183 ^TUMOURS. 



and a proportioned share of danger, if seated 

 upon or intersected by the muscular parts, 

 perhaps it may be most prudent to omit the 

 experiment and submit it to chance. 



Scrofulous Tumours are such as ori- 

 ginate in scorbutic or hereditary taints, and 

 increase or diminish, according to the state 

 or acrimony of the blood, they are therefore 

 more than any of the others dependent upon- 

 externai apphcation, and particularly the 

 inercurial iwgucnt just before described, as- 

 sisted by a course of mercurial or anthnonial 

 ALTERATIVES, as may be discretiohaily se- 

 lected from the chapters on those subjects. 

 As the mercurial ointment has been re- 

 peatedly recommended, it may not be inap- 

 plicable to introduce the mode of prepa- 

 ration : 



Take quicksilver two ounces j 



Lard six ounces; 



Baitain of sulphur half an ounce. 



Rub llie qnicksilver W\W\ the balsam in a metal 

 mortar lill the globules disappear; then add the 

 lard by degrees, first made warm, and keep in a 

 pot for use. 



I now proceed to the exj^lanation-oi a sim- 



