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Thus much by way cf INSTPvUCTIQN 

 for CURING, what may moftly be prevented 

 by a very moderate lliare of care and attention, 

 or, more properly fpeaking, an exertion of that 

 reafon, generally diftinguiflied by the appella- 

 tion of <r^;;?;«^«y^/^^. Let it be remarked, 

 the frequent application of repellents is a pal- 

 pable abflirdity, unlefs in an early ftate of the 

 fwelling, before the veffels are fufficiently 

 bruifed and inflamed to ejeft the fluids that, 

 becoming extravafated and fl:agnant, form the 

 tumour; which being once accumulated, is 

 too vifcid in fubfl:ance, and large in quantity, 

 to be again rarefied and abforded into the cir- 

 culation. The fwelling being too far advanced 

 to admit a hope of repulfion, fhould be pror^ 

 mated by foftening pouliices (as will be par- 

 ticularized in the next clafs, under the dif- 

 cuflion of tumours); the courfe of fuppu- 

 ration will then go on in a natural way, the 

 concodion will be perfedl, and the difcharge 

 confequently efFeduaL Upon its firil rupture 

 or breaking, the orifice from which the matter 

 oozes will be but trifiin^: : this fhould be im- 

 mediately enlarged, as m\ich as is necefl^ary, 

 for the difcharge and admiflion of applications. 

 If in the ufual method of infinuation a tent is 



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