Z62 ROWELLING. 



I considered myself exceedingl}^ lucky, lu 

 so favourable an opportunity, to acquire 

 something personally satisfactory upon the 

 operative process and probable effect of rowels 

 upon the frame and habit, from one who 

 had so confidently recommended their im- 

 mediate use in a case of so much emer- 

 gency ; and really expected, from the ex- 

 tensive practice of the party, and the gene- 

 ral acknowledgment of his practical abili- 

 ties, that I should have been in a propor- 

 tional degree gratified ; but sorry I am to 

 confess, after every direct attack, oblique 

 insinuation, and cross examination, he was 

 so well fortijied in his entrenchments, that I 

 could derive no greater degree of informa- 

 tion than '' they were the likeliest things to 

 do him good. 



This, among many other recommenda- 

 tions of rowelling, upon foundations equally 

 ridiculous, brings to my mind another in- 

 stance of the indiscriminate use of rowels, 

 with no other reason on earth than a self- 

 interested reference to the pecuniary com- 

 V pensation annexed to the ceremony of opera- 

 tion. A fevv^ weeks since, an intimate friend 



