Of Scabbes. chap. 63.

*A Scabbe is corruption of the skinne, and commeth of corrupt humoures, which bée betwéene the skinne and the flesh and hurteth & noieth, and gréeueth and desoyleth the body. For as Constan∣tine sayth and affirmeth, Kinde putteth out euill humours, and voideth them to the vtter partes of the bodye, to cleanse and purge the inner partes. And if those foresayde humours bée subtill and small, then they be easily and lightly dis∣solued and wasted by fumosities and sweate. And if they be great and thicke, they be vnder the skinne, and breed scabs in the bodie. And humour so closed be∣twéene the skinne and the flesh, if it bee cholarike, and some deale with helde, it bréedeth a drye scabbe and not quitiery, with chinnes and cliffes, with itching & pitching. And if the humour be fleama∣tike: oft it maketh great scabs & white, with scales, and without great itching: for wet scabs with quitter and scales, with lyke itching, sheweth and betoke∣neth, that the bloud is medled with Cho∣lera: And commeth oft of great repleti∣on of the bodye, and also oft of sicknesse tant came before: by the which sick∣nesse the vertues be oppressed and ouer∣set, and superfluities increase. Also in some men is an olde scabbe, that com∣meth of default of the spleane. And such a scabbe though is passe, it commeth lightlye againe. Scabbes bée curable with medicines that drye and consume, and wast and cleanse within and with∣out.

*Scabi be diuerse, as Scabies fursure∣a, and Scabies sabina, some scabbes are like Hoppes, some like branne.