contagious passage through the heart and liver, cause exceeding ill symptoms, and lastly, death. In∣deed he often swounded by the ascent of the filthy vapours raised from the ulcer to the noble parts; which to resist, I wished him to take a spoonful of Aqua vitae with some Treacle dissolved therein. I endeavoured to repress the oedematous and flatulent Tumor possessing all the arm with stoups dipped in Oxycrate, to which was put a little Salt and Aqua vitae; these stoups I stayed and held to the part with double cloaths, sowed as strait as I could. Such a compression held the broken bones in their places, pressed their Sanies from the ulcers, and forced back the humors flowing to the part into the center of the body. If at any time I omitted this compression, the tumor was so encreased, that I was in a great deal of fear, lest the native heat of the part should be suffo∣cated. Neither could I otherwise bind up the arm by reason of the excessive pain which molested the Patient upon the least stirring of the arm. There were also many Abcesses about his elbow and over all his arm besides. For the letting forth of whose matter I was forced to make new Incisi∣ons; which he endured very stoutly. At length I cured him with using a vulnerary potion, and by cleansing the ulcers, and correcting the putrefaction with Aegyptiacum dissolved in wine and ho∣ney of Roses, and so poured into the ulcers, and repressing the growth of proud flesh, with the pow∣der of burnt Alum, drying it after the detersion with liniments. Now this I can truly affirm and profess, that, during the time of the cure, I took out above threescore splinters of bones, and those necessarily, amongst which there was one of the length of ones finger; yet by Gods assistance at length he became sound in all things, but that he could not put forth, or draw in his arm.
Not long after by the Kings command I went to see Charles Philip of Croy, Lord of Auret, the Duke of Asches brother, not far from Mounts a City of Henalt. He kept his bed seaven months by reason of a wound made by a Bullet the space of three fingers above his knee. When I came to him, he was afflicted with these symptoms, intolerable pain, a continual feaver, cold sweats, watchings, excoriation of the hippes by reason of his long lying upon them, his appetite dejected with much thirst. He oft sunk down as if he had the Falling-sickness, had a desire to vomit, and a continual trembling or shaking, so that he could not put one hand to his mouth without the assi∣stance of the other: he swounded frequently by reason of the vapours ascending to the noble parts. For the thigh-bone was broken long-ways and side-wayes with many splinters of bones, whereof some were plucked out; & others remained sticking fast in. He besides also had an ulcer in his groin which reached to the midst of his thigh, & many other sinuous ulcers about his knee. All the muscles of his thigh and leg were swoln with a flegmatick, cold and flatulent humor, so that al∣most all the native heat of those parts seemed extinct. All which things being considered, I had scarse any hope to recover him, so that I repented my coming thither. Yet at length putting some confidence in his strength, and prime of youth, I began to have better hopes. Therefore with his good liking, first of all, I made two Incisions, so to let forth the matter, which lying a∣bout the bone did humect the substance of the muscles. This had happy success, and drew out a great quantity of matter; then I with a Syringe injected much Aegyptiacum dissolved in Wine, and a little Aqua vitae into these Incisions, so to restrain and amend the putrefaction, repress the spongie, loose, and soft flesh, resolve the oedematous and flatulent tumor, asswage the pain, and stir up and strengthen the native heat almost opprest by the aboundance of excrementitious hu∣mors, so that it could scarsely assimilate any nourishment and adjoyn it to the parts. Then I fomented the affected part with Sage, Rosemary, Thyme, Lavender, Chamomile and Melilot-flowers, and Red-rose leaves, boyled in white Wine, and Lye made of Oak-ashes, adding there∣to as much Salt and Vinegar as I judged requisite. This fomentation did attenuate and draw forth the morbifick humor. Now we used them long and often, so to waste the humor more by drying up and breathing through the passages of the skin, more thereof than fell into the part. For this same purpose, we ordained that he should use frictions with hot linnen clothes, and that these should be made from above downwards, from below upwards, and so on every side, and somewhat long withal: For a short friction draws more humor into the part than it can resolve: I wished that each other day they should lay bricks heated hot in the fire about his leg, thigh, and soal of his foot; but they were to be somewhat quenched, and sprinkled with Wine and Vinegar, with a smal quantity of Aqua vitae. Much waterish moisture by this moist heat, did sweat out of these parts, the tumor was lessened, and the native heat by little and little restored. Then stoups dipped in Lye made of Oak-ashes, wherein Sage, Rosemary, Lavender, Salt, and Cloves, were boyled, some Aqua vitae added, were applyed thereto; but the rowlers were so gently, and artificially wrapped about, that he did easily endure them without any pain, and that with such happy success, that if they were omitted but for one day, the tumor became very great. But thick linnen boulsters were laid upon the lower cavities of the ulcer; that so the sanies, or filth, might be more easily pressed forth. But I had alwayes a special care that the orifices of the ulcers should be kept open with hollow Tents or Pipes put therein: and sometimes this following cataplasm was applyed to resolve the tumor. ℞ Far. hord. fabar. & orobi, an. ℥ v j. mellis com. & tereb. an. ℥ ij. flo. chamaem. melil. & ros. rub. an. ℥ ss. pulv. rad. Ireos, Flor. cyper. Mast. an. ʒ iij. oxymel. simp. quantum sufficit; fiat cataplasma ad formam pultis satis liquida. An emplastrum de Vigo without Mercury was applyed thereto, whereby the pain was much asswaged, and the tumor lessened: yet were they not apply∣ed before the parts were throughly heated by the fomentation, frictions, and evaporations; for otherwayes this Emplaister could never have been activated, by reason of the excessive coldness of the affected parts. Neither did we omit catagmatick powders, fit for the taking, and drawing forth of broken bones. He used a vulnerary potion for 15. days. Also besides the particular frictions