233 ROWELLING. 



The cases to which they may be in some 

 degree adapted, bearing professional traits 

 in their favour, are, partial swelUngs of some 

 duration, originally occasioned by extra- 

 vasated fluids become too viscid by stagna- 

 tion to be resorbed into the circulation ; cu- 

 taneous diseases not speedily submitting to 

 the course of medicines adapted to their 

 peculiar class ; inveterate lameness of long 

 standing in the shoulders or ligamentary 

 parts, by the retention of inflammatory 

 matter first fixed there by the improper and 

 too free use of spirituous applications ; and 

 asthmatic complaints upon a confirmation of 

 their non-submission to conditional bleed- 

 ings, a moderate use of nitre, and such course 

 of pectoral detergents as will be found re^ 

 commended under that head. In each of 

 Avhich, I should not hesitate a moment to 

 urge the propriety of inserting the roWel as 

 near the cause of complaint as possible ; that 

 the flux of matter (though collected from 

 the circulation) might flow directly from, 

 or as contisfuous to the seat as circumstances 

 will permit; and that such local insertion 

 may conti^bute assistance to whatever utility 

 they possess, in unloading to a certainty 



