If the Tumour is hard and painful from too great a Tension upon the glandulous Parts, not giving Room enough to receive the protruding Humours, the Part affected may be anointed with _Oil of Lilies_, _Roses_, _Elder_, &c. if no Inflammation forbids such a Method; in which Circumstance all Oils and Ointments are to be suspected, as they obstruct the Pores, and are no Ways suitable to the Nature of the nitro-saline pestilential Venom. When an Inflammation therefore is upon any Part, which is easie to be known by its Heat and Colour, it is better to make Use of the _Mucelages of Linseed_ and _Fenugreek_, with _Elder Vinegar_, and _London Treacle_; or a _Cataplasm of Wheat-Flower_, _Fenugreek_ and _Linseed_, _Elder Flowers_, _white Bread Crumbs_, the _Yolk of Eggs_, and _Powder of Saffron_. THE _London_ Physicians at this Time spared no Trouble nor Application, to manage the Buboes rightly; some of the Cataplasms therefore by them daily used I shall here insert. ℞ _Cœpam majusculam, quam v. a. e. excavatam imple summit. rutæ dcb. exiccat. & pulveriz. ʒ+ _+ij.+ indantur etiam theriac. +Lond. ℈ iv.+ foramen operculo suo obturetur, cœpa deinde chartâ bibulâ involuta sub cineribus assetur, cui adde ficum methodo eâdem assatam, cum ol. lini, liliorum alb. ana q. s. simul macerentur, & conficiatur +cataplasma+, applicandum calidè, bis de die immutandum_: This is also good against the Bites of venomous Creatures. Or, ℞ _Fol. rutæ, scordii contus. ana M +[ss.]+ medullæ carnis ficuum +℥ ij.+ flor. meliloti p. +[ss.]+ salis marini pulveriz. +ʒ ii.+ fermenti veteris +℥ [ss.]+ cum s. q. aceti, paretur Cataplasma._ Or, ℞ _Rad. liliorum, althææ, cum aceto macerat: ana lib. +[ss.]+ sem. lini, fænugræci ana +℥ [ss.]+ carnis ficuum +℥ iij.+ confectionis sinapi, cum theriac. ana +℥ [ss.]+ axungiæ suillæ q. s. F. cataplasma._ Or, according to _Mayerne_, from whom I learned the Rudiments of Practice. ℞ _Succ. apii +℥ ij.+ melissæ +℥ j.+ pimpinellæ +℥ j.+ +[ss.]+ cæpas majores Numero duas, ad intenerationem, sive putrilaginem sub cineribus cautè assatas, alliorum bulbos Numero +vj.+ clavos juglandium maj. vetust. Numero +iv.+ tritis alii bulbis, & clavis, affunde succos, tum adde Cæpas, in mortario marmoreo cum aceti scillit. q. s. agitentur, & cogantur in Cataplasmatis consistentiam._ BUT the Hardness, pricking Pain, and intense Heat of the Tumour continuing, Medicines were used to dissolve such Hardness, and asswage the Pain and Heat: As, ℞ _Rad. liliorum alb. +℥ ij.+ porrorum, medullæ carnis ficuum ana +℥ j.+ sem. lini +℥ [ss.]+ flor. Sambuci, meliloti ana p. +[ss.]+ micarum panis alb. +lib. [ss.]+ coq. in s. q. lactis, addendo sub finem ol. ros. liliorum alb. vel sambuc ana q. s. ut F. +Cataplasma+._ Or,