228 INFLAMMATION OF THE KIDNEYS.

tient feels great uneasiness when he endeavors to walk or situpright. He lies with more ease on the affected side than onthe sound, and has generally a nausea or vomiting, resemblingthat which happens in the colic.

This disease however may be distinguished from the colicby the pain being seated farther back, and by the difficulty ofpassing urine, which is a constant symptom of the former, butdoes not always happen in the latter.

Regimen. — Every thing of a heating or stimulating natureis to be avoided. The food must be thin and light ; as panado,small broths, with mild vegetables, and the like. Emollientand thin liquors must be plentifully drank ; as clear whey, orbalm tea sweetened with honey, decoctions of marsh-mallowroots, with barley and liquorice, &c. The patient, notwith-standing the vomiting, must constantly keep sipping smallquantities of these or other diluting liquors. Nothing sosafely and certainly abates the inflammation, and expels theobstructing cause, as copious dilution. The patient must bekept easy, quiet, and free from cold, so long as any symptomsof inflammation appear.

Medicine. — Bleeding is generally necessary, especially atthe beginning. Ten or twelve ounces may be let from thearm or foot with a lancet, and if the pain and inflammationcontinue, the operation may be repeated in twenty-four hours,especially if the patient be of a full habit. Leeches maylikewise be applied to the hemorrhoidal veins, as a dischargefrom these will greatly relieve the patient.

Cloths dipped in warm water, or bladders filled with it,must be applied to the part affected, and renewed as they growcool. If the bladders be filled with a decoction of mallowsand camomile flowers, to which a little saffron is added, andmixed with about a third part of new milk, it will be still morebeneficial.

Emollient clysters ought frequently to be administered ;and if these do not open the belly, a little salt and honey ormanna may be added to them.

The same course is to be followed where gravel or a stoneis lodged in the kidney ; but when the gravel or stone is sepa-rated from the kidney, and lodges in the ureter,* it will be

* The ureters are two long and small canals, one on each side,which carry the urine from the basin of the kidneys to the bladder.They are sometimes obstructed by small stones or gravel falling downfrom the kidneys and lodging in them.