Young is the marked element of the old/young pair, since the usual way of asking someone's age is How old are you?.

When, by means of this Plaister, (or some other of equal Virtues, Properties, and Power) coassisted with the Internals above-directed, the Lividness, Hardness, and Sponginess of the circumambient Flesh are resolv'd, reprov'd, and dissipated, and the Flesh restor'd to its natural Colour and Condition; it will then be time to introduce cicatrizing, healing Medicines:And over such, (in place of the above-describ'd) the followin Plaister may be very good, as it is warm and defensive:

This will I do, saying that it is the word of She that it be done, and he who obeyeth not the word of She food is he for the hyænas.

But the dreams came upon him too: gallopings and shouts through a windy sky, wingbeats, cruel beaks and claws, a feeling of loss unspeakable and unbounded.