Three exact pieces of Leonard Phioravant Knight, and Doctor in Physick, viz. his Rationall secrets, and Chirurgery, reviewed and revived. Together with a book of excellent Experiments and secrets, collected out of the practises of severall expert men in both faculties.: Whereunto is annexed Paracelsus his One hundred and fourteen experiments : with certain excellent works of B.G. à Portu Aquitano. Also Isaac Hollandus his Secrets concerning his vegetall and animall work. With Quercetanus his Spagyrick antidotary for gun-shot.

CHAP. XXXII. Of Wounds in the Head, with offence of the brain, and how to cure them.

VVOunds in the head, where there is offence of the brain, are mortall: and there is no Physician that will take them in cure, but he counteth them dead men without any hope. But I by the grace of God and gift of Nature, have found the order to cure and heal them in short time. I re∣member that when one was wounded in the head in the fa∣mous Citie of Naples, yea, although the brain were not hurt, but that the skin were cut unto the bone, they counted him mortall, but I dressed them, and closed their wounds, and help∣ed them in short space, so that they wondred thereat; and that order I used for the space of seven yeers that I tarried there, and caused them to walk in the streets, as it is well known unto all those that dwell there. And among a num∣ber of other, I cured a Portingall that was called, Il Seignior Diego di mena, of whom I took away all the bone of the forehead, and every day he came to my lodging to be cu∣red, which I did with great speed, so that it caused every one to marvell thereat. Afterward I went to Rome in the time of Pope Paulus the iiii. Carafa, and alwaies I cured in the same order, and did miracles, of which I call to testimonie the Romanes. And among the rest, I cured a certain Gentle∣man called M. Alessandor (I cannot remember his Sirname) who was wounded in divers places, and I cured him quickly. After that I cured, and that in short time, a young man that was in manner cut in pieces, and of that M. Jacomo da Pe∣rugia, M. Alessandro da Civita, M. Daltilo Hebraeo, all learned Doctors can testifie, for they were present. And such like cures I have alwaies done in Venice: But among the rest I will not leave to write of a great chance, the which is true, and is thus: There is in Venice a rare Poet and Orator and Hi∣storiographer, well known unto the world called M. Die∣nigio Antanagi, who through his evill destinie was wounded in the head, so that it penetrated the flesh and the bone, and en∣tred half a finger breadth into the brain, and there that ver∣tuous

man fell to the ground as a dead man, and he lifted himself up to rise, but he could not, but fell down again, and there came a dimness over his eyes, with a vomiting and and a Fever, and the blood would not stint, and he lay in extream pains, which were all mortall signs: then I being called unto that cure, because he and I were of great fami∣liaritie, and presently I shut the wound, and put therein our Aqua balsami, and I annointed all his head with our Balsamo artificiato; that being done, presently the blood stenched, and the pain went away, and the night after he took his rest, and in the morning the Fever was also gone: After that, I dres∣sed him with Magno liquore, wetting clothes therein, and upon the cloth I strewed the powder of Hypericon: And this Medicine I used eight daies, in the which time he came forth of his bed; and shortly after he was perfectly whole, and be∣fore six moneths were past, it was so siccatrized, that no man could perceive any wound. And of this I have to testimony Venice, Rome, Ʋrbine, Caglie, and all Italy. To conclude this Chapter, I say, that wite the aforesaid order, thou mayest cure any such sort of wound.