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the cure so effected to all appearance was not ra- 

 dically good, but had left a violent predisposition to 

 renew its ravages afresh. Probably the time of 

 inflicting the injury had not been accurately marked, 

 nor its degree ingenuously reported to the owners 

 in those cases of relapse. 



However this be, when the disorder is found to 

 baffle the endeavours employed to disperse it, the 

 whole course of prceedings must be changed, as 

 before hinted in the general observations on this 

 topic. Instead of putting back the swelling by 

 those means, we must pursue a direct contrary 

 course, in order to bring it forward : the mode of 

 feeding must be changed along with the medicines 

 that now become proper to procure suppuration, or 

 a discharge of the offensive matter ; a full habit 

 being mainly conducive thereto, and proving how 

 closely connected is this disease with a gross habit 

 of body, which in all fleshy animals superinduces a 

 diseased habit, vulgarly but accurately termed " full 

 of humours." After having found useless your 

 efforts to disperse the tumour, or mayhap, finding 

 at the first vieiv of it, or by the first touch, certain 

 symptoms that prove it ought never to be dispersed, 

 the practitioner will of course seriously set about 

 permitting, or forcing, the offensive matter to 

 escape. Every hour's delay in putting this resolve 

 into practice serves but to render the ultimate cure 

 still more difficult and hazardous ; for the evil is all 

 this while extending its baleful effects inwards and 

 sidewise, and forming around it, in every direction, 



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