ULCERS. i6i 



HUMES, we proceed now to treat of both, 

 when, by improper treatment, or bad habit, 

 they, are degenerated into ulcers. 



ULCERS 



Are WGU7ids or ahjcejfes become inflexible 

 either by an imprudent courfe of management, 

 an indifferent habit, or an acrimonious dif- 

 pofition of the juices; but in general much 

 more the effedl of the former than either of 

 the other two. It has been a pradice with 

 farriers of almoft every denomination, upon a 

 wound's not inclining to heal fo foon as ex- 

 peded, to increafe the flrength of the digef- 

 tive application, as if the very tendons were to 

 be extraded. This effort of art not fucceed- 

 ing is followed by a corrofive^ that, increafing 

 the evil, a can/lie in general crowns the whole 

 of country prrMice. The wound (that per- 

 haps at firft required only the neceffary time 

 for incarnation, and the mod fimple treat- 

 ment) not having kept pace in its cure with 

 the im.agination or impatience of the Doctor, 

 (for fo we all are from th^ prejidetit in fVarwick- 



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