Ars chirurgica a compendium of the theory and practice of chirurgery in seven books ... shewing the names, causes, signs, differences, prognosticks, and various intentions of curing all kinds of chirurgick diseases ... : to which is added Pharmacopoeia chirurgica, or, The medical store, Latin and English ... / by William Salmon ...

II. Of an Ʋlcer of the Neck of the Womb.

XI. The Causes. It is caused either from a flux of sharp Humors, or from Pustules breaking out; or from impure Coition, the Pocky Venom of the Man hanging or sticking to the Part, and ero∣ding the Cutis: Or from over∣heating the Part, from too vio∣lent and insatiable Coition: Or lastly, from corrosive and eating Medicaments unskilfully applied.

XII. The Signs. It is known by sight; the Ʋlcer abounding with Matter sanious or purulent, and sometimes bloody: There is a Running, with great pain and pricking, both within, and up∣on the Lips of the Privity.

XIII. Sometimes the Ʋlter is with Tumor or Swelling, and some∣times it eats caveous holes, big enough to lay a long Nutmeg in: And it is for the most part ac∣companied with a heat and scalding of Uring, and a great pain, and sometimes a stoppage in making Water, the Bladder for the most part being drawn into Consent.

XIV. The Differences. Some are benign and gentle, yielding lit∣tle Matter, thick, and not stink∣ing: Others are sordid and ma∣lign, yielding much Matter, ill coloured, and with pain.

XV. Some also are superficial, yielding but little Matter; others are profound, abounding with much filth, and stinking: Some

are with Tumor or Swelling, o∣thers without.

XVI. The Prognosticks. These are more easily Cured than Ʋlcers of the Womb, because we can come more easily to apply Medicines to them; and the benign and mild are more easily Cured than those which are putrid and malign.

XVII. If they proceed from the Pox, or impure Coition, they are Cured with some difficulty; and in this Case, it will be prudent for the Patient to go thro' the Course of that Cure, especially if they be inveterate.

XVIII. If they proceed from Condylomata, which have been of long standing, or often returning, they will be of difficult Cure; and when Cured, will be in great hazard of breaking out again, unless a preventive Course be used for some time.

XIX. If they be with a viru∣lent Gonorrhaea, or an evil-con∣ditioned flux of the Whites, being corrosive, it will be impossible that they should be Cured, un∣less those Diseases be first taken away. See the Third Edition of Our Synopsis Medicinae, lib. 5. cap. 75, and 89.