are hot & subtle of parts, as mithridate or treacle dissolved in aqua vitae, and the same powred into the wound; the patient must be warmed by bathes, frictions, walking, and the like. When as the hurt part becommeth purple, black or greene, it is a signe that the native heat is extinct and suffocated by the malignity of the venome. There∣fore then it is best to amputate the member, if the partie bee able to endure it, and there be nothing which may hinder. Vigo writes, that he saw a Mountebank at Flo∣rence, who, that he might sell the more of his Antidotes, and at the better rate, let an Aspe to bite him by the finger, but he died thereof some foure houres after. To the same purpose you may reade Mathiolus, whereas hee writes that those Impostors or Mountebanks to cozen the better, and deceive the people, use to hunt and take vi∣pers and aspes long after the spring, that is, then whenas they have cast forth their most deadly poyson; then they feed them with meats formerly unusuall to them, so that by long keeping and care, at the length they bring it to passe, that they put off a great part of their venemous nature; neither being thus satisfied, they make them of∣tentimes to bite upon pieces of flesh, that so they may cast forth into them the ve∣nome which is contained in the membraine betweene their teeth and gums. Lastly, they force them to bite, licke and swallow downe an astringent medicine, which they compose and carry about for the same purpose, that so they may obstruct the passages by which the venome used to flow out, for thus at length their bites will be harmelesse, or without great danger. This therefore is their art, that so they may sell their counterfeit treacle to the people at a high rate, as that which is a most safe reme∣dy against all poisonous bites. Christopher Andrew in his book called ••••coiatria, writes, that the Ilands of Spaine are every-where full and stored with serpents, aspes, and all sorts of venemous beasts, against whose bites they never observed or found any be∣nefit in treacle. But the efficacie of the following Antidote is so certaine and excel∣lent, and approved by so manifold experience, that in the confidence thereof, they will not bee affraid to let themselves bee bitten by an Aspe. Now this medicine is composed of the leaves of Mullet, Avenes & red stock Gilly flowers in like quantity, which they boile in sharpe vinegar and the urine of a sound man, and there with fo∣ment the wounded part. Yet if he have not taken nor used any thing of a good while after the wound, it will be better and more certaine, if the patient drinke three oun∣ces of this decoction fasting two houres before meate.