What are the Medicines proper to dissolve these Tumours?
They are all such as may be us'd for the Oedema and Scirrhus; but the Specificks or particular Remedies are these:
Take Rosemary, Sage, Wormwood, Elder, great Celandine, Camomile, Melilot, St. John's-Wort, and Tobacco; boil 'em in White-Wine with Soot and Mercurial Honey, adding, thereto Cummin-seeds beaten, and Oleum Lumbricorum, to make a Cataplasm, which is to be renew'd twice a Day. Afterward if the Tumour be not dispers'd, you may apply the following Plaister, which hath an admirable Effect.
Take an equal Portion of the Plaister of Diachylon, Devigo, and four times as much Mercury, and Emplastrum Divinum; let 'em be dissolv'd together; then intermix Saffron, and Oil of Tobacco, to make a Plaister with the whole Mass, which may be spread upon thin Leather, and apply'd to the Tumour, without taking it off only once every eighth Day, to cool it; so that it must be laid on again after having wash'd and bath'd the Part with warm Urine or Brine.
But it is to be always remember'd that external Remedies take effect only imperfectly, unless they are assisted by internal, such as in this case are reiterated Purgations, join'd with a regular Diet.
What are the Remedies proper to excite Suppuration?
To this purpose those may be us'd that serve in other kinds of Tumours: But as for the extirpation of the Cystis, it is done by dividing the Tumour into four Parts, by procuring Suppuration, and by consuming the Bag by little and little. The Bronchocele alone will not admit this Extirpation, by reason of the great Number of Nerves, Veins, and neighbouring Arteries amidst which the Tumour is settl'd. However Bronchotomy, or opening the Throat, may be perform'd; which is an Operation peculiar to this Tumour.