4?0 SUPPLEMENT. 



ceived from the different apertures; it will 

 now be proper that every attention is paid 

 to the nature of the discharge, to ascertain 

 the state of maturation, whether it \s partial 

 or inuversaL' if the suppuration is perfect,^ 

 and evidently ready for evacuation, let a 

 superficial incision be made in length adapt- 

 ed to the size of the tumour, and that at the 

 lowest or most depending orifice (or situation 

 of the part), that the discharge may become 

 the more spontaneous, and impeded by no 

 obstruction. But such operation should by 

 no means, (as is very frequently the case,) be 

 attempted till the part is properly prepared, 

 and in need of assistance ; over ofBciousness 

 and eager impatience in counteracting or an- 

 ticipating the indications of Nature, are 

 often productive of those very disquietudes 

 it is now our interest to prevent. 



Should the discharge consist of a bloody 

 ichor, or a kind of watery indigested sanies, 

 the maturation may be deemed partial, and 

 exceedingly unfaTourable. The swelling in 

 such case is generally hard in one place and 

 pliable in another, the wound (or different 

 ' apertures, as it may be) displaying a fistu-r 



