CHAP. I. What a Wound is, what the kindes and differences thereof are, and from whence they may be drawne, or derived.
A Wound is a solution of Continuity, caused by a stroake, fall, or * 1.1 bite, newly done, bloody, and with putrifaction, and filth. They also call it a new simple ulcer; for the solution of continuity hap∣pens to all parts of the body; but according to the diversity of the parts, it hath divers names amongst the Greekes. For in the flesh it is called Helcos, in the bone Catagma, in the nerve Spasma, in the * 1.2 ligament Thlsma, in the vesselles Apospasma, in the Muscles Regma: and that solu∣tion of continuity, which happens in the vessells, their mouths being open, is termed Anastomasis, that which happens by erosion, Anaurosis; that which is generated by sweating out and transcolation, Diapedesis. That these may bee the more easily un∣derstood, I have thought good to describe them in the following table.
- The differences of wounds are drawne or ta∣ken,
- From the nature of the parts in which they are made or happen. But these parts are
- Either si∣milar and these,
- Either soft as the
- Glandules, Flesh, Fat, Marrow.
- Or hard as
- A Bone, A Gristle.
- Or of a mid¦dle consi∣stence, as the
- Membranes, Ligaments, Fibers, Vessells, Nerves, Veines, Arteries.
- Either soft as the
- Principall as the
- Braine, Heart, Liver, to which some ad the womb and Testicles.
- Or Orga∣nicall and these ei∣ther.
- Or serving the princi∣pall, as
- The Weason, Lungs, gullet, Stomacke, Gutts, Bladder.
- Or neither
- The Eares, Nose, Feete, Hands, and other of the same kinde.
- Either si∣milar and these,
- ...
- From the nature of the parts in which they are made or happen. But these parts are