The workes of that famous chirurgion Ambrose Parey translated out of Latin and compared with the French. by Tho: Johnson. Whereunto are added three tractates our of Adrianus Spigelius of the veines, arteries, & nerves, with large figures. Also a table of the bookes and chapters.

CHAP. XVII. Of the causes and differences of the scalding, or sharpness of the urine.

* 1.1THe heat or scalding of the water, which is one kinde of the virulent strangury, ariseth from some one of these three causes; to wit, repletition, inanition, and contagion. That which proceeds from repletion, proceeds either from too great abundance of blood, or by a painful and tedious journy in the hot sun, or by feeding upon hot, acrid, diuretick and flatulent meats causing tension and heat in the urinary parts, whence proceeds the inflamati∣on of them and the genital parts; whence it happens that not only a seminal, but also much o∣ther moisture may flow unto those parts, but principally to the prostata, which are glandules situ∣ate at the roots, or beginning of the neck of the bladder, in which place the spermatick vessels end; also abstinence from venery causeth this plentitude in some who have usually had to do with women, especially the expulsive faculty of the seminal and urinary parts being weak, so that they are not of themselves able to free themselves from this burden: For then the suppressed matter is corrupted, and by its acrimony contracted, by an adventitious and putredinous heat, it causeth heat and pain in the passage forth. The prostata swelling with such inflamed matter, in process

oftime become ulcerated, the abscess being broken. The purulent sanies dropping and flowing hence alongst the urinary passage causes the ulcers by acrimony, which the urine falling upon, ex∣asperates; whence sharp pain, which also continueth for some short time after making of water, and together therewith by reason of the inflamation, the pains attraction, and the vaporous spi∣rits distension, the yard stands, and is contracted with pain, as we noted in the former Chapter. But that which happens through inanition,* 1.2 is acquired by the moderate and unfit use of vene∣ry, for hereby the oily and radical moisture of the fore-mentioned glandules is exhausted, which wasted and spent, the urine cannot but be troublesome and sharp by the way to the whole Ʋrethra. From which sense of sharpe pain, the scalding of the urine hath its denomination. That which comes by contagion, is caused by impure copulation with an unclean person, or with a woman, which some short while before hath received the tainted seed of a virulent person, or else hath the whites, or her privities troubled with hidden and secret ulcers, or carrieth a virulent spirit shut up or hidden there, which heated and resuscitated by copulation, presently infects the whole body with the like contagion, no otherwise then the sting of a Scorpion or Phalangium, by casting a little poison into the skin, presently infects the whole body, the force of the poison spreading further then one would believe, so that the party falls down dead in a short while after. Thus therefore the seminal humor contained in the prostatae, is corrupted by the tainture of the ill,* 1.3 drawn thence by the yard, and the contagion infects the part it self; whence follows an abscess, which ••asting forth the virulency by the urinary passage, causeth a virulent strangury; and the malign vapor carried up with some portion of the humor unto the entrials and principal parts, cause the Lues Venerea.

Notes

• * 1.1

  The cause of a particular re∣pletition of the privy parts.
• * 1.2

  The causes of the inanition of the genital parts.
• * 1.3

  The reason of a contagious Strangury.