[a]℞] Fol. rutæ, scordii contus. ana M [a][ss.] medullæ carnis ficuum [a]℥] ij. flor. meliloti p. [a][ss.] salis marini pulveriz. [a]ʒ] ii. fermenti veteris [a]℥] [a][ss.] cum s. q. aceti, paretur Cataplasma.
Or,
[a]℞] Rad. liliorum, althææ, cum aceto macerat: ana lib. [a][ss.] sem. lini, fænugræci ana [a]℥] [a][ss.] carnis ficuum [a]℥] iij. confectionis sinapi, cum theriac. ana [a]℥] [a][ss.] axungiæ suillæ q. s. F. cataplasma. Or, according to Mayerne, from whom I learned the Rudiments of Practice.
[a]℞] Succ. apii [a]℥] ij. melissæ [a]℥] j. pimpinellæ [a]℥] j. [a][ss.] cæpas majores Numero duas, ad intenerationem, sive putrilaginem sub cineribus cautè assatas, alliorum bulbos Numero vj. clavos juglandium maj.
vetust. Numero iv. tritis alii bulbis, & clavis, affunde succos, tum adde Cæpas, in mortario marmoreo cum aceti scillit. q. s. agitentur, & cogantur in Cataplasmatis consistentiam.
BUT the Hardness, pricking Pain, and intense Heat of the Tumour continuing, Medicines were used to dissolve such Hardness, and asswage the Pain and Heat: As,
[a]℞] Rad. liliorum alb. [a]℥] ij. porrorum, medullæ carnis ficuum ana [a]℥] j. sem. lini [a]℥] [a][ss.] flor. Sambuci, meliloti ana p. [a][ss.] micarum panis alb. lib. [a][ss.] coq. in s. q. lactis, addendo sub finem ol. ros. liliorum alb. vel sambuc ana q. s. ut F. Cataplasma.
Or,
[a]℞] Fol. Scabiosæ, acetosæ ana M ij. chartâ bibulâ involut. & cineribus scintillantibus subditorum, quibus adde fermenti veteris [a]ʒ] ij. salis tantillum, agitentur probè in mortario cum s. q. axungiæ suillæ, ad usum præmemoratum. But that I may not be too tedious in reciting particular Forms of this Kind, any necessary Variations are left to the Discretion of every Physician in his own Practice.
WE do not wait for the Suppuration of a Buboe until it breaks of it self, when the Pain and other Symptoms continue very severe without Remission; besides, there would in doing so be Danger of wasting the Spirits too much, and letting the morbifick Matter retreat, besides the Smalness of the Orifice, which when they open themselves, is seldom large enough to give due Vent; we therefore open them by Incision, or to prevent Mortification, by a potential Cautery; and for the same Purpose it hath also been many Times found reasonable to mix the milder Causticks with Digestives.