e dissolved and evacuated in
the Spring, when they begin to move much about, and to eat
the new Grass, which purges them. _Oper._ vol. II. _Anat.
Hepat._ chap. vii. p. 104.

Dr. _Russel_ greatly recommends the Use of Sea Water along
with the saponaceous Medicines. See his _Treatise on the Use
of Sea Water_.

The Haemorrhage from the Nose commonly stopped soon. Where it was
violent, we kept the Patient cool, and applied Cloths dipped in
Vinegar and Water to the Nose.--In two Cases, one at _Munster_, the
other at _Bremen_, the Patients were hot and feverish, and a Vein was
opened, and eight or ten Ounces of Blood taken away; and in one Case
nothing took Effect till we gave repeated Doses of the _tinctura
saturnina_ in a common acid Julep.

OF TUMOURS of the BREAST.

In _May_ 1761, a great many of the Patients, who had been in Hospitals
the preceding Winter, had Tumours formed on the external Part of the
Breast, which they shewed me at _Osnabruck_. They began in the Form of
indolent Tumours, and came slowly to Suppuration. For the most part,
the Suppuration was only partial, and the Tumour, on being opened,
discharged a very small Quantity of Matter. Some of them, though they
felt soft, and seemed to contain Matter, yet, upon being opened,
discharged only a small Quantity of black Blood. None of them melted
down entirely into Pus, or came fully to Suppuration, and healed
kindly as Abscesses which succeed acute Inflammations. But after a
small Quantity of Matter was discharged, for the most part, there
still remained a hard Tumour, which felt as if it was a Swelling of
the Bone, or Cartilage below; and in some the Surface of the Bone was
found rough at the Bottom of the Abscess.

These Tumours seldom rose high, and were most of them situated at the
lower Part of the Sternum, or a little to one Side of it, commonly on
the left Side, above the _cartilago ensiformis_. Some Patients had
only one, others two, and some three such Tumours. The first of them I
saw was on the left Side, which, on being felt, gave exactly the same
Sensation as when the Cartilages of the Sternum are begun to be raised
by an Aneurism of the Aorta; only no Pulsation was to be perceived;
and most of them had the same Appearance.

The Patients, who had such Tumours, commonly complained of Pains of
their Breast. One or two, after these Tumours came to Suppuration,
seemed to recover their Health, and to feel no Uneasi