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Show Book II, Book II . 1712 jib/refit oft/ac Lungs". " . . toa Fever, which is very finall, if any 3 ina Tin/rim EECFVCLCEIICC proper (Pu/17107111111, thelc Vicious humors, by degrees, come to maturation, and be come purulent, and break the confines of the Membrane, or Qflir which is received into the Bronchial or pulmonary Veins, and infects the Blood and hinders its circulation; or elfe the Wm when the Qflir is broken i; dilcharged in a great fiream, into the greater and leffer Cylinders of Air ind - CHAP. LV. 0f the flh/afi of the Lungs. by intercepting its current into the Lungs, doth fpeedily extinguilh the fiame of Life, butif the Matter of this Abfcefs doth difiil lbttly into the Sam»; I N an Inflammation of the Lungs, the fubf'tance of the Bronchia and Si. nm are difiended with a quantity of grofs Blood, either {cried in the {mall Ramulets of the bronchial and pulmonary Arteries, or extravafatedin In this Difeafe, which doth not betray it felt by any fymptomes, it is vcu' Origens of the Veins, and carried into the Left Ventricle of the Heart, which ry difficult to make any Prognoflicks, becaiife the matter of the difeafe lieth lurking in the Body, and when the purulcntMatter is digef'ted into a "PM the Qfliris violently broken, and the Air-veflels are immediately {iUH‘L‘d {o iliat gee draughts of Air cannot be received into the Lungs to fupport ihe vital chiefly happens when Blood-letting is omitted, which if celebrated, would its Albuminous part is feparated from the Purple Liquor, and turned into a (Put; whence cnfuetli an Apofieme , which is a collection of purulent ame. But ifthe @zrrfiowing out‘ofthe broken Qflir, doth gently drop into the leis and greater Tubes of Air, the purulent Matter may be thrown up, to give an advantage of a Cure by proPer Medicines : And to this end, pecto- Matterin the fubfiance of the Bronchial, and membranous Cells, annexed to them, which became pntride by the {harp indifpofition of the $1M, ral Apozemes may be given, made of the opening Roots, Ground-Ivy Hy. lop, Liquorice, {weetned with Honey of Rofes, or Syrup of the opening received into their Cavities , which being very fenfible of their bur- Roots. make good, the fiagnated Blood lofeth its tone,and groweth corrupted, and den, as compofed of nervous and carnous Fibres, contraéting themfelves Lambitives are alfo very proper, compofed offeveral forts of Oxymelg to expel the corrupt matter of the Abfcefs through the greater and leis Air- Syrup of Ground-Ivy, Hyfop, Horehoiind, of the opening Roots 5 as alfozi pipes of the Lungs into the Mouth. An Apofieme of them, called Vomim 'Pulmonum, is much akin to that pio- Linétus, prepared with Linfeed-oil, and that of Sweet-Almonds, beaten up" With Syrup of Maiden-hairflévc. lixh'filliii- ducedin a Tammi-unwind, onlyatis mere G'm, generated Without a Fever, am. Inflammation, Cough, and fpitting, fecretly, and of a fiiddain, and worketh f0 inwardly without the notice of any fymptome, that it cutteth of?the Patient in a moment by fuflbcation, before the Difeafe can be difcovered. received into the Origens of the pulmonary Veins) muli: neceflarily lofe its tone and goodnefsfor Want 0f motion, and be turned intoa 737": WhiCh hChW rium boc ( rPulmmiir Vomicam immem ) later inter initia ita clanmlum, M $th COUVeyCd through the corroded Membranes into the Cavity of the Bronchiab ulla fm' praferat indicia, pricier Tuflitulanzprima fiecam, mox humidam § 4114 aliquandiu tontinuante, imbitnr dzfictilferfiiritm, deficit anima, (7 emarceffit paulatim torpm, liter interim net 73:44, me Sanguine»! pm- feferimt finite 3 fed may be thrown UP through the Trunk 0f th Afper1‘ Arteria, into the M0l1fh7 and cured by proper vulnerary Diet-drinks, confifiing 0f cleanfing drying) and confolidating Medicines. , , But I humbly conceive that this kind oiAbfceis is not always mortal, and 21%;: "f,d. no way proceedeth from a G'eripneumonia, or @tbifts, but a weak difpofilyr Sometimes an Ablcels of the Lungs is produced by the lacerated capillary An Abrccrs or VCllé‘lSm the skirts of the Lobes upon a wound ', whereupon fo great a quan- "5333?: tity of Blood being lodged in the Interffiees of the Veliels, (that it cannot be Bodega-Gina. Learned Tit/pi»: giveth an account of this difafiéétion, lib. a. mp. 10- Vi- j: rumpamr inopinala mnn'm, otciditur (diéinm ac fae'lum) homo. A m," 1,", Medicines. the Interl'tices of the Vefiels; f0 that the Blood cannot be received into the have leffened the quantity of Blood, and diverted its current from the Lungs, and lbllicited the fiagnared Blood in order to motion, into the ex< tremities of the capillary pulmonary Veins 3 which Nature being not ableto A, AP, and Bronchia of the Lungs, it may be expelled by expcétoration, and then fomehoPes of recovery do prefent themfelves, and give an opportunity of Aninfiance ofthis cafe may be given in my worthy Friend and Patient Aninflancc Mr. Bew'fhflflz, a Major in the late Kings Service ( of Sacred Memory), giiiftliiii: Where he unhappily received a {hot with a Pifiol through the Upper part of ffiurCGFhVP'l" tron of the Lungs, inclining them to putrefaétion, and doth not always come the Thorax, and the Left Lobe of his Lunas, whereby, after divers clays "Olin a X- of a fiiddain, bur infenlibly, and by degrees, whereby the "Pm" having its firfi Origen from (nine depraved humor, groweth more and more matured, he "'35 fiu'prized With a Fever, and a greatvdifliculty 0f Breathing WhiCl: ceafed "P011 the Coughing up a great quantity of purulent Matter, ,flOWing and by its caultick quality, corrodeth the Bronchia and Sinm appendant to from a broken Abfcef's of the Lungs, which afterward was perfectly cured them, and fireameth in the Cavities of the Wind-pipe, and is at laft ejeéied the confines ofthe Body. This Difeale, if its nature be infpeé'ced according to its continent caulc‘i may be iiyled a true Abfcefs, produced in the Lungs from fome impure Recremcnts, or Heterogeneous parts of the Blood ( apt to be turned Into "PM )/which being fecerned from the more refined, are lodged in (omit, 0" many CCllS, appendant to the Btonchia, and are there confined Within fume proper lVlembranc : Thefe impure parts of the Blood, are not cndue \Yith any great Acrimony, productive ofa Cough 5 neither have any great Fflert'efccnce y a proper mfthod ofPhylicks about F01" 01' Five and twenty years agone: and the gallant Major, is yet alive and well, to the Glory of God, and the comfoi-r Of his Friends: H6 being 21 perfon 0f great LOYRIW and Friend; flnP' k ‘ |