A Simple Wound is that which only opens the Flesh, and hath no other concomitant Circumstances; but a Complicated Wound, on the contrary, is that which is attended with grievous Symptoms, as Hæmorrhages, Fractures of Bones, Dislocation, Lameness, and others of the like Nature. {142} _What is a dangerous and mortal Wound?_ A dangerous Wound is that which is complicated the Accidents whereof are dreadful: As when an Artery is open'd or prick'd, when a Nerve or Tendon is cut, or when the Wound is near a Joynt and accompanied with a Dislocation or Fracture. A mortal Wound is that which must be inevitably follow'd by Death; as is that which is situated deep in a principal Part necessary for the Preservation of Life. _What are the Parts wherein Wounds are mortal?_ They are the Brain, the Heart, the Lungs, the _Oesophagus_ or Gullet, the Diaphragm, the Liver, the Stomach, the Spleen, the small Guts, the Bladder, the Womb, and generally all the great Vessels. _Wherein doth the Cure of Wounds consist?_ In helping Nature readily to procure the reuniting of the Parts that have been divided, after having taken away or asswag'd every thing that might cause an Obstacle. _What are the things that hinder the speedy reunion of the Parts?_ They are extraneous Bodies found therein, as Bullets, Flocks, and Pieces of Wood or Stone, &c. As also sometimes the Accidents which attend 'em; as an _Hæmorrhage_ or Flux of Blood, Inflammation, _Esthiomenus_ or Mortification, _Hypersarcosis_, or an Excrescence of Flesh, Dislocation, the Fracture of a Bone, the Splinter of a Bone, & sometimes a contrary Air. {143} _REMEDIES._ _What are the Remedies proper for stopping an _Hæmorrhage_ or Flux of Blood?_ The common Remedy is a kind of Cataplasm, made up with the Powders of Aloes, Dragons-Blood, Bole Armenick and Whites of Eggs, which are mix'd together and laid upon the Wound. But the following is an excellent one. Take two Ounces of Vinegar, a Dram of _Colcothar_, two Drams of _Crocus Martis Astringens_; beat the whole together, steeping _Muscus Quercinus_ therein; then throw upon it the Powder of Mushrooms, or of _Crepitus Lupi_: Apply this Remedy, and you'll soon stop the _Hæmorrhage_, taking Care nevertheless to bind the Part well, otherwise the Astringents do not readily take Effect. To this Purpose you may also make use of Cobwebs, Mill-Dust, and the Powder of Worm-eaten Oak; or else take Oven-Soot mixt with the Juice of the Dung of an Ass or Ox, adding only thereto the White of an Egg. Besides these Remedies there are also actual and potential Cauteries, or simple Ligatures, which are infallible. Indeed the actual Cautery is not always sure; because when the Escar made by the Fire, falls off the Hæmorrhage breaks out again as before: but the potential Cautery is almost always successful; such as the following.