Decisiones praecipuorum aliquot aporēmatōn iatrophilosophikōn

to be swallowed. Then, let the tongue of the infant be compressed at the root so that the viscous phlegm is drawn out. This act will also be a remedy for the death rattle, as well as for hiccups and nausea, especially if a poultice of leaven with peppermint water is applied to the region of the stomach, and a decoction of mastic is given to drink. These remedies, being "all-humor-clearing" polychysa releasing many humors, will satisfy the skillful expectation of physicians and the clinics iatreiois medical offices, as well as the laments of mothers anxious for the health of their little children, faster and more happily than the myriads of those who are bloated with purgatives in their medicine chests.

Therefore, in the diseases of infants, purgatives should not be given to the nurses.

C O R O L L A R Y.

Very sharp pains, often with a foul and stinging gonorrhea, spitting ptuelismō salivation, and diarrhea (if, indeed, the virus has taken deeper roots), occur in venereal disease from the application of mercury. For in those vexations, the ichor liquefies and settles around the joints; where, due to the density and coldness of the parts, it thickens like mucus and turns into a stone. Sometimes this is followed by a "spreading growth" perioseos hylsa a type of gangrenous swelling, where that torturing substance, wearing away the bones, threatens gangrene and sphacelus. Physicians here generally use bloodletting, scarification, strong purgatives, potable gold, laudanum opiatum, sugar and tincture of the philosophers, theriacal water, turbith mineral, mustard plasters sinapismō mustard plaster, pitch plasters drōpaka pitch plaster, irritants phoinigmōn reddening agent, and anointing with mercurial oils, usually in vain. Only the actual cautery, glowing completely with fire and pressed with great force, heals it. But if the virulent pus lying hidden within (which is also accustomed to happen in other diseases through sympathy) gives no sign, the way must be opened by a "surgical knife" skoptomachairiō a cutting probe/knife or by a potential cautery made of Roche alum, Hungarian vitriol, sal ammoniac, and niter in equal parts, with a mother-lye made from spurge or fig twigs with quicklime.