CHAP. XIV.
Of the Serous swellings of the Gout, bred by accident, and the Cure of them.
Q. OF what matter do these Swel∣lings consist?
A. Of a Serous matter, pervaded with saltness, mostly caused by accident through pain; being of little danger,
Two treatises the one medical, Of the gout and its nature more narrowly search'd into than hitherto, together with a new way of discharging the same / by Herman Busschof ; the other partly chirurgical, partly medical containing Some observations and practices relating both to some extraordinary cases of women in travel, and to some other uncommon cases of diseases in both sexes by Henry Van Roonhuysen ... ; Englished out of Dutch by a careful hand.
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- Two treatises the one medical, Of the gout and its nature more narrowly search'd into than hitherto, together with a new way of discharging the same / by Herman Busschof ; the other partly chirurgical, partly medical containing Some observations and practices relating both to some extraordinary cases of women in travel, and to some other uncommon cases of diseases in both sexes by Henry Van Roonhuysen ... ; Englished out of Dutch by a careful hand.
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and not troublesome to cure; especi∣ally in or about the Joynts of the limbs, in which these aqueous tumors are very easily bred by pain.
Q. It seems, you make no great matter of the cure of these swellings, which yet Physitians count very trou∣blesome to cure, knowing that they are not to use any repercussive means in this case?
A. 'This serous humor cannot be better discharged than by our way of Burning; and that is so sure and safe, that no body ever needs to apprehend from these swellings any ill, much less incurable nodes or knots, forasmuch as by our Burning the humor and other feculent matter evaporates, whereby also the part affected is strengthned, and preserved from all putridness.