rising be white] Physitians of later times make triall of leprosie by rubbing of the flesh, and pricking of a needle: for if the flesh being rebbed turne not red, and if pricked with a needle, it bleed not, it is a signe of leprosie in a deep degree of infection; and if it eate into the flesh and the bones, as sometimes it doth, it is incurable. quicke raw flesh] The former kinde of leprosie appeared in the haire and skin, this sheweth a deeper degree of malignitie fretting into the quick flesh, and making it raw.