Of Scirrhous Tumours, and their Remedies.
What are the Tumours that partake of the Nature of a Scirrhus?
They are the Polypus, Carcinoma, Sarcoma, Natta, and Cancer.
What is a Polypus?
It is an Excrescence of fungous Flesh arising in the Nostrils: But Hippocrates confounds the Carcinoma and Sarcoma with the Polypus, of which he says they are only a Species.
What is the Natta?
It is a Tumour or Excrescence of Flesh that appears in the Buttocks, Shoulders, Thighs, Face, and every where else, the various Figures
of which cause it to be call'd by different Names. For one while it resembleth a Gooseberry, at another time a Mulberry, and at another time a Melon or Cherry. Sometimes also these Swellings are like Trees, Fishes, Birds, or other sorts of Animals, according to the ardent desire that Women with Child have had for things that they cou'd not obtain when they longed for 'em.
What are the Remedies proper for the Polypus, and other kinds of Excrescences of the like Nature?
The Polypus may be cur'd in the beginning, but it is to be fear'd lest it degenerate into an incurable Cancer, when it hath been neglected or ill dress'd.