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take particular care that the stupes were appHed of a very moderate warmth; 

 often having observed, that this manner of applying them, when an inflamma- 

 tion was either to be resolved or prevented, was more effectual than when the 

 heat has been greater. This observation, on a little reflection, will be found 

 agreeable to reason; for as great heat proves an astringent, on the contrary, a 

 moderate and kindly warmth relaxes, and, by promoting a free perspiration of 

 the parts to which it is applied, sooner effects the end proposed. The wound 

 was dressed as before, with the addition of 2 oz. of the species pro cataplasmate 

 de cymino to the poultice; and as the draughts he had taken had not produced 

 any motion of the bowels, it was thought proper to inject a laxative clyster, as 

 soon as it could be prepared : which in about half an hour occasioned a very co- 

 pious discharge of tasces, together with a good deal of blood; some of it con- 

 gealed into lumps, the rest fluid. This circumstance did not fail to alarm his 

 apprehension of the imminent danger of the lad's situation, as it was no longer 

 to be doubted, but that the bowels were wounded in some part of them ; but 

 what part still remained a matter of conjecture. When the clyster had done 

 operating, he took an oily anodyne draught. In the evening the fomentation 

 and dressings were again renewed, and directions given, that he should take one 

 of the oily laxative draughts, as first prescribed, at 3 o'clock in the morning; 

 and to repeat them regularly every 4th hour, till they had had their desired effect. 

 28th. He had got but little sleep in the night, though he had lain something 

 quieter, with short, but interrupted slumbers intervening. His pulse, and all 

 the other symptoms, were nmch in the same state as the day before, except a 

 general soreness of the abdomen ; of which, at this time, he made great com- 

 plaint, and more particularly about the wounded part. The whole belly was full 

 and tense; and when Mr. N. struck it with his finger, it returned an emphyse- 

 matose sound. The discharge from the wound was increased; it had stained the 

 bandage of a deep reddish-brown colour, and was of a disagreeable smell. The 

 draughts he had taken had not yet moved him ; therefore, Mr. N. desired they 

 might be continued, according to the general direction ; and that in case any stools 

 should come off, to put them by separately for his inspection. By the time he 

 made his evening visit, he had had 2 motions: in the first, there was a good deal 

 of fluid blood; with the last but little, no more than just to give it a tinge. 

 He was evidently relieved by the evacuation; was calmer and more composed; 

 his pulse was rather more up, and his skin warmer. He said he found himself 

 lithesomer, that he was not so tight, and thought he breathed with more free- 

 dom. When Mr. N. came to loosen the bandage, he was greatly surprised to 

 find it daubed all over with the discharge; but as soon as the dressing was 

 removed, there was no evidence wanting to assure him, that this discharge was 

 in part fecal, not only from the colour and smell of it, but also from the 



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