Thesaurus chirurgiae : the chirurgical and anatomical works of Paul Barbette ... composed according to the doctrine of the circulation of the blood, and other new inventions of the moderns : together with a treatise of the plague, illustrated with observations / translated out of Low-Dutch into English ... ; to which is added the surgeon's chest, furnished both with instruments and medicines ... and to make it more compleat, is adjoyned a treatise of diseases that for the most part attend camps and fleets ; written in High-Dutch by Raymundus Minderius.

An Ʋnguent of Peter Baierus.

Take the juice of the tops of Bramble, Stalks of Roses, Vinegar, of each two ounces▪ Franck∣incense, Mastick, of each three drams; Li∣tharge of Gold, an ounce; Sack, four ounces; Juice of Housleek, three ounces; Aqua vitae, four ounces: Verdigreece, two ounces and half; Vitriol, Burnt-alom, of each a dram and half; Camphire, a dram; Oyl of Roses, four ounces: Powder those things that are to be powdred, very fine, and being searched, let them boil all together upon a gentle fire, ex∣cept the Camphire, which is to be put in at the end, to the consumption of the Juices, then add the Wax, and make it into an Ointment.

11. The Spermatick Vessels sometimes in Women, are so greatly obstructed, that toge∣ther with the Testicles in the side of Hypoga∣strium, they swell to the bigness of ones Fist.

12. In the Tubes of the Womb, the Womans Seed is sometimes corrupted, from which arise grievous Symptoms; the Courses being for some Months obstructed, oftentimes there

follows a Dropsie; the Water here collect∣ed, we have observed in dead Bodies that have been opened, to flow directly through the Tubes into the Duplicature of the Peritonaeum.

13. The Womb, from the preternatural af∣flux of Blood, is often inflamed, especially in lying-in Women, and in those whose Courses flow disorderly, this Inflammation oftentimes is changed into an Abscess, if negligently hand∣led; whose Cure belongs to the Physitian: But a Sphacelus is incurable. For what the An∣cients relate concerning the extirpation of the Womb, to wit, that it may all be taken off without any great danger, is to be reckoned amongst their other Errors; but whether this Animal in living Creatures, this necessary part, joyning to so many other parts, and furnished with such abundance of Arteries, may be cut out without danger of Life? The same thing I believe hath hapned to them in this case, as hath hapned in the describing and curing the falling down of the Womb, who here and there have taken the extended Tunicles of the Vagina Ʋteri for the Womb it self; for I easily grant these Tunicles may without any great danger be taken away: But I truly esteem a Sphacelus of the whole Womb to cause cer∣tain death.

14. The Neck of the Womb is subject to Haemorrhoids in the same manner as the straight Gut is; these flowing, may be distinguished from the Courses by these following signs; in the flowing of the Courses, we can ob∣serve no Branches of the Vessels in the Neck of the Womb, they come out of the Womb it

self, and they cause no pain, except in the Hy∣pogastrium; these Vessels by which the Evacua∣tion is made, are the Hypogastrick and Sperma∣tick Arteries; but the Haemorrhoids are the Branches of Vena pudenda, they may be known both by the sight and feeling, and there is no pain but in the privy part it self: They ought to be treated in the same manner as the other Haemorrhoids are; to ease pain, this Ointment is excellent.

Take Mussilages of the Seed of Quinces, Marshmallows, of each half an ounce; Saffron, Oyl of Roses, Hens-grease, of each a dram; the Yolk of an Egg▪ Make it into an Oint∣ment.

This Mixture is excellent.

Take Litharge of Gold, washt Oeruse, burnt-Lead, of each a scruple; Purslane-water, five ounces: Mix them.

Let the Haemorrhoids be washt with it, and let a Linnen Cloth dipt in it be applied to the Part affected.