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moft advifeable (at any rate moft prudent) to 

 let it remain in its pacific ftate of inactivity, 

 rather than provoke it to a certain degree of 

 adtive virulence, by the premature application 

 oi blijlers or burning cauftics. This reflection 

 renders a former obfervation of greater weight, 

 by adverting to the neceffity of attacking them 

 in their firft ftate of appearance; when there 

 is not the leaPc doubt but the beforementioned 

 e?irly courfe of fridtion, with the mild dif- 

 folvents and repellents, will, if applied with 

 care and punctuality, efted: their total oblite- 

 ration, without any perceptible ejchar^ or 

 even the lead lofs of hair. 



In refped to the auxiliaries of purging balls 

 and diuretic drinks, flightly recommended by 

 Bartlet, they form no part of my opinion ; 

 nor can I fee the leaft reafon for encountering 

 that expenfe and trouble, as they cannot con- 

 tribute in any degree to the removal of fuch 

 fubftances, fo remote from the centre of ac- 

 tion, without injuiing the general fyftem to a 

 greater degree than adequate to any propor- 

 tional local relief that can be obtained. But 

 to reduce this myflerious and technical ex- 

 planation to a more fimple and lefs complex 



idea. 



