XLIV. The Puncture or Prick∣ing of a Nerve or Tendon, is either inconspicuous, not to be discerned by sight, which is called Punctura caeca: or, it is conspicuous, or manifest, and is discernible out∣wardly, and is called Punctura aperta.
XLV. The Signs. This disaf∣fection many times happens in let∣ting Blood, as well as by other Accidents: and it may be known by its Symptoms, which are sudden, vehement Pain, deflu∣xion of Humors, Faintings, and Convulsions.
XLVI. Nor does it terminate presently in Suppuration, but gleets, and will not yield to a simple Ano∣dyn-Cataplasm, made of White-bread and Milk, &c. but will be accompanied with a throbbing Pain, Inflammation, Fever, and Con∣vulsions as aforesaid; which Sym∣ptoms do never happen where the Nerve is wholly, and trans∣versly cut asunder; because then the Nerve, &c. no longer continues its commerce with the Brain, nor can it draw the same into a consent with it; whence no vehement Pain, nor Convul∣sion can be excited.
XLVII. It is known also, whe∣ther it is Cut or Prickt, from the kind of the Weapon it self which made the Wound, and the form and nature of the Wound, as narrow, manifest, or scarcely to be seen.
XLVIII. The Prognosticks. A Puncture is the most dangerous, among all the Wounds of the Nerves or Tendons; for so says Galen, Art. Med. cap. 92. as we have cited the Passage in Cap. 9. Sect. 82. aforegoing.
XLIX. And Galen, Meth. Med. lib. 2. cap. 6. also says, If a Nerve is prickt, Pain must needs invade the Person, greater than the Pain which is in any other Part; and then of necessity a Phlegmon will soon follow there∣upon.
L. If in a Puncture of the Nerves a Tumor appears, and then it suddenly disappears and vanishes again, a Convulsion and Delirium will ensue; as appears out of Hippocrates, Sect. 5. Aph. 65.
LI. Also the Pricking of a Nerve or Tendon is so much the more dangerous, by how much the Body it happens to is impure, or 〈◊〉〈◊〉 disposed, viz. Cacochymical, Cachectical, Strumatick, or Scor∣butick.
LII. The Cure. Tho' the Indi∣cation of Ʋnition has place here, as in all other Wounds; yet by