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practice. The wound (that perhaps at first 

 required only the necessary time for incar- 

 nation, and the most simple treatment) not 

 having kept pace in its cure with the ima- 

 gination or impatience of the Doctor (for 

 so we all are from tlie pirsident in Warwick-^ 

 lane to the: thill-horse of the worst team in the 

 {Parish), is destined to undergo the changes 

 in treatment just described. 



Thus the zcoioid, that would in all proba- 

 bility have submitted to a degree of regular 

 and consistent treatment, is retarded, or ra- 

 ther obstructed in its natural progress and 

 proper discharge, by means directly opposite 

 to the dictates of reason and discretion. 

 The application of a corrosive (that is gene- 

 rally made with a heavy hand of iron) in- 

 stantly collapses the mouths of the finer ves-* 

 sels, and destroys tlie sprouting; o-ranulations 

 of new flesh; Nature being thus checked, 

 displays an evident change for the worscy 

 and the doctor is now (to make use of his 

 own expressive language) " out of the frying 

 " pan into the fire!'' By this new disappoint- 

 ment his indignation is excited against both 

 disease and the diseased : in the fervour of his 



