Where the bladder is irritated and painfully sensitive, a large hot BRAN POULTICE (_see_) should be applied to the lower back. While the patient lies on this, cold towels (_see_ Towels, Cold Wet) should be changed over the bladder in front. While giving such treatment once or twice a day, _rest_ must be taken, if a cure is to be obtained. For a patient to say that rest cannot be had, is to say that cure is impossible. Where there is a tendency to stoppage of the urine, a warm sitz-bath should be taken. The patient first sits in three inches deep of comfortably hot water. More water at the same temperature is poured gradually in at intervals, until it rises well up over the abdomen. This will usually relieve even a bad case. Treat with bran poultice and cold towels, as above recommended, after the warm bath has given relief. It should be remembered that the _cold_ is the healing power, bracing the bladder and all its muscles and vessels. Hence more than a slight cooling is needed. But the cooling is only possible when good heat is kept up on the base of the back. This treatment also cures the swelling of the bladder which often accompanies restriction of urine. Where a positive growth interferes with the urinary discharge, this may often be actually _melted away_ by soaking with weak ACETIC ACID (_see_), when it is at all possible to reach it. The power of cure possessed by acetic acid is incredible, except to those who have seen it exercised, and its persistent use would, we are use, save many lives, if people would only try it. We would also advise the four-ply flannel bandage, with two plies damp and two dry. This round the body has a wonderfully soothing effect. So has a nicely applied lathering with SOAP (_see_). As in most other troubles, special care must be taken to keep the feet warm.