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to form fuch fungous Excrefcences; and fo folicitous 
were they for removing thefe inconvenidncies, that 
they made ufe of feveral ways by Corrofives and o- 
ther Methods, to accomplilh this end ; and a very ear- 
ly Writer among us, has given us a very methodi- 
cal and curious Trad on this Subject, wherein he re- 
commends the removing them by the medicated Can- 
dle, which we ufe at this Day, and lays down divers 
other Inftrudions, in Relation to it, which makes it 
probably the beft Difcourfe on this Subject, that was 
ever yet written. The fame Author takes notice of 
thole contumacious Ulcers, which happen upon the 
Gians and the neighbouring parts, which we now 
call Shankers ; and the great Trouble, our ancient Au- 
thors found in attempting their Cure, fufficiently 
difcover them to have had their Original from a Ve- 
nereal Infedion. Thefe feveral Symptoms of the Vene- 
real Malady our early Writers are very full in their 
Accounts of, and others, when the Difeafe was in 
a more confirmed State, to which they appropriated 
particular Names, perhaps more fignificanc and expref- 
five than thofe impofed by modern Authors. Thus for 
inftance, the Bubo’s in the Groins they called Dorfers, 
which 1 have given a Reafon for before * and the Vene- 
real Node^on the Shin Bones they termed the Boonhaw, 
which gives us a perfed Idea, not only of the part 
affeded, but after what manner it was Difeafed ; for 
the old Englifh Word , Havre, fignified a fwelling of any 
Fart. Thus for inftance, a little Swelling upon the Cor- 
nea, was anciently called the Hawe in the Eye, and 
the Swelling that frequently happens on the Finger, 
on one fide the Nail, was called the white Hawe, and 
afterwards Whitfiaw. The procefs our laft menti- 
oned Author recommends, for the Cure of the Boon 
or Bone Hawe, is by making ufe of a Plaifter, which 
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