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. A special and particular Way of Embalming, very excellent.

I. EMbowel, or remove all the contained Parts, in all the three Venters as aforesaid, ma∣king also fit Incision in all the fleshy Parts, and where-ever any of the great Vessels lie.

II. This done, and the whole Body wiped very dry, and through∣ly cleansed; lay it for three or four Hours in very warm Water, (in which Nitre, an ounce to every quart, is dissolved) till the Wa∣ter is well coloured; pour that Water away, and put in fresh, letting the Body be in it as long; cast that Water away, and this Work repeat, till the Water will be no more coloured.

III. Afterwards you shall dry the Body very well with Cloths and Spunges, and lay it so, as that all that can may drain out of it, then put it into good Spirit of Wine, so much as to over-top it for 3, or 4 Fingers breadth; wherein let it lie for forty-eight Hours: Pour off that Spirit, and affuse new, letting it lie forty-eight Hours as aforesaid: This Work repeat so long, till the Spirit will be no more co∣loured.

IV. Then take fresh Spirit of Wine, to every Pint of which put half an Ounce of the best Oil of Vitriol, Oil of Sulphur, or Oil of Salt, mix them well together,

and pour them upon the whole Body, as you poured the for∣mer Spirit; in which let it lie twenty-four Hours, after which decant the Liquor, and, with what care you can, very curi∣ously dry the Body in all its Parts.

V. Being well dried, besmear it all over, both within and with∣out, with a Hogs-bristle Brush, with this following Liquor: ℞ fine Myrrh, Benjamin, Rosin a. ℥iv. rectified Spirit of Wine, enough to dissolve the biggest part of the a∣foresaid Rosins, in a gentle Sand heat: This dissolution mix with half its quantity of the solution of fine Aloes, in other rectified Spirit of Wine; for the aforesaid Ʋse: You may do it twice a day all over with the said Brush for eight or ten days together.

VI. These ten days being over, fill the Capacities of all the Ventricles with the Pouder at Sect. 27. Chap. 54. beforegoing; and Anoint the outside of the Body all over with Balsam of Peru; which done, wrap it in the Cere-cloth at Sect. 37. Chap. 54. The Body being thus Embalmed, will keep some Thousands of Years without any decay.

VII. Lastly, put it into the Coffin or Tomb, prepared for it, observing the Directions in Chap. 54. Sect. 25.