I and acid humor, making an ebullition, as when Spirit of vitriol is 
I poured on Salt of Tartar.In the esaraination oiCarhmcks he inquires, , 
I How in the human Body can be generated fo fharp and cauftick an 
humor, as is that in Carbuncles and aifo, how Nature comes to_ 
feparate it from other liquors. Where he reflefts again upon the af- 
fertion of the lately mentioned Z)/m^r^m^, who makes apeftiiential 
1 Carbuncle nothing but a Gangrene ^ and obferveth withall, 
thatthofeCarbuncleswillappearinevery partof the Body, he ha- 
ving feen one upon a Womans breaft prefently after flie had been de- 
livered of a Child which fucked her during her diftemper without 
any inconvenience ^ the Mother her fcif recovering alfo foon after, 
I Further,he takes notice of the peftilential Tokens as certain meffengers 
of Death: where he relates fome Examples of perfops, in whom they 
I came out without any trouble to the Body, but yctkilled them after- 
ij wards. Here he gives notice, that fome wicked and crafty Nurfes , 
iito hide theTf%>?j in dead Bodies,do cover them prefently after death 
with raoift linnen 111 eets^ whereby the fermentation of the venenat 
(humors being quelled, and the pores clofed, the Searchers may be de- 
ceived, and fo not caufe the Houfe to be (hut up. 
j In the fixth ht treats of the Frogmfiicks of an Imminent Pl ague v ^-^ 
jmong which he reckons chiefiyjtlie change of Chronical difeafes into 
iAcute ones with violent Symptoms h and a great Murrain among 
jCattle. Here he notech, that a Plague very cruel at firft^is of fliori 
■duration^ as alfo, that what time it taketh from its Beginning to its 
Hight, the fame it taketh from its bight to its Period. Befides,he ob- 
fcrves the Prefages of Death to be, an Htmorrhigy^Fluxi^^ menfirtid^^z 
Loofnefs, aDyfehtery, green or bJack Excrements^ He alfo taketh 
iiotice,^i^r weak Lungs do not efcape that the firft Sweats coming 
Without eafe to the Pattens s a long naufeoufnefs, and the fubfiding 
of Buboes vj\t\\o\xt fweat ^ ill-coloured and blackifii fwelling,6^c are 
fatal r and that C^r^^/^c'/e'j" are worfe than Bubo's, From the Vrine he 
tfteeras no certain prognofticks can be made, fmce commonly it ap- 
pears as good in the Plague, as that of healthy perfons. And i\\tPulf& 
he counts in this diftemper a very uncertain and fallacious fign. 
The feventh delivers his Method of Curing, which he placeth both 
in the Encouragement of the Patient, and in the Ufe of Generous 
rntdicins^ without venae- ieftion, and funlefs in the cafeof a furfet 
and a foul l]:omach5)without vomiting and purging^here being requi- 
fite a Separation rather than an Evacuation, and the Seat of this Di- 
feafe being not in the Juices of the Body, but in the Spirits. 
Oi Antidetes\^ the principal means of Cure, he fpecifies thofe which 
he confiders as fome of the choiceft, taken from Vegetables as well, 
asAniraals and Minerals* And here he expreffeth a particular value for 
Ginger, both in powder for fweating,and in Confit for preventing v 
as alfo for the Bezoardicum Alinerale ; But Bez^oar 2ini ZJnicorns Horn' 
he efteems of greater price than vertue.He commends Sprit of Bart s^. 
i7?r;^,as an excellent Diaphoretick. He particularly defcribcth thofe 3, 
which he chiefly made ufe of with good fuccefs, from the prefcripti* 
