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CHAP. X. Of a Gangreene and Mortification.
CErtainely the maligne symptomes which happen upon wounds, and the solutions of Continuity are many, caused either by the ignorance or negligence of the Chirurgion; or by the Patient, or such as are about him; or by the malignity and violence of the disease: but there can hap∣pen no greater than a Gangreene, as that which may cause the mortifica∣tion and death of the part, and oft times of the whole body; wherefore I have thought good in this place to treate of a Gangreene, first giving you the definition, then shewing you the causes, signes, prognostickes, & lastly the manner of cure. Now a Gangreene is a certaine disposition, and way to the mortification of the part, which it seaseth upon, dying by little and little. For when there is a perfect mortification, it is called by the Greekes Sphacelos, by the Latines Syderatio, our countrymen * 1.1 terme it the fire of Saint Anthony or Saint Marcellus.