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tremes, the pedal bones protruding through the soles; whether 

 the long period of standing in the slings was the main cause of 

 this we cannot say, but under the circumstances we should, after 

 this experience, be disposed to advise allowing a patient to retain 

 the recumbent position if it would do so quietly, satisfying our- 

 selves with moving it over from side to side once in twelve hours, 

 and using an abundance of soft straw to support the body, draw- 

 ing off the urine with the catheter ever)^ four hours, administering 

 an abundance of demulcent drink such as linseed gruel and barley 

 water to wash out the urinary tubes and the bladder. 



The medicine we should first rely upon would be Causticum ix, 

 repeating the usual dose every three hours during the daytime, 

 and if this only succeeds in restoring the urine to its natural color 

 and consistence, the muscular rigidity will soon relax and a good 

 cure may be anticipated; but as a rule these are by no means 

 promising cases. The faeces generally show a tendency to con- 

 stipation, but should there be any disposition to diarrhoea com- 

 bined with a high specific gravity of the urine Senna H will be 

 found an efficacious remedy ; we have tested both these agents at 

 one time or another and each in turn has seemed to render satis- 

 factory results. Friction with Arnica lijiiment over the rigid 

 muscles will sometimes afford ease to the patient; at all times the 

 body should be kept warm with clothing to induce gentle exhala- 

 tion through the skin, and the food must be light so as to avoid 

 the risk attendant at such times upon overloading the digestive 

 organs. 



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There are several forms of disease which assume more of the 

 surgical aspect than the therapeutical, at all events in ordinary 

 practice, and their introduction here is more to prove that they are 

 not overlooked than in the hope that much advantage will accrue 

 upon their consideration; still as cases of extreme urgency may 

 arise it is deemed better in the interest of the reader to lightly 

 touch upon them with a view to amelioration of suffering should 

 they arise under such circumstances. Those morbid conditions 

 w^hich it is proposed to refer to will be found only in the male and 

 the first is inflammation of the urethra; this is the channel 



