140 FARCY. 



rived at the critical effort of relieving herself 

 from the morbid affection or preternatural 

 load with which she is oppressed. To pre- 

 vent therefore a misconception, let it be once 

 for all understood, that in diseases of the 

 blood or juices, however externals may oc- 

 casionally alleviate as au;siliaries, the very 

 fountain of relief must take its course from 

 the effect of medicines internally adminis- 

 tered. But sorry I am to believe, and have 

 every reason to declare, penury on the one 

 side, and a want ot common humanity on the 

 other, has in general countenanced and pro- 

 moted the burning practice formerly adopt- 

 ed ; a few ounces of oil of vitriol, turpen- 

 tine, aquafortis, or red-hot iron, being, in 

 the difference of expense, much more appli- 

 cable to the constitution of the POCKET 

 than a regular course of alterativ^es. 



These observations being made to point 

 out the danger and deter the practice, more 

 than to condemn the authors, who, to their 

 exculpation be it remembered, wrote in times 

 of less refinement ; I shall conclude them for 

 this class with one REMARK — That w^here 

 the cure is not to be effected by the course 

 of bleeding, purging^ mercurials^ antimo- 



