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it away, by which means the wound is prepared and made the 

 more fit for Emplaflers, Waters, or Unguents which do car-*" 

 nifie, and make good fleih j by which means the wound which 

 before was foul, is now become clean,, healed up, and made 

 found : and thefe corroding things are commonly Precipitates, - 

 SublimafLnn, Arfnick, Refalgar, Leads white and red, Verdi- 

 greafe, Alome, Coperas white and green, Vitrial, Sandaracha 

 ChryfocoUo,Onganum,Mercury,Aconitum,CapiteIlium,Roman 

 Vitrial,Shaving of Oxe or Harts horn,rGd Coral,Spunge of the 

 Sea fome what burned, Unguentum Apollolorum, Unguentuni 

 iEgiptiacum,llnguentum Caraccum,Magiftra,Salniter, Cantha- 

 rides,Apium, A(^ia-fortis, SicIamine,Melanacardinum,and many 

 more, which 1 am enforced to leave out partly for want oi" 

 memory ,.and partly for want of time \ all which do burn, eat, 

 and corrode thtfiejh^ putting the poor heafi to mickle pain. -A 

 CakJItckis a greater burner, for that being once put to the skin, Cjuilickr 

 will in fhort time make a wound where none was before ^ for 

 therewith we do ufe to make ifliies, and where it is fet to the 

 fleJJ} or j^w,_ it maketh its way in, whereby we may in fliorter 

 fpace adminifter our £;»/'//«y?r///« ; for Ci/^T^/ci^j are ftronger and ~ 

 more violent than either Pwrf/^^/wj ox Cerrofives \ for where- 

 as Corrofives do work only upon Ji^« broken, and to corrode and 

 eat out dead, proud, Ipungy, and naughty flejk ; and Patrefa- 

 iiives do ripen, mollifie, and prepare the wound for the Can- 

 fticks-i fo Caufiicks do break ^i^« and /(?/7j and all •, and therefore 

 it is more violent, and burneth worle than any of the two for- 

 mer. Now your Pntrefa^ives are fuch medicines as we do com- py^re- 

 monly apply to fwellings, which we do make for the molt part fa^ive. 

 of medicines compounded •, as Poltefles, rofted Sorrel, white 

 Lilly root^v and the like ; . forfuCh things are drawers and ripe- 

 ners, caufing fwelHngs Which be hard and flefhy, to become 

 foft and putrefadliVe^ and to prepare Sorances for the CMJiicksy 

 whole nature is to break and open,what before the Pntrefa^ive 

 had ripened, which otherwife mulb have been done by Cautery 

 A^ml or by incifion. And this I do hold fufficientto be han- 

 dled upon tiris fubjed y howfoever much more,and many other 

 particulars may be:delivered,yet in this conlifteth the fubflance 

 of all : for by realbn i aim at brevity,! refer you to Mv.Bhwde- 

 viles OfJce^-stidtoMt. Markh^ims Mafer-peice^v^ho have intreated 

 hereof very accurately. Tj SECT. 



