Certaine vvorkes of Galens, called Methodus medendi with a briefe declaration of the worthie art of medicine, the office of a chirurgion, and an epitome of the third booke of Galen, of naturall faculties: all translated into English, by Thomas Gale Maister in Chirurgerie.

Of Gangrena, which commeth after great inflamations. Cap. 8.

THere followeth after great inflamations, that which is called Gangrena, and this disease is a mortification of the affected part, and if it haue not spedie remedie, the gréeued part doth vtterly perish, and some time it taketh hold of the other partes which be ioyned to it, and killeth the man.

For the mouthes of the veines, and all the powers of the skinne, are obstructed and stopped, through a most ve∣hement inflamation, and the natural perspiration, being de∣priued, the affected parts are easely brought to Gangrena, & mortificatiō. And first of all the florishing coulour of these parts, which are infected with inflamatiōs, are extinguished, then the dolor and pulce doth cease, not for that, the euil dis∣positiō is aswaged, but because y^e sence it selfe is mortified.

In great inflamations, the pulse, and sence, is not sepera∣ted, for the auncient writers doe say, that there is a sensible motion of the arterie, in the inflamed parte, whether it be with paine, or without. Therefore in accidents of inflama∣tiōs, some suppose, that it must be without paine. But this controuersie is about the name, which is no great matter, for it is better for vs to know the generation thereof, not regarding the name: For in bodies according to nature, the motion of the arterie, is sensible to vs without paine, but in inflamations, it is sensible with dolour and paine. For the arterie when it is delated, smiteth the bodie, which is next about it, & with the beating thereof, we féele paine, by reason of the inflamation: And when the filme, or pan∣nicle that couereth the arterie is inflamed both the arterie which beateth, and also that which is smitten, doth double the paine, and thus of these, we haue spoken sufficiently.