338 THE NEW ZEALAND FAMILY HERB DOCTOR, 
ANOTHER URINARY COMPLAINT 
Is stricture of the urethra. This exceedingly painful 
trouble is almost wholly confined to males. It is caused 
by inflaramation and the use of injurious injections. 
Operations are usually resorted to but are not very satisfactory. 
The best treatment we can find is tincture of gelsemine, full 
doses, and warm sitz-baths, with an ounce of laudanum to the 
quart. 
PROSTATITIS, 
(Inflammation of the prostate gland) resembles the above. 
It is usually met with in old men. The same medicine will 
be suitable, alternating the gelsemine with tincture of 
Staphysagna Rub into the parts the turpentine and lard, 
given in treatment for scrofula. 
BLOODY URINE. 
This is sometimes the result of injuries. If so, drink 
freely of a decoction of comfrey root and elm bark. Rest and 
nature will repair the injury, if it is not of a very serious 
nature. If it continues, or when it comes without injuries, 
take the following mixture :— 
Sweet Nitre ......... cesvecsvseses POUT GCUNCces: 
Tannic Acid ........ecceueseseeeee One cunce 
CHINCOTING 2h. d kee S ee) woes LWe ounces. 
Water to fill an eight-ounce bottle. 
A teaspoonful four times a day in a wineglassful of the 
decoction Lessen the dose as the symptoms abate. This 
we feel certain will cure. 
DROPSY 
Is seldom if ever an independent disease. but is a result of 
some other derangement. It is defined as an effusion cf 
serum into the tissue or cavities of the body. Its cause is 
the antecedent trouble, or a failure on the part of the kidneys 
to do their secreting work. The varieties are named after the 
part of the body in which the water is found. In the flesh of 
