VOL. IV.] PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. SQS 



About the beginning of this month, the woman in coughing brought up at 

 several times some blood ; but this I soon took off, and at that time there ap- 

 peared several cutaneous ulcers upon her breasts and other parts, et abund^ in 

 verendis (ut k foeminis edocebar) which last I cured; but those on her breasts in 

 part remain, and daily discharge, by the sole application of colewort leaves, much 

 sanious matter; and the patient complaining also at that time of grievous inter- 

 juncture pains, especially upon the tibiae, I applied Empl. de Ran. &c. and gave 

 iier three succeeding mornings a purgative medicine. The third day, it wrought 

 sursum et deorsum pretty briskly; after which her pains vanished as well as 

 many of those ulcuscula, and her breasts much lessened, and her pains also ; 

 and she, though drooping much before, and out of hopes of life, exceedingly 

 revived. I consequently gave her on Sunday last a medicine which wrought 

 upward plentifully ; and she daily gets strength since, and her breasts abate. 

 I design to salivate her, in hopes to correct that vicious ferment which is spued 

 out of the genus nervosum into the breasts, and contributes much to those 

 tumours.* 



^71 Account of tivo Booh. N" 52, p. 1054. 



I. Gauging Epitomised, by Michael Dary. London, printed by W. Godbid, 

 1669, upon one folio page. 



II. Histoire Naturelle des Animaux, Plantes, et Mineraux, qui entrent dans la 

 Composition de la Theriaque d' Andromachus ; par M. Charas.-)- Paris, l2mo. 



As there are above 60 sorts of different drugs, which are ingredients of this 

 no less difficult than famous and useful medicine, which was invented by An- 

 dromachus, physician to Nero, and as those drugs are subject to be sophisticated, 

 and require different preparations, so there are few men that are sufficiently 

 skilled to chuse aright all those ingredients, or dextrous and patient enough to 

 prepare them well. The author of this book treats of this celebrated medica- 

 ment, and not only teaches th^ way of composing it, but intersperses many not 



* This woman died in October following, see N" 53, where there is a description of the size and 

 internal appearances of the breasts. 



f Moses Charas was in great repute in the I7th century for his pharmaceutical knowledge. When 

 by that cruel and impolitic measure, the revocation of the edict of Nantes, Lewis the XIV. com- 

 pelled many thousands of his most industrious subjects to emigrate from France, Charas, who was a 

 Huguenot, sought an asylum in Spain. Here, however, in consequence of some freedom of speech 

 on religious matters, he fell under the scourge of the Inquisition, and was thrown into prison, nor did 

 he procure his enlargement, until he had solemnly renounced the Protestant faith. Besides the treatise 

 above-noticed, he wrote Experiences sur la Vipere (of which an account will be given hereafter) 

 1669, Pharmacopee Galenique et Chymique, l672; and an Account of a new Method of adminis- 

 termg the Peruvian Bark, inserted in the Memoirs of the Parisian Academy of Sciences for 1692. 



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