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A BOTCH is a Tumor or inflam∣mation of the glandulous parts in the Groins, Arm-pits, and under the Fars. Phyma and Phygethlon differ little from a Botch.
The Cause is faulty Blood, a Crisis, a Feaver.
Signs Prognostick. If they are not ma∣lignant, they are not dangerous: if they are long before they come to suppura∣tion & continue long they commonly make a Fistula; they are soonest ripe under the Arm-pits, later in the Groins, latest under the Ears.
The Cure by general means. A Vein is good to be opened when the defluxi∣on ceaseth, purging in the beginning and the end. Topicals must never be Repellers, but Drawers and Resolvers, as cupping glasses, Leaven, Rosin, Dia∣chilum with Gums. It is best to cause suppuration, for being resolved they soon return: the suppuration must be opened and consolidated. The cure of Pockey botch is the same, but that the Pox must be cured also. The cure of a Pestilent Botch. The tumour must first of all be scarified; for so the ve∣nome is let out, and the humours are attracted by pain, or lay on a vesica∣tory after attractives, as Ammoniacum, Roots of Li••ies, Scabious, Onions, fil∣led with Treacle and roasted: Cock chickens, young Pigeons, made bare at the Fundament, Whelps cut in two: then lay on ripeners, and then dige∣stives; but the wound must be careful∣ly kept open. If you fear it will Gan∣green you must hinder it. See Sennertus l. 4. c. 6. d. pest. l. 6. p. 4. c. 23. l. 5. p. 1. c. 6. Laur. de Lue Ven. Paraus l. 21, and 18.