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A58318	The judgment of urines. By Robert Record Doctor of Physick Whereunto is added an ingenious treatise concerning physicians, apothecaries, and chirurgeons, set forth by an eminent physitian in Queen Elizabeths dayes. With a translation of Papius Ahalsossa concerning apothecaries confecting their medicines; worthy perusing, and imitating.	Record, Robert, 1510?-1558.; Pape, Joseph, 1558-1622. aut	1679 (1679)	Wing R650A; ESTC R220684	54,269	145

If it be thin or unpure the ground shall be either obscure and little or much and that divers and unconcoct And this is the working of these four qualities when they exceed alone But and if two of them exceed together there may result of that sort four other distemperances as hot and dry hot and moist cold and dry and cold and moist Compound distemperatures of qualities Now what alterations these and every one of them doth cause the urine you may easily conjecture if you keep in mind that which I said of the four simple qualities and so adde togethet the alterations And this must you remember therewith that where they both agree in any alteration they cause that alteration to bee the greater and where they be contrary they cause the alteration to be nearer to a mean howbeit somewhat to help you take this brief declaration A temperate man As a temperate man doth make that perfect urine written of before in Chap. 6. so the urine of a sanguine man which is hot and moist shall be yellow or light saffron coloured by the reason of the heat and somewhat gross by reason of the moisture A cholerick man In a cholerick man being hot and dry 〈◊〉 the urine shall be in colour as in a sanguin● man but in substance thin by reason of th● dryness A melancolike man The urine of a melancholy man whose nature is cold and dry shall be white throug● the cold and cleer for the dryness A flegmatick man The flegmatick man which is cold an● moist maketh urine white through cold an● thick by the moisture for as heat and col● altereth the colours so dryness and moistur● changeth the substance Now if you hav● remembred all that I have written before then shall you be the meeter and better able a great deal to perceive the reasons 〈◊〉 the tokens which vrine doth give And 〈◊〉 shall your knowledge be the more certai● if you know not only the thing but also th● cause of it Now therefore will I wri● of the signification of the parts of urin● particularly that you may perceive th● first and chief commoditie of urine which 〈◊〉 worketh for mans health CHAP. VIII The significations of the parts of Vrine particularly I Told you in the sixt Chapter of this Book what urine was most perfect sound and healthfull of all other And I said that it was the rule and tryall to examine all other urines by so that the neerer that any urine was to it the better it was and the further that it declineth from it the worse it is This I said should be as a generall rule which thing to be true in healthful men you may perceive by that I have written already And that it is also true in sick men Hypocrates witnesseth saying That Vrine is best whose ground is white duly knit and stable all the time that the sickness prevaileth But Galen to supply that that is understood in this saying and so to make it perfect addeth thereto That it must be of colour partie golden or pale and of a mean substance between thick and thin And also in these things is required stableness to make it a perfect Urine for that which is unstable in any part in that it is not perfect Here were a place to speake of the difference of this changeableness or unstableness for there is one sort called ordinary and another called unordinarie and of both these are there divers differences But because they depend of an exacter judgement the● unlearned men can well attain unto I overpass them for this time and will declare the other differences of urine whereby it altereth from this mean urine in all parts particularly Substance or urine And first I will begin with the substanc● of urine the which as I said before is o● three kindes thick thin and mean Mean A mean urine is that that is in the middle between extream thick and extrea● thin And as it is mean between them i● substance so is it mean in signification so it doth betoken of it self only good temperance and health But the other two betoken distemperance and default of concoct●on and that diversly according to the diversity of the causes of them as you shall no● consequently hear Thin urine First to speak of thin urine either it doth still ● continue thin as it was first made or else it doth she●ly waxe thick and troubled That that doth contin● still thin doth betoken lack of concoction and so do● the other also but yet this that continueth thin be●keneth more lack of conoction for it betokene● that nature hath not yet begun to concoct A● therefore is that water a sign of extream crud● or rawness in nature But that that waxeth thick it beginneth to cool though it betoken lack of concoction yet doth it declare that nature hath begun to concoct alreadie notwithstanding it is an evill urine for it signifieth that nature hath need not only of great strength to perform that concoction which she hath begun but also that there is required long time to the performance of the same For the which cause Galen calleth this Of all Vrines the worst Thus have you heard touching crudity and concoction what thin urine doth signifie so that all thin urine betokeneth crudity And beside that doth further betoken as witnesseth Hypocrates gatherings or apostumations in the nether parts of the bodie namely if it continue so very long and the patient escape death Thin and white Furthermore if such thin urine have with it a light whiteness it is a very evill sign For if it be in a burning ague it is a token of frensines But if the patient be fransick alreadie and the urine doth so continue it doth most commonly betoken death And if he escape death the which is seldome seen then shall he be long sick and escape hardly Thin urine also betokeneth divers other things as the stopping of the reins and of the water veins And likewise if a man have had much bleeding or laxe or pissing his urine will be white and thin and almost without ground Like manner in old age and long weakness of sickness Also in young children if it continue long it is a deadly sign Yet thin urine doth sometime betoken the end of sickness and recovery of health as in Agues namely quotidians if at the beginning of them and so after the urine did appear thick and troubled and especially if the colour amend therewith Thin and ●axen And if it be thin in substance and of flaxen colour then is it better then thin and white for because the colour is better though● the substance bee all one so that though● it betoken some weakness and lack of concoction yet not so much as doth the other for the colour is meanly concoct that is to say naturall heat is meanly increased Thin and golden But if it be thin and golden it

the spring time And those countries that be hot and dry make urine like unto summer And contrariwise cold and moist alter water as doth winter But countries that are drie and distempered between heat and cold make urine like harvest Meats drinks and medicines Also meats and drinks and order of diet causeth urine to alter and medicines also as not only experience reacheth but also Hippocrates witnesseth in the sixt Book of his Epidemies or raining sicknesses in the fift part and the fifteenth sentence as for example Meats of light concoction Those meats that are light of concoction and good in substance cause good and temperate urine with pure contents but contrary meats cause discoloured urine and thin with strange contents Meats of hard concoction Meats that will not concoct make lesser contents and divers in substance Evill meats cause greater contents and in nothing duely formed And as the quality of meats doth alter urine so doth the quantity also For if a man have eaten much and not concocted it his urine shall be thin and white and sometime without ground But if this crudity or rawness in stomack contin● long the urine will become divers in su●stance Drinking of wine and in contents Also wine drunk abundantly causeth ●teration in urine Fasting long But now contrariwise if a man doe s● long his urine will appear fiery and saffr● coloured and thin with lesser ground Suffering of famine But if a man suffer famine and do n● nourish his water shall be thin and whi● with a certain glistering and witho● ground Labour Moreover exercise and rest changeth ●rine for through excessive labour the uri● changeth from light saffron and at leng● becommeth saffron coloured with lit● ground thin and higher coloured then should be And some time there fleete on the top a certain fastness specially aft● overmuch wearinesse Rest But idleness and rest doth contrariwi● cause white urine with greater and gros● ground Sleep Watching Furthermore sleep and watching if th● exceed measure they alter urine but the● is a difference between both sleepe a● watching comming of sickness and the● both when they be taken willingly in heal● For if that sickness cause overmuch slee● ●hen is the urine whitish with substance ei●her fully thick or but partly thin and the contents many and undigest Naturall sleep But if that such sleep come naturally the urine is not so white but rather flaxen and the substance mean with greater and well concoct contents Voluntary sleep And likewise they that have watched purposedly and not by reason of sickness their urine is but little changed Watch in sickness But if they watch for any sickly cause their urine will change but little at the beginning but with continuance the contents will be dispersed and at the last clean wasted and the substance of the urine waxeth thinner and thinner by little and little and the colour inclineth either to white and watery or unto golden saffron oylie or black according as the cause is that maketh it so to change Of alteration by complexion I will write in the next Chapter Now have you heard as touching alteration of urine in health according to diversity of ages both in men and women times of the yeer countries meats and drinks labour rest sleep and watch so that you must have regard to these in all judgements both in health and in sicknesse For if these be not diligently marked they may cause great error as you may well co●der What is to be considered in urine First therefore in every urine you 〈◊〉 consider whether it be a mans or a wom● and what age he or shee is of then w● time of the yeer it is and what count what meats and drinks the person us● and likewise of labour and rest sleep 〈◊〉 watch And then must you consider 〈◊〉 every one of these doth alter urine so 〈◊〉 if the altering of them from that health urine whereof I spake in the beginning this Chapter be but such as one of th● foresaid things would cause then may it be judged to come of any disease as for ●●ample High coloured water in sum● so that it pass not saffron colour or w● coloured water in winter should rather reckoned to come of the time of the y● then of any sickness and likewise of o● things CHAP. VII What be the generall qualities that alte● the parts of Vrine BEfore I treat of the signification of 〈◊〉 parts of Urine I think it good to instr● you of the generall qualities which cause all alterations in urine whereby you shall perceive not only what every urine doth betoken as I shall anon set forth but also if you mark well this Chapter you shall see ●he cause why every urine doth so signifie You shall understand therefore that there be four chief and only qualities whereof all things that are both in the Sea and Earth are made as man and beast fish and fowl trees herbs stones and mettals These four qualities are heat cold moistness and driness and these four continuing duly tempered as nature ordered them first in every perfect body be the cause of continuall health But if they bee altered wrongly then doe they cause diseases diversly according to the diversitie of the alterations And as they doe cause diseases so they change the colour substance and other parts of the urine whereby wee may conjecture the cause of the disease and so consequently the disease it self though sometime it declareth the disease it self and not the cause thereof Passive and active qualities But now to come to the matter meetest for this time you shall mark that two of these four qualities are named Passive and they cause but small alteration in comparison The other two are called Active an● they cause great alteration The Active qualities are heat and col● and the Passive qualities are driness an● moistness Moistness When Moistness therefore exceedeth alone it dulleth the naturall colour of urin● thicketh and ingrosseth the substance an● increaseth the quantitie And as the ove● part of it above waxeth rough and trouble● so the ground increaseth and continue● raw and unconcoct Dryness But dryness doth diminish the quantit● of urine and also the contents It maket● it thin in substance cleer and bright an● causeth mean colour and the ground appeareth grosser Heat Likewise heat if it exceed measure bu● little it maketh pale and light saffron colour in the urine But if heat exceed greatly it causeth golden and saffron colour● with mean substance and a little brightness the ground is mean in respect to the quantity of urine but it declineth from the du● whiteness toward saffron colour Cold. But cold on the other side maketh urin● turn to white colour and changeth the substance from a mean And if the cold increase the urine will alter from mean substance and therefore consequently will bee either thin or grosse