by Cholerick Sweats Sect. 3. Aph. 24. Spreading Ulcers of the mouth called Apthae are a Disease common to young Infants and Children Sect. 6. Aph. 32. Stammerers are most of all taken with a long Flux of the Belly Sect. 7. Aph. 40. It is a signe of black Choler when the tongue is loose and uselesse on a suddain or when any part of the body becommeth benummed or dead Sect. 8. Aph. 9. If the Tongue be neither black nor bloody if either of these Signes be absent it is no very bad Signe For hereby is signified a lesser Disease CHAP. XVII Of the Affects of the Teeth Sect. 3. Aph. 25. BUt when they are come to breeding of their Teeth Pricking Itchings of the Gums Feavers Convulsions Fluxes of the belly and then chiefly when they begin to breed their Dog Teeth and to those who are of a grosse constitution and who are costive Sect. 4. Aph. 53. Those Feavers are most vehement whereby a clammy gluttinous humour doth grow to the Teeth Sect. 5. Aph. 18. Cold things are offensive to the bones teeth nerves brain and marrow of the back-bone but hot things are profitable CHAP. VIII Of the Affects of the Lips and Gums Sect. 4. Aph. 49. IN continual Feavers if the Lip Eye-lid Eye or Nose be perverted and turned if the sick neither see nor hear and his Body be weak then death is nigh at hand Sect. 8. Aph. 13. Wan lips or pale or resolved turned in and out and cold are mortal CHAP. XIX Of the Affects of the Throat Squinancy and Asthma Sect 2. Aph. 43. AMongst those who are strangled and dissolved and are not quite dead they seldome or very rarely return to life which have froth gathered together about their mouth Sect. 3. Aph. 16. Diseases are usually caused by continual showers as long Feavers Fluxes of the belly putrid Feavers the falling sicknesse Apoplexies and Squinancies c. Sect. 3. Aph. 20. In the spring season Melancholly Madnesse the Falling-Evil profusions of blood and Squinancies c. Sect. 4. Aph. 34. A Strangulation happening to him that is Sick of a Feaver no tumour appearing in the Jaws is deadly Sect. 4. Aph. 35. In Feavers a sudden perverting of the neck happening so that the Sick can hardly swallow no tumour appearing is mortal Sect. 5. Aph. 10. Humours falling down to the Throat if they turn not to the Squinancy they settle upon the Lungs and the Sick dyes within seven dayes but if he escape that time the matter turns to Impostumation Sect. 6. Aph. 37. It is a good Sign if in a Squinancy a Tumor do appear in the neck for then the morbifick matter is sent forth Sect. 6. Aph. 46. They which are made Crook-back'd by an Asthma dye before they come to the Age of Fourteen years or soon after Sect. 7. Aph. 49. An impostumation or rednesse happening in the breast of him that hath a Squinancy is a good signe Because the matter is excluded to the external parts CHAP. XX. Of the affects of the Breast and Lungs and first of the Difficulty of Breathing Sect. 3. Aph. 43. IN the Winter season plurisies inflamations of the lungs lethargies rheums hoarsenesse coughs pains of the breasts sides and loins head-aches megrims and apoplexies are common Sect. 3. Aph. 31. Difficulty of breathing catarrhes causing coughs the strangury and difficulty of Urine are Diseases familiar to old Age. Sect. 4. Aph. 50. If difficulty of breathing and dotings happen in continual Feavers it is mortal CHAP. XXI Of Hoarsenesse and the Cough Sect. 2. Aph. 40. HOarsenesse and rheums in very Old men are not concocted Sect. 3. Aph 5. But if the season be dry and cold it causeth coughs exasperates the jawes hardeneth the belly and suppresseth Urine Sect. 3. Aph. 13. But if the Summer be more then usually dry and cold with North-winds and the Autumn rainy with South-winds expect head-aches in the winter coughs hoarsenesse rheums and to some consumptions Sect 3. Aph. 20. But in the Spring madnesse melancholly the falling sicknesse profusions of blood squinancies rheums hoarsenesse and coughs will follow Sect. 3. Aph. 24. These Diseases happen to infants and children newly born spreading Ulcers of the mouth called Aphthae vomitings and coughs Sect. 3. Aph. 31. Difficulty of breathing and distillations inferring coughs do happen to old men Sect. 4. Aph. 54. If dry coughs lightly provoking happen in burning Feavers and persevere long the sick is not then much troubled with thirst Sect. 5. Aph. 24. Cold things as ice and snow are offensive and enemies to the breast they cause coughs eruptions of blood and catarrhes Sect. 6. Aph. 35. A Cough happening in a Dropsie is a bad sign Sect 6. Aph. 46. If crookedness were occasioned by an Asthma the party thus affected dyes before he attain the age of Fourteen years or presently after Sect. 7. Aph. 47. If a cough do hold him that hath a Dropsie he is in a desperate condition CHAP. XXII Of hurt of Spâ—ech Sect. 5. Aph. 5. IF loss of Speech happen on a suddain to a Drunken man he dyes convulsive unlesse a Feaver lay hold on him and his Speech return to him at the hour when nature useth to digest the Surfet Sect. 6. Aph. 52. They which are taken with sudden pains of the head and were not sick before and if their Speech fail or leave them and a snorting commeth withal dye within seven dayes unlesse a Feaver lay hold on them Sect. 7. Aph. 58. Losse of Speech must necessary ensue presently if the brain have bin hurt by any occasion CHAP. XXIII Of Inflamation of the Lungs Sect. 3. Aph. 23. BUt in the winter plurisies inflamations of the lungs and lethargies Sect. 3. Aph. 30. But to those who are in their youth thicknesse of breathing Diseases of the Sides and inflamations of the Lungs are incident Sect. 6. Aph. 16. A Diarrhaea or Flux of the belly succeeding the plurisie or inflamation of the lungs is bad Sect. 7. Aph. 11. Inflamation of the lungs succeeding a Plurisie is naught Sect. 7. Aph. 12. A phrensie occasioned by an inflamation of the lungs signifies ill CHAP. XXIV Of Empyema or Suppuration of the Lungs Sect. 5. Aph. 8. IF pluretick persons are not clensed within Fourteen dayes the matter turns to impostumation Sect. 5. Aph. 10. Humours falling to the Throat if they turn not to a squinancy settle upon the Lungs and the sick dye within seven dayes but if they escape that time the matter turns to suppuration Sect. 5. Aph. 15. If pluretick persons being suppurated are purged and clensed within forty days they are freed otherwise do grow consumptive Sect. 5. Aph. 65. They in whose bodies ulcerated tumours do arise are neither taken with convulsions nor driven into madnesse but these tumours suddenly vanishing they to whom it happens in the back parts have convulsions and distensions of the Sinews but if it happen in the fore part ragings and acute Diseases of the sides impostumations and dysenteries do
Aphorisme of the Diagnosticks Sect. 2. Aph. 44. This also you have word for word in the tenth Aphorisme of the Diagnosticks unto which place I refer the Reader Sect. 4. Aph. 11. When the bowels are wrung great torments about the Navil and a Concomitant pain of the Loins is present if the morbifick matter be neither taken away by a purging Medicine nor any other means it is confirmed into a drye Dropsie or Timpany Sect. 4. Aph. 21. Black dejections like Melancholly blood coming of their own accord whether proceeding with a Feaver or without a Feaver are the worst of all and so much the worse by how much their colours are many and bad but if they are caused by a Medicine it is better and the more commendable if their colours are many and not bad Sect. 4. Aph. 22. If black blood issue forth either upward or downward at the beginning of any Disease whatsoever it is mortal Sect. 4. Aph. 23. If they who have been emaciated by accute or continual Diseases by wounds or any other means whatsoever do void black choller or something like black blood they dye the next day following Sect. 4. Aph. 24. If an Excoriation of the bowels or a Dysentery take its original or cause from black Choller it is mortal Sect. 4. Aph. 25. It is not good to void any blood upward of what kind soever it be but if black blood be sent forth downwards it is good Sect. 4. Aph. 26. If small pieces of flesh be ejected with the excrements by him that hath a Dysentry or Bloody Flux it is mortal Sect. 4. Aph. 27. They from whom by reason of a Feaver much blood doth flow be the Flux from what part soever when they are refreshed have moist bellies Sect. 4. Aph. 28. Succeeding Deafnesse stayes and takes away bilious dejections and Deafnesse if bilious dejections arise is finished Sect. 4. Aph. 29. Those Feavers have a very difficult Crisis wherein Rigors or extreme cold fits appear the sixth day Sect. 4. Aph. 30. See this Aphorisme in the same Section and Aphorisme in the Diagnosticks Sect. 4. Aph. 35. It is a mortal Sign when in a Feaver the Neck is so wrested on a sudden no tumor pre-existent that the Sick can hardly swallow Sect. 4. Aph. 37. Cold sweats arising in an accute Disease signifie death but in a more mild and benign Disease the prolixity thereof Sect. 4. Aph. 4. When mutations chance in the whole body as if the body be now cold and then hot again or if one heat arise from another the continuance of the Disease is hereby signified Sect. 4. Aph. 43. Those Feavers which afflict most vehemently every third day and have no intermission are more dangerous but if any intermission be be it after what manner soever it signifies the Patient to be out of danger Sect. 4. Aph. 44. They who are Sick of long Feavers have either tumors or pains about the junctures succeeding Sect. 4. Aph. 46. It is a mortal Sign if frequent rigors come upon a Feaverish person he being weak and the Feaver not intermitting Sect. 4. Aph. 47. All excreations by spitting whether they be of a wan colour bloody ill savoured and bilious are bad in Feavers not intermittent but it is a good Sign if good excrements are sent forth either by Stool or Urine But if any matter be sent forth by those places and profit not it is a bad Sign Sect. 4. Aph. 48. If in a continual Feaver the extreme parts are cold and the inward burn and the Sick be very thirsty it is mortal Sect. 4. Aph. 49. In a not intermittent Feaver if either the Lip the Eye-brow Eye or Nose be turned away if the Sick see not or hear not if any of these Symptomes appear death is at hand Sect. 4. Aph. 50. Difficulty of breathing and dotings in continual Feavers are mortal Sect. 4. Aph. 55. All Feavers caused by an inflamation of the Kernels are bad Sect. 4. Aph. 61. All intermittent Feavers usually return if they do not intermit upon unequal dayes Sect. 4. Aph. 65. A vehement heat in Feavers about the Stomach and a gnawing of the Mouth of the Stomach is naught Sect. 4. Aph. 66. Convulsions and vehement pains about the Bowels in acute Feavers is naught Sect. 4. Aph. 67. Tremblings or Convulsions coming by Sleep in Feavers are bad Sect. 5. Aph. 1. A Convulsion caused by taking of Hellebore is mortal Sect. 5. Aph. 2. A Convulsion happening upon a wound is mortal Sect. 5. Aph. 3. A Convulsion or Hicket succeeding a great fllux of Blood presageth ill Sect. 5. Aph. 5. If losse of Speech happen suddainly to a Drunken man he dyeth Convulsive unlesse a Feaver seize him or his speech return to him at the same hour wherein nature doth usually digest the Distemper Sect. 5. Aph. 6. They who are taken with a Convulsion dye within four dayes but if they escape that time they grow well again Sect. 5. Aph. 7. They who are troubled with the Falling Sicknesse before they attain the age of Fourteen may be freed from it but they who are taken with it at the Age of five and twenty are usually accompanied therewith to their death Sect. 5. Aph. 8. Unlesse they who are Sick of a Plurisie be clensed in fourteen dayes the matter is altered into Suppuration Sect. 5. Aph. 9. A Consumption most commonly begins when we are of the age of Eighteen to Thirty five years Sect. 5. Aph. 10. If matter falling to the Throat and turn out to a Squinacye it settles upon the Lungs and the Sick dye within seven dayes the which if they escape the matter turns to Imposthumation Sect. 5. Aph. 11. If the spittle of Consumptive persons being cast into the Fire send forth an ill savour and their hairs fall off it argues death Sect. 5. Aph. 12. The falling of the hair and an extreme loosenesse succeeding in a Consumption is mortal Sect. 5. Aph. 13. Frothy Blood cast forth by spittle cometh from the Lungs Sect. 5. Aph. 14. A Diarrhaea or Extreme Loosenesse in Consumptive persons is mortal Sect. 5. Aph. 15. Pluretick persons suppurated if they are clensed within forty dayes after the Rupture is made are freed otherwise they grow into a Consumption Sect. 5. Aph. 71. They which have their Skin stretched forth dry and hard dye without sweating but they which have a loose and thin Skin end their life with sweating Sect. 7. Aph. 1. Coldnesse of the extreme parts in acute Diseases is naught Sect. 7. Aph. 2. Wan and ill coloured flesh occasioned by the Distemper of a bone foretells ill Sect. 7. Aph. 3. The Hicket and Rednesse of the eyes caused by Vomit is naught Sect. 7. Aph. 4. Shivering after sweating is naught Sect. 7. Aph 5. A Dysentery a Dropsie or a vehement disturbance of the mind called Exstasis succeeding raging or madnesse is good Sect. 7. Aph. 6. Abhorring of meat and sincere dejections by Stool with continual Disease portends ill
affected very exactly which will the better be performed if he be throughly acquainted with those Aphorismes which declare the Diseases of the whole body in general and those also which respect the praeter naturall affects of the particular parts of the whole body The first where of the Aphorismes of the Discovery of Feavers with their Accidents will manifest the second will be discovered by the following Aphorismes CHAP. I. Of Continual Feavers Sect. 3. Aph. 21. IN the Summer continual Feavers and burning very many Tertians and Quartans do arise c. See the third Aphorisme in the Chapter of Summer Diseases Sect. 4. Aph. 43. Continual Tertian Feavers which have their Paroxismes every third day and no intermission are more dangerous But if they remit by any means howsoever they signifie no danger to the Patient Sect. 4. Aph. 46. If frequent rigors happen in Feavers the sick being weak without intermission of the Feaver it is a mortal sign Sect. 4. Aph. 47. Excreations or spittings either waâ—… of colour bloody stinking or bilious are all bad in a continual Feaver but if such are voided which are of a good condition it is good whether they are voided by stool or Urine but if any of these things are voided and ease not the Sick they are bad Sect. 4. Aph. 48. In continual Feavers if the external parts are cold and the internal are inflamed and the Sick be extream thirsty it is deadly Sect 4. Aph. 49. In continual Feavers if the lip eye-brow eye or nose be perverted or convulsive if the sick hear not or see not which soever of these do happen do signifie death approaching Sect. 4. Aph. 50. Difficulty of breathing or a delirium happening in a continual Feaver is mortal Sect. 4. Aph. 56. Sweats happening in a not-intermitting Feaver if the Feaver do not intermit are bad for the Disease is prorogued and much moisture is thereby signified to be in the body Sect. 7. Aph. 72. This Aphorisme is the same with the fifth Aphorisme of this Chap. Sect. 4. Aph. 48. Sect. 7. Aph. 73. This Aphorisme nothing differs from the 49. Aphorisme in the fourth Section mentioned before in this Chapter CHAP. II. Of Acute Feavers Sect. 2. Aph. 19. PRedictions of life or death in acute Diseases are not altogether certain Sect. 2. Aph. 23. Acute Diseases are judged by their Crisis within fourteen dayes Sect. 3. Aph 7. Foggs and stinking mists generate acute Diseases and if the year continue in the same constitution we must expect Diseases of the same nature Sect. 3. Aph. 9. Most acute Diseases and destructive are most usual in the Autumn the Spring is more wholsome and lesse pernitions Sect. 3. Aph. 11. If the winter be extraordinary dry with North winds and the Spring very rainy with South winds acute Feavers sore Eyes and Dysenteries must of necessity arise the following Summer especially in women and in men which are of a constitution more than ordinary moist Sect. 4. Aph. 37. Cold Sweats in a very acute Feaver signifie death but in a more mild Disease the prolixity thereof Sect. 4. Aph. 66. Convulsions and vehement pains about the bowels in acute Diseases are bad Sect. 5. Aph. 64. See this Aphorisme in the Chapter of Milk Sect. 6. Aph. 54. Breathings with groans in acute Diseases with a Feaver are ill Sect. 7. Aph. 1. Cold or chilnesse of the extreme parts in acute Feavers is bad CHAP. III. Of Burning Feavers Sect. 3. Aph. 23. TUrn to this Aphorisme in the Chapter of Diseases of the Summer season Sect. 4. Aph. 54. They who have dry coughs lightly provoking in burning Feavers are not usually very thirsty Sect. 4. Aph. 58. If a rigour or very cold fit happen to him which hath a burning Feaver the Feaver is thereby dissolved Sect. 6. Aph. 26. Trembling happening in burning Feavers are taken away by a Delirium or Raving CHAP. IV. Of Intermittent Feavers Sect. 1. Aph. 11. ALL meat is to be avoided in the fits and Paroxisms of Feavers for it is hurtful to give meats then and we ought to fear such accident in the accesses which grow more painful or worse and worse in the circuits or intermissions Sect. 1. Aph. 12. The Diseases seasons of the year and the changing of the circuits being compared together whether they are every other day or by longer intervalls of time will declare the accessions and conditions of Diseases Moreover the same judgement may be given by such Symptomes as presently appear of that nature is spittle in Pluretick persons the which if it appears at the beginning of the Disease praedicts its brevity but if later the prolixity thereof The Urine also the excrements of the belly and the sweats when they appear do signifie unto us by Judicature whether the Disease will be easie or hard short or long Sect. 4. Aph. 30. Those intermittent Feavers are hard to be judged of wherein the Feaver returns the next day at the same hour wherein it left the Patient the day before at what hour soever it were that the dismission happened Sect. 4. Aph. 43. Feavers which afflict the Patient more violently every third day and have no intermission are more dangerous For intermissions after what manner soever contingent do signifie the Sick to be without danger CHAP. V. Of Tertian Feavers Sect. 3. Aph. 2. SEE this Aphorisme before in the Chapter of Diseases incident in the Summer Sect. 3. Aph. 2. Sect. 4. Aph. 43. See this Aphorisme before in the Chapter of Intermittent Feavers Sect. 4. Aph. 43. Sect. 4. Aph. 59. An exquisite Tertian is judged in seven fits at the longest CHAP. VI. Of a Quartane Feaver Sect. 2. Aph. 25. QUartan Feavers which begin in the Summer are usually short but such as begin in the Autumn are long especially if they continue unto the winter Sect. 3. Aph. 21. See this Aphorisme in the Chapter of Intermittent Feavers the same Section and Aphorisme Sect. 3. Aph. 22. See this Aphorisme in the Chapter of Autumnal Diseases the same Section and Aphorisme Sect. 5. Aph. 70. Men sick of quartan Feavers are seldome taken with Convulsions but if they were convulsive before they are freed by a succeeding quartan feaver CHAP. VII Of Quotidian Feavers Sect. 4. Aph. 63. QUotidian Feavers are dissolved by daily rigors CHAP. VIII Of Long Feavers Sect. 2. Aph. 25. QUartan Agues beginning in the Summer are usually short but Autumnal are long especially if they continue until winter Sect. 2. Aph. 28. It is an ill signe when bodies exercised with strong Feavers do stand at a stay and are nothing diminished or wasted or else are extremely and beyond reason wasted by the Disease for the one signifies a long continuance of the Disease the other the weaknesse of the Patient Sect. 3. Aph. 16. Daily showres do cause Diseases for the most part as of long Feavers fluxed putrid Feavers the falling sicknesse apoplexies and squinancies But great droughts do cause Consumptions sore eyes pains of the Joynts droppings
tumours and pains about their joynts after long Feavers do feed more plentifully Sect. 4. Aph. 74. When there is a probability that some matter will be sent to the joynts plenty of urine and white being made doth deliver from the abscess Such as usually begin to be conveyed every 4th day in feavers with a wearyish indisposition and if a flux of blood break forth by the Nostrils also then the solution of the Disease will be very shortly Sect. 5. Aph. 25. Plenty of cold water cast upon the tumours of the joynts griefs without ulcers the places affected with the gout and convulsive members for the most part easeth them diminisheth and takes away the grief for a moderate numnesse hath a property to take away pain Sect. 6. Aph. 28. Eunuches are not afflicted with the gout neither do they grow bald Sect. 6. Aph. 29. A woman is not troubled with the gout before her monthly purgations cease Sect. 6. Aph. 30. A boy is not troubled with the gout before he use the act of Venery Sect. 6. Aph. 49. The gout Diseases do stop within forty dayes the inflamation being taken away Sect. 6. Aph. 55. The affects of the gout usually expresse themselves in the Spring and Autumn Sect. 6. Aph. 59. In Sciatick pains when the hip bone falls out of his place and is received again filthy matter is ingendred therein Sect. 6. Aph. 60. They which are troubled with a continual Sciatica if the head of the hip bone fall out of its place have their thigh wasted and they halt unlesse they are cured by cauterizing CHAP. LV. Of the affects of the Fingers and Nails Sect. 8. Aph. 12. IF the nails grow black and the fingers and toes either contracted or remisse argue death approching Distinction the seventh containing such Aphorismes which respect external Diseases of the body THe Physician which desires to be complete and absolute in his practice must not only have the knowledge of those Aphorismes which respect the internal Diseases of the body but must also have those Aphorismes in his memory which do treat of external Diseases and they are these which follow CHAP. I. Of the Affects of the Hair Sect. 5. Aph. 11. IF the Spittle of consumptive persons being cast upon the coals send forth an ill smell and if the hairs of the head fall away it is mortal Sect. 6. Aph. 28. Eunuchs neither have the gout nor grow bald Sect. 6. Aph. 34. They which are bald have not their veins swelled with melancholly blood but they to whom such swellings so happen being bald have the hair of their head grow again CHAP. II. Of Pimples Sect. 3. Aph. 20. IN the spring season madness melancholly the falling evil fluxes of blood squinancies rheums hoarseness coughs leprosies tetters the dry itch very many ulcerated pimples small tumours and pains of the joynts do arise Sect. 6. Aph. 9. Broad wheals do seldome itch CHAP. III. Of Preternatural Tumours Sect. 4. Aph. 34. IF a suddain strangulation seize him which hath a Feaver without a praeexistent feaver in the jawes it is mortal Sect. 4. Aph. 35. If the neck of one that hath a feaver be on the sudden perverted and turned so that he can scarce or hardly swallow without a conspicuous humour it is mortal Sect. 5. Aph. 25. Abundance of cold water cast thereon easeth diminisheth and takes away the pains of tumified and painful places without ulcers the affects of the gout and of convulsed Members for a moderate stupefaction hath a power to take away grief Sect. 5. Aph. 65. They which have ulcerous tumours conspicuous are neither convulsive nor mad but they presently vanishing if the abscess be backward they are taken with convulsions and cramps but if the abscess happen to the foreparts they are troubled with ragings acute Diseases of the sides and suppuration of humours if the tumours be red Sect. 5. Aph. 66. It is a very great mischief when no tumor is seen acompanying great and shrewd wounds Sect. 5. Aph. 67. Soft tumours are good crude naught Sect. 6. Aph. 37. A tumour arising in the neck of him which hath a squinancy is a good sign for then the Disease is thrust outward Sect. 6. Aph. 49. A swelling or tumour appearing in the breast of him which is sick of a squinancy is a good signe for then the morbifick matter is secured to the external parts CHAP. IV. Of Inflamation Sect. 5. Aph. 23. THese Diseases are common to Infants creeping ulcers of the mouth called Apthae vomitings coughs watchings tremblings inflamations about the navil and moistness of the ears Sect. 5. Aph. 23. We must make use of cold things in these cases when either there is a present flux of blood or when one will presently ensue but they must not be applyed upon but about the place from whence the flux is and if an inflamation or fierinesse incline to a somewhat bloody or red colour caused by a flux of fresh blood appear apply them thereunto for they cause blacknesse to inveterate sores They help an Erisipilas not ulcerated but offend an ulcerated Sect. 5. Aph. 58. A strangury succeeds an inflamation of the streight bowel of the wombe and suppurated reins but the Hicket succeeds an inflamation of the liver Sect. 6. Aph. 40. A succeeding feaver takes away such pains which arise about the midriffe which are not accompanyed with an inflamation CHAP. V. Of an Erisipilas Sect. 5. Aph. 23. SEE this Aphorisme in the preceeding Chapter of Inflamation Sect. 5. Aph. 43. An Erisipilas happening in the wombe of a pregnant woman is mortal Sect. 6. Aph. 25. It is a bad Symptome if an Erisipilas being once thrust forth turn back to the inward parts but if it come to the external from the internal parts it is good Sect. 7. Aph. 19. An Erisipilas is caused by the laying bare of a bone Rottennesse or impostumation caused by an Erisipilas is bad CHAP. VI. Of Mortification and a Gangrena Sect. 7. Aph. 2. Wan and pale flesh occasioned by a pained bone doth signifie ill Sect. 7. Aph. 50. If the brain be suddenly strucken or mortified the sick dyes within three dayes the which if he survive he becomes sound again A bone decayes by mortification or a gangrene CHAP. VII Of a Cancer Sect. 6. Aph. 38. IT is more safe not to cure then to cure hidden and secret Cancers for if they are cured the sick dyes quickly but if left uncured he continueâ— longer CHAP. VIII Of spreading Vlcers Sect. 5. Aph. 22. SEE this Aphorisme in Sect. 5. Aph. 22. in the Chapter of Convulsions CHAP. IX Of the tumour called Struma Sect. 3. Aph. 26. BUt when they are a little more in years inflamations of the Almonds of the ears impulsions toward the inward part of the vertebra in the hinder part of the head frequent Asthmaes the stone maw-worms round-worms and others thin and small breeding in the streight gut swellings in the neck and other small tumours but especially these CHAP.