470 DISEASES OF SENSATION. SECT. XXXIII. 3. 



pus : at the fame time a lefs degree of inflammation 

 produces new vefiels called vulgarly proud flefh ; 

 which, if no bandage confines its growth, nor any 

 other circum (lance promotes absorption in the 

 wound, would rife to a great height above the ufual 

 fize of the parr. 



Hence the art of healing ulcers confifts in pro- 

 ducing a tendency to abforption in the wound 

 greater than the depofuion. Thus when an ill- 

 conditioned ulcer feparates a copious and thin dif- 

 charge, by the ufe of any (limulus, as of falls of 

 lead, or mercury, or copper externally applied, the 

 difcharge becomes dtminifhed in quantity, and be- 

 comes thicker, as the thinner parts are firft ab- 

 forbed. . * 



But nothing fo much contributes to increafe the 

 abforption in a wound as covering the whole limb 

 above the fore with a bandage, which fhould be 

 fpread with fome plafter, as with emplaftrum de 

 mink), to prevent it from flipping. By this artifi- 

 cial tight nefs of the (kin, the arterial pulfations aft 

 with double their ufual powder in promoting the 

 afcending current of the fluid in the valvular iym* 

 phatics. 



Internally the abforption from ulcers fhould be 

 promoted firft by evacuation, then by opium, bark, 

 mercury, fteel. 



3. Where the inflammation proceeds with greater 

 violence pj* rapidity, that is>, when by the painful 

 fenfation a more inordinate activity of the organ is 

 produced, and by this great activity an additional 

 quantity of painful fenfation follows in an increafmg 

 ratio, till the whole of the fenfqrial power, or fpirit 

 of animation, in the part becomes exhaufted, a mor- 

 tification enfues, as in a carbuncle, in inflamma- 

 tions of the bowels, in the extremities of old people, 

 or. in the limbs of thofe who are brought near a 

 fire after having been much benumbed with cold. 



And 



