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 ? 9 8 Concerning the Cure drawn out by Cupping, or Scarrification, or Epifpafricks : Sometimes alio for the fame Furpofe is applied the hare Rump of a Fowl, repeated until thefe Creatures appear not to be hurt by it} for this natural Warmth foorhs the vital Heat of the Part .it is applied to, and entices away the morbifick Venom through the Pores, Pidgeons ufed alive, and warm Sheeps Lights, have likewife been ob- ferved thus to ailwage the Acrimony of this pefdlential Virulence. THE Efchar is fometimes got off by Burning, and fometimes by Incifion, I never indeed found any thing more eifecmal than the Cidiuzl Cautery, and in this Practice of ours we differ not from the celebrated Con- coregras, who tells us, pag. 39. that in his Time they were wont to burn the Carbuncle with a red hot Iron. There are very con- venient Inftruments amongft the Surgeons for this Operation, which they call the Butt in, being fo ihaped , but they are of little Service, except the Burning extends to the Compafs of the Eruption, and the Iron is by no means to be taken away, until the Patient is fenfible of it, "but to get off the Efchar, the midAl^ Part muft. be burnt deepefl. * AMONGST