160 STRANGURY. 



for, as before observed, the variety of parts 

 appropriated to the secretion and excretion 

 are so numerous as to render the exact cause 

 of disease a matter of ambiguity and uncer- 

 tainty, v>^ith even those who might to be the 

 best enabled to form a decisive opinion (or 

 rather a certain conjecture) from their course 

 of extensive practice. The strangury is 

 sometimes a concomitant to the inflamma- 

 tory choiic, and is then the effect of pres- 

 sure from the indurated fences or hardened 

 dung retained in the recti|m, or straight gut, 

 "^VhcLi it arises not from this cause, it may 

 proceed nom inflammation in the kidneys, 

 ulcerations there, spasms upon any particular 

 part, or inflammation, of the neck, or fihe 

 blailder itself. When it is the consequence 

 of Cholic, and proceeds only from that origi- 

 nal cause, it may be considered merely symp- 

 tomatic, and will be entirely subdued with 

 the first complaint, to which the saline me- 

 dichies and stimulus of glysters there pre? 

 scribed will very much contribute. 



The signs of this suppression are too pal- 

 pable to be mistaken : the subject is (after ^ 



