CHAP. XV. Of the General cure of a Gangrene.
* 1.1THe Indications of curing Gangrenes are to be drawn from their differences; for then cure must be diversly instituted according to the essence and magnitude. For some Gangrenes possess the whole member; others only some portion thereof; some are deep; other∣some superficial only. Also you must have regard to the temper of the body. For soft and de∣licate bodies, as of Children, Women, Eunuchs, and idle persons, require much milder medicins, than those who by nature and custom, or vocation of life, are more strong and hardy, such as Husbandmen, Labourers, Mariners, Huntsmen, Porters, and men of the like nature who live sparingly and hardly.* 1.2 Neither must you have respect to the body in general, but also to the parts affected; for the fleshy and musculous parts, are different from the solid, as the nerves and joynts, or more solid, as the Vertebrae. Now the hot and moist parts, as the privities, mouth, womb, and fundament, are easilyer and sooner taken hold of by putrefaction, wherefore we must use more speedy means to help them. Wherefore if the Gangrene be chiefly occasioned from an internal cause, he must have a dyet prescribed for the decent and fitting use of the six things not natural. If the body be plethorick, or full of ill humors; you must purge, or let bloud by the advice of a Physitian. Against the ascending up of vapours to the noble parts, the heart must chiefly be strengthened with Treacle dissolved in Sorrel, or Carduus-water; with a bole of Mithridate, the Conserve of Roses and Bugloss; and with Opi••tes made for the present pur∣pose according to Art; this following Apozeme shall be outwardly applyed to the region of the heart.* 1.3 ℞ Aquae rosar. & nenuphar. an. ℥ iiij. aceti scillitici ℥ j. c••rallorum, santalorum alborum & rulrorum, rosar. rub. in pulver. redactarum, & spodii, an. ℥ j. mithrid. & theriacae, an. ʒ ij ss. tro∣chiscorum de Caphura ʒ ij. flor. cardial. in pollin. redactarum, p. ij. creci ʒ j. Ex omnibus in pollinem re∣dactis, fiat epithema. Which may be applyed upon the region of the heart with a Scarlet-cloth or spunge. These are usually such as happen in the cure of every Gangrene.