EXERCISE. <i35 



iyftem of inconfiftencies, a rowel had 

 been inferted, as if the whole procefs had 

 been intentionally calculated to increafe the 

 caufe and inveteracy of difeafe. From the 

 ill effefts of this cafe (which is critically ac- 

 curate and authentic) may be derived a leffon 

 of the greateft utility to thofe who, perfecftly 

 happy in the vortex of perfonal confidence 

 and felf-fufficiency, fo frequently become the 

 dupes of their own imaginary fuperiority and 

 indifcretion. 



If the caufe had been inflammatory, arif- 

 ing from the vifible effedl of plenitude, vif^ 

 cidityy or grofs impurities in the habit, the 

 various evacuations might have been rotatio- 

 nally adopted, and juftified upon the prin- 

 ciples of rational pradice and medical conlif- 

 tency ; but unfortunately, in the prefent in- 

 ftance whatever tended to reduce the fyftem 

 and diffolve the craflamentum of the blood, 

 inevitably increafed the very evil they were 

 endeavouring to mitigate. It Vv'as equally 

 remarkable and extraordinary, that no one 

 article was brought into ufe but what be- 

 came additionally injurious to the caufe it 

 was intended to ferve j all which might have 

 4 been 



