1 64 The FarrierV Neiju Guide. Ch. XLIV. 



CHAP. XLIV. 

 Of a Fln^ 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 conftringed and fhut up, 

 or when the Renal Du6ts, viz. the fmall Canals that open 

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

 extended and dilated, whereby the Serum is feparated in an 

 over -great Quantity from the Kidnies. 



The firft, 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 moft ordinarily 

 obftrudted and fhut 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 Duels 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 Ducts become 

 widened beyond their ufual Dimenfions. 

 ^I'e Caufe of Ha- ^'^^'-^^ ''^^'^ '*■ ^'^''^^ ^'^^ ^^ difficult to under- 

 litin of Blood. ^^'^"^ ^^^ ^ Horfe comes to ftale Blood, for 

 albeit Blood may fom.etimes proceed from 

 an Ulceration of the Kidnies, when they are wore and 

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

 Sharpnefs of the Corruption that proceeds from the Ulcer ; 

 yet the moft ufual Caufe of piffing Blood happens v/hea 

 the Renal Ducts have been over- much diftcnded by any of 

 the Caufes above-mention'd, and Blood, for the moft part, 

 follows a too great Profufion of the Urine, though this is 

 very feldom attended unto by Farriers. 

 V:e 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 

 ftrer.gthen and agglutinate, and likevvife by fuch I'hlngs as 

 will divert the Humours another Way by opening the Pores. 

 Only in cafe ot Blood, a Vein fliould by all Means be 

 opened in the Neck or Brei^ft, to make as fpeedy a Revul- 



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