The treasurie of commodious conceits, and hidden secretes Commonlie called The good huswiues closet of prouision, for the health of her houshold. Meete and necessarie for the profitable vse of all estates. Gathered out of sundry experiments, lately practised by men of great knowledge: and now newly corrected, and inlarged, with diuers necessary phisicke helpes, not impertinent to euery good huswife to vse in her house amongst her own famelie.

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The treasurie of commodious conceits, and hidden secretes Commonlie called The good huswiues closet of prouision, for the health of her houshold. Meete and necessarie for the profitable vse of all estates. Gathered out of sundry experiments, lately practised by men of great knowledge: and now newly corrected, and inlarged, with diuers necessary phisicke helpes, not impertinent to euery good huswife to vse in her house amongst her own famelie.
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Partridge, John, fl. 1566-1573.
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London :: Printed by Richard Jones, at the Rose and Crowne neere Holborne bridge,
1591.
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Canning and preserving -- Early works to 1800.
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Medicine, Popular -- Early works to 1800.
Recipes -- Early works to 1800.
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"The treasurie of commodious conceits, and hidden secretes Commonlie called The good huswiues closet of prouision, for the health of her houshold. Meete and necessarie for the profitable vse of all estates. Gathered out of sundry experiments, lately practised by men of great knowledge: and now newly corrected, and inlarged, with diuers necessary phisicke helpes, not impertinent to euery good huswife to vse in her house amongst her own famelie." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A09117.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 2, 2024.

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Hereafter follow all the Vrines that beto∣ken death, aswell the Vrine of the man as of the Woman. Chap. 118.

IN a whole Axis, one part red, another black, another green, and another blew, betokeneth death.

Urine in whole Axis, black & litle in quan∣titie, fattie and stinking, it betokeneth death.

Urine couered ouer all as Lead, betokeneth a prolōnging of death.

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Urine that shineth rawe and right bright, & the skinne in the bottome shine not, it betoke∣neth death.

Urine thinne in substance, hauing flee∣ting aboue, as it were a darke Skie, signifieth of death.

Urine derstie, stinking, and darke, with a blacke Skie within, betokeneth a prolonging of death.

Urine that is of the collour of water, if it haue a darke Skie in an Axis, it betokeneth death.

Urine that hath drestes in the bottom med∣led with blood, it betokeneth death.

Urine blacke and thicke, if the sicke loth when he goeth to the Priuie, and when he spea∣keth overtwhatt; or that he vnderstandeth no aright, and if these sicknesses got hot from him they betoken death.

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