A compendious chyrurgerie: gathered, & translated (especially) out of Wecker, at the request of certaine, but encreased and enlightened with certaine annotations, resolutions & supplyes, not impertinent to this treatise, nor vnprofitable to the reader: published for the benefite of all his countreymen, by Ihon Banester maister in chyrurgerie

CHAP. XLIII. Inflamation of the pappes.

MEdiate causes are, plentie of bloud, cluttering or aboun∣dance of milke. Of aboun∣dance of bloud in cause, the signes are paine in backe, shoulder-blades,

and armepittes, suppression of menstruous course, paine, heate, feuer, with other signes of bloud a∣bounding. Of cluttered milke the signes are manifest. So childlabour neere hande, or newe fulfilled, argu∣eth the part to bee inflamed through store of milke. Then is there lesse rednesse, heate, &c. The immediate cause is hote distemperature: The badges whereof are, feuer, heat, paine, &c.

The substance of the pappes being open and kernellie, not much aboun∣ding with inborne heate, it is doubt∣full leste the inflammation g••owe to Scirrhus or Cancer: e••ther else being suppurate, and comming to abscesse, an eating vlcer followe. Wherefore the cure of it, is in no wise to bee ne∣glected.

If it bee for plentie of bloud, or milke, ordaine a cooling dyet, and let there bee frication of the thighes, moderate sleepe, the bellie kept sol∣luble, with clisters, or potions ex cassia, or manna, &c. her meate di∣minishing bloud, such as Beetes boi∣led with butter and vineger, sodden

apples, toastes in drinke, rere egges with iuyce of Orenges, abstaininge from flesh broth, &c. Her drinke, Barley water, or small ale, or the de∣coction of Cinamon•• And for quan∣titie, let the patient bee spare, in all her dyet.

In the beginning the patient may haue bloud taken, in proportiona∣ble quantitie, for her plentie, and strength: and that in her inner ancle (if her inferiour course haue fayled) or else in the Median, or Basilica of the Cubite: applying (withall) out∣wardlye, medicines meanly repelling: as posca cum spongia, or decoctum cha∣momillae, cum oleo rosac. & aceto, folia solani cum butyro, & oleo contusa. Or, Palmulae in posca & oleo ••lixae, deinde malaxatae, or, succus coriandri c••m ro∣saceo, &c.

But in the augmentation, dige∣rent and discutient remedies, as this Epitheme: Recipe florum Chamo∣millae, meliloti, altheae, faenigraci, semen lini & anethi, ana, manipul•• j. coquantur in aqu••, cui adde oleum ro∣sarum, anethini, ana, ℥.ij. aceti, ℥.j. herein a spunge being wett, applye to

the pappes: or a plaster: ex farina fa∣barum, faenigraeci•• sem. lini, & hordei, & panecontrito, in aqua decoctis, cum oleo anethino, additis duobus vitellis ouorum, ac croci a••que myrrhae, ana, ℈.j. else, ex farina fabarum cum melle. In the state, make your medicines maturatiue (es∣pecially, if the former haue nothinge auailed) such as these: folia maluae in hydraeleo clixa. radix maluae: vis••i, fol. maluae cum axungia porci malaxa••a: or, farina triticea cum hydreleo. The tu∣mor being ripe, procure the opening by instrument, or sharpe medicines, &c. If crudeling of the milke was occasion of the inflammation, haue respect to the Chapter going afore. In the rest of the cure, proceede by abstersiues, conglutinatiues. &c.

Notes

• Causes & signes.
• Prog.
• Cure.