TUMOURS. i8i 



management. The eedematous and encyjled tii^ 

 mours are nearly fynonymous, originating in a 

 cyf!: or bag, containing a kind of ichorous 

 bloody fanies, or gelatinous fluid } which being 

 evacuated, the cyft does not always lubmlt to 

 digeftives or efcharotics, but muft be extir- 

 pated with the knife, and cured as a common 

 wound 3 for the completion of which ample 

 DIRECTIONS may be found in the preceding 

 clafs under that head. 



The Steatomous are thofe tumours that 

 form on different parts, and pafs in general 

 under the denomination of wens^ containing, 

 when opened or extraded, a iubftance not un- 

 like fuet in its earlieft flate, when hardly cold: 

 neither of the above are expeded to fubmit to 

 any topical application, unlefs upon the very 

 firftobfervationi when an attempt maybe ma^e 

 by the mo ft powerful repellents, fpecified in 

 many of the preceding pages, and a fmall por- 

 tion of the ftrongeft mercurial ointment rubbed 

 in every night, for a confiderable length of 

 time J but even to this there is no hope offub^ 

 mijjiony unlefs in the firft ftage of its infancy j 

 nor can any radical cure be in general ob- 

 tained but by irjlr u??2ental Qxt.ix^2iiion, As this 

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