4^8 ESSAYS AND OBSERVATIONS 



rus. The fame holds good as to inter- 

 nals. Nothing embarralTes more than 

 inflammation in a low ftate. But quick- 

 filver is a powerful antiphlogiltic, and 

 removes inflammation without accelera- 

 ting the motion of the fluids, which it 

 rather diminilhes, by fubduing their 

 inflammatory difpofition. When there 

 is little or no fever, it as powerfully re- 

 fclves obfl:ru6lion, without diminifliing 

 the impetus of the blood, on a proper de- 

 giee of which refolution depends. In 

 this view, experience fliews it to be a 

 fuitable remedy, equally adapted to the 

 difeafe in its acute, as well as chronical, 

 ftate : Provided flill there is nothing to 

 forbid the ufe of it ; fuch as plain failure 

 from old age ; a highly wafted habit ; 

 or a hedlic indifpofitioo. Yet, if the 

 hedllc depends upon the obftrudion, cau- 

 tioufly adminitlered, it may prove a 



cure. 



The method recommended may be 

 no lefs ufeful as a preventive- A diffi- 

 culty of urine, a tightnefs above the 



