Tes iatrikes kartos, or, A treatise de morborum capitis essentiis & pronosticis adorned with above three hundred choice and rare observations ... / by Robert Bayfield ...

CAP. XCV. De Sarcomate, & Polypo.

〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, is flesh growing in the nostrils with∣out any certain shape, but like the proud flesh of an Ulcer.

〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 is a loose and soft excrescency of flesh, growng with small roots and strings, spreading and hanging down to the lower part of the nose, like the fish called Polypus, from whence it hath its name.

A Sarcoma is easily cured, for the most part, but but Polypus hardly: But that which is soft, white,

or red, or white and red, facilius curatur; durus verò ac lividus, difficillimè & periculum est, ne in cancrum degeneret: also that Polypus which grow∣eth low, or in the middle of the nostril, is more curable than that which is rooted high, quoniam remedia ad eam partem vix possunt pertingere.

Mercury Precipitate, which is red, is account∣ed the best medicine to consume proud flesh without pain, if it be often washed; Ille pulvis cum melle rosaceo permiscendus est, and applyed with a tent. This Plaister following is of the same vertue to consume a Polypus without pain: ℞ Massae Emplastri de Mucilaginibus, ℥ ss. pulve∣ris sabinae, ʒ ii. Incorporate them, and put there∣of into the nostrils, circa lunam decrescentem, for then the tumor is less.

Plura de Polypo vide in meo Enchiridio Medi∣co, lib. 3. cap. 19.