| Description Of Item | Notes on the instruments needed in an ‘emplaster-box’ [plaster-box, plaister-box], such as ‘incision-knife [scalpel], scissors, forcipes [forceps], plain spatula, speculum-lingua; single & screw probe, uvula-spoon, stiching quill with 3 chyrurgions needles of several sizes [suture needles], director with speculum-oculi, fleme’. Similarly, the saluatory needs to be furnished with unguents such as ‘Basilicon-maius, Egyptiancum alone or mixt with Basilicon, Linimentum-Arcei, ablum, Desiccatinum Rubrum’.
Manuscript marginalia in a library copy of William Salmon, Iatrica: seu Praxis Medendi (1684) – library reference M.10.50.
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