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of fever, a constant inclination to go to stool, and aperpetual desire to make water.

This disease must be treated on the same principlesas the one immediately preceding. The diet must belight and thin, and the drink of a cooling nature.Bleeding is very proper at the beginning, and in ro-bust constitutions it will often be necessary to repeatit. The lower part of the belly should he fomentedwith warm water, or a deeoction of mild vegetables;and emollient clysters ought frequently to be admi-nistered, &c.

The patient should abstain from every thing that isofahot, acrid, and stimulating quality, and should liveentirely upon small broths, gruels, or mild vegetables.

A stoppage of urine may proceed from other causesbesides an inflammation of the bladder ; as a swel-ling of the hemorrhoidal veins; hard faces lodged inthe rectum; a stone in the bladder; excrescences inthe urinary passages; a palsy of the bladder, hystericaffections, &c. Each of these requires particular reat-ment, which does not fall under our present consider-ation. We shall only observe, that in all of them, mildand gentle applications are the safest, as strong diure-tic medicines, or things of an irritating nature, gene-rally increases the danger. I have known some personskill themselves by introducing probes in the urinarypassages, to remove, as they thought, somewhat thatobstructed the discharge of urine, and others bring on aviolent inflammation of the bladder, by using strongdiuretics, as oil of turpentine, &c. for that purpose.

INFLAMMATION OF THE LIVER.

The liver is less subject to inflammation than mostof the other viscera, as in it the circulation is slower;but when an inflammation does happen, it is withdifficulty removed, and often ends in a suppurationor scirrhus.

CAUSES.—Besides the common causes of inflam -mation, we may here reckon the following, viz. ex