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CHAP. LXIV. 



ROWELLING. 



RowELLiNG is useful in some respects, and 

 answers nearly the same intention as blistering 

 does on the human body. When this operation is 

 performed, the skin must be cut so as to get a 

 finger or a thumb into it, which must be worked 

 about till the skin is parted from the body three 

 or four inches round ; then dip the rowel in a little 

 of the digestive ointment (No. Ill, p. 148), pre- 

 viously dissolved, or in an equal quantity of hog's 

 lard and common turpentine, melted together. In 

 cases of severe coughs, or other affections of the 

 windpipe, also in inflammation of the lungs, or 

 bowels, it will be proper to cover the rowel with a 

 sufficient quantity of the following mild blistering 

 ointment. 



(RECIPE, No. 184.) 



Take — Yellow basilicon ointment, one ounce; 

 Cantharides in powder, two drachms; 

 Spirit of turpentine, two drachms, by measure. 



This ointment will be found to act more power- 

 fully in stimulating the parts to action, and in 

 bringing on a regular suppuration, than any of the 

 former. When the rowel is put in, two or three 



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