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tra(fl: any foreign or extraneous fubflance, and 

 promote a good digeftion; by which not only 

 every degree 'of foulnefs is carried off, but the 

 ragged and injured parts themfelves putrefy and 

 jQough off, being brought away with the dref- 

 iingsfo foon as the wound is in a healthy pro- 

 miiing ftate. Here the granulations begin to 

 form and fprout out; and a proportion of judg- 

 ment is required, but little poffeffed or exerted 

 upon thefe occafions; for inftead of nourifli- 

 ing an appearance {o much to be folicited (and 

 without which you can obtain no cure) it is 

 often moft injudicioufly mifcaken for fungus, 

 and fcouted accordingly : inflead of a bed of 

 dry lint to footh and encourage this effort of 

 nature, caullics and efcharotics are loudly called 

 for, and plentifully bellowed; the very bafis 

 of cure is thus deftroyed; the mouths of the 

 veffels are imprudently doled by the w^orft 

 means ; the dilcharge contributing to the con- 

 ftant improvement is moft unnaturally fuppreff- 

 ed; and callofities or efchars follow of courfe, 



Ig-norance now becomes foiled with its own 

 WT-apons, the operator ftanding bewildered in 

 a labyrinth, from which he is in poffeffion of 

 no clue to efcape. No day produces a change 



but 



