℞ olei ros. cerae all. an. ℥ ii ss, succi granat. & solani, an. ℥ ij, cerusae lotae ℥ i, plumbi usti, loti, & tuthiae prapar. an. ℥ ss, thuris mastich. an. ʒ ij, fiat empl. molle. This following Ointment I have often used with good success.
℞ Theriac. veter. ℥ i, succi cancrorum ℥ ss, succi lactucae & olei rosar. an. ℥ i ss, vitel. ovorum sub cinerib. coct. ij, camphor. ʒ ss, pistentur omnia in mertario plumb. & fiat ungentum.
℞ Spum. argent. axungiae porci recentis. cerae alb. an. lb ss, olei boni ℥ viij, vitel. ovorum assat. iiij, fiat unguent. servetur usui. And when you will use it, mix it with a little Ointment of Roses. I have also mitigated great pain by applying Leaches to an unulcerated Cancer, in that part where the torment was most vehement, by disburdening the part of some portion of the malign humor; which same thing I have done by application of young Whelps, or Pigeons, or Chickens, cut long-ways; and presently applyed to the ulcer, and now and then changed assoon as their heat seems dis∣solved; and others applyed for the natural heat in an Anodyne or mitigating medicine. John Bap∣tista Theodosius in his Epistles writes, that a cataplasm of the herb Erisimum, or Cadlock, being beaten, is very good to be applyed to a Cancer not ulcerated; but if the Cancer be ulcerated, he boils this same herb in Hydromel, and so by injections and lotions cleanses the ulcer, and mitigates the pain. If the Cancer affect the womb, the Patient feels the pricking of the pain in the groin above the pecten, and in the Kidneys, and is often troubled with a difficulty of making water; but when it is ulcerated, it pours forth filth, or matter, exceeding stinking and carion-like, and that in great plenty; the filthy vapour of which carryed up to the heart, and brain, causes often swounding. Now to mitigate the pains of such like places, the following medicines are of good use.
℞ Mucag. semin. lini; faenugr. extract. in aqua rosar. & plantaginis quod satis est; Of this being warm make a fomentation.
℞ Rad. Altheae lb ss, coquatur in hydromelite, pistetur & trajiciatur, addendo ol. rosar. parum, fiat Ca∣plasma: Also you shall make divers pessaries according to the different kinds of pain; also make injections of the juyce of Plantain, Knot-grass, Lettuce, Purslain mixed together, and agitated, or laboured in a leaden Mortar with a little Oyl of Roses; for this kind of medicine is commended by Galen in every kind of ulcerated Cancers. Also this following Water is very profitable, and often proved by me. ℞ Stercoris bubuli lb iiij, herbae Roberti plantag. sempervivi, hyoscyami, portulac. l. ctuc. endiv. an. m. i. cancros fluviatiles, num. xij. Let them be all beaten together, and distilled in a leaden Alembick, keep the liquor for use, and with it make often injection into the part, or, if the site of the part will permit, let the cancerous ulcers be washed therewith, and pledgets of lint steep∣ed therein, be applyed and renewed ever and anon; for so the acrimony and force of the inflam∣mation is retunded, and the pain asswaged. Galen beats into powder River-Crabs burnt; the powder mixed with Ointment of Roses is most profitably applyed upon lint to cancerous Ulcers.
It will be very convenient to put into the neck of the womb the following Instrument made of Gold, or Silver, whereby the cancerous filth may have free and safe passage forth, and the filthy and putredinous vapours may more easily breathe forth. Therefore let it be hollow quite through, some five or six fingers long, and about the bigness of ones thumb, at the upper end, per∣forated with many holes whereby the filth may have passage forth. Let the outer or lower end be some two fingers thick in the circumference, make it with a neat spring, that may hold that end open, more or less, according to the Physitians mind; let there be two strings, or laces, put unto it, by which, being tyed before, and behind, to the rowler, with which the woman shall girt her loins, the Device may be kept from falling, as your may see in the following figure.
Neither is that remedy for not ulcerated Cancers to be contemned, which consists of a Plate of lead besmeared with Quick-silver; for Galen himself testifies, that Lead is a good medicine for malign and inveterate ulcers. But Guido Cauliacensis is a witness of ancient credit and learning, that