iT2 The ^ARRnK s Ne-uu Guide. Chap. LVI. 



the whole Space with the Growth of new Flefh. If there 

 be ftill a bad ulcerous Difpofition in the Part, cleanfing Oint- 

 ments, as Bafilicum mixt with red Precipitate, or Mgypd- 

 acum ; or, it neceflary, ftrong Corrofives may be made 

 Ufe of ; Copperas- water, Lime-water, or a Solution of 

 Blue Vitriol, or any of thofe diredled in thofe Parts of this 

 Treatife in the like Intentions, may be alfo comply'd with 

 to wafh the Sore ; if the Bone be foul, the Method laid 

 down in the 51ft Chapter ought alfo to be followed. In a 

 Fiftula, the hard callous Sides mull be fcarrify'd, or touched 

 with a Cauftick, to bring them even and fmooth. The 

 Iferfe may be alfo purg'd once or twice, and afterwards go 

 undera Gourfe of the Antimonial or Cinnabar-Balls, ^(» 

 but the Reader may confult the 48th Chapter. 



C H A R LVI. 



Of Cauterizing^ and giving the Fire. 



/^Auterizing is perform'd by an Inftrument made hot, or 

 ^^ by corrofive and burning Medicines ; and thefe are 

 either natural, or artificial, which may be made ftronger or 

 weaker, according to the feveral Intentions in which they 

 are ufed. The firll is called the a^ual Cautery^ and the 

 laft the Potential. 



We make ufe of corrofive and burning Medicines to 

 cleanfe and deftroy all Foulnefs which obllruds and hin- 

 ders the Cure of iany Ulcer, to keep down a preternatural 

 Growth of fungous Flefli, to eat away Excrefcences, to 

 open Abfcefles and Impofthumes, and moreover to ftop up 

 the Mouths of Blood- vellels, thereby to prevent an Hemor- 

 rhage of Blood, llie adual Cautery is alfo made ufe of to 

 moft of the farrie Purpofes ; but as we have taken Notice of 

 thefe things already, and reduc'd them to Pradice, with 

 the necellary Cautions in their Applications ; we fliall not 

 therefore fpend the. Reader's time. in repeating them over 

 again, but proceed to the other Intentions of Cauterizing, 

 which in a more efpecial Manner go under the Denomi- 

 nation of Giving the Fire, 



The Fire is fo ancient in the Pradice of Surgery, that it 

 feems to have been one of the firft Methods ufed to remove 

 Pains of the Joints, ^V. proceeeing from cold glutinous 

 Humours impaded in them, as may be learn'd from Hippo^ 

 crates and others j and tho' it be now greatly in difufe among 

 ij? in thefe Intentions, yet it is to this Day very much prac- 

 ticed by the Egypt i^ins and Arabs ^ and it is reported of 

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