212 The Varri^ers Ne'-j:j GuUe. Chap. LVL 



the whole Space with the Growth of new FleQi. If there 

 be (till a bad ulcerouS'Dirpohtion m the Part, cleanfing Oint- 

 ments, as BafiUcum mixt with red Precipitate, or /Egypti- 

 acum ; or, it necefl'ary, ftrong Corrofives may be made 

 Ufe of; Copperas- water, Lime-water, or a Solution of 

 Blue Vitriol, or any of thofe directed in thofe Parts of this 

 Treatife in the like Intentions, may be alfo comply'd with 

 to walli the Sore j if the Bone be foul, the Method laid 

 down in the 51ft Chapter ought alfo to be followed. In a 

 Fiftula, the hard callous Sides muft be fcarrify'd, or touch'd 

 with a Cauftick, to bring them even and fmooth. The 

 Horfe mav be alfo purg'd once or twice, and afterwards go 

 under a Courfe of the Antimonial or Cinnabar-Balls, ^c, 

 but the Reader may confult the 48th Chapter. 



CHAP. LVL 



• Of Cauterizing J and giving the Fire. 



1^ Auterizing .is perform'd by an Inftrument made hot, or 

 , by corrofive and burning Medicines; and thefe are 

 either natural, or artificial, which may be made ftronger or 

 weaker, according to the feveral Intentions in which they 

 are ufed. The firfl is called the a^ual Cautery^ and the 

 iaft the Potential. 



. We make ufe of corrofive and burning Medicines to 

 cleanfe. and deftroy all Foulnefs which obllruds and hin- 

 ders the Cure of any Ulcer, to keep down a preternatural 

 Growth of fungous Flefh, to eat away Excrefcences, to 

 cpen Abfcefles and Impofthumes, and moreover to ftop up 

 the Mouths of Blood- vellels, thereby to prevent an Hemor- 

 rhage of Blood. The actual Cautery is alio made ufe of to 

 molt of the lame Purpofes ; but as we have taken Notice of 

 thele things already, and rcduc'd them to Pradice, with 

 the neceflary Cautions in their Applications ; we fhall not 

 therefore fpend the Reader's time in repeating them over 

 again, but proceed to the other Intentions of Cauterizing, 

 which in a more efpecial Manner go under the Denomi- 

 nation of Giving the I'ire^ 



. The Fire is fo ancient in the Pradice of Surgery, that it 

 feems to have been one of the firlt Methods ufed to remove 

 Pains of the Joints, &c. proceeeing from cold glutinous 

 Humours Impaded in them, as may be learn'd from HippO' 

 crates and oiliers j and iho' it be now greatly in difufe among 

 us in thele Intentions, yet it is to this J)ay very much prac- 

 lic'd by the Egyptians and Jrabs i and iL is reported of 



the 



