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CAP. CXXVIII. De Tonsillarum, seu Amygdalarum Inflam∣matione.
TOnsillarum, seu Amydgdalarum Inflamma∣tio, The Inflammation of the Tonsils, or Almonds, is a rising or swelling up of them, pro∣duced by the afflux of humors.
Tonsillarum Inflammatio morbus acutus est, & saepe suffocationis periculum minatur. Ton∣sillae in febribus denigratae & arefactae mortem imminere portendunt. Tonsillarum inflammatio, & tumor, vel resolvitur, vel suppuratur, vel in∣duratur; & si in Scirrhum degenerat rarò aut nunquam sanatur.
Curatur ad modum aliarum Inflammationum, Vide plura de hoc affectu, in meo Enchiridio Me∣dico, lib. 3. cap. 28.
A certain Gentlewoman was taken with so great an Inflammation of the Almonds, and her tongue was so infected with many small Ulcers arising from a copious defluxion of a very sharp serous matter, that she could not speak, or sip a little broth, without much dif∣ficulty. The Malady continuing after she had been four times let blood, there was given her six grains of Resina jalappae in a soft Egg, whereby she was gently and largely purged,