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CHAP. XVI. Of locall medicines to be applied to a hot or sanguine Gout.
HEre must wee in the beginning make use of repercussives, such as are cold and dry, that they may contend with the morbificke matter by both * 1.1 their qualities; also let them bee astrictive, so to adde strength to the part. But I would have you alwaies to understand that you must first premise generall medicines. ℞. albuminum ovorum nu. iv. succi lactuca & solani an. ℥i. aq. rosar. ℥ii. incorporentur simul, & fiat linimentum saepius renovandum. Others take the meale of barly, lentils, acatia, oile of roses, myrtles, and with a little vineger they make a cataplasme; Or, ℞. sumach, myrtillorum, boli arm. an. ʒss. acatiae, corticum granat. balust. an. ʒi. aq. plantag. & rosar. an. ℥iii. ol. rosati ℥iss. aceti ℥i. farinae hordei & lenti∣um quantum satis erit, fiat cataplasma. This is very excellent and effectuall to stay or hinder phlegmonous and erysipelatous tumours. Also you may make a Cata∣plasme ex mucagine Cydoniorum in aqua rosarum extracta, cassiae fistula, oleo rosato, & aceto. Or, ℞. pampinorum vitis viridum, m. ii. terantur & bulliant in oxycrato ex aqua fabrorum, cui adde sumach. conquassati ℥i. olei rosat. ℥ii. farinae hordei quantum sufficit, fiat cataplasma. Or else, ℞. succi sempervivi, hyoscyami, & portulacae * 1.2 an. ℥iv. corticum mali granati ℥iss. farinae hordei ℥v. vini austeri quantum sufficit, fiat cataplasma; this is much commended, for it hath entring thereinto wine and the pomgranate pill, which both are very great astrictives; and the juices are exceeding cooling, the meale also hinders and thickens the sanguine humours that are ready to flow downe, and make the medicine of a good consistence. Another, ℞. fol. hyos∣cyami & acetosae an. m. i. involvantur papyro, & sub cineribus coquantur, mox cum un∣guento populeon. aut rosat. ℥ii. incorporentur; and then lay this Cataplasme thus made warme unto the part. Another, ℞. florum hyoscyami lb. ii. ponantur in phiala vitrea∣ta, & reconde in fimo equino donec putruerint, accipe ex putredine ℥ii. in quibus dissolve olei de junipero ℥ss. fiat linimentum adusum. Others beat the pulpe of a Gourd or Ci∣trull in a mortar, and so apply it. Another, ℞. mucag. sem. psilii, & cyton. extract. in aquae rosar. & solani an. ℥iiii. olei rosati omphacini, ℥iii. vini granatorum ℥i. vitellos ovorum cum albumine nu. iii. camphorae ʒi. incorporentur simul, fiat linimentum. Or else, ℞. ol. rosat. omphacini ℥iv. album. ovorum cum vitellis nu. vi. succi plantag. & solani, an ℥i. farinae hordei ℥iii. incorporentur simul, fiat cataplasma. Or, ℞. farinae fabarum & hordei an. ℥iii. olei rosati, ℥ii. oxycrati quantum sufficit, coquantur simul, fiat cataplasma. Another, ℞. mucag. sem. psilii ℥iiii. ol. rosati ℥ii. aceti ℥i. vitellos ovorum, nu. iii. croci ℈i. misce. Pliny reporteth that Sextus Pomponius the Governour of the hither Spaine, as hee * 1.3 overlooked the winowing of his corne, was taken by the paine of the gout in his feet, wherefore hee covered himselfe with the Wheat above his knees, and so was eased, his feet being wonderfully dryed; and he afterwards used this kind of remedy. It is note worthy, which often happeneth, that the paine cannot bee altogether eased by such like remedies, by reason of the abundance of bloud impact in the part; * 1.4 wherefore it must bee evacuated: which I have done in many with good successe, opening the veine which was most swelled and nigh to the affected part; for the paine was presently asswaged. Neither must wee too long make use of repercus∣sives; lest the matter become so hardened, that it can scarce bee afterwards resol∣ved, as when it shall bee concrete into knots and plaisterlike stones: resolving medicines are to bee mixed with repercussives conveniently applied, so to dis∣cusse the humour remaining as yet in the part, whereof shall bee spoken in the fol∣lowing Chapter.