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Making of issues. THat kind of potentiall cauterie which is u∣sed now adaies amongst the common sort is only to make an issue either in the legges, thighes, or armes, to cleare the bloud by some disease corrupt, or to draw humours from some place, and is done after this manner: Take the bark of an ash tree and burne it to ashes, then immediatly while they are hot binde them up, hard in a linnen cloth, the bignes of a pistoll bullet, and (having marked the place) you
shall dip the cloth into warme water and so hold it very hard upon the place with the other hand on the contra∣ry side, that so you may hold it the harder: hold it thus about halfe an howre or something more, and then it will have mortified the place that it will look black, then take away the caustick and apply two Ivy leaves pricked with a sharp stick, or bone, and over it browne p••per with a compresse of linnen cloth, and so bind it up, dresse it twice a day untill the core come out which will be in 6. or 7. days; then put into it a white pease or a bullet made of white w••x, and dresse it as before; if it chance to grow over with proud flesh, you may rowle your pease in burnt Allome powdered, and so put it into the issue.
To know the right place wherein to make an issue. You shall know the right place thus; put your finger on the inside of your thigh three or foure fingers above the knee, and move the leg up and downe, and if you feele no nerve nor muscle move under your finger, there you may safely apply your cauter; and if it be sore be∣fore the core come out, you shall anoint it with unguen∣tum album, or popul••on, described hereafter.