CHAP. VIII. How three vvounds in the head, vvith fracture of the bone or scull vvere healed by I. P.
A Certaine miller in Buckinghamshire, called Peter Bull, being sore wounded in the head, whereof one wound was in the midst of the head, with fracture of the scull, an o∣ther within an inch of that, six inches long, he had an o∣ther wound, ouer his eyebrow two inches long. Besides the woundes in his head, he had also a great wound, in the bowt of his arme, beside the elbow, so that a mā might haue layd: his three singers in it, diuers of his fingers were also cut, and he lost two ioynts. This man bled by the space of seuen or eight houres, before it was stinted: neither was he dressed, vntill the next day, but yet he was cured in this manner. First the haire was shauen away, round about the woundes on his head, and the wounds were made cleane, then was there dropped into the wound, balsamum sulfuris, made ve∣ry warme: and a sine cloth wet therein was applied to the wounds, and round about the wounds there was a defensa∣tiue applied: thus he was dressed once in 24. houres, and within the space of three weekes, he was perfectly holpen, that he ware no plaster at all. Also you shall note that vpon the wound, next the cloth, there was layd cerotum ma∣gistrale, of Leonardo Fiorauante: Forget not that this bal∣same must alwayes be vsed warme, with a fine linnen cloth, or a peece of Cambrick, and not with any lint. This bal∣same did cause the haire to grow so fast about the wounds: that it was fayne to be shauen away verie often.