The PREFACE.
THe Ears as Galen sheweth in 1. de symp. caus. cap. 2. have divers Diseases simi∣lary, organick, and common; which because they are not to be known, but by their Symptomes, I determine to reduce them into a Series of Symptomes. The symptoms in the Ears either are such as come from the Action hurt, or the fault of the Excrements. The Action is hurt either in the Ear alone, or in all instruments of Sence. The Action proper to the Ear, namely, Hearing, is hurt by being aboli∣shed or diminished and depraved. It is abolished by Deafness, diminished by thickness of Hearing, depraved by a noise in the Ears. The Action common to all the Instruments of Sence, is Feeling, by which they are subject to pain. The fault in the Excrement is seen by all those things which come preternatur ally out of the Ear. So this whol Book hath four Chapters. The first is of Deafness and thick Hearing. The second of noise in the Ears. The third of pain in the Ears. The fourth of those things which preternaturally come forth of the Ears.