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the parts affected. In conjunction with this external application, take of 

 infusion of buchu, 11 drs. ; powdered tragacanth, 5 grs. ; tincture of buchu, 

 1 dr. ; mix for a draught, and take every morning. If there be much nausea, 

 8 clyster should be administered, consisting of a dram of laudanum, with % 

 a tea-cupful of thin starch; this to be injected every 2 or 3 hours, or at longer 

 intervals, according to the effect produced. Employ the warm bath, and 

 afterwards warm fomentations to the stomach and loins; drink freely of lin- 

 seed tea. Take also of sulphate of magnesia 1 oz. ; solution of carbonate of 

 magnesia, 1 oz. ; tincture of henbane and tincture of ginger, of each 2 drs.; 

 sulphuric ether, i^ a dr. ; water, 4 ozs. ; mix and give 3 table-spoonfuls every 

 6 hours. Those who have once suffered from inflammation of the kidneys 

 are very liable to it again; to prevent a recurrence of the attack, they shoiild 

 abstain from wine and stimulants; use moderate exercise; avoid exposure to 

 wet and cold; eat of food light and easy of digestion; not lie too much on the 

 back, and on a mattress in preference to a bed 



2. Aconite in minute doses is good for kidney complaint, peritonitis, 

 puerperal fever, etc. 



3. Constant application of poultices, as recommended in "2" for the 

 liver, promotes cure and relieves pain. 



1. INFLAMMATION OF THE BLADDER — Acute. — This 



disease affects the lining membrane of the bladder, — sometimes its muscular sub- 

 stance. It may attack the upper portion, the middle, or the neck of this organ. 

 It runs a rapid course. 



Treatment. — If the urine be retained, it is of the utmost importance 

 that it be early drawn off with the catheter, lest a distention of the bladder 

 bring on mortification. Great care is required not to produce irritation by 

 any roughness in introducing the instrument. 



Leeches should be applied upon the lower part of the bowels, the perinoeum 

 and around the anus. "When these are removed, warm poultices should be 

 applied. Cold compresses will often do as well. The bowels must be opened 

 with Epsom salts. Injections of warm water with a few drops of tincture of 

 arnica leaves will act finely as a local bath, — the water being retained as long 

 as possible. 



The tincture of veratrum viride will be required in 5 to lO-drop doses, or 

 the compound tincture of Virginia snake root to induce perspiration. Dover's 

 powders may sometimes be used for the same purpose. 



Drinks must be taken very sparingly. A small amount of cold infusion 

 of slippery elm bark or marshmallow and peach leaves. This mucilaginous 

 drink must be the beginning and the end of the diet during the active stage of 

 the disease. 



2. Inflammation of the Bladder — Chronic— This is much 

 more common than the active form of the disease. It often arises from the 

 same causes which produce acute inflammation of the bladder^ 



