Ars chirurgica a compendium of the theory and practice of chirurgery in seven books ... shewing the names, causes, signs, differences, prognosticks, and various intentions of curing all kinds of chirurgick diseases ... : to which is added Pharmacopoeia chirurgica, or, The medical store, Latin and English ... / by William Salmon ...

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Title: Ars chirurgica a compendium of the theory and practice of chirurgery in seven books ... shewing the names, causes, signs, differences, prognosticks, and various intentions of curing all kinds of chirurgick diseases ... : to which is added Pharmacopoeia chirurgica, or, The medical store, Latin and English ... / by William Salmon ...
Author: Salmon, William, 1644-1713.
Publication: London : Printed for J. Dawks ... and sold by S. Sprint [and 6 others] ...,; M.DC.XCVIII [1698]
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Subject terms: Medicine -- 15th-18th centuries.
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I. Salination with Salt alone.

XII. This was only of Use with the Poor People. The dead Body was carried to the Salina∣tors, (for so they were called) where the Body being opened with a sharp Ethiopick Stone, with Lotions it was cleansed, and the Belly purely wash'd, then with Nitre it was Salted seventy Days, and after dried; in which Condition it would keep firm many Hundreds of Years.

XIII. And if an Aegyptian, or a Stranger was found killed by a Crocodile, or drowned in the River, the City where he was cast up, or found, must Embalm him, (with Salt only, 'tis supposed) and bury him in the Sacred Mo∣numents; whom no one, no not a Relation or Friend may touch, but the Priests of Nile only.