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time, the general health is to be promoted by the use of bark, Iron, and cold 

 bathing The best local applications are those made of the sulphate of zinc in 

 the proportion of 2 grs to the oz , or 1 gr. of corrosive sublimate to 6 ozs. of 

 water, and they require to be pretty frequently thrown up. Tliey ought to excite 

 a little pain on first being used. If wt; do not succeed by astringent injections, 

 we may be obliged to use bougies, cither clean, or lightly touched with a little 

 basilicon ointment. Balsam of Copaiba in the dose of 1 dr. 3 or 4 times a-day, 

 or the tincture of cantharides, 10 drops as often, may be given internally, or 

 the following combination may be used: Take of citrate of iron and quinine, 1 

 scruple; tincture of cantharides, 1 dr.; water, 3 ozs. Mix. A dessert-spoonful 

 3 times a day in a wine-glass of water If we find no benefit from the above 

 recommendation, we judge that the gleet does not arise from mere relaxation of 

 the parts or from liabit, but from unhealthy action of the glands in the urinary 

 passage, and we attempt the cure of this by bougies, and by blisters to the per 

 ineum. If the constitution is scrofulous, the remedies for that disease must be 

 conjoined with our local applications. Another cause of gleet is strictures in the 

 urethra. In such cases our attention is to be directed to the cure of the strict- 

 ures, for which we refer to that article. Sometimes a gleet is complicated with 

 discharges of the seminal fluid; where this occurs in an originally bad consti- 

 tution, which has been weakened by excesses, the sexual powers of the patient 

 are much impaired, and may even be altogether destroyed. Remedy, pages 

 205, 206, 207, 208, 209. 



GRAVEL, OR STOWE are the names applied to the diseases which are 

 occasioned by concretions in the urinary passages. Gravel signifies small stones 

 that pass from the kidneys through the urethra into the bladder cau.sing severe 

 pain, hence the disorder induced in such cases is called a/? of gravel. Stone isa 

 calculous concretion in the kidneys or in the urinary bladder, which is too large to 

 pass, or at least without great difiiculty. The symptoms to which such concre- 

 tions give rise are of the most painful kind, and occur so frequently, as to 

 become objects of very considerable interest. There are so many different 

 salts contained in the urme, that it does not appear wonderful that occasionally 

 they should fail to be kept in complete solution When this is the case, and 

 when a nucleus is formed, they concrete around it, and by their getting into 

 narrow passages, or pressing upon delicate organs, they occasion the severe 

 symptoms of stone or gravel A Fit of the Gravel is accompanied by a fixed 

 pain in the loins, a numbness of the thigh on the side alfectcd. sickness and 

 vomiting, and sometimes slight diminution of the quantity of urine. Some, 

 times the acutencss of the pain occasions faintings and convulsion fits. These 

 violent and i)ainful affections are generally terminated by the passage of small 

 stones through the urethra; and the patient is for the time easy. In those who 

 are much di-sposed to gravel, these attacks may be expected again, at uncertain 

 intervals. 



When there is Sto7ie in the Bladder, the symptoms are, a frequent inchna- 

 tion to make water, which flows in small quantity, and is often interrupted: 

 and there is generally pain at the extremity of the passage, e.'^pecially as tlie 

 last drop are expelled, and for some time afterwards. Remedy, page 48. 



