400 ESSAYS AND OBSERVATIONS 



Upon his recover)-, the glans was fo 

 fcarred and fliriveiled up, that it did not 

 appear above half its natural fizej but, 

 in a few weeks, it became as plump and 

 well iliaped as ever, and had not the leaft 

 veilige of a cicatrice upon it. 



From the above cafe, and fome others 

 I could produce, one may be allowed to 

 infer, that ftrong cauftics are improper 

 applications for the taking off venereal 

 cxcrefcences of the warty kind, efpecially 

 if they are large ; fop, when they are ib 

 fmall, as that the effects of^e cauftic can 

 reach to the bottom of the wart, in one, 

 two, or three applications of it, then we 

 commonly fucceed : But, even here, I 

 think thefabina preferable, in being more 

 certain in its fuccefs, and giving lels pain 

 to the patient : Whereas, if one fhould 

 fail with the cauftics, which is often the 

 cafe, when we are obliged to ufe them 

 for any conliderable time, and the cx- 

 crefcences begin to harden in the man- 

 ner above mentioned, then there is no en4 

 ito th::;ir application. 



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