474 ESSAYS and OBSERVATIONS 



great heat, with difficulty in making wa- 

 ter ; and a round hard tumour was felc 

 rifing two or three inches above the os pw 

 his iniernally, exceeding punfiil to the 

 touch. After bleeding and laxative, fo- 

 mentations, lini^nentSj and proper drinks 

 were ufed, and the mercurial pill was gi- 

 ven ; by which the illnefs was prefeatly 

 removed. This perhaps was no more 

 than a fimple inflammation of the blad- 

 der, which, however, had it not foon been 

 carried off, might have brought on a 

 thickening of a different kind ; and, as 

 the cure correfponded with that pracfli- 

 fed in the following cafes, it was thought 

 proper to give it a place among them. 



Hist. 2. A gentleman of feventy, on 

 account of fome complaints which he 

 took to be graveliih, drank a purging 

 water. The frequent rnotions to (tool 

 and urine brought on a flrangury, and 

 inflammation of the neck of the bladder, 

 to a great height, which did not give 

 way but to repeated evacuations, efpecial- 

 ly bleeding. A difficulty ot urine remain- 

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