Mikrokosmographa. A description of the little-world, or, body of man, exactly delineating all the parts according to the best anatomists. With the severall diseases thereof. Also their particular and most approved cures. / by R.T. doctor of physick.

Of wounds in the legs and armes made with gunshot.

THe cure is after the method set out before, first with your probe search out the shot, and with your crowbill take it out; but if the shot cannot easily be found, then proceede on to the cure of the wound and let it remaine within; in∣still and power into the wound the unguent made with butter, precipitate and Egyptiacum, and let it peirce into the wound, then make tents and dip them in the same, and put them into the Orifices of the wound, and when the wounde is well mun∣dified, use some incarnative, as this following.

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• Terebinthine, 2. ouces
• Mellis 1. ounce.
• • Alloes
  • Thuris
  • Farinae hordei
  ana 1. drachme,
• Aristolochiae, halfe a drachme.

And you must have a care that you make your tents dayly shorter and lesser, as the wound heal∣leth; but if through the violence of the shot, any bones be fractured and broke, then you must use a double cure: First, you must labour to take out the shot, next to remove the contused and broken flesh, and to procure the generation of new, and then you must come to the unition of the fractu∣red

bones, and keep the same without motion, as is set out before in the cure of fractured bones and dislocations, saving that you shall not use such li∣gatures and splints in this kind of wounds, but use an instrument to lay the fractured arme or lege in, and cover the member with soft cloathes to de∣fend it from the injury of the aire.