56 DISEASES CIASS I. 2. 1. 8, 



tion in the kidney. When attended with pain on motion, it is 

 owing to a bit of gravel in the ureter or pelvis of the kidney; 

 which is a much more frequent disease than the former. See 

 Sect. XXVII. 1. 



M. M. 1. Venesection in small quantity, calomel, bark, steel, 

 an opiate; cold immersion up to the navel, the upper part of the 

 body being kept clothed. Neville-Holt water. 2. Alcalized 

 water aerated. Much diluent liquids. Cool dress. Cool bed- 

 room. 



Cows are much subject to bloody urine, called foul water by 

 the farmers; in this disease about sixty grains of opium with or 

 without as much rust of iron, given twice a day, in a ball mixed 

 with flour and water, or dissolved in warm water, or warm ale, 

 are, I believe, an efficacious remedy, to which however should 

 be added about two quarts of barley or oats twice a day, and a 

 cover at night, if the weather be cold. 



8. Hcemorrhagia hepatis. Haemorrhage from the liver. It 

 sometimes happens in those, who have the gutta rosea, or para- 

 lytic affections owing to diseased livers induced by the potation 

 of fermented liquors, that a great discharge of black viscid blood 

 occasionally comes away by stool, and sometimes by vomiting: 

 this the ancients called melancholia, black bile. If it was bile, 

 a small quantity of it would become yellow or green on dilution 

 with warm water, which was not the case in one experiment 

 which I tried; it must remain some time in the intestines from 

 its black colour, when it passes downwards, and probably comes 

 from the bile-ducts, and is often a fatal symptom. When it is 

 evacuated by vomiting it is less dangerous, because it shews 

 greater remaining irritability of the intestinal canal, and is some- 

 times salutary to those who have diseased livers. 



Two elderly men, who had lost their appetite for animal food, 

 which is always a dangerous symptom, when it occurs to those. 

 who?have drunk too much fermented liquor, observed, that they 

 parted with black stools. One of them also had the mucus of 

 his nostrils occasionally stained with blood. The black stools 

 appeared evidently to consist of the coagulum of blood, some- 

 times without other feces. After a few weeks they both sunk 

 under this discharge, which I supposed to proceed from the li- 

 ver, as it never appeared florid in any part of it. See Section 

 XXVII. 2. 



M. M. An emetic. Rhubarb, steel, wine, bark, opium. 



9, Hozmoptoe venosa. Venous haemoptoe frequently attends 

 the beginning of the hereditary consumptions of dark-eyed peo- 

 ple; and in others, whose lungs have too little irritability. These 

 spittings of blood are generally in very small quantity, as a tea- 



