Lib. I. Of Cures FhyficaL 9 



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Chap. LXXXl. Of the Pain in a Horfe^s Kidneys. 

 Here is no Queftion, but the lame Infirmities which do belong unto 



the Liver or Spieen of a Horfe, do aifo belong unto the Kidneys, 



as Inflammations, Obftru£lions, Apofthumes, and Ulcers ^ and truly in 

 opening of riories, I have found the Kidi:iey fometimes wafted, which I 

 imputed to fome matter of Inflammation ^ I have likewife found much 

 Gravel, which was only through Obftru^lions, and I have feen the Kid- 

 neys as black as Ink, which could not come without an Ulcerous Apoft- 

 humation : Bat forafmuch as a B orfe is a Beaft, who cannot tell the 

 manner of his Pain, nor we fo heedful as we might have been, to obferve 

 the Symptoms of every Grief, we are inforced to conclude all under one 

 Name, which is the Pain in the Kidneys, gotten either by fbme great 

 ftrain in Leaping, or by fome great Burthen bearing. 



The Signs are, the Horfe will go rowling and daggering behind, his 

 Urine will be blackifh. and thick, and his Stones (if he have any) will be 

 fhrunk up iuto his Body, if he have not, you fliall perceive the fheath of 

 his Yard to be drawn back\'/ard, and the great Vein which runPieth up the 

 fide of his Thigh, called the Kidney-vein, will flack and beat continual- 

 ly . The Cure according to the Opinion of the ancient Farriers, is, Firft 

 to bath his Back and loins with Oyl, Wine, and Nitrum, warmed toge- 

 ther, and after he is bathed, cover him with warm cloaths, and let him 

 ftand in Litter up to the Belly -, then give him to drink Water wherein 

 hath been fodden Dill, Fennel, A mil feeds, Smallage, Parfley, Spikenard, 

 Myrrh, andCaUla, or as many as you can conveniently get of thefe Simples. 

 The next Morning fafting, give him to drink a Quart of Ews Milk,or for 

 wanttheieof, half fo much Salient Oil, and Deers Suet molten together -, 

 or if you can get it,, the root of a Daffodill boiled in Wii'e, and let his 

 Provender be dried Oats ^ and in tins Diet keep him about ten Days, and 

 he will recover. 



Chap. LXXXII. Of the Difeafes belonging to the Bladder or VrinCy and 



Flrft of the Strangury. 



According to the detern. nate Opinion of all th« beft and Anci^nteit 

 Hoi fe-Leaches, the Biac.ier of a i:orfe is fubjeft to three dange- 

 rous Diijbafes, as firft, the Stranti,ury, or StranguUion ^ the fecond, the 

 Pam-pifs, and the third the Stone, or Pifs fuppreft. Now for th* firft^ 

 which is the Strangury :, or StranguUion, it is, when the Horfe is pro- 

 voked to ftale often, and voicleth nothing but a few drops, it cometh 

 wichout doubt, either by the hept and jliarpnefs of Urine, caufed either 

 by great Travel, or by iharp and hot Meats and Drinks, or el fe by the 

 Exulceration of the Bladder, or by means of fome Apofthume in the 

 Liver and Kid):eysj which Apoftliume being broken, the Matter reforteth 



down. 



