? 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
