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ration. For the hurt that they may do after purg 

 ing, it is caused by the lodging of some humours in 

 ill places : for it is certain, that there be humours, 

 which somewhere placed in the body, are quiet, and 

 do little hurt ; in other places, especially passages, 

 do much mischief. Therefore it is good, after 

 purging, to use apozemes and broths, not so much 

 opening as those used before purging ; but abster 

 sive and mundifying clysters also are good to con 

 clude with, to draw away the reliques of the 

 humours, that may have descended to the lower 

 region of the body. 



Experiment solitary touching stanching of blood. 



66. Blood is stanched divers ways. First, by 

 astringents, and repercussive medicines. Secondly, 

 by drawing of the spirits and blood inwards, which 

 is done by cold, as iron or a stone laid to the neck 

 doth stanch the bleeding at the nose ; also it hath 

 been tried, that the testicles being put into sharp 

 vinegar, hath made a sudden recess of the spirits, 

 and stanched blood. Thirdly, by the recess of the 

 blood by sympathy. So it hath been tried, that the 

 part that bleedeth, being thrust into the body of a 

 capon or sheep, new ript and bleeding, hath stanched 

 blood, as it seemeth, sucking and drawing up, by 

 similitude of substance, the blood it meeteth with, and 

 so itself going back. Fourthly, by custom and 

 time ; so the Prince of Orange, in his first hurt by 

 the Spanish boy, could find no means to stanch the 

 blood either by medicine or ligament ; but was fain 



