When the local action is specific, the general one is also different from the simple hectic; and, therefore the remedies which are useful in simple hectic will not be of equal advantage in these cases, unless a specific remedy be conjoined, as, for instance, mercury prudently exhibited in the venereal hectic, dependent upon a neglected local complaint. The most frequent instance of specific hectic is the scrophulous; for the cure of which we possess no remedy which acts with certainty. Whenever, therefore, the local complaint cannot be cured, and the hectic increases, we must, if possible, remove the diseased part[46]; after which, the general action, notwithstanding its specific nature, most commonly declines; but the constitution still remains, as formerly, scrophulous, or even more so than before. That this is the case, would appear from the following fact: If a person slightly scrophulous, although originally sprung from a scrophulous stock, or in whom the constitutional disease seems to be disappearing, in consequence of intermarriages, &c. has, by means of a local injury done to a joint, &c. the scrophulous action excited, and consequent hectic, that person will, after cure, have the tendency to scrophula stronger in him than formerly; and the disease will even frequently be communicated to his children with its original violence. [46] When this disease attacks the lungs, as it too frequently does, then, until a specific remedy for scrophula be discovered, no cure can be obtained. Simple ulceration, or suppuration of the lungs, however, and consequent hectic, may be cured, though not in every instance. _Of the Treatment of the Ulcerative Action._