CHAP. XLVI. What cure is to be used to Ulcers, when as the urine flowes through them, long after the stone is drawne out.
MAny after the stone is drawneout, cannot have the ulcer consolidated, therefore the urine flowes out this way continually by little and little, and against the patients will during the rest of his life, unlesse the Sur∣geon helpe it. Therefore the callous lippes of the wound must be am∣putated, so to make a green wound of an old ulcer; then must they bee * 1.1 tyed up, and bound with the instrument wee terme a Retinaculum or stay; this must be perforated with three holes, answering to three other on the other side, needles shall be thrust through these holes, taking hold of much flesh, and shall be knit about it: then glutinative medicines shall be applyed, such as are Venice Turpentine, gum Elemi, sanguis Draconis, bole armenick, and the like; after five or sixe dayes the nee∣dles shall bee taken out, and also the stay taken away. For then you shall finde the wound almost glewed, and there will nothing remaine but onely to cicatrize it.
A. shewes the greater. B. the lesser, that you may know that you must use divers ac∣cording to the different bignesse of the wound.
If a Retinaculum or stay be wanting, you may conjoyne the lippes of the wound af∣ter * 1.2 this following manner. Put two quilles somwhat longer than the wound, on each side one, and then presently thrust them through with needles having thread in them, taking hold of the flesh between, as often as need shall require, then tying the thread upon them. For thus the wound shall be agglutinated, and the fleshy lips of the wound kept from being torne, which would be in danger if the needle & thread were onely used.