For Ulcers in the Legs, and Cancerous Ulcers, take Plantain-Water and Allom-Water, or else Spirit of Wine, _Unguentum Ægyptiacum_, and Treacle; or else an Extract of the Roots of round Birth-Wort made in the Spirit of Wine. Gun-Powder alone dissolv'd in Wine, is of singular Use to wash the Ulcers, and afterwards to wet the Pledgers which are to be apply'd to 'em. But here are two particular and specifick Medicines to mollifie a Cancer. Take _Saccharum Saturni_, Camphire, and Soot; let 'em be incorporated with the Juice of House-Leek and Plantain, in a Leaden-Mortar; then make a Liniment thereof, and cover the Part affected as lightly as is possible to be done, as with a simple Canvass-Cloth, or a Sheet of Cap-Paper: Or else, {168} Take the destill'd Water of rotten Apples, and mingle it with the Extract of the Roots of round Birth-Wort made in Spirit of Wine; reserving this Liquor to wash the Part, and to make Injections. * * * * * CHAP. VIII. _Of Venereal Diseases._ _Of the _Chaude-pisse_ or _Gonorrhæa_._ The Signs of this Disease are a painful Distention of the _Penis_ or Yard, and a scalding Pain in making Water, the Urine being pale, whitish, and full of Filaments or little Threads: Sometimes the Testicles are swell'd as well as the _Glans_ and _Præputium_; and sometimes there is a Flux of a kind of Matter yellowish, Greenish, _&c._ If there be a great Inflammation in the Yard, endeavours must be us'd to allay it by letting Blood; and afterward the Patient may take a cooling and diuretick Diet-Drink, as also Emulsions made with cold Seeds in Whey. A very good Decoction may be prepar'd in all places, and without any trouble, by putting a Dram of _Sal Prunella_ into every Quart of Water, whereof the Patient is to drink as often as he can: This Decoction is very cooling and diuretick; and the use of it ought to be continu'd till the Inflammation be asswag'd. Then some gentle {169} Purges are to be prescrib'd in the beginning; such as an Ounce of _Cassia_, and as much _Manna_, infus'd in two Glasses of Whey, which are to be taken one or two Hours one after another.