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and its contrary a diarrhea, efpeclally with 

 UfiefmuSy are equally to be guarded again ft j 

 feeing a return of the procidentia may be cau- 

 fed by either of them. The relaxed parts 

 are to be braced by ftrengthening topical me- 

 dicines. In the aftringents commonly pre- 

 fcribed, I can have no confidence ; their ef- 

 fedt goes no deeper than the fkin ; but fti- 

 mulants, fuch as ardent fpirits or timftures of 

 the aromatic refins made with them, give 

 a fpring to all the parts, and excite a glow- 

 ing heat whenever they are applied, fo as to 

 touch any part of the extremity of the gut, 

 which they can always be made to do. 



I have faid, that this difeafe, the prociden- 

 tia anij is feldom fatal j and the redudior^ 

 of the prolapfed part of the inteftine into 

 the body, is generally regarded as a cure of 

 it } but that this is not true, when the 

 doubling of the inteftine is high up, will ap- 

 pear from the following hiftory. 



A large-fized ftrong healthy boy, a year 

 and an half old, after a diarrha'a of fome 

 days, with tenejmusy was obferved to have a 

 procidentia ani^ which was treated two days by 

 the women who attended him j after which 

 fir, Adam Drummond:, Surgeon in this place, 



was 



