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OF THE SWELLED TESTICLE.

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Mxty pills, of which five or six may be taken night and morning. If,during the use of these pilis, the mouth should grow sore, or the breathbecome offensive, they must be discontinued till these symptoms disap-pear.

The last kind of remedy which we shall mention for the cure of ulcershi the urinary passage, are the suppurating candles or bougies: as theseare prepared various ways, and are generally to be bought ready made,it is needless to spend time in enumerating the different ingredients ofwhich they are composed, or teaching the manner of preparing them.Before a bougie be introduced into the urethra, however, it should besmeared all over with sweet oil, to prevent it from stimulating too sud-denly : it may be suffered to continue in from one to seven or eight hours,according as the patient can bear it. Obstinate ulcers are not only oftenhealed, but tumors and excrescences in the urinary passages taken away,and an obstruction of urine removed by means of bougies. Obstinategleets may be removed by the use of bougies.

OF THE SWELLED TESTICLE.

The swelled testicle may either proceed from infection lately con-tracted, or from the venereal poison lurking in the body; the latter in-deed is not very common, but the former frequently happens both in thefirst and second stages of a gonorrhoea, particularly when the running isunseasonably checked by cold, hard drinking, strong drastic purges, vio-lent exercise, the too early use of astringent medicines, or the like.

In the inflammatory stage bleeding is necessary, which must be re-peated according to the urgency of the symptoms: leeches are often ap-plied to inflamed testicles with happy effects. Scarifications in somecases are preferred to leeches, as the relief afforded by the latter is oftentransitory. The food must be light, and the drink diluting. High-sea-soned food, flesh, wines, and every thing of a heating nature, are to beavoided. Fomentations are of singular service. Poultices of bread andmilk, softened with fresh butter or oil; cataplasms formed of hog's lardand leeks cut small, of each six ounces, simmered over a slow fire, strain-id, and applied, are likewise very proper, and ought constantly to be ap-plied when the patient is in bed : when he is up, the testicles should bekept warm, and supported by a bag or truss, which may easily be con-trived in such a manner as to prevent the weight of the testicle fromhaving any effect.

If it should be found impracticable to clear the testicle by the coolingregimen now pointed out, and extended according to circumstances, itwill be necessary to lead the patient through such a complete antivene-real course as shall ensure him against any future uneaginess. For thispurpose, besides rubbing the mercurial ointment on the thisrhs as directedin the gonorrhosa, the patient must be confined to bed, if necessary, forfive or six weeks, suspending the testicle, all the while with a bag ortruss, and plying him inwardly with strong decoctions of sarsaparilla.

When these means do not succeed, and there is reason to suspec*