1 64 ThelARRnK's New Guide. Ch. XLIV. 

 CHAP. XLIV. 



Of a Fhtx of Urine, andjialing of Blood. 



A N immoderate Flux of Urine happens when the Serum 

 •^ of the Blood is too much attenuated and thin, or when 

 the Pores of the Skin are too much conflringed and ftiutup, 

 or when the Renal Du6ls, viz. the fmall Canals that open 

 into the hollow Part or Bafon of the Kidnies, are too much 

 extended and dilated, whereby the Seru?n is feparated in an 

 over -great Quantity from the Kidnies. 



The firll, to wit, when the ferous Parts of the Blood are 

 too much attenuated, is for the moft part caufed by tra- 

 velling in hot Weather, or eating hot and fpirituous Herbs, 

 in the Beginning of the Grafs Seafon ; and we have already 

 obferv'd, that the Pores of the Skin are moll ordinarily 

 obftruded and ihut up by riding in the Night Fogs, or ex- 

 pofing a Horfe to the Cold when he has been over-much 

 heated : And the Renal Dudls may be dilated and extended 

 by eating Snow with the Grafs in Winter, which is faid 

 to abound very much with Nitre ; or it may be caufed by 

 drinking over-much Water of any Kind, efpecially when a 

 Horfe is put to hard Exercife, for by that means it fuddenly 

 precipitates and falls downwards in an over-great Quantity 

 into the Reins, fo that the above-mentioned Duds become 

 widened beyond their ufual Dimenfions. 



7he Caitfe of (la- ^'^^^'^ ^^^'^ ^^ ^^^^ ^'^^ ^^ difficult to under- 

 Img of Blood, ^^""^ how a Horfe comes to Hale Blood, for 



albeit Blood may fometimes proceed from 

 an Ulceration of the Kidnies, when they are wore and 

 nbraded by Sand or gritty Matter, or by the Acrimony and 

 Sharpnefs of the Corruption that proceeds from the Ulcer ; 

 yet the moll ufual Caufe of pilling Blood happens when 

 the Renal Dudls have been over- much diftended by any of 

 the Caufes above-mention'd, and Blood, for the mofl^art, 

 follows a too great Pro fufion of the Urine, though this is 

 very feldom attended unto by Farriers. 

 '7ke Cure. ^^ ^° ^^^ Cure, whether there be only a 



too great Profufion of Urine, or a Flux of 

 Blood, it is to be performed chiefly by Medicines that 

 ilrengthen and agglutinate, and likewife by fuch Things as 

 will divert the Humours another Way by opening the Pores. 

 Only in cafe of Blood, a Vein fhould by all Means be 

 opened in the Neck or Bread, to make as fpeedy a Revul- 



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