A medical commentary on fixed air ... / By Matthew Dobson.

  • Matthew Dobson
Date:
1787
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Credit: A medical commentary on fixed air ... / By Matthew Dobson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ¢ AQUA MEPHITICA ALKALINA, 93 People who have ulcers in the urethra attended with ftriture, generally void purulent matter previous.to the coming away of the urine, which laft, by being long retained, fometimes_caufes abfceffes in the perinzeum and fuppreffions of urine, I have known serttish of both fexes, advanced in life, complain for many years, _ of frequent urgings to make water, which comes away by little at a time, and is ge- nerally of a wheyith appearance, and after {tanding twenty-four hours, depofits a large mucous fediment. Sometimes a fuppref- fion takes place. All the cafes of this kind in which the mephitic alkaline water was tried, found more or lefs relief, one only excepted, which on examination prov- ed to be a fchirrus of the os uteri. In violent paroxyfms of the ‘font or ftrangury, Ihave advifed the ufe of opi- ates combined with the mephitic alkaline water. Fifteen or twenty drops of the the- baic tinéture may be taken in a quarter of a pint of the water, and occafionally repeat- ed. A bag of oats heated 1 in boiling water, ny I have