CHAP. XI. How to correct the constitution of the ayre, so that the noble parts may be strengthe∣ned, and the whole body besides.
BVt because as we have formerly told you, there are some times wherein even small wounds made by Gunshot prove deadly, not by their owne fault, but the fault of the ayre; therefore also the Chirurgion must have this care, that * 1.1 he correct the ayre with all diligence, and reduce it to a certaine quality and modera∣tion of substance, and strengthen the noble parts and whole body besides, which may be performed, by the following medicines, which are to be taken inwardly and ap∣plyed outwardly. In the morning three houres before meate let the Patient take some certaine quantity as the Physition shall thinke fit of the electuary Diarbodon Ab∣batis, or Aromaticum rosatum, triasantalon, biamoschum, laetificans Galeni, or some such other like. And you shall apply some such Epitheme as is heere described to the heart and Liver. ℞ aquae rosar. ℥iiij, aquae buglossae, aceti boni, an. ℥ij. coriandri praeparati ℥ss. * 1.2 caryophill cortic. citri. an. ʒj. sant. rub. ʒss. coralli utriusque ʒss. camphorae ℈j. croci ℈ss. pulver. diarhod. Abbat. ʒij theriacae & Mithridatij an. ℥ss. pul. flo. chamaem & melil. an. ʒiij. misce, fiat epithema. Let it be applyed warme by dipping a scarlet cloath therein. You shall frequently put odorifferous and refrigerating things to the patients nose, to strengthen the animall faculty, as, ℞. aquaerosar. & aceti boni. an. ℥iij. caryophyllorum, nucis moschat, cinamomi conquassatorum, & Theriacae Galeni, an. ʒj. Let a linnen ragge dipped herein, be now and then put to the patients nose; for the same purpose he shall carry a Pomander about him, and often smell thereto. As ℞ * 1.3 ros. rub. violar. an. ʒiij. baccarum myrti, juniperi, santal. rub. an. ʒijss. styracis calamit. ʒij. aq. rosarum, quantum satis est: lique fiat simul cum cerae albae quod sufficit, fiat ceratum ad comprehendendos supradictos pulvers cum pillillo calido, & ducatur in pomum. Or, ℞. rad. Ireos Florent. majoran. calam. aromat. ladani, ••enzoini, rad. cyperi, caryophll. an. ʒij. Mos∣chi, gra. 4. fiat pulvis cum gummi tragacanth. quod sufficit. Or else. ℞. ladani puri ℥j. Ben∣zoini ℥ss, styracis calamit. ʒvj. ireos Flor. ℥ss caryophyll. ʒiij. majoran. ros. rub. calami aromat. an. ʒss, in pollinem redigantur omnia, & bulliant cum aqua ros. quantum sufficit; colentur, colata liquefiant cum justa cerae albae quantitate, styracis liquidae, ℥j, fiat ad modum cerati, & * 1.4 cum pistillo fiat pomum, addita moschi ʒj. Also you may corroborate the animall facul∣ty by application of frontalls, as also procure sleepe, and ease the paine of the head;