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A treatise of the first part of chirurgerie ... Containing the methodical doctrine of wounds: delivered in lectures in the Barber-Chirurgeons Hall. Upon Tuesdayes ... / [Alexander Read].

  • Alexander Reid
Date:
1638
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Credit: A treatise of the first part of chirurgerie ... Containing the methodical doctrine of wounds: delivered in lectures in the Barber-Chirurgeons Hall. Upon Tuesdayes ... / [Alexander Read]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    This diet is to be continued untill the feventh day be pad, Sol, 2, which is the frftcriticallday in fharpe difeafes. Then the ufc of wine,flefh andeggesare to be forbidden: Jet the woun¬ ded partie take thin broths altered with Lettice, Spinage, Purfhine, Endive, Succory, the common and wood Sorrell, adding the emullion of the feeds of theMuske-melon,Pom- pion3 and Cucumber Thin Panadoes, and Oatmealegruels- are lit. Sallets of the aforenamed herbs, boyled and drefled with vineger and fweet butter, may bee permitted: Apples and Pearcs^either rolled or baked, cold may be granted. Let . 7 the drinke be/mail beare or ale to thole who have uled them in their health .\But if you have in cure one, who cannot a- bide this liquor < then you are to appoint for him water boi¬ led with the bottome of a wheat-loafe mingled with Oxjfac- charum* or the lyrup of Endive, Succory fimple3 or Violet?5, taking iij * of water, and one of the lyrup. Receive the defeription of a parable julep, which will lerve all perfons ; • R* acp, font, fb. iij. vini albi lb. j. avm& mundat, ^iiij. Bull wit ilia adeonfumpt,lb.j. at coletur dtco&um> cut admifie aq.roJ.cochL iij. facchar, op, ^iiij. ut parctur julapium] clamrn. In wounds wherein there is no feare of ill accidents, you may gran t po- ched egge^, fo that the wounded partie eat as well the white as the yolke. Having (hewed unto you what aire and diet are mod convenient for wounded perfons,! am in like manner to talkeof Evacuation : Of Jc there are two kinds, Phleboto- Evacuatlor, mie and purgation by liege, As for Phlebotomie,theendof PWebotomic. it, is to procure liccitie, ordrineffe to the wounded part, ac¬ cording to Cel/uf, lib.6. cap,it. whetherphlcbotomie be to be nfed or no, thele things following will (hew you r The wound it felfe, the habit of the whole body, thepaftions of the minde, and the a ire it felfe, from the wound it felfe. Of this operation receive thefe canons: ■ Firft, in great wounds, from whence (mall ilore of bloud Indjcat^as hath iffued,and when weake parts are wounded,as the joynts, wound k Cel whither fuperfluous humours may be turned,phlebotomie is ueccffiry. The reafon of the frftpartof the canon ds this: E 3 V' If.