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pitted a few seconds after the finger is withdrawn. 

 Consult " Poll-evil" in its two stages. 



Cure, — As in other cases of tumour, that do not 

 partake of critical abscess after fever, &c, this 

 disorder admits of being repressed, readily, by the 

 means before prescribed for similar tumour, or of 

 being otherwise cured, as it may be allied to some 

 disorder of the constitution. To repress the swell- 

 ings bleed the patient copiously; give purgatives 

 and clysters ; give bran mashes, and let the chill be 

 taken off his water. Foment the throat and breast 

 with bran-mash or marshmallows, every four or five 

 hours ; and when these have reduced the symptoms, 

 give an 



Alterative Ball. 



Emetic tartar, 2 drachms, 



Venice turpentine, \ an ounce. 

 Mix with liquorice-powder enough to make the ball 

 for one dose. Give one every eight-and-forty hours. 

 On the contrary, if the swelling depend upon dropsy, 

 as aforesaid, let a fleam or horse-lancet be struck 

 into the skin at four or five places distant from each 

 other, and in the lowest or most depending part of 

 the swelling. From these punctures a watery dis- 

 charge will take place, that relieves the patient of 

 his affliction hourly, and the issue of matter is to 

 be promoted by keeping open the sores as directed 

 in cases of poll-evil, &c. at page 827 : again, when 

 the swelling indicates the collection of morbid mat- 

 ter, let it be fomented, poulticed, and opened as 



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