CHAP. IX.
Bitings of Adders, Slow∣wormes, Efts, the Shrew-Mouse, and other such ve∣nomous Beasts.
REmembring what I sayd before in the sixt Chap∣ter,* 1.1 to begin the Cure.
Helps for suddain accidents endangering life By which those that liue farre from physitions or chirurgions may happily preserue the life of a poore friend or neighbour, till such a man may be had to perfect the cure. Collected out of the best authours for the generall good, by Stephen Bradvvell. physition.
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- Helps for suddain accidents endangering life By which those that liue farre from physitions or chirurgions may happily preserue the life of a poore friend or neighbour, till such a man may be had to perfect the cure. Collected out of the best authours for the generall good, by Stephen Bradvvell. physition.
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- Bradwell, Stephen.
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- 1633.
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"Helps for suddain accidents endangering life By which those that liue farre from physitions or chirurgions may happily preserue the life of a poore friend or neighbour, till such a man may be had to perfect the cure. Collected out of the best authours for the generall good, by Stephen Bradvvell. physition." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A16627.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 5, 2024.
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The flesh of the same beast that biteth, boyled, or rosted, as they dresse Eeles, and inwardly taken, helpeth much. Or a dram of Gentian root powdered & drunke in a little draught of white wine. Or halfe a dram of Terta Sigillata in the same kinde of wine. Or els the same wine with Opoponax and Aristolochia rotunds.
Outwardly, the best thing to be applied is the flesh of the same beast that did the hurt, pounded in a morter, and applied in man∣ner of a Poultis. Or a Poultis made of Cocks-dung and Vine∣ger. Or an old Walnut beaten with Salt, an Onion, and a little Honey, and applied. Or take Peny-royall and Fenell, of each a like quantitie, boyle them in water and white wine, & bathe the place with the liquor. Or els
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drop into the wound the liquor that sweateth out of the greene ashen wood while it burneth on the fire. Or Oyle of Bay and oyle of St. Iohns Wort, of each a like quantitie. Or els a little Tarre mixed with a little salt spread on a peice of Leather, and applyed playster-wise. This is for the Ad∣der, Slow-worme, or Eft.
Now the Shrew-mouse is a lit∣tle kinde of mouse with a long sharpe snout,* 1.2 and a short tayle; It liveth commonly in old rui∣nous walls: It biteth also very venomously, and leaveth foure small perforations, made by her foure foreteeth; To cure her bi∣ting; her flesh roasted and eaten is the best inward Antidote, if it may be had. Otherwise, a dram of the seeds of Agnus Castus bea∣ten and steeped in white Wine.
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Or els some of the other Anti∣dotes described at the beginning of this Booke. And outwardly, apply her warme liver and skin, if it may be had. Otherwise Roc∣ket-seeds beaten into powder, and mixed with the bloud of a Dog. Or els the teeth of a dead man made into fine powder.
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* 1.1
Bitings of Adders, Slow∣worms, or Efts.
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* 1.2
Bitings of the Shrew-Mouse.