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a endeavour piay very properly be made, by applying a 
Yixture of -ho peel and vitriolic acidy or elfe {pirit of wine or 
camphorated o 
For the moft pa rt fuppuration is to be promoted, and thes 
the beft application is a {mall linfeed poultice. 
If the furgeon were to wait events, a {mall opening, inade- 
quate to the difcharge of the matter and floughs, ae be 
{pontaneoufly formed after a confiderable time. ence, the 
advantage of taking an early opportunity to make a free 
g which, as much of the 
he {welling fhould be preffed out as can be done 
without pntnene too much pain. Itis always proper, in 
this, as in every other inflammatory cafe, to adminifter gen- 
tle aperient medicines, and alfo febrifuge ones, v when any 
fever post 
Whe induration remains after the fore Is healed, 
the pat io be rubbed with a little mercurial oint- 
men 
one furgical writers defcribe-a ivedie {pecies of boil, 
an y fay, is frequently me fubje 
who have feverely fuffered from the {mall-pox, meafles, 
ve » ‘fcrofula, fe of merca Munnick’s 
Praxis Chirurgica, ca p- 19) Mr. Pearfon ftates, 
among ft other ae ea that this kind of furunculus is 
commonly fituated on the extremities ; that it is not attend- 
ed with much pain, n or any material difcolouration of the 
fin, until fuppuration 13 a goo deal advanced ; that matu- 
ration is feldom sy a in lef than three or four weeks ; 3 
that the contents of the tumour are a thin fanies; and tha 
when the hfe is lire; and fuppuration has been 7 
alee ellular fubitance will be difchar A in 
ing avery deep cavity. (See P 
iples of ae Pp» 72—7 
There can be no doubt, ahat, in this laft cafe, the large 
quantity of gangrenous mifchic:f might d 
making a free ‘and eazy opening in tumour witha lancet. 
This maxim cannot be too ftrongly infifted upon in every 
jaftance of anthrax and troublefome boils. 
Weagree with Mr. Pearfon, that bark eae oe may 
fometimes prove ufeful to patients ¥ very pain- 
ful floughy boils ; but we regard his cree ns apply the 
hydrargyrus nitratus ruber to the gangrenous cavity, as only 
deferving sg univerfal eae ion. 1e ee sae 
of cramming any abicefles with red p it i 
i it sae Se) of that ditingvied rane Me. os 
who expofed t the abfur seach of the pratti eatife on 
the fiftula.in ano, an 
fent pees ote of feed know ledge, Mr. Pearfon may 
offer the above bad advice without the le ait danger of its being 
fallowed. If he could turn one apothecary’s apprentice into 
an advocate for fuch employment of the red precipitate, 
contefs that we fhould be fomewhat furprifed ; for, although 
aa author may fet up for a dogmatitt, and de sliver an errone 
affertion with all the formal it yo ot the hundred and twenty- 
fifth aphorifm, thec yabfurd, wll only be re- 
f petted 4 tillthe deluded ttudent eae to open another fur- 
gical book. 
n 
ULUS, in ides: the name given by many au- 
thors to if ferret, called alfo the furo and i@is. See Mus- 
TELA furo 
FURUO, in Geography, a {mall ee in - » part of 
OR? 
fe) 
the gulf of ais . 
FURUSU} n ‘fland in - the Baltic, A isda to 
ae long. 18 45’. 
e ULi 
TUR al of on fhrubby plant, e a 
7 ‘hy tae, nee aah is armed with prickles. _ 
By. 
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fome botanical writers it is known under the name of ’ genifia’ 
JSpinofa, and by others under that of ulex europeus, and pro- 
vincially it is often termed whin or gorfe. It will grow well 
‘to a confiderdble ditance all 
ey where they vegetate, and foon fill the ground with 
young plant Se 
t is probable that this — may, In fome fituations, and 
under particular circumitan ulti a 
for the feeding of horfes one {tore 
sie os or crops of green vegetables. This method of 
making ufe of furze has preva ailed for a confiderable length 
of time, bdéth on the continent and in fome o this 
<ingdom, as in the more northern parts of Scotland. 
Where furze is raifed on purpofe for the food of cattle, 
and ota i on foils like the above-mentioned, their feeds 
fhould be f in | ary, March, or April, and the 
ground be Sepa as for barley. Six pounds of feed are 
{ufficient for an acre of land; being but. lightly covered 
over. The young plants muft be pre seen attle 
during the firtt i and they will be fit to in 
enext. The following methods of cultivating aa plant, 
with view of converting it to the feeding animals, 
have been found by Dr. Anderfon to be the moft fuceci tal 
on the better kinds of land. A field of a good, dry, loamy - 
land, being well prepared, he fowed, along with a crop of 
eae i the feeds of the whin in the fame way as clover is 
ufually fown, pate at the rate of from fifteen to thirty 
ounds of fee e acre. The feeds, if harrowed in, and 
rolled with the barley quickly fring up and advance under - 
the fhelter.of the barley, during the fummer, and eep ali 
during the yon Be t fe fen, if the field has not a great . — 
tendency to run to grafs, fo asto choke aise ape advance 
rapidly after Midfammer, fo as to pro a pretty full 
crop before winter. This you may = © cut with the 
ie immediately after your clover fails, and continue to 
ut it as it is wanted during the whole of the w 
i is fuppofed, 
g bad a fufficiency 7 
of whins to ferve hat as than till aaa the middle of 
ebruary, or arc 
m his 
fact fror 
t it is - 
This | is, the aoe thinks, the beft way of eae whins 
as a crop for-a winter food for cattle or horfes. . But for 
pound of feed per acre), upon the pooref foils, aa they 
come up the fheep of themes will crop the 
foon 
n 
-P». however, who have not been 
of. browling, do not know how to pro- 
ceed, and often will not tafte them, but a few that have, 
been 
