1 1211 ) 
Groenvelt*s giving them to cure Ulcers o( the Bladder,- and 
1 have read his Learned defence of that Pradice, and muft 
acknowledge that by what I found, Page iii, €^^. of that 
Ingenious Apology, wherein are 2 or 5 relations of his fix- 
cefs in the likecale by the fame Medicine, I became en- 
couraged to ufeit to this Patient, having never beforedone 
fo in fuch a Difeafe, or Ulcers of the Bladder, 
But in feveral other cafes I have of ten and fuccefsfolly 
given it, and without the Djfuria and other painful acci- 
dents which attend, the Internal (oftentimes the External) 
ufe of this Remedy 3 altho I mixt no Caraphire (Dr Groen- 
W/'s admired Corredive) but wafht it down with large 
Draughts of Poffer, Ptyfan, Emulfions or Water-gruel 5 
which in this Ladies cafe I forbore to ufe, becaufe of 
herdropfical difpofition, and ufedonly a draught or two of 
middlitig Ale, Impregnated with Broomy Jimifer-berries^ 
Djiucus Seedsy 
The form in which I ufed to adminifter this fiery fnfeft, 
is that of a loft Pill or Bolus, compofed of a Cantharides 
prepar, Troch. e Myrrha ^^ySem, Amei gr. vj R ^i>- Cynosk q. fo 
Th[s in ftubborn fuppreffions of the Lochia, and Merrjima^ 
in difficult Child Birth, and retention of the Sccnndwe^ 
does wonders 3 v/hat heat or pain it begets^ in the neck of 
the Bladder, ismuch'fliort oi what I have an hundred times 
fe^n fand fometimeslelt) to proceed from applyingan Epif- 
paftick to the Back; 
About 20 years fincc, an enamoured Youth attempted to 
gain a coy Girls Love, by giving her a Plumb-Cake, in 
which ^Qwd^fd Cantharides was mixed ^ She eat parx ot 
it, and gave three others of the Family in which (he hved 
a ,,(hare, they were foon tormented with burning in the 
Stomach, Bloody and Scalding .Urine, and great Pain in 
the Back 3 J cured them all in a (hort time, by Powder ot 
Amoos and Lafk VrnneUd^ and Emulfions' aq. Syerm. R. c^^r. 
^(^y^jm^^^^^ in the Bread, ! 
could;. 
