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inatter, and supporting nature; as neither 

 strength or appetite seemed yet to fail, nor 

 had constant pain visibly distressed the pa- 

 tient, or reduced the frame. 



The alnK>st unprecedented growth of fun- 

 'lus bidding defiance to everv consistent a>r- 

 riMtie caustic, or escharoffc, I Iiad no alterna- 

 tive to effect my purpose but l)y the edi^e 

 of the knife ; to this never-failing resource 

 I daily applied for extirpation, rept^ating 

 tlie superficial scarifications longitudinally 

 and transversely, so as not only to excite 

 ^ plentiful discharges of grumous inflamma- 

 tory blood, but to disunite and destroy the 

 vjerv foundation of this obstruction to cure. 

 After these scarifications, the wounds were 

 dressed with the precipitate ointment, and 

 covered with warm digestive, a mode of 

 treatment that soon gave the whole a very 

 healthy appearance, and promised gradual 

 improvement. 



As, I have before observed, the ^inuse:^ 

 were so situated amidst the muscular and 

 li^amentary parts, that ins*trumentai sepa- 

 ration was not only dangerous but impo^ 



