Kent's cases 14: Bladder trouble. Sarsaparilla

It is commonly asked by old prescriber:
"Did you tell your doctor that symptom?"
"No, he never asked me."
Some years ago, being called to see a patient in
counsel, it was said by the attending physician:
"This is one of the most difficult cases to procure
symptoms from that I ever saw."
"What is the trouble?"
"Well," said the doctor, "he calls me and says he
is sick, has trouble with his bladder, and does not feel well generally and
expects me to read his symptoms like a clairvoyant.
When I ask him questions he replies:
"You are the doctor; you ought to know, and so it
goes."



We went to the room to examine the patient and
both of us put questions indirectly for an hour or more, and there was no
point gained except the bad temper that the patient manifested at every
moment.
Finally he jumped out of bed and ran into the bath
room and slammed the door behind him.
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I concluded to follow him and observed him
standing at the wash basin passing his urine.
I, at once, asked him,
"Why do you not sit to pass your urine?"
He replied,
"I have not been able to pass urine sitting for
many years.
I must stand always or it will not start."
Sars. c. m. cured him in a few weeks, and there
never has been a return of the bladder trouble.
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