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CHAP. XVIII. The staying of the bleeding at the nose, done by M. R.

TAke burnt Lome, M. ii. sharp Vinegar, lb. ss. mix them well, and lay it between a linnen cloth: and bind it to the fore∣head cold, and in short space it will stint.

Another for the same, I. H.

A Man of fifty yeares of age had a great flux of bloud at the nostrill, which had continued a long time, and could find no remedie till he used this order and medicine following. First his ring finger was bound hard with a thread, then was this cataplasme following applied to his forehead and temples.

Take burnt lome made in powder, M. vi. strong Vinegar, as much as will suffice to make it in form of a Cataplasme, to be applyed cold, thus in few hours the bloud stinted. Ne∣verthelesse he took morning and evening the fume of Succi∣num album at the mouth and nose, which stayed the flux, and comforted the vitall and animall spirits. His diet was cold and drying, his drink was water or red wine, wherein was put Crocus martis.

Another kind of curing the same per∣formed by D. B.

ONe bleeding at the nose a day and a night, was thus help∣ped. He made a tent of lint, and dipped it in Inke and put it into his nostrils, and laid a defensative over his eyes and nose, made with Sanguis Draconis, bole armoniack, and a little Vinegar.

Another way.

MAny have been cured by applying unto their cods a lin∣en cloath wet in Vinegar.

Another.

SOme have had the bleeding stinted, by applying the hearb Peruinca unto the nose.

Other waies to do the same.

CArduus Benedictus bruised and put up into the nostrils, stin∣teth the bleeding at nose. The same it performeth in a wound.

The hearb Geranium which hath a red stalk, being put into the nostrils or wound, doth the same: very often prooved.

In like manner, and to the same effect, worketh Crocus martis.

Also the bloud of a man dried worketh after the same order: both for the staying of bloud at the nose and in a wound.