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moft advifable (at any rate moft prudent) to 

 let it remain in its pacific ftate of inadtivity, 

 rather than provoke it to a certain degree of 

 adlive virulence, by the premature application 

 oi blijlers or burning cauftlcs. This refledlion 

 renders a former obfervation of greater v^eight, 

 by adverting to the neceflity of attacking them 

 in their firft ftate of appearance; when there 

 is not the leaft doubt but the beforementioned 

 early courfe of fridion, with the mild dif- 

 folvents and repellents, will, if applied with 

 care and pundluality, efted: their total obliter- 

 ation, without any perceptible efchar^ or evea 

 the leaft lofs of hair. 



In refpecSl to the auxiliaries of purging balls 

 and diuretic drinks, flightly recommended by 

 Bart LET, they form no part of my opinion ; 

 nor can I fee the leaft reafon for encountering 

 that expence and trouble, as they cannot con-? 

 tribute in any degree to the removal of fuch 

 fubftances, fo remote from the centre of 

 adtion, without injuring the general fyftem to a . 

 greater degree than adequate to any propor- 

 tional local relief that can be obtained. But 

 to reduce this myfterious and technical ex- 

 planation to a more fimple and lefs complex 



idea^ 



