“A schirrus of the favourable kind, may continue a long time almost harmless, unless it compresses the neighbouring vessels pretty much; as is observed by Van Swieten, though that learned physician says, that so long as a schirrus possesses any part of the body, it is plain there is reason to be in continual dread of something worse succeeding, &c. for whatever incites the motions of the humours, and quickens circulation, as passions of the mind, errors in diet, motions of the body, bruises, falls, fevers, &c. may change a benign schirrus into a deplorable cancer.

bebreak, begladden, belabour, behate, bedazzle

He called Mikkel a pukey little faggot. I'll kick him again when I can get at him.

“Thur’s a lot of Indians down thur, Captain Scull,” one says.