Chirurgia curiosa: or, the newest and most curious observations and operations in the whole art of chirurgery, regularly methodized ... and rendered intelligible ... / Written originally in High-Dutch, by ... Matthaeus Gothofredus Purmannus ... Illustrated with large chirurgical figures, of patients as well as instruments, invented by Dr. Solingen ... To which is added Natura morborum medicatrix: or, Nature cures diseases ... By Conrade Joachim Sprengell [the translator].

  • Matthäus Gottfried Purmann
Date:
1706
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Credit: Chirurgia curiosa: or, the newest and most curious observations and operations in the whole art of chirurgery, regularly methodized ... and rendered intelligible ... / Written originally in High-Dutch, by ... Matthaeus Gothofredus Purmannus ... Illustrated with large chirurgical figures, of patients as well as instruments, invented by Dr. Solingen ... To which is added Natura morborum medicatrix: or, Nature cures diseases ... By Conrade Joachim Sprengell [the translator]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    »eci iiiCiO CHAP. IX, • *8. .'ll! b. . f;1 )• C f, !h rri< ^ Polypus in the Nofe] what it isy and how to be eradicated f and cured., f : u b;ixij k> bv>y*l jrij no rt V i( Difference be¬ tween a Poly¬ pus and a Sar- cetnat) r Ozena. *Cent. i.Obf. 26. p. 5. What a Poly¬ pus is. a L. i. c. 24. p. 289. * Obi. Medici 1.1. Obf. i. & 2. p. 2ol. ufa\ ad paginam 204. SOme Authors are of Opinion, That a Sarcema or Ozena and a Toly pus are the fame thing, and that there i$ no difference between them; but I muff take leave to enter my Diffènt; for a Sarcema and an Ozéna are malignant and filthy {linking Ulcers, and commonly appear below the Nofe in the fleihy Part between the Nofe and the upper Lip; and if it fpreads and grows worfe, reaches to the Sides of the Nofe ,* but a Polypus is a true Tumour, which from its beginning has its Root, and is included in its own proper Bag, which commonly adheres to the' upper end of the Os Cribriforme or and to its Cartilaginous Proceffus; yea, fome- times it fettles upon the Gums, and in time increafes to fuch a Degree* that it fills the whole Noffril, hinders breathing, and fometimes grows fo big that it hangs out of the Noftril* a^d may eafily be feen, and drdwn forward, always increafing and decreasing with the Moon. That Famous Phyfician and Burgermafter of Ampler claw. Dr. tf/cholaus Tulpius, has noted this in his Obfervations *, and incerted a very Curious Hiffory up¬ on it. This Glandulous Tumour, which has its Origine from a filthy fpongy Fldh, and from a fmall foft'and tender Radix in the beginning, at length magnifies to fuch a Degree, that it quite ftops up the Noftrils,hinders the Patient from Smelling, Speaking and drawing his Breath is fometimes Red, and fometimes White:and Blue, according as it borders more or lefs upon the Blood or Chyle Veflels; or as it has fuflered Irritations by the Ignorance of Ghirtirgeons, who pretended to cure, what they did not under- ff and, which much contributes to the Alteration of the Colour. Sometimes it ff icks fo very deep in the Nofe, and hangs out fo far, that the Roots of it may be feen before and behind the Vvula. Dr. Munnick in his Di- fcourfe on this Head, fays*, That if the Polypus is Soft and White, it is eafily cured; but if it be Red, and runs a great way up into the Nofe, it's very difficult to be reduced ; and if it is Black, Yellow, Afh-colourM and {linking, it is thought Incurable, it then inclining to a Cancer, and infinuating it felf fo far about the Gula, it’s impoflible to be eradica¬ ted. .. A Polypus may happen in feveral other Parts of the Body, yea, evert in the Heart, Bowels, Spleen, and in the Arteries, and Sinus Meningum, as is affirmed by Dr. Blanchard and Dr. Tulpius. Dr. Becklin * has given us two Choice Hiftories of a Polypus in the Heart, and of a Pfeudo-Poly¬ pus in the Cerebrum and Ztterus. The Jefuit Zeidler^ - when I was curing him of an Atheroma on the upper Eye-Lid , prefented [me in the Year 1691. with a Figure or Cut of a Polypus, which was found at Prague in the Heart of a Jefuit, feated in the right Ventricle of the Heart, but its Root run through the Right Lobus of the Lungs, and the Left into the Oefophagus or Gullet- Mr. Logan, an Eminent Chirurgeon at Lyffe, fent me alio a Figure of a Polypus in the fame Year, which was found in the Abdomen of Secretary Helcher, which I intend to difeourfe upon more at large, and have a Cut engraven and inferted in the Second Book of Chi- surgical Curiofities. J\ p0„