WOUNDS. ^p5 



In wounds of this class, the first object is to 

 extract any foreign or extraneous substance, 

 and promote a good digestion ; by which 

 not only every degree of foulness is carried 

 off, but the ragged and injured parts them-^ 

 selves putrefy and slough off, being brought 

 away with the dressings so soon as the wound 

 is in a healthy promising state. Here the 

 granulations begin to form and sprout out ; 

 and a proportion of judgment is required, 

 but little possessed or exerted upon these 

 occasions ; for instead of nourishing an ap* 

 pearance so much to be solicited (and with- 

 out which you can obtain no cure) it is often 

 most injudiciously mistaken for fungus, and 

 scouted accordingly : instead of a bed of dry 

 hut to sooth and er>courage this effort of na^ 

 ture, caustics and escharotics are loudly 

 called for, and plentifully bestowed ; the 

 very basis of cure is thus destroyed ; the 

 mouths of the vessels are imprudently closed 

 by the worst means; the di.->charge contri-r 

 buting to the constant improvement is most 

 unnaturally suppressed ; and callosities or 

 eschars follow of course. 



Ignorance now becomes foikd with its owii 



