Mikrokosmographa. A description of the little-world, or, body of man : exactly delineating all the parts ... With the severall diseases thereof. Also their ... cures / By R.T. [i.e. Robert Turner].

Robert Turner

Date:: 1654

Credit: Mikrokosmographa. A description of the little-world, or, body of man : exactly delineating all the parts ... With the severall diseases thereof. Also their ... cures / By R.T. [i.e. Robert Turner]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$goafunder; but obfervea meane herein, that yer binde not the member toe ftreight , nor too loofe, it} but follow difcretion between cont , and the fee- | ling of the patient ; and as touching your rollers, ik} you mult have 2 made of foft cloth, whofe breadth and latitude muft be fuch, as in rolling there be no loofenefle, widenefle and plaites. The beginning | of the rolling muft be upon the Fra€turé, and fo | rolled about rhree or foure times, and then relliag ) ) , ay ide bya \y upward untill you come to the found parts, which mutt alfo be fomewhat rolled; by this means the ful) and the flux of hnmours be ftayed, that they cannet sit} come tothe aff: Cted part. i| The beginning of the fecond roll muft alfo bee lt) apon the fractured place, going alfo three or four i} cimesaboutic, and fo continuing downwards, yo) untill you have compaffed the found parts : which ei) done you muft with the fame roller afcend up- ‘t) wards againe, untill youcome fomewhat above wt} the firftroller, therefore che fecond roller mukt be sid) halfe as long againe as the fit, which fuffereth il] not any flax of humours to infeft, or annoy the pts] partaftected. woe Thefe rollers (hould be wet in water snd Wine we) Mixed together before youufe them, and if there 4, be any vehement paine or inflamation, then the ‘ ist member fhould:be wrapped about with fine wool ; r well carded,or elfe with ftuffes well in exisratum; H and$