The workes of that famous chirurgion Ambrose Parey translated out of Latine and compared with the French. by Th: Johnson

CHAP. L. By what externall causes the urine is supprest; and prognostickes concerning the suppression thereof.

THere are also many externall causes, through whose occasion the urine may be supprest. Such are bathing and swimming in cold water; the too long continued application of Narcoticke medicines upon the Reines, pe∣rinaeum and share; the use of cold meats and drinkes, and such other like. Moreover, the dislocation of some Vertebra of the loines to the inside, for that it * 1.1 presseth the nerves disseminated thence into the bladder; therefore it causeth a stu∣pidity or numnesse of the bladder. Whence it is, that it cannot perceive it selfe to bee vellicated by the acrimony of the urine, and consequently it is not stirred up to the expulsion thereof. But from whatsoever cause the suppression of the urine proceeds, if it persevere for some dayes, death is to bee feared, unlesse either a fea∣ver, * 1.2 which may consume the matter of the urine, or a scouring or fluxe, which may divert it, shall happen thereupon. For thus by stay it acquireth an acride and vene∣nate

quality, which flowing by the veines readily infecteth the masse of blood, and carryed to the braine much molests it by reason of that similitude and sympathy of condition which the bladder hath with the Meninges. But nature, if * 1.3 prevalent, easily freeth it selfe from this danger by a manifest evacuation by stoole, otherwise it must necessarily call as it were to its aide, a feavourish heat, which may send the abounding matter of this serous humidity out through the skinne, either by a sensible evacuation as by sweat; because sweate and urine have one common matter: or else disperse and breath it out by transpiration, which is an insensible ex∣cretion.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Why the dislo∣cation of a ver∣tebra of the loins may cause a suppression of urine.
• * 1.2

  Why the sup∣pression of the urine becomes deadly.
• * 1.3

  A feaver fol∣lowing thereon helps the sup∣pression of u∣rine.