of Matthiolus and Plater; the receits of which are set down in the second Section in the second and fourth Chapters.
The Uses. A member being burn∣ed with fire, gun Powder, boyling water, &c. is to be easily anoynted with these warm, and afterwards to be wrapt in soft and warm linnen: For each one of them hath the vertue of rarifying the skin, of drawing out hot vapors, mitigating pain, digesting and drying of serosity, and of curing the raised blabs in ulcers, and in restoring the diseased place, as much as is possi∣ble, to its wonted beauty.
If the burning pierce more deep, so that the blabs being broken, and the skar taken a way, it degenerateth into an ulcer; besides these oyles and oynt∣ments, you must sprinkle easily and lightly every day, the powder of the leaves and pith; which doth excellent∣ly dry, and, by cleansing moderately, doth fill ulcers with flesh.
In this case oyles are more profitable