The surgeons mate or Military & domestique surgery Discouering faithfully & plainly ye method and order of ye surgeons chest, ye uses of the instruments, the vertues and operations of ye medicines, with ye exact cures of wounds made by gunshott, and otherwise as namely: wounds, apos fumes, ulcers, fistula's, fractures, dislocations, with ye most easie & safest wayes of amputation or dismembring. The cures of the scuruey, of ye fluxes of ye belly, of ye collicke and iliaca passio, of tenasmus and exitus ani, and of the calenture, with A treatise of ye cure of ye plague. Published for the service of his Ma. tie and of the com:wealth. By John Woodall Mr. in chyrurgerie.

Of the second outward sign of the Plague.

THe second outward signe in the Disease, is the most fierce bur∣ning Carbuncle called Anthrax, or the burning coale, which happeneth his & ubique, namely in every part of mans body, without order, rule, or controule, within the body, as well as without,* 1.1 and at the first appearance thereof (if visible) it doth appear com∣monly inflamed and hard, and 〈◊〉〈◊〉 the middest thereof, with a bur∣ning pain afflicting the sick, like to burning fire, yea and will sometimes blister even with the ardent Fervour thereof, and in o∣thers* 1.2 it will itch very much, which if it be scratched, there will come forth a sharp reddish yellowish, or sometimes a dusky coloured Ichor.

* 1.3 And to some again, the paine is so fierce and great, that the Patient will grow to to be mad with extremity thereof.

* 1.4 The shape or figure of this Disease is most commonly somewhat round▪ and the colour uncertaine, according to the predomination of the humour infected or infecting, or sometimes it is pale, though the party be in a feavour, sometimes reddish, sometmies black or pur∣ple, or greenish, and the two last colours are most feareful, and this disease▪ is seldome healed, without so much losse of the musculous flesh and skin, as it taketh first hold of, in what part soever it happen, except by sweating medicines in the beginning of the disease, the fu∣ry thereof be changed; but it is a very good signe of life when it sepa∣rateth it selfe so, that the Fever cease, for the Carbuncle commeth sel∣dome or never to suppuration as doth the Bubo: But it will admit se∣paration, and come to a kind of unperfect digestion many times, and after wil come to fall out as a gangrenated part doth, where Nature is strong, and it usually will separate and come away in one intire piece from the sound, but if it grow black and separate not, nor any circular digestion be, and the Feaver abate not, then it may befeared Death is at hand, for little hope of recovery is in the Patient.

* 1.5 And againe if it appeare greenish, the party commonly dyeth; al∣so you shall see some Carbuncles smooth as glasse, and of a blacke shining colour, not unlike pitch, with intollerable paine, and the member whereon they are fixed, will be ponderous and unwildy to move to and fro, and seeming to the patient, as if it were heavily overburthened, or as though it suffered by hard ligature, and I have seen Patients that have had Carbuncles within the body, whereof one hath been within the stomach, and some have it in their liver, and ther principal parts, but such live not many dayes. I have taken out the whole eye from one, by a Carbuncle seated therein, who recove∣red, and from another the halfe nose, from another the halfe of the beard, with also the lippe whereon it grew, which of it selfe fell off by separation, and from the third, one of his testicles, I mean one of his stones, with the purse and all, and that man was with the halfe of his Scrotum, living at the writing hereof, as in my other Treatise else∣where is mentioned. Thus much of the second principal signe or apparant Demonstration of the Plague, namely the Carbun∣cle.

Notes

• * 1.1

  The second sign Anthrax.
• * 1.2

  The effcte of it.
• * 1.3

  The description of it.
• * 1.4

  The description of it.
• * 1.5

  The danger of it.