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These are safe, mild, and efficacious ; in 

 general producing the desired effect, without 

 any uneasy sensations. Repeat your reme- 

 dies every four or five hours, until you have 

 gained your object. 



Thus much for stranguary occasioned by 

 spasm, or inflammation of the neck of the 

 bladder : but, as before stated, it may proceed 

 from inflammation or ulceration of the kid- 

 neys, and a paralytic affection or palsy of the 

 parts, in either of which, symptoms are fre- 

 quently doubtful, and seldom certain ; cir- 

 cumstances may constantly vary in different 

 subjects, so as to render the true seat of 

 disease a matter of conjecture only. 



The only symptoms to which some certainty 

 may be attributed are the following: — If pro- 



ceeding from spasm, on either part, there may 

 be frequent periodical relaxations that will 

 permit the urine to flow in small quantities for 

 a very short time, when it may as suddenly 

 stop. In this case, the urine will be of its 

 usual colour, or at times rather deeper, as if 

 not perfectly complete in its secretion from 

 the blood. In such case the treatment will 

 be as just pointed out, but with this addi- 

 tional direction, repeat the bleeding again. 



But where the cause originates in palsy of, 

 or ulceration upon, any of the above-named 

 organs, attached to the offices of evacuations, 

 no great expectation of cure can be indulged 

 in, but more particularly in the former, with 

 which approaches certain death. 



