incisionem

Updated: May 21, 2025

Abscess of the liver depends upon some vice of the blood, the bile, the phlegm or the black-bile. The general treatment is poultices and other maturatives, but, as the author adds rather sadly at the close, ultima cura est per incisionem. Dropsy is discussed as an independent disease through the exhaustive speculations of thirty-two pages.

Henry E. (Henry Ebenezer) Handerson - Gilbertus Anglicus: Medicine of the Thirteenth Century