The Primitive Cause may be prevented by avoiding the Falls, Blows, or other Hurts, and the Antecedent by diminishing the Plethory of the Blood, and cooling the whole Mass by Phlebotomy. The Conjunct Cause, which is the overflowing of the Blood, may be also remov'd in dispersing it by dissolving, or else in discharging it by Suppuration.
What is a Crisis?
It is a sudden setling of Humours, which happens in Diseases, whereby they are usually terminated.
How are these Critical Setlings effected?
By the Strength of Nature, which either expels the peccant Humours thro' the Belly, or carries them to the Habitude of the Body; for in the former she causeth Fluxes of Humours, Urine and Blood; as in the other she excites Sweatings, Tumours, and even a Gangrene it self.
In what Parts do the Critical Tumours usually arise?
In the Glandules, which the Ancients call'd the Emunctories of the Brain, Heart, and Liver; for they gave the Name of Emunctories of the Brain to the thick Glandules which lie under the Ears, that of the Emunctories of the Heart to those that are under the Arm-Pits; and that of the Emunctories of the Liver to those under the Groin. Now Malignant Tumours may arise in all these parts, but the Venereal happen only in the Groin.