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If, notwithftanding the lofs of fub- 

 ftance from the incruftations brought o;*"' 

 by the repeated applications of the cau- 

 flics in the above cafe, and which were 

 carefully paired oflf every morning before 

 the cauftic was again applied, the warts 

 fhould not feem to diminifli ; and if, af-" 

 ter their ufe was laid afide, and emollient 

 poultices applied, they fhould not appear 

 larger ; then one would be led to imagine, 

 that their fize was kept up by the ofcil- 

 latory motions of the fmall vefTels by 

 which they were nourifhed, being confi- 

 derably increafed by irritation from the 

 cauftic ; or, in the more common phrafio- 

 logy, a flux of humours being brought oa 

 the parts from the irritation, caufed their 

 growth to be, at leaft, equal to the lofs 

 of fubftance by the cauftic. 



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