114 Of the manifeft Signs pu ration of their Buboes, the Patient was fo much the better for it - 7 it feems conibnant to Reafon, that if Pus was generated imme- diately from the Blood, the Strength would as much decay upon its Lofs, as upon Phle- botomy : But I have always found it, (as many Times already obferved) that how little foever the Quantity of Blood drawn away was, and although done at feveral Times, yet it proved of more Prejudice to the Patient, than an hundred Times as much Matter drawn from a Buboe - and that the whole remaini g Mafs was not able to recruit the Lofs fuitained thereby, i I F they who efpoufe a contrary Opinion, fhould fuggefl that Blood may be drawn from a Tumor imperfe&ly fuppurated, and from thence conclude, that its Origin was from the Arterial and Venal Fluids ; it may be readily anfwered, that on opening a freih Tumour, a bloody Ichor will flow out, bc- caufe in the Operation feme Blood-VefTels will be cut - whereas when the Tumor is in Maturation, the Quantity oi Humour there co Hefted obfh'u&s the Blood from flowing to it through its proper VefTels :, and which Rumour, although in it lelf at firft more thin and crude, yet by the Heat of its neigh-
