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~ weakens re patient, or finks the fpirits, is to be avoided. _ If however the vomiting © 
fhould prove violent, lukewarm water, or {mall poffet; may be drunk, to cleanfe the 
ftomach. Afterwards the patient may take fifteen, twenty, or twenty-five, drops of 
liquid laudanum ina glafs of cinnamon-water, This may be repeated every ten or ‘ 
twelve hours till the fymptoms abate. The nervous cholic prevails among miners, 
{melters of lead, plumbers, the manufacturers of white lead, &c. It is very com- 
mon in the cyder counties of England, and is fuppofed to be occafioned by the lea- 
den veffels.uled i in preparing that liquor.. No difeafe of the bowels is attended with 
more excruciating pain than this. Nor is it foon at anend. I have known it con- 
tinue eight or ten days with very little intermiffion, the body all the while continuing 
bound in.{pite of medicine, yet at length yield, and the patient recover. It generally. 
however leaves the. patient weak, and often ends in a palfy. The general treat. 
ment of this difeafe is the fame with that of the iliac paffion; or inflammation of the: 
bowels, sit ¢ 
INFLAMMATION OF THE KIDNIES: 
"THIS difeate may proceed from any of thofe caufes which produce an inflamma. 
tory fever. Itmay likewife be occafioned by wounds or bruifes of the kidnies ; fmall: 
ftones or. gravel lodging within them; by hard riding or walking, efpecially in hot: 
weather; or whatever. drives the blood too forcibly into the kidnies may aesanom 
this malady. 
CURE..--Every thing of a heating or ftimulating nature is to be avoided. Emo. 
lient and.thin liquors muft be plentifully drunk; as clear whey, or baum-tea fweet-> 
ened with honey, decoétions of marfh-mallow roots, with barley and liquorice, 8c. 
Bleeding is generally neceffary, efpecially at the beginning. . Ten or twelve ounces 
may. be Jet from the arm or foot; and, if the pain and inflammation continue, the 
operation may be. repeated in twenty-four hours, efpecially if the. patient be of a 
fullhabit. Leeches may likewife be applied to the hemorrhoidal veins, as a dif. 
charge from thefe will greatly relieve the patient. Cloths dipped in warm water, 
or bladders filled with it, muft be applied as near as poffible to the part affected, and 
renewed as they grow cool. If the bladders be filled with a decoction of mallows 
and camomile flowers, to which a little faffron is added, and mixed with about 4 
third part of new milk, it will be ftill more beneficial. . Emollient cly{ters-ought, 
frequently to be adminiftered; and, if thefe do not open the, body, a little falt and, 
honey or manna may be added to them. ~The fame courfe is to be followed where; 
gravelor a {tone is lodged in the kidney; but, when the gravel or ftone. is, feparated, 
from the kidney,, and lodges i in the ureter, it will be proper, befides the. fomenta-, 
fweet oil, and to give gentle diuretics, aS je: 
tions, to rub the fmall of the back with wW a 
