XXXII. Wounds of this Part are most times mortal: partly, for that this Membrane is full of Blood-vessels, and so subject to great Hemorrhages; and partly, because the Brain, being exposed to the Air, is thereby over∣cooled; and being corrupted, is apt to be prest forth by the constant Pain they endure from the putrifaction of the Cerebrum, whereby it many times comes forth at the Wound.
XXXIII. You must make clear and open your way to these Wounds, by removing the lacerated Flesh and Bones, if they will submit: otherwise you must leave it to Nature, lest the Patient dies under your hands, which is a disgrace to an Artist.
XXXIV. First stop the Hae∣morrhage with Galen's Pouder, and Hares Fur, mixed with the White of an Egg, which use upon Pledgits, to retain the Brain al∣so within its Bounds.
XXXV. Then the Part is to be cured with Medicaments, dry∣ing, warming, and comforting; such as that described at Sect. 18. aforegoing, and other the like things, dressing up the Wound as those in the Dura Mater.
XXXVI. If any part of the Lips of the Hairy Scalp is lacera∣ted, shattered, or seems to be torn in Rags, cut it off, lest a Gle•…•… drop from them upon the Mem∣branes or Brain, and so increase the Accidents.
XXXVII. If the Brain be kept within its Membranes, viz. the Pia & Dura Mater, and they di∣gest and incarnate, then proceed in the rest of the Cure, as we have before directed in the Di∣scourse of the Wounds of the Dura Meninx.
XXXVIII. Bleeding is also some∣times to be done, as your Prudence shall direct you: And in a Caco∣chymia,