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no cne need difpute ; being we often find that the great Ser- 

 Sciatica or Hip-Gout, and long fettled Pains and T^^i^^ - 

 Lamenefs in the Joints, ^<r. of the latter are often ^^^ ^^^ 

 removed by it, when given to the Purpofe ; or in brute Crea" 

 other Words, when the pain'd Parts are cauterized tares, 

 as deep as their Situation will allow, and according 

 to the Urgency of Symptoms, both which mull 

 guide the Hand of the Operator. 



I could recount many obllinate Pains and Aches 

 in the Joints, iffc. of Human Bodies, which have 

 been removed and often quite cured by the Ufe of 

 the aftual Cautery. And I once knew an empirical 

 Fellow that travelPd the Country, making it his 

 Bufincfs to remove fuch Complaints, v/hich he moil- 

 ly did by applying Cauflics to fo great a Degree, 

 that I found he put on Ten at a Time to cure a cer- 

 tain Landlady at Otiey in Torkjhire of an obllinate 

 Sciatica and Rhcumatifm, which he did rffe^lually i 

 for when I faw her llie had been three Years well 

 and free from her Pains, and faid fhe hoped to con- 

 tinue fo, tho* her liTues from the Cauftics were all 

 dried up. 



The Arahiars v/ere very fenfible of the great Ufe- 

 fuJnefs of the aftual Cautery in many Cafes, parti- ' 

 cularly Alfo.hara'vius, who as the late ingenious Dr. 

 Friend tells us is the fame with Alhucaftty mentions 

 fifty Diflempers v/here it may be of Service. And 

 Profper Alpijms remaHxs, that in his Time Ufdon or 

 Burning was the Remedy moll ufed, pjid was mcft 

 depended on for inveterate Pains and Aches am.cn gil 

 the Egyptian and Arabian Horfcmen, who, living 

 chiefly in Tents and Defarts, were no doubt very li- 

 able to vagous and wandering Pains, ^c. And 

 really I am furprized the aflual Cautery is not more 

 in Ufe at this Day, feeing there are fuch good Rea- 

 fons for it. But, when Phyficians and Surgeons are 

 fo timorous, either for the prefent Eafe of their Pa- 

 tients, or in Diffidence to their own Judgments, we 

 mull expe£l feveral Cures will be perform'd by Em- 

 piricks and Quacks, who venture upon rougher, 

 P4 yet 



