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AGain in sick people the sediment consists of the more crude part of the aliment which cannot turn into nourishment ••f the parts; * 1.1 with which notwithstanding other vitious humors also are mingled, nay sometimes vitious humors onely may afford matter for a sediment, but by how much the more the Contents of those that are sick are like to those that are
well, by so much they are the better, and shew great concoction, but by how much the more they recede from those either in co∣lour, or other qualities, by so much they are the worse, and indeed the differences of colours of Contents are borrowed from the humour whereof they consist; but as for what belongs to the diversity of substance, that proceeds from the variety os burning heat and various disposition of matter: a farenacious sediment, as Galen teacheth, is made from thick dried blood, * 1.2 or flesh unequally consumed by a fiery heat, but rough or sca∣ly, when the solid parts are unequally consumed, and scaly par∣ticles are cast forth with the Vrine, and bran-like sediment pro∣ceeds from a flamy and consuming heat of a Fever, and a sore in the bladder or veins: a sediment that represents pulse pro∣ceeds from melting, as Actuarius teacheth, when a Fever comes to the flesh and melts it, but it is not thought credible by the late Physitians, that by the melting or flesh any thing so thick can be mixed with the Vrine; and moreover those sedi∣ments they account do proceed from a scabby, and exulcerated bladder, or from a crude and melancholy humor.
Small Sand and Gravel proceed from thick and feculent mat∣ter which sometimes contains in it selfe a principle of coagula∣tion, and a light occasion being offered, * 1.3 it concreates of its own accord.
Clods of blood are discerned when either from an ulcer, * 1.4 or otherwise from a hurt, broken or open vessel in a part through which the Veine passeth, blood is cast out.
Quitture appears in the Vrine when an imposthume, * 1.5 or ul∣cer lyeth hid in the Reins, Bladder, or otherwise through which the Vrine passeth; or when from the superiour parts, as the Brests, or Lungs, nature evacutates matter through the Vrinary passages.
Small pustles of flesh called Caruncles in the Vrine of exul∣cerated Reins, are aprts of the substance. * 1.6
Slimy, thick, and tough flegm like the snot of the nose, if it be made with the Urine, and be voided with pain, for the most part it is a token of the Stone in the Bladder, but that which is made without pain Fernelius saith doth proceed from a crude ulcer of the Reins, or parts thereabout, or from an imposthume; and truely for the most part, such matter being present in the bladder as it is the beginning, so it is a sign of the Stone of the Bladder; and moreover being sent out it coagulates into a lapidious hardness; but sometimes flegm which is cast forth in great plenty, is the off-spring of crude matter, and ill digestion in the parts beyond the Reins.
Worms if they appear in the Urine proceed from corrupt and sordid matter, * 1.7 as in other parts.
Small strings and little bodies like hairs, * 1.8 and cobwebs, if they are put forth with the Urine have their original from a thick humour, either in the veins, or in the reins, or dryed in the ureters, and reduced into this form by the longitude of the ves∣sel.
Bubbles and froth are generated from wind included in vis∣cous matter, * 1.9 which when it cannot exhale extends the matter into a tumor, and those bubbles may be of divers colours ac∣cording to the nature of the humour in which the inclosed wind stirs them up.
A Crown shews what kind of humors are contained in the greater vessels, * 1.10 and according to the diversity of humors hath divers colours, and is seated in the upper part of the Urine, and in that circle many things are obvious to our eyes, which cannot be discerned in the rest of the humors, because the light in the superficies of the liquor is otherwise divided and received then in the middle.
Lastly, * 1.11 if fat swim upon the top of the Vrine it proceeds from melting of the grease, but this proceeds from heat, therefore if the fat continually swim in Urine like cobwebs, it shews con∣sumption and melting of the body; yet Fernelius writes that he would advise you of Oyl taken inwardly, least any small bo∣dies of Oyl swim in the Urine by that means.
The cause of a sedi∣ment in the Urines of the sick.
Causes of a fernacious sediment. Frothy. Bran-lik. Pulse-like
Of sand and gravel.
Of Clods of blood.
Of quit∣ture in Urine.
Of Carun∣cles. Of slimy Ecrements.
Of worms.
Of fibres and hairs.
Of bubbles and froth.
Of a crown
Of fat.