MEDICINE. 
.f>{add«r be the occasion of it, we must 
.endeavour to bring the parts into their 
proper situation by the means adapted to 
their cause. If it arise from calculi, this 
will be discovered by there being an uneasy 
sensation at the orifice of the urethra after 
making water; sometimes a dull pain at 
the neck of the bladder, with a frequent 
desire of emptying the bladder, and the 
water often passing drop by drop, or the 
stream being suddenly interrupted; there 
will be also a considerable mucous sedi- 
ment, and some degree of tenesmus, and 
the patient will generally void his urine 
when in a horizontal position. Under these 
circumstances, when the pain is consider- 
able, two drachms of turpentine, incorpo- 
rated with yolk of egg, and mixed with 
half a pint of gruel, with from sixty to a 
hundred drops of laudanum should be in- 
jected : costiveness must afterwards be ob- 
viated by rhubarb, combined with soap, or 
with small doses of calomel, or the saline 
cathartics : the uva ursi should be adminis- 
tered in doses of a scruple, or more, tliree 
times a day ; and the dissolution of the cal- 
culus must be attempted by lithoutriptics, 
as a drachm of the vegetable alkali, dissolv- 
ed in a pint of water, supersaturated with 
carbonic acid gas, three times a day; Selt- 
zer or soda water may be employed with 
advantage, or a large spoonful of a mixture 
composed of half an ounce of the aqua po- 
tassm and six ounces and a half of the aqua 
calcis, in some mucilaginous liquor, may be 
given three times a day. When scybal® in 
the rectum occasion the disease, injections 
of warm oil, or the internal employment 
of oil of almonds or castor, with laxative 
and emollient clysters, together with dash- 
ing the lower extremities with cold watei', 
will generally succeed in promoting their 
evacuation. If it arise from flatus, we must 
employ essential oils and antispasmodics. 
If it be the consequence of an abscess, 
which will be discovered by the previous 
throbbing pain and nature of the discharge, 
after the bursting of the abscess, the fre- 
quent use of warm emollient and oily clys- 
ters will be necessary ; and if it arise in 
consequence of the pressure of the gravid 
uterus, the urine must be drawn olF by 
means of tlie catheter, until after delivery, 
when the complaint will cease of course. 
Herpes, Tetters. This disease will be re- 
moved by tlie exhibition of some of the fol- 
lowing remedies; sulphuric acid, tincture 
of cantharides, or black hellebore, or mu- 
^iated mercury combined with tartar emetic 
and opium ; Plummer’s pill, or a solution 
of gamboge in spirit of ammonia, may be 
given ; employing at the same time lime- 
water, or the decoction of guaiacum, sarsa- 
parilla, or elder. The parts should be dres- 
sed with the unguentum nitratis hydrargyri, 
or with the sulphuric acid, mixed with eight 
times its quantity of pork lard; and we 
should at the same time employ the warm 
bath. The pulp of cassia, moistened with 
milk, and the cassia sophera of Linnaeus, 
boiled in vinegar, are recommended upon 
good authority. 
Tinea, Scald-head. This contagious erup- 
tion affects the whole of the hairy scalp, 
and is generally most virulent around the 
edges of the hair, on the back part of the 
head, often causing, by the acrimony of the 
discharge, swelling of the lymphatic glands 
of the neck. The first step necessary to 
be taken in the removal of this unpleasant 
complaint will be to shave the head close, 
after which it should be well fomented, and 
cloths moistened in a solution of liver of 
sulphur in lime-water, in the proportion of 
half an ounce of the former to a pint of tlie 
latter, should be constantly applied to the 
head; or tar-ointment may be employed, 
and the access of the air should be pre- 
vented by means of a bladder, properly 
fitted to the head; or a solution of sugar of 
lead, or of green or blue vitriol, may be 
tried, and the internal remedies recom- 
mended in the treatment of herpes should 
be employed. If we do not succeed by 
these means, blisters or an issue should 
be applied on the head, or the adjacent 
parts. 
Psora, Itch. This consists of little watery 
pimples of a contagious nature, which first 
appear between the fingers and on the 
wrists ; but in process of time spreading 
over the whole body, except the face, at- 
tended with a great degree of itchiness, es- 
pecially when warm in bed, or exposed to the 
heat of a fire. This disease will most certainly 
be cured by the application of sulphur oint- 
ment, taking at the same time flour of sul- 
phur. The unguentum calcis hydrargyri 
albi, or acidi snlphiirici, or a solution of 
oxide of arsenic, or of muriatpd mer- 
cury, will also speedily remove it. The 
two last remedies should, however, be em- 
ployed with much caution. A decoction of 
white hellebore is also a useful remedy. It 
may likewise be frequently cured by the 
exhibition of the sulphuric acid, in doses of 
from thirty to sixty drops, or more, two or 
three times a day, aud to obviate its griping 
