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buted to ROWELLING, as a favourite fpecies 

 of pradlice, not to be violated by the rude and 

 and uncultivated dictates of modern im- 

 provement. I muft confefs, in the cafes 

 we now fpeak of, 1 lliould by no means 

 too kaJl'^Jy recommend their infcrtion ; but 

 proceeding with a proper degree of con- 

 fiflency, according to the apparent caufe 

 from a ftate of the blood, prefer a courfe 

 of diuretics or alteratives^ (as the cafe might 

 require) and referve the operation of roweU 

 ling as my lafl refjurce, when every other 

 method had failed of the expected fuccefs. 



** In great fwellings of the glands, &c. 

 about the throat and jaws, which threaten 

 a fuffocation/' — This is a recommendar 

 tion fo diredly contrary to every fyfte- 

 matic and fcientific proceeding, that I fliall 

 confine both my furprize and remarks merely 

 to a profeffional explanation ; and the in^ 

 trodud;ion of my own opinio?t, in oppofition 

 to theirs. If the fwellings were fo alarming 

 as to ** threaten fuffocation/" and afforded 

 no hope of fpeedy maturation, by topical ap- 

 plications, (which muft ever prove the moil 

 4 eligible 



