Diseases > Domestic medicine

considerable time, in order to produce any salutary
effects.
Those who are liable to frequent returns of in¬
flammation, or obstructions of the kidneys, must
abstain from wines, especially such as abound with
tartar ; and their food ought to be light, and of easy
digestion. They should use moderate exercise, and
should not lie too hot,, nor too much on their back.
INFLAMMATION OF THE BLADDER. (Cystitis.)
The inflammation of the bladder proceeds, in a
great measure, from the same causes as that of the
kidneys. It is known by an acute pain towards
the bottom of the belly, and difficulty of passing
urine, with some degree of fever, a constant incli¬
nation to go to stool, and a perpetual desire to make
This disease must be treated on the same principles
as the one immediately preceding. The diet must be
light and thin, and the drink of a cooling nature.
Bleeding is very proper at the beginning, and in
robust constitutions it will be often necessary to
repeat it. The lower part of the body should be
fomented with water, or a decoction of mild vege¬
tables ; and emollient clysters ought frequently to be
administered, &c.
The patient should abstain from every thing that is
of a hot, acrid, and stimulating quality, and should live
entirely upon small broths, gruels, or mild vegetables.
A stoppage of urine may proceed from other
causes besides an inflammation of the bladder; as a
swelling of the hsamorrhoidal veins, hard faeces lodged
in the rectum ; a stone in the bladder; excrescences
in the urinary passages, a palsy of the bladder,
hysteric affections, &c. Each of these requires a
particular treatment, which does not fall under our