CHAP. I. What a wound is, what the kinds and differences thereof are, and from whence they may be drawn or derived.
A Wound is a solution of Continuity, caused by a stroak, fall, or bite, newly done,* 1.1 bloody, and with putrefaction and filth. They also call it a new simple Ulcer; for the solution of continuity happens to all parts of the body; but according to the diversity of parts, it hath divers names amongst the Greeks. For in the flesh it is called Helcos, in the bone Catagma, in the nerve Spasma, in the ligament Thalas∣ma, in the vessels Apospasma, in the Muscles Regma; and that solution of continuity,* 1.2 which hap∣pens in the vessels, their mouths being open, is termed Anastomosis; that which happens by ero∣sion, Aneurosis; that which is generated by sweating out and transcolation, Diapedesis: That these may be the more easily understood, I have thought good to describe them in the following table.