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¶ Of vrynes. Cap. viii.
FOrasmoch as nowe a dayes the most com∣mune iudgement in syckenesse is by vrines, whiche being farre caried or moche meued, or standyng longe after that it is made, the fourme thereof is so altered, that the phisytion shall not perfytely perceyue the naturall colour, nor contentes, although it be neuer so wel chau∣fed at the fyre, as Actuarius and other greatte lerned men do affirme. I wyll therfore somwhat speake of vrines, not soo moche as a physition knoweth, but as moche as is necessarieto euery man for to perceyue the place and cause of his griefe, whereby he maye the better instructe the Physition.
¶ Fyrste in vrine, foure thynges are to be con∣sydered, that is to say, the substance, the colour, the regions or partes of the vrine, and the con∣tentes or thynges therin conteined.
Also forasmoch as in the body of man be foure qualities, heate, colde, moysture, and dryth, two of them heat and cold, are causes of the colour, dryth and moysture are causes of the substance.
Moreouer in vryne, beinge in a vessell apt ther vnto be sene, are thre regiōs. The lowest region in the bottome of the vrynall, conteynynge the space of two fyngers or lytell more. The myddel region, from whens the lowest ended vnto the cerkele. The hyghest region is the cerkle.
The hyghnesse of the colour sygnifyeth heate, the place, blacke, or grene, sygnifyeth coulde.
Also the grossenes or thyckenesse of the vryne sygnifieth moysture, the clerenes or thynnes, sy∣gnifieth drithe.