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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16823	The pisse-prophet, or, Certaine pisse-pot lectures Wherein are newly discovered the old fallacies, deceit, and jugling of the pisse-pot science, used by all those (whether quacks and empiricks, or other methodicall physicians) who pretend knowledge of diseases, by the urine, in giving judgement of the same. By Tho. Brian, M.P. lately in the citie of London, and now in Colchester in Essex. Never heretofore published by any man in the English tongue.	Brian, Thomas, 17th cent.	1637 (1637)	STC 3723; ESTC S114775	61,310	120

fast as ever I can make my tongue belie my heart And with this description I have made the messenger admire my readinesse and skill in judging of Urines and he verily beleeves that I have espied these things in the water but it is farre otherwise for these things that I have reckoned up are but the usuall Symptomes and companions of a Fever and the most of them are joyned with every Fever and all of them and many moe at once are complicate with many a Fever These things being so I cannot but have hit the nayle on the head for some of those Symptomes that I have reckoned up must needs accompany the disease and when I have once named them the messenger presently answers that the partie is just so affected as I have said But as yet I have not named the disease and perhaps omitted something which is expected that I should have named and the messenger is as ready then to aske me if I perceive nothing else by the water as I was to pronounce my judgment of it before To whom I answere yes if you will give me leave to tell you and then perchance askes me if I doe not perceive a stitch and whether the party have not a Plurisie I answer looking upon the water as if it were there to be perceived yes I well perceive the stitch and some cough too and I say that when the cough takes the partie the partie is much pained in the side and for as much as I did not name the stitch at first I tell the messenger that we use first to declare the cause of the disease before we come to every passion or affect of the disease or before we name it I further adde that I was not yet come to speake of the stitch no nor should never have found it out of the water had not the messenger bolted it out because I had named the cause therof namely the oppression of the stomach and obstruction of the Spleene and mesentery and that the stitch was nothing else but a flatuous and windie humour proceeding from thence to the place affected so now I determine the disease to be as they suppose a Plurisie And indeed they can better define their owne diseases by the Symptomes and passions that they suffer than any Physician can doe by the water onely But now as I have been happy in my predictions of the disease and rightly determined it to be as it is indeed a Plurisie so now I must proceed to the prescription as it is required of such remedies as may cure this Plurisie And now I am here as farre to seeke though I know the disease to be a Plurisie as if I knew not the disease at all nor had seen the Urine because I doe not therein perceive the scope and grounds of prescribing fit remedies according to the rules of Art in every respect proper to the disease The which scope and grounds are these namely the parties age the sexe the constitution of the body and the strength of it at this time with divers other accidents as whether the party be bound in his body or have a flux and scouring or the like All the which nor any one of them can be discerned by the Urine yet I must finde them there if the messenger refuse to tell me but that they seldome refuse to doe after that I have given them a description of the disease and shewed them in some part how the partie is affected or else I must needs erre in my prescription for if I should prescribe not knowing the age of the partie such a quantitie of blood to be taken away from a young youth suppose ten or twelve ounces in a Pluresie which is the disease in hand as should be taken from a man in his full strength the partie might perish thereby or if I should take but foure or five ounces of bloud from a lusty young man in this disease at his full strength I should doe him no good and so he might perish on the other side I might likewise erre in the dose if not knowing the parties age I should prescribe more or lesse than were proportionable to the parties age in prescribing purging Potions or Clysters in this case I might likewise commit no lesse errour if not knowing the sexe I should in the forenamed disease prescribe blood-letting to a woman her naturall courses being broke forth upon her for I might by that accident expect a solution of the disease without blood-letting I might likewise erre if knowing the sexe I should prescribe purging Physicke for a woman in this case not knowing whether she be with child or no of such a quality as might cause her to miscarry I might erre concerning the constitution of the body if I should not knowing the same prescribe that for a weakly constitution of body which were fitter for a robustuous and strong constitution and so on the contrary I might likewise erre if I should not knowing the strength of the body at this time prescribe too strong a Potion or too much blood to be taken away when the disease hath overcome the strength and the partie is too much debilitated or if I should prescribe too gentle a potion or too little blood to be taken away when the strength is not yet dejected but stands in equall contestation with the disease I could shew a thousand wayes more how I could erre and how most Physitians doe erre that prescribe Physicke by the sight of the Urine only But my intent is to shew how many thousand wayes I could deceive thee and make thee beleeve that I discerne all these things by the Urine as thou thinkst I do namely the disease the parties age sexe strength constitution of body and the like I have therfore digressed herein from my purpose since my intent was not to shew the errors that are committed by such as pretend knowledge of diseases by the Urine but to shew the fallacies and jugling that they use in giving judgment of it and so frustrated thy expectation of this dainty Art but I hope it shall be to thy profit for thou shalt hereby be the better able to give thy Physitian such instructions as he shall require and shalt perceive the danger of taking Physick prescribed by the sight of the Urine only And now to the purpose indeed but first imagine with me that the last messenger having received good satisfaction by the description of the parties disease for whom he came was ready to certifie me of all the forenamed circumstances that were requisite for me to inquire of as the parties age sexe constitution of body present strength how long the partie had been sicke c. And I have sent him away with such remedies as were most proper for his Pleurisie directions for blood-letting to mitigate his Fever some pectorall Physick to ease his cough with a Liniment to mollifie and to dispell wind to anoynt his

have strictly examined them shall agree with the messengers relation A Fever the small Pox or Maisels a Pleurisie or the like looking still upon the Urine as if I found it there whereas I hope you well perceive my fetches which helpe me out or else Dun might have stucke full fast in the mire I hope also that you perceive how easily a man may give his judgement of any other acute disease by the water though it doe not shew it and now a word or two with this other messenger and then I shall have done with acute sharpe and violent diseases CHAP. IV. The rude simplicity of such as send their Vrine unto a Physician without any instructions how the party is affected And the desperate hazzard that they put their lives in who adventure to take Physicke prescribed only by the sight of the Vrine NOw this messenger is as rough-hewed as he that sent him and is a very plain fellow in his holy-day Jacket and his busking Hose he was call'd from making of Faggots or from thrashing to goe to the Doctour and carry this Pisse that is put up in the Vinegar bottle and brought to me to judge of and it is a very turbid water of a very high darke red colour by which as also by the messenger for I can better tell by the messenger his gesture time of comming haste to be gone and other circumstances what the partie ayleth how long he hath beene sicke and whether it be a mans or womans water than I or any Physician can doe by the Urine especially if I lived in a Towne or Citie where I had much Country practice I conceive it to be some Countrie Farmers his sonnes or mans his Hubber de hoy which is his man-boy or halfe a man and halfe a boy But which of them soever it be hee hath borne it out with head and shoulders for so your Country people use to doe before they send to a Doctour and wrastled so long with the disease and been so often foyled out for they doe not observe the orders in Moore or Lincolns-Inne fields where if a man be three times foyled out it is to stand for a fall and he is to wrastle no more for that time as that he can no longer stand and yet he is to have one bout more with the disease who hath a cruell second in this Duell even death it selfe And now if nature be not assisted by Art this fellow whose second I must be is like to be put to the worst and the disease is like to give him a flat fall upon his backe in his Grave never to rise againe untill the resurrection Therefore if I have any skill I must shew it now or never I now therefore take the water to examine it and thinke to question with this messenger as with the former How long the partie hath been sicke whose water it was and to put him such other questions as might shew me such other circumstances which might shew mee the disease and guide me in the prescribing fit remedies for the same but he cannot answer mee one question not whose water it is nor how long the party hath been sicke no nor whether it be a mans or a womans water much lesse the constitution of the body the present strength of it at this time or whether the partie be bound or loose in his body with divers other such circumstances all the which are so necessary for me to know as that without the knowledge thereof I cannot safely prescribe any Physicke and yet this fellow cannot tell me one word for he saith that he was not told but was onely hired to bring me the water and to bid me send something to help the partie and hath brought eighteene pence or two shillings with him to pay for that which I shall prescribe or send and all that he can say is that such a mans servant came to him to get him to come but did not tell him whose water it was nor how long the partie had beene sicke And now what on Gods Name shall I doe in this case for it is presumed that I know the disease by the water and all other circumstances belonging to the same which are requisite for to guide me in the prescribing of fit remedies and I have pretended as much and holpen to nurse up folkes in this folly as other Physicians have done before mee by giving my judgement of diseases by the sight of the Urine and backing my pretended knowledge by such fallacies as I have spoken of without the which neither I nor any Physician in the world can give any judgement of a disease nor come to the knowledge of such circumstances unlesse the messenger that brings it tell us as may guide us in the prescribing of safe medicines every way proper unto the disease I must tell you therefore for mine own part that I have already and doe for ever hereafter meane to steere a new course yet I must for this one time prescribe for this fellow who being all this while out of breath with his last Arthleticke combate and having caught such a wrinch though he played strong play as that he will goe neere to fall the next bout is expected to enter the sands to revive the quarrell and to undertake the last encounter I now therefore take the Urinall since the messenger can tell me nothing and looke better upon the water as if I could tell miracles by it for I must now make all the haste that may be to set him on foot since he is so earnestly expected by his adversarie Now looking upon the water I perceive it to be very crasse thicke and turbid in all places alike of an intense high darke red colour and from thence I conceive that according to the fopperous Pisse-maximes and rules of our great Pisse-prognosticatours there is a great commixture of superabundant humours which the substance of it as they say being crasse thicke and turbid sheweth and that nature is not yet able to concoct these humours for then there would be some separation in the Urine and it would not be in all places alike but would have sediment in the bottome and be transparent in the upper part I conceive also that he hath a great Fever for that the colour sheweth being red and high and that there is great danger for it is of an high darke red colour tending to blacknesse But yet I cannot tell what manner of Fever it is for I cannot discerne by the Urine as common people suppose the passions and affects of the sicke party that determine the disease and should guide me in the prescribing fit remedies and therefore I cannot tell whether it be best to let him blood to give hive him a purging potion or Clyster or whether his body would now beare any of these or whether I were best to give him something to make him sleepe or some cooling Juleb or some Cordiall Antidote to

expell noxious humours from the vitall parts now which of these methods I shall best use for the messenger can tell me nothing I know not but however the matter is not great for the party ventureth but his life and why shuld not I adventure my skill against it I now therefore pronounce the party to be sicke of a bastard Pleurisie for it is no matter what I say to this messenger or a Fever and that the party would hardly recover further adding that hee should have beene let blood a weeke agoe and that I feared it would now be too late but yet I wish it to be done for if any thing in the world recover him it must be that and if that do it it is but Hab Nab but yet however I must put it in practice so now I hast away the messenger to get a Chirurgion to let him blood and tell him where and in what quantity it must be done and now it is a question whether the disease or the life be let out by this blood-letting if blood offending in quantity or corrupt blood offending in quality putrified by choller in the lesser veines be let out the disease may chance to be let out with it and so Mors or Death may tarry for a sacrifice till some other sicknesse take him upon more advantage But if the good blood seeming to be inflamed be let out when this Fever proceedeth from choller in the greater veins or from Flegme or other mixt humours in the stomach Spleene or Mesentery which ought to be purged the life insteed of the disease may be let out by losse whereof the debt to God and Nature would be paid But haply insteed of blood-letting I prescribe at randome for so I must doe in either some purging Potion and so set the disease and a medicine together by the eares leave the successe to fortune And now whether the party live or die I care not for if he die I have taught them to blame their owne negligence in not sending any sooner but if Nature be of such for●e that she be able to withstand the conflict betweene the disease and the Antidote and start up and take part with the Medicine so that the party recover I shall have more attributed unto me as the onely cause of his recovery than I have deserved or than to God who in his providence had beene pleased by the worke of Nature more than by any skill of mine to spare and recover him and thus you use to over-value the meanes whereby as you suppose you have beene recovered although used so desperatly as I have prescribed for this fellow by a methodicall Physician professing knowledge of diseases by the Urine or used quite contrary to the rules of Art by some rude Empiricke and Quack-salving knave especially if you chance to recover and to under-value the best meanes in the world used by the most grave and learned Physician if the party chance to die never satisfying your selves when things are so come to passe that it was Gods providence saying sic placuit Domino it was Gods will it should be so and so resting your selves contented but still tormenting your selves further in thinking that this child that friend this brother or that sister might have beene recovered if the best meanes had beene used as if God would not have directed thee unto that meanes had it not beene his will now to take this party unto himselfe And now I hope that you perceive by these few instances how a man may deceive the wisest messenger that you can send unto a Physician with a water and shew you the disease by the same although it be not there to be found and how great danger they put their lives in that adventure to take Physicke prescribed by the sight of the Urine only and so I have done with all sharp and violent diseases and am now comming to speake of Chronicall lingring and diseases of continuance wherein I meane to shew you how to give judgement of them by the water though in those diseases it shew lesse than in sharpe and violent diseases CHAP. V. A Recapitulation of those things which have beene spoken touching the giving of judgement of the Vrine in Acute and Violent diseases and a Praecapitulation of some things necessary to be premised touching Chronicall and diseases of continuance before we come to the examination of the Pisse-messengers as we have done in Sharpe and Violent diseases AND now whereas I shew'd you before that I came to instance and shew my cunning in giving judgement upon Urines in violent diseases that diseases are either sharpe and violent the which I have spoke of or Chronicall and of continuance such as I am now to speake of next and that in sharp diseases the Urine is for the most part of an high red colour and that there is a Fever alwayes joyned with every sharpe disease so I shewed you that one may give a description how any sicke party is affected in any violent disease by rekoning up the common Symptomes and companions of a Fever which are oppression of stomach want of appetite Heate Thirst Paine in the head want of sleep c. and make the messenger believe that I perceive the disease by the water because I shew how the party is in some kind affected the which neither I nor any Physician in the world can perceive in or by water but gather by consequence when we once conceive that it is a violent disease for then we know that there is a Fever joyned and that there are some of those Symptomes that I named joyned with it but yet I doe not know what kind of Fever it is nor what violent disease it is and therefore I doe not name or determine it untill I have expostulated with the messenger in such manner as I have already shew'd and thereby come to the knowledge of some specificall note or difference which determine the same I must now likewise give you to understand before that I come to examine some few Urines to shew you how I give my judgement of Chronicall diseases that in Chronicall diseases such as are the Drop●e Gout Palsey Falling sicknesse Scurvey French Pox Green sicknesse Malacie which is the disease of women newly conceived with childe Cough Head-ach Mother and such like the Urine is no way faulty but representeth the Urine of healthfull nay oftentimes the most healthfull men in the world And yet the Physician such a Urine being brought unto him must sentence the partie that made it to be sicke upon no other proofe but onely this lying strumpet and false witnesse the Urine suborned by the beguiled and so selfe-conceited vulgar and connived at by the Pisse-Justice or Judge before whom shee is brought who is corrupted for a testar sometimes for more and sometimes for lesse and is contented to accept of her evidence for truth when he knowes it to be a palpable lye that shee comes

mortality and present imminent danger gave him the best instructions that I could to prepare himselfe for that sodaine change of this life for another that was like to be and so tooke my leave of him But before I could get away I was desired by some of his friends that were about him to tell them for they thinke that wee can surely tell or else that we are not our crafts-masters whether hee would dye or no and I tooke upon me to determine his death before eight of the clocke the next night within halfe an houre of which time he dyed But before I could get out of the chamber they began to whisper as the manner is and to scoffe me to my face saying amongst themselves that they did nor perceive but that he might live as long as I but my predictions proved so true and were so soone accomplished that I came off from that their censure with more than ordinary credit for as much as I had prefixed so short a time of his life and the event death following now so neere the utmost bounds and limits of the time Yet I confesse ingenuously that I was too peremptory in determining his death within so short a time or by such an houre for I had told them that hee could not live untill such an houre which was ●ight of the clocke and that if he should escape that houre he would recover but yet both of these predictions might have proved false for he might both escape that houre and yet might not recover though I said he would if he passed that houre but dye within a few dayes or houres after Neither did I pronounce my judgment from any grounds of Art that did determine his death within such an houre but onely by conjecturall probabilitie for your cunning men or Conjurers nay the Devill himselfe cannot otherwise than upon conjecture determine a sicke mans life unto an houre unlesse you make him one of the Almighties scoret counsell Nay I dare affirme that the Devils may and often are deceived in their conjectures and calculations touching the life and death of men and yet their naturall knowledge is farre more than mens for they are spirits and their acquired knowledge is as much beyond mens because they are ancienter than men even from the beginning of the world are not subject to the same mortality that man is who before he come to begin to have understanding is in his Grave I say therefore that no Physician nay the Devills who are ancienter than Aesculapius or Hippocrates or any of that race cannot determine the life and death of a man but upon conjecture and may be deceived but yet you looke that a Physician should be able to doe it and not to erre because such an event doth oftentimes accidentally follow such a peremptory conclusion as this of mine was that this partie would dye within such an houre It is true indeed and I might truely say the nature of the disease and the strength of the body with all other signes of death being well considered that I thought the partie would scarce live untill such an houre but if I should say without any qualification of the sense that the partie would not live untill such an houre and that he would recover if he should passe that houre you might thinke that I spake without my booke for I could not say so but that I must speake more than I know and so derogate from the providence of God in assuming that knowledge unto my selfe that belongs onely to him I was likewise called to another lustie yong man one John Duffield by name in the very same Towne very shortly after who was sicke of the very same disease in the same manner whose friends were very importunate at me to be tampering with him and to use my best skill to recover him but I perceived that there had another Quack been tampering with him before who had omitted the opportunity of letting him blood and found him so far and in such case debilitated that now there was no place for bleeding unlesse I had beene contented to have undergone the scandall that would have soone ensued so I wished them to send for the Physician of the soule and told them there was no place for my Art For had I caused him to have been let blood he would have gone neere to have dyed under the Chirurgians hands and then they would not have stuck to have said that I had kil'd him for it was afternoon and almost night when I was called unto him and he dyed before the next morning Yet as I said before of the incertaine judgment of diseases by the water his water was of as good a colour and consistence every way as any healthfull mans yet notwithstanding I gave my judgement so upon this Urine as that I satisfied the messenger for I asked the messenger how long the partie had been sicke who answered almost a weeke from whence I gathered that it was a violent disease although the water did not witnesse the same and so gave the description of a Fever which shewed how the partie was affected and made the messenger thinke that I perceived his disease in the water but you I hope well perceive how I did it and how a man may be sicke unto death his Urine shewing no disease at all and if a Physician can satisfie the messenger and seeme to describe the disease by the Urine notwithstanding So now I proceed to sit in judicature upon this modest harlot the Urine who in Chronicall diseases seemeth to import no disease at all and yet she is caught ipso facto in her close tricks for which she is come to publike censure But first before I come to examine this strumpet I must further shew you how I come to know certainely whether it be a Chronicall disease or no since she is namely the Urine so perfidious as that there is no credit to be given to any thing that she comes to give in evidence cōcerning the state of any sick or well bodies water whomsoever Now that I discern namely whether it be a Chronicall disease or no by the same question that I propounded in giving my judgement upon Urines in violent diseases and that question was this I onely asked the messenger how long the partie had been sicke by answer whereunto I am certified or at least have strong presumption whether it be a Chronicall or violent disease for if the Pisse Post say a weeke or lesse I then presume that it is a violent disease But if the Pisse-bearer say that the partie hath not beene very well a good while which is their answer commonly in a Chronicall disease when we aske how long the partie hath been sicke for indeed they are not sicke in most Chronicall diseases but are illish or not well I dare say then that it is a Chronicall disease and when I have once received this answer to the forenamed