The most excellent of all the incarnative medicines which we know, is that used with safety for hemorrhages from the meninges of the brain, and which may be used in wounds of the neck, even for those of the jugular veins; for it will restrain the bleeding from them without a ligature. It contains of the fattest frankincense, p. j; and of aloes, when applied to soft bodies, p. ss; but when too hard, an equal quantity, and instead of the frankincense manna is to be substituted. These are to be mixed with the white of an egg until they become of the consistence of honey, when it is to be applied upon the soft down of a hare to the vessel and the whole wound; and a bandage is to be put on externally, the first four or five turns of which we are to make upon the bleeding vessel, and from thence extend to the root of it. Then having loosed it on the third day, if the medicine should still be properly applied to the wound, we are to put on another one all around, soaking it, as it were, and then bandaging. But if the first pledget come away of itself, the finger is to be pressed gently upon the root of the vessel, so as to prevent all discharge, and it is to be removed softly and another pledget applied. Thus it is to be treated until the vessel heal up, the upright posture being still preserved, but so as not to excite pain. Those things which form sloughs render the part more exposed than it was naturally, owing to the falling off of the sloughs; for in many cases a hemorrhage which can hardly be restrained supervenes upon the falling off of the sloughs. And yet we must have recourse to them when a great necessity compels us. A great necessity for using escharotics, or cauteries with fire, occurs when the bleeding proceeds from the vessels being corroded by mortification; and indeed, when in such affections we cut off the whole mortified part, it is safer to burn, as it were, its root, or to use escharotic medicines. This happens more especially upon the pudendum and fundament. The object of escharotics is to produce heat with astringency, as in chalcitis, misy, and copperas. Those from quicklime are stronger indeed, but owing to the want of astringency in the lime, the eschars from them fall sooner away; but it is better that they should remain longer, for thus will flesh have time to form previously at their root, and become as it were a cover to the vessels. In such cases of hemorrhage matured woad (isatis sativa) when sprinkled upon the part is excellent for restraining the bleeding, or burnt galls, but they must first be heated in the fire, and extinguished in vinegar or wine. The following Simples stop hemorrhages: Aloes, frankincense, manna, Samian earth, the rust of iron, the ashes of burnt wool finely powdered, the dung of an ass or of a horse, a small quantity of bitumen, pomegranate-rind, diphryges, galls, dried myrtle, all kinds of alum whether crude or burnt, roasted