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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	cold_a	hot_a	moist_a	1,558	5	9.6254	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A58319	The urinal of physick By Robert Record Doctor of physick. Whereunto is added an ingenious treatise concerning physicians, apothecaries, and chyrurgians, set forth by a Dr. in Queen Elizabeths dayes. With a translation of Papius Ahalsossa concerning apothecaries confecting their medicines; worthy perusing and following.	Record, Robert, 1510?-1558.; Pape, Joseph, 1558-1622. Tractatus de medicamentorum praeparationibus. English. aut	1651 (1651)	Wing R651; ESTC R221564	102,856	271

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 But now to come to the matter meetest for this time Passive and active qualities 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 and they cause great alteration The Active qualities are heat and cold and the Passive qualities are driness and moistness When Moistness therefore exceedeth alone Moistness it dulleth the naturall colour of urine thicketh and ingrosseth the substance and increaseth the quantitie And as the over-part of it above waxeth rough and troubled so the ground increaseth and continueth raw and unconcoct But dryness doth diminish the quantity of urine Dryness and also the contents It maketh it thin in substance cleer and bright and causeth mean colour and the ground appeareth grosser Likewise heat Heat if it exceed measure but 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 due whiteness toward saffron colour But cold on the other side maketh urine turn to white colour Cold. 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 If it be thin or unpure the ground shall le 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 it 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 together 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 As a temperate man doth make that perfect urine written of before A temperate man 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 sanguine man but in substance thin by reason of the dryness A melancolike man The urine of a melancholy man whose nature is cold and dry shall be white through the cold and cleer for the dryness A flegmatick man The flegmatick man which is cold and moist maketh urine white through cold and thick by the moisture for as heat and cold altereth the colours so dryness and moisture changeth the substance Now if you have remembred all that I have written before then shall you be the meeter and better able a great deal to preceive the reasons of the tokens which vrine doth give And so shall your knowledge be the more certain if you know not only the thing but also the cause of it Now therefore will I write of the signification of the parts of urine particularly that you may perceive that first and chief commoditie of urine which it 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 untable 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 then 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 of urine And first will begin with the substance of urine the which as I said before is of three kindes thick thin and mean A mean urine is that that is in the middle between extream thick Mean and extream thin And as it is mean between them in substance so is it mean in signification for it doth betoken of it self only good temperance and health But the other two betoken distemperance and default of concoction and that diversly according to the diversity of the causes of them as you shall now consequently hear Fist to speak of thin urine either it doth still so continue thin Thin urine as it was first made or else it doth shortly waxe thick and troubled That that doth continue still thin doth betoken lack of concoction and so doth the other also but yet this that continueth thin betokeneth more lack of conoction for it betokeneth that nature hath not yet begun to concoct And therefore is that water a sign of extream crudity or rawness in nature But that that waxeth thick after it beginneth to cool though it betoken lack of concoction yet doth it