of biskets and I would boyle them in ship-beere and with some fat of the beefe-kettle or of the porke-kettle I would make vp a supperatiue Cathaplasme and if it had not a fit consistance or body I would deale with the Steward for a little meale or take of my owne store and according to my store inrich that with other helpes from the Chest And if I neede a discutient Cathaplasme and the Chest had not to helpe mee to my will being put to it I would as I said make my ground of the medicine to bee of crummes of bisket or of soft bread decocted in beere adding when it had well sod viniger and hony a fit quantitie these things with other rationall additions according to seuerall occasions doe much comfort the weake patient and also grace the Artist Nam frustra fit per plura quod fieri potest per pauciora And to put young Surgions in minde what other supperatiue medicines are in the Surgions Chest there are either Vnguents Oyles or Emplasticke medicaments diuers which my time will not admit me to informe you off though I confesse I should aduise young men Of Supperatiue medicines in their necessities but to bee short they shall finde Vnguentum Bazillicon spread thicke and applied to an Aposteme doth wel and the better if the place Embrocated with some Oleum Lili Lini or the like and you shall finde that Arceus Linament is good and likewise Emplastrum Mellilote and who knoweth not that shippe-pitch and a little fat mixed ripeneth a Tumor duely applyed or Pix Graeca with fat or Turpentine and diuers other the like good things may bee found where the discreet Surgion is put to his shifts but no more of that for whereas Bees may sucke hony enen there Spiders will conuert a plaine stile into poyson and gall Nonomnibus dormio A readie defensatiue powder to bee applyed where iust cause is for a defensatiue either for wounds with gunshot or other wounds which I haue long made vse of and will impart the secret to young practitioners as followeth â„ž Terra Sigillata Aluminis Vitrioli Tartarae Cerussae ana 1. Ib. Boli Armeni 2. Ib. Aque 1. Ib. ss Take a new earthen pot of almost a gallon and an halfe put the water into the pot and thereunto at the first put the Allom and the Copperas then powder the Tarter and put that in also and then haue ready the other ingrediences in powder put them in by little and little stirring them very well vntill all be incorporated and without seething keepe the medicine on the fire till it be hard and if you cannot make it hard enough in that manner so that being cold it will powder then put it into some dripping panne or the like and into an ouen when the bread is drawne and it will be hard then being cold powder it and keepe it to your vse it will not decay nor alter his vertue in many yeeres And when you would vse it for a defensatiue take of this powder about halfe an ounce of Posca I meane water and vineger mixed foure ounces put the powder therein which wil almost al melt then dippe clouts therein and apply them This medicine with moderation vsed is a true and excellent defensatiue and very Anodine Also it healeth all Itchings Smartings gaulings or any Erisiphilas or other Excoriations speedily and safely and mightily preuenteth accidents either in great wounds or fractures and being in small quantity vsed with faire water to bathe vsed with faire water to bathe vlcers it cleanseth them well and healeth them And if you haue whites of egges mixed with Posca it were the better or in fractures with yelke and whites together it is very good onely let the care of the Surgion bee that he apply it in his true nature namely as a defensatiue in fit time and so touching the rest of the vses thereof and hee may presume he hath a sure good medicine and so for this time I make my leaue FINIS
also diuers Cordiall Of Corâ—â—â—â—â— generallâ— medicines which may bee profitably administred each vpon due occasion viz. Conf. Alkermis either giuen alone or to aromatize any purgatiue or Cordiall medicine from 4. grayns to a scrupell for a dose Aqua Celestis and Cinnamon water to refresh the spirits halfe a spoonefull or one spoonefull for a dose and so of spirit of wine and also Aqua Vitae made of wine which so much as it containeth of the spirit of wine is quasi spiritus vitae Also the Surgions Chest hath against contagion Against Plague 〈…〉 of the Ayr. and the Plague Mithredate Ther. Londinensis Diatesseron Elec. de ouo as also Diascordium Conf. Alkermis and Laudanum mentioned all these being proper for Pestelentiall occasions the vses and vertues of which I would touch though but in a word And for example if the Surgions desire a Cordiall to bee made to cause rest it is made either of Laudanum to 3. graynes as it is said or Diascordium to 2. dragmes or Philonium to one dragme mentioned Note that Laudinum 〈◊〉 is best to be taken in a pill because of his vngratefull taste and Philonium in a bolus or lumpe for the like reason and so also may Diascordium be vsed well and especially in War where neither the aduise of the learned Physitian nor the helpe of the Apothecaries shop is at hand but if the Surgion be occasioned and that hee would haue Diascordium giuen in a Potion then let him take of Diascordium 2 dragmes of White Wine or faire Water 3. ounces or 4. of Sir Violarum halfe an ounce Conf. Alkermis 8. graines Oleum vitrioll gutt 4. and let the Patient incline himselfe to rest Also if a Cordiall to comfort the spirits be required then the foresaid Cinnamon water Aqua Celestis or Cordiall comfortiue Aqua vitae of wine is at hand without mixture or addition or with some addition halfe a spoonefull or a spoonefull for a dose If against malignitie of the bloud or any Pestilentiall Contagion feared then the patient may take as followeth Re. Diatessaron 2. dragmes Mithridate 1. dragme Elect. de ouo halfe a dragme desolue or mix A Cordiall Diaphoreticon them together and take it in White Wine Clarret or Sacke or in Cardus or faire water for need of any of these to the quantity of 4. ounces and sweate thereupon and if the Contagion be fierce the patient may reiterate such a sweating medicine each 4. houres safely for three times These or any of these other Cordialls may be giuen in other waters and other mixtures according to the discretion of the Surgion the time place and different occasion considered and for need in a bolus or lumpe likewise Mithridate or Andromaches Treakel a drame or 2. drams in White Wine in Cardus water or in beere or water for a neede may safely be taken for a Cordiall or in a bolus Also Theriaca Diatessaron three dragmes for a dose taken either as it is in a bolus or lumpe to bee swallowed For torsions or gripings of the stomake or bowells downe is an excellent Cordiall to prouoke sweat to remoue Torsions Stitches or gripings of the stomacke or lower belly or any paynes therein also it resisteth putrifactious and pestilentiall vapours and is the most antients Treacle of all other my selfe haue had very much true and good experience of it and would trust my life vpon it before the 2. asoresaid Alexifarmicks and the Lond. Treacle in the like manner is to be vsed and is a very good Cordiall El. de Ouo is also of it selfe a sure good Cordiall a Scruple I meane 20. graynes thereof in a bolus or in wine giuen it resisteth pestilentiall venome and refresheth the spirits and either alone or as is aforesaid mixed with other Cordiall Electuaries is also a true A Cordiall Cordiall for it comforteth the heart prouoketh sweat and by the poores of the skinne expelleth poysenous vapours Cons rosarum is vsed to resresh and strengthen the stomacke either alone or if you intend to coole and contemperate the bloud adde a few droppes of oyle A contemperatiue Cordiall of Vitrioll to a little thereof and if to warme the stomacke mixe Mithridate or Treacle one part and cons Roses 2. parts and giue it in a bolus Cons Barbar you should keepe either to mixe with Of Cooling Iulaps your cooling barley waters or Iulaps to refresh the appetite the apalled spirits in feauors or somtimes to giue a little of it in a bolus to giue a relish to the mouth to cause appetite in feauors and nautious distempers There is also in the Chest Oximell Simplex which I vse in the Surgions Chest in want of Sir Diamoron or rather being nothing inferiour for lotions in Vertue of Oximell the mouth throat orderly vsed as also for the other vertues it hath exceeding Diamoron as namely outwardly in the asswaging tumors and paynes this is a singular medicine and also in Hernia humoralis 〈…〉 tumors of the testicles it excelleth if it be mixed with a Cathaplasme of beane meale boyled in beere with a little oyle of Elders or Roses and a little wax so that the whole quantity of the Cathaplasme being by gesse 2. pound if so then put about 6. or 7. ounces of Oximell thereunto and boyle it to a body and it is an admirable good medicine for it discusseth and safely repelleth such tumors in their increase with the helpe of Phlybothomine and a vomit where the patient is strong which tumors by error of the Surgion will otherwise come to supperation proue fistulaes incurable but he that will cure such tumors must haue an artificiall sacke-trusse and bee sure that the griefe bee truely and easily borne vp at all times of the whole cure and Oximell inwardly administred purgeth the stomacke and intrals openeth obstructions and yet without any manifest signe of heate and thereby helpeth much in feauours ingendred of grosse Phlegme Of Lotions generally vsed in the Surgions Chest the most common is of sanatiue herbes made in the summer with water or wine and honey but at Sea if a lauatiue or washing Lotion in need bee required faire Lotion at Sea for a need water with as much allumne therein as will make it tart so much honey as wil giue it a gratefull taste there is a Lotion Or if in the diseases of the Scurfie a Lotion be required then vse Coper as insteed of allumne or sometimes Vng. Aegyptiacum for vlcers of the mouth or throate the greeued part touched hot may suffice And to wash and coole the mouth in feauours I often take faire water 4. ounces of Rose-water halfe a spoonefull a little sirrup Sugar or mell for a need and a few drops of Wine-vinegar or Oximell a little or oyle of Vintrioll a few drops I haue beene taxed that my proportion hath not sufficient contained therein for wounds with
an old received error of vnwise Obserue at old errour Practitioners whose vse is to cramme the wound full of Bole or restringent powder or some other stuffe and then thrust in Plegeants or Dorsells into each corner of the wound yea sometimes forgetting to take all out yet thinking they haue done all workemenlike not considering the harme that often ensueth thereby I dare say that in contused wounds of Gun-shott they force and draw a Gangrena if not death thereby by but thening nature by obstructing the parts and grieving the patient It is a safe and faire way at the first dressing ever to striue to ioyne together the parts of all incised wounds and vnite the wounded parts if it may be with this cuation to order that fit breathing be left to evacuate the peccant humours then to apply apt and fit astringent medicaments outwardly over all together with apt and due ligature and by that course to stay a Fluxe But in contused and lacerated wounds of Gun-shott the Surgion hath nto that benefit but must trust to other helpes not so readie namely as is said in the lesser wounds to very warme Balmes astringent defensatiues and good ligature and in greater wounds to Causticke Medicaments Cauteries and forcible helpes But in the Surgion his carefull desire to restraine A Caveat Fluxes let him ever beware of hard binding as much as is possible which is also a common dangerous error and certainely draweth on evill accidents as Flegmon Gangrena c. Also on the other side over-slacke binding is as bade due comely and smooth ligature with the due composing the parts wounded with soft and smooth boulstering greatly honoureth the Artist and cureth the Patient almost as much as the medicine Obserue also that you put never one Causticke or Eskaroticke Medicine after another too sonne namely not vntill the first Eskar hath beene gone at the least three dayes If in a contused wound of Gun-shott any slough or putrified part as of the head of the Muscle and Artery or Veine or the like appeare in the wound which needeth an Eskaroticke Medicine And the Surgion doe desire to clense that part striue to vse your Causticke Medicine namely your hott Egiptiacum or a Cautery if you can apply it onely on that place and not all over the wound For you are to consider that as too much gleeting Over-drying Medicines dangerous weeping or expence of humiditie from wounds of Gun-shott is dangerous many wayes so too much vse of drying Medicaments in wounds made with Gun-shott is no lesse dangerous by stopping the pores repelling the peccant humors by reason of the contusion collected being choaked in the wound aptly indanger a Gangrena and all other deadly accidents incident therevnto Now a word or two in want of the graue Phisition Aduice touâ—â—ing the genâ—rall regimenâ— of wounded men how the young Surgion may in part demeane himselfe being put to it for the more happy performance of the cures made with Gun-shot which are very much regulated by the gouerment of the Patient touching his Diet as also in the carefull keeping his body Diet. in temper from much costiuenesse and also to stay inordinate fluxes thereby to preuent accidents as feauors c. And further also to meete with an helpe to cure euill accidents when they happen to the effecting whereof good diet and other fitting helpes are to be wished might attend valiant men which fight for their countreys defence which failing much with Souldiers there the Surgions must take it as they can haue it and make vse in necessity of what the Surgions Chest affordeth viz. if the Patient before his wound had not a loose body let the Surgion giue him a Suppository or Glister if he seeme disposed to a feauor Suppository or Glist though he hath bleed by his wound yet if his strength be answerable open a veine on the contrary side of his griefe but purge him not being wounded without very iust cause rather keepe him by gentle meanes to haue the benefit of nature either by Glister or Suppository If he be distempered with heate make him a Barley-water viz. water two gallons Barley six ounces Liquirise one ounce or iuyce of Liquirise two dragmes boyle it gently a little then cast away the first waters if water be plentifull else not and boyle it in fresh waters till one third part bee spent and being boyled and clarified to the said decoction adde some few droppes of oyle of Vitrioll to make it somewhat sowre in taste but not too much but if to this six grains of Confectio Alkermis with one spoonefull of Rosewater were added the drinke would bee much the more gratefull in taste and more prefitable I conceiue it will bee needlesse to vrge a course for a sparing diet for I feare gluttony will not be their sinne But if fullnesse of body be a hinderance the Surgion hath meanes to euacuate as for a vomit by Stibium the A vomite infusion of six or eight graines if such be fitting in able bodies by laxatiues as Conf. Hamech six dragmes for a dose Diaphenicon or Diacatholicon the dose to an able body is a full ounce The pills in the inuoyce of this pill Chest vpon their seuerall occasions one dragme is a dose of any one sort of them of Pull Sanctus may be giuen two dragmes of Pull Artheticus one dragme If Cordialls be required the Surgion hath in his Chest to prouoke rest in feauors seuerall ones as more particular there is Diascordium which hee may giue to the full of two dragmes for a dose to a strong body either in wine or water as hee please or in a bolus or lumpe of it selfe Also he hath Laudanum which hee may safely giue Vse of Laudanum three or foure graines to asswage paine in painefull wounds to giue rest in feauors to stay fluxes and in diuers other cases being vsed with iudgement and prouided that the partie which taketh it bee not costiue Likewise in fluxes of the belly often accompanied with crude nautiousnesse of the Stomake as also against venemous or pestelentiall infection of the bloud there is in the Chest PhyloniuÌ„ Persicum of which the patient may take from one scruple to halfe a dragme to one dragme safely in a reasonable body this is a safe medicine which causeth rest and corroborateth the stomake and mightily preuaileth to stay a fluxe of the belly and doth also correct venemous and maligne humors and is therefore very fit to bee vsed in fluxes that bee contagious or pestelentiall after some fitting euacuation if occasion so be What I here write it is of mine owne practice you may take it on my word for truth for you shall find it to be so if with due caution you make right vse of them These there cordials swage paine viz. Diascordium Laudanum 〈…〉 and Phylonium or either coole or contemporate the blood The Surgions Chest containeth