366 STRANGURY. 



The only fymptoms to which fome certainty 

 may be attributed are the following : if pro- 

 ceeding from fpafni on either part, there may 

 be freejuent periodical relaxations that will 

 permit the urine to flow in fmall quantities for 

 a very fliort time, when it may as fuddenly 

 ftop ; m this cafe the urine will be of its ufual 

 colour, or at times rather deeper, as if not 

 perfedly complete in its fecretion from the 

 blood. In fuch cafe the treatment is exacftly 

 as already pointed out ; but with the addi- 

 tional directions to repeat the glyfter and 

 bleeding occafionally, till the point is cai'ried. 

 The gentle diuretic medicines muft be likewife 

 continued at lefs diilant periods; that is, tlicir 

 -difrind: doles mull be brought an hour nearer 

 to each other, till the purpofe is effedled^ 

 this method beiiig found greatly preferable 

 to the **kill or cure" pradlice, frequently 

 producing inilanuiiation, convuluons, and all 

 their dreadful confequences. 



But where the caufe originates in a palfy of, 



or ulceration upon, any parts iieceirary to the 



otiices of evacuation, no great exped:ation of 



cure can be indulged ; but more particularly 



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