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Scarifications and Evacuations; as the Drynefs of the 
other Gangrene points out the Ufelefsnefs of thefe 
Operations in this fort. 
In the humid Gangrene the Solids are choaked up, 
and overflowed with the accumulated Liquid ; the 
Nerves are there ftupefied and benumbed : What can 
be more proper then after Scarifications, which dif- 
gor.'e and relax thofe Regions, than to apply ftimu- 
lating Topics ? Tonics , which reftore the Spring, the 
Tone of the folid Parts; help them to expel thofe 
fuperfluous Liquors, the Spirits of which are as it 
were drowned and fuffocated ; and in fhort the De- 
fed being local, if thofe Succours do not fuffice, it 
is very common to cut off a Limb ; the Lofs of which 
may bring on that of the whole Pcrfon. 
On the contrary, in the dry Gangrene the Solids 
are void of Fluids of all forts. The neighbouring 
Regions, which begin to fhare of that Want, are af- 
feded with the mod cruel Pains : If you attack thofe 
Parts with the cutting Inftrument, you increafe the 
Irritation of the Solids, the ConftridiOn of the Veffels, 
the W ant ofFluids, the Exficcation, and haften Death. 
On the contrary, the general Indication, which 
this Diftemper affords us is therefore to foften, to re- 
lax the Veflcls, to draw thither the Liquors by To- 
pics, whilft inwardly all Remedies mud be given 
that are capable of bringing the Blood and the Spirits 
from the Center to the Circumference. 
If this Method is not fuccefsful, Death is inevita- 
ble ; for even fuppofing that the Amputation was 
not liable to the difmal Confequences juft now fpe- 
cified, there is no Room for this Operation in an 
internal Defed, which depends on the whole 
K Habit, 
