196 FUNCTIONAL DERANGEMENT. [BOOK II. 



pression of urine, and the re-absorption of the 

 contents of the bladder into the system. (See 

 " Urinary Organs, diseases of," for ' suppression of 

 urine?) and, after treating the attack simply as 

 such, a cordial ball should then take place of all 

 further treatment, as the immediate falling down of 

 his pulse to a healthy standard will show. Too 

 free use of " pissing balls," however, in the hands 

 of horse-keepers, spoils the action of the kidneys 

 for ever. See book i. page 158. The French give 

 a bottle of their routine wine made warm to stimu- 

 late these organs, and most of our farriers admi- 

 nister a quart of ale with the same view. Those 

 are mostly waggon-horses, full of flesh, that so ab- 

 sorb the aqueous particles of the urine, and ulti- 

 mately the principle thereof (termed urea), and 

 thus light up the fever anew. That derangement 

 in some one or more of the organs of life, which is 

 brought on by cohesion, also affords symptoms of 

 low fever, or of debility, as they then call it, who 

 are at a loss for a specific term. Concerning this 

 cohesion of such organs together, the inquiring 

 reader had best turn to those particles of information 

 on this topic he will find referred to in the Index. 

 Another cause of feverish attacks, generally of the 

 slighter kind, but likely to prove fatal, if neglected, 

 is the retention of his dung, or constipation, which 

 means costiveness ; the very first symptoms, in bad 

 cases of this nature is delirium, variously termed 

 staggers, megrim, apoplexy, fits, and which have 

 been mistaken for madness. 



