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vent, open the channel of discharge. Dress with digestive 

 ointment, and finish with an astringent application [(C) or 

 (E) in List)]. 



WARTS 



are best removed by tying a ligature round them; or, 

 with scarcely any pain, by applying every day, with a 

 camel's-hair pencil, a small portion of strong acetic acid ; 

 or they may be cut off with a knife or scissors, and the root 

 touched with any caustic body. There is sometimes seen 

 a sprouting, luxurious species, whose roots are larger than 

 their heads, so that a ligature is not easily passed around 

 them ; these are best removed by touching their surface 

 daily with the following paste. The following application 

 will seldom fail to remove such as cannot be conveniently 

 got at by the knife or ligature, dressing with it once a 

 day: 



Sulphuric acid . . ) re . n ■, 



Powdered sulphur . . | ^ sufficiency of each. 



Make into a paste, and apply a little to the wart. Blaine 

 recommends : 



Muriate of ammonia .... 2 drachms. 

 Powdered savin .... 1 ounce. 



Palm oil . . . . . .2 ounces. 



WATER FARCY. 



Water Farcy is quite another disease from farcy (already 

 considered), in causes, symptoms, or effects. 



Water farcy is of two kinds : one the product of a fever- 

 ish disposition ; the other is dropsical, and of that kind 

 which in man resembles the anasarca, where the water is 

 not confined to the belly and limbs, but shows itself in 

 several parts of the body, with soft swellings which yield 

 to the pressure of the fingers, as is usual in all dropsical 

 habits. This last kind usually proceeds from foul feeding, 

 or from the latter-grass and fog that often comes up in 

 great plenty with long-continued rains, and breeds a 

 sluggish viscid blood. 



