When the nerves are wounded or pricked, they experience great inflammation and pain owing to their great sensibility; and therefore fever and convulsions supervene upon them, and in some cases delirium, owing to the continuity of the nerves with the brain. And sometimes phlegmons and abscesses form in the other parts adjacent to the wound, arising from the wounded nerve, owing to their continuity with it. Wherefore we must preserve the wound of the skin from adhering, that the ichor may escape by it. And in punctures, if they appear blind, the part must be divided by two incisions intersecting one another. With regard to the treatment, if the body is plethoric, and the inflammation strong, it will be proper to begin with venesection; and when the body appears to be in a state of cacochymy, purging must also be had recourse to. We must apply to the wound medicines for allaying pain, and for increasing the discharge, more especially if the cross incisions have not been practised. It is necessary to know that warm water, which is most applicable to other inflammations, is inimical in these cases, and it is better to bathe the part with a thin oil which has no astringency and is warm to the feeling; for nothing either very cold or very hot can be applied without detriment. Of medicines turpentine-rosin is beneficial by itself in the case of children, women, and persons of tender flesh, but softened with euphorbium for those of a firmer fibre; and if it become too hard it is to be mixed with some of the thinner oils. To nerves in a state of inflammation and mortifications, we may use cataplasms consisting of the flour of barley or of beans, or by boiling that of tares in trained lye with oxymel. But without boiling we may use the following cerate for punctures: of wax, oz. iij; of euphorbium, oz. j; or of pigeon’s dung; for harder parts, of oil, oz. ij; and sometimes of turpentine, oz. j. When you wish to give the medicine the form of a plaster, you may add to the preparation from euphorbium, of wax, of boiled rosin, of oil, and of fat pitch, of each, oz. vj; but you will make it better by substituting the fattest bee-glue instead of the rosin. The following is a good remedy for punctured nerves, applying also to persons bitten by mad animals: Of vinegar one sextarius, of fat pitch, lb. j; of opoponax, oz. iij; having dissolved the opoponax in the vinegar triturate it more, and having melted the pitch, boil. This medicine is applicable to punctures of the nerves not allowing the mouth of the puncture to close up, as in the case of persons bitten by rabid animals it does not permit the wound to cicatrize. But it answers only with hard bodies, and when you wish to apply it to the punctures of children, or of persons of soft skin, you must melt it in some discutient article such as the oil of marjoram, of opobalsam, or old oil.—_Another_ suitable application is basilicon with the addition of natron, or quicklime,