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THe Physician which desires to be complete and absolute in his practice, must not only have the knowledge of those Aphorismes which respect the internal Diseases of the body, but must also have those Aphorismes in his memory which do treat of external Diseases, and they are these which follow.
IF the Spittle of consumptive persons being cast upon the coals send forth an ill smell, and if the hairs of the head fall away, it is mortal.
Eunuchs neither have the gout nor grow bald.
They which are bald have not their veins swelled with melancholly blood, but they to whom such swellings so happen being bald, have the hair of their head grow again.
IN the spring season, madness, melancholly, the falling evil, fluxes of blood, squinancies, rheums, hoarseness, coughs, leprosies, tetters, the dry itch, very many ulcerated pimples, small tumours, and pains of the joynts, do arise.
Broad wheals do seldome itch.
IF a suddain strangulation seize him which hath a Feaver without a praeexistent feaver in the jawes, it is mortal.
If the neck of one that hath a feaver be on the sudden perverted and turned, so that he can scarce or hardly swallow, without a conspicuous humour, it is mortal.
Abundance of cold water cast thereon, easeth, diminisheth, and takes away the pains of tumi∣fied and painful places without ulcers, the affects of the gout, and of convulsed Members; for a moderate stupefaction hath a power to take away grief.
They which have ulcerous tumours conspicu∣ous, are neither convulsive, nor mad; but they presently vanishing; if the abscess be backward, they are taken with convulsions and cramps; but if the abscess happen to the foreparts, they are troubled with ragings, acute Diseases of the sides and suppuration of humours, if the tumours be red.
It is a very great mischief when no tumor is seen acompanying great and shrewd wounds.
Soft tumours are good, crude naught.
A tumour arising in the neck of him which hath a squinancy, is a good sign, for then the Disease is thrust outward.
A swelling or tumour appearing in the breast of him which is sick of a squinancy, is a good signe, for then the morbifick matter is secured to the external parts.
THese Diseases are common to Infants, creeping ulcers of the mouth called Apthae, vomitings, coughs, watchings, tremblings, infla∣mations about the navil, and moistness of the ears.
We must make use of cold things in these ca∣ses, when either there is a present flux of blood, or when one will presently ensue, but they must
not be applyed upon but about the place from whence the flux is, and if an inflamation or fierinesse incline to a somewhat bloody or red colour, caused by a flux of fresh blood, appear, apply them thereunto, for they cause blacknesse to inveterate sores. They help an Erisipilas not ulcerated, but offend an ulcerated.
A strangury succeeds an inflamation of the streight bowel of the wombe and suppurated reins; but the Hicket succeeds an inflamation of the liver.
A succeeding feaver takes away such pains which arise about the midriffe, which are not ac∣companyed with an inflamation.
SEE this Aphorisme in the preceeding Chap∣ter of Inflamation.
An Erisipilas happening in the wombe of a pregnant woman, is mortal.
It is a bad Symptome if an Erisipilas being
once thrust forth turn back to the inward parts, but if it come to the external from the internal parts, it is good.
An Erisipilas is caused by the laying bare of a bone.
Rottennesse, or impostumation caused by an Erisipilas, is bad.
Wan and pale flesh occasioned by a pained bone, doth signifie ill.
If the brain be suddenly strucken or mortified the sick dyes within three dayes, the which if he survive, he becomes sound again.
A bone decayes by mortification or a gangrene.
IT is more safe not to cure then to cure hidden and secret Cancers, for if they are cured, the sick dyes quickly, but if left uncured he continue•• longer.
SEE this Aphorisme in Sect. 5. Aph. 22. in the Chapter of Convulsions.
BUt when they are a little more in years, in∣flamations of the Almonds of the ears, im∣pulsions toward the inward part of the vertebra in the hinder part of the head, frequent Asthmaes, the stone, maw-worms, round-worms, and others thin and small, breeding in the streight gut, swel∣lings in the neck, and other small tumours, but especially these.
ALL Feavers coming of an inflamation of the glandulous parts are bad, but Ephemeraes.
WHen pains in the jaws, or small tumours arise in the body, the excrements must be observed, for if they are cholerick, the body is also sick, but if such are voided as come from health∣ful bodies, you may nourish the body without danger.
[See this Aphorisme in the Chapter of the Af∣fects of the joynts.
[See this Aphorisme in the third Chapter of the fourth Distinction, in the Chapter of Disea∣ses incident to Children.
Small tumours and pains in the joynts, do suc∣ceed long feavers.
They feed liberally who have small swellings or pains in their joynts arising after long feavers.
If a small swelling arise in the conduit of the urine, when that is suppurated and broke, a solu∣tion happens.
Faintings, vomitings and swoundings are con∣tingent, by the breach of an impostumation in∣wardly.
[You have this Aphorisme verbatim in this Chapter, Aph. 82.
I Refer the reader for this Aphorisme, to the Chapter of the Diseases of Children, where he may be satisfied.
A Convulsion chancing suddenly upon a wound, is mortal.
If the Bladder be cut or wounded, the brain, heart, midriffe, or any thin bowel, either stomach or liver, it is mortal.
If no tumour appear in great and naughty wounds, it is a very great mischeif.
A bone wounded or cut, a grissel, nerve, or any small particle of the mandible, the foreskin of the yard called the praeputium, doth neither encrease nor grow together again.
WHen there is a wearishness or indisposition of the body occasioned by long feavers, an abscess or impostumation will arise about the joynts, but especially about the mandibles.
When in the pains of the reins besides other symptomes there are pains felt about the muscles of the back bone, because the matter is carried outward, we must expect the impostu∣mation outward. But if the pains tend more to the internal parts, it is to be feared that the im∣postumation will be rather inward.
SEE this Aphorisme in the Chapter of Hoarse∣ness and coughs in the fifth Distinction.
[See this Aphorism in the Chapter of Autum∣nal Diseases in the fourth Distinction.
Moreover these Diseases happen to Children, creeping ulcers of the mouth, vomitings, coughs watchings, tremblings, inflamations about the navil, and moisture of their ears.
Blood or suppurated matter voided with the urine, doth signifie an exulceration of the reins and bladder.
Cold corodes ulcers, obdures the skin, hinders suppuration, causeth blackness, rigors in feavers, convulsions, and cramps.
Yet sometimes in a distension of the nerves without an ulcer, to young and well proportion'd bodies in the middle of Summer, a pouring on of cold water doth cause a Revocation of heat, but heat must cure these distemperatures.