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heals ; if not, it muft be repeated. The principal 

 manaaement is in introducing the fubftance to the 

 bottom, and into all the pipes, or finufes. 



BACK RAKING 

 Is a method of emptying the bowels by means of 

 the hand. The right hand arm (if poffible, of a fmall 

 man) being ftripped, and oiled; with the left hand the 

 tail is drawn afide, when the right hand, being made 

 as fmall as poffible, and cone liiie, is gently intro- 

 duced up the fundament, and any quantity of hard- 

 ened excrement the hand meets with carefully re- 

 moved in fmall pieces. From this it will at once be 

 evident that back raking muft be ufeful in a vaft va- 

 riety of cafes. It fhould always be made ufe of pre- 

 vious to giving a clyfter, otherwife the hardened 

 matter may prevent ihe paflTage of the fluid. It is 

 proper always, alfo, in cholic; and in all cafes of 

 coftivenefs it fhould never be difpenfed with. 



RING BONE. 



This is a bony fwelling about the coronet. When 

 it has been of long ftanding, it is feldom curable; 

 but in early cafes a blifler may be tried. See Blis- 

 ters. 



And if this is not found fufficient, firing muft be 

 had recourfe to. 



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