A compendious chyrurgerie: gathered, & translated (especially) out of Wecker, at the request of certaine, but encreased and enlightened with certaine annotations, resolutions & supplyes, not impertinent to this treatise, nor vnprofitable to the reader: published for the benefite of all his countreymen, by Ihon Banester maister in chyrurgerie

CHAP. XIX. Vlcers in the nose, called Ozenae.

OZenae are vlcers about the na∣sterls, yelding a filthy sauour, and casting manie crustes.

Causes ar sharp putrefied hu∣mors. The signes are manifest.

Seeing it commeth of the flowing

in of sharpe and putrified humors, it is verie harde to cure.

Order the patients dyet so, as his meates may be of good iuyce, and not sharpe nor salte, his drinke small. And the quantitie of either spare. Open the humerall veine, if the head abound with bloud, and set cuppes to the hinder parte of the head, purge vniuersally, cum pillulis aureis, cochijs, sine quibus, &c. And after perticulerly, with masticatories ex mastice & scam∣monio &c. Fortifie also the part affe∣cted, to wit, the head, that it bee not so apt to receiue excrements, thither∣to ascending: and this doe by dryinge and repellent meanes, such as these: oleum myrthinum, ol. rosaceum, puluis co∣rallorum, santallorum, rosarum rub. sicc. gallarum, acaciae, myrthi, masticis, mannae thuris, &c. Of those may you make plasters, to apply all ouer the toppe of the head, being shauen: as for exam∣ple this fourme: Rec. myrrhae, thuris, a∣na, ℥.j. cochleas integras num. v. albumi∣num ouorum num. ij. cerae, q.s. misce fia•• emplastrum. Apply it on a linnen cloth to be worne nine dayes togither. Of the vlcer it selfe consider, either as it is

newe, or inueterate: to prouide for either case, answerable medicines. Ap∣ply to the newe Ozaena accordinge to his present condition, to wit, as it is crustie, filthie or pure: fall the crust cum melle & resina, axungia gallinae, bu∣tyro, oleo violaceo, or such other. Purge and cleanse it cum melle despumato, melle rosato••colato, or, vnguento AE∣giptiaco, and that which is pure and cleane, fill vp and conglutinate cum vnguent. de Thutia, or delythargirio, or lycio cum vino diluto, or a mixture ex menthae succo cum melle, ex omphacio cum melle: or, vnguento ex cerussa, a••genti spuma, vino & oleo myrthino. Else thus compounded: Recipe spumae argenti, cerussae, ana, ʒ.vj•• plumbi vsti loti, ʒ.iij myrrhae, aloes, ana, ʒ.ij. gallarum ʒ.j. vini, ol. myrth. ana, q.s. fiat vnguentum. Nowe, for the inueterate, and putri∣fied, which must be eaten out & scou∣red, ordaine such deuised meanes as followe. An vnguent: Recipe ompha∣cij, ℥.ss. malicorij, balaustiorum, ana, ʒ.iij. myrrhae, aluminis, ladani, ana, ʒ.ij. chalcitidis, aloes, cort. thuris, ana, ʒ•••••• olei ros••c. ol. myrtini, ana, ℥.ij. cerae ru•• q.s. ••iat vnguentum. A fume: Reci••••

ladani, hypocistidis, masticis, myrrhae, sty∣racis, rub. calaminthae cort. thuris, sanda∣racae, auripigmenti rub. ana, ʒ.iij. ter••∣binthinae, q.s. fiant i••ochisci pro fum••. A water: Recipe balaustiorum, malico∣rij, ana, ••i.iij. plantaginis, caud••, equinae, pilosellae, linguae passerinae, herniariae, ana, manipulum ij. rad. bistortae, li. ss. foliorum myrthi, m.j. ••co••tu••dantur, & simul de∣stillentur. Put to the water destilled, aluminis ℥.iij. and therewith wash the vlcer. To mitigate paine (if any bee) vse axungia gallinae, cum oleo violaceo & pauca c••ra.

Notes

• ••ef.
• ••auses & ••ignes.
• ••rog.
• Cure.
• For the nevv O∣••ena.
• For the in∣ueterate.