26z R O W E L L I N G. 



I confidered myfelf exceedingly, lucky, in 

 ib favourable an opportunity, to acquire fome- 

 thing perfonally fatisfaclory upon the ope- 

 rative proccfs and probable effed: of rowels 

 upon the frame and habit, from one who 

 had fo confidently recommended their im- 

 inediate uk in a cafe of fo much emer- 

 gency ; and really expedted, from the ex- 

 tenfive pracflice of the party and the gene- 

 ral acknowledgment of his practical abili- 

 ties, that I fliould have been in a propor- 

 tional degree gratified ; but forry I am to 

 confefs, after every direct attack, oblique 

 infinuation, and crofs examination, he was 

 fo well fortified in his entrenchments^ that I 

 could derive no greater degree of informa- 

 tion than '* they were- the HkeUeft things to' 

 do him good/' 



This, among many other recommenda- 

 tions of rovvelling, upon foundations equally 

 ridiculous, brings to my mind another in- 

 ftancc of the indifcriminatc \\{^ of rowels, 

 with no other reafon on earth than a felf- 

 interefled reference \.o the pecuniary com- 

 penfation annexed to the ceremony of opera- 

 tion. A few weeks fince, an intimate friend 

 ♦ calling 



