Hh 



-^ 



216 Mr. W. Brande's Additional Observations 



have since enjoyed a very good state of health, and am now 

 in my fifty-seventh year. 



If I occasionally make a little free with the good things of 

 this world, my stomach reminds me of the improper use of 

 the lixivium, especially when I am prevented taking my usual 

 exercise. 



The above case is important, not only as furnishing a strik- 

 ing and unprejudiced instance of the effect of magnesia, in 

 counteracting the tendency to form uric calculi and gravel ; 

 but likewise, as demonstrating its efficacy where the alkalies 

 had failed, and where the digestive organs had been injured 

 in consequence of the use of such remedies : the time which 

 has elapsed since the cure of this and other cases, without 

 a relapse, is also strongly in favour of this mode of treat- 

 ment. 



Case 9. A gentleman twenty years of age who had suffered 

 ^ from heartburn, and other dyspeptic symptoms, was seized, 



on the 1st of June, 1811, with a violent pain in the loins, and 

 more especially in the right kidney, and during the night he 

 n ** * *#** passed a large quantity of red sand with his urine. On the 2d, 



• ' •* V * with a view to relieve the pain, which had increased consider- 



i, ably, he took fifty drops of laudanum, and drank freely of 

 < ' barley water. The night was passed more quietly, but on the 



morning of the 3d, he was seized with a violent pain in the 

 kidney, and with the usual symptoms of the passage of a cal- 

 culus along the ureter. These continued with more or less 

 violence till the evening of the 4th, when he became perfectly 

 easy, and remained so till the morning of the 6th, when, with 



