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fet downe their reafons in nature as:touching the vertue thereof, bur alfo havesbeeri vénie-céren 
monious and {uperftitious in handling that argument; yea and they have written diffiinetly, of 
the feverall kinds of urine digefted into certaine principal! heads. And among other things, 
F Spadsnus, — yemember, that they fetdownethe urine of * men that are unablefor ceneration,to be fingular, 
good by way of injection,to make women fruitful. But to fpeake of fuch remedies.as we may bé, 
boldto namewith honeftie :the urine of young children who be;not yer undergrowne norfour 
} teene yeers of age, is good againftthe venomous humour of thofe Afpides or: Adders which - 
*sai tiaiéey the Greekes name * Pryades, forthatthey {pit their poifon upon the eyes and faces of men‘end 
Taine. °" women, Alfo,the fame ts held tobe fingular forthe pearle, the cataract, the filmes, the pin:and 
web in the eyes ; like as for the eye-lids alfo,and the accidents happening unto them. Beeing:in- 
corporat with the floure of Ervile, itis good for fun burnings: fodden alfo with bolled leeks to, yy 
the confumption of the one halfein anew earthenpot which was never occupied, it is excellent 
to mundifie the ears thatrun with 'mattér, or that have any worms ox vermin within them : and! 
verely aftouph madewith the vapour of this decoction, bringetl downe the defired ficknefle. of 
women.Dame Sa/pe ordaineth to foment the eies with the faiddecoGion,fortofortifiethefight, 
and to {trengthen them that they fall not out of the head:(fhes appointeth to make a Jiniment 
with it and the white of an egg but principally if it be of an oftrich, and therewith to annointthe 
skin that hath been tanned and burncin the Sun, for the fpace of twoboures togither: withira 
man may wafh away any blots or blurrs of inke.Mané urine is much commended for the-goutin 
the feet, as we may fee by Fullers,who neverbe goutic, becaufe ordinarily their feet are in mens 
urine, Stale chamber lie or urine long kept & incorporat togither with the athes of oyfterfhels; 4 
curech the red-gombe in young in{ants, and generally all running ulcers : The fameio prepared, 
ferveth in a linimentior eating cankers, burns, and fcalds, the {welling piles, che chaps and rifts 
in the feat and feer,a fo for the fling of ferpents. The moft expert and skilfull midwives have pro 
nounced ail with one refolution, That for to kill anitch in any part of the bodie, to hea!ea {cald 
head,to fcoure away dandruffe and fcurfe in head or beard, and to cure the corroding ulcers in 
any place,but in the privie meinbers efpecially, thereisnot a liquormore effectuall than urine, 
with alice fal-nitre put thereto. Burfurely, everie mans owne water (if 1 may for reverence of 
manhood fo fay) is fimsply beft; and namely, if the Patienc that is bitten with a dogdoe ftraight- 
waies bach che place cerewith : or in cafe there be any pricke of urchin, hedgehog, orfuch like 
{pill {ticking inthe Aeth, oapply the fame thereto in fpunges or wooll, and{olet itlyeon. But p 
fay itwas a mad dog chae bir the Patient,or that he be ftung witha ferpent, itis good to temper 
it with afhes and lay it unto the fore, For as touching the vertue thereof againft Scolopendres, 
itis wonderfull what isreported,namely, That whofoever be hurt by them, if they doe wet the 
crowne of their heads but with one drop of their owne urine, it will prefently cure the fame.foas 
they {hall feele no more paine nor harme thereby. Over and befides, by the fpeculation of our 
urine, we are able to give judgementand pronounce of health and fickneffe stor if the firlt water 
made in a morning be white and cleare, and the nextafter it higher coloured and encliningtoa 
deepe yellow, the former fheweth that concoétion was then begun, and the fecondis a figne that 
digeftion is now perfect.A red urine is naught, but the blacke is worft of all: likewife if it-be full” 
of bubbles and froth aloft sand be withall of a groffe and thicke fubfiftence, the fameisburabad <p 
water. If the Hypoftafis or Sediment which fettleth heavie ro the bottom, be white, ic fignifieth 
that there is fome paine and greevance like to enfue abour the joyntsor principal parts within 
the bodie, Doth an urine looke greenifh ? it betokeneth fome obftrudtion or difeafe alyeadie in 
the noble bowels and inwards: Is it of a pale hew? it faith that choiler aboundeth in that bodies 
If it looke red, the blond be fureis predominant and diftempered. The urine is not to be hiked 
but prefageth daunger,wherein there appeare certaine contentslikebrans and blackifhclouds. . 
. Alfoa white,thin,and waterith urine is never good: but in cafe it be thick and of a ftinking {mell - 
withall, it 1s a deadly figne,and thereisno way but one withthe Patient. Asfor children, if their 
water be thin and waterith, it is but ordinarie and naturall. Dik | 3d 
The magicians expreflely forbid in making water, to lay bare the nakednefle of thatparta- jy 
gainit Sun and Moone, or to piffe upon the fhadow of any perfon. And therefore Hefiodus gi- 
veth a precept, to make water againft awall,orfomething ftanding full before us, for feare leaft 
our nakednefle beeing difcovered, might offend fome God or Angell. Toconclude, Hoftha. 
nes doth upon his warrant aflureus, That whofoever droppeth fome of his owne utine everie 
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