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CAP. CII. De Batracho, seu Ranula sub lingua.
〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, is a swelling, in shape resembling a Frog, which now and then ariseth and groweth out under the tongue, out of that soft flesh on which the tongue lyeth, and unto which it is tied and sastned as with a chain.
Ranula recens, & pituitosa, facilè curatur; anti∣qua verò, & ab humore adusto, Chirurgia indiget. This disease in children sometimes threatneth suffocation by reason of the neerness of the La∣rynx to the rough Artery; in men, if they have pain and Fever there is danger, for it may turn to a Squinancy: Ranula sub lingua, si coloris ob∣scuri fuerit, non irritabitur, ne cancerosa fiat.
Forestus speaks of a Girl of twelve years of age, that was cured of a Ranula in two days space, with this only Medicine; ℞ Cortic. granat. hys∣sopi sicci, salis communis, ana, ʒ ii. Fiat pulvis sub lingua detinendus, and frequently use it: To men, instead of common Salt, you may use Sal armoniac, quod magis penetrat & potentiùs dissol∣vit.
Petrus Forestus used the forementioned pow∣der to a Student; as also a decoction made of equall parts of Galls, Allum, and Pomegranate flowers; and lastly, he commanded the part to be rubbed with parched Salt, and Sal gem. and