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co intercepe che flux chere were feveral Ifiues.
made, oneinthe Leg chat was found, four fin= gers below che Knee in che external pare 5 aric- ther in che Leg affected eight fingers above the Koee, or elfe in the Thigh in the infide chereof. He was every month purged; and fo by this means the Cornu Was hindered from growibdg a- gainany more; and the Ulcer was healed of ats own accord, and covered over with a Cica- trice. Nodi.
And hither Cwithour al queftion) belong and are co be referred the Nodz of Platerus, ( tou- ching Which we {pake above in the chircy tourch Chapser:) which ase the bardeft {oct of Tumors, fticking firm and faft in the bones that lie under chem, and which cannot bemade to remove their placetrom che faid bones; as if fome mew bone were now grown unto the former; which kind of Tumors ace bred about che Temples, and che
| Forehead, and alfo about the length of the An-
| kles, in chofe naked Regions.
And chee Tamers either begin of themfelves , or elfechey accompa- py other Dileates, as che French Pox, and one | certain kind. oi che Cepbalea AffeR.
The Cure.
| hele Cornua and ‘Nodiare very hard to. cure;
theskin; and thache himfelf faw chis ar Padua) and they often continue al che whol life come. in che chigh of acercain nobleman; out of whote| And yecnorwithftanding if.théy be neer unco che thigh chee gtew forth as it were a little long ftake | Joynts, fochac they hinder the motion of them, or poft. lor if they caule continual pain by prefling axpon
Zacutus in hisf{econd Book of rhe | chem, they are then cobe ampurared and cut off; Zacutus bis | Adminiftracion of Practical Phyfick, | which may be done the more {ately in regard chat
by hase sah ele 2 ' = ea E i f ‘ abfervatien | Obfery, 188. relacech chat a certain | chey conf in che naked bones that are only co-"
Lonchin : ae sso 4 | poor man naturally melancholick,| vered wich the skin,
Cornu bre The skin is. figt of al co be in the heel. | ONE complained of apain he bad in| opened; andthe Coruu ot ‘Nodws to be made na- } che heelof his right foors and thache| ked and bare 5 and afcerthat ac isto beout away cherefelc acertain hardne(s, that afcerward grew | fromrhe bone with a fhacp fron Kile, and che forth intoa Tumorofthe bigne(s of a {mal Chef-| Wound to be cured ma fit and convement man- nut, hard, rough, and {leaden colered ; which 1n/ ner. eight months time fo encreated thac it was be- come an hand breadth long, and refembleda true horn. Which after it bad been cur off ( by ve ‘advice of Phyfitians}) no fymptoms following, ' Hat Affect which the Latipes cal Fungus, ghereupon, andthe body purged cwice every | the Arabians cal Fater and ‘Patera, and yeer, he lived for two yeers in found and perfect) they reler chem unto the Tumors of che Brain. health. ' But after this he fuddenly prew fenfidle| Galen by che way and curlorily maketh mencion ofextream and intollerable pain in the very {ame hereof, when in his ficft Book of che place after place, and in fix ayonths the Cornu grew forth a~ | ted, Chap. 1. he chus wriceth ; And now ' fairh gain, bard, and encompaffed about with moft|he) even likemife of thofe things that {pring up thacp pricks, and was in Jength act leaft one hand and grov unto otber things, the notes and marks breadch and anhalf. The which being again cuc, | of the place or feat affetted are to be fougnt fore anthe very boctom chereof rhere was leit a licele| Por why, fuch things as adbere andcleaveunto hollow place, out of which there flowed forch | otbers obtain the propriety of Effence, lake as ao areat ftore of a black ftinking humer, of fo corre-| Fungi (which tbe Greeks cal Mycete) af upor ding a nacure, that ic {oon eat chrough che fleth | the breaking of the Tead the Meninx or Mem~ neer unto it. We then indeed purged his body | brane chance to be broken. Avicen lukxewale ma- wirb Medicamenes that were fit and proper for the; kech mention hereof, in phe fica of bis fourch evacuation of che melancholy humors and there! Book, Tratt.s. Chap.2. wnere he faith thus : webe likewife Sudorificks of che China Root ad-| And wben the Cranium or Skull # broken, an
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_ Practice, Part1. Chap. 25. we Wrote unto that eminent and.worthy man Ge-=, bling lielmus Fabricius, as is cobefeen inche fecond ;midft of the foot; which afterward brake of its
Century of bts Obtervacions, Obfervac. 25.) ehis|
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which there ilfued forth a licclebload, but no PHs ata),
caufed an Impoftume that is named Fatera. And we created of his Tumor io the firft Book of out
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‘aight. Andlaftly, there arofe a great {welling in the Thigh (nigh unto the left Groyn, 1n che place
Bur (as fomeimes | where rhe Glandules ace) in fhape much refem-
bling thac which ar firft was feen co appear in tbe
ownaccords out of which there grew forth greac
kind of Tumor as indeed tt may arife very fre- | ftore of {pangy flefh,,,. And to not long after che
quently from che Membranes ot the Brain, fo ic may alfo be bred in ocher parts 5 as you may there find two Hiftoties by me produced, for che fur-
ther confirmation thereof. The for-
A Hiltory | mec whereof is cbis. Acertain Youth
there was about ten yeers old, that in|
leaping bit,his lefe foor bard again{t the ground, and by this vebement {troke he eure che fole chere- of over againtt che little roe. Upon chis a Tu- mor began by hittle and lictle co increafe, into- much thac tc had foon. gotten over.al the foor, and exceedingly diftended the skin, fo chat the toes | (by reaion of che cumor or {welling coming be- twixc) ftood atsoo great a diftance che one from | the other. And yet potwithftanding cheskin in
color was like unto che found pare. There were by divers Pbyfitiage (as the manner is) divers means attempted, and different Remedies puc’ in Ac Jength his Friends wens unto,a Chirurgeon for his affiftance, who when he {aw the place very -fofe, and found chac the pain encreafed, conceived chat chere was now already a fuppuration made ,,,and thereupon without any more ado he opened the place, out. of
And ina thore time after chere ran forth asic were acertain kind of fatnels, by che which the Wound was quice fhut up. Wichin a few dates following there began ro break forth cthefe Fung in great abundance, ful of black wheyith
Boy died; The other Hiftory is chis. A Boy |
cwelveyeers old was preatly croubled A nother wich the pain of hisceeth,, At lengrh Hiftory. if came co chis, Thac they muft.be |
drawne .One of the upper teech is accordingly drawn forsh. Upon whichthere afterward arofe a Tubercle in che Palace neer.uncothat Tooth, as bigasa Prune ftone. . This being fofe, and not opening of its own accord, if was conceived that chere lay tome Pus or purulent matter under its whereupon it was opened,and a: ficft chere owed forch nothing but fome few drops of blood: bur then afterward: there brake forth a {pungy and blackith flefh, which fo far encreafed, chae it did noc alone hang forch atthe mouch, bur grew foreh likewife by the Noftrils,; and ac lengeh broughe deathuponthe Child, « _
And Gulielmus Fabricius in his fecond Cen«
) cury, Oblery. 199. celareth likewife an Hiftory
of a Fungus tinac had ics original (com Gurgulio, chat whoily filled up che Palace, and reached wel- nigh unto the foreceeth,. And another he men- tionech in the following Obfervation , chatarifing from Gurgulio was alcogether as big as, an Hen Egg, and it{o {topped up the Jictle holes of the Noftrils chat end in che Palate, chacche fick party could hardly breaches neithercould he {peak di- ftinétly, and fo as to be underftood. : This Gulielmus Fabricius in bis third Centu-
blood. : And in the foie of the foor neec unto the} ry, and Obfervat. 1. tels us yee likewife. of ano- fittle coe one night there happened as it were a be-| ther Fungus that hehad {een growing out of the nummedoel!s and deadpels as large and broad as| Ear, and that he cured the fame. And in his filth halfa Rix Doilers This being opened, yee not- | Century, and Obiervat. 62. he meacioneth yet a- wichftanding there fel forth no putrid and corrupt | nother Fungus cthac {prung and was bred out of
@uch that chat parc of che foot. did equal Corin-
| he proceeded co Section, and the middie part of
| Spungy fleth brake forth again » dence ; and look how much chere was taken away inthe daytime, there grew again ag mtich in the |
matter; neither could any of the dead fleth be fe-| patared, buc che fieth was in appearance like ur- toa burnt {punge, al bloody, twelling end ftrut- ting wach blood, and deftillingir. They began‘ likewife co thew chemfelves in ocher places, to} wit, at cthéiides of the foor, and above the ankles ;| moft loathfom and frightful ro look. upon 3, info-|
deed exceed) inbignefs achildsheed. Ac length
the foor, even Co the Navicular bone, and the heel |
the very’Cencer of the Navel. . This kind of Tue mor Gulielnus Fabricius in his third Century, Obfeivar. 36. copceitath, that it is to be referred unio thole thay we cal DHatte or Napte. Bue what thefe Napte are, we bave before declared in the chiccy fixch Chapcer.. And alzhough chere be fomthing of Pungms contained in the aforefaid Tumor Naita, and albeicthefe Tumors may in the general be faid co' be Fungus; yet notwith= ftanding chat is covered over wich the skin; but Fungi properly fo called (Cand of which we are
bone, wascucoff, That which wastbus cue off | now treating) hang forth al naked and bare with=
was wholly 2 hollow {pungy tlefh, partly putrid and comupt, aod partly curdled, thick, andlike unto a clammy porous fatnefs, and weighing wel Neer four pound. But onthe following dates a
with gteac via- .
out the skin, and chere they grow and encreafes And therefore ikewile they bréed noc inthe whol and found Membranes of the brain, bue chey are bred in chem when they are wounded, bruifed co- gether, and hurc, |
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€ Fe jo . 3 : = 4 P y ane, Fobannes Philippus Ingraffias (couching the} This Malady is very dangerous, and hardtobe § ah Caufe, and the manner of generation of chefe cured 3 and ific be not handled arighr, ic ealie et
Fungi.) wriceh that this Pungus is wont to be | ly cutneth into the Nature ofa Cancer. “Et bred in’ like manner as in Candles lighted or The Cure. aif Lamps we fee the Fungus man the pihitle cime Linivetlate ibackay. bhonthiads eresind rad poe See ; . i dt premifed Cthe | : epecially) set shy armen y ya eek r which it 1s not’our ofe here Ahi tic he py leh she copofthe Wiskof the one, and the matc snot our purp ntion) the gee of the other; and ‘which is with weak “and | Fungus ic felf istobe taken away, which is-done } et fimple Women a notable prefage of Rain fudden- eicher by Medicaments that exficcate, and cortode, J (eB ly tofollow; even as Virgil ( in the firft of his | or elfe by excifion and cutting ir our. giant Georgicks ) and Pliny likewife in his eighteenth | Medicaments chat exficcate and dry are far more J inet fx ~ | fafe chen chofe chac corrode and e ary ip peconyt Book about che end thereof, doboth of them ar~ | tare nek id eat through te) ae
reft. For when the Air begins ca be mont, the | regard chat by Corrofives che matter is eafily e€x= | { tl fparkles chat were wont to: pafs forch with che| aiperated, and fo obtaineth the nature of a GCan~ jp ist) {moke, beingnow prohibiced and hindred, byj cer. Now fuch ace made“of round Ariffolochy, jf wet! reafon of the thicknefs of che Air, do dhece| the roots of it, and of the Florentine Flower- } yi ‘refide in the ‘Lights, and chere chey repre- de-luce, Angelica, the true and right Acoruss,the | fs of Hegtas # were cectain cefemblances and Images | Leaves of Savine, of Card, Benedict. of Rotema= 9 Mi th 6f Funci. And ju foicis inthe Membrane of |1y,0t Plancane, Hoxftail, Scorks bil, che Flowers jj ath! ghe Brain, when it is difcovered and laid open, |of Red Rofes, Maftick, Frankincenfe, Myreh, | els tb at che firft there isa certain {ubftance chat repre= } prepared Tucty, bucnt Lead, Suear of Sacucn, § eft ana fenterh che likenefsof chat foft and Cotton-like | Lapis Calaminaris,che Alhes'ot Froges and Sea- | ich cender Flair that is found upon the heads of new | Crabs. OB ech, a born Infants. Bucthenafcecwards che vapors be-{ But chey are ro be cue out either by a Sifkem @yupolt. ing difcuffed by exhaling, and she Fumes being Thread (tying ic abouc therewith ) or elle any J Or ell made co affume a round form in that fubftance by | ocher ftcong Thread 5 orherwife itis done ‘by an. ap ceepga the coldnefs of che Air, they are by little and liccle | Iron. Su foo as the Fungus 1s taken away et= 9 1 becor burnt and extreamly dried by che more mward | ther'by che aforelaid Lipacure, of Iron, then chere [al uno heat, wotil at lengch there appear alfoa f{ubftance | ought co be ‘ftrewed and fprinkled thereupon {9 Diftats like Lito the faid Fungus, fignitying chat the | ‘Powders of the ‘before mentioned Medicaments, j Violent, Membrane is alsered by ehe Air. As crouching thefe opérations, fee furcher in Gus | focled Butinvery truth,‘ is indeed co be granted, lielm: Fabricius 10 che place alleadged 5 to wit, ove chac chefekind of Pungi are generaced froma fu- | Century 3. Oblervat.i. and Century 5. Obfece |} bts ch perfluous humor, as it were {weating forth tho~ | vat-62. Dileale a cow the Hart Membranes; but chat this matcer \ : | hand may be even deteined there by the Sawa che Chap. 402 Of Tumors Malignant (euro Air, and’ tharic may likewile be chereexficcaced d a I Book of
Airy al . a oyfonous, and in {pecial of |}, meerly andonly by che heat, is alcogecher falle, na P yf tiihes, he of | ptdyy and therefore not tobegranted. For thefe Pun- Flephantiafis, ee gicannot poflibly be fo fuddenly generated after ithy 3 E. wal moft apreeable unto truth, chat che humor de- ind of Tumors arifing from the huq |@ltha ftilling forth into the tote Flefh (chacas {pungy | mors, that have joyned with them a Maligoity. ney 4 hike coche Mufhcom in Trees) is changed by che | Among the which the firft we meet. withall are | 7 betaypo, formative faculty of che part; and chat Nature | cae {ma} Pox and Meafils. Bue becaufe we have /]teLas! which is never idle doth change and form into this | alfeady handled chem tn the fourch Book of Fea- /) innay fubftance che humors flowing thereunto, which by | vers, Chap.12. we flal here add no more as touche 1} cetag reafon oftheir abundance (as likewifecheic un-| ing chem 5 buc rather refer che Reader thither, | | See apy fime{s for motion’) and che debilicy of the parr, | forhis furcher information, Andcthen the next | 4h it can by no means poflibly convert into the ali- | we meet withall are thofe we call ‘Bubones and | Kocher ment and fubftance of che faid parc. Feats beer te : tobphing which we inal bead, a wi ; ikewile here inthis place {paré our pains in che | 9 tnig Signs Dianoftick. further treating thereof, in begard that we baveal-- | ey This kind of:Tumor is very eafily known. fo fpoken of them in the place alleadged, co wi, Saves, For out of a Membrane hure and brurfed, ‘or | the fixth Chaprer. There likewife belong hithez my wounded, there fhoots forth a foie Fieth, {pungy, | Cin the third place) chofe Tumors that we term Heda and pale, and not covered with the Skin and fud=| Venerea], of which we fhall hereafcer creac fur | hve denly it attainethunto a great and exraordinary | ther in ics proper place, among the malignant Tu- || ty,
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courte, hofe thac laupb, That Affect which the Arabians call Lepra, ina certain kind of likenefs and réfemblance tinto we bave cold you above (in Chap. 28.) that it is [Che Pictures of Satyces; which Colins Rhodi- by che Greeks called Blepbantia- lginus in his 19 Book of che reading of Antiqui=
fis. Now it is called Elepbas, E- \ties, and Chap. 25. conceiveth to ‘be fo called lepbantiafis, and Elepbantia from from the Greek word Seferenai, Decaufe that
the Elephanc5 by reafon of che likenefs and refem- | thele Sacyres fing and {port chemlelves with cheic es | « 4
Elephantiafis. |
blance that chis Difeafe hath with chat Creature mouths wide open and gaping, a (the Elephanc) to wit, as (ome conceive, becaufe | drawn forth like unto chole that fuch as are affected wich this Difeafe become great there are fome that give us a chi asthe Elephants; but this is bue a weak and fim= | ground of this appellation, ¢ ple conjecture of thers, fince rhat thole who ate |thofe who are affected wich th
affected with the Llepbantiafis are not made are like unto Satyres in thei p
hereby ever a whit the greater Cunlefs haply we inery,and lufifulnels.
have refpect noc fomuch waco the greatnels of the | Icis likewife cecmed’ Leontsafis, ether in t= body in fuchas are thus affeted,as unto che greac~ | gard that this Malady is invincible, hke as the Ly- nefs of che danger of death thereby threatned 4 to | O05 OF elfe becaule (as Aetiws h wh it in Te wir, thac look asthe Elephance is the ereaceft of | trab. 4. Serm.1. Chap. 30.) the forehead of the al the four-footed Creatures, even toamong dif- | fick perfon is with a certain {welling rendered ahd eales this appearech to be che gceatelt, and an Af- | made more loofe , after the refemblance of the feet almoft remedileis and incurable ) couching | flexile skin of the Lions Eye- brows, or elfe, be- which thing Macer in his Book of the vircues of | caufe the breath and che very fpirits of fuch as are Herbs, and Chap. 15. {pealyech unto the fame affected with this Malady do even fink like unto urpofe. ' the breathing of Lions, and theit very ¢xcremeénis Or elfe this Malady is fo called, becaule that alto 5 or elie becaufe thote chat are affected with creeping along upon the Thighs i¢ cauferh them | this Dieafe ‘havea molt filthy and cerrrble face, ‘infomuch that (like asdo Lions) they ftrike a
-to become (as are chole of an Elephant) rough |
aad unequal: or elfe becaute that among other | error into thote that come fuddenly and une Difeales thisisexceeding vehement, {trong and | awareés to behold ir. This Malady wby our Phys violenr, like asis the Blephant5 ot Orherwile itis |fitians cailed the Malady of St. Lagaris3 be- focalled (and this indeed feemech’ co berhe moft | caule that fuch as are Blephantiack do fo abound landare fulot Ulcers, like as was that Lazarus
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hers 8 cheskin of chole chac ace affected wich this [the beggar, of whom there is mention made in the Difeale ace rendered tumid and {woln, Icaly, ‘Evangelical Hiftory, Luke, Chap. 16.
rouph and rugged, ful of {wellings, and unequal, | Now this isa very fad-ana grievous Maladyand like unto the «Kin of Elepbants. Galen in bis lasit were ap Uni Book of Tumors, Chap. 14. writech that this dy 3 whereupon ic comprehenct Malady when ia firdt bepinnesn, is hikewife called more forts and kinds oi Difeafes. Kor firt ofa Satyriafmus, invegara chac che face of thole thag ; there is prefenc magnitude augmented, and a {wel- are afflicted with this Difeafe is tendered like un- [ing up atid down in the body sefpecially in cheex= tothe face of the {aid Sacyrés. For-the lips of fuch as ace troubled wich Elepbantiafis are likewile is heréupon corrupted: there ts likewals thereby made thick, and the Nofe fwellech 3 and| prefene a hot and dry diftemper, by whicl the thereupon it feemech as if 1 were preffed down 3| parts at ‘ che Ears become flaggy and much walted,the Jaw | lengsh they fal off: Celfus in his chird Book bones are colored, asit were, and overfpread with | and Chap. 25. thus defcribeth the whol Idea’ o a@ certain kind of rednefs, and in the Forehead | this Malady : The whol Body Cfaich he) is ate chere appear here and there Tumors or Swellings, fetted, fotbatthe very Bones likevoife may ina like as if chey were cercain Horns: although there | manner be faid to be vitiated and corrupted. Tbe
be others indeed that chink che Satyriafinus to be | bigheft and utmoft parts of the body bavein tbent fo called, even for this very caule, chat in the be- | borb {pots and foellings that ftand tbhickand claje ginning of chis Malady the fick patties are ¢x-| one by thé otber. The rednefi of thee parts is by creamly libidinous and luftful, like asare che faid little and little convened into a blackcolor. . ibe Satyres. And yee notwithitanding Aetins 10) top of the skin is unequally both thick and thiits Tecrab.4 Serm.1. Chap.120. out of Archigenes, hard and foft, and is exafperated by certatis rendereth another kind of reafon of this refem-|fcales'; the body waxetb lean. the mouth,,.the blance (and chat indeed different from che former) | calves of the legs, and the feet fovel, and are puf-
towit, becauiethe Cheeks and facein fuchas are |fedup. When the difeafe comes cnce to be olds
thus affected ace lifced up, togecher with a certain |the fingers and toes are quite bidden under ibe, 7
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