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iiig the protruded part with a- small piece of 

 card or thin sheet lead) and repeat it once a 

 day for three or four days^ not neglecting 

 the bandage, and taking care the foot be not 

 immersed in water.. As this subject will 

 come under farther discussion in the article 

 of TUMOURS or iMPosTHUMES, we procccd 

 now to treat of both, w^hen, by improper 

 treatment, or bad habit, they are degenerat- 

 ed into ulcers. 



ULCERS 



Are wounds or abscesses become inflexible 

 either by an imprudent course of manage- 

 ment, ^ an indifferent habit, or an acrimo- 

 nious disposition of the juices: Init in ge- 

 neral much more the effect of the former 

 than either of the other two. It has been 

 a practice with farriers of almost every de- 

 nomination, upon a wound's not inclining to 

 heal so soon as expected, to iiicrease the 

 strength of the digestive applications, as if 

 the very tendons were to be extracted. 

 This effort of art not succeeding, is followed 

 by a corrosive, that, increasing the evil, a 

 caustic in general crow^ns the whole of cmm^ry 



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