Platerus golden practice of physick: fully and plainly discovering, I. All the kinds. II. The several causes of every disease. III. Their most proper cures, in respect to the kinds, and several causes, from whence they come. After a new, easie, and plain method; of knowing, foretelling, preventing, and curing, all diseases incident to the body of man. Full of proper observations and remedies: both of ancient and modern physitians. In three books, and five tomes, or parts. Being the fruits of one and thirty years travel: and fifty years practice of physick. By Felix Plater, chief physitian and professor in ordinary at Basil. Abdiah Cole, doctor of physick, and the liberal arts. Nich. Culpeper, gent. student in physick, and astrology.

The Kinds.

THe Kinds of inward pains in the Ears are from the diversity of the propriety, as there is any thing in them or not, we speak not here of outward pains.

Somtimes there is only an itching in the Ear, * 1.1 such as the finger or an Ear picker can scarse allay.

Somtimes there is a pricking pain and beating, * 1.2 more or less, with bur∣ning, and pain on that side of the Head, and it is either increased or not, with things put into the Ear.

In these pains there is a Disease somtimes apparent, as redness to the whole Ear, or more inward to be seen by the light: or Exulceration. Often blood, matter, floweth out, of it self, or by pressing the lower part. We have seen water come forth in abundance, as in a Girle after a fal, first blood, then water with pain, and after blood and water, and then death followed, after a few daies sleep. Somtimes worms come forth. Somtimes pain is deep without these signs.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Itching of the Ears.
• * 1.2

  A pricking, bea∣ting, shooting and burning in the Ears.