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the tumor is the work of time, in the ufe 

 of the fame remedy, or others, as they are 

 indicated, refpcdling health in general^ 

 or this local p.fFeclioa in particular. 



Anothfr advantage ariiing from 

 the early practice of this method is, that 

 its effeds being fpeedy and certain, it 

 \vill often, by making way for the urine, 

 fuperfede the uie of the catheter; thein^ 

 troduclion of which, for the moft part, 

 is difficult, fomerimes impodible ; and, 

 tvhen the parts are inii;^med, unfufFer- 

 ably painful and dangerous. 



But when, from old age, a flagging 

 pulfc, or want of fever, bleeding cannot 

 be pradifed, the ufual antiphlogiftics 

 will be of fiT.all ufe. Thefe, a few excepted, 

 being chiefly coolers and diluents, are 

 deobftruents indireclly, or by chance 

 only ; and, too much perfifted in, they 

 reduce the force of circulation, by which 

 the obltruclion is more confirmed. In 

 a fimple inflaiTimaiion of the bladder, 

 therefore, we are dirc<?lednot to continue 

 too long the ufe of cooling and repelling 

 external applications, for fear of a fchir- 

 VoL, III, Rrr rus» 



