Book V.

Of Praktical Phyfick.
Pare {.-
ahere is unro each particular pare a proper and pe- { culiar Membrane, which ific cannot attaim unto ats ownend by reafon of the unaprnefs of che mat-
Flefh, and ina membranous pare fomwhat chat refembletha Membrane. Signs Diagnoftick.
All chefe Tuberclesor {mal Tumors have cheit sife froma very mean and incoofiderable begin- ning, and they are long, and by lictle and liccle in- creafing; and they are included each one in 1s own peculiar Tunicle. And ‘Meliceris is indeed more cound in figure, and more excended, and when prefled down by the Fingers (by reafon chac che chicknets of che hamor 1s not great) iC {peedily yieldeth and giveth place, and upon the removal of the Fingers ic as fpeedily returnech back again. For alchough Paulus fbgineta in hisfixth Book, Chap. 36. wricech that “Melicerss
loofe body ; andthac ic is flowly diffuled, but very foon collected and gathered together again ; yet without doubr, the cext is depraved, and fomething omicted by the carelefsnefs and o- | ! verfighc of che Writers, which appeareth even Be fromthis, thathe altogether omirctech the Signs Wi of Atberoma. And cheretore without all doubr va it ischusto be read, che omiffions being fupplied out of Aetius 3 Sceatoma 4s barder then the otber, and refifteth upon the touch, and baving the bot- tom thereof more folid. “But Athetoma yieldeth when it istoucbed, asit were acertain loofe bo- dy, and returneth back but flowly; but Meliceris
, giveth place fpeedily unto the touch, and then tt ' | wery {uddenly again collefted. And alchough
ae reth from Struma, becaufe ic is nothing fo bard as | Strume 5 neither hath itan unequal Tumor, like as Strume hath. it ;
But what chefe Tumors have wichin, as it may be guefled at by conjecture, fotrue it 1s chat ic cannot be cercainly known, unlefs ic be when they are caft forth; as Gelfus cels us, in bis feventh Book
Chap. 6. Prognoflicks.
te The tcuth is thac chefe Tumors have no danger ac all conjoyred with chem : and yet not- i with{tanding they oftencimes continue long,& are Cwichout any burc ) carried about,and neglected.
2. Yet nocwithftanding they often of their own accord end in an Impoftunye. Which if they do mat not, they are nor {o difficultly. cuted as ocrofula and Scirrbi.
3. Thofe ofthem that are elevated, aad expo- fed unto motion, and the couch,are eafily curable. Bur fuch of shem as are feated and fixed more deeply, and not expofed ree) che Touch, are more difficuly cured; and in Chirurgical accempcs
ter, ic Chen formeth fomthing like unto it 5 and in | ru a flethy parcic effectech {omching cha is like unto | with thefe hke Tumors cut away thofe Nerves
yieldeth uncoche couch, even as if ic were fome| p
they require che greateft care and didigence, by
reafon of che imminent eruptions of Blood, and
che pricking of che Nerves. For very many Ghi- rurgeons there be chat ( for wane of skil_) cogether
that lie under chem. The Cure.
Although thefe Tumors differ in their names, and each of them contein a peculiar Matcer: yee notwishftanding they have almoft one and the fame way of curing. For Univerfals and gene- cals being premifed, and che Body chrougbly pur= ged from che vitious humor, che matter chac is che caufe of the Tumor is cogether with the Tunicle co beraken away : which isdoneifthe maccer be either difcuffed ; or Cif chat may not conveniently bedone_) fuppurated; orelfeif the Tumors be cutforth. In Melicers chis threefold kind of Remedy hath ics place; Atheroma 1s Cured by Difcuffives and Suppuratives, and for che moft are hath no need atallof Section. As,
Take Laudanum, Bdellium, Galbanum, Am- moniacum,Pr opolis,and Turpentine,equal parts of them all, and mingle them.
Very ufeful likewite is che Emplafter made of Ammoniacum, Pellitory, and the Oy! of che
‘| Juyce cherof ; by which I have feen fuch a Lumoe
cured in che Jaw-bone broken, and jong white ftcings bike threads ( {uch as are fomsimes found in Cancers) drawnforth., —.
Uoflaked Lime alfo mixed with Greafe or Oy} is very ufeful, and of fingular benefits. Or,
Take Ship-pitch one ounce, Ammoniacun and Sulphur’, of each balf an ounce, Mingle, WC.
Take of the Root of Sowbread, and Svoines
Bi Stegtoma behard,; yet notwithftanding ic diffe. | Greafe, and alittleSulpbur , and of thefe make
an Empafter. If che Tunsor open not of ics own accord, then