¶ A siccatyf powder
Made of pure whyt frāckencens. ii. partis & Aloepaticum. i. parte / temper this pow∣der with the whyte of an egge as thycke as hony / and depe therin whyte haers hee•• yt is cut small and lay that to the woūde or vayne / for that dothe nat only staūche the blode / but yt helyth also the arteries / as Lanfrancus of melan hath often tymes prouyd / as he wryteth in the chapter of ye staunchynge of woundes / that a chylde of iii. yere olde hauynge a knyf in his hande / and sell vppon it and so hurte hym selfe in ye throte / & vnwares he com by the chylde whiche all redy had lost his sight / and the blode dyde rōne whyte out of vaynes / and his puwlce dyde bete but fayntly / and he layde incontynente hys fynger vpon the mowthe of the wounde that there myght nomore yssowe out the wounde / and with in alystonde the nature was reconfortith / and ye poulce began to bete agayne / & the iyen began̄ to opyn / than dyde he laye the fornamyd powder vpon the wounde / and vpō that he dyde lay tow depyd in ye whyte of an egge / and he commaundyd to gyue ye chylde a morssell of bred stepyd in water / & the nexte daye the chylde was well streng∣thyd / yet he vnbounde nat the bounde tyll the fourthe daye after / and on the. iiii. daye the drynes or cyccatyf was so harde backē there to / that he cowde nat well gett it of. Thā he dyd laye to it the whyte of an egge & oyle of rosis betyn togeder as afore is said and dyd let it laye vpon it tyll the next daye and than was the woūde clene hole / wher¦of all the people therabout had great mer∣uell. ¶ If the blode wyll nat staunche with suche cyccatyffes through any accy∣dentys or tofallynges / thā must ye worke with suche sharpe ferynges or brennyngys as is before specyfyed. ¶ Also another staūchyng takyn by the instruccyō of Aui∣cenna / ¶ A cyccatyf powder Take onquenchyd lyme / dragōs blode aloes succotrini / of eche a lyke moche / and therof a powder made / and vsyd as ye other before. ¶ If ye wyll haue another that dryeth and resteyneth more.