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Show The Tnt/aologie of the Wat/clear. 1 50 A CW" mum. Chap. X X V, Chap. X X V 1. The Ulcered Cancer is derived from a molt hot Mafs of Blood (full of fierce Saline and Malignant Particleshvhich being fettled in the empty Spaces of the Veffels, parteth them from each other, and raifeth a Tumour, ari- C H A P. XXVI. fing from thefe {harp Vitriolick Humoursporroding the-Flefliy parts and Skin, whence gufheth out a thin [harp Gleet, fometimes mixed with a depraved Blood, very ofl‘enfive to the adjacent parts. . As to the Curative parts of a Cancer, it 15 f0 {tubborn by reafon of its great Malignity, that it cannot be fubdued by the melt powerful Phar. macy : In order to hinder the growth of it, Blood-letting may be advifed, as alfo Decoétions of China, Sarfa Parilla, and Antifcorbuticks, and other Medicines which do cool, purge, and fiveetcn the Blood by Diureticks, 0f aRbcmmzri m. *] ‘He Miilcles are obnoxious to another vexatious Difeafe ( that giVetli "WOW" a high difcompofure to the Patient in violent Pains) a Rhematilin, 2:233:35 of a mild nature; a cooling and moifining Diet may prove very Be- that hath for its remote fubjeél, the Flefny part of the Body, not much con- 3:55:32; cerned as compofed of various Tubes of Arteries, \"eins, and Lympha'duéls, gt‘mfffiim. neficial , and above all Milk, and the molt choice is that of Afl'cs; but are framed of Nervous and Membranous Fibres, which are the parts ""1" which being of a ferous fubfiance, may be eafily Concofled, without any Coagulation in the Stomach , and hath a coolingand moillning chiefly affected in this DifealE, as the great Minifiers of Senfation. The Mufcular parts of the lower Limbs, are moil: oppreilecl with a Rheumatifm, becaufe the Blood enraged with Salt Particles, is propelled downward by the Delcendent Trunk of the Aorta, and Iliack Artery, into the Thighs, Legs, and Feet, as molt difiant from the Noble parts, which Nature is ambitious to preferve. This troublefome Difllfl‘eétion, is not AHliétive perpetually after one man» ner, by reafon it doth not take one conflant Courfe, but hath its Types and ualit . sharpand hot q Toypicks in this Difeafe prove often prejudicial, efpecially hot and {harp 3823:2112. Applications, that entage the Fiery and Malignant drfpofition of a Cancer, """‘Ca"' and outward Medicines of an Emplafiick Oily nature, are very poyfonous, ms. By reafon they hinder Tranfpiration; and by deteining the hot and payfonous {teams of the Blood, do much Exal‘perate the fierce Saline Atomes of this Difeafe, rendring it Ulcerous, whole {harp Matter doth Corrode the Neighbouring parts with intolerable pains. _ Periods, its Exacerbations and Remiflions, more gentle, and more violent An Ancient Woman, 3. Viétualer by Profeflion, being afi'eé'ted with a more frequentabout the Rate or declination of the Difeafe, and is caufed by Scorbutick habit of Body, was afllifted with a Cancerous Tumour in het Breafl, to which an unskilful Chyrurgeon applied (harp and Emplaftitk Medicines, to bring the Tumour to Suppuration. which could not be afieéted, but at laft ended in a molt Malignant Ulcer; whofe thin Caufiick Matter did eat away her Breafi, and penetrating the Intercof'tal Mufcles into the Thorax, did deflroy the Noble parts; whereupon this devouring Difeafe gave a clofe to her mol't painful and miferable Life. the {harp Particles of the Blood, tranfmitted into the empty Spaces of the Mufcles; where they being lodged, give great Alleviation of pain to the angina be Cure the Patient 5 therefore it is bell: to apply Cooling, or at leaf: tempeifififdcfilll" rate Drying Medicines that give cafe, and keep the Sore clean and fweet, ments, are the parts afl‘eé'ted in a Rheumatifm, as inflruments of acute Senfe, "'55- whence they are rendred capable of pain, produced by the unnatural Fermen- In Ulcered Cancers, Caufiick Medicines give great pains, and can no ways ill)" the Patient may fpin out the Thread of Life, with as little pain as puf1 le. In Cancers not Ulcered, it is moft fate to Hie to Chyrurgeons, as to a Sanctuary, to Cut out the Cancetous Tumour, in a Flelhy part, if it be not too deeply rooted, near fome eminent VelIels, which may endanger Life in a great Flux of Blood. fimyfigfs aim Pci'ilhdt. pains, and feldom bath in the beginning any eminent Swelling; which is dilcompofed Patient. The fubjeét of a Rheumatifin, is not the fame with that of a Joint Gout, The fine Coats encircling the body and heads of the Bones, conflituting the Joints, but the various Membrane, the fine contextutes of Nervous Filaments, immuring the body of every Mufcle, and many Nervous and Tendinous Fibres, branched through the whole fubftance of the Mufcles; f0 that thefe Membranous and Fibrous parts, as confifling of many Nervous Fila- Egoil‘insMgg' Tl": Mul'clcs 22,11: L0,!" ii‘iiiiciriiiiiiniro tative Elements of Vital and Nervous Liquor. The main matter of Rheumatifm is the Blood, which is impelled into "mam"; various Mufcular parts by feveral Arterial Branches, whence arife thofe wan- isa Rh‘m‘m" . . . . Blood made drmg pains, that torment now one, then another part, as afi‘héted With Fer- "pochrmcnmentative unkindly Blood, making feveral geffes through the Mufcular parts trig" Pamrelating to the whole Body : Wheteupon the Blood conlilling of Heterogeneous and unnatural Elements (doth give a diflurbance to the Senfitive parts) which are not liable to Suppuration, becaufe the Acid and Saline parts do preferve the Blood from Putrefaé‘tion; and an Inflammation happening in a Rheumatifm is not the Difeafe, buta Symptome of it, flowing from a fource of Blood fettled in the empty Spaces of the Mulcles 5 and the nature of this difaflté‘tion is founded in mol't itkfome vellications of Nerves, tortured with Acid and Saline Particles. It may be worth our enquiry, What parts of the Blood are mof't concerned in a Rheumatifm, whether the Chryflalline, or Red Craffaments are molt active in the Produétion of it? To which I make bold to give this RCPIy : That the Serous Particles, and not the other, are a great Caufe of thi‘: |