The ship and shore physician and surgeon / by William M. Cornell.

  • Cornell, William Mason, 1802-1895.
Date:
1858
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Credit: The ship and shore physician and surgeon / by William M. Cornell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Inflammation of the Kidneys. The symptoms are chills and rigors in the back and loins; sometimes the pain is very severe, and extends to the bladder, loins and thighs. The urine, if any, is scanty, red, comes away in drops, and is sometimes bloody. The skin is usually dry, or moist and smells of the urine. Treatment. — Warm bathing, fomentations of bitter herbs, the warm bath, stimulated with mustard or salt, hot mustard poultices to the affected parts, a dose of the fluid extract of senna, followed by the Dover's pill, two or three, injections of warm water, nitre in small doses, slippery elm, flaxseed, and a tea of the upland cranberry, are the best medicines; or, the concentrated powder, piburin, of the domestic dispensatory. Inflammation of the Bladder. The symptoms are a sense of fulness, pain in the lower and front part of the abdomen, difficulty in passing water, pain, heat, soreness, sickness at the stomach, thirst, rest- lessness, &c. Treatment. — If the bladder is full, the water must be drawn off with the catheter. But little drink should be taken, and nothing that will increase the quantity of urine. Water, not very cold, is as good as any liquid. Leeches should be applied over the region of the bladder