298 <y Scratches, Crown -Scabs, Cfc. 



laxed fkin may be bathed with equal 

 parts of fpirit of wine and vinegar, to 

 which an eighth part of oil of vitriol may 

 be added. The contents of thefe tumours 

 are various, fometimes watery, at others 

 fuety, or like thick pafte ; which, if care 

 be not taken to digeft out properly with 

 the cyfl, will frequently colled again: 

 was it not for the disfigurement, the 

 fliorteft method would be to extirpate 

 them with a knife, which, if artfully ex- 

 ecuted, and the fkin properly preferved, 

 would leave very little deformity. 



When thefe tumours proceed from an 

 indifpofition of the blood, they are befl: 

 let alone, efpecially thofc of the watery 

 kind, which will often wear off infenfibly 

 without any applications ; but when they 

 are like to prove tedious, endeavour to dif- 

 perfe them by bathing with repellers, and 

 have recourfe to rowels, purges, and diu- 

 retic medicines, to carry off the fuper- 

 fluous juices, and corred the blood. 



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