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CHAP. XXI.
APHTHAE, * 1.1 are certain ulcers bred in the uppermost part of the mouth, and are by the Barbarians called Acola: they have a cer∣tain burning heat; some be whitish, some be reddish, and some be blackish, and those be most perilous of all other. They ingender for the most part in children, * 1.2 * 1.3 when either the nur∣ses milk is naught, or the child cannot well di∣gest it. These ulcers sometimes chance to them that be of perfect age, caused by a flux of vitious and sharp humours.
The tokens are easie, they which be red, * 1.4 do shew blood to have the mastery, yellowish, sig∣nify bitter choller, whitenesse, flegm, blackness, melancholy.
This gargarisme following will serve for the cure, if the ulcers be not malign. * 1.5
℞. Hordei integri p.j. plantag. ceterach. * 1.6 pilo∣sellae, agrimoniae an. m.j. fiat decoctio; in qua dissolve mellis rosati ℥.j. Diamoron. ℥. ss. fiat Gargarisma. Some make it with Balaustium, Barberies, red roses, allam honey of roses, &c. If they yeeld not to this means, * 1.7 anoynt them with Ʋnguentum Aegyptiacum, mixt with mel. rosarum. If any de∣sire to know more, let him read Forestue de Aph∣this & oris ulceribus. lib. 15. obser. 21.