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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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    thinned part of the peccant humour which is mod fierce,and fo abate fomewhat. checaufe of the paine. T he Simples of Simples, this order are Caraomill, Melilot, Dill, the Elder/Wall- woort, the ordinary Mallow, Marfh-mallow, the roots and flowers of Lilies, Fenugreeke, Linfeed, Barley,fweet Sallat- oyle, oyle of fweet Almonds, Mansgreafe, Capons greafe. Swines greafe,Goofegreafe,butter without fait, Marrowes, creame and fweet milke. Of thefe,oy!es and cataplafmes may be framed fit for your purpofe. This parable medicament I commend.untoyou, Reducatur unguentum album capbkratum info) mam linimmti oleo lilil. anatbino, aut chamemelino, & appli- cetur. ** Narcoticall medicamentsneithertake away the caufe of Narcotlcal m<* paine, neicher ttflwage the paine, but dupifie the part, that it dicameats. cannot feele that which is painfull: fuch medicaments are cold in the end of the third degree, and in the fourth, which drive away the natural! heat and fpirits from the part. Of this fort are the water Lily, the Henbane, Hemlock,the dead¬ ly mght-fliade, Mandrake, the apple of Peru, the black Pop- pie and Opium, Darnell, and the feeds of the former Simples, of which Simples you may make both cataplafmes and oyles! In dead of all other you may ufe this liniment, R. unguent, popul. &albi capburat. an.Z]yol. hyofeyami & mandragor.an.^ift; Mifc. ut fiat Vmimentum, applicandumparti vulneratde. Now followeth the fecond generall Symptome,which fol- Syncope, loweth after that a wound is received, and ouyuTch, fainting or fwooning,: Syncope is derived from concido,to cut together,becaufe in it both moving and feeling are taken from the body, fo that it lyeth for a time asifit were dead. Lipethymia differeth from it only in vebemencie • ’ - for m this the partie lofeth not altogether feeling, and coM fweat doth burd out; becaufe that that which cureth the greater gnefe, is able to cure the letter in this famekinde. I wiL only difeourfeof a Syncope, becaufe the natureof it be ¬ ing knowne, and die curation of it learned, the leffe «riefe. lipothynue or fainting,iseafietobe dealt withall. G 2 Syncopt