Fig

Figs be good for the throat and lungs, they mitigate the cough, and are good for them that be short winded....

Figs stamped with Salt, Rue, and the kernels of Nuts withstand all poison and corruption of the air....

Figs stamped and made into the form of a plaster with wheat meal, the powder of Fenugreek, and Linseed, and the roots of Marsh Mallows, applied warm, do soften and ripen impostumes, phlegmons, all hot and angry swellings and tumors behind the ears: and if you add thereto the roots of Lilies, it ripeneth and breaketh Venerious impostumes that come in the flank, which impostume is called Bubo, by reason of his lurking in such secret places: in plain English terms they are called botches....

Dry Figs have power to soften, consume and make thin, and may be used both outwardly and inwardly, whether it be to ripen or soften impostumes, or to scatter, dissolve and consume them.

The leaves of the Fig tree do waste and consume the Kings Evil, or swelling kernels in the throat, and do mollify, waste, and consume all other tumors....

The milky juice either of the Figs or leaves is good against all roughness of the skin, lepries, spreading sores, tetters, small pocks, measles, pushes, wheals, freckles, lentils, and all other spots, scurviness, and deformity of the body and face, being mixed with Barley meal and applied: it doth also take away warts and such like excrescences....

Gerard, p. 1511.

Phlegmon: An inflammatory mass or localized area of inflammation; diffuse, spreading inflammation, often with suppuration, esp. of soft tissue; cellulitis. Oxford English Dictionary

Tetter: A general term for any pustular herpetiform eruption of the skin, as eczema, herpes, impetigo, ringworm, etc. Oxford English Dictionary

Push:  A pustule, pimple, boil. Oxford English Dictionary

Woodville, Medical botany, 130. Courtesy of the Missouri Botanical Garden.