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CHAP. LII. Of the signes of ulcerated Kidneyes.
I Had not determined to follow or particularly handle the causes of bloody urines, yet because that which is occasioned by the ul∣cerated reines or bladder more frequently happens, therefore I have thought good briefly to speake thereof in this place. The signes of an ulcer of the reines are, pain in the loines, matter how∣soever mixt with the urine, never evacuated by it selfe, but alwaies flowing forth with the urine, and residing in the botome of the chamberpot, with a sanious and redde sediment, fleshy and as it were bloody fibres swimming up and * 1.1 downe in the urine, the smell of the filth is not so great as that which flowes from the ulcerated bladder, for that the kidneyes, seeing they are of a fleshy substance, doe farre better ripen and digest the purulent matter than the bladder which is nervous and bloodlesse.