CHAP. LXI. Of the Hoemorrhoids and Warts of the neck of the womb.
* 1.1LIke as in the fundament, so in the neck of the womb, there are Hoemorrhoides, and as it were varicous veins, often-times flowing with much blood, or with a red and stinking whayish humor. Some of these, by reason of their redness and great inequality as it were of knobs, are like unripe Mulberries, and are called vulgarly venae morales, that is to say, the veins or hoemor∣rh••ids like unto Mulberries; others are like unto Grapes, and therefore are named uvales; other some are like unto warts, and therefore are called venae verucales: some appear and shew them∣selves with a great tumor, others are little, & in the bottom of the neck of the womb; others are in the side or edg thereof. Acrochordon is a kinde of wart with a callous bunch or knot, having a thin or slender root,* 1.2 and a greater head, like unto the knot of a rope, hanging by a small thred; it is called of the Arabians, veruca botoralis.
* 1.3There is also another kind of wart, which because of its great roughness and inequality, is called Thymus, as resembling the flower of Thyme. All such diseases are exasperated and made more grievous by any exercise, especially by Venerous acts: many times they have a certain ma∣lignity, and an hidden virulency joined with them, by occasion whereof they are aggravated even by touching only; because they have their matter of a raging humor: therefore to these we may not rightly use a true,* 1.4 but only the palliative cure, as they term it: the Latines call them only fi∣cus, but the French men name them with an adjunct, Saint Fiacrius figs.