The workes of that famous chirurgion Ambrose Parey translated out of Latin and compared with the French. by Tho: Johnson. Whereunto are added three tractates our of Adrianus Spigelius of the veines, arteries, & nerves, with large figures. Also a table of the bookes and chapters.

CHAP. IV. Of these Contusions which are without a Wound.

IF the skin being whole and not hurt, as far as can be discerned, the flesh which lies under it be contused, and the bloud poured forth under the skin make an Ecchymosis; then the Patient must be governed according Art, until the malign symptoms, which commonly happen, be no more to be feared. Wherefore in the beginning draw bloud on the opposite side, both for eva∣cuation and revulsion. The contused part shall be scarified with equal scarifications; then shall you apply Cupping-glasses, or horns, both for evacuation of the bloud, which causes the tumor and tension in the part; as also to ventilate and refrigerate the heat of the part; lest it turn into an Abscess. Neither must we, in the mean while omit gentle purging of the Belly. The first Topick medicins ought to be astrictives, which must lye some short while upon the part, that so the Veins, and Arteries, may be, as it were, straitned and closed up, and so the defluxion hindered; as also that the part it self may be strengthned. This may be the form of such a remedy, ℞ Albumina ovorum nu. iij. olei myrtini & rosacei an. ℥ j. boli armoni, & sanguin. dracon. an. ℥ ss. nucum cupres. gallarum, pul. aluminis usti, an. ʒij. incorporentur omnia adden∣do ••eti parum, fiat medicamentum. Then you shall resolve it with a fomentation, cataplasm, and dis∣cussing emplaisters.

Notes

• Phlebotomy.
• Scarifying Cupping-glasses.
• Astrictives how good in Con∣tusions.
• After astri∣ctives must follow discus∣sives.