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lessly attempted by many of the ablest physicians. The remediate 
employment of Uva ursi has, however, not been confined to the uri- 
nary organs ; it has been equally extolled in the cure of other mala- 
dies, particularly in diabetes, consumption, leucorrhcea, hematuria, 
and gonorrhoea. 
In the treatment of diabetes, Dr. Ferrias was in the habit of 
giving it in conjunction with cinchona and lime-water. Dr. Bourne, 
professor of the practice of physic in the University of Oxford, 
speaks very highly of the efficacy of the Uva ursi in the cure of pul- 
monary consumption. He states that, out of sixteen cases treated 
with this remedy, nine were cured, four relieved, and three died. 
He gave medicine in ten grain doses, with half a grain of opium, 
three times a day. 
It is useful in irritations of the bladder, ulcerations of the kid- 
neys, &c. ; but it is difficult to account for its modus operandi in these 
diseases. In dysentery and diarrhoea, the decoction may be admin- 
istered as an adjuvant to other medicines : its chief employment, 
however, is confined to affections of the urinary organs ; but future 
experience must determine its precise virtues in these diseases. 
The leaves may be employed either in powder or decoction ; 
the former is mostly preferred, and given in doses from a scruple to 
a drachm, two or three times a day. 
