PATHOLOGY. 107 



Take hog's lard purified, three ounces ; oint- 

 ment of yellow resin : one ounce: mix well 

 together, and add cantharides in line powder, 

 one ounce % 



But if the glands are found to be much enlarged, 

 it m-. » perhaps he better to promote suppuration, 

 by applying a large poultice, composed of equal 

 parts of bran and linseed meal, made of a proper 

 heat with hot water ; which may be known by a 

 person being able to bear his hand in it without 

 pain. This poultice may be changed as often as 

 it becomes cold ; and when the tumour feels soft, 

 and matter is formed, it may be opened with the 

 knife or lancet in the mc^t depending part, and its 

 contents prefsed out with the fingers ; the parts 

 may be washed three or four times a day with 

 warm water, and left to heal of themselves, which 

 is accompiisned often in a few days. 



In both these cases, the diet should be warm 

 mashes of bran, gruel, &c. Warm clcathing, with 

 gentle exercise, wili afsist much in promoting the 



cu e. 



* A part of this ointment maybe rubbed well on the part 

 with the hand, and may be repeated every three days, as 

 long as found necefsary. 



