CHAP. XVI. Of the Vlcers of the Eares.
VLcers are bred in the auditory passage both by an externall cause, as a stroake, or fall, as also by an internall, as an abscesse there generated. They * 1.1 oft times flow with much matter, not there generated, for such Vlcers are usually but small and besides in a spermaticke part, but for that the braine doth that way disburden its selfe.
For the cure, the cheefe regard must be had of the antecedent cause, which feedes * 1.2 the Vlcer, and it must be diverted by purging medicines, Masticatories and Errhines. This is the forme of a Masticatory. {rum}. Mastic. ʒj. staphisagr. & pyreth. an. ℈j. cinam. * 1.3 & caryoph. an. ʒss. fiant Masticatoria, utatur manè & vesperi. But this is the forme of an Errhine. {rum} succi betonic. mercurial: & melissa, an ℥ss. vini albi ℥j, misce & frequenter * 1.4 naribus attrahatur. For topicke medicines we must shunne all fatty and oyly things, as Galen sets downe in Method. medendi, where he findes fault with a certaine follow∣er of Thessalus who by using Tetrapharmacum, made the Vlcer in the eare grow each day more filthy than other, which Galen healed with the Trochisces of Andro∣nius dissolved in Vinegar, whose composure is as followeth. {rum} balaust. ʒij, alumin. * 1.5 ʒj. atrament. sutor. ʒij, myrrhae. ʒj, thur. aristoloch. gallarum, an. ʒij, salis Ammon. ʒj, ex∣cipiantur omnia melicrato, & •…•…t trochisci. Galen in the same place witnesseth, that he hath healed inveterate Vlcers and of two yeares old of this kind, with the scailes of Iron made into powder, and then boyled in sharpe Vinegar untill it acquired the * 1.6 consistence of Honey: Moreover an Oxes gall dissolved in strong Vinegar, and dropped in warme, amends and dryes up the putrefaction wherewith these Vlcers flow. Also the scailes of Iron made into powder boyled in sharpe Vinegar, dryed and strewed upon them. But if the straitnesse of the passages should not give leave to the matter contained in the windings of the eares to passe forth, then must it bee drawne out with an Instrument thereupon called a Pyoulcos, or matter-drawer, * 1.7 whereof this is the figure.