Writers are very full in their Accounts of, and others, when the _Disease_ was in a more confirmed State, to which they appropriated particular Names, perhaps more significant and expressive than those imposed by _modern_ Authors. Thus the _Buboes_ in the _Groin_ they called _Dorsers_, which I have given a Reason for before; and the _Venereal-Nodes_ on the _Shin-Bones_ they termed the _Boon-haw_, which gives us a perfect Idea, not only of the Part affected, but after what manner it was diseased; for the old English Word _Hawe_, signified a Swelling of any Part. Thus for instance, a little Swelling upon the _Cornea_, was anciently called the _Hawe_ in the _Eye_; and the Swelling that frequently happens on the Finger, on one side the Nail, was called the _White-Hawe_, and afterwards _Whitflaw_. The _Process_ this Author recommends, for the Cure of the _Boon_ or _Bone-Hawe_, is by making use of a Plaister, which had a Hole cut in the midst, to circumscribe it; and applying a _Caustic_ of unslacked Lime, and black Soap incorporated together; which Plaister and Bandage were to be secured on the part 4 Hours, and longer, if that was not found sufficient: After this he proceeds to the separating the _Slough, &c._ This Practice of his seems to have been found out by accident. For he tells us, when he was a young Practitioner, he having applyed both the Natural and Artificial _Arsenic_ to the Leg of a Man, who was his Patient, it so mortified the Flesh, as surprized him; but by proper Digestives, the _Eschar_ coming off, and leaving the Bone bare, he scraped it with an Instrument for several Days, and drest it with Incarnatives, designing to have ingendred Flesh on it; but this proving unsuccessful, he continued to scrape it, till he observed it move under the Instrument; after which having separated it, he found the Sore covered with new Flesh, and that the Bone was 4 Inches in length, 2 in breadth, and very thick, upon the Removal of which the Patient was soon cured. Thus it’s probable this Observation of this great Man led our Predecessors to practice the very same Method; and we do at _this Day_ in our Hospitals treat the _Venereal Nodes_ on the _Shins_ exactly as is here described, where we observe the same Appearances, he so long before took notice of; and it is not in the least to be doubted, but the _Boon-Haw_ and our _Venereal Nodes_ are the same _Disease_. By the Appearance of some of the last of these Symptoms, we infallibly judge the Patient has had the Infection upon him a considerable time, and that the _Disease_ is making its gradual Advances, to the corrupting and destroying the whole Frame of the Body. That this was the Conclusion of the Miseries of those Persons, who gave themselves up to the deceitful-Delights and Entertainments of lewd-Women, in those _early-times_ as well as _now_, I cannot better prove than by those remarkable Instances you quoted from a MS. in _Lincoln_-Colledge, in _Oxon_, Viz.