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have every reafon to declare, penury on the one 

 fide, and a want of common humanity on the 

 other, has in general countenanced and pro- 

 moted the burning pracftice formerly adopted ; 

 a few ounces of oil of vitriol, turpentine, aqua- 

 fortis, or a RED HOT IRON, being, in the dif- 

 ference of expence, much more applicable to 

 the conftitutlon of the POCKET than a 

 regular courfe of alteratives. 



Thefe obfervations being made to point out 

 the danger and deter the praftice, m.ore than to 

 condemn the authors, who, to their exculpa- 

 tion be it remembered, v/rote in times of lefs 

 refinement ; I fhall conclude them for this clafs 

 with one REMARK —That where the cure 

 is not to be eiiecled by the courfe of bleeding, 

 purging, mercurials, antimonials, and altera- 

 tives, hereafter defcribed, I perfectly coincide 

 yvl opinion with a writer before quoted, who 

 &ys, ** When the difeafe is fo inveterate as to 

 "' refill every application, that the fymptoms 

 ** not only continue predominant, but evi- 

 ** dently iiicreafe, it is incurable." And to this 

 information I fufpecfl he meant (but omitted 

 to reccmm^end vvhat I now mofl heartily do,) 

 the putting a period to a fcenc of pain and 

 7 mifery. 



