ON DISEASES OF THE KIDNEYS. 469 



tone ; othenvife, bleeding, tender care, and the 

 milder diuretics, with opiates continued. To 

 eftablifli a cure, two months grafs, or draw- 

 yard. 



The Diabetes in a horfe, is either the 

 r^tal termination of fome chronic difeafe, or 

 the fign of aconltitution too far gone to be 

 worth the attempt at a recovery ; but if fuch an 

 attempt be meditated, it mull be effayed by 

 the long continued ufe of reftringents, aggluti- 

 nants and balfamics — Barks, gums, balfams, 

 boles, chalk, logwood, and lime-water. Dry 

 FiOurifhing diet, with beans and rice. 



Cafting my eye over a Review lately, I faw 

 a very excellent praftical obfervation of a cer* 

 tain phyfician (furely Dr. S. Walker ?) treated 

 with unmerited (light. The do6lor remarked, 

 that the dread of a diabetes, during their fre- 

 quent nervous emilTions of urine, was a com- 

 mon hallucination with many hypochondriac 

 patients : I can vouch for the truth of that 

 remark, 



THE COLIC, GRIPES, OR FRET. 



For the Cure of this troublefome, and fome* 

 times dangerous complaint, eminent men, both 

 under the ancient and new order of things, 

 have invented extraordinary remedies. Leo- 

 nard Mafgal affures us (p. 242) that " the colic 

 ** in the belly of beads is foon put away, by 



** beholding 



