148 DISEASES IN THE KIDNEYS. 



Causes and Symptoms of a Strangury. 



proper to apply the following charge all over his 

 loins. 



(RECIPE, No. 97.) 

 Strengthening Charge, 



Take — Burgundy pitch, and black pitch, of each four 



ounces ; 

 Oxycroccum plaister, and strengthening plais* 



ter, of each two ounces : 

 Melt them in an iron ladle over a slow fire. 



This charge must be spread all over the loins, 

 when new-milk warm, and immediately covered 

 «ver with short wool ; if the season will permit, 

 the horse may be put to grass. 



The strangury may proceed either from an 

 inflammation of the kidneys, or from a stone in 

 the neck of the bladder : when from the former 

 there is a preternatural heat in the loins, attended 

 with a fever; but if from the latter^ the inflam- 

 mation about the neck of the bladder may easily 



