'258 liOWELLING. 



tents of tow, dipped in the same ointment as is 

 used with the rowel, must be introduced into the 

 wound. The horse must have warm water and 

 mashes for three or four days, or until the wound 

 begins to suppurate. When a good matter makes 

 its appearance, the tents must be taken out, and 

 the rowel turned every two or three days. A 

 fortnight, or three weeks, are always deemed a 

 sufficient time for a rowel to be in ; as, if per- 

 mitted to continue any longer, it is apt to leave a 

 carious substance. 



Rowelling is useful in old strains of long stand- 

 ing, either in the shoulder, stifle, or whirl-bone. — 

 When a rowel is used in the shoulder, it must be 

 about three or four inches below the joint of the 

 shoulder ; a similar distance below the whirl-bone ; 

 and the same distance also below the stifle-joint, 

 but rather more to the inside of the thigh. The 

 use of rowelling in the above purposes is to excite 

 a counteraction, and, by this means, remove the 

 chronic inflammation, which causes the lameness. 

 It is likewise proper in diseases of the head, viz. 

 pains in the head, sleepiness, staggers, and dis- 

 orders of the eyes, in swelled heels, and likewise 

 in cases of fever. It must be observed, that a 

 horse should never be let blood, or purged, until 

 the rowel digests a good matter. 



