360 STRANGURY. 



riety of parts appropriated to the fecretlon ana 

 excretion are fo numerous as to render the 

 exadt caufe of difeafe a matter of ambiguity 

 and uncertainty, with even thofe who ought 

 to be the beft enabled to form a decifive 

 opinion (or rather a certain conjedlure) from 

 their courfe of extenfive practice. The 

 STRANGURY is fometimes a concomitant to 

 the inflammatory cholic, and is then the efFedt 

 of prelTure from the indurated faeces or har- 

 dened dung retained in the redum, or ilraight 

 gut. When it arifes not from this caufe, it 

 may proceed from inflammation in the kidnies, 

 ulcerations there, fpafms upon any particular 

 part, or inflammation of the neck, or the 

 bladder itfelf. When it is the confequence 

 of Cholic, and proceeds only from that origi- 

 nal caufe, t may be confidered merely fyrnp- 

 tomatic, and will be entirely fubdued with 

 the firft complaint, to which the faline medi- 

 cines and ftimulus of glyilcrs there prefcribed 

 will very much contribute. 



The figns of this fuppreffion are too pal- 

 pable to be miftaken; the fubjeft is (after a 

 long retention of urine) in an almoft perpetual 

 pofition to flale without effedt, indicating by 



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