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50. A tubercle [*palar*] is called that swelling which comes forth the size of a pigeon’s egg, of a reddish, or bluish, or blackish color, causing heat, pain, and frequently shivering—especially at that time when it forms in the tender parts of the body, or when it erupts in several places. 51. In order to cure this swelling, one must endeavor to have it ripen as quickly as possible, especially since a tubercle ripens with greater difficulty than other swellings, and all the more so when it pains greatly. Take barley flour boiled with milk, or marshmallow root, place [it] upon the spot where the tubercle has come forth, and change [it] quickly so that it does not grow cold. If it has little redness and heat, but the pain afflicts [the patient] greatly and the above-mentioned remedies do not help, then, in order to diminish the pain and quickly to bring [it] to a head [with] pus, mix into the above-mentioned remedies...

CHAPTER VI. On the Boil ([or] Furuncle).

50. A tubercle [*palar*] is called that swelling which comes forth the size of a pigeon’s egg, of a reddish, or bluish, or blackish color, causing heat, pain, and frequently shivering—especially at that time when it forms in the tender parts of the body, or when it erupts in several places. 51. In order to cure this swelling, one must endeavor to have it ripen as quickly as possible, especially since a tubercle ripens with greater difficulty than other swellings, and all the more so when it pains greatly. Take barley flour boiled with milk, or marshmallow root, place [it] upon the spot where the tubercle has come forth, and change [it] quickly so that it does not grow cold. If it has little redness and heat, but the pain afflicts [the patient] greatly and the above-mentioned remedies do not help, then, in order to diminish the pain and quickly to bring [it] to a head [with] pus, mix into the above-mentioned remedies...