Part IV.

|thing we haveevery where examples extant, | Svidaswritech, that a certain perfon natu. rally umerous and fearful, hearing but the } bare repore of Hercules his coming hid | ; himfelf for fear in a private place ; from | ofa very exquifice fenfe ) caufech an afflux of | whence now and then looking forth, and at |} j,yoll! | length feeing Hercules by chance pafling by bt he felldowndead withfear. And fo Fulig fe
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Bt And unto this kind of caufe, and in {pecia! |alfo remember a ceccain Student (ftout hear- | | toafudden fear and affrightnient, or vehe- ;c¢d enough otherwife) Who being by a Chi- |
| ment wrath,thofe wounds are to be referred, |rurgeon co be let blood (in my prefence, and | that being inthemfelves but fleight & {carce lat my Command ) asthe Surgeon was, about |
Ay confiderable, yet notwithftanding many |according to the cuftom to bind his Arm, | /have been known, .to die of chem within |and began butto move. his Inftrument ro- | the {pace of a very few hours. For although | ward the vein, he fainted away, and fell | that the Nerves being pricked and a Convul- [from the feat wherein he was fitting, before | everthe Lancet was put neer unto his Arm, |
whenas Neverchelefs he had neither fever, nor any other Difeafe that might any waies caufe and occafion this {wounding of his.
Eightly,. and Laftly, an Inflammation | i following upon a Wound may render that | Wound Mortal, ificbeincernal. For indeed | an Inflammation doth not neceffarilyaccom- | oany Wounds : yet notwichftanding be- |
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caufe chacin internal Wounds thofe Medi- caments cannot poffibly be adminiftred that were wont to be applied in excernal, if any internal part ¢ e{pecially if ic be nvore Ner- vous, and of an exquilite fenfe) fhal! chance co be wounded, then a pain is excited, and
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thence an Inflammatton,a feaver,a Gangrene, and other Evils do ariie, chat deftroy che
Wounded perfon wichin a very few daies. iW) And from hence ic is, chac the Vulgar do like-
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W ounds obferve the fevench and the nineth day ; becanfe that within thefe dates thofe Symptoms are wont Co fupervene, and in thefe daies co bring the greateft danger unto the. fick Patty.
Some there are that add yet another Caule, |
rowict, the influence of the Stars. And fo Francifeus Vallefius (in bis Comment. upon the 95+ Text. B. 4. of Hippocr. bis Epidem.) faith
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Conftellations 1s che Canute why light and ve- ly fleighc Wounds ate oftentimes likewife rendered Morral. And che very fame Querce- tan-alfo cels us (in his Third Chap. ‘Touching Wounds made by Guns) and that for this very Caufe the Wounds of the Head are for the moft parc wont to be Morcal. at Ferraria, and Florence. admitted of ; neither can there any Reafon be eafily rendered, why at Berraria the wounds
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perfon (in the Courfe of his life) were not fo ordered as wounded perfons oughcttobe ; but that he expofed himfelf unto the cold Air, addicted himfelf unto exceflve drinking, were ofcen diftempered with paffions of the mind, immoderate Anger, frequent affcighc- ments; and overmuch addicted to Venery. The fourth, if the Phyfitians were of opinion, and that they adjudged the Wound not mor- tal; who as mén experienced in their Arc ought cto be beleeved. The fifth is) if the wounded perfon hadnoPhyfician with him; Of if any were fent for unto him, he’ was one alcogecher ignorant andunskilful; which is aloneas if he had had noneat all. > Which yet neverthelefs (as hath been faid) is only to be underftood of a Wound noc. fimply mortal in ic felf; For if a Wound bein ic felf mortal, albeic there were no Phyfician fent for,yec neverthelefs we arenot thence to collect, chat the wounded perfon might have
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is, ifthe wounded perfon be ofa ftrong Na- ture: Forinthis Cafe, if due care be taken in the preferving of the faid Natural ftrength and vigour, the tick perfon very feldom mifcarrieth. Bucif che Wound be- ing not mortal; che wounded perfon die, and that ina fhore time, we ought co collect thar he died noc af his wound, but char he died from fome other Caufe, as we faid be-
And this is the Judgment of all Phyfictians
in general touching Wounds, both mortal, andnoc mortal. Buc yet there arifech anocher
The Reft of the Prognofticks.
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1 mite ofthe Head fhould be Saline pa in | fore.
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‘y tou: And from thefe Fundamentals no doubt it ct Pie is that Civilians likewife cake upon them co; Queftion among the civil Lawyers, co wit, ie | pronounce what W ounds are of themfelves | whether che perfon thac inflictech the Wound i ce and in theic own Nature Mortal, and whac| may be found guilty, and condemned of Ho- it id “not. ‘Nicolaus Boerius(in the place alleadged, | micide. For thefe donot only (as Phyfici- i bile | N. 18.) propoundech lix Conjectures, from; ans) weigh and confiderthe quality and Na- kg mi which ic may be Collected, that the Wound) ture of the wound, but the minde and inten- di | ‘was not Mortal of ic felf,buc chac it was made} tionalfo of the parry wounding, and other ev | fuch by Beafon of fome accident happening | Circumftances likewifes couching which we ne thereupon. The firft is, if the Wounded may fee more in the Books of thefe Civili- dIay ir ql perfon died nocuntila longer time after then: ans. | inl | wounded perfons are. wont precifely to pros |
Ske | long their Lives. The Second is this, ifthere|
dace were prefenc no dangerous Symproms in che,
sy wy | beginning of the’ Wounds. or if chere were! therto been faid may eafily appear what is is any present, and remained for a while, the.to be forexnown and forecold touching the uD) fick perfon notwithftanding was not much event of wounds; yet nevercthelefs we think it p ali | the worfe for them, bucchac he was ablero, not amifs hereco add fomwhat moreas. tou- ng bent | perform all kind of A@tions in fuch a manner | ching the premifes. For although that other hia | as they are not able to do chat are mortaliy )\W ounds (belides thole we have alieady {po- eR Sounded. Forif ke fhall appear ro be ina |ken of) do not indeed fuddenly deftroy and ay a ee way of Recovery, and chen afcerward | kil che perfon ; yet nevetthelets fome of them aS BN die, ic isto be beleeved that he ‘died upon |are far more dangerous chen other 3 and even anil | Some other Gaufe, and not from his W ound. | of thefe fome are more eafie, {ome more difii- a All which noctwichftanding are to beunder- ( culc'to Cure.
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ftood-only of a Wound chatis not of ic felf | be learne fromthe very fubftance ofche parc: For the flefay pares oa other are moit ea-
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And thofe p nual motion will not be brought co grow to- gether again but wich much difficulty. And the more exquifite likewife the fente of the part wounded is, the more eafily upon its be- ing W ounded there happeneth untoit a pain, an Inflammation, a Delizy, a Convulfion, andother Symptoms. Thirdly, From the very greatnefs of the Wound. | And Fourth- ly, From chofe things thac ufually happen and befalthe Wound. To wit, i. Lhe more Noble the parc affedt- Fee edis, ot which may likewife drawa bles. oT : . : ‘amore Noble part into Confenc ‘with ic, by fo much the more dangerous is the W ound.
2. thofe Wounds chat are initheniufcles, far from the Joynts, and the Temples, are moreeafily Cured then thofethat ace inthe Nerves, Tendons, Mémbranous parts, and the foynts. Fort the wounds of the Nerves and of the nervous pafts are for the mofk pase dangerous 5 in regard that by Reafon of the pain, andinflammations, a Convulfion and other grievous Symptoms do eafily happen: and therefore they require avery experc and diligent Chirurgeon.
3. All che Wounds: of che-internal parts | ‘yond the laff and ucnioft term of Acute Dik |
are more dangerous then the Wounds of the external parts. 4. Great Wounds are more dangerous then
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s, Moreover (iaith Celfus, in his 5.“B and 26. Chap.) that.wbich may much conduce bere- unto,is, the Age, andthe Body, andthe order and€ ourfeofilife, and the time of the yeer> for fooner zs Curediak. bild, Youib, or young man, then one tbat ss Ancient, andin years: andonne that is of a-ftrong Conjtitution #.more eafily and fooner Cured: then, be-that is of/a weakand infirm Body; aud ons tpat ym nobover fat, nor ever lean fooner then if be veer e one of thefes and
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