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kidney by the retrograde action of the 1 ureter. The kidney is 

 neverthelefs inflamed more frequently, though in a lefs degree, 

 from other caufes ; efpecially from the intemperate ingurgitation 

 cf ale, or other fermented or fpirituous liquors. This lefs de- 

 gree of inflammation is the caufe of gravel, as that before men- 

 tioned is the effect of it. The mucus fecreted to lubricate the 

 internal furface of the uriniferous tubes of the kidney becomes 

 fecreted in greater quantity, when thefe veflels are inflamed ; and, 

 as the correipondent abforbent veflels aft more energetically at 

 the fame time, the abforption of its more fluid parts is more 

 powerfully affected ; on both thefe accounts the mucus becomes 

 both changed in quality and more indurated. And in this man- 

 ner ftones are produced on almoft every mucous membrane of 

 the body , as in the lungs, bowels* and even in the pericardium, 

 as fome writers have affirmed. See Clafs I. i. 3. 9. 



M. M. Venefjeftion. Ten grains of calomel given in fmall 

 pills, then infufion of fena with oil. Warm bath. Then opi- 

 um a grain and half. See Clafs I. I. 3. 9. for a further ac- 

 count of the method of cure. 



i^.CyJlitis. Inflammation of the bladder is attended with 

 tumor and pain of the lower part of the belly ; with difficult 

 and painful micturition ; and tenefmus. It generally is produ- 

 ced by the exiftence of a large ftone in the bladder, when in a 

 great degree ; or is produced by -common caufes, when in a 

 ilighter degree. 



The ftone in the bladder is generally formed in the kidney, 

 and pafling down the ureter into the bladder becomes there grad- 

 ually increafed in fize ; and this moft frequently by the appofi- 

 tion of concentric fpheres, as may be feen by few ing fome of 

 the harder calculi through the middle, and polifhing one furface. 

 Thefe new concretions fuperinduced on the nucleus, which de- 

 fcended from the kidney, as defcribed in Clafs I. i. 3. 9. and in 

 the preceding article of this genus, is not owing to the micro- 

 cofmic fait, which is often feen to adhere to the fides of cham- 

 ber-pots, as this is foluble in warm water, but to the mucus of 

 the bladder, as it rolls along the internal furface of it. Now 

 when the bladder is (lightly inflamed, this mucus of its internal 

 furface is fecreted in greater quantity, and is more indurated 

 by the abforption of its more liquid part at the inftant of fecre- 

 tion, as explained in Clafs I. i. 3. 9. and II. i. 2. 14. and 

 thus the ftiniuius and pain of a ftone in the bladder contribute 

 to its enlargement by inflaming the interior coat of it. 



M. M. Venefec\ion. Warm bath. Diluents. Anodyne 

 clyfters. See Cfcfs I. i. 3. 9. 



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