Adenochoiradelogia, or, An anatomick-chirurgical treatise of glandules & strumaes or, Kings-evil-swellings : together with the royal gift of healing, or cure thereof by contact or imposition of hands, performed for above 640 years by our Kings of England continued with their admirable effects, and miraculous events, and concluded with many wonderful examples of cures by their sacred touch / all which are succinctly described by John Browne.

AN Elenchus Of the Things contained in The Second Book.

CHAP. I.

• DIvers Countries allowed divers Diseases.
• English Diseases.
• England very prolifique in producing Diseases.
• Diseases from the Mothers Womb.
• Several Reasons to confirm the Assertion.

CHAP. II.

• The Kings Evil a Distemper of the Age.
• Its proper Name by Authors.
• The Authors Opinion of this Disease, and his Definition thereof.
• What this Struma is, or the Kings-Evil Swelling.
• Flegm a great Agent hereof.
• It allowed a moveable Constitution.
• Looseness of parts a great Favourer of Strumaes.
• Looseness and Moisture two inseparable Companions in our Bodies.

CHAP. III.

• Several Differences of Strumaes.
• The manner of their Birth.
• The Patients Strength or Weakness gives another difference.
• Another difference drawn from its times.
• Different in their Magnitude.
• Different in their Nature.
• Different in their Place and Mobility.
• Different in their Origination and Number.
• What Glandula is, and why so called.
• What Nodus or Ganglion.
• What Lippitudo or Sclerophthalmia.
• What Bronchochele, and whence it is derived.
• What Atheroma and Steatoma are.
• What Meliceris and Bubo are.
• What Testudo and Botium are.
• What Spina Ventosa and Cancer are.
• The Evils proper Names according to its proper places where it enters in several parts of the Body.

CHAP. IV.

• The Antecedent Causes of Strumaes.
• Inequality and Disproportion of Nutri∣ment another Cause.
• Defect of Animal and Natural Spirits another cause.
• ...

• The Purile Age another cause hereof.
• Two other following causes hereof.
• Question and Answer hereof.
• Another cause is, when Tumours by de∣grees do fall into the Nervous parts from the External parts of the Head.
• Congestion of Humours another cause.
• Flegm another great cause hereof.
• Whether this Disease be Hereditary, and so proves another cause.
• An Hereditary Disease two-fold.
• Causes on the Parents side for begetting the Disease.
• The Parents faults depending upon the whole Body.
• Four Classes hereof.
• The Genital parts allowed proper Agents hereof.
• Fluor Albus & Menstrues acting di∣versity of change in Embryo's.
• Causes of this disease incident to children.
• Question and Answer about the same.
• Air another main cause of this Disease.
• Meat and Drink, Rest and Motion, other causes hereof.
• Sleeping and Waking other causes.
• Preternatural Alterations in the Body other causes hereof.
• The whole Mass of Blood preternaturally affected, another cause hereof.
• ...

• Old People not so subject to this Disease as Youth.
• Why this Disease is so frequent in our three Kingdoms.
• A common Disease either Original or Adventitious.
• Ireland a fruitful place for producing Diseases.
• England as fruitful as Ireland.
• A Sedentary Life another cause hereof.
• The French Pox no new Disease.
• The Scurvy proved a Disease of long continuance.
• What the French Pox is.
• What the Scurvy is.
• How both these agree with the Evil.
• Signs thereof, and the causes of the same.

CHAP. V.

• One sign hereof is, that it is various in its appearance.
• It infects the Glands when-ever it enters them.
• Knotty Swellings and Excrescences ano∣ther sign.
• A material sign of such who are troubled with this Disease.
• Another sign from their sight.
• Rogerius sign hereof.
• Signs hereof in Bergomy.
• Their difference from Glandulae.
• ...

• Their signs shewn by their hardness and inequality.
• Signs of Strumaes in Womens Breasts.
• Signs of their being bred from Viscid and Crude Dyet.
• Signs from their Quantity, Quality and Essence.
• Signs from their Multiplicity.
• General signs hereof.
• Signs of their flying out again.
• Signs of Benign Strumaes.
• Strumaes are reckoned amongst Aede∣matous Tumours.
• Signs of Malign Strumaes.
• Signs of Strumaes as well in genere as in specie.

CHAP. VI.

• Signs of Strumaes or Kings-Evil-Swel∣lings.
• This Disease being Natural is dangerous.
• Small and superfluous Strumaes are more healthful and easie to cure.
• The more early they begin, the more dan∣gerous in their cure.
• The Natural Strumaes harder to cure than those which come by the errour of Nurses or Mothers.
• Those which the Infant brings from its Mothers Womb, harder to cure than those which happen by Air, &c.
• General Presages of Strumaes.
• ...

• Such as do live to the consistence of the Disease do escape the danger thereof.
• The French Pox makes the cure of Stru∣maes incurable.
• The Scurvy retards their cure also.
• All Strumaes do not suspend the hopes of cure.
• No Strumous Tumour to be easily cured.
• Where they happen without pain, not ea∣sily extirpated.
• Strumous People generally of a moist Constitution.
• The general places of their being and growth.
• Outward Strumaes the fore-runners of Inward Glandules.
• Pain sometimes, and a hot Imposthume joyned to them.
• Purging Potions and the like very pro∣per in curing Strumaes.
• Children for the most part herewith af∣flicted.
• Strumous Tumours seldom or never give way to Medicine.
• Incision of Strumaes as much as may be avoided.
• Those sooner cured which are Pendu∣lous, than the fixt.
• Cancerated Strumaes bring danger of Hemorrhagy being cured by Incision.
• ...

• An Erronious Constitution requires par∣ticular Preservation.

CHAP. VII.

• The Practical Curative Method of Cu∣ring Strumaes.
• Reason and Experience the Ground of Practice.
• Our Chyrurgical Art first designed for the Health of Mankind.
• The Essence of the Disease to be chiefly minded.
• All Causes of Diseases to be removed.
• The Preparation of Humours the first thing indicated.
• Such as nourish and of easie digestion, are most agreeable to the Patient.
• Gentle Evacuations are here very useful.
• Alterent Medicines do very much correct this Strumous Disease.
• Timing of diseases very material as to their cure.
• Directions for giving of Preparatives.
• Three Heads as to the cure of Strumaes.
• Several Humours to be severally Treated.
• The peccant Matter to be expurged.
• General Rules as touching the Patients Institution of Life.
• Directions as to Bleeding, and Opinions as touching Vomits.
• Rules to be followed as touching the Pa∣tients Dyet.
• ...

• Immoderate Motion very hurtful to Children.
• Directions as touching the Air.
• What Dyet most proper for Scrophulated Per∣sons.
• Simple and compound Preparatives, as Deco∣ctions, Potions, &c.
• Purging Potitions, Bolus, Trochisks, Pills used in Strumaes.
• Several Purging Pills very useful in Strumous Effects.
• Several other Pills and Powders here necessary.
• Decoctions, Potions, Purging Confections here also beneficial.
• Purging Electuaries, &c.
• Specifique Powders very useful in Strumous Cases.
• Specifique Powders, Opiate, and Decoction al∣so here useful.
• A Specifique Decoction, Pills, and Bolus.
• The Chirurgeons Duty as to the outward parts.
• The method to be used if these Swellings do tend to Suppuration.
• Several suppurating Cataplasms and Empla∣sters.
• When properly to use Emollient and Discussive Medicines.
• Emollient Ʋnguents proper in Strumous Effects.
• Several Emollient Emplasters.
• The concrete Matter being softned, it is next to be discust by Resolving Medicines.
• Some Resolving Medicines proposed.
• Several other Resolving Medicines shewn.
• Manual Operation sometimes required in cu∣ring of Strumaes.
• The Method thereof plainly discovered.