Cure of a Suppreffion of Urine, 583 
>i6fh, He had had a very good night, and had made 
water five or fix times through the aperture made by the 
trocar* He faid, that as loon as the bladder had colle£ted 
a certain quantity of urine, he had felt an inclination to 
make water; that then fitting on a chamber-pot or bed- 
pan, and draining in the ufual way, the urine had ruflied 
out at the aperture per anum in a fir earn ; and that none had 
paffed by the urethra. Not contented with his account of 
the matter, I de fired him to make water in my prefence, 
and was witnefs to this curious and extraordinary power 
of retention of the urine in a wounded bladdei , and of 
d ifcharg ing it at pleafure through an -artificial paffage. 
The emphyfematous fwelling of his head and face was al- 
moft gone. He w r as diredfed to drink the pefioi al deco6lion 
with the addition of fome marfh-mallow root, fweetened 
with manna, and acidulated with orange 01 lemon-juice; 
and the nitrous opiate was repeated. 
27th, He complained of a fulneis of his belly, pro- 
bably owing to his not having had a ftool-. He ftill made 
water through the trocar-aperture as before, and when- 
ever he pleafed; but now he began to perceive a little 
urine come by the urethra at the fame time. We did not 
choofe to order a clyfter, left the gut fliould be injured by 
the pipe, but to wait the effedf of the manna, which, 
with the night-draught, was ftill continued. 1 he re- 
flation of the inflammation being now begun, as was 
conjeaured by the urine finding its natural paffage. by 
the urethra, a bougie was introduced beyond the finance 
at the neck of the bladder, and to very good purpofe. 
28th, 
