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the introduction of extraneous substance and sti- 

 mulating medicines, (spirits of turpentine,) a con- 

 stant supuration is promoted. This discharge is 

 evidently from the whole system ; and if the rowels 

 are numerous, and long continued, produce great 

 debility. 



It will appear from what has been said, that 

 roweling may be of service when matter is sus- 

 pected to be forming in some of the important 

 parts of life ; such as the lungs. Roweling, by 

 lowering the system, and promoting absorption, 

 may carry the matter into the circulation, and be 

 thrown of! by the common emunctories, or may 

 determine its action to a lefs important part. 

 Roweling, by its tendency to promote absorption, 

 will be found serviceable in swelled legs, or where 

 a discharge has been long continued from an ul- 

 cer; which, if suddenly stopped, may do great in- 

 jury, without an artificial drain is procured in 

 some other part of the body. In such cases, be- 

 fore the rowels are removed, a course of milci 

 alterative medicines should be adopted. 



We have seen modern authors advising rowels 

 in the chest for inflammation of the feet ; but by 

 what means rowels in the chest, or any other part 

 of the body, can remove the diseases of the feet, wp 



