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 ...

II. Helminthicks, or Worm-killers.

XIII. Worms many times breed in some ill-conditioned Ʋlcers; and therefore when you perceive them, they are either to be taken forth with some fit Instrument; or otherwise, if they stick fast in the Flesh, or hide themselves, they are to be kill'd with some proper Medicaments to be ap∣plied.

XIV. Simple Helminthicks. Aloes, Cambogie, Scammony, Euphorbium, Myrrh, Rhubarb, Aron-roots, Birthwort-roots, Squills, Onions, Garlick, Centory, Colocynthis, Dittany, Elecam∣pane, Germander, Horehound, Orobus, Opium, Pepper, Southern∣wood, Savin, Tansey, Tobacco, wormwood, Bullocks gall, and the Galls of other living Creatures, pouder of Earthworms, Saccha∣rum Saturni, Verdigrise, white and red Precipitate, Mercurius dulcis, corrosive Sublimate, Cin∣nabar Natural and Artificial, Mercury coagulate, or amalga∣mate; the Prince's Pouder, Vi∣trum Antimonii, Crocus Metallo∣rum, Tartar-Emetick, Sulphur, Vitriol, Nitre, with many other things of like kind: and from the aforegoing Simples you may make the following, and other the like Compounds.

XV. ℞ Aloes, meal of Lupins, A.℥i. Myrrh, Verdigrise, A. ℥ss. Bulls gall ℥ii. Honey q.s. mix, and make a Liniment.

XVI. ℞ Aloes, Cambogia, Scammony, A. ℥ss. Euphorbium in fine pouder ʒii. Verdigrise ʒi. To∣bacco ℥i. Colocynthis in fine pouder ʒiii. Bulls gall, Honey, A. q.s. mix, and make a Liniment.

XVII. ℞ Aloes in fine pouder, Tobacco finely poudered, A. ℥ i. flowers of Sulphur, Mercury coa∣gulate, Coloquintida, A.ʒii. Eu∣phorbium, pouder of Earthworms, Verdigrise, A. ʒi. Oil of Harts-horn ʒss. Oil of Tobacco made by Infusion ℥jss. Sheeps-suet q.s. mix, and make a Ointment.

XVIII. ℞ Tobacco in fine pou∣der ℥i. Scammony ℥ss. Colocynthis ʒii. Euphorbium ʒi. white Preci∣pitate ʒss. mix, and make a Pouder, to strew on.

XIX. Take fair Water lbii. corrosive Sublimate in fine pouder ℥ss. put all into an Earthen Pip∣kin, and dissolve by Boiling; then pour forth, straining it thro' a

Cloth, and affuse thereon Oil of Tartar per Deliquium; so will the Mercury Precipitate of an Orange-tawny colour, which wash in much fair Water, or in S.V. and keep it for use: this Water after Precipitation, kills all sorts of Worms, by washing the Ul∣cer therewith, and laying dou∣ble linnen Cloths dipt in the same, over the Ulcer. The Pre∣cipitate also kills Worms, being mixt in any proper Ointment to be laid on.

XX. Take of the former Orange∣precipitate ʒi. Scammony in fine pouder ʒiv. Tobacco in fine pouder ʒviii. mix them; to strew upon the Ulcer full of Worms. Or, you may mix this Pouder with Ointment of Tobacco ℥ii. Ox-gall ℥i. and so apply it.