CHAP. XXI. Of poysoned wounds.
IF these wounds at any time proove poysoned, they have it from their pri∣mitive * 1.1 cause, to wit, the empoisoned Arrowes, or Darts of their enemies. You may finde it out both by the propertie of the paine; if that it bee great and pricking, as if continually stung with Bees, for such paine usually en∣sues in wounds poysoned with hot poyson, as Arrowes usually are; Also you shall know it by the condition of the wounded flesh; for it will become pale and grow li∣vid, with some signes of mortification. To conclude, there happen many and ma∣ligne symptomes upon wounds which are empoysoned, being such as happen not in the common nature of usuall wounds. Therefore presently after you have pluck∣ed forth the strange bodies, encompasse the wound with many and deepe scarrifica∣tions, * 1.2 apply ventoses with much flame, that so the poyson may bee more powerfully drawne forth; to which purpose the sucking of the wound, performed by one whose mouth hath no soarenesse therein, but is filled with oyle, that so the poyson which he sucks may not sticke, nor adhere to the part, will much conduce. Lastly, it must be drawne forth by rubefying, vesicatory and caustick medicines, and assailed by ointments, cataplasmes, emplasters, and all sorts of locall medicines.