354 ESSAYS and OBSERVATIONS 



whatever irritating caufe, are more fubjedt 

 than others. 



The Ipeedy redudlion of the inverted pro- 

 truded part of the inteftine, is the effeftual 

 cure ; nor (liould time be loft, as is often ad- 

 vifed, in trying to diminifli the fwelli4ig by 

 warm fomentations and poultices, which re- 

 lax the vefTels, and rarify the liquors, and 

 therefore produce an effedt very different 

 from what they are intended to have. If 

 the prolapfed inteftine is fo much fwelled, 

 that it cannat be made to pafs thro' the con- 

 trading fphinBer, incifions may be made in 

 its furface, by which part of the flime and 

 blood contained in the cellular membranes, 

 may be fqueezed out, to diminifli its volume, 

 and thus to make it capable of returning a- 

 gain within the body. 



The pradtice of the nurfcs and other good 

 women, in making the redudion of a pro- 

 cidentiay is very faulty. They apply a warm 

 cloth to the protruded part of the gut, and 

 prefling on it, endeavour to thruft it all up 

 at once. Before the inteftine fwells, this o- 

 peration fometimes fucceeds with children 

 vihoiQ fphin5ler is weak. But dry cloths or 

 fingers are liable to adhere to the villcxus coat 



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