"It chanced on a time, that by reason of the multitude that were hurt, I wanted of this Oyle. Now there were some left to be dressed, and that I might not leave them undressed, I applied a digestive made of the yolke of egge, oyle of roses, and turpentine.

I could not sleep all that night for I was troubled in mind about the dressing of the previous day, which I judged unfit. I feared that the next day I would find them (the patients) dead or at the point of death by poison of their wounds...

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