IMPROVED. 15s 



a great many People die of a Suppreflion of Urine 

 altho' they might be cured by the atorefaid Method : 

 But the Generality of Mankind are fo ignorant, 

 that when any Man dies for want of making Water, 

 it is prefently concluded that the Gravel or Stone 

 was the Caufe ; whereas they have no Manner of 

 Relation to an Ifchury or Stoppage of Urine. I 

 could eafily account for the Reafonablenefs of my 

 Operation for this Diforder, and jfhow how im- 

 poffible it would be for the Patient to pifs under fuch 

 a Paralytick Indifpofition of the Bladder, as hap- 

 pens at fuch Times, if my Leifure would in any 

 Kind permit me fo to do : But if any of my Rea- 

 ders fhould ( though I heartily wifh they never may ) 

 be troubled with a SuppreiTion of Urine for feveral 

 Days, and that, after the taking their Water away 

 \)y the Ufe of the Catheter, the Bladder ftill con- 

 tinues infenfible of the Preflure of Urine with which 

 it is from Time to Time filPd : I fay, when the 

 Q:>X^ is thus defperate, I am fure Cutting into the 

 Bladder above the Os Pubis mud be the only Relief, 

 and it is both fafe and fuccefsful ; neither is it at- 

 tended with Pain, no not even fo much as that of 

 being let Blood : For, as the Bladder is, or ought to 

 be, pretty full of Water when this Operation is per- 

 form'd, the Parts are fo upon the Stretch and be- 

 num'd, that there is little Feeling left. Befides this, 

 there is not any Lofs of Blood, no not the Quantity 

 of two Ounces, efpecially if the Operation is per- 

 form'd by a Perfon skill'd in Anatomy ; nor are the 

 Parts which minilter to Generation in the leall hurt 

 or difabled, as I have been inform'd from feveral 

 of my Patients who have undergone this new Ope- 

 ration. But to return. 



- It is fcarce wonh any Body's While to keep a 

 Horfe v/hich is fubjeft to Diforders of the Reins and 

 Bladder. I fliall therefore only add a Recipe or two 

 for pi fling of Bleed, after I have given a Ihort Ac- 

 count of the Caufe ; for,. 



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