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an one as may reach the bottom^ anointed with the aforefaid Oint- 

 ment, and boliter the fame with a liEtle Tow ; and over both this and 

 the other, or any Wound whatfoever, as foon as your Rowels, i^leg- 

 ants or Tents are puc in, you fliall clap a flicking Plaifter mi-tde of 

 Pitchj Rolin, Maftick and Turpentine, melted together^ as hath been 

 before taught, both to keep in your Salve, and to comfort the Sore. 

 Now if the Mouth of the Wound be not wide enough, fo as the Mat- 

 ter may eafily run forth, if it be i , fuch a place as you may do it with- 

 out hurtirig any Sinew, then give it- a pretty flit from the Mouth down- 

 ward, that the Matter may have the freer Paflage ; and in any wife, 

 have an efpecial regard that the Tent may be continually kept in by 

 one means or other, and alfo that it may not be drowned within the 

 Wound, but by tying fome Thread about the upper end thereof, fo 

 kept, that it may be taken out at Pleafure. Now if the hole be deep, 

 and in fuch a place as you may not cut it, then make your Tent full as 

 big as the hole of a dry Spunge that Was never wot, lb long, that it 

 may reach the bottom ,* and the Tent being made fomewhat iull, with 

 continual turning and wrying of it, you fliall eafily get it down, and 

 then drefs the Wound with this twice a day, cleanfing the Wound eve- 

 ry time with a little White-Wine'lukewarm ; for the Spunge anointed 

 with the Ointment aforefaid, will both draw and fuck up all the. filthy 

 Matter, and make it fo far within as is pofiible ; and as it beginneth to 

 heal, fo make your Tent every day lelfer and leller, untilit.be ready to 

 clofe up : and never leave tenting it, folong as it will receive a Tent, 

 be it never i^o fhort ; for hafty healing of Wounds breedeth Fiftulas^ 

 which properly be old Sores, and therefore muft be healed likeFiftulas. 

 Now if the Wound proceed from any ancient Impofthumation, then 

 you fhall take two or three great Onions, and taking out the Cores, 

 put therein a little Bay-Salt, and a little whole Saffron, and fo roaft 

 them in the hot Embers ; then Plaifter-wife lay them all hot on the 

 Wound,' renewing it once a day till the Wound be h£a,led. Now if 

 the upper Skin of the Wound be putrefied, and you would have it 

 away, then make a Plaifler of Cows-dungfod in Milk, and clap it to 

 for four and twenty Hours, and it will leave nothing vile about the 

 Wound. Others ufe generally for any Cure whatfoever, to t;ike a 

 quarter of a pound lof Butter, of Tar and Black Soap, of each half 

 as much, and a little Turpentine : boil all but the Soap together, then 

 when you take it off the Fire, put in the Soap^ and with this Ointmenc 

 drefs and cut, and it will heal it. 



^ Other Farriers ufe only to take Hogs-greafe and Venice-Turpen- 

 tine, and to melt them together, and it will heal any Wound. Other 

 Farriers take eight Drams of Turpentine, four drams of new Vireins 

 Wax, melt them in a pewter VelTel, and l^ir them well together, and 

 when they are v/ell meked and mixed^ take.them from, the Fire, and 



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