CHAP. XVI. Of the Ulcers of the Ears.
ULcers are bred in the auditory passage both by an external cause, as a stroak, or fall; as also by an internal, as an abscess there generated. They oft-times flow with much matter not there generated,* 1.1 for such ulcers are usually but small, and besides in a spermatick part; but for that the brain doth that way disburden its self.
For the cure, the chief regard must be had of the antecedent cause, which feeds the ulcer, and it must be diverted by purging medecins,* 1.2 Masticatories, and Errhines. This is the form of a Masti∣catory. ℞. Mastich. ʒj. staphisagr. & pyreth. an. ℈j. cinam. & caryoph. an. ʒ ss. fiant Masticatoria, utatur mane & vesperi.* 1.3 But this is the form of an Errhin. ℞ succi betonic. mercurial. & melissa, an. ℥ ss.* 1.4 vini alli ℥j. misce & frequenter naribus attrahatur. For topick medicins, we must shun all fatty and oily things, as Galen set down in Method. medendi, where he finds fault with a certain follower of Thessalus, who by using Tetrapharmacum, made the ulcer in the ear grow each day more filthy than other, which Galen healed with the Trochisces of Andronius dissolved in Vinegar, whose composure is as followeth. ℞ baulast. ʒij. alumin. ʒj. atrament. sutor. ʒij. myrrhae ʒj. thur. aristol••ch. gallarum, an. ʒij. salis Ammon. ʒj. excipiantur omnia melicrato, & fiant tr••chisci. Galen in the same place witnesseth, that