_ 4 procidentia, is very faulty, They apply 
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led procidentia ani; a difeafe to which 
children, old people, thofe weakened by 
difeafes, or fuch as are attacked by tene/- 
mus, from whatever irritating caufe, are 
more fubje&t than others. 
Tue fpeedy reduction of the inverted 
protruded part of the inteftine, is the ef- 
fectual cure; nor fhould time be loft, as 
is often advifed, in trying to ‘diminifh 
the {welling by warm fomentations and 
poultices, which relax the veffels, and ra-~ 
rify the liquors, and therefore produce an 
effe&t very different from what they are 
intended to have. If the prolapfed inte- 
ftine is fo much {welled, that it cannot be 
made to pafs through the contracting 
Jphinéter, incifions may be made in its 
furface, by which part of the flime and 
blood contained in the cellular mem- 
branes, may be fqueezed out, to dimi- 
nifh its volume, and thus to make it ca- 
pable of returning again within the bo- 
dy. 
_ THE practice of the nurfes and other 
good women, in making the redudtion of 
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