388 ESSAYS anp OBSERVATIONS 
a warm cloth to the protruded part of the 
gut, and preffling on it, endeavour to 
thruft it all up at once. Before the in- 
teftine {wells, this operation fometimes 
fucceeds with children whofe /phinder is 
weak, But dry cloths or fingers are lia- 
ble to adhere to the villous coat and 
give great pain in taking them off. The 
cloths or fingers applied here ought’ al- 
ways to be befmeared with oil, unfalted 
butter, or axunge, to. prevent this adhe- 
fion. The bulk of the prolapféd part 1g 
often fo great, that it is impoffible to 
make ‘it all pats” at once through the 
Sphinéter, and a fruitlefs attemptof reduc- 
tion generally increafes the fwelling. The 
reduction ought to be made by prefling a 
fmall part of the fides of the orifice with 
a gréafy finger, and, when that part is 
chruft within the orifice, another finger 
is appliéd to what is then the’ verge of 
the orifice to pufh it upwards, while the 
frit applied finger is withdrawn: By 
fach, an alternate fucceffion of two! fingers, 
the whole may be introduced in thoft ca~ 
fes without incifions; fo that this difeafe 
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