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Cambuca
Body disease and historical medicine · A Chymical Dictionary
At a Glance
The word. A localized condition described through an abscess or ulcer.
A place to read. The historical definition below, 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 14; facsimile PDF page 342.
Historical Definition
Cambuca is an abscess or ulcer in the groin.
Meaning
The location is part of the identification, not an optional detail. The entry gives alternative lesion descriptions but does not state their cause, course or remedy. A modernisation should therefore preserve the groin reference and the alternatives without assigning a specific modern infection or diagnosis.
Compare Carbunculus, where the dictionary again gives an abscess or ulcer description with a different qualification. Similar lesion vocabulary can recur in distinct entries; the additional words help the reader avoid merging them.
Places to Read
Carbunculus. A historical lesion term with a pestilential qualification.
Exitura. An abscess characterised by discharging matter.
Historical source: 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 14; facsimile PDF page 342 — Facsimile
Sources. A Chymicall Dictionary (1650), s.v. Cambuca ; compare Carbunculus, Exitura
See also. Carbunculus; Exitura