Nine books of physick and chirurgery written by that great and learned physitian, Dr Sennertus. The first five being his Institutions of the whole body of physick: the other four of fevers and agues: with their differences, signs, and cures.

Of Cerots or Bolsters.

SPlenia, * 1.1 are Plaisters so called, from the figure of the Spleen, the Ancients calls them, Plumaccoli, but now they are called Pulvilli, Plagulae, they are linnen rags folded up together, which are put to the part, some according to longi∣tude right, others oblique, others transverse, and some doub∣led, fome threefold, others fourefold, sometimes single, and sometimes more, according to the use which they are put for to strengthen, the binding members, unequall in thicknesse, or thin and hollow parts are to be equalled, and filled up; that the whole dilagation may be equall, the parts also

are to be defended from the paine of the swathings and bands, and the Sanies, and thin matter, is to be expressed and imbibed.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Splents made up with Lin∣nen.