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BOTANIC PHYSICIAN. 
sweet bugle, may be used. Alum-whey isalso very 
: it is made by boiling two quarts of milk over a slow fire, 
with three drachms of alum, till the curd separates, This may be 
taken in the dose of a tea-cup full three or fourtimes aday. These 
‘may be tinctured with a few drops of laudanum in the dose when 
luntary Lee : 
There is a disease incident to laboring people in the decline of . 
life, called an incontinency of urine. But this is very different from 
the diabetes, as the water passes off involuntary, by drops, and does 
not exceed the usual quantity. It is owing to a relaxation of the 
constricter of the bladder ; and is often the effect of palsy. This 
__ ‘may be mitigated by astringents, but is seldom curable. A piece 
Of sp should be worn to prevent the urine from galling the parts. 
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SUPPRESSION OF URINE. 
A of urine may proceed from various Causes ; as an in- 
flammation of the kidneys, or bladder; small stones or gravel Jodg-— 
ing in the urinary passages ; hard foeces lying in the rectum; preg- 
nancy ; a spasm or contraction of the neck of the bladder; vene- 
real, clap; stricture; clotted blood, &c. ¢ 
Ifthe obstruction proceeds from inflammation of the kidneys or _ 
bladder, the treatment will be found before described. Very small 
gravel, by getting down into the neck of the bladder, irritates it 
80 as to produce a spasm: or, the gravel may be so large as totally 
_ to obstruct the passage : when either of these is the case, the clea-. 
vers tea, with ten drops of oil of pumpkin seeds every two hours till 
_ - gelief is obtained, will open the passage. In addition to these,a 
- large poultice of bruised onions must be laid over the lower part of 
the belly.- These will relax the spasm, and give speedy relief. HE 
hard feeces, in the rectum produce the suppression, they must be 
removed by clysters. If there is a stricture of the urethra fromthe 
venereal disease, general remedies must be taken to remove the — 
-eause ; while the oil of pumpkin seeds, or cleavers, may be taken 
inwardly, and an onion poultice applied outwardly, to relax the con-_ 
striction. I have often cured a stricture with the anti-mercurial 
_Semetmes an obstruction of urine comes on in old people, who 
ve labored hard, or from strains, which seems to proceed from an 
thickening of the urethra, from a humor settling upon that part. 
‘mentioned relaxing d 
asm upon the urinary passages. = 
dic obstructions, fomentations are _ 
st of decoctions of mild vegetables, as 
mile, oats, hops, &c. Cloths dipped in these — 
may be applied to the part; or a bladder filled with the warm de 
_ eoction may be laid on; or the warm herbs may be put in a flannel 
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