[p. 342]into the veins is the cause,
when not occasioned by a bruise. And the same story applies if this
happen in any other part of the body. But blood is to be abstracted,
especially the from the veins, which are the seat of the influx, if
they be conspicuous; but if not, deeper and more numerous scarifications
are to be made in the swellings; and whatever part you scarify, this
is to be done with the sharpest and most slender instruments of iron.
When you have removed the blood, you must not press hard upon the
part with the specillum, lest you produce contusion. Bathe with vinegar,
and do not allow a clot of blood to remain between the lips of the
wounds, and having spread greasy wool with a medicine for bloody wounds,
and having carded the woof and made it soft, bind it on, having wetted
it with wine and oil. And let the scarified part be so placed that
the determination of the blood may be upward and not downward; and
do not wet the part at all, and let the patient be put upon a restricted
diet and drink water. If upon loosing the bandages you find the scarifications
inflamed, apply a cataplasm of the fruit of the chaste-tree and linseed.
But if the scarifications become ulcerated and break into one another,
we must be regulated by circumstances, and otherwise apply whatever
else appears to be proper.
Part 15
When a varix is on the fore part of the leg, and is very superficial,
or below the flesh, and the leg is black, and seems to stand in need
of having the blood evacuated from it, such swellings are not, by
any means, to be cut open; for, generally, large ulcers are the consequence
of the incisions, owing to the influx from the varix. But the varix
itself is to be punctured in many places, as circumstances may indicate.
Part 16
When you have opened a vein and abstracted blood, and although the
fillet be loosed the bleeding does not stop, the member, whether the
arm or leg, is to be put into the reverse position to that from which
the blood flows; so that the blood may flow backward, and it is to
be allowed to remain in this position for a greater or less space
of time. Then bind up the part while matters are so, no clots of blood
being allowed to remain in the opening. Then having applied a double
compress, and wetted it with wine, apply above it clean wool which
has been smeared with
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