FUNGUS. 
ficing es aatea aed procefs. This he endeavoured to accom- 
plith w the fame initrument, but finding the refiftance 
too pis he had recourfe to a gouge and mallet. con- 
fiderable picce of the alveolary — was jas etached, with- 
oo. 
fault, unalarmed, | 
time ; this being removed, the a cautery was applied 
repeatediy to the reft of the fungus. The ey was dreffed 
with lint, dipped i in ak rdered a 
1% 
the eye lefs prominent nad the epphors lets “Table “a 
at this period a portion of fungus made i earance again. 
This wa — el deftroyed by applying the actual 
cautery twice. It appeared again, however, on the twenty- 
fifth day, me eae a third and lalt recourfe to the cau- 
tery. From this time the progrefs of the cure went c 
pidly. Inftead of fungous excrefcences, healthy granula- 
tions were no = in the bot of the finus. ie 
le di feafe r 
jOus ‘epreffion jut 
€ y 
fude and wolent. The sole ng o 
out ‘of three of the eat 
with a portion of the alveolar procefs, and the eensynat 
of the actual cautery, are undoubtedly very rough pro- 
ceedings, and cannot be expected to receive the approbation 
many furgeons in this ane, Nor will we pean 
declare in favour of thefe methods, much as we 
con- 
vinced of the neceffity of having recourfe to pow ae means, 
and greatly as we a admire the boldnefs and decifion which 
guided the ha of Default. We confider the ufe of the 
commen dation. — 
i230 
a 7 
haps one of the faws, eed pi engraved in Mr. He 
Praétical Obfervations in oe sick iy ie be the beft rte u- 
= 
y - oper, on -accou 
chief which muit ‘inevitably (lise 
ie as  citble, 
fhould be freely rubbed with the cautftic, fo as to obviate con 
If, however, 
She tedioufnefs' of ana elnaida than to the re- ne Oe 
of a terrible difcafe, which is equally loathfome,. deformings 
and painful, holds forth no chance of fpontancous amend~ 
mk and tendsto a fhe ocking fpecies of death? 
gus Crrebri, or ffernia of the Brain. —Tnis is a totally 
different difeafe from the exercfceences which fometimes 
grow from the dura mater, and make their way outwird by 
producing an 3th ; of the 
us, or hernia c ows ar 
tion of a piece of the. eull, and confequently, when the- 
difeafe occurs, it is almoit alw rays after the operation of tre- 
panning though, if age Charles Bell’s account be accurate,. 
he fame kind of tumour ial alfo be a confequence of a 
venereal | caries of the crari 
Mr. 
e tu- 
Henc us Abernethy appears Pe “fuppole that 
the ee eee is compofed 
blood, and the rapidity with which the oe arofe in the 
cafe which he diffeGted made him think that there was 
is ned enough for any organized vafcular fubftance to be 
orme 
However, we se ae fufpeéting that the fungus ce- 
ai is afl other alee ae when Mr. Aber- 
eth ntions, in ae relation of the example which he 
diffected,, the ao granalted ane of the fwelling, 
we cannot conceive _ fuch a ftru€ture could 
€ an accl~ 
dental foal nines an exudation of bloo 
r. Charles Bell, in his ‘Coat urgery, vol. i. exe 
Pp opinion that the sehcriey of the fkull, and the 
t 
with the 
en a fungus ranidl 
e fubftance of A brain, hich fas 
3 
wD 
gs 
=f) 
° 
aay to deat tion 
In proof of the vafcularity of the fungus, feveral circum. 
{tances are mentioned by the foregoing writer. The tumour 
bleeds when tern orcut. It thrinks and collapfes 8 when the 
vars has a preparation of the 
m its bafe into the lateral 
brain, o - 
concentric lamina, like the coagulum of an aneurifm. 
blood never _ from i its furface as it w ould do even 
a venous nd u 
like {pongy geen by cauttic, 
ha as would 2 a 
angs 1 
of fungus cerebr ar fell ae Mr. 7. Charlee 
5 eae and arofe after a venereal exfoliation of 
3P the. 
