42 DISEASES CLASS I. t. 4. 6. 



M. M. Lance the gum of the expected teeth quite through 

 the periofteum longitudinally. Venefeclion by the lancet or by- 

 two or three leeches. One grain of calomel as a purge. Tinc- 

 ture of jalap, five or fix drops in water every three hours till it 

 purges, to be repeated daily. After evacuations a fmall blifter 

 on the back or behind the ears. And laftly, two or three drops 

 of laudanum according to the age of the child. Warm bath. 

 See Clafs- III. i. i. 5. and & 



6. Priapifmus chronicus. I have feen two cafes, where an 

 erection of the penis, as hard as horn, continued two or three 

 weeks without any venereal defires, bat not without fome pain ; 

 the eafieft attitude of the patients was lying upon their backs 

 with their knees up. At length the corpus cavernofum urethrre 

 became fo.ft, and in another day or two the whole fiibftded. In 

 one of them a bougie was introduced, hophag to remove fome 

 bit of gravel from the caput gallinaginis, camphor, warm bathing, 

 opium, lime-water, coW afperfion, bleeding in the veins of the 

 penis, were tried in vain. One of them had been a free drinker, 

 Lad much gutta rofacea on his face, and died fuddenly a few 

 months after his recovery from this complaint. Was it a paral- 

 yfis of the terminations of the veins, which abforb the blood 

 from the tumid penis ? or from the flimulus of indurated femen 

 in the feminal veiTels ? In the latter cafe fome venereal defires 

 fliould have attended. Glafs III. I. 2. 16. 



The priapifmus, which occurs to vigorous people in a morn- 

 ing before they awake, has been, called the fignum falutis, or 

 banrier of health, and is occafioned by the increafe of our irri- 

 tability or fenfibi! it y during flesp, as explained in Sect. XVIII. 15, 



7. Diftentio mamrmtlarum. The diftention of the nipples of 

 laetefcent women is at firfl owing to the flimuius of the milk. 

 See Sea. XIV. 8. and Sed. XVI. 5. See Clafs II. i. 7. 10. 



8. Dcfcenfus uteri. This is a very frequent complaint after 

 bad labours, the fundus uteri becomes inverted and defcends 

 like the prolapfus ani. 



M. M. All the ufual peiTaries are very inconvenient and in- 

 effectual. A piece of foft fponge about two inches diameter in- 

 troduced into the vagina gives great eafe to thefe patients, and 

 fup ports the uterus ; it mould have a firing put through it to 

 retract it by. 



There are alfo peflaries now made of elaftic gum, which are 

 f?jd to be eafily worn, and to be convenient, from their having 

 a perforation in their centre. 



9. Prolapfus atil. The lower part of the reclum becomes in- 

 verted, and defcends after every ilool chiefly in children ; and 

 thus flimulates the fphindter ani like any ether extraneous body. 



M. M. It 



