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INflammatio aurium, The Inflammation of the ears, arises from a thin and cholerick blood, fallen forth of the small veins of the brain, into the membranes of the ear.
Curatio est dubia, propter symptomatum magni∣tudinem,
inprimis in juvenibus; for they being of a hot temper, and their blood hot, the inflam∣mation is greater quae nativum calorem cerebri dissolvit; Hence it is that they die for the most part within seven days: But if they live longer they recover. This disease is likewise very dan∣gerous in Infants▪ and little children, which by reason of the quickness of their sence, minùs dolo∣rem sustinere possunt.
Zacutus Lusitanus in praxi ad Historias, com∣mends four Hors-leeches applied behinde the ears, which he saith, gave much ease to a young man which had a violent Inflammation in his eares.
I have sometimes opened the Cephalica vein, on that side the ear hath been griev'd, with most happy success.
Gener Domini Hardy, annos circiter 8. natus, magna sinistrae auris inflammatione correptus est, which caused a most vehement pain, with red∣ness of colour, extending it self even as far as the cheeks and temples: His father desiring my advice, I directed that a healthful nurse should squirt a little of her milk from her brest into the lads ear, twice or thrice a day. I also prescribed these Syrups; ℞ Syrupi rosarum sol. ℥ ss. syrupi de rhabarbaro, ℥ i. misce. He took half over-night, a∣bout ten of the clock, and the rest in the morning, cum succo prunorum Damascenorum: He had four or five stools, and so was freed from the Inflamma∣tion and pain.