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every hour while required. If the trouble should become 
chronic, the decoction must be continued, the back rubbed 
with the tincture of cayenne or the anodyne liniment, or a 
compound cayenne plaster put over it. As a change with the 
decoction, see diuretics; try them and persevere. 
INFLAMMATION OF THE BLADDER 
Is known by burning pains felt in the lower part of the 
abdomen, and around the region of the bladder. There is a 
great difficulty in voiding the urine, although there is at the 
Same time a constant desire, accompanied generally with a 
desire to go to stool The water is of a thick red colour, and 
comes away in drops, with intense pain, at times tinged with 
blood. When the disease is neglected or improperly treated, 
it often leads to very serious results. We have known it 
produce ulceration, stranguary, and chronic inflammation of 
the parts. In treating it, much will depend upon the strength 
of the patient and the stage of the disease It has been 
removed in the early stage by simply applying flannels as hot 
as they can be borne, wrung out of a strong decoction of 
marshmallows, and the same given internally with buchu and 
composition freely, until perspiration began. Keep up this 
treatment till the pain is relieved. If it persists, give an 
injection of slippery elm and the same decoction as in the 
former case—the digestive food and a light and nourishing 
diet The ulmaria wine may be taken during convalescence. 
Asan aperient medicine the dandelion pills wil) answer. 
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