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. VI. Vlcer with prowd flesh.

PRowd flesh is to bee abated, ei∣ther by manuall operation, or medicines. By manuall operati∣on, as by the incision knife, cauterie, hote scissors, &c. The medicines must bee corrosiue: whereof you haue store, both gentler, and stron∣ger. The easier are also of two sortes, differing in the more, and lesse: as the more gentle are these: alumen ••∣stum, cum bolo: hermodactyli cum tartaro, nuclei dactylorum combusti, aqua vitae cum sulphure, vnguentum apostolorum, semen vrticae, squammae aeris, serpentaria, ae••, vstum, radix asphod••li, cinis eryna∣cei. Lesse gentle are these: to wit, p••luis mercurij, vnguentum AEgiptia∣cum, vnguentum apostolorum cum aeru∣gine rasili. Of the stronger sort, you haue both simple and compound me∣dicines: simple, as Calx viua, chalci∣ti••, chalcanthum vstum. sublimatum hydrargyrum. Compoundes are thus prouided: Recipe hydrargiri sublimati.

ʒ.ij. aluminis cr••di, ʒ.v. aqua ros. vel plantaginis, ℥.vi. boyle them to the wasting of the fourth parte. Another: Recipe salis nitri, vitrioli romani, aluminis, ana, ℥.ss. hydrargyri sublimati ʒ.ss. aquae plantag.℥.vi. a∣ceti, ℥.ij. boyle them as is saide be∣fore. Note, that when you minister these stronger medicines, you ap∣plye about the vlcer, vnguentum de bolo armeno. The prowde fleshe thus abated, the vlcer must be cicatrized.