The success of any treatment will depend in a great measure upon the nature of the exciting causes. These require to be removed, if within the possibility of medical skill, before the catarrh can be made to subside.
Should the mucous or muco-purulent secretion be very abundant, the bladder must be thoroughly rinsed out; first once every twenty-four hours, and afterwards every other day, so that the mucous membrane will be cleansed from all foreign irritating elements. I am employing for this purpose Thiersche’s Boro-Salicylic solution. This of course can only be carried out by a skillful physician.
When the disease is in its incipient stage it is amenable to intelligently-directed home treatment.
The most perfect rest of mind and body is one of the essentials to success, the entire suspension of stimulating drinks of an alcoholic nature, of which beer is the most irritating, and tea or coffee must be discarded. A milk and vegetable diet is the most beneficial to subsist on, and all condiments, even salt, must be dispensed with.
If the bowels are costive they must be regulated either by means of enemas of warm water, or what may prove of greater and more lasting benefit is the use of Femina laxative tablets. One tablet should be taken every night at bedtime, and if one operates too much, then one every other night may be all that is required.
Demulcent drinks of flaxseed tea, or slippery-elm water, should be drunk freely, and for the catarrh of the bladder there is no prescription that ever gave me the same satisfactory results as this one:——
NO. VI.
| Take: | Borate of soda | 2 drams |
| Fluid ex. of gelseminum | 1 dram | |
| Fluid ex. of belladonna | x drops | |
| Fluid ex. of buchu | 1½ ounces | |
| Fluid ex. of senna | 1½ ounces | |
| Distilled water | 2 ounces | |
| Syrup of orange peel sufficient to make | 8 ounces |
Mix, and take a tablespoonful or less three times a day.