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].

  • Purmann, Matthias Gottfried, 1649-1711.
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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    chap. xnr. r; 0 .flOiTOiV Ganglia, or Glandulons Tumours, their Differencey, Caufe, and Cure. T-£iA*r- . • ' ■ ■. i' . . • • HESE Tumours are very troublefome, disfigure the Patient, and Where they when they grow Large, Inveterate, and are leated about the Throat,are featcd* are apt to liinder Refpiration. This Place they delight in, becaufe they can fpread and enlarge themfelves like the Fungi on Trees. Their Scituation is in the Glandules, which they flop up with a Thick Vifcous and Fitui- tous Humour, and like Oedematous Tumours, fettle fo, clofe, that it dries them up, and renders them Schirrous. They caufe but little Pain, and very feldom come to Suppuration, tho’ it fometimes happens when abun¬ dance of Emollients are applied. Dr. Overkamp faies *, That if the con- *chirurgu tained Matter grows Finn, and preferves its Motion, or fome Heterogeneous c2‘n'Lz'p* Matter mixes with it, it may by degrees come to Suppuration, but this fcl- I7‘ dom happens. Vo . .. . The Ancients thought the Caufe of thefe Ganglions Was a Fituitous and Ancient ° ' ,' Vifcous Blood ; but if fuch Blood could become fo very Crafs and Fife id,nlons refutcd* yet its Alteration could never produce fuch Obdurate Tumours, and of the fame Colour with the Skin, but on the contrary. Others think they approach nearer the Truth, when they fay, the Matter contained in a Ganglion, is a Degenerated Succus Nervorum, which in time Blues out like Drops from the Sinews, between the Membranes and Glandules, and there alters and grows into a large Tumour; but this Opinion has neither Rea¬ son nor Poflibility to (upport it; becaufe fuch fmall, fubtil, tender Nerves as are found thereabouts, cannot fupply lo great a Quantity of Liquor: And therefore I fay again, That they are Crude, Vifcous and Mucilaginous WI?at they Humours, which at firR are not fo very thick; but the Humor Lympha.tru!yarei Ficus which ufed to be orderly feparated there, is at fuch a time more than ordinary Crude, Acid, and Vifcous, that it cannot pafs through its Glands as ufually • but (landing there, coagulates, and Rill increafing, fills up and extends the Glandules; for if the Lympha thus fuffers an Alteration and becomes (harp, Acid, and Gelatinous, it will grow to a hard Gypfea like Matter, as I have faid already, which according to Dr. MunnicFs Opinion is daily augmented by the Blood which continually circulates that way! In more than a hundred Patients, it feldom happens that a Ganglion be¬ comes Cancerous, tho* we have fome Examples of it, and then the Cafe is deplorable and dangerous; but generally Men are miRaken, his not the thing it felf, but fomething Jike it; as when the contained Matter is grown Corrofive, and afterwards by an Effèrveicence and painful Exulcera- tion, it groWs as Malignant and Vexatious as a Cancer in another Part; and all that can be collected from this Difcourfe is, that thefe Tumours are very ObRinate, Tedious in curing, require good penetrating Medicines, and as Dr. Overkamp* fays, in whole Particles is neither Fomentation or Motion * *c. 13. p. w but thofe wherein the Saline, Volatiles & Oleof# particuU are fo fupprefled* that they cannot excite a Firmentation: which I mention for no other reafon, but that every one may fee how the Principles of Pbyfick are ad¬ vanced in refpetR of what they were in former dark Ages; and that about Ten or Twelve Years ago, I was of the fame Opinion, which I acknow¬ ledge with Shame, if it be a Shame for a Man to confefs his Ignorance, ' . L which