CHAP. XLVIII. Of the suppression of the Ʋrine by internal causes.
BEsides the fore-mentioned causes of suppressed urine, or difficultie of making of wa∣ter there are manie other, least anie may think that the urine is stop't onely by the stone or gravel,* 1.1 as Surgeons think, who in this case presently use diureticks. Therefore the urine is supprest by external and internal causes. The internal cau∣ses are clotted blood, tough phlegm, warts, caruncles bred in the passages of the urine, stones, and gravel; the urine is somtimes supprest, becaus the matter thereof, to wit, the serous or whayish part of the blood, is either consumed by the feverish heat, or carried other waies by sweats or a scouring; somtimes also the flatulencie there conteined, or inflammation arising in the parts made for the urine and the neighboring members, suppresse's the urine. For the right gut, if it bee inflamed, intercept's the passage of the urine, either by a tumor whereby it presseth upon the bladder, or by the communication of the inflammation. Thus by the default of an ill-affected liver, the urine is oft-times supprest in such as have the dropsie; or els by dulness or decay of the attractive, or separative facultie of the reins by som great di∣stemper, or by the default of the animal-facultie, as in such as are in a phrensie, lethargie, convulsion, apoplexie. Besides also a tough and viscid humor falling from the whole body into the passages of the urine, obstruct's and shut's up the passage. Also too long holding the water somtimes cause's this affect. For when the bladder is distended above measure, the passage thereof is drawn together, and made more straight: hereto may bee added, that the too great distension of the bladder is a hinderance that it cannot use the expulsive facultie,* 1.2 & straighten it self about the urine to the exclusion thereof; hereto also pain succeed's which presently deject's all the faculties of the part which is seized upon. Thus of late a certain young man, riding on hors-back before his mistress, and therefore not dareing to make water,* 1.3 when hee had great need so to do, had his urine so supprest, that returning from his journie home into the citie, hee could by no means possible make water. In the mean time hee had grievous pain in the bottom of his bellie and the perinaeum, with gripeings, and a sweat all over his bodie, so that hee almost swooned. I beeing called, when I had procured him to make water by putting in a hollow Catheter, and pressing the bottom of his bellie, whereof hee forthwith made two pintes; I told them that it was not occasioned by the stone, which notwithstanding the standers by imagined to bee the occasion of that suppression o••