of Wounded Intejlines * 43 1 
emollient flowers for a full hour, and to take particular 
care that the ftupes were applied of a very moderate 
warmth; often having obferved, that this manner of 
applying them, when an inflammation was either to be 
refolved or prevented, was more effectual than when the 
heat has been greater. This obfervation, upon a little 
reflection, will be found agreeable to reafon ; for as great 
heat proves an aftringent, on the contrary, a moderate 
and kindly warmth relaxes, and, by promoting a free 
perfpiration of the parts to which it is applied, fooner 
effeCts the end propofed. The wound was drefled as 
before, with the addition of two ounces of the fpecies 
pro cataplafmate 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 injedl the under- 
written clyfter, as foon as it could be prepared : 
gi DecoB. pro Clyjl. § viij . 
01 . Lini. jij. 
EleB. Leniliv. 
Mel. Solutiv. ana §{£/. enema. 
This in about half an hour occasioned a very copious dis- 
charge of faces, together with a good deal of blood; 
fome of it congealed into lumps, the reft fluid. This 
circumftance did not fail to alarm my apprehenfton of 
the imminent danger of the lad’s fttuation,. as it was no 
longer to be doubted, but that the bowels were wounded 
in fome part of them; but what part ftill remained a 
matter of conjecture. When the clyfter had done ope- 
rating, he took this draught : 
Sperm . 
