenuis udor But here is to be noted that 't is not enough once only to give a sudorifique Medicine to an infected Body considering that the venom like a raging Sea is tossed to and fro every way And though it should seem to thee as if by thy approved Antidote thou hadst overcome the Disease the Symptoms of it excepted yet thou art not to trust in this case for I my self have been sometimes deceived and hard put to it to make good what by confidence I had omitted Wherefore you must not trust to the once taking a sudorifique potion or powder because such malign and lurking Diseases that keep no stitch do indeed fly the first time from thy Medicament and hide themselves under it but they are wont suddenly to re-appear Wherefore you must repeat the Antidotes that were first administred to you for the time of 16 18 20 or 24 hours according to circumstances and so long and often till you judge your sick Brothers or Friends Heart secured from the infectious Venom When the sweating is over thou must then refresh thy Patient first by drying him well and next by giving him a little Vinegar to taste in a spoon The Rich may afford some slices of Citron of which Theopompus Chius writeth that the Tyrant Clearchus Heracleota who lived in Pontus having poisoned many People the vertue of Citron was at length found out of which a slice being eaten proved an effectual Antidote against it The same vertue may be found in a slice of a common Apple and the Syrupus de Pomis is one of the Cordials of our shops But the thirst that uses to follow upon sweating will not be quenched with so small a matter wherefore take three parts of water one part of Vinegar and if the Patient be not too hot one part of Wine mixing some Sugar therewith and of this let him drink a good draught and it will cool and refresh him Besides take some of the guts of Hens and some slices of Radish sprinkle them with Vinegar and Salt and bind them to the soles of his feet this will draw away the heat But let not the Radish lye too long upon them because it will give a stink that may increase the head-ach wherewith the People that have the Plague are commonly troubled enough without provoking it Moreover you will do well to tye about his wrists some Rue beaten with Vinegar Anoint his Loyns and Back-bone with the Unguent of Roses or with fresh Butter but if there appear any Spots forbear to anoint him lest they should be driven in You will do well to have Epithemata of good things about you as of Rose-water and Elder-vinegar to lay over the Heart with which mix some Camphir But if you find any thing of Specks c. broke out you must use no wet thing Anoint his Heart with Oyl of Scorpions take the Oyl of Sea-blossoms and of those Earth-worms that appear after rain of each six ounces of St Johns-wort Oyl two ounces of fresh Elder-blossoms and Rue each a handful and an half of the Acetum of Marigold-flowers and Roses each about three ounces of live Spiders forty five Boil all these together till the Vinegar be so qualified that when 't is thrown into the fire it cause no cracking there Then strain it and in this strained Oyl put a matter of five and twenty Spiders more of the biggest sort and add to it of Camphir dissolved in the Spirit of Roses half a drachm let it stand in Balneo Mariae or upon hot embers for twelve hours and then put to it of Treacle and Mithridate of each half an ounce and let them work together With this Oyl anoint the eight Pulses viz. both Temples behind both Ears both Hands and both Knees as also the Heart And this is an excellent Succedaneum to Scorpion-oyl much used by the Germans Besides you must refresh and strengthen the Patient with convenient Meat and Drink I mean with good Flesh or Barley-broath with a little Vinegar in it to make it savoury to him who will have appetite too little else till he have shaken off this venomous Distemper which when he hath done his stomach will be so keen that you will find work enough to keep him from surfetting Be also careful to keep thy Patients Body open if he be obstructed use a Clister or take Butter or Hogs-grease mixing a little Salt with it or if it be to be gotten a little Mice-trickles and put it into his bowels Physick at the mouth for this purpose is not always safe When the Patient is discharged of the venom a little liquor of stew'd Prunes with some Senna-leaves in it will do well for opening the body Some fresh Butter eaten in the morning or melted in warm Broath and taken down is wont also to keep the body soluble The Drink of these Patients may be Water with some Bread soaked in it or take of such Water wherein Bread hath been soaked one quart and a little Vinegar with two or three spoonfuls of Kitchin-sugar mingling it well together If you have no Sugar use such Water with Vinegar alone This affords good Drink in malignant Feavers Among the Romans it was drunk by the Souldiers under the name of Posca You may also take a handful of well cleaned Plantain-roots and boil them up in three quarts of Water and then decant the Water which though it be somewhat bitter yet 't is very good in Fevers and a good Drink in hot Distempers If you have Oyl of Vitriol let a few drops of it fall into clear Water mingling it well and you will have a factitious Sawer-brun or Acidulae But use no Metalline Vessel for this purpose With this kind of Water many People have been served in all sorts of Fevers the Oyl of Vitriol in such Distempers if rightly used being very beneficial But if a Man should have with it any Pulmonick Disease in that case he must forbear acid things and use Liquorice and content himself with Ptisane Nor is it at all good to use acids in Pestilential Pleurisies And since on this occasion we mention this case and we having above given warning not easily to blood in Pestilential Diseases yet may Venae-section be sometimes upon good consideration used in that Pleurisie provided it be done in the very beginning and the Patient be strong and full of blood Yet this is not to lessen the blood but only to give it vent but before bleeding the Patient is to sweat by taking some of the above specified Antidotes If the Patient have violent Head-ach lay on his head
drink a good draught of Wormwood-wine Juniper-berry-wine Rosemary Sage or Zedoar-wine which may keep thee from many dangers But remember not to drink more of it than will chear thee up and revive thy Spirits At least drink a little Wine with Camphir and Vinegar kindling the Camphir and letting it burn in the Wine so as to let it sink into it for if it burn on the top it will there remain swimming And if the Wine be skinned over with it kindle it again till it be quite burnt out Take of Camphir for one draught the quantity of a pease but if thou be subject to the Head-ach then Camphir will not agree with thee In case that any come to be infected he is forthwith to be separated from the sound and to be laid to bed so as his head and shoulders may lye somewhat high by which means he will be less subject to faintness Then let him presently take some sudorifick Medicine to make him sweat for if the poyson be not speedily driven from the heart the Patient is lost You are also to take great care that this Distemper prevail not and to endeavour to discover it before the Patient be quite disabled For as soon as any begins to droop grows melancholy faint and feeble in his limbs so as that he is hardly able to hold up his head drawing his breath with difficulty letting his head fall to and fro losing his stomach growing yellowish about his eyes with the apples of his eyes standing out finding head-ach interrupted heats and colds as soon I say as these symptoms appear in times of the Plague Spotted Feavers Hungarian Disease c. you may then look to it by times forasmuch as such Patients that are already infected go often about until the sixth or eighth day as I have known my self until the lurking poyson of the heart has got the prevalency and then the poor Patient is quite cast down and often dyes in very few days and even in a few hours Wherefore thou art not to stay till the swellings and boils appear behind the ears under the arms c. or till the Carbuncles Bubo's and the like break out but thou art immediately to make use of the best Medicines thou canst be Master of to drive out the poyson if thou wilt save thy life I never found any thing that was considerable done in the Plague by means of Purging and Bleeding but rather on the contrary all those that had Spots if they were purged or let blood soon after died However I will prescribe nothing magisterially to any man let every one endeavour to do what he can give a good account of I have together with my Collegues treated many hundreds in our Hospitals infected with the Plague without ever opening a vein and yet we have by Gods blessing recovered near 600 persons besides those that by the same mercy we have cured in their several Houses Now to procure sweat in the very beginning take the quantity of two hasel-nuts of Treacle dissolve it in common Vinegar but if thou canst have a cordial Acetum made of Rosemary Lavender Elder-blossoms Rue Roses or Elder-berries use it much rather and give it the Patient to sweat Or take the roots of Celondine boyl them in Vinegar and dissolve some Treacle in it Or take Carduus benedictus Rue Petasites or Butter-burr a little Angelica Zedoaria or Saxifrage-roots boyl them together in half White-wine and half Vinegar or only Water dissolve a little Treacle or Mithridate in it and let the Patient take it warm to make him sweat Mithridate hath the like virtue with Treacle yet neither of them are safe to take for Women with Child old Persons and young Children You may also make use to good purpose of the Saxon-powder taking of it the weight of a Ducat in Carduus benedictus Scabius or Sorrel-water which Powder is thus to be prepared Take Valerian half an ounce Celondine or Nettel-roots of each one ounce Polypody Althaea or March-mallow wild Angelica of each two ounces of garden Angelica four ounces of the rind of Laurcola or Lowry an ounce and an half These roots are to be dug up in their best strength viz. between the middle of August and the middle of September and being cleansed they are to be cut small and then put in a glazed pot pouring a sharp Vinegar upon it so as to cover it two inches high Then lute on the cover with a lute made of whites of Eggs and Flower let all be boiled upon a gentle fire then pour off the liquor and dry the roots and reduce them to powder mixing with it some 26 berries of Herbe Paris or One-Berrie which look like Pepper-corns very good against poison and thus the powder is made This herb grows in shadowed and moderately moist places I have found of it several times in Koshinger-wood near Ingolstad It hath four leaves on one stalk and one berry on the top An herb belonging to the family of Solanum's or Night-shades whence the leaves of it do very much cool Inflammations especially those of the Eyes when laid upon them Take notice of Sorrel bruise some of it and pour Vinegar on 't the Rue-acetum is the best and strain the juice through a cloth put into it a little powder of Angelica about the weight of half a Ducat or of the root of Dictam or of Butter-burr or a little Treacle or Mithridate and give it to sweat On this occasion of mentioning Dictam I must add that in our Countrey there grows only the white Dictam which is among others an excellent Antidote but you must take of it the double quantity and weight to that of Creta You may boil of the root of half an ounce in half White-wine and half Vinegar or instead of the Wine in Carduus-benedictus water and drink of the Decoction warm and put your self to sweat or take of the powder of it a drachm and an half in warm broth with a little Vinegar for the same purpose The Dictam of Creta hath hairy leaves and purpureous blossoms and is used in the preparation of Treacle This herb by its odour drives away Serpents The wild Goats being hurt by any Arrows eat this herb and 't is said that by this means the Arrows fall out of the wound This perhaps hath no other ground than that of the Poet Virgil affirming that Venus with this herb healed her Son Aeneas when wounded in the War His words are Aeneid 12. Hîc Venus indigno nati concussa dolore Dictamnum genitrix Cretaea carpit ab Ida Puberibus caulem foliis flore comantem Purpureo non illa feris incognita Capris Gramina cùm tergo volucres haesêre sagittae About this time came in the Hungarian Infection which was a Disease that bred such a putrefaction in the bodies of Men that even when they were near death they fell a vomiting but that with such a stench that no body could endure it Here those
small pellets called by the Germans Quellmaisseln dipt in a Salve made for this purpose out of fresh Butter Yolks of Eggs and Turpentine well mixt together cold But it happens sometimes that such Bubo's by reason of the venomous matter do eat in or grow fistulous or make matter-baggs in which the matter settles In this case you must use the Unguentum fuscum Apostolicum or the Aegyptiacum Or make the following water to be squirted into such Sores namely of Celondine Scordium or Water-germander Carduus-benedictus Centory or the like Herbs together with Tormentil and Whitlow-grass all boiled in wine If the Sores be very ill you may boil with it some quick Brimstone and Myrrh and if need be mix with it a little fine Verdigrease Or take Honey four ounces and an half a quarter of an ounce of Aloes Epatica a drachm of Salt an ounce and a half of Scordium mix all well together and keep it for use and when you have occasion for any of it then dissolve it in wine and spirt it in Mean time enlarge the opening of the Boyls with the aforesaid pellets that so the matter may have vent enough and come away without any impediment The Unguent of Ulysses Aldrovandus is also very good for the clearing of such Sores and 't is made of Oyl of Roses the Juyce of broad Plantain sharp-pointed Dock Centory and Night-shade with a little Litharge burnt Lead and prepared Camphir Instead of the Juyce of Night-shade you may take that of Cumfry As for the Sores call'd Anthraces and those they call Carbuncles great care must be taken to break them soon and to heal them slowly that so the poisonous matter may all come away They ripen and break soonest by fatty but not hot Plaisters and Unguents especially such as are made of butter leaven yolks of Eggs and Honey or if you mix together Turpentine Unguentum Populeum or Rose-salve mixt with yolks of Eggs or the Unguentum Anodynum mixt with the Ointment of Hounds-tongue and laid on it It must be often refreshed because such hot Sores and Ulcers before they break do so draw waste and as 't were lick up those fatnesses that sometimes of the plaisters that have lain on them there remains nothing but the bare ragg The Emplastrum Basilicon or the common yellow drawing plaister is here the most useful You must also surround the Anthrax with good defensives for if it invade the neighbouring part never so little it will soon make a large halo or circle which will at length separate from the sound and fall away like an escarre For such defensives make use of Album Camphoratum or the Unguentum de Liquiritia known by our people under the name of Dr. Mindererus his Licorish-ointment Item the Unguentum de Lithargyro or the Unguentum Jovis prepared of fresh Butter with Thlaspiminus or Bowyers Mustard otherwise Narrow-leaved wild Cresses Cranes-bill Elder Poppy Vervain and some shaved Licorish Some take nothing but Vervain and the fresh leaves of Henbane beaten together and the Juyce strained and so used Of this Ointment you may make much with confidence for it will do you very good service in Inflammations especially in the case of the swelling of the groins Amongst the approved Medicines for this purpose may deservedly be reckoned the plaister made of Soot which is thus to be prepared Take of the finest Chimney-soot one ounce and a quarter of Leaven Turpentine and fresh Butter ana one ounce of Venetian Soap an ounce and a half two yolks of Eggs of Treacle and Mithridate ana a quarter of an ounce Beat all these together in a mortar and so reduce it to a paste and then use it plaister-wise When the Anthrax or the Carbuncle is broken you must then handle it very gently and discreetly using only the above described Egg-salve putting it into the opening and covering the Sore only with the common yellow drawing plaister or the plaister prepared of Oyl Wax and Rosin or Turpentine Let the matter work out well and when you are sure that 't is very clean and have a mind to consolidate it make only use of Triapharmâ—con iâ— vulgarly call'd the brown Diachylon you may besides put into it some of the Unguentum de Tutia and that of the Diapompholox and one of the plaisters of them upon it The Ulme-plaister also made of Oyl and Ceruse heals also very well But be very careful lest any of the matter remain lurking in the Ulcer If here and there any should be found yet remaining as often happens then make use of the Emplastrum Apostolorum But if you can prepare the Diapalma otherwise called Diacalcithros make use of that I am wont to call it the Fistula-plaister because it doth not easily suffer Fistula's to stink but keeps them clean and sweet Such a plaister is also that which is called Isis to be found in Galen and performing the same thing They are both to be found in the Augustan Dispensatory together with the way of preparing them Now what concerns Old Sores which many are troubled with in their Leggs especially because the humors of the body usually settle there you must above all things be careful to keep them clean and to that end wash them at least once a day with your own urine Or boil Carduus-benedictus Egrimony Plantain and roots of Tormentil in half small meath and half wine and wash the Ulcer with it as often as you dress it Among the common plaisters for such evils is the brawn Diachylum one of the best Else you may prepare this Ointment which follows Take the middle rind of Elder and St. Johns-wort boil them in oyl putting a little wine to it and so let it boil up till the wine be boiled away then take it off from the fire and let it cool this done stir a little Turpentine amongst it and a yolk or two of Eggs according as you make a greater or lesser quantity mixing with it a little Allum and Vitriol the white is the best stir all well together and apply it to the Ulcer and make a bandage and cover it as usually For a good Drawing-plaister take Rosin Bee-wax and Oyl-olive the quantity of the Rosin must be but the half of the Wax Let them melt together and stir amongst it some Tartar exquisitly powder'd Use not much of fatty things to such Ulcers I have had under my care such Ulcers that were to be healed with only dry things as with strewing in of Crocus Martis and the red Earth of Vitriol of which hereafter For this reason the antient Physitians and Chirurgions invented a dry Stone which they kept so secret that they called it Lapis Philosophorum which is easily made as followeth Take Allum Hungarian Vitriol of each one pound beat them to powder and mix them well together then put all into a glased earthen pot and pour upon it two quarts of water boil them together and stir them continually with a Spatula taking
middle rinds Again Yolks of Eggs and Linseed-oyl equal quantities mixt together and spread over the burning is also very good Egg-oyl likewise used by it self and Vernice employed by Joyners do well also but the latter of these two if it be mixed with Oyl of Spicanard or Petroleum is to be mingled amongst Linseed-oyl Spread fresh Butter upon Cabbage-leaves having first fryed the Butter with some blossoms or the middle rind of Elder and so lay them to the burning Elder being a great resister of Inflammations and therefore very good to allay St. Antonies fire if you pull its mild green rinds from the stem and lay them on without moistening them Else they use against the said Fire Flower mixed with the powder of Licorice to be clapt on with a ragg done over with red Saunders My way is to take the shavings of some fresh and juycy Licorice and to fry them in new Butter then to strain the Butter from it and to fry the like fresh Licorice therein and to strain the Butter from that again repeating this five or six times Among this strained Butter I stir some pure and fine Cerusse Whites of Eggs and a little Camphire And with this Ointment I have by the assistance of God done much good in the said inflammation of St. Antonies fire and the common people do to this very day call this Ointment by no other name than that of Doctor Minderer's Licorice-ointment But to return to the quenching of Burnings If you can have Milk-cream mingle it with Cow-dung freshly made and so clap it on though fresh Cow-dung alone allays burning Crafishes pounded alive and fryed in fresh Butter or in common Suet the Butter strained herefrom is also a good Ointment against burnings Unsalted Lard melted by a Wax-candle or an hot Iron and dropp'd upon fresh cold water and then gather'd up from the water and carefully rubbed from the same hath the like operation Take one of the cooling Oyls above-named and fresh Butter boil the middle rind of Elder in it and with a sufficient quantity of Wax make of it a Salve and this also will cure burning You ought also to be provided with a fit apparatus Lints Swathing-clouts c. and to take Deer-suet Oyl of Roses or Elder and white Wax and melt them over the fire yet so as that you melt the Wax by it self and add of it no more to the rest than to make it a thin plaister Into this compound you must dip some fine lint and you 'l find it very useful for any angry part as also when one limb presses or otherwise incommodes another as happens in hydropical and other swollen people whose belly so sinks down that the thighs suffer by it in which case such lints are to be put between the parts to keep them from immediately touching and pressing one another A Gangrene is cured with Sal-armoniac boiled in Urine especially in that of the Patient and clapping such Urine upon the part affected The quantity of the Sal-armoniac may be six drachms For frozen Feet take Gander-suet and Deer-suet dissolve them together and pour them into a white excavated Turnip and expose this for a while to the Air Rain Wind Hoar-frost Snow according as the season shall be Then mince the Turnip and fry it in the same Suet which you had poured into it that done squeese it out and let the fat fall upon cold water and being there brought to consistence take it off and bring it over the helm from burned Wine and decant this carefully from it again and 't is duely prepared You may also recover frozen Feet with white rotten Turnips beaten with Butter or Tallow and so clapt on CHAP. X. Of several promiscuous Medical Practises for the Service of the honest Souldier THis Chapter I have annexed to the former as an Appendix for the ease and good of Souldiers wherein some things will occurr not inferiour to those that have preceded But herein I have kept no order but set them down promiscuously yet faithfully to supply what may have been omitted before If you be troubled with the Tooth-ach coming from the cold in winter take the root of Pyrethrum Pellitory of Spain and boil it in Vineger and hold this Vineger warm in your mouth and it will draw out the phlegm that causes the pain Or take the root of Elder boil it in half Wine and half Water and hold it warm upon the Teeth But what you take of this Decoction must be often spit out and other fresh taken into your mouth of which I have found wonderful Effects The root of Heath boiled together with the same herb in wine and laid on is esteem'd to be powerful in drawing out thorns and splinters You may make a good Ointment against the Itch and Scabbs of Savin stale Fat Brimstone and Juniper-berries Oyl If your Limbs after a long sickness be weak boil Valerian-roots in Camomil-oyl and anoint such Limbs therewith Also the Oyl of Lillies in the valley and that of yellow Violets is good for the same purpose For worms in the Fingers bruise Persicaria Arsmart and lay it on or take of a Piggs Bladder of Gall and put it on the affected Finger like a Thimble If you have any coagulated or congealed blood in your Breast make a Decoction of Scabious Chervil and Germander in two parts of wine and one part of water strain it and drink of it mornings and evenings Against the putrefaction of the Mouth make a Decoction of Privet in water adding afterwards a little Allum to it and use it for a gargarism Also a Decoction of the middle rind of Hawthorn with a little Allum is of great effect in the same case Cabbage and Colewort-leaves burnt to ashes and a Lixivium made of it and clapp'd on cureth a Gangrene and the wild Fire especially if you mingle a little Oyl of Elder therewith If you can have no Elder-blossoms for this Oyl take the green middle rind of Elder and boil it in Oyl Olive and then strain the Oyl which done take fresh rind of Elder and proceed with it as before repeating it three or four times to make the Oyl the stronger You may add a little wine to it whilst 't is boiling but that must all boil away and so long till the Oyl cracks no more in the fire Southern-wood stamped with grease and laid on draweth out splinters If you have the Itch or are scabby and can light upon some water standing in the hollowness of a Beech-tree wash your self with it Or make a Decoction of the brown rind of Alder which is under the gray in Butter and anoint your self with it mixing if you will a little Brimstone therewith If you be troubled with the Ring-worm or any running Scab infuse Litharge in Vineger and let it stand a night infused or make a Decoction of the same in Vineger But your pan or vessel must be of brass This Vineger mingle with Oyl of Elder or of Roses
some into the bleeding wound and it will stop it But of this case more hereafter The wound being cleansed and the bleeding stayed take fine linnen-raggs burn them as you are wont to do for tinder and quench it in Oyl of Olives and put some of it into the wound If you have no plaister at hand take a slice of unsalted lard and lay it on If that be also wanting dip a pledget of linnen-raggs in warm wine and being wrung out very dry lay it upon the wound and a dry bandage over it that so the moist pledget may long keep warm Though in such wounds as are apt to bleed much warm bandages are often to be avoided and sometimes but with singular care and discretion cold bandages to be used if the hurt be not in the brain breast or bowels Whence old Hippocrates hath this Aphorism Frigido verò in iis locis utendum unde sanguis aut fluit aut fluxunus est Yet this must be done with great caution lest in the place affected there should follow a Gangrene After this take Oyl of Olives and Wine beat them well together and warm the mixture dip in it linnen pledgets wring them dry and lay them on warm with a dry bandage over it This must be done once every hour or every two hours nor let this care and labour seem irksome to you for it will have a good effect This Dress is almost the only thing which the Knights of Maltha make use of at Sea to heal their wounds for the Oyl allays the pain and the swelling as the Wine cleanseth and these two together cause healing Whence the Samaritan in the Gospel is said to have poured only Oyl and Wine into the wounds of him that was fallen among Thieves You may therefore make out of these two 〈◊〉 Wound-salve that may be equivalent to almost every common Wound-balsom preparing it thus Take one part of Oyl-olive and two parts of Wine boil them together till the Wine be boiled in and the Oyl when any is thrown into the fire cracks no more and you have a Wound-oyl according to wish Put of it with fine linnen shavings into the wound and it will for a plain remedy do marvels You may also melt Lard unsalted mix it with Honey and Rye flower and so make it into a Salve which though plain and simple may when put upon the wound have as good an effect as many Plaisters that are in great esteem Otherwise for a very good Wound-salve take of the best Aloes cleanly pulverised the weight of a ducat mingle and stir it with half an ounce of fine honey melt afterwards by it self half an ounce of Deer-suet and stir it among the other Ingredients Thus you have a good Salve against the putrefaction of wounds and for the asswaging of their pains as also for healing them if you duely apply it to the wound If you 'l add to it a little Cyprus-Turpentin with the yolk of an Egg you may The black Wheel-grease in a time of need is also a good Wound salve and is only despised because of its plainness When you use it lay only over it the leaves of Snake-weed or of pointed Plantain But by all means keep the wound clean and let not many look into it for fear they should by their breath annoy it some being fasting others having eaten one thing others another But especially admit not many women when you open the wound for cleansing and dressing it But above all things take care to exclude the Air as much as is possible from the open'd wound especially if any Artery or Nerve be hurt Take notice that Carpenters and Joyners when they have hurt themselves do almost by this only means of well closing their wounds and keeping out the Air heal themselves They take a very thin chip and lay upon it some of the glue wherewith they joyn together the boards of their work and this they apply to the wound first well cleansed and let it lye on till it fall off of it self and the wound is healed But this will not do in case any Bones be hurt Item take Honey and the Dust-flower of the Mills fresh Butter and Bol-armeniack and knead it well together without any fire until it be as thick as a Plaister and this laid on is very good Item take Cumphrey well cleansed out it small add to it one or two of the Vulnerary Herbs such as you may 〈◊〉 â—et with in the field as Pyrola or Winter-green Yarrow Plantain Fluellin Orpin Confound Sanible Bugle c. Boil this in Linseed-oyl and a little Wine until the Wine is boiled away and this being strained put to it some raw Honey and one or two well beaten yolks of Eggs according to the quantity you make and a little Turpentin and so thrust it with some Hemp or Flax dipt in it into the wound Lime-water is one of the simplest on plainest remedies but healeth admirably well Take only some unflaked Lime pour on it clear water and let it stand upon it till the Lime be fallen to the bottom Wash the wound with it especially such as are old running Sores and you 'l find a wonderful effect These plain means may be raised in case you want a Chirurgion taking the assistance of your Fellow-souldier in the application though those very remedies may challenge a place among the most chargeablednes prescribed and applied by Masters And provided the Chirurgion do not under-value these my plain and cheap remedies but receive them thankfully I am ready here to teach him some ways hitherto concealed by me which I scruple to keep any longer from publick knowledge Know then first that to a Physitian belongs also the knowledge of Chirurgery as a third part of the Art of Medicine the other two being the Pharmaceutica prescribing Medicines for inward Diseases and the Diatetica ordering the Patients Diet and other necessaries I have my self whilst I practised Physick dressed in Camps many wounds with my own hands and cured them carrying always my Chirurgical apparatus about me without any disparagement to my Profession imitating herein the Examples above alledged of Podalyrius and Machaon two of the chief Physitians of the Antients in the Army before Troy who were not at all ashamed to practise Chirurgery and to attend the cure of wounded Souldiers First of all then consider well whether the wound be mortal or no. Next what limb or part it is that hath received the wound The wounds in the Head are commonly the most dangerous by reason of the Symptoms incident to them as the Apoplexy Falling Sickness or other Convulsions the Palsey and Laming of the limbs by reason of the hurt nerves as also Phrensy Loss of Hearing and Speech c. which are wont to be consequent according as the respective nerves have been struck or wounded If the Breast be any where wounded great care also is to be had and the means must be directed to prevent