Issue

Use in the book

The bodily discussion warns against stopping accustomed flows. Monthly issues stand among periodic rather than continuously necessary evacuations. “such an issue” refers immediately to an habitual nosebleed whose sudden suppression Fuchs regards as dangerous; it does not yet name an operation. In the synopsis and the surgical member, by contrast, issues are deliberately made openings, located in different parts for different purposes and kept open. Montaltus’s recommended sites include thigh, arm and back of head, with left thigh in the body but left leg in the margin. The historical belief that retained matter causes illness underlies these accounts; they are not current care instructions.

The surgical sense also appears outside a treatment prescription. In the campaign to turn a lover against a beloved, issues join alleged skin eruptions and other hidden ailments. Their supposed incurability belongs to accusations the adviser proposes making; Burton is not reporting an examined patient’s condition.

The word’s other uses remain independent. “no other issue” means no different result in an argument about the madness of crowds. Annuities “issuing out” drain household income. “want of issue” means lack of descendants to continue a family, in the comparison between great houses and a river that ultimately disappears into the sea. Finally, the promise to “give an issue to temptation” offers deliverance or a way out of trial. Burton sets this scriptural assurance beside the sufferer’s presently intolerable pain, preserving both rather than declaring that the pain was never severe.

Related entries

Chirurgery

Strangury

Voluntary

Cautery

Evacuation and retention

Excrements

Places to read

1. Democritus Junior to the Reader · paragraphs 33–35Issue as the result of an argument.
2. Democritus Junior to the Reader · paragraphs 31–33The financial outflow of annuities.
3. Subsection 4 Retention and Evacuation as Causes, and How They Act · paragraphs 8–11Periodic issues and the particular reference to customary nosebleeding.
4. Synopsis of the Second Partition · paragraph 20The surgical synopsis’s open sores, on an unnumbered leaf.
5. Member 2 Bodily Deformity, Sickness, Low Birth, and Particular Discontents · paragraphs 11–13Descendants and the extinction of a family.
6. Member 3 Surgical Remedies · paragraphs 9–10Methods of making issues and the requirement to keep them open.
7. Subsection 4 Remedies That Divert the Humours · paragraph 8Specified sites, dry cupping, and the thigh/leg difference between body and margin.
8. Resist the Beginnings, Avoid Occasions, Change One’s Location; Fair and Foul… · paragraphs 50–52Draining sores as allegations used to disparage a beloved.
9. Treatment of Despair Through Medicine, Good Counsel, Consolation, and So On · paragraphs 49–51Deliverance from trial in religious consolation.

In this edition

“such an issue” becomes “such a discharge”. “Issues to severall parts, and upon severall occasions” becomes “Open sores made in different parts for different purposes” in the synopsis, while “Issues” remains “Issues” in the full treatment sentence. There the modern sentence moves “made as the former” beside the noun, so the complete sentence, rather than an uneven phrase fragment, provides the checked alignment. “give an issue to temptation” becomes “provide a way out of the trial”, retaining the non-surgical sense. Elsewhere “no other issue” becomes “no different result,” and “for want of issue” becomes “the lack of an heir”.

issue · local use 1

Printed “issue” (English; lemma).

A result or outcome.

Here: The alleged madness of the whole crowd follows from the parts in the satirical argument.

Context: Burton’s conclusion about the multitude; the adjacent Latin and English name opposite directions of reasoning.

Source: original body

Source wording and original alignment: no other issue

Modern rendering: no different result

Word and construction: Issue contributes result, with no other preserved as no different.

Alignment conventions: Alignment convention.

issue · issuing

Printed “issuing” (English; lemma).

To flow or go out, here as a charge on income.

Here: Annuities drain the means needed to maintain inherited social standing.

Context: The outflow belongs to household financial obligations; it is not bodily evacuation.

Source: original body

Source wording and original alignment: annuities issuing out

Modern rendering: annuities draining away their income

Word and construction: The modern phrase makes explicit the income from which the annuities flow; income is supplied context, not the dictionary meaning of issue.

Alignment conventions: Alignment convention.

issue · local use 2

Printed “issue” (English; lemma).

A discharge or outflow from the body.

Here: The immediate referent is a customary nosebleed whose sudden stopping is said to be dangerous.

Context: Fuchs maintains the danger under the condition that the bleeding was formerly habitual.

Source: original body

Source wording and original alignment: such an issue

Modern rendering: such a discharge

Word and construction: Discharge selects the flowing event rather than the artificially made sore.

Alignment conventions: Alignment convention.

issue · Issues · local use 1

Printed “Issues” (English; lemma).

An artificially made sore maintained as an outlet for discharge.

Here: The surgical synopsis distinguishes openings made in different locations for different purposes.

Context: A compressed outline of historical procedures, not a complete operation or a universal indication.

Source: original body

Source wording and original alignment: Issues to severall parts, and upon severall occasions

Modern rendering: Open sores made in different parts for different purposes

Word and construction: Open sores made expands the technical noun; the two prepositional phrases retain location and purpose separately.

Alignment conventions: Alignment convention.

issue · Issues · local use 2

Printed “Issues” (English; lemma).

An artificially made sore maintained as an outlet for discharge.

Here: The opening must remain open within the reported therapy; issue is the outlet, not the material coming out.

Context: Burton describes uses on differing occasions and in differing parts, referring back to the preceding means.

Source: original body

Source wording and original alignment: Issues still to be kept open, made as the former, and applyed in and to severall parts, have their use here on diverse occasions, as shall be shewed.

Modern rendering: Issues, made by the foregoing methods and continually kept open in various parts of the body, have their uses here on different occasions, as will be shown.

Alignment scope: Equal-scope complete sentence with redistributed modifier

Word and construction: Issues remains the technical noun; made as the former moves beside it, while still becomes continually and the occasions remain distinct.

Qualification: The modern unit includes the redistributed next phrase made as the former; see the full aligned sentence rather than treating all these words as the translation of Issues.

issue · local use 3

Printed “issue” (English; lemma).

Offspring or a descendant.

Here: Want of an heir can end a great family despite its former growth.

Context: The genealogical sense appears in the Danube analogy for the instability of worldly greatness.

Source: original body

Source wording and original alignment: for want of issue

Modern rendering: the lack of an heir

Word and construction: The modern rendering selects heir for the descendants needed to continue the family.

Alignment conventions: Alignment convention.

issue · issues

Printed “issues” (English; lemma).

A draining sore or bodily opening.

Here: The sore is one of the discrediting ailments that someone is instructed to allege against a beloved.

Context: These are accusations proposed to alienate a lover, not verified conditions of an actual person.

Source: original body

Source wording and original alignment: three or four incurable tetters, issues

Modern rendering: three or four incurable skin eruptions or draining sores

Word and construction: Issues contributes draining sores; tetters supplies the separate skin-eruption component.

Alignment conventions: Alignment convention.

issue · local use 4

Printed “issue” (English; lemma).

A way out or deliverance.

Here: The scriptural promise supplies a way through temptation or trial.

Context: Burton addresses a sufferer with 1 Corinthians 10:13, acknowledging felt intolerable pain while promising a limit to trial.

Source: original body

Source wording and original alignment: give an issue to temptation

Modern rendering: provide a way out of the trial

Word and construction: Issue contributes way out, while temptation is rendered trial; the whole construction is aligned.

Alignment conventions: Alignment convention.

monthly issue

Printed “monthly issues” (English; phrase).

A menstrual discharge.

Here: One of the customary bodily flows whose suppression is counted among possible causes of melancholy.

Context: Fernel’s classification makes these evacuations necessary at certain times, not invariably.

Source: original body

Source wording and original alignment: monthly issues in women

Modern rendering: women’s monthly periods

Word and construction: Monthly issues contributes menstrual periods; in women becomes the possessive women’s.

Alignment conventions: Alignment convention.