in the ulcer shows that the system is in an unhealthy condition and that it is incapable of putting on the healing process in the ulcer. This state of things is no doubt due to the climate, malaria, poor food, and bad water; these combined develop in the system, scurvy, or a condition of the body allied to scurvy. "An addition to, and a change in the diet is of the first consequence. This is to be done by administering _as drugs_ a daily liberal proportion of _good butter_, _sugar_, and _lime-juice_. "In many parts of India, especially during the hot weather, _good_ butter is not to be got as a fresh article of food; an excellent substitute for it is the tinned article, now so readily obtainable, which, if salt, can be carefully prepared for use by having the salt washed out of it. The lime-juice should be, if possible, in the form of _fresh_ limes, lemons, or oranges; rather than the lime-juice of commerce. Where fresh limes, &c., or lime-juice cannot be procured, sweet mango pickles, lime pickles, or the bazaar commodity Ám-chur (see _Index, Scurvy_) should be employed; from the last excellent preserves and tarts can be made, which are relished as a diet. "The water supply should be changed, and even, if necessary, condensed water be drunk, in place of the saline stuff so common along our north-west frontier, where the river water is to be preferred to that of brackish wells full of nitrates. "Other vegetables, such as potatoes, cauliflower, and artichokes should be added to the dietary if obtainable, and when possible an immediate change of climate, even for a few days, and to another _water supply_ is of immense importance. "The good results in following up the above proposals can be at once seen in the rapid alteration of the conditions of the ulcer, or ulcers, which at once begin to take on a healing action. They require after this but simple dressing, and indeed disappear as if by a miracle, leaving, however, behind them a _scar_, a well known momento of having once lived in an unhealthy climate."—_Aitchison._ _Urine, to relieve pain and scalding on passing._ Nitre (269), with Rice _Conjee_ (322), Decoction of Abelmoschus (2), or of Ispaghúl Seeds (305) and the Hip Bath (392) generally afford relief. _For Retention_ _of Urine_, Opium (287*) and a Hip Bath (392), with Hot Water Fomentations to the pubes, often succeed in recent cases; if these fail, _no time should be lost in placing the patient under medical care_. _Uterus, Painful Affections of._ Camphor (73), Opium (289*), Datura Poultices (130), and Hip Bath (392), either alone or conjointly, are calculated to afford relief. _Chronic Affections of_, Borax and Cinnamon (58). _For Prolapsus or descent of_, use vaginal injections of Decoction of Galls (147), or of Babúl Bark (9), holding Alum (25*) in solution. _Bleeding from_, see _Hæmorrhage_, and _Menstrual Discharge, Excessive_.