Of the pain in the Kidneys.
ME thinks that the Kidnies of a Horse should be subject to as many griefs as the Kidnies of a * 1.1 Man, as to Inflamation, Obstruction, Apostumes and Ulcers, and specially to obstruction that cometh by means of some stone or gravel gathered together in the Kidnies whereby the Horse can∣not stale but with pain; for I have seen divers Horses my self that have voided much gravel in their stale, which without doubt did come from the Kidnies; but my Authors do refer such griefs to the bladder and urine, and write of no disease but only of the inflamation of the Kidnies, which is cal∣led of them Nephritis, and so it is cald of the Physitians. It cometh, as they say, by some great strain over some ditch; or else by bearing some great burthen. The signes whereof be these: The Horse will go rolling behinde and staggering, his stones will shrink up, and his stale will be blackish and thick. I think this disease differeth not from that which we called before the swaying of the back when we talked of the griefs in the back and loins, and therefore resort thither. The cure of this disease, according to the best of the old Writers, is in this sort: Bathe his back and loins with Wine, Oyl, and Nitrum warmed together, after that you have so bathed him, let him be covered with warm clothes, and stand littered up to the belly with straw, so as he may lie soft; and give him such drinks as may provoke urine, as those that be made with Dill, Fennil, Anise, Smallage, Parsley, Spikenard, Myrrhe, and Cassia. Some say it is good to give him a kinde of pulse called Cich with Wine. Some again do praise Ewes milk, or else Oyl and Deers sewet molten together, and given him to drink, or the root of the herb called Asphodelus, Englished by some Daffadil, sodden in Wine.