A compleat discourse of wounds : both in general and in particular: whereunto are added the severall fractures of the skull, with their variety of figures. As also a treatise of gunshot-wounds in general / collected and reduced into a new method by John Brown.

  • John Browne
Date:
1678
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Credit: A compleat discourse of wounds : both in general and in particular: whereunto are added the severall fractures of the skull, with their variety of figures. As also a treatise of gunshot-wounds in general / collected and reduced into a new method by John Brown. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    mite, fiat Cataplafata, fab finem addenda Croc 9(5. If thefe work not to any effeft, apply Cupping-glafles and Ventofes to the grieved Part, with much name; and make good Scarification : and if you cannot here well ufe a Cupping-glafs, yet you may fcarify and wah the Incifions with Spirit of wine wherein hath been diflolved Treacle or Oxycrate warm, or the like; and then in o- ther cafes may you ufe Chickens, Rabbets, Pidgeons, Whelps, or the like, cut in the middle, and fo applied hot to the Parts, thefe having power enough in them to call forth the Poyfen. Thefe following Emplafters are very beneficiall in thefe cafes. IV Caspar. aliquantnl. coS. fab prim. Ferment. Farin. Sinap. an. jj. Thermo. Andro- mach 5(5 Fol. Rut. Sccrrd. an. m\5. mi fee in Mortario, ad¬ denda parum MeU. fiat Enipl. Fallopius does much com¬ mend this: R Pic. naval. §}. Sal. Nitr. 5(5. Sent. Swap. $i;. Caspar. AUii fib prim. coB. an. $iij. Afaefoetid. Sagapen. an. jij. Stercor. Columb. 3j(5. Anftoloch. rot. DiBamn. Cretenf. an. ?i. 01. Lilior. alb. §(5. mifee pro Empl. Or this 5 R Gal¬ lon. Sagapen. Opopanac. Affasfatid. Myrrh. Piper. Sulphur an. 'iVi. Stercor. Columbin. Caprar. Anat. an. jjp. Calaminth. Mentaftr. an. 56. folventur Gummi in Vino, his addenda Mel. opt. q. f. pro Emplaft. Thefe are to be ufed while the whole Poyfon is extrafted. Phlebotomy here is al¬ together ufelels, for this does lather addi. then extinguifh the Flame : neither is Purging proper in the beginning. Keep the Wound open at leatf for forty dales: if it be but final], dilate it, for the more ready difeharge of this venenate Matter. Endeavour to ffrengthen the Parts in¬ wardly by preferibing a drachm or two of Mithridate in a morning, Pe»;ee-Treacle, Orviatan, Elixar proprietors, this in ten or twelve drops t or by giving your Patient of PH, Ruff, or EleBuar.. de Ov. 9j. in a morning. In Bi- tings which are lefs venomous, we may apply hot Oyl of Elder, the Yolk of an egg mixed with lome Butter and Saffron to eafe pain, and over thefe this Cataplafme: JV Rad.