Section 1. Chap.’8. ) then inthis cafe, repulfion

hath'no place, neiher is it to be attempred. The peccane matter is evacuated out of the Body, ei- ‘ther fenfibly, ro Wit, whenit is even fenlibly pou- red forth of the pares, ‘or elfe infenfibly, when che matter is diffipared by the Porés. | |, [tthere be noprear ftore of matter, and the'part {cituated ‘above ic be lefs ~ } compact, and the matter ic felf not fo extraodinarily chick, then it1s‘to be expel’d by infeofible difcuffion. But chen norwithftanding ifrhematcerto be fcattered be any ching bards:ic is ft {t of all co be foftened, that fo ic may che moreeafily be difcuffed by thepores of thé Skin. Bu: then again on the ocber fide, 1f che matter conceined in she Tumor be in’ preater abundance, and wichal thick 3 and ifthe part lying above it be ‘clofe and compact, the macter'is then rathet tobe fenfibly evacuated by opening the Tumor. But fince that all thefe things’ are moft confpi-
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waies; and then to corroborate both the pare /cuousin inflammations, ctherefare whatever may which breeds, and the part likewife that collects | here feem fic and requifice co be fpoken in general
and receives thefe vious humors; chit {o we may hereby free them of all their Obftrnfions. “Ar- traction is caufed by reafon of Pain, or Hear’; and
therefore itts mainly requifice that the pain be wilhere Cas in che ficceft
touching the original of Tumors proceeding froma the afflux of humors, .we wilhereafcer treat of in the Cure of an Inflammation: and at prefent we place) fpeak fomthing
removed, andthe beat qualified by refrigerating | in'general of Inipoftumes. °°
Medicaments. Bu‘tifche matcer of che Tumor or {welling be gradually and by liccle & little heaped up, then che Caufe of this congeftion ( whether ic be a diftemper, or any other faulc in the part)is co be removed. All which fhal hereafrerin the pe- ‘culiac Tra of Tusiors be made more mani- feft. : : | As forfo much of rhe Tumor as
A’ Humor bow | is already ciuled, it isto be anni- to be iaken a” Vb itaced by freeing che part affected ef igi uh from that very humor which excices ~ “4 the Tumor. Now the humor is ta ken away our of the affected part; ‘either by tran- flating of i¢ into {ome orher part, or by the ‘eva- clating of it our of the Body. Ic is transferred in- 3 co {ome other part, eitherby aftrin= A Humor, | Gents and Medicines that drive back,ot ote | elfe by Medicaments conftringent, that jis, {uch as by compreflion bring the
pare clofe togecher ; or ocherwife by drawing of | acuntoorher partsy which is effected by the fenfe |) Ofpain, by heat, and by reafon of a vacuity of
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Chap. 3. Of Impoftwmes,... ¥ Or oft-times tt comes to-pafs, thatthe matrer which is'caufe of the Tumor ¢annot'beé infen~ fibly difperfed, bucthae ic wil racher‘admut of: a change into fome other kind’of matter,’ and fo’ be heaped up in ‘a’ peculiar places The which-al. though’ ic moft an-end happen in Joflammations, yee notwithftanding other: ‘Tumors ‘alfo ‘Cand thofenota few’) in procéfs of time are ttirned.in= co Apoftems,or Impoftumes as we cerm them. For albeic corrupt matter proceed only from Blodd, as we thal further-fhew in the fifch Chaprer, when wecomerto {peak of an Inflammation, yet not= withftanding,tf in like manner alfo ¢ in other Tu- Mors) the macter which caufech the Inflammati- on'may not infenfibly be diffipated, Nature’ that fs never idle Cefpecially’ when aflifted by che warmth of Medicaments,and moft of al if dny por= tion of Blood be therewith mingled } in procefs of timeconvertsit Cand rhac very varioufly accor humor) 12:0 {émthing E 2 ke
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like unto mater 5. which when icis alcogether fe- moreover allo in Impoftumes hot unulually there
vered from che parts conteining, and gotten toge- chet into cheCaviry of che part affected, is proper- y called an Apoftem 3 as bath already been faidin
the beginning ofchefirft Chapter. And ncruth the name of an Apoftem and
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An Apo is abovelaid, Chaprer firft. For an dsm Apoftemand 4bjceffus or impoftuma- An Tuipo- | Sion hathats denomination from_parc- flumes ing afunder,.in regard chat che contei~ ning.pares which before touched one the ocher are now, mutually departed afunder,.and forma certain Cavity, in- to which the coription betakes ir felf ; a Tmpo- and likewife an Abjceffus or Impo- wher ares | HUME Is che collection of che filch and ; puculent macter in che hollownels of
erie | NY pact whacloever, Pliny gives co Beton: | Apoltems the term of {uppurations, in in his cwencieth Book, and third Chaprer;
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Impo- Tumors fome of chem more {peedi- fumes | ly, othérs again more flowly atcain un- sheit’ Dil” | co their maturation or ripenels, Thole ferevicest
I chat, proceed from good Blood, and efpecially ia Hefhy.pacc, are eafily and {oon ma- turated ; burchofe Tumors which are bred out of otherhumors, and have their refidenceneer un- co. ihe Joyots, andinthe finewy. parcs, chafle e~ {pecially chaciare weak and have in chem bue ve- ry lirtlenative hear, ace with far more difficulcy brought untoa maturation. Now of the matter which tsgathered rogether in an Apoftem, there aS oceat variety according co. that of che humors,
Out of good Blood is generated a filth chat is le(s | offenfive ; fur out of. che otker humors is bred |
are found Worms alivé, . and other {uch like lictle
Creacures chat have life: and Philoxenus writes”
(as Aetinus reporcs, Tetrab. 4, Serm. 3. Cha ptet 7-) thacona ume he difcovered ina Tumor ope- ned living Creatures like unto Gnars, ‘or {mal
Impoftume is commonly made ufe of Flies... And it isa wel-known truth, chat che hu-
‘Mors in the Body may .be wholly changed and converred into Worms, and (uch like fubf¥ances
In preat variety. Bur then if Coalsy Woods, |
| Shels,or any.thing elfe of a hike nacnse(into which | the humors cannot poflibly be conceived to pals} andymore efpecially..when they, refemble ‘ay , ching thac isfeafible by Arc.) thal chance to ba | found in Tumors, cher withoeus doubt we ought ‘Co afcribe ic unto Sorcery and Wircheratc, Abd
|poftumes.) 1s. to be caken novice of (che. fame that Galen tels us in bis. fourteenth Book»vof the Method of Phyfick, and cwelfch Chapter ). vizi tha the maccer.inco which the humor caufing the | Tumor.is.converced, one while flows co and again |in the Cavity ofthe Tumor, and is gotten coge= cher inco-the nook thereof 3; andas {gon again it is fhuc up in its own'peculiac Membrane, as it fhal further be made toappear when wecome ta treat ofthe Tumors wecal ‘Meliceries, Aiberoma, and Steatoma, Albeit chere have nor been wanting fome (as we may read in Paulus Hipineta in bis fixth Book, and Chap. 36.) who were at Opini- on, Chae thofe Tumors alone were to be properly cermed Impoftumes, ‘that did participate of an Inflammation and Pain, and had within. them’a fharp and corroding biuimor 3 and,were nor at all conteined in their own peculiar little Skin or Tu-
niche... 49 Lhe Signs Diagnoftick..
Now then in an Inflammacion.it may éafily be
fomcbing that refembles marter, Green, Yellow, | difcerned whén che humor that caufech the Tumot
or fome other color,,.Pricking, and Stinking. .For as for this preternacural matcer, if ic. may) noc be driven forth, Naturechen feparaces. it from. the Parts conteining ;. and thus being fevered from che other,parts, Nacure collects ic.inco one place, and there digefts ic fo far forth as che nacure of the {ub- gect macter doch admu, 7 |
Aad indeed of the matrer thatis. difcovered. 10 Tnpoftumes there is evermore great variety. For there isnoc only thac which we cal Pus, 2. ea ftinking Corrupr matter found therein, but likes. wate new and then adubftance refembling. Gruell, Honey, Suet, the Lees of Wine, the Dregs. of Oy]; andfomtimes alfo never awhit unlike unto Ho- ney and Snivel blended togecher 5 and that oft- times.of fo ill afavor, chat no one is.ablero abide the. Stench: .and..as.foon again .alfo we may therein -difcern fubftances like unto Hairs, Nails, Bones, Stones, Worms, Wood, Coals, Cockle-
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is Curn’d into a purulent matter. In other Tu. mors noiwithitanding chere areSigns piven which may demonfirate whether orno they be changed Signs ap paneo.an Impoftume.. | As to anftance, Vopher nile Untilchat che Tumor be turned into ‘an impofiume, itisnevera whic lef= fened, but chere is perceived a more intenfe bea- cing an che part, the Heat, Pain, and che other fymptomsateheightned 5. hence it is chat Hippo= crates in the fecond of bis Aphorifms, Aphor 47; Writes, :thatcii the cime.of maturation the Pains and Feaversare incenie, . And befides. fome one patcor other of the Tumor, begins to be fharp- pointed, che.macter then feeking its paffage forth and thereby Iifting up the part into.a Tu- mor, sai | ‘Buc {fo foon.as the humor is converced «into: Snot or that kind of matter which much refem- blech icy chen, and nor til chen, cheré 1s an abace-
fhels, as before alfo, (in che beginning of the. fe-| ment of the Feaver and pain, and then the {wel= cond Chapter) we have acquainted you. Yea | ling round abouc is fomibting diminiftied, the ex-
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tenfion and hardnefsa little eemitred, and ché Pa~{ thea, and the'Emplafter Diachylon fimplex. cienc is fenfible of eafe'anda kind of lightfomnelss| Weac the Nature of thofé Medicainents which forthen in Lumors that are hot che heac isabated | both caufe and haften maturatios, or the ripening and becomes remifs. whenas the matrer is al gotcen | of chis Pas, 1s, we have declared «0 the fitch Rook together into fomeone pare: and hereupon the | of out loftreartons, Part 1. Sect, fo Chap. 9. Such cumor it {elf in chat pare where thé macter is tus |as are chefe, Oy] mingled with Water, Oy! cem- collected is railed upintoa.fharp point, And at | petate, withouc mixture, Whedten flower, and length, if the recent preffed dowh withche fin~ | Bread of the.fame, the Fat of a Calf; Swines Fat, ger, there is a iofenefs and a certain Kind of floting ; Hens Gredte, ‘the Fat of ¢Goofe, Picch; Rezin,
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of che matcer underneath fenfibly perceived in-the part... Yecnocwithftanding chat.we be not mi- itaken in chis point, a Caution, 35, very tequifité, For now and then there is no fluctuaticn ac all co be perceived, to Wit, when either the matter is: over chick, or otherwife, when itis {ciruaced tna