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tion when they urinate, and think they must have Bright's disease 

 of the kidneys ; but there is not one case In one thousand thus 

 affected that really has any kidney affection whatever. The feeling 

 of scalding or burning of the urine when passed, is due to irritation 

 of the urethra, from excessive acidity of the urine in the form of 

 uric acid and urates. Many times you can discover this sediment 

 by passing the water into a clean vessel and letting it stand a few 

 hours. Urates appear as a cloudy deposit, usually light in color, 

 although it may be dark. Uric acid will be found as fine red sand 

 in the bottom and about the sides of the vessel. If these are 

 allowed to remain in the system, and become a chronic affection, 

 they may after a long time . set up disease of the kidneys, by 

 irritation of those organs. They are also largely the cause N of 

 rheumatism. But get rid of them, and thus obviate any further 

 trouble. 



These substances, uric acid and urates, should be further oxi- 

 dized and made use of by the system ; therefore, in such cases, 

 drink plenty of water, three pints to two quarts per day. , A 

 glass or two of hot water in the morning, an hour before breakfast, 

 is an excellent remedy. It not only aids greatly in washing these 

 poisons out of the system, but causes contraction of the walls of the 

 stomach, and Washes it out, and thus prepares it for digesting 

 breakfast. 



/ Fomentations should be kept up for an hour over the stomach 

 and liver, every day. The hot-water bag will be found almost 

 indispensable for this purpose. It can be had at almost any drug 

 store. Plenty of outdoor exercise should also be taken. 



CUTS and Wounds. — New Method of Treatment. 



The discovery has been recently made that by using a prep- 

 aration of one part of corrosive sublimate (bichloride of mercury) 

 to two or three thousand parts of water, and cleansing out the part 

 with it, covering it over with cotton thoroughly saturated with the 

 solution, a wound will heal by first intention without any inflamma- 

 tion, all ordinary cases requiring no further dressing. This is one 

 of the most important discoveries ever made in the treatment of 

 surgical cases. 



At the sanitarium where the author makes -his home, the sur- 

 geons, who use this treatment, have no inflammation or trouble in 

 even the most serious cases, unless through some neglect or accident 

 on the part of the surgeon or nurse. They are, in the first place, 



