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had a Hole cut in the midd, to circumfcribe it * 
and applying a Cauftick of unflacked Lime, and black 
Soap incorporated together, which, with Plaifter and 
Bandage, was to be fecured on the part four Hours, 
and longer, if that was not found diffident ; after this 
he proceeds to the feparating the Slough, &c. This 
Practice of his feems to have been found out by ac- 
cident. For he tells us, when he was a young Practi- 
tioner, he having applyed both the Natural and Ar- 
tificial Arfenick to the Leg of a Man, that was his 
Patient, it fo mortified the Flelh, as furprized him; 
but by proper digedives, the Efchar coming off, and 
leaving the Bone bare, he fcraped it with an Indru- 
ment for feveral Days, and dred it with Incarnatives, 
defigning to have ingcndred Fieili on it; but this 
proving unfuccefsful, be continued to fcrape it, till he 
oblerved it move under the Indrument, after which 
having feparated it, he found the Sore covered with 
new Flefh. and that the Bone was four inches in 
length, two in breadth, and very thick, upon the re- 
moval of which the Patient was foon cured. Thus 
its probable this Obfervation of this great Man led 
our Predeceflors to practice the very fame Method ; 
and we do at this Day in our Hofpitals treat the Ve- 
nereal Nodes on the Shins exa&Iy as is here defcri- 
bed, where we obferve the fame appearances, he fo 
long before took notice of ; and ’tis not in the lead 
to be doubted, but the Boon Haw and our Venereal 
Nodes are the fame Difeafe. By the appearance of 
fome of the lad of the above mentioned Symptoms, 
we infallibly judge the Patient has had the Infection 
upon him a confiderable time, and that the Difeafe is - 
making its gradual advances, to the corrupting and 
dedroying the whole frame of the Body. That this 
was the Conclufion of the miferies of thofe Perfons, 
that ;v 
