AND FAMILY DISPENSATORY. . 161 
Or BLOODY URINE. 
T HIS difcharge is more or lefs dangerous, according to the different ‘circum. 
ftances which attend it. When pure blood is voided fuddenly without interruption 
and without pain, it proceeds from the kidneys ; but, ifthe blood be in {mall quan- 
tity, of adark colour, and emitted with heatand pain about the bottom of the belly, . 
it proceeds from the bladder. Bloody urine is always attended with fome degree of 
danger; but it is peculiarly fo when mixed with purulent matter, as this fhews aa 
ulcer fomewhere in the urinary pafliges. | 
CURE..---When there is reafon to fufpeé an ulcer in the kidneys or bladder, the 
- patient’s diet muft be cool, and his drink of a foft, healing, balfamic, quality, as de- 
coctions of marfh-mallow roots with liquorice, folutions of gum-arabic, &c. Three 
~ ounces of marfh-mallow roots, and half an ounce of liquorice, may be boiled in two 
Englith quarts of water to one; two ounces of gumarabic, and half an ounce of pu- 
rified nitre, may be‘diffolved in the ftrained liquor, and a tea-cupful of it taken four 
or five times a-day. The early ufe of aftringents in this difeafe has of.en bad con- 
fequences. When the flux is {topped too foon, the grumous blood, by being con- 
fined in the veflels, may produce inflammations, abcefs, and ulcers. . If however the 
cafe be urgent, or the patient feems to fuffer from the’ lofs of blood, gentle altrin- 
gents may be neceffary. In this cafe the patient may take three or four ounces.of 
lime-water, with half anounce of thetincture of Peruvian bark, three timesa-day. 
Or tus DYSENTERY, orn BLOODY FLUX, 
THIS difeafe is known by the flux of the belly, attended with violent pain of the 
bowels, @ conftant inclination to go toftool, and generally more or lefs blood iff the | 
ftools. It begins, like other fevers, with chillnefs, lofs of ftrength, a quick pulfe, 
great thirft, and an inclination to vomit. The ftools are at firft greafy or frothy, 
afterwards they are {treaked with blood, and, at latt, have frequently the appearance 
of pure blood, mixed with {mall filaments, refembling bits of fkin. - 
~ CURE.---Nothing is of more importance in this difeafe than cleanlinefs. It con- 
tributes greatly to the recovery of the patient, and no lefs to the fafety of fach as at- 
tend him. Every thing about the patient fhould be frequently changed. The exe 
crements fhould never be fuffered to continue in his chamber, but be removed imme- 
- diately, and buried under ground. A conftant ftream of frefh air fhould be admit-- 
ted into the chamber ; and it ought frequently to be fprinkled with vinegar, juice of 
~ lemon, or fome other ftrong acid. At the beginning of this difeafe it is always ne-" 
cefflary to cleanfe the firft paffages. For this purpofe a vomit of ipecacuanha mutt 
be given, and wrought off with weak camomile-tea, Strong vomits are Xt OS" 
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