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calculated to communicate its morbid efFedis 

 with virulence wherever it takes its feat; which, 

 upon being repelled and compuifively abforbed 

 into the circulation, it will of courfe be em- 

 pov/ered to do, if not fpeedily carried off, by- 

 mercurial or antimonal preparations. 



Should cough or difficulty of hj^cathiizg at- 

 tend, draw blood from a remote vein in mode- 

 rate quantity, to mitigate either of thofe fymp- 

 toms; but neither being prefent, let the ope- 

 ration be omxitted, unlefs particularly ureed or 

 indicated by a great degree of inflammatory 

 heat. So foon as the fwellings about the neck, 

 head, or throat, have acquired a palpable pro- 

 miAence, foment twdce a day with the follow- 

 ing decod:ion: 



Take camomile, wormwood, marnimallows,' and 

 elder flowers, of each a large handful ; boil ia 

 three quarts of water for a quarter of an hour ; then 

 ftrain ofr, and foment the fwelling well with flannels 

 dipped in the hot liquid, and apply the herbs warm 

 by way of poultice to the parts, confining them on, 

 and repeating the ceremony for two or three davs. 



By this time fome degree of obfervation 

 may be made whether the tumours tend to 



fuppu^ 



