72 ARBUTUS UVA URSI. 
peated instances, Professor Wistar of Phila- 
delphia, as cited by Dr. Mitchell, has in several 
eases found symptoms like those of urinary caleu- 
lus completely removed by this medicine. But 
these could not probably have been cases of real 
calculus. ‘The late Professor Barton found the 
plant of much service in his own case of nephrit- 
ic paroxysms, alternating with gout in the feet. 
From the various testimonies which have been 
given respecting the properties of this article, we 
are not warranted in believing it to possess any 
real lithontriptic power. At the same time it un- 
doubtedly proves a palliative for calculous symp- 
toms in,many cases, 
I have repeatedly watched its effects in parox- 
ysms of nephritis, brought on by gravelly concre- 
tions, and am on the whole inclined to believe in 
its tendency to allay sensibility in these cases, 
and to hasten the relief of the symptoms. It 
ought generally to be preceded by evacuations, 
and may be advantageously accompanied with 
opium.—In cases of dysury arising from a yari- 
ety of causes, I have given the decoction of this 
plant with very satisfactory success: in repeated 
instances. 
The other diseases in which this plant has been 
recommended are, catarrhus vesicx, leucorrhea 
