Part 6
Another method of curing hemorrhoids:-You must prepare a cautery like
the
arundo phragmites, and an iron that exactly fits is to be adapted
to it; then the tube being introduced into the anus, the iron, red
hot, is to be passed down it, and frequently drawn out, so that the
part may bear the more heat, and no sore
[p. 354]may result from the heating,
and the dried veins may heal up. But if you are neither disposed to
burn nor excise, having first fomented with plenty hot water and turned
out the anus, levigate myrrh, and having burnt galls and Egyptian
alum, in the proportion of one and a half to the other things, and
as much of melanteria; these things are all to be used in a dry state.
The hemorrhoid will separate under the use of these medicines, like
a piece of burnt hide. You are to proceed thus until the whole are
removed, and a half part of burnt chalcitis does the same thing. But
if you wish to effect the cure by suppositories, take the shell of
the part fish a third part of plumbago, bitumen, alum, a little of
the flos aeris, galls, a little verdigris; having poured a small quantity
of boiled honey on these, and formed an oblong suppository, apply
until you remove them.