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CHAP. XXIX. Of the diseases of the Cods, their Causes and Signs.
THe Cods and the Testicles which are contained in them, are both tabefacted and diseased with the Inflammation, and hard Schirrous tumour, and with all the kinds of the The Inflammatory Sulphure∣ous and Arsnick Spirits beginning to bud in the Cods and Testicles, bring forth their flowers agreeable to the root, and then the Cods are distended with a tumour; there also accompany this tumour hardness, redness, heat, and a launcing pain, which is sharpened by a light touch. The Fever for the most accompanies it, and the ill cured Inflammation, oftentimes it leaves a tu∣mour, the proper heat being extinguished, redness, heat and pain are removed, only hardness persists and con∣tinues, something of which (for the most part) remains in∣curable.
The Inflammation of the Cods and Testicles is poy∣sonful,* 1.1 and therefore it is to be expell'd by Alexiphar∣mical and Diaphoretick medicines, as also their conco∣mitating symptoms. The juice of the notable herb Her∣naria being affused with wine stays the descent or fal∣ling down of the guts in the space of nine days, as also the disease is so cured thereby that it will not invade again. The juice of Enula Campana with the juice of Rue, doth very much avail with those which have the bursting, or falling down of guts, especially if the rup∣ture or bursting be from wind; so also the subtilties of common Salt, Sal maris and Sal gemmae, are very effe∣ctive. The wild Cumin boiled in wine, and gum put to it, and applied after the manner of a plaister, doth most excellently cure it. The herb Flixwort is a chief secret in the Rupture. Inwardly in the Rupture of the Navel,