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and acidhumor, making an ebullition, as when Spirit of vitriol is 
poured on Salt of Tartar.ln the examination oiCarhmcles he inquires. 
How in the human Body can be generated fo fharp and cauftickan 
humor, as is that in Carbuncles ^ and alfo, how Nature comes to 
feparate it from other liquors. Where he reficds again upon the af- 
fertion of the lately naentioned Dlmerhrookj, who makes a peftilentiai 
Carbuncle nothing but a Gangrene /;?^m S and o-bferveth vvithali, 
that thofe Carbuncles will appear in every part of the Body, he ha- 
ving feen one upon a Woraans bread prefently after Ihe had been de- 
livered of a Child which fucked her during her diftemper without 
any inconvenience ^ the Mother her fclf recovering alfo foon after. 
Further,he takes notice of the peftilentiai Teksns ascertain meflfengers 
of Death : where he relates fome Examples of perfons, in whom they 
came out without any. trouble to the Body , but yet killed them after- 
wards. Here he gives notice, that fume wicked and crafty Nurfes, 
to hide the Tokens in dead Bodies, do cover them prefently after death , 
with moift linnen llieets V whereby the fermentation of the venenac 
humors being quelled, and the pores clofed, the Searchers may be de- 
ceived, and fo not caufe the Houfe to be Omt up- 
In the fixth he treats of the Prognojiickj of an Imminent Plague ^ a- 
mong which he reckons chiefiyjthe change of Chronical difeafes into 
Acute ones with violent Symptoms V and a great Murrain among 
Cattle. Here he noteth, that a Plague very cruel at firft^is of fhorc . 
duration V as alfo, that what time it taketh from its Beginning to its - 
Hight, the fame it taketh from its hight to its Period. Berides,he ob- 
ferves the Prefages of Death to be, an Hemorrhagy^i^Z/^x^ mcKjlrn^^z 
Loofnefs, aDyfentery, green or black Excrements* He alfo taketh 
notice.rte weak Lungs do not efcape ^ that the fird Sweats coming 
without eafe to the Patiens s a long naufeoufnefs, and the fobfiding 
©f without fweat ill- coloured and blackifli fweiiing,&c are 
fatal S and that Carbuncles are worfe than Buko's. From the Vrine he 
e]i^:eems no certain prognoilicks can be made, fincc commonly it ap- 
pears as good in the Plague, as that of healthy perfons. And ihtPpdfi 
he counts in this diftemper a very uncertain and fallacious fign. . 
The y^-t/m/? delivers his Method of Curing, which he placeth both ' 
in the Encouragement of the Patient, and in the life of Generous ^ 
raedicins ^ without venae. ledion, and funlefs in the cafe of a furfec 
and a foul ilomach5)without vomiting and purging ^here being requi«. 
fite a Separation rather than an Evacuation, and the Scat of this Di- 
feafe, being not in the Juices of the Body, but in the Spirits. 
Of Antidstes^ the principal means of cure, he fpecifies thofe which 
he confidcrs as fome of the choiceft, ta.ken from Vegetables as well, , 
asAnimals and Minerals* And here he exprefl'eth a particular value for - 
Ginger, both in powder for fweating,and in Confit for preventing h > 
as alfo for the Be^oardieum ASnerale : But Bez^oar and Vnicorns Horn ' 
he efteems of greater price than Ytrtnt.W^ commtv^As, Spirit ef Harts- 
hern,2.% an excellent Diaphoretick. He particularly defcribcth thofe^ ^ 
which he chiefiy made ufe of with good fuccefs, from the prefcripti- 
