CHAP. XXIII. Of Epithemes to be used for the strengthening of the principall parts.
THere are also some topick medicines to bee reckoned amongst Antidotes, * 1.1 which must be outwardly applyed as speedily as may be, as cordiall and hepaticke Epithemes for the safety of the noble parts, and strengthening of the faculties, as those that drive the venenate aire farre from the bow∣els: they may be made of cordiall things not onely hot, but also cold, that they may temper the heat, and more powerfully repercusse. They must be applyed warme with * 1.2 a scarlet, or a double linnen cloth, or a soft spunge dipped in them, if so be that a Car∣buncle doe not possesse the regions of the noble parts, for it is not fit to use reper∣cussives to a Carbuncle. You may make Epithemes after the following formes; ℞. aquar. ros. plantag. & solan. an ℥iv. aquae acetos. vini granat. & aceti, an. ℥iii. santal. rub. & coral. rub. pulveris. an. ʒiii. theriac. vet. ℥ss. camph. ℈ii. croci ℈i. carioph. ʒss. misce, fiat epithema. Or else, R. aqu. ros. & plantag. an. ℥x. aceti ros. ℥iv. carioph. sant. rub. coral. rub. pulveris. pul. diamargarit. frigid. an. ʒiss. caphurae & moschi an. ℈i. fiat e∣pithemae. Or, ℞. aquar. rosar. & melissae, an. ℥iv. aceti ros. ℥iii. sant. rub. ʒi. caryophyl. ʒss. croci. ℈ii. caphurae ℈i. boli arm. terraesigil. & zedoar. an. ʒi. fiat epithema. Or else, ℞. aceti rosat. & aquae rosat. an lb. ss. caphurae ʒss. theriac. & mithridat. an. ʒi. fiat epithema. Or else, aqu. rosar. nenuph. buglos. acetosae, aceti rosar. an. lb. ss. sant. rub. ros. rub. an. ʒiii. flor. nenuph. violar. caphur. an. ʒss. mithrid. & theriac. an. ʒii. terantur & misceantur si∣mul omnia. When you intend to use them, take some portion of them in a ves∣sell by its selfe, wherewith let the affected bowell be fomented warme.