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mixed with blood. The powerful irritation, thus in- 

 duced, continued for several days, notwithstanding the 

 mildest injection of the sugar of lead was resorted to, 

 and the patient carefully observed the most rigid adhe- 

 rence to every part of the antiphlogistic mode of treat- 

 ment. 



This case (and the Editor has heard of at least one 

 other, nearly of a similar kind) seems well calculated to 

 show the powerfully- stimulating operation of this prepa- 

 ration of antimony upon the delicate internal surface of 

 the urethra. But, perhaps, the physician may some;;? 

 times avail himself of this violent effect of the tartar 

 emetic, and turn it to a very beneficial account in prac- 

 tice. In cases of hernia humoralis, depending upon 

 the sudden suppression of the discharge from the ure- 

 thra, whether that suppression have been occasioned by 

 the use of injections too astringent, by the application 

 of cold, &c., might it not be advantageous to try the 

 effect of a solution of tartar-emetic, in the shape of in- 

 jection? It would not be necessary, nor even safe, to 

 use the injection strong. It is believed, that the anti- 

 monial medicine, in the proponion of one grain and a 

 half, or, at the utmost, two grains, to eight ounces of 

 water, would, in most cases of such hernia humoralis, 

 be sufficient to renew the discharge. 



Editor. 



40. The Editor is informed, that several cases of the 

 disease of Bronchocele, or Goitre, have, within the last 



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