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cases, which will occur to the judicious prac- 

 titioner/' 



Without indulging the least desire or 

 intention to animadvert with severity upon 

 the different writers who have thus rota- 

 tionally represented the accumulated per- 

 fection of rowels, (that seem, in their pro- 

 gress for the last century, to have ac- 

 quired, like the nostrums of the present 

 day, tlte virtues of curing all diseases) \i 

 is very natural to conclude, that the above 

 list, in each of which they are said to be 

 " of great use,'' with the repeated intro- 

 duction of '* et Gceteras," and the variety 

 of ^' other cases submitted to the judicious 

 practitioner,'' that there can be but voy 

 yew, or in fact, 7ione, to which they are not, 

 in the opinions of some, perfectly applica- 

 ble in one xomj or another, perhaps in no 

 one more than the self-evident consolation, 

 if it does no good, it may do no harm ! it 

 will at any rate support tlie appearance of 

 business! If nature effects- her own pur- 

 pose and praiTiotes a cure, the rowel will be 

 entitled to a portion of credit, and the ope- 



