_Take Basilicon one ounce, fine Precipitate one scruple, and mix
them._
The parts all round should be well fomented with warm claret,
intermixed with _Spirits of Wine and Camphor_.
If the patient is full-bloody, and no blood lost by the wound, he should
be blooded, and immediately treated as a patient in a fever.
If the pain in the parts become violent, eight or ten drops of _liquid
laudanum_ (T), together with thirty or forty drops of _sweet spirit of
nitre_ (D), should be given once, twice, or thrice a day. If the wound
begins to discharge plenty of matter, it should be dressed with the same
dressing often. But if the parts become black, very fœtid, the patient
in great pain, and grows faint, a mortification is to be feared; which I
shall treat of in its proper place.
When the suppuration is unkind, and the parts are much inflamed, a
poultice will be very proper.