278 ROWELLING. 



bated to rowelling, as a favourite species 

 of practice, not to be violated by the rude 

 and uncultivated dictates of modern improve- 

 ment. I must confess, in the cases we now 

 speak of, I should by no means too has-- 

 tUy recommend their insertion ; but pro- 

 ceeding with a proper degree of consistency, 

 according to the apparent cause from a 

 state of the blood, prefer a course of diure^ 

 tics or alteratives, (as the case might require) 

 and reserve the operation of rowelling as my 

 last resource, when every other method had 

 failed of the expected success. 



'^ In great swellings of the glands, &c. 

 about the throat and jaws, which threaten 

 a suffocation." This is a recommenda- 

 tion so directly contrary to every systema-^ 

 tic and scientific proceeding, that I shall 

 confine both my surprize and remarks merely 

 to a professional explanation ; and the in- 

 troduction of my oci;n opinio?!, in opposition 

 to theirs. If the swellings were so alarming 

 as to '' threaten suffocation,'' and afforded 

 no hope of speedy maturation, by topical ap-^ 

 plications, (which must ever prove the most 



