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The Introdudtion. 
Of an Ery- 
fipelas. 
Of the 
Fluor Al- 
bus. 
and fhe died in Convulfions, There is no Remedy in a Pleurifie fo 
effectual as bleeding. This is not done, either through obftinacy of 
the fick Perfon, ignorance, or averfion of the Phyfician to that Re- 
medy, or unskilfulnels of the Chirurgeon, who generally pretend, 
on miffing the Vein, that the Blood is too thick, as if iccould Cir- 
culate through the capillary Veffels, and yet be fo thick as not to 
come out of a hole made in the fide of che Vein. If fufficient 
bleeding is neglected in a Pleurifie, on any of thefe accounts, the 
extravafated Blood increafes, difficulty of breathing follows, and 
occafions either a Suffocation by the great quantity of Blood ftag- 
nating in the Heart, and great Veflels, a Gangrene, or at leaft an 
Apoftem, whence follows an Empyema and Coniumption. 
Her Daughter was taken very ill at the fame time of a great pain 
in her Arm, after which came out an Eryfipelas, which I advis‘d to 
be treated with a Fomentation of Wormwood, Sage,grc. in Lye and 
Wine. With this Remedy, after breaking out, and going in teveral 
times, it came out in feveral Boils and hard Lumps on the Hand, 
which breaking, and running, curdher. I have feen many troubl d 
after the fame manner, with great pains in the Arm, after which 
comes out the Ery/ipelas, then it goes in again, and the pains return 
till ic again breaks out, which is chiefly effected by Ol. Lumbr. & 
Cham. with which fome Petrol. is mixt. “They ought to be bled and 
purg’d, ec. and yet often recover not in half a year. The Skin of 
thefe people is ufually afterwards very much difcolour'd. 
A great many Women are here troubl’d with the Fluor Albus, 
with which Diftemper they ufually have very great pains in their 
Back. Iufually gave chem a Medicated Wine, with the Roots of 
Angelica, Imperatoria, Biftort. Tormentill. exc. infus'd in Madera. I 
advisd them to drink for fome time of it, feveral times aday, for- 
bidding all manner of Evacuation. This method ufually cur’d 
both Whites and Blacks. 
On outward or inward bruifes, I us’d, in danger, to bleed im- 
mediately, and in the outward to embrocate with fair water, by 
Of bruifes.applying Papers or Cloaths dipt in water, and repeating them, 
when they grew hor, by which the humour was repell’d. I have 
feen this method do great matters, as much or more than Bole or 
Afttingents cum Album, Ovor. Sperm. Cet. and Crabs-Eyes. I us’d to 
give inwardly, Sp. CC. and to order a Montagany Plaifter to be a pplied. 
OfanUI- A lufty blind Fellow of about Fifty years of age, had been 
cer in 
rae languifhing a long time with pains in the Region of his Kidnies, as 
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