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different parts (as they become affeded) with 

 various fmall prominences, bearing the ap- 

 pearance of bunches of berries, branching off 

 in diredl uniformity with the veins. Soon 

 after their appearance they are generally co<- 

 vered with a frn^U fcab or efchar, which, as 

 they advance to maturation, peel off, and the 

 puflules difcharge a fharp ferious ichor, or a 

 gelatinous, adheiive, putrid matter, forming 

 ulcers of a more or lefs inveterate appearance, 

 according to the degree of difeafe. 



Previous to the prefent improved and ra- 

 tional fyftem of cure, it may be applicable to 

 introduce one of the promifed observations 

 upon the dangerous and almoft obfolete prac- 

 tice of others, or rather the moft cruel exf>eri^ 

 meats and infernal perfecutions that were ever 

 invented, or could be fuppofed to enter into 

 the mind of man^ for the prevention or cure 

 of difeafe. In the laft article treated on wc 

 produced a tolerable fyftem of cruelty ; but in 

 the FARCY (as a more perplexing difeafe and 

 greater excitement to judgment or madnefs) 

 we have FIRE UPON FIRE, or effeflual 

 cauterization treble refined. 



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