TUMOURS. i8i 



management. The cedematous and encyjled 

 tumours are nearly fynonymous, originating in 



a cyft or bag, containing a kind of ichorous 

 bloody fanies, or galatinous fluid ; which being 

 evacuated, the cyft does not always fubmit to 

 digeflives or efchardtics, but muft be extir- 

 pated with the knife, and cured as a common 

 wound; for the completion of which, ample 

 DIRECTIONS may be found in the preceding 

 clafs under that head. 



The STEATOMous are thofc tumors that 

 form on different parts, and pafs in general 

 under the denomination of wens, containing, 

 when opened or extracted, a fubilance not un- 

 like fuet in its earlieft ftate, when hardly cold : 

 neither of the above are expedled to fubmit to 

 any topical application, unlefs upon the very 

 iirfl obfervation ; when an attempt may be made 

 by the moft powerful repellents, fpecified in 

 many of the preceding pages, and a fmall por- 

 tion of the flrongeft 7?iercurial ointment rubbed 

 in every night, for a confiderable length of 

 time ; but even to this there is no hope of fub" 

 mijjion, unlefs in the firft ftage of its infancy ; 

 nor can any radical cure be in general ob^ 

 N 3 rained 



