CHAP. XIX. Of the Vlcers of the wombe.
VLcers are bred in the wombe either by the confluxe of an acride, or biting humor, fretting the coates thereof, or by a tumor against nature degenerating into an Absesse, or by a difficult and hard labour; * 1.1 they are knowne by paine at the perinaeum, and the effluxe of Pus and San••es by the privity All of them in the opinion of Avicen are either putride, when as the Sanies breaking forth is of a stinking smell, and in colour resem∣bles * 1.2 the water wherein flesh hath beene washed; or else sordide, when as they flow with many virulent and crude humors; or else are eating or spreading Vlcers, when as they cast forth blacke Sanies, and have pulsation joyned with much paine. Besides they differ amongst themselves in site, for either they possesse the necke and are known by the sight, by putting in a speculum; or else are in the bottome, and are mani∣fested by the condition of the more liquid and serous excrements, and the site of the paine. They are cured with the same remedies wherewith the ulcers of the mouth to wit, with aqua fortis, the oyle of Vitrioll and antimony, and other things made * 1.3 somewhat more milde, and corrected with that moderation, that the ulcerated parts of the wombe may bee safely touched with them; it is requisite that the remedies which are applyed to the Vlcers of the wombe, doe in a moment that which is ex∣pected of them, for they cannot long adhere or sticke in the wombe, as neither to the mouth. Galen saith that very drying medicines are exceeding fit for the Vlcers of the wombe, that so the putrefaction may be hindred or restrained, whereto this * 1.4 part as being hot and moyst is very subject; besides that the whole body unto this part as unto a sinke sends downe its excrements. If an ulcer take hold of the bottome of the wombe, it shall be cleansed and the part also strengthened by making this follow∣ing injection. ℞ hordei integri p. ij. guajaci. ℥j. rad. Ireos. ℥ss. absinth. plant. centaur. utri∣usque, an. M. j fiat decoct. in aqua fabrorum ad lb. ij. in quibus dissolve mellis vosati, & * 1.5 syrupi de absinthio, an. ℥iij. fiat injectio. For amending the stinking smell I have often had certaine experience of this ensuing remedy. ℞. vinirub. lb. j. unguent. agyptiaci ℥ij. bulliant parum. Thus the putrifaction may be corrected and the painefull malici∣ousnesse * 1.6 of the humor abated. Vlcers when they are clensed must presently be cica∣trized; that may be done with Alume water, the water of plantaine wherein a little vitrioll or Alume have beene dissolved. Lastly, if remedies nothing availing, the Vlcer turne into a Cancer, it must be dressed with anodynes and remedies proper for a Can∣cer, which you may finde set downe in the proper treatise of Cancers. The cure of Vlcers of the fundament was to bee joyned to the cure of these of the wombe; but I have thought good to referre it to the treatise of Fistula's, as I doe the cure of these of the vrinary passage to the Treatise of the Lues venerea.