A most excellent and compendious method of curing woundes in the head, and in other partes of the body with other precepts of the same arte, practised and written by that famous man Franciscus Arceus, Doctor in phisicke & chirurgery: and translated into English by Iohn Read, chirurgion. Whereunto is added the exact cure of the caruncle, neuer before set foorth in the English toung. With a treatise of the fistulae in the fundament, and other places of the body, translated out of Iohannes Ardern. And also the description of the emplaister called dia chalciteos, with his vse and vertues. With an apt table for the better finding of the perticular matters, contayned in this present worke.

Of the making of Sanguis Veneris, and the working of it. Cap. 20.

REc. The pouder of Alkanet. ℥.j. And put it in a quarte of common oyle, and the oyle wil∣be couloured as red as blood, whether it bée boyled or no, for it may be made both wayes, & let it be kéept in a pweter pot. And this is your Sāg. Venetis. For Alkenit is cold & dry in y^e first or second degrée, it consumeth humiditie in woūds and vlcers. For it is subtill, and resolueth without byting. It is incarnatiue, apertiue, and exsiccatiue, with stipticknes, wherefore it is good in hot Apostumes, with little matter in the beginning, and it helpeth wounds in the sinnowes and ioynts, and vlcers of the mouth, in drying them, & mingled with viniger, and anoynted, halpeth the aking of the head, it helpeth, purgeth, and defendeth from perill, and déepe wounds mads with Arrowe or Knife. And all hollowe vlcers, if it be put into them, and Emplaistrum Narbon layde aboue, with many other thinges profitable.

But this know, that it may be made another waie.

Take the blood of a maide of 19. or 20. yéeres olde, which must be drawne the Moone being at the full, the signe in Virgo, and he Sunne in Pistes. And or it be cold adde vn∣to it of the pouders of Aloe Cicatrine, myrrhaē, Sang. Dra.

an. ℥.j. or more, according to the quantitie of the bloud, & of y^e pouder of Allcane, as much as of all the rest, mingle the pou∣ders with the blond, to the forme of a past, and then drie it in the sunne and kéepe it to your vse. And when you wil vse thereof, take a part thereof and bring it to pouder, and boyle it in gréene oyle oliue, for euerse ounce of the confection, you must take two pounde of oyle. And boyle them together vn∣till the oyle appeare red. Then take it of the fier, stirring it vntill it bée colde, or else the substance will fall to the bot∣tome, then kéepe it vnto your vse.