The Chyrurgeons store-house furnished with forty-three tables cut in brass, in which are all sorts of instruments ... useful to the performance of all manual operations ... together with a hundred choise observations of famous cures performed : with three indexes 1. of the instruments, 2. of cures performed, and 3. of things remarkable / written by Johannes Scultetus ; and faithfully Englished by E.B.

OBSERVATION XXXII. Of a Quinsie, hindering Swallowing and Breathing.

A Noble Woman of Ʋlme, on the 7th of July, 1627. while her Courses were upon her, in the evening, was taken with a dan∣gerous Quinsie, which made her breath with difficulty, and hindered her from swallowing either Meat or Drink: being called to her, I pre∣sently order'd a Laxative Glister, and that being come away, six ounces of blood to be taken out of the Median Vein of the Arm. On the 8th of July, a stronger Glister was given her, and after it had done working, she sitting up in her Bed, a Barber opened the Veins under the Tongue, and applyed Cupping-Glasses, without Scarification, to the inside of her Thighs: which he had also done the day before, with a great deal of Fire, not only lest the Menstruous Purgations should be stopped, but also to hinder the Humours flowing to the part affected. Afterwards I removed the Cupping-Glasses, and prescribed the Pa∣tient a Gargarism; which, in all dangerous Quinsies, in the begin∣ning of the Augmentation, is highly commended to wash the Throat therewith often in a day.

Take of

• Mustard Poudered, half a dram.
• Sharp Wine-Vinegar, one ounce.
• Plantain Water, three ounces.
• White Sugar, two drams.
• Mix them.

Which in the space of fourteen hours, partly by Repelling, and partly by Dissolving the Humours, delivered the Patient from the Jaws of Death.