CLASS II.. i. 4. 4. OF SENSATION. ?.2t 



After this inflammation a hard fear-like ridge is left on the 

 of the ev :h fcratches and ia flames the eyeball, and be- 



ry troublefome difeafe. 



Turkiih ladies are faid to colour the edjje of the f 

 itimony in very fiat not only:, 



lip.mond fet on a black foil, but may pre- 



t "roni being reflected from thefe edges into 



:)fe of the black feathers about 



:. XXXIX. 5. i. and may 



eiids from being inflamed by the 



:m. Black lead in fine powder 



s than antimony, and might 



I's "'air brufli 



intment fmeared at night on the edges 



!tYi fixty grains, hog's greafe half an 



j an ointment to be fmeared on them in 



t './ . Cold water irequentiy in the day. See Clafs II. 

 i 



Stye. This inflammation begins either on 



of the eye-lids, or in the looie (kin of them, 



very flow either in coming to fuppuration or 



in d The (kin beneath the lower eyelid is the moft 



s tumor, which ibmetimcs never fuppurates 



omes an encyfted tumor : for as this {kin is very 



urpofe of admitting great motion to the eyelid, the 



abforbent posver of the veins feems particularly weak in this 



part ; \vhence when any perfon is weakened by fatigue or other- 



wife, a darker (hade of colour is feen beneath the eyes ; \vhich 



is o-.ving to a lefs energetic atlioa of the abforbent terminations 



of the veins, whence the currents of dark or venous blood are 



delayed in them. This dark (hade beneath the eyes, when it is 



permanent, is a fyrnptom of habitual debility, or inirritability of 



the circulating fyftem. See Clafs I. 2. 2. 2. 



M. M. Smear the tumors with mercurial ointment, moiften 

 them frequently with ether.. To promote their fuppuration they 

 may be wounded with a lancet, or flit down the middle, or they 

 may be cut out. A cauflic leaves a large fear. 



5. Paronychia fuperficialis. Whitlow. An inflammai 

 bout the roots of the nail beneath the ilcin, which fuppurates 

 without fever, and fometimes deftroys the nail ; which is, how- 

 ever, gradually reproduced. This kind of abfcefs, though not 

 itfelf dangerous, has given opportunity for the inoculation of 

 venereal matter in the hands of accoucheurs, and of putrid mat- 

 ter from the difleclion of difeafed bodies ; and has thu.- 

 caufe of difeafe and death. When putrid matter has bee a 



thus 



