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and, laftly, when cool, add the precipitate (very 

 finely powdered), and let them be minutely in- 

 corporated upon a ftone or marble flab. 



So foon as this obflacle is perfectly removed, 

 and the difcharge come to its proper conjylencey 

 drefs in general with a fnmll portion of lint, 

 thinly covered with either of the baJiliconSy 

 placed under a pledget of tow, fpread with the 

 Jiable digejlive mentioned in the laft article. 

 Should the w^ound incarnate too faft, and fill 

 with fungus (commonly called proud fleJJj), 

 flightly touch fuch parts with a piece of zm- 

 jlacked limey regulating the mode and appli- 

 cation by the neceffity, repeating it as occafion 

 may require. When the cicatrix, or {kinning 

 over, is nearly accompliflied, the cure may be 

 completed by hardening the furface with a 

 little tindlure of myrrh. 



This is the dire(fl and rational mode of 

 CURE eftablifhed in every kind of ulcer, as 

 well as thofe originating in the caufe already 

 enlarged on ; but where the obftacle to cure 

 arifes from fome deled in the conflitution, or 

 acrimony in the fluids, the affiflance of mer- 

 curial phyfic and fubfequeni: courfe of mild 



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