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, Three Drams; Yolk of one Egg; Mithridate, Two Drams; Oyl of Scorpions, enough to make an Ointment.

The Ulcer must be heal'd up with Emplaister de Minio, or some other Kind of healing and drying Plaister: But let it not be heal'd too fast, for fear the poisonous Matter being not wholly evacuated, should cause either the Return of the Disease, or Death.

As concerning Buboes, our Author says little of them; because (where his Recipe's were used ) they seldom ever ripen'd, but dissolv'd: Except where Patients were ungovernable in their Sweats, and thereby gave Occasion to the Maturation thereof; which when happening, he then apply'd this Cataplasm:

R Ointment of Mucilages, Basilicon the greater, Melilot Compound, of each alike Parts; Oyl of Lilies, a sufficient Quantity: Melt these together, and, with a little Bean-Flower, make them into the Consistence of a Cataplasm.

This will speedify ripen, and break the Buboes; which when they are ready, you must not stay for their breaking of themselves, but cause them to be open'd in a Rh