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Show 14+ Dilfcrence cf 3 Simmme, Albrrrm:, and Maliurit. (1796' Tar/Jologic of t/ae Mir/clot; Chaim A Steatome is a more hard Tumour, and relil‘te'th the prefl'ure of the Fin. gets, but the zit/Jerome is more compliable, and fooner giveth Way to the Touch, as being a more 13): Tumour then a Steatome. And the Maliceris is the more foft Tumour of all the three, and is {con preffed inward, becaule it being contained within a Membrane of a more thin corififlence than the refit; therefore :1 Din: made in it, remaineth longer, by reafon the Humour forced inward being of a more thin filbfiance, is longer before it returneth to fill the Cavity, made in the {oft Tumour by the com. preflion of the Fingers. Thcl'c Dil'eafcs are Cured principally by Chyrurgcry. As to the Cure : Thefe different Tumours having one Matter, mOdelled into different Confiflences, do obtain the fame kind of Cure, which ma be attempted after Purging Medicines have been Adminiflrred, to dilcharge the oflbnfive Matter, which being not removed, Emollient Medicine s are to be applied; which being uneflbétual, Snppurating Topicks are to be ufed 3 and if thefe prove not Efiicacious, an Incifion may be made into the Tumours, which muft be attempted with great Caution, by a Skilful Chy. rurgeon; that the Tumours being Opened, the Matter, either like Thet‘iillention reg: parts, castrrh the tr-iuhlcfome I'nll'arionof the Artery. which doth violate their Union' and dilcoiiipole them with Pain. \Vhereupon the immediate and continent Caufe of an Inflammation ,3 a Plellzora, or quantity of Blood, impelled out of the termination of the Arteries into their InterI'tices, and into thofe of the Veins and Nerves, ledged in the Mtilculai‘ parts of the Body , which are diflended abovg their natural Dimenlions, and afibéted with greit heat, flowing from a chm}; of iiilEtrlihle Tranlpiration, and from an exuberant Mals of Blood extravaliited, whence is railed an unnatural Fermentation, conlilting or Heterogene a ous Elements,making great difputes with each other; tending to 2. tlifliflution ofrhe Mixtion, and ending in the putrefmftion of the Engimnt Vital Liquor. The antecedent caule of an Inflammation, is conlidcred in A519: flaw": when the Plethora‘ is in the next dilpoliriori to the produftion of an Infidam- From the overmuch indulgence of our Appetite in generous \rVine, and in the luxurious eating of various lhcculent Meats, catily turned into Blood, or from an idle Life, or too violent Motion, carding frrong Contraétions oi the Mufcles; which by comprefiing the Arteries, do impel a great propor- tion of Blood into the {ubliance of the Fleihy parts, whereupon they grow Whereupon the Blood being impelled by tity, or if the Blood be lb grofs, that the the Arteries in too great a quanfinall Orifices of the Veins are not capable to receive it, or if upon fome great contufion of the VeiTels, which being torn, do immit too great a proportion of Vital Liquor into the empty {paces of the Vefl'els, not poHible to be entertained into the Mi~ nnte Orihces of in the habit of the Body, caulEd by the ‘CIXCUIAnon of the Blood flopped in that part, whereby it groweth Tumified, Red, The Procataréliek, or remote Caults of an Inflammation. are derived Tlr‘ContirlCnt CdllrcOr azilullammation, 3 qt) mtity lri moo} extra\‘alhicd. unnaturally difiended by too greater [ource of Purplei iqiior, obllt‘ueling its Retrograde Motion, by reafon the Minute Oril‘ices of the Veins, are not able to give a reception to 1ts extravagant quantity. The continent Caule of an Inflammation being :1 quantity of Blood, {bignant in the Interfiices of the Vclicls, doth indicate the Circulati on of the Blood to be made good, which is molt readily effected by opening a Vein, and a fine emiliion of Blood, quickly eaiiing the parts atlefted, it~ the Purple Liquor is not grown too grols, or putride by its long Stagnancy. Blood-letting alfo may {prove beneficial in point of an Inflammation, by helping the parts afi‘eéted by Rcvulfion, in diverting the Current 0? Blood another way; whence the greater increale of the Swelling l\ hindred, as A quantity of Blood l‘ettled in the habitof the Body doth denote BloodIctting to lblitirc the motion ofthe Bluodfio take ur‘tau Inflam- matron. the Courfe is not only turned, but allo as the quantity of Blood is lcliened, and the great Influx of it is abated into the parts Tumelied. And after Blood-letting and Purging Midieines have been Adminilt red, to GCair the Motion of Blood, and to empty the Vciiels of ill Humours : If the parts afi‘eéted remain Turnefied, Emollient and Dilcurient Medicine s are to be advifed to eafe pain, and by turning the Pcccant Humours into Vapours to difcharge them in a free Tranfpiration, and by thinning the Blood by the heat of the Difcutients, and by opening the obllruéted Extreamit ies of the Veins, the Circulation of the Blood may be promoted, and the fwelled parts relieved. and very hot,- accompanied with a ceeding from its free play intercepted,painful pull'ation of the Artery, pro- Rep'elling Topicks confiftilig of Cold and Altriugent Medicine s, are to be Adminif'tred with great caution in Inflammations, as proving very dange- Riccs havinga recoutfe to the Noble parts, aggravates the Difeafe, and cutteth of? by r'l‘r overmuch diflention of the fwelled parts, produced by a quantity of Lies. m'ctc‘harging the Inter- The arrrcte‘ dcrltcaufc of mation, by realon of too great a quantity of Blood moving in the Vell'els ; an Inflammawhich being ttaniinirted out of the Capillary Arteries, into the empty liners m of the h/Iulclcs, is received into the Extreamitits of the Veins with great to Treat fomewhar of the Circulation of the Blood, which paireth through the Heart in {bong Contractions to give it heat by Motion, and to break the Chyle (received by the Vemz Cd‘vd, into the right Chamber of the Heart) into finall Particlts, in order to its Allimilat ion with the Blood, which is afterwards carried into the fubl'cance of the Lungs ( to be embodied with Air imprzegmted with Nitrous Particles) and thence tranfmitted into the left Cif‘tern of the Heart ( for the more perfeft Aflimilation of the Ch) le ) and the common Trunk and various Arterial Channels, into the fub(lance of the Mufcular parts,into which it is conveyed not by Anal'tomofes of Arteries with Veins but by terminations of Arteries into the Interfiices ofVeF lels : that the more mild parts of the Blood being confirderated with Liquor, diflilling out of the Extreamities of the Nerves, may give Nouriihment to the neighbouring Veti'els, which being unable to receive the twentieth part of the ferous parts of the Vital Liquor, it is requifite that they being allociated vith it, ihould he reconveyed out of the habit of the Body into the Extreamitie the Veins, wl ence the habit of the Body is immediately fwelled: So that the continent caufe of an Inflammation, is an exuberant Mafs of Blood, liagnant of the aura- flices of the Veilels) and by the fepararing the Nerves from each other, difficulty, whence an Inflamnmtion may mile upon eafie terms, by turning the Antecedent intoa conjunél Cattle it‘the current oftl‘e Blood be intercepied in the habit of the Body, produced either by its Gtolsnels, or Superaabundance. s of the Veins, to make good the Motion of the Blood towards the Heart, by greater and greater Channels leading to it. flammation. The Gm: of fDi/m/tr in the Ala/Eula)" 1mm. Lard, Pap, or Honey, may be taken away with their proper Membran es, in which they were iiicltiled. Another Turnout is this of an Inflammation, proceeding notfrom a Phlegmatick Matter, as in Stutomcr, Alberamer, Melizerid: , but from Blood Extravaiated 5 which that it might be plainly underfloo d, it may not be ami‘s The divers (anus 0F liegnarrou of Blood produ(mg an In- Chap. X X V. rous in a great Plethora; efpecially if it be accompanied with a Malignant Fever, wherein the repelled Blood infected with a Venenate Difpolition. the Patient. Q (I If Repelling Topicks are dan- gerous in an lnflammatian. |