pecia

The general dressing of most wounds is a piece of linen moistened with the white of egg (_pecia panni in albumine ovi infusa_), and, as a rule, the primary dressing should not be changed for two days in summer, and for three days in the winter.

Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century Henry Ebenezer Handerson

If, however, the wound is large, a pledget (_pecia_) of lint, long enough to extend from one end to the other and project a little, is placed in the wound, and over this the exterior portion of the wound is to be carefully sewed, and sprinkled daily with the _pulvis ruber_.

Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century Henry Ebenezer Handerson

I said into the phonograph 'specia, specia, specia;' but the instrument responded 'pecia, pecia, pecia.'

The True Citizen, How to Become One W. F. Markwick

� cauda vsque ad caput: qu� ligantur ad sellam, et post sellam in dorso et etiam in collo, super renes etiam partem aliam ponunt, vbi du� partium ligatur� iunguntur: in qua pecia faciunt vnum foramen, per quod caudas exponunt: et ante pectus ponant etiam vnam: qu� omnes protenduntur vsque ad crurium iuncturas.

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