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so nearly alike at first view, but differing so widely 

 in effect, the reader is earnestly requested to turn 

 to the Index, and there find the page at which we 

 have thought proper to treat pretty much at large 

 of " Inflammation of the Kidneys," " Diseases of 

 the Urinary Organs," &c. He will there perceive 

 how fatally these affections have been mistaken for 

 " Colic ;" he will learn that this unhappy error is 

 likely to happen more frequently than would at the 

 first glance be imagined ; and he will observe that 

 the symptoms correspond in many respects with 

 those in the second column above — therefore re- 

 quire an equally correspondent course of treatment, 

 but that the deposite of stone in the kidney is an 

 incurable disorder, that admits of no remedy. 

 Furthermore, the reader will observe, that the 

 whole of the article alluded to, on " Calculus, or 

 Stone," requires his strict attention; and also bear 

 in mind what is there said as to calculous sub- 

 stances which are deposited in the caecum or blind 

 gut, producing symptoms so much like spasmodic 

 colic, that much care is necessary in applying the 

 appropriate remedy in each case, lest he precipitate 

 the patient's catastrophe. 



Of these symptoms the state of the pulse is the 

 surest indication of the approach of an inflamma- 

 tory attack of the bowels, or any other viscus ; and 

 the particular part which is then suffering must be 

 gathered from other circumstances. If he has long 

 suffered colic without relief, doubtless inflammation 

 has taken place, and gangrene is likely to follow : 



