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CHAP. XXVII.
BRONCHOCELE: * 1.1 The Latines call it, Gutturis Hernia; The rupture of the throat, is a great round tumour in the throat: It set∣leth it self between the skin and the sharp arte∣rie, in which sometimes gross flegm is included; I mean flesh, as it were a kind of humour like unto hony, fatnesse, or like unto cheese and egges sodden together.
It proceeds in women, * 1.2 from the same cause as an Anurisma.
In some there is found a fleshy substance, * 1.3 having some small pain, some are small, others great: some have a cist or bag, others have no such thing; those that shall be curable, may be opened with an incision-knife, * 1.4 and if possible, let out the matter: when the matter is evacua∣ted, let the ulcer be consolidated, & cicatrized: but before you attempt this kind of cure, make Gargarismes, * 1.5 and poultises, of figs, fenugreek, linseed, Althaea, &c. Lastly, if need be, purge with Diacatholicon or Diaphaenicon in oxi∣mel; open a vein under the tongue, and
℞. * 1.6 Cineris muris ʒ. j. detur cum vino, aut alio modo in aurora.