pression in each about a Quarter or Half an
Inch deep; most of the Substance of this Kidney seemed
diseased, and it was full of Suppurations. The Bladder was
contracted and thickened, and contained a rough Stone, which
weighed three Ounces. The rest of the _viscera_ were sound.
This Stone had certainly been in the Bladder long before the
young Fellow received the Blow with the Cricket-Bat; but the
Injury done the Kidney had probably aggravated the Symptoms.

I do not remember ever to have seen convulsive Fits, such as
this young Man had, in acute Diseases, except in one Case of
a slow Fever, which came by taking Cold after a Salivation,
and which I attended, along with Dr. _Pringle_. The Gentleman
had three Fits exactly of the same kind as this young Man, at
twenty-four Hours Distance from one another, and he died of
the third.

Those who really had the Disorder seemed to have received such an
Injury of the Bladder, or Kidneys as required a considerable Space of
Time to get the better of; and by reason of the short Time we had them
under our Care at the flying Hospital, they seldom received much
Benefit. One or two thought they grew better on taking the Bark and
Balsam of _Peru_; at the same Time they bathed Morning and Evening the
lower Part of the Abdomen and Perinaeum, with Flannels dipped in gentle
astringent Liquors, applied cold. Blisters applied to the _os sacrum_
had no Effect.

OF A STOPPAGE of URINE.

We formerly mentioned, that in acute Diseases many complained of a
Stoppage or Difficulty of making Water; and others had this Complaint
from Strictures of the Urethra, or Disorders of the Bladder or
Kidneys[97].

[97] It is often very difficult to judge of the Cause, or to
be able to determine exactly the Seat of these Disorders
before Death; as the following Cases will shew.

_John Waden_, a middle-aged Man, was admitted into _St.
George_'s Hospital the 10th of _April_ 1759, for a Swelling
of the Abdomen, and a Difficulty of making Water, which he
said begun about two Months before, with a violent Pain in
his Back and Belly, occasioned by his being employed in
making of Cyder in a very cold Cellar. He had not had a Stool
for some Days: at first he took a Dose of Physic, and some of
the saline Draughts; but in a Day or two complained that his
Belly had grown to a monstrous Size, and that he ha