Note 50 — PART SECOND. OF PARTICULAR SURGICAL SUBJECTS. (continued 8)

[This is undoubtedly the treatment which should always be adopted in the sacculated variety of the disease, as it is not only free from danger, but affords the most speedy and effectual relief. If the blood, upon the presence of which the irritation and swelling mainly depend, be allowed to remain, it finally becomes organised, and so incorporated with the walls of the tumour that it is impossible to dispose of it in any other way than by excising the whole excrescence.—ED.]