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.
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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.
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Paré, Ambroise, 1510?-1590.
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London :: printed by E: C: and are to be sold by John Clarke at Mercers Chappell in Cheapeside neare ye great Conduit,
1665.
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Medicine -- Early works to 1800.
Surgery -- Early works to 1800.
Anatomy -- Early works to 1800.
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A55895.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 15, 2024.
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CHAP. XX. Of the Salamander.
THe Salamander kills not only such as it bites, by making a venomous impression, but it also infects the fruits and herbs over which it creeps, with a spittle or gross moisture which sweats out of all the body, to the great danger of the health and life of such as eat these things at unawares: wherefore it need not seem strange, which is received by some late wri∣ters, that some families have all died by drinking water out of the pits, whereinto a Salamander by accident was fallen. For if it shall creep upon a tree, it infects all the fruit with the qualities of cold and moist poison, wherein it yields not to Aconite.
Aetius writes, that such as are infected with the poison of a Salamander, certain parts of their body grow livid, so that they fall away often, being putrefied. At the first there appear white spots, over the body, then red, after wards black with putrefaction; and the falling away of the hairs
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The cure is, to procure vomit, to loose the belly with a glyster, and to give them Treacle and Mithridate in potions. Avicen prescribes the same things against this kind of poison as against o∣pium, by reason of the cold nature of them both; the proper antidote is turpentine, styrax, net∣tle seeds, and cypress-leaves. Dioscorides writes, that the Salamander is a kind of Lizard, dull, va∣riegated, and which is falsly reputed not to be burnt by fire. But Pliny saith she is so cold, that she extinguisheth the fire by her touch only, being laied upon hot coles. On the contrary, Mat∣thiolus saith, that cast into a great flame, they are quickly consumed. It is easie out of Actiu•• to reconcile these disagreeing opinions. This creature, saith he, passeth through a burning flame, and is not hurt, the flame dividing it self, and giving her way, but if she continue any time in the fire, the cold humor being consumed in her, she is burnt. Now the Salamander is black, variega∣ted, with yellow spots, star-fashion.