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Show 14.6 WliercEmOILents and lufoztients are not rite- xal rt, Suppriiatiirizlucdieinesarc to be appli,tl. The Tat/101030 and Care of the AIM/elect, Chap. X X Vt Emolliem If the livelled parts are not relieved by Blood~letting,l and by and DilhitiCnt Application, by reafon of the Blood haying been long Ex- travalated in the habit of the Body, groweth thick, and unht for l‘ylcmn) to Pilmfil' as dilpoiled of its line and Spiritnons Particles, thereby tending fiion; whereupon Snppnrating Medicines are to be applied, to 351;} the Elaboration or purulent lVlatter, which is produced by Coc‘tion, flowing {tom natural lit-at, railing the Fermentation of the Blood, and‘ by Openi g the Compage of it, doth untie the bond of Mixtion, and let loole the Hetero. ,geneons Elements of the Blood: \Vhereupon the Chryllalline parts allociattd with Chyle and Nervous Liquor are leparated from the red (Ir-allamenr, which being accomplilhed, producethanApolleme, ariling from Purnlt-"t Matter coiicoéletl by the natural heat, much ltighsned by Suppizraring Mg. dieines , which being endued with a profs Fmplaltick (lilbofitionhis Turpen. tine beaten up, and (lillolved with the Yolk of an Pgm and the like) do by othrne‘ting the Pores of the Skin, hinder the Traililirttion of warm and lpirituons Pteams oi. the Blood1 and {o by C011R‘qllC1M‘C do enere. Fe the natural heat, and promote the Elaboration 0F purulent lVlrrter ( whith be. in: lodged in the habit of the Body) conlilling, of lharp Cauliiek parts, which hating rtconrle to the Ambient parts, do Corrode, and Pezietrate them, thereby to direharge [l'C troublelome (Smells through the broken Skin; whence {llllk‘lll an Ulcer. proceeding from a flux of {harp purulent Matter, Chap. X k V. The Cure of the Wife/er. froma Laceration of the Capillary Arteries, impelling a quantity of Blood into the empty lpaces of the Veflels; whereupon {he was let Blood, which Could not be done largely by rcalon of her Wealtnels in her Child-bed, reby the Tumour got the greater head: And i'1 order to its Allevia- , tion, Einollient and Dilcntient lVledicines were applied, which were not prevalent enough to elilbtils the Tumour by Sworn-and inlenlible Tranlpiration, and therefore we adv'iled Suppurating TOpiclts, which brought the Tumour to a Head; which was opened by a Skil'tul Chyrurgeon, who applied Ointments to help Suppurarion, and Cure the Ulcer '. \vhieh was clie- (9er with great dillieulty, by realon the Patient had an illnePs of Blood, which led the Ulcer with ill Hninours, Corroding the parts affeél'ed, and rendrini: them hollow: ‘Nhereupon a Tina'ure was advilt-d, prepared or- Cleanfing and Drying Medi- Allocs,iSaHion, and Mirrhe, in Spirit of \Vine, which was Injected into tinn to to lRL' injeezcdin. the deep hollow Ulcer; and this and other Detergent, Exliccatery, and to hollow Ulcers, Conlblidaring Medicines, perfeétly rellored the Patient to her former Health, with the Bleiling or. the Great Phyliciau, to his eternal Glory. A l‘il‘tnla, a confequent of an ill cured ApoPteme7 is a Callous Ulcer, having many oblique Cavities, whole Lips are white, hard, and indolent; which b;int_; reared in the hinlcular parts, bath a more white, large, and equal l'us, then (hit which floweth from Nerves7 'l curious, and Membranes, which is oi‘an 0in Confidence, and leis in quantity; and that Mmter {lowing From Bones in l‘ifiula's, is ol'a blackilll Colour, and fxtide ' which is hell till-{ted not by eorroding putrid Huinours making their own way, which givcth a great Vexation, and Torture to the Patient canl‘ed by intolerable pain, before the purulent l‘darterbreaketh the Skin : Therefore it i: bener to conlult the good and eale of the Patient, by opening the Skin by a Launctt in a propendent part, lor the more ready dik‘harge of the offenlive hiatter7 which naturally tendeth downward as a heavy bod '. And moreover when Nature produccth an Ulcer by breaking the Skin, it nialaxh mofi commonly a linall Hole, which cannot li‘eely evacuate the corrupt l-lutnours, aad keepcth the Patient longr under Cure : VVherenpon to conliilt the good oi the Sick, an artilicial apertion of the Apoiteme is more convenient, to make a large lncrlion, thereby quickly to dilbharge the purulent Matter; which conlilling of a double Ptecrement, the one thick and the other lei'ons, do indicate cleanling and drying Medicines; and be- canll- in all Ulcer-r, there is Salli/iii unimtir lmrtinmafiefi'amm, aviolation of Union, (which is natural to all parts of the Body) Confolidaring Medicines are to be Adminiltred, to allill Nature ( which is the belt Chyrnrgeon and l'hylieian ) to repair the loft union or parts, which receive Incarnation, principally by the good and Ballirrnick dilpolition of the Blood. An Ollicerol one of the King's Ships, being a Patient of mine, was alleiled with a Tumour in the bdominal Mulcles, accompanied with a great linell, and little in proportion. A Fifi .l;1 l) a l aughter of an ill treated Abietfs, or an inveterate Ulcer encircled with a Callous liibll'ancc, proceeding from the groller parts oFa. pnrulcntl‘v'larter, full of Saline and Earthy parts, conereted into a hard fubfianceJ adhering: to the circumference of a hollow Ulcer. As to the Cure of a Fifinla, 3 Probe or \VaX-Candle may be immitted into tlicCMitV of it, to find out its length; and to that end an Injection may be made into one Oritice, and afterward an Obfcrvarion may be taken, Whether the injected lVIatter come out of one or more Holes, and how deep the Cavity may be: And in order to the Cure, the Callous IVIatter mufi be taken away by fomc lnPcrument, or Caultick lnjeétion of 411m; Mec/i- Apinumsgg [JIIIClllt-‘fil, and the like, or by an Actual Cantery; that the Ulcer may be :5£f{l,°;md, bclblcit will made a Green \Vound, die the Lips will never clot}, and the Ulcer heal. admita Cure. If the Fillula reach to the Bones, made Curious by lharp Saline Particles, the Ulcer may be laid open, and Drying Medicines applied, to fade the Bones; but it the Filiula penetrate into Nervous parts, great Caution mull be had, left the Incifion of the Callous Matter be attended with Convullions ; and after the Circumference of the Filtula is freed from the indutatecl lirhllaizce, proper Cleanling and Drying Medicines tiled in inveterate Ulcers, heat, and was Cured by Blood-letting, Emollients and Dildltients, and above may be injeéted into the linns of the Fillula. A young Gentleman ol‘Suficx, being of a good Conflitution of Body, all, with Suppurating Medicines, helping the natural heat to Commit, 311d fepararc the Serous and Nervous Liquors from the red Craflament ; where- upon the Suppurated Tumour was opened by Art, and the Concoéled Mat- was alllié‘ted with a Fiflula the confequent of ill ordered Abl‘celE,and an Ulcer feared in the Multles of the Abdomen, which was Cured by Vulnerary ter difcharged, and the Ulcer cured by Digeltivte, Cleanling7 Dryinz, and Conlblidating Medicines. K k A Sea-Captain's Wife was feverely treated by the hands of an unskilful Midwife, by making a great Contulion in the 'Mnlcles of the Belly, be- Drinks, and by Deterlive, and Drying Injeélions, which corroded the Callous lubllance, and cleanled and dried up the purulent Matter, and clofed up, and conlblidated the Concave parts of the Fillula. Another Tumour, called by the Oreclq ‘Eiwimwt, by the Latin", Rafa 4 332333318?" colore (Ry/ivy, (>7 mm Sater, vulgarly called St. Anthonie': Fire, is derived aflErrfiP‘m tween the Navil and the Share-bone ; whence arofe a large Tumour accom- panied with Redttefi, Heat, and a beating pain afibciated with asymptomatick Fever, the true Diagnol‘ticks of an Inflammation, which procecdcd from a Bilious Blood, as the Ancients will have it, and is a hot thin Blood, often railing Blillers in the Skin; which proceedeth from [harp Serous Par- from tieles, |