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 ...

III. The Cure of ulcerated Hemor∣rhoids, Ficus, &c.

L. If the Ʋlcer is recent, it may be Cured by applying Balsam de Chili, or de Peru, upon Pledgets of Tow, to the Part; first of all anointing it well

with a Feather, with the same.

LI. But if the Ʋlcer is invete∣rate, Digestives are first to be ap∣plied, because there are many crude and unconcocted Humors many times in these Ʋlcers; afterwards you must deterge with Juice of Smal∣lage boiled up with Honey, or with the Mundificativum Para∣celsi.

LII. If the Ʋlcer is foul or sor∣did, you must continue the use of Abstersives the longer, forbearing such as are over sharp; lest they should induce by their sharp∣ness, a great flux of Humors up∣on the Part, to which it is very subject upon the least occasion.

LIII. Every time when you dress it, as soon as you have taken off the former Application, you must fo∣ment it with this following Mix∣ture. ℞ Juice of Scordium, and of Parsly clarified, A. ℥iv. red Port-Wine ℥viii. mix them, and foment therewith warm for almost half an Hour.

LIV. Which dane, then dress it up with the Mundificative or Ab∣stersive; and continue this course of fomenting and dressing, till you find the Ulcer to be very well cleaused.

LV. The Ʋlcer being cleansed, you must incarnate, if need be, with Sarcoticks: This is good; Take Ung. Diapompholigos ℥ii. Ung. Nicotiana ℥i. Mastich, and Olibanum in pouder, A.ʒiii. Bal∣sam of Peru ʒii. mix, and ap∣ply it.

LVI. The Ʋlcer being incarned, you must produce the Cicatrice by anointing with Ung. Diapompho∣ligos alone, or Ung. de Minio, or some other drying Ointment, or strewing the Sore over with pou∣der of fine Bole, or Terra Sigil∣lata, or some proper Styptick as pouder of Catecha, or Caput Mort. of Vitriol.

LVII. But before applying these Ointments, or Pouders, or upon every dressing, it will be good to wash the Sore with some Styp∣tick Waters, as the Aqua Alumi∣nosa, the Royal Styptick, Doctor Gardner's Styptick, or some o∣ther, as you shall see fit; not omitting the Water of the Griffin.

LVIII. But if notwithstanding all that can be done, the Ʋlcer proves rebellious and malign, you must make the Patient fit once or twice a day upon a Close∣stool over a Chafing-dish of Coals, to receive from the same the Fumes of these following Troches.

LIX. The Troches. Take Winters Cinnamon, Amber, both in fine pouder, A. ℥iss. Aloes, Myrrh, Sarcocol, A. ℥i. Zedoary in pou∣der, Bayberries in pouder, A.ʒvi. Artificial Cinnabar ground fine or levigated ℥i. all being in fine pou∣der, with Mucilage of Gum Tra∣gacanth, make Troches, each weighing ʒss. of which (being through dry) use 3.4. or 5 at a time. See the Third Edition of Our Synopsis Medicine, lib 5. cap. 54.