360 STRANGURY. 



of parts appropriated to the fecretlon and 

 excretion are fo numerous as to render the 

 exad 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 cei'tain conjefture) from 

 their courfe of extenfive pradlice. The 

 STRANGURY is fometimcs a concomitant to the 

 inflammatory cholic, and is then the effedl of 

 preflbre from the indurated faeces or hardened 

 dung retained in the redum, or ftraight 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, it m.ay be confidered merely fymp- 

 tomatic, and will be entirely fubdued with 

 the firft complaint, to which the faline medi- 

 cines and flimulus of glyfters there prefcribed 

 will very much contribute. 



The figns of this fupprefllon are too pal- 

 pable to be miftaken ; the fubjed is (after a 

 long retention of urine) in an almoft perpetual 

 pofition to ftale without efFed:, indicating by 



adtion 



