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CHAP. XXVIII. To make a miraculous Emplaister for Flegmon, or Erisi∣pella.
THis Flegmon or inflammation, called Saint Anthonies fire, is a tumour caused of the alteration of the bloud, by rea∣son of superfluous heat, and this most commonly cometh unto Cholerick and Sanguine bodies, that are full of flesh, and have much bloud: And the Erisipella is caused of a windy humidity, and of a hot humour, and to shew it, yee may see how that Flegmon is no other then bloud that runneth to the place offended: And when it cannot find way to resolve, it putrifieth and turneth into Sanius matter, so that by this yee may see that to be true which I have said. Also Erisipella is a wind hot and moist, for when it cometh to suppuration, then cometh forth nothing but wind and water, and this is the true proof by demonstration, and therefore seeing that these two infirmities are in a manner alike, or little differing: this Medicine shall be appropriate as well to the one as to the other, because it resolveth and cooleth, and the order to make it is thus.
Take fine Clay that hath no stones nor gravell in it, and searce it very fine, and put it in a pot, and for every pound thereof put thereto ℥. iii. of Oil of Frankincense, that cometh forth last in the distillation, and as much of our Quintessence as will serve to make it in form of a liquid Unguent, and this yee must mix without fire, and then lay it upon a cloth, and warm it over the fire a little, and lay it upon the Flegmon, or Erisipella, but first ere yee use this remedy unto those that have Flegmon, yee shall give them a dose of our Electuario Angelica, and in Erisipella give them a dose of our Aromatico, and so thou shalt help them perfectly, as I have proved divers times, and may be used although yee take no bloud; but if yee take bloud, let it be in augmentu, and not in statu, nor in declinatione, because it would so weaken Nature, that afterward it cannot defend it self to drive forth the humour peccant, that is cause of the disease.