Of vrines. CAP. 9.
FOrasmuch as now a daies the most common iudgemēt in sicknesse is by vrines, which being farre carried, or much moued, or standing long, after that it is made, the forme therof is so altered, that the Phisition shall not per∣fectly perceiue the naturall colour nor contents, although it be neuer so wel chafed at the fire, as Actuarius and other great learned men doe affirme. I will therefore somewhat speake of vrines, not so much as a Phisition knoweth, but as much as is necessarie to euery man for to perceiue the place and cause of his griefe, wherby he may the better in∣struct the Phisition.
First in vrine foure things are to be considered, that is to say, the substance, the colour, the regions or parts of the v∣rine, and the contents or things therein contained.
Also forasmuch as in the body of man be foure qualities, heate, cold, moysture, and drith, two of them heate & cold, are causes of the colour, drith and moysture, are causes of the substance. Moreouer in vrine, being in a vessell apt thereunto to be seene are thrée regions. The lowest regiō in the bottome of the vrinall, containing the spaces of two fingers or little more. The middle region, from whence the lowest ended vnto the circle. The highest region is the circle. The highnes of the colour signifieth heate: the pale, blacke, or gréene, signifieth cold. Also the grossenes or thicknes of the vrine, signifieth moysture, the cléerenes or thinnes, signifieth drith.
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- Colour of bright gold.
- Colour of gilt.
- Perfect digestion.
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