582 PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. [aNNO 1722. 



dressing and all the abdomen an emollient poultice, spread almost an inch 

 thick on soft flannel ; then turning a swath, a little broader than the patient's 

 hand, once round him, I pinned it on the poultice cloth, just tight enough 

 to keep it on. As soon as he was dressed, I gave him an opiate, for nothing 

 is so proper as rest; such as this R Aq. Cinnam. Hord. gii* Laud. Liq. Gutt. 

 XV. Syr. de Mecon. f ii. which may be increased or diminished, as the case 

 requires. 



Next evening I took off the poultice and dressing, and cut the stitch ; then 

 fomented the wound and all the abdomen with stupes wrung out of Aq.Calc. and 

 fresh urine, as warm as he could bear it; then dressed the wound as before. I 

 then rubbed all the scrotum, penis, and groins with unguentum album, to 

 prevent their being scalded by the urine, which flows from the wound. 



The wound must be dressed twice a day at least till you have a plentiful 

 digestion. After every dressing, the ointment and oil are used, as before 

 directed. 



When the urine begins to come the right way, it pains and scalds them, 

 much after the same manner, as when they had the stone, which is caused by 

 the contraction of the urethra, that has been so long useless, but it never 

 lasts above a day or tw(», and then they make water with the same ease and 

 freedom as any other person. They ought not to be forced to go to stool under 

 6 or 7 days, unless there is some particular reason for it ; because straining to 

 go to stool injures the wound. Nor ought they ever to be taken up, except 

 to get the bed made, till the urine comes all the right way; because it makes 

 them sick and faint ; and consequently hinders the cure of the wound. Cold 

 is to be avoided as the pest, because it puts them to a great deal of pain either 

 to stifle it, or to cough out. If a flexible catheter could be passed, and kept 

 in the passage without pain, it would very much hasten the cure of the 

 wound. 



Several other patients were also cut, and treated the same way, with good 

 success. 



This operation may be performed with equal success on females, wlien the 

 stone is large; but when small, the common way of extracting them is very 

 good. 



An Account of a Parhelion seen in Ireland. By Arthur Dobbs, Esq. of 

 Castle Dobbs, County of Antrim, N° 372, p. 8(J. 



March 22, 1721-22, about half an hour aiter 5 in the afternoon, I saw a 

 parhelion, the sun near West, about an hour high, the wind and course of the 



