POLL EVIL. 175 



'' SCALDING HOT into the wound, and 

 ^' stitched up for several days ; and if matter 

 '' Hows in great abundance, it must be 

 '' scalded ao-am ;'' &c. &c. This ignorant 

 unfeeling attempt to arrest the judgment, and 

 Impose upon the understanding, is ahnost 

 too ridiculous to excite contempt ; but, in 

 comphment to the less informed reader, it is 

 impossible to pass it over without branding 

 the very thought with the epithet it is so 

 justly entitled to. 



What are we to think of the professional 

 knowledge or abilities of an author, who could 

 sanction with his NAME the recommenda- 

 tion of a practice so infamous and detestable^ 

 that no one rational or consistent idea can 

 be produced or pleaded to prove its pro- 

 priety ! Will any advocate for such infer- 

 nal PRACTICE, (and infernal it certainly is 

 in every meaning of the word) venture to 

 affirm the writer conceived or possessed a 

 competent, or even a tolerable knowledge of 

 the structure of parts or property of medi- 

 cine ; that when the membranous system is 

 locally injured, and the lacerated vesseb ren-* 

 dered highly irritable, could venture to pro- 



