440 SUPPLEMENT. 



the application of poultices by any bandage 

 that could be invented. This crisis was evi- 

 dently an eftbrt of Nature in our favour, and 

 a few da3's afforded great probability of suc- 

 cess ; for two small apertures appearing on 

 the inside of the thi^Ii, at about three inclics 

 distance (from which flowed matter of the 

 consistency before described), and the probe 

 passing directly through both, forming a 

 complete sinus, I made an entire separation 

 with a history, and obtained a discharge al- 

 most incredible. 1 persevered in my fomen- 

 tation, and dressed with war^n digestive ; but 

 at the second dressing I discovered deep- 

 seated sinuses forming in' different direc- 

 tions, and surrounding the hough joints, 

 where no shaq)-pointed instruments could 

 be insinuated without danger. In the next 

 four-and-twenty hours another wound ap- 

 peared on rather the fore part of the joint, 

 directly upon the Jlcxor tendon, bearing all 

 the marks of vii iilencc and inveteracy, con- 

 tinuing to throw out such successions of 

 fungus as not to be conceived by those un- 

 acquainted with the practice. 



In this predicament followed a second 

 struggle for superiority between the natural 



