The Sclopotarie of Iosephus Quercetanus, phisition. Or His booke containing the cure of wounds receiued by shot of gunne or such like engines of warre. Whereunto is added his spagericke antidotary of medicines against the aforesayd woundes. Published into English by Iohn Hester, practitioner in the said spagiricall arte

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The Sclopotarie of Iosephus Quercetanus, phisition. Or His booke containing the cure of wounds receiued by shot of gunne or such like engines of warre. Whereunto is added his spagericke antidotary of medicines against the aforesayd woundes. Published into English by Iohn Hester, practitioner in the said spagiricall arte
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Du Chesne, Joseph, ca. 1544-1609.
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London :: Printed by Roger Ward, for Iohn Sheldrake,
1590.
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Medicine -- Early works to 1800.
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"The Sclopotarie of Iosephus Quercetanus, phisition. Or His booke containing the cure of wounds receiued by shot of gunne or such like engines of warre. Whereunto is added his spagericke antidotary of medicines against the aforesayd woundes. Published into English by Iohn Hester, practitioner in the said spagiricall arte." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A20902.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 1, 2024.

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Take of that ointment ℥ ii. of our Precipitate ʒ ii. mixe them, and so shalt thou haue a most excellent remedie, which being vsed in emplasters without Precipitate, is to bee annointed and put into the wound. Or else thus.

Take venice turpentine and white hony, of ech halfe a pounde, the yelkes of twelue eggs, and mixe them very well, and boile them to the thicknesse of a pultise. This ointment (which the Paracelsi∣ans call Galcinatum magnum) you may safely vse in sreede of a di∣gestiue: for being so prepared, it resisteth putrifaction, and is very good to bring such wounds to suppuration.

But in so much as it is the office of naturall heate to maturate, and not of medicines, we must therefore by all meanes possible, in∣crease such heate as is likest thereunto, which is to be increased and nourished by wraping the member in bombase, lana succida, and linnen clothes, or else with some Cataplasme, by all which meanes (as Celsus writeth) daungerous wounds are cured: and such things must be dipped in Hydraelion made of oyle of Ross and Rose-wa∣ter, wherunto you may put a little vineger, but not too much in that it hindereth suppuration, or else vse this fomentation following, which I my selfe do often vse.

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