| Description Of Item | Notes on the blood ‘that nourishes the brain & flows from the nostrils’, which is ‘arterial & most pure’.
Zacutus Lusitanus [also known as Abraham Zacuto IV, Zacuti Lusitani, and Manuel Alvares de Tavara] says that ‘he cured a flux when all remedies failed by applying an actual cautery to the sole of each foot’.
Manuscript marginalia in a library copy of William Salmon, Iatrica: seu Praxis Medendi (1684) – library reference M.10.50.
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