CAP. CXXIX. De Malignis Tonsillarum Ulceribus.
MAligna tonsillarum Ulcera, The Malig∣nant Ulcers of the Tonsils proceed ei∣ther from some Salt Distillation eating through those parts, or from a Pestilential air, or else from some vaporous exhalation which hap∣peneth in the Venereal or Neapolitan dis∣ease.
Amongst the Ulcers of the Tonsils some are familiar and mild, quae sunt exigua, munda, non altè descendentia, nec inflammata, nec dolorem excitantia. Others are malignant and pestilen∣tial, being broad, hollow, nastie and filthie, by reason of some congealed humor, that is either white, or black, or livid: and if those con∣gealed impurities descend deeper, then they pro∣duce an Eschar or crustiness; quod si in pectus per trachaeam penetrant, they then strangle the party the very self-same day. Tonsillarum Ul∣cera sine febre securiora sunt.
The Cure may be fetcht from above, ei∣ther