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have every reafon to declare, penury on the one 

 fide, and a want of common humanity on the 

 other, has in general countenanced and pro- 

 moted the burning practice formerly adopted; 

 a few ounces of oil of vitriol, turpentine, acqua- 

 fortis, or a red hot ikon, being, in the dif- 

 ference of expenfe, much more applicable to 

 the conftitution of the POCKET than a re- 

 gular courfe of alteratives. 



Thefe obfervations being made to point out 

 the danger and deter the pradice, more than 

 to condemn the authors, who, to their excul- 

 pation be it remembered, wrote in times of lefs 

 refinement, I fliall conclude them for this clafs 

 with one REMARK — That where the cure 

 is not to be effccled by the courfe of bleeding, 

 purging, mercurials, antimonials, and altera- 

 tives, hereafter defcribed, I perfedly coincide 

 in opinion with a writer before quoted, who 

 fays *' When the difeafe is fo inveterate as to 

 " refift every application, that the fymptoms 

 '^ not only continue predominant, but evi- 

 " dent^y increafc, it is incurable." And to this 

 information I fufpedt he meant (but omitted 

 to recommend what I now moil heartily do, 

 the putting a period to a fcene of pain and 



mifery, 



