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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

catch her Lover in a Cleft sticke for shee hath heard of such tricks and some that have professed Physicke have taught that Art and divers both men and women have repaired unto such Knaves and by practizing such wicked meanes as hath beene taught them have obtained their Lovers but yet if she repaire unto me againe for this purpose though I have beene very youthfull in descanting upon her water I will read her a graver Lecture for I disclaime such knowledge though haply I know more than such a Rogue as shall practice it and detest such wickednesse at mine heart But now this long Parenthesis or discourse concerning this maiden-Gentlewoman may seeme to have hindred the dispatch of the woman that came for the married Gentlewoman yet if you doe suppose that she came in but now and that I have but now taken her to doe and have gathered after that I have once pronounced a description of the disease by parly with her that the Gentlewoman is married and such other circumstances as I would know you shall not perceive but that I presently dispatch her taking the Urinall in my hand and from the water though she have told me all pronounce the disease and say that the Gentlewoman hath a very weake back is troubled with the Whites that this disease had hindred for you must conceive that the woman told me that this Gentlewoman hath not had any child this three or foure yeeres her conceiving with child and that she would have no more children unlesse she were freed of them and now I must think upon something against she send to cure this Gentlewoman for I am sure she 'll to 't againe for the t'other boy and now I am ready for the third messenger that said shee came for a friend of hers CHAP. VIII How to correct the perverse disposition of crosse messengers and afterwards to make the messenger believe that thou canst conjure by shewing the disease by the Vrinall case How men will serve their wives who would faine be rid of them and women their husbands when they have been with a Physician for advice the one for the other The notable imposture of a Butter-box about this Towne who pretendeth great skill above other men in giving judgement of diseases by the Vrine I Have made this Gossip tarrie till the last for her oracle because I feared by her answer when I asked her whose water it was that she had brought that shee would prove a crosse peece of flesh to deale withall I must therefore handle her gently for the wildest colts are oftner tamed by gentle meanes as by letting them have the raines lie still in their necks and giving them their owne play than by curbing them in too straightly or by labouring to quiet them by switch and spurre or the lash I therefore suffer this colt to play in her owne halter till shee have so tired or hampered her selfe that I may doe what I will with her I doe in no wise handle her roughly or speake harshly unto her and say come you with your friends water and let me see it and when I have taken it of her aske her whether it be a mans or a womans water for it seemeth by her other answer that shee will not tell me that and then say she denying to tell me come come a Pox on 't tell me whose water it is for I have not time to stand peering into it for every thing that I must tell you though I could find it there if I had not other fish to seeth and indeed their foolish peevishnesse had oftentimes need to be so met withall and some Physicians have gone that straine and by that humour have gotten more fame than their transcendent skill in Physicke or learning above other men hath deserved but I am not of that humour no I say come good woman who stinkes as much of goodnesse as a Poult-cat of muske I have made you tarry but you shall not altogether lose your labour I pray follow me and so I conduct her into my Parlour where I have now my man waiting for me with a cup of Ale with a Nut-browne tost in it or else a cup of good English Beere of sixteene at the least with Nutmeg and Sugar in it for my mornings draught and sit me downe in my chaire and say here good woman I drinks to you and so fetch off a bowle of almost a pinte and bid my man fill the good woman a cup and put in some more Nutmeg and Sugar and bid her to drinke an hearty draught and when she hath drunke I bid my man fill me another cup that I may wash both mine eyes so that I may see the better to dispatch this woman quickly and when I have drunke that off I bid my man fill the good woman another cup and bid her mend her draught and tell her that to drinke Nutmeg and Sugar in her Beere in a morning will make her water sweet And thus are the perverse dispositions of crosse messengers better corrected than the malignity of Scammony with Anise-seed Rubarbe with Spike Agricke and Turbitch with Sal-gemme Ginger or Galingall Senna with Ginger or Cinamon blacke Hellebore with Masticke or Cinamon or La●is Armenius with twenty times washing in Rose-water but now to returne to the matter I have washed away all the ill quality of this womans nature with the cuppe of Beere that I gave her and wrought her to so good a temper with my loving speeches that I need not feare but that she will tell me any thing that I shall aske her however I have now drunke my mornings draught and shall be able to see the clearer if I must find it all out of the water that I must shew I therefore now say come good woman it is a great chance but that I lie how long hath your friend beene sicke and shee cannot answer me to this question without shewing me the sexe that is whether it be a mans or a womans water for the party is not sicke for then she might answer me directly without giving me any knowledge thereof and might say a weeke a forthnight or more or lesse but she must needs say He or She but yet she will scarce remember that she said He or She anone when I shall shew my skill upon the water and determine the Sexe hath not beene very well a good while and so offers me her Urinall with the water in it as it is in the Case but I refuse to take it and say unto her as followeth Good woman because I have made you to stay so long I will shew you your friends disease by the Urinall Case and never looke upon the water at all give me therefore the Urinall Case and do you keepe the water to your selfe so that I doe not see it at all and yet I will tell you your friends disease as well as he that should pore and peepe or gaze into the water

no now to be seene in this water because her body is all out of temper and her water troubled and discoloured but yet I thinke her to be and well I may if she her selfe thinke so I further tell her that I could have certainely told but yet I lie if she had brought her water in the time of her health and so she is satisfied for that matter and confesseth that she is with child indeed Having thus satisfied her in all these things told her that it is a womans water in what manner she was sicke what was her disease that it was likely that she was with child which proves true and that she would scarce recover which is no great matter whether she doe or no I now begin to close with her and aske her whose water it is but she will not tell me and commend her for it for she was forbid and therefore hath vowed the contrary and indeed she was sent onely to heare mine opinion of the water the which if she like shall haply heare further from the party but if not she hath order to goe to another Pisse-Prophet and so if she like not his opinion neither from him to another untill she come to him that hits the disease rightest as she conceives by the water and he I dare say the most foole and knave of all the three is the man that shall be made choise of to cure this woman and this is thought great policy in making choice of an able Physician It behooves me therefore to be my crafts master in this Art for else you see here how I am like to be nosed of a Patient and to have my skill call'd in question for if I cannot finde the disease by the water they will soone conclude that I know not how to cure it This Nurse tells me indeed but if she had not told me I should have perceived it that she came to heare mine opinion of the water and that the sicke party would send to me againe when she had heard she should have said If she liked it what was mine opinion and I thinke I have fitted her and now tell the Nurse that it had been fitter they had sent for some present remedies than to know the disease or to heare mine opinion of it so I hast her away with her oracle bid her be sure to deliver it so as I had told her and tell but not to the sicke party to some of her neere friends how dangerously she is sicke and that I would if she thinke good to make use of me use the best meanes to recover her that Art could lead me unto and now I bid her make all the hast that may be but yet before I let her goe I thus bespeake her in faith Nurse I commend thee that thou wilt doe thy errand handsomely and make a Physician finde the disease out of the water and not be gull'd to tell how the party was affected as many a foole would have done but I hope I have shewed thee truly how the party is affected and what is her disease and given thee such satisfaction as will content them that sent thee loe therefore here is for thy paines because thou hast put me to it so handsomely and so I give her fearing lest I should have erred that she may maintaine my credit and in hope of receiving a better fee for being sent for the crackd groat or the Harry groat that was sent in stead of sixe pence for casting this water nay if it chance to be sixe pence indeed she shall have it all and so I shall be sure to have my message well done and perhaps she will tell me that which she denied before but if not she will magnifie me for my skill and I shall be sure to heare further from the party and have the casting of all the waters that she can bring me so I now send her away and laugh at her and the Devill at us both I laugh at her because I have cozend her and the Devill that he hath cozend us both by making her to believe that I discerne all those things by the water that I told her and making me to back my pretended knowledge by such fallacies But doe not now imagine that I have been so long in hand with this Nurse in giving judgement of this Urine as I have been in penning the circumstances with the severall actions and gestures that I use in the examination of a Pisse pot which I have set downe to helpe thy understanding or so long as thou hast been in reading them but that as if she had been but now new come in I take the Urinall of her propound the first question set downe the Urinall in the window and pro●ounce a description of the disease then propounding the other questions in order as I have done before define or determine the disease tell her that such and such meanes ought suddainly to be used and so send her away suppose therefore that she came but newly in and is but now new gone out and so I have done with her and sent her away in a trice and am ready for the next commer But stay here a little let that messenger tary and conceive with me how one may give his judgement of any sharpe disease by the water though it be not there to be seene in pronouncing my judgement upon this last Urine for I cannot stand to instance upon many particulars marke therefore the description that I gave to the Nurse of the last disease which I determined to be a Fever after that I perceived by the Nurses answer to my first question which was how long the party had been sicke that it was a sharpe disease now my description was this that the party had a great oppression of stomach and no appetite to meate a great oppilation of the Liver and Spleene was very hot desired much to drinke had a great paine in the head and could take no rest and was taken in the manner of an Ague with a paine in the head and grooving in the backe first cold and then hot the which description may serve for any sharpe disease in giving judgement of a water yet I doe not affirme that in every sharpe disease the party is just thus affected in every respect but for the most part for if it chance to faile and be excepted against I have shewed how to make it good to the messenger and to serve the turne to satisfie him and not the Physician and practicant in Physicke Marke further that in describing the disease and shewing how the party is affected I doe not yet define determine or name the disease till I have expostulated with the messenger so farre that I perceive the disease from thence and have sounded enough out of him to tell him any thing that he shall desire to know of me and then I determine the disease to be as the symptomes when I