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I conceive, the cure depends. It produces much less 

 pain, and is less inconvenient than a blister, the patient 

 is not obliged to confine himself to his bed ; and, so far 

 as my experience warrants the assertion, is far prefera- 

 ble to the usual mode of treating Buboes, which fre- 

 quently suppurate, and are tedious to heal, even alter 

 the most scrupulous attention to the early application of 

 those remedies in common use, which not only exhaust 

 the patience of the patient, but too frequently injure 

 the reputation of the surgeon. 



During the last five years, I have pursued this plan 

 of treatment in forty -one cases, with success ; in none 

 of these did the issue penetrate deeper than the adipose 

 membrane ; but, in two others, the issue had not the 

 desired effect, in consequence of a suppuration having 

 already commenced in the tumour: it was therefore 

 necessary to make an incision into each of them, which 

 degenerated into very troublesome ulcers. 



It is, I presume, unnecessary to add, that the usual 

 mercurial plan of treating this disease was also pursued 

 in the above cases. 



I am, &c, 



E. Cutbush. 

 July 26, 1807. 



