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bid it : this should be prepared with due 

 attention to his state and condition, selecting 

 it from 2i Y2LT\ety oi purging prescriptions, af- 

 forded by the index under that head. And 

 this becomes the more immediately neces- 

 sary, should a copious and offensive dis- 

 charge continue from the nostrils after heal- 

 ing the abscess, and leave room to suspect 

 the cause is seated upon those internal parts 

 hereafter described in the next article of 

 Glanders. 



The disorder nearly related to tkis, and 

 passing under the denomination of Vives, is 

 no other than the same species of disease, 

 attacking the subject in an infinitely less de- 

 gree ; the juices being less corrupted, inflam- 

 mation is not so readily excited, nor does it 

 arrive at the pitch necessary to produce sup- 

 puration. The swellings thus fixed, continue 

 some time in a dormant state, the symptoms 

 often light, and indicating no certainty of 

 conclusion by maturation or absorption. If 

 these swellings evidently increase (however 

 slowly) and seem to threaten a discharge, it is 

 a critical effort of nature, and must be pro- 

 moted by the methods already pointed out^ 

 On the contrary, should they recede and be- 



