MISCELLANEA. 599 



Tumours in general, whether fpontaneous, 

 or refuhing from contufion, are to be refolved 

 and difperfed, which is effefted by compreflion 

 v/ith bandage, by fomentations, pouUices, and- 

 repellents. Inflammation, according to the 

 prefent theory, is always attended with the pro- 

 dudion of new fibfes, conftituting new vefiels ; 

 thefe veflels not being re-abforbed, fecrete a 

 new fluid, that is, purulent matter, which ge- 

 nerally forces its way through the fkin : La 

 Foffe obferved this kind of new veffels in dif- 

 feftion, but apparently without being aware 

 that it was a general confequence of inflamma- 

 tion. 



Wounds, Ulcers, or foul Wounds. All our 

 befl writers, from the days of Gibfon to the 

 prefent time, have concurred in making heavy 

 complaints againfl the farriers, for obftinately 

 adhering to the ancient method of treating 

 wounds, and I am very forry I have no right 

 to vouch for any general amendment. It is 

 flill too much their praftice to make ufe of 

 oils and greafy applications, to cram the parts 

 with long hard tents, to thrufl a whole candle 

 into a wound, and there leave it (which has 

 prepared many a horfe for his lafl journey) 

 and to begin too foon, or needlefsly, with ef- 

 charotics. 



In a healthy fvibj.e6l, flefli-wounds are fulB- 

 ciently difpofed to unite and heal, nature her' 



felf 



