THat Pissing by which the Urin in Males, * 1.1 passeth through the Yard; in Women through their pissing place is Natural. But when it is involuntary, or immoderate, or often, or little, or thick, or bloody; or cometh by a wrong passage, it is preternatural.
When the Urin flows out of its own ac∣cord, * 1.2 without the Will of the Patient, it is involuntary. And this is somtimes with∣out Feeling, as in Apoplexies, Palsies, and Swoundings. And some who have been cut for the stone have it for ever.
There is another involuntary Pissing, which they have who piss their Beds, * 1.3 espe∣cially Infants, if it be a fault in them: It is unseemly in young people that know it, and ought to avoid it. But worse when they come to years.
It is called immoderate, when it is too much, * 1.4 too often, or unseasonable, as in Drunkards. They fill themselves with wine and rise from meat to piss. This is thought unseemly among people of reputation, which hold Drun∣kenness for a great shame, as indeed it is.
There is another immoderate Pissing, when it is not af∣ter large Drinking, but oftner then it ought to be: For which cause they cannot tary long in Assemblies, but are forced to go forth, and piss.
But that is chiefly immoderate Pissing, when they piss more then they drink or eat of moist meats. This is in sound Folkes, which are called Vritici without another in∣firmity. And in sick in the Crisis or Declination of a dis∣ease. And because it is profitable, and not hurtful, it is not preternatural, except it continue to the loss of strength, which will easily decay by such an Evacuation.
There is another in the Disease, called Dia∣betes but seldom; * 1.5 which is a large and unmo∣derate Pissing, when what is drunk is little or nothing changed, with an unquenchable thirst from whence it is called Dipsacus, when the Body is hot and consumeth.
There is another, * 1.6 often and little Pis∣sing, when the Urin is voided by drops, called Strangury, which is somtimes with∣out pain: Of which we spake in the want of Pissing.
There is often a burning pain in pis∣sing, called scalding Urin, or Dysury, * 1.7 though this word is more proper to pis∣sing with difficulty or pain, as Dysentery is in the Guts, then to little Pissing. In this Disease while the Urin drops, there is pain: but when it comes more freely, it begins at the Conclusion. And continueth a little after, and begins again before the next Pissing, causing such a straining, that it produceth horror and sweat. A grievous pain in Males about the end of the Yard or Glans, which is then touched; hence the Ger∣mans call this, cold Pissing, though it be hot. Women are pained also in the passage for Urin.
This Dysurie or Difficulty of Pissing troubles young and old, somtimes without other Diseases, and is short, if it come from the taking of any thing, or from some cause that continueth not, as we shall shew. Somtimes it is lon∣ger in which there are some signs of a foul Body.
Somtimes it is with other Diseases, as in thick Pissing, when it is mattery, slimy, or like Milk with Urin, for the Diseases of the Reins, Bladder, or other parts: Also in the Ulcer of the Yard, and Bladder, matter is voided alone; and Seed involuntary in a Gonorrhoea, or Running of the Reins, especially when it is venemous: As we shall shew concerning them.
Somtimes symptoms of the Stone in the Bladder, are with this Dysury, as Itching about the Privities, standing of the Yard, sense of Heaviness about the Fundament, in∣to which, if the Finger be thrust, the Stone in the Bladder may be felt; also straining with crude Urin, sometimes thick and bloody, and sometimes it is quite stopped.
There is often turbulent or thick pis∣sing as of matter which settles in the urinal like a Pultis, * 1.8 and mixeth again with the urin when it is shaked, and goes to the bottom again when it settleth. It is somtimes white, without scent, somtimes stinking, somtimes white Filmes do fly in the Urin, as in the Ulcer of the Kidneys: As we shall shew. Somtimes it is without scalding, but with heaviness, and pain of the Reins, somtimes with scalding.
They say that pissing of Matter may be from an Impost∣hum in the Liver which is rare, and from a Pleurisie, or Pe∣ripneumony, or Empyema, which is most rare and sel∣dom.
There is another thick Pissing of Slime with the Urin, which sticks to the bottom of the Urinal, like Glew after the Urin is poudered out, this is from the Ulcer of the Bladder, and then there is also scalding of Urin. Also this slime is voided alone: As we shall declare in the Ex∣cretions of the Yard without Urin.
Another thick Pissing is like Milk, * 1.9 and then there is a great white sediment at the bottom of the Urinal, and is mixed with the urin when it is shaked. I have observed this in my self and others, somtimes for many daies, and somtimes at certain hours, especially at night, after Exercise without other accident, except heat in Pissing and straining after.
Pissing of Blood, * 1.10 is when the Urin is coloured like blood. In which after set∣tling there is a thick and black sediment.
This is often with other accidents in the Stone of the Kidneys, and after violent Exercise; also in the Stone of the Bladder. And if there be an Ulcer, there is Matter with Blood.
They who use the Catheter have often a little blood in the Urin. And they who have had a great 〈◊〉〈◊〉 or Stroak piss blood.
And they who have taken Cantharides, or Spa•••••• flies, or the like.