Note 24 — DISSERTATION II. CONTINUED.

The inflammatory action, when moderately strong, acts naturally as an exciting cause, inducing the purulent action, which is therefore said to be a termination of inflammation. It is therefore as unnecessary to interfere in the production of this secretion, when the action is of proper strength, &c. as it would be to attempt to increase, by local means, the vesication which is produced by a blister. Poultices are, in this condition, perhaps chiefly useful, by removing the causes which tend to abate the action at an improper time, such as those which produce resolution, as cold, &c.