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ration ; but the opinion is as irrational, as the cure 

 is unnecessarily cruel. 

 " October 31, 1814.'* 



The subsequent facts and cases, though not 

 precisely within the scope of Brera^s Treatise, will 

 be interesting to the medical reader, and not with- 

 out use to the physician. 



Mr. W. Lawrence, in the Sd vol. of the Med- 

 ico Chirurg. Trans., has given the case of a wo- 

 man, who voided a large number of worms, by the 

 urethra. " Mary P. aged twenty four, a single wo- 

 min of a healthy and strong constitution, was seiz- 

 ed in the winter of 1806, with retention of urine, 

 requiring the daily use of the catheter. She com- 

 plained of great weight in the bladder, pain about 

 the loins, and numbness of the thighs ; she seldom 

 passed any water, and when she did, only 5 a few 

 drops, much tinged with blood. 



" It was deemed a case of calculus, but nothing 

 of that nature could be detected by the sound." After 

 remaining along time without relief, she was, in the 

 summer of JS09, greatly emaciated, and her consti- 

 tution much deranged. 



Her tongue was furred, and frequently assumed 

 a typhoid appearance ; her appetite was lost ; she 

 complained of pains in the loins and bladder, and 

 had passed no water for six months, except by the 

 assistance of the catheter. About this time she was 

 seized with violent fits whenever the use of the in- 

 strument was delayed longer than usual, or when 

 the pain and burning heat in the bladder were 



