Part 2. Sect. 1. Chap, To.

_ aQ Nf we ¢ Chap. 28. Of Cornua. Ery many there are that refer Cornua unto
the aforefaid Verruce: and they decec- mine-that they area certain longer kind of Verru- ce, and fomwhac cro oked like unso a Horn, But this name is both by che Arabian Phyficians, and chofe of chefe laccer times Jikewile excended far wider.. sAvicen in che feventh of his fourth | Book, Tract. 3. Chap. 14. writech thus touching | thefe Cornua. Cornua ¢ aich oh are thick additions, ei tan e upon the Fun- ures, in the extremities, ne reajon of the vebe- mency of their OS on; and tbe cure of them is Incifion, that fo that which ws altogetber djenfe- ble and without pair be removed ont of them, moreover let there be adminiftred upon tbe | vefidue thereof ‘Medicaments that are uebementiy foarp and acute C out of tbofe Medicaments that are made ufe of 1n the Vertu 1x) until it fal, an then let Buiter boyled be adininifired and a ppli« ed thereunto.
Avenzoar in bis fecond Book, and Chap. 5 hath fomrhing co this purpole:. I bave fear (faith he) my Father fay, that be once faw a certain man that bad bred inhis back a bone like unto the ‘Unicorns Horn, but it veas lefs bard than a Natural bone. .Andmy Father purged | away the grofsbumors that were in this man, and | afterward he pui exficcative Medicines upon the bone ; upon which the faid bone fel forth like as | the Harts Torns fhed and fall off in the Spring. | And I my soe erife had once a bone growing Upon my back , which brought upon me much grief and pain : Litben purged my felf from Sroft bumors, and I put upon the aforesaid bone’ Re- | folutives; (0 thar it voas for the greateft part refol-
ay ifin ay ig &
may
wed; and that little remainder thereof was no |
hinderance at ali unto me inthe exercife of my | natural operations. Therefore whenfoever thou | find the like, do ast bavefaid. And when thou pur. eft ibem, do not purge them only witb tbe | Viriuer of Medicines, but even with the very Proper “Medicines rhemfelves. And inthe num-
ber of the better Minerals Cfor the purging of | ihefe.) tbe Lapis Lazuli # ones but mithout all| beaut ty, andcomely feature 2 19 great help to be had fromthe Load- | ding. voas become fo deformec dani mif foapen,that
| doubt there
bis cafe: but for my.ovon. part I make "Sittle’ ornouje of the Lead-ftone in my praétice,
I, in regard that the Lapis Lazuli fufficeth me;
But yet fome the re be of che Ja
the. Head ; coyching which Lanfracus Cin his | Tract, 3; Dod. 2. and Chap. 3: thus wricech : I bave likewife feen Shah he ) manifef iit beats nencies of the Skul, like unto Horns. Por I |once faw a man that came unto me for advice that had in bis Head {even eminencies, one grea- | ter than the other, and they were in divers ‘pla~ ces. Of which one was as big and acute as the ‘Horn of a Kid, a. finger lougs or as long as ones thumb, and it much burt and annoyed the Skin : and I admired that the Shin was not exulcerated, When therefore I favo that it bad its or jae rab | and root from the bead, I world by no means be perfocaded to unde eriake the Cure, butr {vcadedt be fick, per fon that be fhould put bim into no mans bands, in bope of Cure, th feemed unto me altogether imp offeble. bannes Philippus Ingraffias, his firtt Tumors, and Chap, 1. “relateth tha che halle at | Panormus acertain Noble V ne Girl was afflicted wath very many oft ‘thefe crook tbe ex= creicencies, that were withal fharpened in thetop of chem, lke unto Calves Horns, almoft in al che | Limbs, and efpecially in the Joynts of the F the Arms, and che Knees, as alfo in and the Forehead. But yet notwithfia (faith he.) thofe Tumors were not bred “| Skin, butupon it, and that indéed ina | new order of generation. For like as the § | ratzon of the ftone bappeneth tn the bladder, | wit, that one Tunicle as it were coming upon a- | notber, it encreafeth unto agreatuels ; fo in AKG | manner we bebeld in them very many (eo it were} | boney crufts flicking the one totbe other, juft in Such afafbion alfo as if we fhould put the balf | rinds of Filber ds-one upon another, the lefr frill upon the greater, that (o they may be joyned toge- | ther in an acute and {harp} form, and eligi of a‘Pyranid. ‘But thefe when hey were touched about the bafis and bottom of them,were ean ly painful and they fiuck fo faftin, and were of fuck an extraordinary bardnefs that no Phyfitie | an being able by any kind of Remedies whatfoe- | ee to yield the Patient any belp or relief ‘her kinred atthe leneth (after t bat the I Difeafe, and the growth kn thef fe Cornua bad for many yeers | Continue od) n ‘or they were cam | tzmeeally aueme ented
{
Virgt
oe cameuntome,
Lboth 1n their bigiihca) d (di- vers otber new ones budding for th) in their nume
| ber al{o : whom (by the gracious affifiance of | Almighty God ) we recovered unto ber former bea! th and { oundnefs, and allo uxto ber former Who note: ith fb in fhe vas now become more like an ugly ‘Monfter, and frightful Devil, than to any Woman hinds
infomuch that ber Parents much rather Sep: ber death than ber life. Fuling
ax17
Le ONES sees a
we aes 4 AAITE CTs OF
unco Monfters rather chan unto what indeed they ere) aichough he was told thereof by Prince Abo- alis, andby chat perfon ef noce Abumerons, yet noswithftanding their gieat Authority and credit, be could not beleeve-a thing fo ftrange, until be himfelf {aw one of chem on che back of a Certain Rower, thac bad been fora Jong tame in the Trare- mis (a long Boat wich rhree Oars fo called) of che Ligurians.
Alexander Benedsitus in the firft Book of his Anatomy, and 14. Chap. cellech us, chat in Crete he {aw a black horn moft like unco the head
of a wild Goac growing forth in a mans Knee!
thas was wounded by an Arrow; and that che matter that oughrto have been converted inco the f{ubftance of abone waseafily (by the blowing 1m ot che Air) uicned into .an bonney Nacure, ‘and toon got unto felf an hardneis, after the mapnei of Gums.
And Fallopius in bis Book of the fimilar parts, |
Chap. 7. weicech, That fomtimes likewife tn whol bones as wel -as in fractures there may be
fomching bred like unto a born; and that chis|
fame horn may grow forth without the flefh and