The regiment of life, whereunto is added a treatise of the pestilence, with the boke of children, newly corrected and enlarged by T. Phayre

¶The .vi. Chapiter, of the cure of carbuncles and anthrax.

AS concernyng the curation both of a carbuncle & the pe∣stilence sore called anthrax, ye maye doe euerye thynge accordyng as we spake afore in the generall cure of the pestilence, bothe as touchinge diete, medicines agaynst the venyme, cordialles, laxa∣tiues, blood lettinges, & ventoses, ye shal heale them as ye heale the botch, in al thinges. But as touching lettīge blood, when ye se a carbūcle or an an∣thrax by him selfe without aposte me of y^e emunctoryes, be it vpō the necke, or vpon the throte, or the face, or the head, ye must let him blood in the head beyne. If it be vpon the shoulders, brestes, or arme or other place aboue y^e ••auyl, take the veine called mediana.

And yf it be beneth the sayde places, downe vnto the knees, take the veyne saphena, but yf it be on the outsyde of the thygh, take the veyne sciatica, euer

vpon the side that the sore is on, (as is sayd afore) consyderyng the complexi∣on, the strength, the age, and the quali∣tie of the blood, euen as is said in the chapter of the botch, and likewise ap∣plye the ventoses vpon them that can not beare flebothomye.

Whyche thynges presupposed, it is good to set vpō the carbūcle, whether it be with botch or without botch, the yolke of an egge, incorporate with as much salt as ye cā tēper with it, renu∣yng it euery houre duryng a hole day. Or els apply the sayd leches or blood suckers round aboute the sore, & after they haue sucked oute the bloode, set theron a cocke as is said of the botch, or els a doue al hote splitte in y^e mid∣dle. And he that can not gette the leches, yet let hym not fayle to applye the residue of y^e sayd medicines, euery one after other as afore is sayde.

Or a hote lofe commynge out of the ouen, or take a sower pomgranad, an•• cut and seeth it in vinegre, or scabious

brused betwen two stones, or the rote of daises, or good sowre dough, incor∣porate with salt and a litle oyle oliue: all these medicines are good to kyl the carbuncle.

The precious stone called a saphyre hath also great vertue against venime and specially against a carbuncle, yf ye touche it with the stone, and drawe it round about the sore by the space of an houre. But whatsoeuer medicine ye set vnto a carbuncle, ye must laye a de∣fensiue about the sore, whiche is made as hereafter foloweth.

¶A good defensiue. Take sanguis draconis, and bole ar∣meni, of ech a like much, make them in pouder and incorporate them wyth oyle of roses, and a litle vineger, and lay it in a cloth al about the sore, with∣out touching any part of it, & renew it when it is harde and drye. But yf the person be of good abilitie and the car∣buncle veri fearce and burning, cannot bee quenched with the meanes afore∣saide,

than ye muste procede with an actual or potencial cauterie, and to re∣moue the escare, laye on capons grece or a litle butter, or els a playster made of mallowe leaues, holihokes, violet∣tes, lily rotes sodden in broth of netes fete or other fleshe, & afterward stam∣ped, streyned, & vpon the fyer mingled with pouder of lineseede, barly floure, beane floure, freshe butter, and swines grece, adding in the ende whan ye take it of, two yolkes of egges and a litle saffron, and styrre it wel about.

This is good also to rype the foresayd sore, afterwarde mundify and heale as is sayde in the other chapter.

I could declare many other remedies, but I set thē that haue bene often pro∣ued, and that be most easye for to gett•• at nede, desyring al them that shall vse these my simple labours, to accept my good wyll vnto the beste, and to pray to God almyghtye for his grace, vnto whom only be al laude glorye and ho¦nor, world wythout end, Amen.