t:.SS ROWELLING. 



The cafes to which they may be in fome 

 degree adapted, bearing profeffional traits in 

 their favour, are, partial fvvelLngs of fome 

 duration, originally occafioned by extrava* 

 fated fluids becorr.e too vifcid by llagnation 

 to be reforbed into the circulation ; cuta- 

 neous difeafes not fpeedily fubmitting to 

 the courfe of medicines adapted to their 

 peculiar clafs ; inveterate lamenefs of long 

 Handing in the flioulders or ligamentary 

 parts, by the retention of inflammatory 

 matter firfl: fixed there by the improper and 

 too free ufe of fpirituous applications; and 

 afthmatic complaints upon a confirmation of 

 their non-fubmiflion to conditional bleedings, 

 a moderate ufe of nitre, and fuch courfe 

 of pedtoral detergents as will be found re- 

 commended under that head. In each of 

 which, I fliould not hefitate a moment to 

 urge the propriety of inferting the rowel as 

 near the caufe of complaint as poflible ; that 

 the flux of matter (though colkded from 

 the circulation) might flow diredly from, 

 or as contiguous to the feat as circumftances 

 will permit; and that fuch local infertion 

 may contribute affiftance to whatever utility 

 they poffefs, in unloading to a certainty 



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