each half an ounce, Orris roots, two drams, Sarcocol, Myrrh, Mumy, Amber, each a dram and half, make a Plaster,
Or Take, Honey of Roses two parts, Oyl of Roses or of Eggs, one part, Turpentine half a part, mix and dip a Scarlet Silk therein, and put it into the Fracture, the Chymists use Oyl of Turpentine, and Oyl of Myrrh.
Some use the inward bark of the Tile Tree, to roul the Wound, or Paper wet in Wine.
Or Sponge.
Or Spiders Webs to glew smal Wounds, and stanch Bood.
Or Puffoyst which drieth, and glutinateth.
Or boyl, or steep a Rowler in Allum water.
Or Bruise Herbs with Meal.
Or thus, Take, Comfrey roots and Alkanet, Celandine, Centaury, Acrons, beat them with Oyl of Roses, and Grease.
Fomentatations are made or Injections of Comfrey, Bugle, Selfeheal, or Saracens consound, Rock Comfrey, Sideritis, St Johns-wort, Pyrola, Adders tongue, Crow∣foot, Yarrow, Achillea, Mousear, Dogs tongue, Burnet, Agrimony, Horstaile, Vervain, Strawberry leaves, Pauls Bettony, Hedg-Hyssop, Scordium, Woad, five leaved Grass, Centaury the less, Eupatorium, Lysimachia, Ground∣pine, great Celandine, Tobacco, also of Birthwort, Tor∣mentile, Snake-weed, Smyrnus, Lycopsis, Centaury the great, Poterium, Daffadil roots, bark of Elme, Tile Tree, Pine; Leaves of Cypress, Myrtles, Oaks, Elm, Medlars, Cornil, pear tree, Sumach, Cistus, Helianthemum, Ver∣bascum, Shepherds purse, Plantane, Lonchitis, Moon∣wort, Vitex, Polyenemus, wild Coleworts, Anagallis, Solomans seals, Polygonum, Goosgrass, Clymenus, Ar∣gemone, great white Bottles, Herb Trinity, Balsam, Cony∣za, Erigerus, Goats beard, Bettony, Sage, Polymontane, Rosemary, and Roses, Flowers of Labrusca, Myrtle seeds, Juniper Berries, Acrons, Dates. Boyl them in Water or Wine, adding Vinegar, and drying Pouders and Allum.
Or wash Wounds with the distilled water of them.
Or distill this, Take, Juice of Plantane, Agrimony, St Iohns-wort, twelve ounces, white Wine, three ounces, Allum, three ounces, Mastich, Frankincense, each half an ounce, Orpi∣ment a dram, whites of two Egges, Destill a water.
Or you may still a water with a strong Fire out of pou∣der of Bricks, and Wax washed often in Wine.
Some use the water that is in the Leaves of Elme.
You may make fine Pouders with Allum, to sprinkle upon Wounds of the Ingredients, for the Plaster.
Or for the Head, especially if the Skul be broken, of Orris, Birthwort, Flower of Orobus, and Frankincense, Myrrh, and Sarcocol, or Aloes and Sanguis Draconis, or of bark of Pitch tree, and of All-heal roots, and Capers, and Cypress roots, and when there are scales of Bones, in the wound, use scales of Brass, Pumice stone, and Crocus Martis in pouder, and for the Head, grains of Kermes, Saunders, Cypress nuts and Myrtles, and when you will dry more, Tutty and Antimony.
If the Brain appear, Sprinkle Aloes alone.
Mans Blood, or Goats dryed, is a good Pouder to glu∣tinate wounds.
Or the red Liquor of the Blood-stone, rubbed upon a whet-stone, or the white Liquor of the Galactitis dryed.
There are also Potions to cure wounds, called Vulnera∣ry, good not only when they peirce to the Stomach, and parts whither they can reach, but for wounds in the Breast, and other parts; and some say these Potions are of that sorce that they wil sweat out at the wound, and they wil be under the Skin, til it is opened to let them out, if they be given to men not wounded, this mistake came from some Humor, that they saw like the Potion about the Wound, but experience teacheth us, that they are of great force to heal wounds, but how we doubt. but it is pro∣bable they do it by a drying quality, which though it comes more easily to inward wounds, may come also to outward.
These Decoctions are made of experienced Plants, boyled in white Wine, and taken Morning and Evening, or as much of the Pouder as you can take up with three fingers, in white Wine boyled to the third or fourth part, or in Ale, Honey is usually added, and they may be made into Syrup.
The Decoction of Pyrola alone is the best, or with Sa∣nicle, or Saracons consound, or Ladies-mantle.
Or of wild Angelica in Wine used inwardly and out∣wardly, which is good against Ulcers.
Or: Take Saracens consound, Sanicle, Mugwort and Bur∣net: boyl them.
Or Saracens consound Beets, wild Angelica stalks Sanicle, Ladies-mantle, Pyrola.
Or: Take Comfrey, Tormentil and Madder roots, Pyrola, Ladies-mantle, Srawberry leaves, Agrimony, Yarrow, Hors∣tail, Dogs-tongue, Avens, Bettony, Periwinckle, Burnet, Mous-ear, Golden-rod: boyl them.
Or add to them Consolida the less, Adders-tongue, Knot-grass, Solomons-seal, Herb-trinity, Birthwort, Snakeweed, white Dittany, roots of Costus, Sun flower, Valerian, Sowbread, Balsamina, Lungwort, wild Tanfie, Solsequium, Bears-ear, Moonwort, Sion Craterae or wild Parsley, Moutain-sage, Nep, Hysop, Pennyroyal, the les∣ser Centaury and Gentian, some boyl Cray-fish there∣with.
Or: Take Pyrola, Saracens eonsound, Beets, wild An∣gelica, Carduus, Agrimony, Bettony, sprigs of Savin: take a spoonful of these in Pouder, boyl it in Wine, drink two ounces thrice a day fasting. this wil drive away any thing out of a Wound, and cures Ulcers.
This is approved by the Italians. Take Comfrey, Plan∣tane roots, Dove foot, Dogs-tongue, each a handful; Burnet, Mous-ear, Avens, red Coleworts, Agrimony, each half a handful: boyl them in red Wine, add Honey, strain and drink thereof every morning.
Or thus: Take red Coleworts, Madder, Herb Robert, Plantane, Hemp, Southernwood, Tansie, Rocket seed, Smal∣lage, Parsley and Fennel seed: bruise and cut them: boyl them in Wine, add Honey; give it morning and even∣ing.
Another: Take the stalks of red Mugwort, leaves of white Daisies, Sanicle, Pyrola, Ladies-mantle, Bettony, Sage, La∣vender, Mummy half an ounce: boyl them, some add Castor with great success.
A ra••e secret experienced in Gun-shot. Take Bay∣berries, roots of round Birthwort, each a dram; Cray-fish drieed in an Oven a dram and an half, Self-heal dried half an ounce: make a Pouder, boyl it in three pints of white Wine, to the consumption of one pint, drink an ounce thrice a day, and wash or inject into the Wound.
Another against Gun-shot when the bones are broken: Take Comfrey roots an ounce and an half, Birthwort an ounce, Sowbread and Serpentaria roots, each half an ounce; Selfheal and Herb Robert, each a handful; Savin half a handful, Mummy two drams, Crabs Eyes half an ounce, Galangal two drams: boyl them in white Wine.
In Head-wounds use the the Decoction of Bettony, Lil∣ly of the Valleys, Pauls Bettony, Celandine, Persicaria, Periwinkle, Centaury the less, Nutmeg, Mace and Ga∣langal.
For wounds in the Breast, boyl five-leav'd Grass, Avens, Comfrey, Madder, Pauls Bettony, Burnet, Mugwort, Pel∣litory of the wall, Hemp, Cressio, red Coleworts, Cha∣maemel flowers, Violets, purple Aramanthus or Marjoram, Raisons.
In wounds of the Stomach, give things to stop blood and heal, as Bole, Comfrey, Galangal in red Wine.
In Wounds of the Intestines, give Hors-tail roots and all, and Ground Ivy, boyl them in Water according to Dioscorides.
Mathiolus gives Heifers dung, and the hair under the belly of an Hare boyled with Honey the quantity of a Bean, often.