154 WOUNDS. 



ficients in QUACKERY, who, piquing 

 themfelves upon a family receipt or nojlrum of 

 antiquity y had rather prolong the complaint 

 for weeks or months, merely to obtain the re- 

 putation of curing what, intruftedto nature, 

 \vould have abfolutely cured itfelf. 



Should wounds happen from complicated 

 caufes, where the adjacent or furrounding 

 parts have received additional injury (from a 

 fall of bruife), an inflammation and larger 

 difcharge of matter may confequently enfue, 

 than from a fimple wound where no fudden 

 or violent impreffion upon the vefTels or foft 

 parts has taken place : large wounds proceed- 

 ing from any caufe, where an evident deftruc- 

 tion and lofs of parts has been occafioned, can 

 only receive fubftantial cure from the regene- 

 ration and incarnation : being a work of Na- 

 ture, and to be eifedled only by the co-opera- 

 tion of time, it muft be waited for with care 

 and patience^ as it can originate in no other 

 feature than granulations of new flefh, which, 

 with proper application, will daily continue 

 to increafe till the wound or cavity is en- 

 tirely filled up ; when the cicatrix is foon 

 formed, and the cure complete. In wounds 

 of Ti!JS clafr^ the firfl objeft is to ex- 



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