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fevering in my opinion, long fince quoted, that 

 preve7itton is preferable to cure^ I fliall point 

 out fuch methods as are the moft eligible to 

 adopt, upon the bare apprehenfion of fuch 

 complaint, or any diforder that may be likely 

 to terminate in a difeafe of fo much difficulty, 

 expenfe, and danger. 



In refpedl to the medical and domeflic ma- 

 nagement; where the lungs are the feat of 

 difeafe, as in the fiiil attack of coughs, &c. 

 directions fo clear and explanatory are laid 

 down through the whole of the fixth clafs, 

 that there is not the lead room to add a fingle 

 addition upon the fubjedl; to that clafs, under 

 its different heads, I refer the reader for any 

 inftrudicns that a variety of fymptoms may 

 render neceffary. But where a fwelling of tu- 

 mour gives ocular proof that matter is form- 

 ing under the ears, jaws, or between the bones 

 (about the root of the tongue), take every 

 poffible method to produce a fuppuration and 

 difcharge of matter^ for, in moft cafes, an 

 external evacuation becomes the crifis, and 

 greatly preferable to the chance of mifchiefs 

 that may be the refult of repulfion, particularly 

 where the matter is in an unhealthy ftate, and 



calculated 



