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Of the digestive with the which they dresse wounds after the afore∣said Tow.
AFter that the Tow is taken away from the Wound they dresse it with a Composition called digestive, because it digesteth the Wound, although this Medicine be somewhat scrupulous, and against Science, and the reason is this, yee shall understand, that when a man is wounded, the place be∣fore was sound, and therefore being wounded, our true duty is to help the same Wound, and not to digest or rot it, as commonly all Chirurgians doe, for by rotting of it in that order it is perillous, and more dangerous to be cured, as is daily seen by experience, and this no man can deny. But now I will follow our Regiment in shewing what this di∣gestive is, the which is made thus.
℞ The yolk of two Eggs, Turpentine washed ℥. i. Oil of Roses ℥. ss. mix them in an Unguent, and this is the di∣gestive wherewith they dresse it untill the sore have made matter enough, and then they use to dresse it with Medicines much differing from the same; but I marvell much at the diversity of this matter, that this digestive being applyed to a putrified Ulcer worketh divers effects, for it healeth it divine∣ly: and moreover, yee shall understand, that if it be applyed unto when they be incarnated, it will sicatrize them marvel∣lously, for truly these are things worthy to be known, and he that understandeth the reason, I accompt him to be wise, for if this digestive be laid on fresh wounds it putrifieth and rot∣teth them, again being laid on a filthy sore it doth mundifie and heal, and then if it be applyed on a Wound incarnated, it sicatrizeth and healeth it, for this I have done divers and sundry times, the which is to be wondred at.