The breuiarie of health vvherin doth folow, remedies, for all maner of sicknesses & diseases, the which may be in man or woman. Expressing the obscure termes of Greke, Araby, Latin, Barbary, and English, concerning phisick and chirurgerie. Compyled by Andrew Boord, Doctor of phisicke: an English-man.

Of the .xx. contentes in an vrine and first of the ipostasy.

THe ypostasy is one of the chiefest things to be marked in an vrine, the hypostasye is the substance of the vrine. I do not speake here of the quantitie of the vrine, but of the qualitie of y^e substance the which is with in y^e vrine, y^e which doth hange like a pine appele in an vrine, except the vrine be broken & turned out of his proper nature, or els that the pacient makinge the vrine be of greate debilitie, or that the vrine be caryed, & so the Ipostasy breke, al other vrines ha∣uinge a residence most commonly hath an ypostasy, y^t which if it be white it is laudable, and if it be blacke: it is no good signe. For this matter a man must marke whether the ipos∣tasy be more in the superiall region, then in y^e mediall regiō

or the inferial region, or whether it doth holde or hang vni∣uersally in all the regions a like. And also to marke whether it be whole, round, or fract, and also to know what time in the day it doth fall to his residence, and if the vrine be ca∣ried, the Ipostasy must nedes be fracted as I say and haue no residence, wherfore I aduertise all men and women the which would haue their vrine truly sene, let them send for an expert Phisicion the which may sée the vrine with the Ipostasi vnfracted, and not be caryed neither a hors back nor a foote, least the phisicion be diceiued, and the pacient put to hinderance. Many men will say such a doctor of phisicke and such a man that vseth the practise of phisicke, can tel this and that and so forth. And I do say that an vrin is a strumpet, or an harlot, for it will lye, and the best doctour of phisicke of thē all may be deceiued in an vrine, and his cunning and learning not a iot the worse. I had rather to sée the egistion of a sicke person, then the vrine, both be good to looke on as it doth appeare in the chapter named Egestion in the fyrst booke named the Breuiary of health. &c. A red or gréene I∣postasy is no good signe.