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and a neceffary removal of inteftinal obftruc- 

 tions, if they lliould be found requifite; 

 I cannot have the leaft objediion to the in- 

 fertion of a rowel, or rowe/s, provided the 

 patient (in cither cafe) can be prevailed 

 upon to live t/jree or four days, to try the 

 effcdl of the experiment ; and this I admit 

 upon a recom.mendation in my former vo- 

 lume, that ** increafing appearances of dan- 

 ger muft juftify exertions of alacrity and 

 fortitude :'* Although I muft confefs my ap- 

 preheniion that either of the above cafes, 

 (unlefs early counteraded by the judicious 

 interpofition of other adminillrations) muft 

 gain ground too rapidly upon the fyftem, to 

 undergo a fudden change of improvement, 

 by means {o very tardy in the eftedls of their 

 operation, 



** In recent lamenefs." — Why in recent 

 lamenefs, and before any of the milder me- 

 thods are introduced, I am at a lofs to con* 

 ceive; but upon preium.ption that every 

 other probable remedy is fet at defiance, for 

 the more applicable introdudion of rest, 

 I ftart not the moft trifling objedion, con- 

 vinced it is the only pica that can be of- 

 3 fered 



