(though my selfe, as yet, am not fully inclined to beleeve it,)
you shal note the _Points_ following; First, the _Ointment_ . . . is made
of Divers _ingredients_; whereof the Strangest and Hardest to come by,
are the Mosse upon the _Skull_ of a _dead Man, Vnburied_; And the _Fats_
of a _Boare_, and a _Beare_, killed in the _Act of Generation_. These Two
last I could easily suspect to be prescribed as a Starting Hole; That if
the _Experiment_ proved not, it mought be pretended, that the _Beasts_
were not killed in due Time; For as for the _Mosse_, it is certain
there is great Quantity of it in _Ireland_, upon _Slain Bodies_,
laid on _Heaps, Vnburied_. The other _Ingredients_ are, the _Bloud-Stone_
in _Powder_, and some other _Things_, which seeme to have a _Vertue_
to _Stanch Bloud_; As also the _Mosse_ hath.... Secondly, the same
_kind_ of _Ointment_, applied to the Hurt it selfe, worketh not
the _Effect_; but onely applied to the _Weapon_..... Fourthly,
it may be applied to the _Weapon_, though the Party Hurt be at a
great Distance. Fifthly, it seemeth the _Imagination_ of the Party,
to be _Cured_, is not needfull to Concurre; For it may be done
without the knowledge of the _Party Wounded_; And thus much hath
been tried, that the _Ointment_ (for _Experiments_ sake,) hath been
wiped off the _Weapon_, without the knowledge of the _Party Hurt_,
and presently the _Party Hurt_, hath been in great _Rage of Paine_,
till the _Weapon_ was _Reannointed_. Sixthly, it is affirmed,
that if you cannot get the _Weapon_, yet if you put an _Instrument_
of _Iron_, or _Wood_, resembling the _Weapon_, into the _Wound_,
whereby it bleedeth, the _Annointing_ of that _Instrument_ will serve,
and work the _Effect_. This I doubt should be a Device, to keep this
strange _Forme of Cure_, in Request, and Use; Because many times you
cannot come by the _Weapon_ it selve. Seventhly, the _Wound_ be at first
_Washed clean_ with _White Wine_ or the _Parties_ own _Water_; And then
bound up close in _Fine Linen_ and no more _Dressing_ renewed,