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CHAP. XV.
PERIP NEƲMONIA is a hot im∣postume, or Inflammation of the lungs, * 1.1 with a sharp fever: for the most part it is caused of strong and hot Rheumes, and distillations, falling upon the lungs.
The sign is great difficulty of breathing, * 1.2 ful∣nes, and streaching out of the brest, without pain, but if the skins, which be joyned all the length of the brest be inflamate, then they feel pain of the brest, all the face, and the agrieved place, look red, the nose is crooked in the top, the veines of the temples do beat, the tongue is drie, the appetite is lost, the breath is hot, they covet cold water, they have a drie cough, and is frothy, or chollerick, and bloudy, or red, which be the worst tokens: if the sick shall die, * 1.3 he shall watch much, and shall have fearful short sleeps; If he recover, there will follow bleeding in aboundance.
For the cure, * 1.4 if this disease come after other diseases going before, you must eschue blood-letting: * 1.5 but if it begin without any disease going before, then bleed, if strength will suffer it, on both armes a little at a time: Lohoch è scylla. * 1.6 é pulmone vulpis, and syrup of Hyssop is good, the cure is much like the cure of Pluritis.