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A20902	The Sclopotarie of Iosephus Quercetanus, phisition. Or His booke containing the cure of wounds receiued by shot of gunne or such like engines of warre. Whereunto is added his spagericke antidotary of medicines against the aforesayd woundes. Published into English by Iohn Hester, practitioner in the said spagiricall arte; Sclopterius	Du Chesne, Joseph, ca. 1544-1609.; Du Chesne, Joseph, ca. 1544-1609. Antidotarium spagiricum. aut; Hester, John, d. 1593.	1590 (1590)	STC 7277; ESTC S116126	87,513	114

thus Take honie ℥ ii Crocus martis Crocus vener ana ℥ ss powder of Myrrhe Aristoloch rotundae anaʒ ii Camphere ʒ i. s sower fleame of vitrioll ℥ iiii boyle them to the thickenesse of an vnguent and put thereto mercur Precipitati ounce ss and annoyntthe tentes or plegettes therewith or els thus Take butter of Arsnicke fixed ℥ ii mercur Precipitati ℥ ss oyle of myrhe ʒ iii. mixe them with honnie first washed with the iuice of Selandine There cannot be found a better remedie then this for the cure of Gangrena so be it that first you take away from the Arsnicke all is venome and blacke naughtie and stincking furkes which is done by fixing thereof as shalbe t●●ght in our spagiricall Antidotary For other wise I cannot allowe the iudgement of those which will y t Arsnick crude and vnprepared to be vsed in Gangrena because it is a medicine corosiue and putrifactiue through the euil and venomous qualitie that it hath it destroyeth the substance of the flesh and bringes it to a rotten and stincking deadlinesse whiche is farre worse then Gangrena it selfe wherefore by their leaue the vse thereof is verie dangerous except first as wee sayde before it be rightly prepared And shall not be amisse in the meane while to lay thereon a Cataplasme made with the flower of Lupins orobus lentils and beanes which may be boyled with oximell or the lye aforesayd But and if all these medicines doe nothing preuayle but by the foresayd signes you perceiue that Gangrena will grow to sphacelus then must you presently if it may be cut of the member so much that nothing that is corrupted remaynes which some doe without anie paine at all with a threed made de Alumine plumae and dippid in the oyle of Mercurie sublymate called of some aqua infernalis Others take it off w t a sawe then seare it with a hote iron and so by the aduise of Galen they stop quickly the fluxe of bloud driue awaie putrifaction and strengthen the member After that the putrifaction is taken away and the fluxe of bloud stayed they vse such medicines as take away the scarre as vnguent macedonicum butter and such like and after y t such cure is conuentent as to other vlcers but in the meane while you may not forget to prescribe an orderly kind of diet such a one as is both slender and cooling as bloud-letting or any medicines which clarifie y ● bloud if need shall require neyther forbid such medicines as defend the heart the fountame of life from all filthie and euillfumes comming from the sicke member to the same THE SPAGERICKE ANTIDOTARIE OF the preparation and making of medicines against Gunshot IT is an olde and true saying of the Poet. That there is nothing more imperious then an ignorant man which thinketh nothing well done but what hee doth himselfe which thing as it may be seene in many other arts yet most specially in this which is called y ● Spagericke arte For we see euery where certame men I knowe not what they be puffed vp with a certaine barbarous and foolishe pride which with great scorne inuey against those medicines which are drawne out of the mettaline mines Which notwithstanding it is apparant were in vse and had in great estimation with the chiefe antient Phisitions as we haue declared in that booke which we haue set forth of the spagiricke preparation of medicines And what I pray you is the cause of this anger or rather madnesse but that as they themselues confesse they knowe not the preparation of them O happie artes if onely artificers might iudge them as Fabius is reported sometime to haue said Then are they vnhappy of whome the ignorant and vnlearned feare not so rashly to giue iudgement which neuer yet vnderstoode from whence or why this is called the Spagiricke arte whiche learned men of two Greeke wordes haue so named because by that arte a certaine subtill and spirituall nature is drawne gathered and pressed out wherein the force and effect of the medicine doth chiefly confist The great and incomparable commoditie whereof as it appeareth in many other diseases so shall it chiefly be knowne in curing woundes by Gun-shot As I trust God willing it shall much more happily be tryed and found out by the preparations of medicines animall vegetable and minerall and by other essences drawne out of mercurie Sulphur Vitrioll arsenicke Iron Copper Lead and Litarge and also out of Antimony and such other mineralles as also out of y e grose and fattie bodies of simple mettals of whome it is farre off that the force should be so great although the antient Phisitions haue vsed them to cure woundes and vlcers as their writinges doe testifie as the force of their spirites which may be called as it were their soules But peraduenture some of those backebiters wil say why are not we content with those medicines which the learned antiquitie hath deliuered vnto vs and that Hypocrates and Galen the antient pillers of our arte and others haue set forth in theyr monumentes Why doe we seeke new wayes neuer heard of before specially vnknowne to the Apothecaryes But some of vs will answere that the only remedie of Mercurie precipitate is the onelie remedie to passe ouer other which verie lately they haue begun to vse in curing of woundes by Gunshot and other maligne v●cers were sufficient to aunswere this their question yea and to reproue their follie ioyned with intoller able pride But if authoritie be asked for I thinke Gesner Guinter Andernacke Seuerine to passe ouer a great many other wil be for vs as great authoritie w t the learned as these slanderers Specially because the learning of these famous men is so confirmed by their learned writinges and monumentes that those toonges might count it a greater honoue vnto them to confesse themselues their schollers It were easie for me to bring forth many other argumentes if I did not see the follie of these backbiters to be so great wherof truely I am ashamed specially when I behold some of their books lately set forth wherein contrarie to the purpose of the treatise strange thinges are infarced that as the olde prouerbe saith the oyntment seemeth to consist in nothing as though they pertained to the purposed intreating of curing the gout certain inuectiue digressions I know not what of the beginning of thinges of the originall of mettals Philosophers stone which of them is called Morosophocus or did in any other poynt seeme to agree with it Therefore againe and againe I am inforced to crie out O happie artes if onely artificers might iudge of them How farre vnlike was the purpose of many old men the which if they were ignorant of any thing which they vnderstood was knowne of other euen in farre distant countries they spared no labour to goe see them Plato inflamed with desire to learne those thinges which he knew not went into Egypt and

extraordinarie aches and also with inflamation and pricking and shooting paines especially about the wound with vnlustinesse and heauinesse of all the whole bodie and many times burning feuers with sounding and alienation of the minde all these doo testifie that there is some venemous qualitie ioyned with the wound especially when there can no manifest cause be found out by y e Phisition whereof all these euill accidents should proceede which sometimes I haue seene to happen in simple wounds yea without the tearing of any sinewes But more certainer signes of this matter may be if any tokens appeare outwardly which may bee learned at the mouth of the patient and by relation of his familiar friendes and companions considering also the manner the place and the person being wounded But the surest signe of all is learned by the bullet if it may be found for if you cut him in two parts you shall see him darke and mixed with a purple and violet colour vnlike to the colour of other shot being cut which is wont to haue a yealow colour Then maist thou surely affirme that the shot was poisoned whereby the very substance thereof was altered as plaincly is seene by his inward colour which is greatly altered wanne and darke as we said before Proofe thereof also may be made in the fire which was said not rashly to haue great force in purging of all poison Because such things which are strong poison in deede doe consist of a spirituall and ayriall substance and therefore by force of fire doe easily vanish into the aire yet not with a smal heate such as is felt in going out of y e shot as Ambrosius Pareus thought which rather in processe of time woulde fixe it and make it not volatle and so consequently vnhurtfull But by a most strong heate of fire such as they vse in subliming for in that force of fire y e mercurie is eleuated and vanished away so likewise is the Arsnicke orpigment and such other spirits and for that cause they cannot be purged except they be pressed in the cold necke of the subliming vessels and so the suspected bullet being melted and kept in great heate a sufficient time then a darke and stinking smoke ariseth couering the mettall of which smoke or fume you must heware which after the melting is found not onely vnpurged but also appeareth blacke wanne and darke which commeth through the venemous fume spreding it selfe about the mettall and this is an infallible signe that the shott was poysoned whereby the wound may be venomed as I said before and that according to the time as it remaineth in the wound These be the signes whereby a poysoned wound is knowne which are the more dangerous to be iudged the more they doe weaken the strength of the patient Likewise blistering bladdering pricking paine drinesse contraction and hardnesse of the skinne doth manifestly shewe that the wound is also burnt with powder the which may be learned more surely by relation of the wounded person which can commonly declare whether he ware wounded nigh or farre off which also may be gathered by the burning of the vesture and it behoueth the Phisition to take heede diligently of all these thinges because they are of great waight and may bring great hurt to the wound and hinder greatly the curation thereof and through aboundance of fiures and other grieuous accidents which commonly insue vnlesse timely with wholesome medicines they be preuented as Galen commandeth in 4. Met. cap. 5. where he teacheth the maner of curing of an vlcer ioyned or coupled with another griefe not as the curation of a simple vlcer but first that affection must be remoued and then the vlcer to be cured Of the iudgement Furthermore a sounder iudgement in this case may be giuen by a heedie consideration of the saying of Galen written in his method where he teacheth that diseases may be dangerous for three causes first by reason of the worthinesse of the part affected secondarily through the vehemencie and strength of the griefe lastly by the malignitie and euill qualitie of the disease Therefore if the spirituall parts or if the braine and especially the substance thereof be wounded it is deadly Likewise the lunges the midriffe the stomacke the splene and kidnie being wounded doth cōmonly bring death for they also by reason of their offices are reckoned among the principall partes of no lesse ieopardie are the wounds of the guts especially in the smaller where there is no fleshe also in the bladder which cannot be aglutinated because they are vnbloudie parts and likewise woundes wherein the head or stomacke is pearced through are counted verie dangerous and the more greater and deeper y e wounds be with tearing of the sinewes and brusing of the bones so much the more dangerous they are and especiallie those which happen in the head with fracture of Cranion and also suche as be nigh the ioyntes through great and vehement accidentes insuing hereon but woundes ioyned with venome although in shew they be but small yet are they moste dangerous because by the contrarie substance excessiue qualitie thereof not onely the naturall disposition but also the verie substance of the bodie is altered and changed and especially when the wound is with breaking of the skinne which by thicknesse thereof doth defend the flesh which otherwise it woulde so that the poyson be not subtill that the contagiousnesse thereof doth not infect the bloud spirites and humors and consequently the principall partes whereby death commonly insueth Moreouer all these woundes are to be counted the more dangerous in case they be accompanied with euill accidentes and great passions and also the passion filled with euill humours and so much the more if at that time anie common sicknesse doth raigne in the campe caused by the aire whose qualitie although it be simple and not subiect to putrifaction yet oftentimes it bringeth great alteration to the qualities being infected with noysome and stincking fumes which oftentimes comes to passe in great hostes and chiefly in that part which is molested with composts and dead carcases of beastes and men from whence arise the noysome stincking fumes whereby the souldiers are afflicted also vnstablenesse of the weather comming with tempestes doth greatly hurt these woundes and oftentimes put the partie in great hazard and chiefly when a drie winter goeth before with northen blastes and a wet spring insueth with southerly windes through which many grosse humours are ingendred which with that vnstablenesse of weather are stirred and corrupted and the euilenesse of the aire ioyning therewith bringeth forth pestilent and burning feuers with inflamacions Gangrena and mortification yea and at the last death it selfe as Hipoc witnesseth in the third Aphorisme in lib. Epid. Neyther may we ouerpasse the loose and vnorderly kinde of dyet vsed not onely among the common souldiers but also with the Captaines rulers legates and protectors Which oftentimes are inforced to take such