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 Part with a Lancet, and let them run plentifully.

Then, at each Dressing, wash the ulcer with this Lotion, warm:

R White Wine, and Aqua Prunellæ, wherein Turpentine hath been wash'd, Mel Rosarum; of each, equal Parts: Make an Injection.

In which dip a short Tent, it being arm'd with Basilicon; and so apply it, with a Diachalon Plaister cum Gummis over all.

During the whole Cure, he prescrib'd Alexipharmicks Night and Morning; viz. his Tinctura Pestilentialis, Half a Spoonful, (and so in Proportion, a lesser Dose, according to Age and Sex) to defend the Body, and drive the Malignity out, lest otherwise its infectious Atoms might be sent to the Heart, and kill the Patient.

Having thus come to a Conclusion of that transient View (we have herein given you of our Author's Method of Practice, it remains now, that we give you here the Recipe's themselves, whose Virtues were so extreamly cry'd up, for the vast Benefit the Publick found from them, during the late fatal Times.

R Virginian Snake-Root, Three Ounces Winters-bark, Two Ounces; Contrayerva, Rh