' Secrets of Arts and Nature , 
ly. If the Wound belong, flitch it in three cr more 
places but be Pure to leave a place at the lower part 
! thereof, for to purge itfelf thereby. 
For the Bloody flux. 
Take Crocus Martis (Apothecaries fell it) pouder one 
Peru pie, and an ounce of ConPerve of Roles, mix them 
together, eat it in the morning, an'd faft-two hours af- 
ter ir. ’Tis alPo given above all other Medicines in 
the cure of the Dropfy ; ’tis likewiP? good againft all 
Fluxes of the Menflruums, Bleedings at the Nofe, and 
all other Fluxes whatever; it helps fpitting of Blood; 
is excellent to flop a Flux in Wounds, and to heal and 
dry ’em, if you ftrew the Powder thereon. 
To feit end cure Bones brolsn or out of Joint, if a Surgeon 
it not to he had. 
If a Leg or an Arm is broke, take care to place it 
as it was before ; do it in this manner : Take a 1 owe! 
and make it fa ft above the place where the Leg cr 
Armisbroke; then take another Towel and faften it 
"underneath that place, and caufe two Men to put the. e 
two Towels fo, that they may thereby extend or ftretch 
out the Member diflocated or broke, and when it is 
ftretch’d out at full length, place the broken Bones as 
they were at firft, and fo by degrees let them flacaen 
their wiling ; then have ready a Cloth Po large that it 
may compafs the whole Member ; wet this Cloth in the 
Whites of Eggs and Oyl of Rofes mitt together, ami 
lay it on the Part aggriev’d, then roll it with a Linnen 
Roller four Fingers-breadth and two yards long; you 
muft firft wet the Roller too in Water and Vinegar 
mixt together. . 
Firft roll it about the Frafttire three or four times, 
then downwards and upwards, and fo faften it ; then 
roll it with another Roller in the fame manner : On 
thefe place thin Splints of light Wood, arm’d well with 
Tow a finger’s breadth from each other, and bind em 
on with Tape*, then place the Member extended on 
