CHAP. LIV. Prognosticks of the ulcerated Reins and Bladder.
ULcers of the kidnies are more easily and readily healed then those of the bladder;* 1.1 for fleshie parts more speedily heal and knit, then bloodless and nervous parts. Ulcers which are in the bottome of the bladder, are incureable, or certainly most difficult to heal; for besides that they are in a bloodless part, they are daily vellicated and exasperated by the continual afflux of the contained urine; for all the urine is never evacuated: now that which remains after makeing water, becomes more acrid by the distemper and heat of the part, for that the bladder is alwaies gathered about it, and dilated and straightned according to the quanti∣ty of the contained urine: therefore in the Ischuria, that is, the suppression or difficulty of ma∣king water, you may sometimes see a quart of water made at once. Those which have their legs fall away, having an ulcer in their bladder, are near their deaths. Ulcers arising in these parts, un∣less they be consolidated in a short time, remain uncureable.