A WOUND of the Nerves. The Signs are pain, hurt action, matter, pricking is most dangerous; for the straightnesse is hardly large enough for the Medicaments to enter, or the filth to get out. If the Symptoms appear not before the seventh day, there is good hope; let the Medicaments be temperatly hot, but dry. Not only the part affected, but also the beginning of the Nerves, and the whole part must be considered. If the wound be not large enough, it must be enlarged. Let Topicals ease pain and make way for the quitter to come forth. These things ease pain here, Oyl of worms, Bean-meal, Barley, Lupius, flowers of Camomil, &c. with a Ly or Oxymel. Fly from cold, moist, astringent things. For the quitter, which Cneuff. dasz glidt wasser calls Synavia, are convenient, oyls of worms, Rue, Castoreum, of Tur∣pentine of the Firr-tree, Euphorbium, which the older it is, the weaker it is. Wherefore if a wound look red, &c.
A compleat practice of physick.: Wherein is plainly described, the nature, causes, differences, and signs, of all diseases in the body of man. VVith the choicest cures for the same. / By John Smith, Doctor in Physick.
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lay on a milder medicament, oyl of Hypericon, spirit of Wine, Gum, Ta∣camahac, Caranna. Paraeus for such a wound in. Charls the 9. laid on a Plaister of Basilicon, which should re∣card the healing of it: also he laid on double linnen cloths in the whole Arm, with an expulsive swath-band, e∣ven to the shoulder. The second dres∣sing, he poured into the wound oyl of Turpentine with Aqua vitae. And he laid on the whole Arm, the Plaister Diapa••ma, dissolved in oyl and Vinegar of Roses, with an expulsive swath-band. Take oyl of Turpentine, one ounce: Aquae vitae, one dram; a little Euphor∣bium may be added: or, Take Venice Turpentine, one ounce; oyl that is old, one ounce; Aqua vitae, a little. After that, they cured the Tumor, the pain, with a Cataplasm. Take Barley-meal, and of Orobus, of each two ounces; flowers of Camomil and Melilot, of each two pugils; new Butter without salt, one ounce and half; Barbers Ly, what may suffice. If the pain ceased not with these, either he cut off the whole Nerve, or poured on it scalding
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oyl, and dipping a linnen cloth in it, bound to the end of a Spatula, he would touch the bottom three or four times.