Galen's art of physick ... translated into English, and largely commented on : together with convenient medicines for all particular distempers of the parts, a description of the complexions, their conditions, and what diet and exercise is fittest for them / by Nich. Culpeper, Gent. ...

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Title: Galen's art of physick ... translated into English, and largely commented on : together with convenient medicines for all particular distempers of the parts, a description of the complexions, their conditions, and what diet and exercise is fittest for them / by Nich. Culpeper, Gent. ...
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Publication: London :: Printed by Peter Cole ...,; 1652.
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Chap. 88. Of Solution of Continuity.

IT remains now that we speak a word or two of that kind of Disease which is incident both to Similar and Instrumental parts, viz. Solution of Continuity or Unity which you please, which although it happen many times to men in perfect health, yet because it cau∣seth passion it may be numbred amongst Diseases, for if a sensible hurt of Operation make not a difference between health and sickness I know not what doth.

Yet amongst these also is some difference, for some of these give Healthful Signs, some Unhealthful, and some Neutral; as for the Cure that must be according to the Nature of the Part hurt, and the Essence of the Disease hurting.

Culpeper.

Me thinks Galen is very misty and hard to be under∣stood in this, I shall give you his meaning as well as I can, and rest confident if I do vary from the meaning of Galen, as it may be I may not, yet I will not vary at all from the truth.

Then consider,

1. Solution of Unity is made by Wounds or Ul∣cers.
2. A Wound is a Solution of Unity, new, bloody, and without putrefaction, and it is either,
- 1. Simple, without accidents.
- 2. Compound, with accidents, as loss of sub∣stance, Bruise, Swelling, Inflamation, Pain, Convulsion, &c.
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- 3. Difference according to place or part of the Body 'tis in, whether Principal or not Princi∣pal, Spermatical or not Spermatical.
- 4. Difference in respect of end, as great, little, hard or easie to cure, dangerous, mortal.
3. An Ulcer is a Solution of unity, with matter dif∣fering in substance from the flesh about it.
- 1. Its kinds are either plain, hollow, fistulous, sanious, virulent, cancrous, corrosive, putrefa∣ctive.
- 2. Its accidents are pain, swelling, Inflamation, hardness, callus, evil flesh, hard lips, distemper, Worms, Bones corrupted.

If any will contend that Fractures, and Dislocations are Solutions of Unity they may, I shall pass them here, they being not things for every Child in Physick to meddle withal, this is a Horn book to Physick, and you shall seldom find Latin or Greek written in such a Book.