or PHLEGMATIC TUMOUR, in Medicine and Surgery, a sort of tumour attended with palaenes and cold, yielding little resistance, retaining the print of the finger when pressed with it, and accompanied with little or no pain.

This tumour obtains no certain situation in any particular part of the body, since the head, eyelids, hands, and sometimes part, sometimes the whole body, is afflicted with it. When the last mentioned is the case, the patient is said to be troubled with a cachexy, leuco-phlegmatia, or drophy. But if any particular part is more subject to this disorder than another, it is certainly the feet, which are at that time called swelled or edematous feet.