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containing a kind of ichorous bloody sanies, 

 or gelatinous fluid ; which being evacuated, 

 the cyst does not always submit to diges- 

 tives or escharotics, but must be extirpated 

 with the knife, and cured as a common 

 wound ; for the completion of which, ample 

 DIRECTIONS may be found in the preceding 

 class under that head. 



The sTEATOMOUs are those tumours that 

 form on different parts, and pass in general 

 under the denomination of wens, containing, 

 when opened or extracted, a substance not 

 unlike suet in its early state, when hardly 

 cold ; neither of the above are expected to 

 submit to any topical application, unless 

 upon the very first observation ; when an 

 attempt may be made by the most powerful 

 repellents, specified in many of the preceding 

 pages, and a small portion of the strongest 

 mercurial ointment rubbed in every night, for 

 a considerable length of time ; but even to 

 this there is no hope of submission, unless in 

 the first stage of its infancy ; nor can any 

 RADICAL CURE be in general obtained but 

 by instrumental extirpation. As this must 

 be unavoidably attended with loss of time. 



