Yet is their empire no true growth but humour, And only two kings' touch can cure the tumour.

" With this he dressed the tumour; and pouring the contents of a large phial which he had brought with him in a cup, he held it to the burning lips of the apprentice, who eagerly quaffed it.

The pulp of roasted onions, with oil, forms an excellent anodyne and emollient poultice to suppurating tumours.

The pressure of a tumour (in this case a keraphyllocele) has led to rarefactive changes in the bone, forming a neat indentation in the normal contour of the bone which serves to accommodate the tumour.

After deliberating amongst themselves, they opened the tumour, with a sharp stone, and from it came forth a woman who became the wife of each of the four brothers, one after another, and bore them sons and daughters.

L. E. D.Tobacco is sometimes used externally in unguents for destroying cutaneous insects, cleansing old ulcers, &c. Beaten into a mash with vinegar or brandy, it has sometimes proved serviceable for removing hard tumours of the hypochondres.

The leaves of Henbane are said to have been applied externally with advantage, in the way of poultice, to resolve scirrhous tumours, and to remove some pains of the rheumatic and arthritic kind.

books yield a certain spell To stop thy tumour; you shall cease to swell When you have read them thrice, and studied well.

Althaea root is sometimes employed externally for softening and maturing hard tumours: chewed, it is said to give ease in difficult dentition of children.

" "You neither lance nor cauterize an incipient tumour, do you, doctor?" demanded Blaize, without abandoning his position.

and tearing aside the collar of his shirt, he exhibited a large tumour.