124 Of the manifeft Signs humid than before, that thefe mire Particles^ of an efcharotick Quality, rather prevent M ....don, and by drying the Part make it rather more able to refift iiieh -a Change: And according to the be ft of my Remem- brance, I never did meet with a Carbuncle that mortified, im'efs from the Mismanagement or Carelefnefs of Surgeons, or when the higheft Degree of Virulence m the peftile:.tial Poifon had not occafioned an immediate Mortifica- tion. N O Part of an humane Body was free from the Eruption of the Carbuncles, And I mall not exceed the Truth, if I affirm that I have met with them at one time or other in all Places. But this Matter will yet appear more fully beyond Contradiction, when I mail have brought a few felecl: Inftances out of a great Multitude, to put it quite out of Difpute. A Girl of about 12 Years of Age, felt a grievous Pain about her Breaft, where quickly after the Appearance of a Pimple, there broke out a Carbuncle , the Efchar at laft came off, and the Ulcer discharging fome Matter plen- tifully -j after about twenty Days ihe was reckoned to be very well, had not a Surgeon too rafhly dreiled her with the red drying Ointment^
