wound become withered, dry, purulent and black, there is little or no hope of cure. In vulneribus enim magnis, si tumores non superveniant, malum; authore Hippocrate. It is no less dangerous, if af∣ter the seventh day a Fever come to appear: Quia putredinis in cerebro est indicium. Periculosum eti∣am est, si quis in capite post veneris usum vulnere∣tur. It is not without danger, if the head be prone and subject to distillations, and the tumors called Erysipelas's, aut lue venereâ infectum, aut omnino cacochymicum sit, aut hecticâ febre, vel tabe, vel alio morbo consumptum.
You must note, that nothing is so hurtful in fractures and wounds of the head, as venery; not only at that time the disease is present, but also long after the cure thereof: For great plenty of Spirits are contained in a small quantity of seed, and the greatest part thereof flows from the brain; hence therefore all the faculties, but chiefly the animal, are resolved; whence we have divers times observed death to ensue in small wounds of the Head, yea, when they have been agglutinated and united.
Quò ad vulneris, seu fracturae Cranii, curatio∣nem, vide Paraeum, lib. 10. c. 15, & 16.
Hitherto hath been spoken of the Diseases of the Brain; in the next, we shall treat of the Symptomes thereof, and first of those of the ex∣ternal Senses.