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 ...

I. Embalming without Dissection, called Encearing.

VII. You ought to cleanse the Bowels well by Clysters cast in, made either of Wine Vinegar, Sea Water, Salt Brine, or Solution of Niter, or a strong Decoction of Co∣loquintida; and these to be often repeated; then hanging the Body up by the Arms, that the Ordure, or Faeces may drop out.

VIII. If the Body be laid in warm Water almost scalding hot, for a season, after the Exhibiti∣on of the Clyster, it will work so much the better.

IX. The Bowels being cleansed, let all the Passages of the Body be stopt up with hurds dipt in the Com∣position prepared for the Cere∣cloth, and over them lay Cloth fitted, and dipt in the same.

X. Lastly, wrap up the Body in a Cerate, made of new Cloth; so large as it may go four, or five, or more times round the Body, as you think fit; and then Cord it up, putting it into a strong well made Coffin, well and firmly Pitcht all over the inside.

XI. But here note, 1. That in thin and lean Bodies, it is not al∣ways necessary to use the Cly∣sters, being chiefly for fat and gross Bodies.

XII. 2. That some Cord not the Body, being wrapt in the Cere-cloth;

but it is most safe to use Cordage, if the Body be very Fat and Gross.

XIII. 3. That the Cerat for this purpose you may see in our Doron, or Supplement to our London Dispensatory, lib. 3. cap. 5. sect. 1, 2. Or you may use this following:

XIV. ℞ Burgundy Pitch lbxij. Bees Wax lbiv. Pitch lbi. Frank∣incense, Gum Elemi, Verdigrise a. lbss. Oil q.s. melt, mix, and make a Cerat. Or this, ℞ Bees Wax lbxx. Rosin, Sheeps Suet, Stone Pitch, a. lbx. Turpentine lbvi. Oil enough to give it the body of a Cerat.