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the kidney. When attended with pain on motion, it is owing 

 to a bit of gravel in the ureter or pelvis of the kidney ; which is 

 a much more frequent difeafe than the former. See Sect. 

 XXVII. i. 



M. M. i. Venefe£tion in fmall quantity, calomel, bark, fteel, 

 an opiate ■> cold immerfion up to the navel, the upp^r part of 

 the body being kept clothed. Neville-Holt water. 2. Alcali- 

 zed water aerated. Much diluent liquids. Cool drefs. Cool 

 bed- room. 



Cows are much fubject to bloody urine, called foul water by 

 the farmers -> in this difeafe about fixty grains of opium with or 

 without as much ruft of iron, given twice a day, in a ball mixed 

 with flour and water, or difTolved in warm water, or warm ale, 

 are, I believe, an efficacious remedy, to which however fhould be 

 added about two quarts of barley or oats twice a day, and a cover 

 at night, if the weather be cold. 



8. Htzmorrhagia hepatis. Haemorrhage from the liver. It 

 fometimes happens in thofe, who have the gutta rofea, or para- 

 lytic affections owing to difeafed livers induced by the potation 

 of fermented liquors, that a great difcharge of black vifcid blood 

 occallonaliy comes away by (tool, and fometimes by vomiting : 

 this the ancients called melancholia, black bile. If it was bile, a 

 fmall quantity of it would become yellow or green on dilution 

 with warm water, which was not the cafe in one experiment 

 which I tried ; it muft remain fome time in the inteftines from 

 its black colour, when it pafTes downwards, and probably comes 

 from the bile-duets, and is often a fatal fymptom. When it is 

 evacuated by vomiting it is lefs dangerous, becaufe it fhews great- 

 er remaining irritability of the inteftinal canal, and is fometimes 

 falutary to thofe who have difeafed livers. 



Two elderly men, who had loft their appetite for animal food, 

 \vhich is always a dangerous fymptom, when it occurs to thofe 

 who have drank too much fermented liquor, obferved, that they 

 parted with black ftools. One of them alfo had the mucus of 

 his noflrils occallonaliy ftained with blood. The black ftools 

 appeared evidently to confift of the coagulum of blood, fome- 

 times without other feces. After a few weeks> they both funk 

 under this difcharge, which I fuppofed to proceed from the liv- 

 er, as it never appeared florid in any part of it. See Section 

 XXVII. 2. 



M. M. An emetic. Rhubarb, fteel, wine, bark, opium. 



9. Hzmoptoe venofa. Venous hsemoptoe frequently attends 

 the beginning of the hereditary confumptions of dark-eyed peo- 

 ple •, and in others, whofe lungs have too little irritability. Thefe 

 initlings of blood are generally in very fmall quantity, as a tea- 



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