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been brought into use Avithout any good effect 

 being produced by the appHcation, it has 

 failed more from the injudicious dilution of 

 the prescriber, or inferior quality of the pre- 

 paration, than any want of efficacy in the 

 medicine alone ; and this I am the more 

 readily induced to believe, by the repeated 

 discoveries of erroneous proportions in com- 

 position, even upon the confessions of those 

 Avhosc want of practice had left them totally 

 inadequate to the task of forming a compe- 

 tent opinion upon the different cases they 

 had undertaken. 



From this medical animadversion we re- 

 turn to the consideration of tumours before 

 described, which, having taken a view of in 

 their early state, we proceed to consider in 

 the more advanced and danjicrous stajzes. 

 Upon their non-submission to the treatment 

 already explained, a tendency to induration 

 or suppuration may naturally be expected, 

 and in iact discovered upon close examina- 

 tion ; this being perceived, the latter had 

 better be solicited by every possible means, 

 beginning with the poultices and fomentation 

 selected fi'oiu the Index : whtre a variety 



