wo CULPREPER?s,ENGLISH PHYSICIAN, 
patient’s health, from-whatever caufe it proceeds, it ought not to be héaleds but’ 
if, on the contrary, it waftes the ftrenath, and confumes the patient by a flow fever, 
" it fhould be healed’as foon as. poffible.- We would earneftly recommenda ftri& ‘ate> 
tention te thefe particulars, to all who have the misfortune to labour under this 
diforder, particularly perfons in the decline of life; as we have frequently known 
people throw away their lives by the want of it, while they were extolling and ge-> 
neroufly rewarding thofe whom they ought to have looked upon’ as their execu-: 
tioners.. The moft proper regimen for promoting the cure of ulcers, is to-avoid all 
fpices, falted'and high-feafoned food, all {trong liquors, and to leffen the ufial 
quantity of flefh meat. The body ought to be kept gently open by a diet confift- 
ing chiefly of cooling laxative vegetables, and by drinking butter-milk,: whey 
fweetened with honey, or the like. A fiftulous ulcer can feldom be cured without 
an operation. It muft either be laid open fo as to havé its callous parts deftroyed by 
fome corrofive application, or they muft be entirely cut away by the knife; but, as 
this operation requires the hand of an expert furgeon, there is no occafion to defcribe 
it,’ Ulcers about the azus are moft apt to become fiftulous, and are very difficult 
to cure. : Some, indeed, pretend to have found Ward's filtuia-pafte very fuccefsful 
in this‘complaint. It is not a dangerous medicine, and, being eafily procured, it 
may deferve a trial; but, as thefe ulcers generally proceed from an ill habit of body, 
they will feldom yield to any thing except a long courfe of regimen, affifted by me- 
dicines, which are calculated to correét that particular habit, and to pores an 
aloft total Seengel in the conititution, 
OF DISLOCATIONS. 
WHEN a bone is moved out of its place or articulation, fo as to impede its pro- 
_ Per functions, it is faid to be luxated or diflocated. As this often happens to per- 
_ fons in fituations where no medical affiftance can be obtained, by which means 
__ limbs, and even lives, are frequently loft, we fhall endeavour to point out the me- 
thod-of edeting: the moft common loxations, and thofe which require immediate 
ffiftance, Any: perfon of - common fenfe and refolution, who is prefent) when a ~ , 
Siaiaiting till they are gone off, the mutfetés become fo relaxed, and 
= ’ difle | va up thar the — can never tesesieietess te retained i in its hic A 
the age, ii aa wh ot cians, of € the: eerie “When the Bohetas 
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