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ULcera oris, Ulcers of the mouth, arise from sharp humors, or vapors, à variis partibus in fauces translatis.
〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, The Aphthae, are certain small, but hot and fiery exulcerations in the highest part or su∣perficies of the mouth, arising in children, for the most part, à lactis acrimoniâ quae os exulce∣rat.
Those Ulcers which come of flegm are least dangerous; those that come of blood, or cho∣ler, more; and those that come of melancholy most of all: The mouth ulcerated in a Fever is hard to cure, quia humoris erodentis malitiam in∣dicant. Ulcera nigra & crustosa pessima & le∣thalia sunt, praecipuè in pueris.
Mouth-waters made of Plantane, Honey-suckle, and red Roses, cum syrupo de moris, & de rosis siccis, are here chiefly commended, if the ulcerated mouth be inflam'd; but it there be no Inflammation, unicum ac summum remedium est spiritus vitrioli, aut sulphuris, which may be used alone, to men, upon a little Lint at the end of a stick, gently touching the part, by which it will be presently cured, if it be a simple Aphtha, In pueris verò permiscetur dictus spiritus cum melle rosaceo, so that it may be a little sharp, and with a little lint at the end of a Probe often apply it, & citò curantur: But first it will be convenient to wash the childs mouth with Chalybeated milk, mixed with conserve of Roses.
A child four years old was cured with one grain of Laudanum, when his jaws and tongue were deeply ulcerated with such an inflammati∣on that he could neither take broth, nor topicks, the humors flowing so fast from his mouth, that he lay night and day complaining without any rest.
A certain person after the use of Mercurial
Unguents, had his mouth so inflamed, that he was almost desperate, which inflammation, all other remedies being tried in vain, was healed only with Chicken-broth made without so much as any Herbs in it; the virulency of the Quick-silver being mitigated, as was supposed, by the benign and debonaire substance of the Chic∣ken.
Plura de Aphthis vide in meo Enchiridio Me∣dico, lib. 3. cap. 21. Et etiam in meâ Scholâ Physi∣câ, Med. 112.