286 ROWELLING, 



amongst the human species, those analogong 

 operations, issues and setons, in the course 

 of the last forty or fifty years are comparatkely 

 obliterated bearing no kind of proportion 

 in common use, being but very seldom either 

 advised or adopted, but where the parties, 

 from an invincible personal ov pecimiary aver- 

 sion to medicine, cannot be prevailed upon 

 to undergo such course as may evidently 

 repair the constitution, to a certain partial co?z- 

 $iu/iption of the purse. 



After every observation I have been able 

 to deduce from theory, every remark I could 

 collect in practice, and every information to 

 be derived from those Vulcanian Vete- 

 rinarians I have had the /w^or to consult; 

 after the analyzation of its physical process 

 upon the frame ; its being immediately and 

 equally fed from the fountain of circulation 

 and support ; a proper investigation and ex- 

 posure of the ridiculous idea of partially 

 drawing off corrupt or diseased particles from 

 the blood, that the animal may '^ live the 

 purer with the other half ;'" and lastly, the 

 more contemptible propagation of their being 

 found applicable to all diseases^ without a 



