CHAP. X. Of a Gangrene and Mortification.
CErtainly the malign symptoms which happen upon wounds, and the solutions of Con∣tinuity, are many, caused either by the ignorance or negligence of the Chirurgeon; or by the Patient, or such as are about him; or by the malignity and violence of the disease: but there can happen no greater than a Gangrene, as that which may cause mortification and death of the part, and oft-times of the whole body; wherefore I have thought good in this place to treat of a Gangrene, first giving you the definition, then shewing you the causes, signs, progno∣sticks, and lastly, the manner of the cure. Now a Gangrene is a certain disposition,* 1.1 and way to the mortification of the part, which it seiseth upon, dying by little and little. For when there is a perfect mortification, it is called by the Greeks Sphacelos, by the Latins Syderatio, our Countrey∣men term it the fire of Saint Anthony, or Saint Marcellus.