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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II. Salination with Salt, and Juice, or Balsam of Cedar.

XIV. This was of Use among the middle or better Sort of People. The Salinator forces up a Clyster by the Anus, of the Juice, or Balsam of Cedar, with which they fill (as it were) the Cavity of the Belly, neither cutting nor unbowelling; then they Salt it with Nitre for Seventy Days compleat.

XV. At the end of that Term they take out the Clyster, and out with it comes the Guts, Ven∣tricle, and other internal Vis∣cera; so powerful is the Clyster made of Juice, or Balm of Cedar.

XVI. In the mean Season, the Nitre has consumed all the other superfluous Humidities, having penetrated to the Bone: thus the Body being made throughly clean, it is after dried, and put into its proper place, where it will remain without Corruption multitudes of Years.