XVI. In this kind of Ʋlcer, great care is to be taken in the course of Diet; and the Body must be first purged from vitious and corrupt Humors, with Our Family Pills, Pill. Catholicae, Pul. Cornachini, Syrupus Catharticus, Tinctura Purgans, &c. and then a Traumatick Decoction is con∣tinually to be exhibited.
XVII. Outwardly, you must cleanse with Abstersives; as juices of Smallage, and Wormwood, and Centory; and meals of Barley and Orobus, Myrrh, and Honey of Roses, juices of Li∣mons and Citrons, Aqua mulsa, and Salt-water: but more espe∣cially with Wine and S.V. which is of exceeding benefit in cleansing all sordid and pu∣trid Ulcers; and is therefore to be mixed with other Medica∣ments.
XVII. If the Ʋlcer is made sordid by the use of too strong Detergents, Wiseman commends Ʋng. Basilicon mixed with red Precipitate, also Vng. Diapom∣pholigos, as things proper to dress the Ulcer with: and some cooling Unguent or Cerat, as Refrigerans Galeni, may be ap∣plied over it, with a Compress wrung out of Oxycrate.
XIX. If it is become sordid by the use of Lenients, and is covered thick with the sordes or filth, you need not fear (says Wiseman) to fill the Ulcer with red Preci∣pitate, and apply some mild Abstersive on Pledgets of Lint over it, with a Compress wrung out of Aqua Calcis, or Aqua