SUPPLEMENT. 471 



Thefe appearances will require an increafed 

 perfeverance in the repeated ufe of fomentation 

 and poultice, adding more heat to the former, 

 and emollients to the latter, continuing each 

 twice a day without remilTion. Increafe the 

 circulation and invigorate the fyilem by an 

 ounce of bark in powder (given in gruel), or a 

 pectoral cordial ball every morning, and corredt 

 the acrimony in the blood and juices by one of 

 the alterative powders in the feed of corn every 

 evening : thefe attentions will generally effe^^l 

 a falutary change in the conftitution, and pro- 

 duce a promiling difcharge of healthy matter. 



Too much caution cannot be introduced to 

 prevent the opening of tumours or fwellings of 

 any kind, before the contents are fufficiently 

 foftened (or ripe) for difcharge. Such prema- 

 ture operation never fails to give a rigid calloiity 

 to tlie edges of the v/ound ; and they cannot 

 unite fo favourably as when the cafe is more 

 judicioufly condu<5ted. 



\Nh.zvQfimcfes are fjperiicial (as for inftance, 

 from one aperture to another of thofe bofore 

 dcfcribed), and the integument is becoming 

 putrid by the corrofive quality of the matter, 



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