The Sixth.
IN the Paracentesis which is made in the third kind of Dropsie called Ascites, Celi∣us Aurelianus commandeth divers apertions to be made in the belly. Albucrasis applies nine actuall cauteries, that is to say, foure about the Navell, one upon the Stomacke, one upon the Spleene, one upon the Liver, two behind the backe upon the spondills, one of them neare the breast, the last neare the Stomacke. Aetius is likewise of the same opinion, to open the belly with divers cauteries. Paul Aeginet commands to apply five actual cauteries to make the said Paracentesis. But abhorring such a kind of burning of which you speake much in your third booke, I shew ano∣ther kind of practise, the which is done in making a simple incision in the sayd belly, as may be seene in my workes, with happy successe. I doe not teach yong men in my workes the manner of burning, which the Ancients have called infibulare, that is not in practise though Celsus writeth of it.