tion of urination. As before indicated, enlargement or
hypertrophy of the prostate gland, is often confounded with stricture,
gravel, and stone in the bladder, by inexperienced physicians, and
treated accordingly. The true condition of this gland is readily
determined by an examination through the rectum or lower bowel, the
finger of the expert surgeon being able to determine at once whether it
is enlarged or not.

THE DANGER OF BAD TREATMENT. In disease of the prostate gland, as well
as in inflammation of the kidneys and bladder, stricture of the urethra,
and many other forms of urinary disease, the use of stimulating
diuretics, and the much-advertised "kidney cures," "buchus," and similar
preparations, which largely increase the flow of urine, simply
aggravate, and do positive harm. In fact, the most difficult cases that
we have had to deal with have been those that, through such treatment,
either taken on their own account or prescribed by inexperienced
physicians, have been rendered so much worse as to make their cases very
intractable, and tedious to relieve and cure.

REQUIRE NICELY ADAPTED TREATMENT. As we have heretofore indicated, there
is no class of diseases that require nicer adaptation of medicines to
each individual case, than those of the urinary organs. Medicines which,
in one stage of these diseases are beneficial and curative, in another
stage are often exceedingly injurious. Hence it is that we claim it to
be impossible for any one to put up any set prescription, or proprietary
medicine, that will meet the wants of a large percentage of this class
of cases. The only rational course to be pursued is to examine carefully
each case as it is presented; find out the exact condition and stage of
the disease with which the patient is afflicted, and then prescribe for
it such special medicines as are nicely and exactly adapted to the
patient's condition. These, in many cases, will have to be changed from
time to time, to suit the ever-changing condition of the disease, as it
is modified by the treatment. Not only have the manufacturers of
"buchus," "kidney cures," etc., committed grave errors by prescribing
stimulating diuretics for almost all kidney and bladder diseases, under
the impression that, as the patient passes only a small quantity of
urine at a time, the kidneys should be stimulated to secrete more, but
physicians in general practice have been very prone to commit the same
error in their practices