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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    $2 . Chirurgia Curio fa. Book I, a Bignefs, efpecially in the Increafe of the Moon, that you may eafily per¬ ceive its Progrefs, and now and then the Suppuration returns, and i'erves to nourifh the Tumour, as I have very often obferved. Nor does the Vice- ration with its noifome Tus caufe any Putrifaftion in the Tumour, but rather grows with it, tho* abundance of Corruption runs continually from it, and caufes both an Vlcer and a Tumour together. But that which is to be admired,* }$, that fuch Afle&s, which often con¬ tinue Running and Growing three or four Years together, as I could fliew in feveral Examples, and imell worfê than an Ozena, and yet fliould never injure the Drum or Tympanum of the Ear, fo as to prejudice the Hear- “yrc-;*£. This Tumour alfodiffers from all others in feveral Particulars; it£ Skin is more Tender and Senfible; its Flelh more Flaccid and Spungy; its Root like a Tendon, and tho5 it has often feveral Cells and Capita like Tears, and grows fo large that they hang a great way out of the Ears, yet they join in the bottom like fo many Stalks tyed together, in fome- times one, and fometirfies two Roots, which are all hollow, tho* very fmail, and fometimes their Roots go fo far, that the Patient feels excef- five Pain in the Depth of the Ear, and at the fame time in the Corner of the Eye, and near the Gullet, if you pull the Tumour towards you; fothat we may conclude, though the Root of the Tumour is to be fearched for no further than the Tympanum; yet we may fuppofe it reaches as far as the Cranium, and towards the Eyes, Throat, Vvula, &c. And if fuch Patients lofe their Hearing either before or after the Operation, you may then conclude that the Tympanum has differed by it, and had fome Connexion or Union with it. The true The true Caufe of thefe Tumours are not yet difeovered by any Author, ^ufe of thefe at lead to my Satisfa&ion, for being a very tickle Subject, none have Turners. fceen fonc] 0f attempting its Definition. I have already hinted fomething concerning it in the fixth Chapter, where I treated of Tumours in ge¬ neral ; but fince it differs much from them, I will confider it more par¬ ticularly. This Tumour chiefly proceeds from a Phlegm at ick Fifcous Humour, internet with Chyle ana Blood, which by being obdru&ed grows Acrid and Corroding, and gnaws and breaks the Feffels which contain it, putri- fies and caufes an Ulceration, by the thin Pus running out at the Ear as its neared way, the thick Matter remaining behind in the Con* fidence of Milk coagulated with Rennet to make Cheefe of, or like Seame, it fird gathers outwardly to a Crud, then grows into a Skin, and afterwards as it waxes dronger, into a Tumour hanging out of the Ear, and if it has a diffident Space and Nutriment, divides it felf into feveral Cells, *MamiaiisChi' which make as many Procédés and Tumours. Licentiate Juncken * fays oper. 3.e<c;^7. *°rt °* Tumours proceed from fome or other Tubuli, when fuch kind p. as. of Humours are gathered aqd fettled in them, and then extending the *i. i.c. 9- p. Place, form more than one Domicilium. Dr. Munnick in his Praxis Chi- rurgtea * fays, that thefe kind of Tumours confid of a Glutinous, Fifcous,, and Mucilaginous Humour, which being feparated from the Blood, and fettled in this ot other Parts of the Body, and coagulated, according as they are mixed more or lefs with other Humours to make an Ulcer, di¬ vides it felf into Cells and grows larger. Thefe Opinions, 1 think, come seared the Truth, but I leave every Man to his own Judgment, being not without Expe&ation and Hopes that Time will produce^ better De¬ finition.- V■* 4- ' '