when, notwithftanding the feverity of the clap, he does not 
upport crotum in a bag-trufs, but takes violent exercife, 
and does not rigoroufly abftain from wine and women. 
ae hoea 5 
this-is exchanged for the {welling of the tefticle ; for as foon 
' ; : te 
sit hu 
‘and difcharge from the urethra ufually return again. 
With regard to the treatment of the sieve difeafe, the 
a Se Fe ee ae ges 
p to the loins, fevere venefection ought to be practif 
ical b 
. reading, coloured internally, 
y barren filaments tin 
hoice, we think, 
Since, however, it is unattended with any pain or uneafi~ 
nefs, it is of little importance, un r- Hunter's con- 
je€ture be true, that many tefticles which continue thus 
indurated, cannot execute the funétions for which they are 
defigned in the animal economy, in confequenee of the epi- 
didymis being, perhaps, impervious. 
The fuppofition, that in cafes of gonorrhea the hernia 
humoralis arifes altogether from the itopping of the dif- 
charge, has led to the abfurd practice of endeavouring to 
renew the fecretion of matter from the urethra, by irritating. 
the paffage with bougies, applying emollients to the penisy. 
&c. The truth is, that fuch methods are neither fupported 
f by any accurate theory, nor are they produétive of reak. 
benefit in practice 5 confequently, they are not followed by 
comment on the abfurdity of the prattice be neceflary. 
HERNIARIA, in Botany, is fo called hernia, ® 
rupture, this plant having been very abfurdly fuppofed to 
bé beneficial in that complaint, though it is fearcely poffible 
to conceive that fo foolifh an idea fhould ever have obtained, 
becaufe e of relief for that difeafe muft, from the 
nature of it, be purely mechanical acan Gen. 121. Schreb.. 
Brit. 271. “Jui. 8g. Lamarek Dict. v. 3- 124. liluftr,.. 
: Nat. Ord, 
Holoracee, Linn, Amaranthi, Jun. - 
Gen. Ch. Cal. Perianth of one leaf, five-cleft, acute, 
perfiftent. Cor. none. Stam. 
Filaments five, awl- d, minute, withinfide of the -feg- 
ments of the calyx; anthers fimple . five 
i Seed folit ovate-acuminate, fhining. 
ing Ch. Cal. in five fegments, inferior. Cor. mone.. 
i thread-fha cane remicrommears Capf.. 
with one feed, covered: with the-caly x.. 
- glabra. Linns Sp. Pl. 317+ Engl. Bot. t. 206. Fl. 
H. glabra: Penile, 2 oe bak 
_—— ins. lower ones oppolite; upper ones 
t margin ;. iF . 
. i ] Finnie . Flowers ‘effihe ‘ eC i 
CrSy. yellowift n-green. Calyx. clofed. ‘ 
flewering, and embracing the ripe capfule: = 
were; Mura. Linn. Sp. Pl. 3x7. Engl. Bot. & 1379 
Pet. H. Brit. t, 10. f. 1o.—# Whole plant herbaceous and: 
; 3 in a : : 3 : : 
$¥7- 
0 
foil, though lef 
riabay diiering only i being, clothed all ovee 
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