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kssly attempted by many of tUe ablest physicians. The remediate 

 employment of Uva ursi has, however, not been confined to the uri- 

 nary organs ; it has been equally extolled in the cure of other mala- 

 dies, particularly in diabetes, consumption, leucorrhoea, luumaturia, 

 and gonorrlicea. 



In the treatment of diabetes, Dr. Ferrias was in the habit of 

 giving it in conjunction with cinchona and lime-water. Dr. Bourne, 

 professor of the practice of physic in the University of Oxford, 

 speaks very highly of the efficacy of the Uva ursi in the cure of pul- 

 monary consumption. He states that, out of sixteen cases treated 

 with this remedy, nine were cured, four relieved, and three died. 

 He gave medicine in ten grain doses, with half a grain of opium, 

 three times a day. 



It is useful in irritations of the bladder, ulcerations of the kid- 

 neys, &c. ; but it is difficult to account for its modus operandi in these 

 diseases. In dysentery and diarrhoea, the decoction may be admin- 

 istered as an adjuvant to other medicines: its chief employment, 

 however, is confined to affections of the urinary organs ; but future 

 experience must determine its precise virtues in these diseases. 



The leaves may be employed either in powder or decoction ; 

 the former is mostly preferred, and given in doses from a scruple to 

 a drachm, two or three times a day. 



