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Materia Medica

Antilithics

of the Urinary Organs, it has also been employ’d in Dyssuria,
Stranguary, Bloody Urine, and Catarrhus Vesicae, or a great secretion
of mucous from the Bladder. I have generally found in Gouty
patients where this depends on inflamation or irritation of the
bladder, I think Uva Ursi improper in some cases of fluor albus and
in gleets. I have found this medicine usefull in Virulent
Gonorrhea of long standing. I have likewise found it beneficial one case
of which the running was accompaneed with Hernia Humoralis
and great irritation of the Urethra, this was cured by chewing the
leaves of the Uva Ursi and taking the infusion, Bell says it is not
where the prostate gland is effected; I think it not unlikely that the
infusion or decoction might be advantageously injection, in some
cases of Catarrhus Vesica, and also in the Uterus. Upon the whole
I think Uva Ursi will remove the symptoms of calculous already
existing, that it will prevent the formation of the stone that it will
destroy them sometimes after they have formed, the mode of its
operation is difficult to explain. I injected it into the stomach of an animal
we are told by Gyraldi that it inflames that organ but I doubt
this, and in other places I have had good reason for dobting others
of his experiments and assertions. Dr Haller supposed it acts