368 STRANGURY. 



Take of myrrh one ounce, Cafiile foap and 

 Locatelli's balfam each three ounces ^ nitre 

 and anifeed (in powder) each two ounces; 

 balfam of Peru fix drachms — Mix toge- 

 ther with fyrup of mardi mallows, and 

 divide into fix balls, giving one every 

 morning. 



The diet (hould be both nutritive and bal- 

 famic, confifting of warm mafhes impregnated 

 with honey or malt ; both or either of v^hich 

 will greatly contribute to the general purpofe. 

 If fymptoms are mitigated, and relief obtained, 

 by thefe means, furely farther inftradions 

 mud be unneceffary to recommend a perfe- 

 verance till the cure is completed 5 to which 

 reft, gentle exercife, and ftable care, will prove 

 very ufeful aids. When an obilrudion, or 

 partial fuppreflion of urine, arifes from ^paim, 

 convulfion, or ftridure, upon any of the parts 

 neceflary to be concerned in fecretion or eva- 

 cuation, they can only be allayed or removed 

 by time and opiates, to relax the feat of 

 difeafe, and reduce the irritability. The fol- 

 lowing ballwWl be applicable to that intention, 

 repeating it at fuch times as the circumftances 

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