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should be suddenly withdrawn, and it will readily pass 

 down the throat. This method is preferable (with an 

 expert hand) to using the balling iron. 



Mode of giving Drinks. — Precisely the same opera- 

 tion is practised as in giving the ball, except that a tin 

 or gutta percha horn, holding the drink, is forced up 

 the mouth between the teelh, the mouth being raised 

 above a level line of the passage, the drink being poured 

 out of the smaller end of the horn well back to the roots 

 of the tongue, and when the tongue is loosened the drench 

 is swallowed without further trouble. 



ROWELS 



Are sometimes useful in keeping up a drain, to draw 

 humors from parts; or by the irritation they cause, on 

 one part, they lessen the inflammation on another part, 

 not very remote. The same as unloading the bowels by 

 physic, it helps relieve the surrounding organs, &c. 

 Any person can apply a rowel by making an incision in 

 the loose skin, any desirable length, say from one to four 

 inches, according to the situation and object aimed at. 

 Make the incision either up and down, or in a transverse 

 direction, for this will facilitate the matter discharged; 

 after pinching the loose skin and running the knife 

 through, making the incision large enough to admit the 

 rowel, or whatever you may choose to use for this pur- 

 pose. A tarred rope may be used, or any kind of a 

 string with pieces of scoke weed root fastened to it; or 

 a round piece of leather with a hole in the middle, and 

 smeared over with the blistering ointment. Each end 



