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THe Urine which obtains the natural and usual smell, * 1.1 sig∣nifies that the natural heat is right, and concoction is well performed; but if the Vrine smell not, or lesse then the Vrines of those that are well use to do, it is a token that the native heat is weak, and almost no concoction performed, * 1.2 nor is the serous and excrementitious humour mingled therewith.
Sweet Vrine, * 1.3 or that which smells well doth not proceed from any internal natural causes, but if any such be found it hath acquired that smell from meats, or medicines taken in∣wardly.
Stinking Vrines are caused first from meat and drink, * 1.4 and certain medicines taken, also from crudity and corruption of meats, erosion, and especially from putrifaction, Fourthly, from daily retention of Vrine in the Bladder.
Vrine naturally ought to answer to the drink, * 1.5 but it is made more plentiful then is fit: First, if meats are administred which are full of aqueous humidity. Secondly, if the aqueous and serous excrements, which use to be discussed by motion, or e∣vacuated other wayes be retained in the body. Thirdly, if na∣ture from the other parts, or the whole body expels the vitious humours through the passages of Vrine, which useth to hap∣pen in Critick, and Symptomatick evacuations, as in a Dia∣betes, or incontinence of Vrine, Fourthly, if Dyuretick me∣dicine be taken.
On the contrary, little Vrine is caused by contrary causes, * 1.6 namely, not only by reason of small quantity of drink taken, but of dry meats, moreover if the aqueous matter be consu∣med which useth to be in burning fevers, as also by motion and too much exercise. Thirdly, if the Vrine be converted to o∣ther parts. Fourthly, by reason of the straitness of the passages, by which the Vrine ought to be expelled.