HEM 
cafes, is fimply this: 
Having fecured the little hard tumour, which is often fituated 
n h 
“ unfrequently be fufficient, 
liforder. 
well as in thofe before mentioned, a careful inquiry will often 
difcover that one, or at moft two, of the hemorrhoids are 
utive of thefe effects, and alone require removal, 
“the excitement and protrufion of the reft being merely the 
effe& of the irritability which thefe occafions ‘See Ware on 
8. 
the Treatment of Hemorrhoi 
ing is fomewhat alarming ; but, as the com- 
meang0f deftroying piles, we give it our decided repro- 
It is always a tedious plan, feveral days often paff- 
ing before the tumours drop off ; it is alfo lefs cleanly, and 
at pain, than what is occafioned 
iby the knife. Petit was led to give up the mode of curing 
hemorrhoids with a li i 
furgeon mutt diftend the rectum with a piece of fponge of 
Some furgeons would 
fome ftyptie lotion, though, perhaps, 
this fort of cafe, as the hemorrhage has been knownto prove 
fatal, the reGtum and whole of the colon being found filled and 
diftended with blood on infpeéting the body after death, © 
: HEMP, in Botany. See CANNABIS. 
_ Heme, in Agriculture, a well known: fibrous-rooted plant 
Aer 
HEM 
of the herbaceous fort, which rifes to a confiderable height 
with athick ftrong ftem, efpecially where the ground is favour- 
able to its growth. It affords a rind or coat, the texture of 
which is firm and ftrong, ‘being held in high eftimation in the 
manufacture of the more coarfe forts of cloth, ropes, and 
different defcriptions of cordage, as well as a number of 
other articles 
utility and importance fho 
country, where there is fo much land well fuited to its 
cultivation. : 
Soil.—The nature of the foil moft adapted to the raifing 
lack putrid 
ary green 
crops for the ufe of live ftock ; and its being of a nature to 
contribute little to the increafe of the dung-heap ; as well as 
uble and attention which it requires im being 
ufually accomplifhed where it is put in after grain crops, - 
feed is fown. 
many operations of the harrow ; 
rich compoit m 
the proportion of thirty-three, as without fuch dreflings good 
Scotland; they 
manure the land well ‘with the beft dung ; and after the feed 
is putin, top-drefs with afhes, and the dung of theeps 
pigeons, &c. : z . 
Seed.—It is of much importance, in the culture of this 
fort of crop, to have fuch feed as is perfectly frefh and goods 
which is belt afvertained by its weight and the brightnels 
its colour. 4 
_ The quantity of feed mutt neceffarily vary under iiee 
circumftances ; but from two to three bufhels are the 5 Bg 
tities moft ufually employed. ‘Too much ne-where 
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