Of pissing blood.
PElagonius saith, that if a horse be ouermuch laboured, or ouercharged with heauy burthen, or ouer fat, he will many times pisse blood, and the rather as I thinke, for that some vaine is broken within the horses body, and then cleere blood will come forth many times, as the Physitians say, without any pisse at all. But if the blood be per∣fectly mingled togither with his stale, then it is a signe that it commeth from the kidnies hauing some stone therein, which through vehement labour, doeth fret the kidnies and [ 10] vaines thereof, and so cause them to bleed, through which while the vrine passeth, must needs be infected and died with the blood. It may come also by some stripe, or from the muscle that incloseth the necke of the bladder. The cure, according to Pelagonius, Absir∣tus, Hierocles, and the rest, is thus. Let the horse blood in the palate of the mouth, to con∣uert the blood the contrary way, then take of Tragagant that hath been steeped in wine, halfe an ounce, and of Poppy seede one dram and once scruple, and of Stirax as much, and twelue Pineaple kirnels: let all these things be beaten and mingled wel togither, and giue the horse thereof euery morning, the space of seauen daies, the quantity of a hasell∣nut distempered in a quart of wine: methinkes that the quantity of a Walnut were too little for so much wine. Some write that it is good to make him a drinke with the root of [ 20] the hearbe Asphopelus, which some call Daffadil mingled with wheat flower and Sumach sodden long in water, and so to bee giuen the horse with some wine added thereunto, or make him a drinke of Goats milk and oile, straining thereunto a little Fromenty. Anato∣lius saith that it good to giue the horse three daies togither, sodden beanes cleane pilled whereunto would be added some Deeres sewet and a little wine.