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creafed. Then, inftead of the firong cau- 

 flics, the excrefcences were flrewed over 

 ■with a fine powder of the leaves of the 

 fabina, an application recommended bv 

 Aftrud, Heifter,and fome others in ilighc 

 ■warty cafes, and \yhat I had ufed often for 

 ipany years paft, on fuch occafions, vvitli 

 fuccefs: ]3ut, as they had always recom- 

 mended the ftronger caullics for the warty 

 excrefcences of any confiderable lize, where 

 the knife could not be conveniently ap- 

 plied, io fimple an affair as the puhis/q- 

 binae came of courfe to be neglected, till 

 now, when it proved much more fuccefs- 

 ful than the Ifrongeft cauitics that had 

 Jjeen ufed. It was put on in the morn- 

 ing, and the poultices of boiled onions at 

 iiight> -which prevented any hardnefs 

 from coming on j and, before the appli- 

 cation of the frcfh powder the next day, 

 the patient himfelf ufed to fcrape off with 

 a knife a good deal of a whitifh flough, 

 brought on by this efcarotic, and which 

 jdiminifhed their flze fo fafl, that, in three 

 weeks, they intirely difappeared. 



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