150 DISEASES CLASS II. 1. 2. 19. 



near Newcastle in Staffordshire, proposes to tap the abscess by 

 means of a trocar, and thus as often as necessary to discharge the 

 matter without admitting the air. Might a weak injection of 

 wine and water, as in the hydrocele, be used with great caution 

 to inflame the walls of the abscess, and cause them to unite? 

 See Class II. 1. 6. 9. 



1 9. Paronychia internet. Inflammation beneath the finger-nail. 

 The pain occasioned by the inflammatory action and tumour of 

 parts bound down between the nail on one side and the bone on 

 the other, neither of which will yield, is said to occasion so much 

 pain as to produce immediate delirium, and even death, except 

 the parts are divided by a deep incision; which must pass quite 

 through the periosteum, as the inflammation is said generally to 

 exist beneath it. This disease is thus resembled by the process 

 of toothing in young children; where an extraneous body lodged 

 beneath the periosteum induces pain and fever, and sometimes 

 delirium, and requires to be set at liberty by the lancet. 



