THE
PISSE-PROPHET
,
OR
,
CERTAINE
PISSE-POT
LECTURES
.
Wherein
are
newly
discovered
the
old
fallacies
,
deceit
,
and
jugling
of
the
Pisse-pot
Science
,
used
by
all
those
(
whether
Quacks
and
Empiricks
,
or
other
methodicall
Physicians
)
who
pretend
knowledge
of
Diseases
,
by
the
Urine
,
in
giving
judgement
of
the
same
.
By
THO.
BRIAN
,
M.
P.
lately
in
the
Citie
of
London
,
and
now
in
Colchester
in
ESSEX
.
Never
heretofore
published
by
any
man
in
the
English
Tongue
.
Si
populus
vult
decipi
,
decipiatur
.
LONDON
,
Printed
by
E.
P.
for
R.
Thrale
,
and
are
to
be
sold
at
his
shop
at
the
signe
of
the
Crosse-Keyes
,
at
Pauls
gate
.
1637.
THE
PREFACE
,
To
the
Right
Honourable
,
right
Worshipfull
,
whether
more
or
lesse
dignified
,
who
have
been
or
hereafter
may
be
my
Patients
,
as
also
to
the
courteous
or
discourteous
Reader
.
YOur
Honour
,
Worship
,
or
other
Worthinesse
whatsoever
(
good
Reader
)
hath
often
heard
it
spoken
from
the
mouth
of
many
a
well-read
and
experienced
man
in
Physicke
,
That
(
Urina
est
meretrix
,
vel
mendax
)
the
Vrine
is
an
Harlot
,
or
a
Lier
;
and
that
there
is
no
certaine
knowledge
of
any
Disease
to
be
gathered
from
the
Vrine
alone
,
nor
any
safe
judgement
to
be
exhibited
by
the
same
:
You
have
been
(
likewise
)
often
told
,
by
Physicians
,
that
it
were
farre
better
for
the
Physician
to
see
his
Patient
once
than
to
view
〈…〉
(
who
tell
you
so
)
to
entertaine
the
Vrine
as
the
onely
Index
and
discoverer
of
Diseases
to
prono●●●●
their
opinion
of
the
〈…〉
Disease
by
it
,
and
to
accept
of
being
accounted
skilfull
〈…〉
learned
Physicians
〈…〉
written
dive●s
Tracts
therein
〈…〉
dangers
of
taking
Physick
〈…〉
sight
of
the
〈…〉
dispossesse
men
of
that
fond
opinion
,
of
a
Physicians
discerning
diseases
by
it
,
wherewith
they
have
been
so
long
time
deluded
.
To
this
purpose
hath
Dr
Cotta
written
a
Booke
(
called
,
A
short
discoverie
of
the
unobserved
dangers
of
severall
sorts
of
ignorant
and
(
inconsiderate
practisers
of
Physicke
in
England
)
wherein
,
amongst
other
Tracts
of
the
〈◊〉
abusers
of
Physicke
,
he
hath
written
one
Tractate
of
the
Conjectours
by
Vrines
:
therein
shewing
the
falshood
,
and
〈◊〉
judgment
of
Diseases
by
the
Vrine
.
He
hath
also
therein
set
downe
the
ingenuous
confession
of
a
dying
Physician
(
made
to
him
being
then
present
with
him
some
three
or
foure
dayes
before
his
departure
)
〈◊〉
,
who
,
being
requested
to
commend
unto
〈…〉
that
skill
by
which
hee
had
beene
so
〈◊〉
admired
and
esteemed
,
for
judging
〈◊〉
to
be
with
childe
by
their
Vrine
,
made
this
ans●er
.
I
have
(
saith
he
)
long
with
the
felicity
of
a
good
opinion
exercised
it
,
and
with
tryed
certainty
know
it
to
be
uncertainty
,
and
certaine
deceit
:
It
is
therefore
unworthy
posterity
,
and
the
name
of
Art
.
Reade
the
Tract
above
mentioned
,
and
you
shall
see
this
confession
further
amplified
.
If
you
please
to
take
my
confession
too
,
you
shall
have
it
:
I
for
mine
owne
part
have
been
so
fortunate
herein
,
that
I
have
seldome
failed
an
my
predictions
of
determining
a
woman
to
be
with
childe
by
the
Vrine
,
as
I
have
made
them
beleeve
,
when
the
messenger
hath
been
able
to
certifie
me
of
the
state
of
the
Womans
body
,
and
could
answer
me
to
certaine
other
questions
touching
other
signes
of
conception
.
Above
all
the
rest
,
I
was
once
magnified
by
a
Counsellors
wife
for
this
cunning
cozenage
(
I
am
not
ashamed
to
terme
it
so
)
at
a
festivall
meeting
at
Canterbury
,
in
the
presence
of
two
(
as
I
take
it
)
other
Doctours
of
Physicke
:
She
told
them
to
their
faces
that
I
was
the
cunningst
Doctour
in
all
the
Towne
,
for
I
had
told
her
by
her
water
that
she
was
with
child
,
and
just
how
long
it
was
since
she
conceived
of
it
▪
But
had
the
woman
shew'd
me
(
that
brought
it
)
no
more
than
the
Vrine
did
,
I
should
scarce
have
adventured
to
have
pronounced
her
to
have
been
with
childe
:
Yet
I
might
(
knowing
the
Gentlewoman
,
how
long
it
was
since
she
had
a
child
,
and
the
distance
that
she
commonly
kept
in
child-bearing
,
as
also
that
she
nursed
her
children
her selfe
)
have
pronounced
her
,
and
that
upon
some
probable
conjecture
,
to
have
beene
with
child
,
though
the
messenger
could
not
have
answered
me
to
such
interrogatives
(
as
we
use
to
demand
of
them
before
we
pronounce
a
woman
to
be
with
childe
)
nor
the
Vrine
shew
(
as
it
doth
not
)
any
thing
concerning
conception
at
all
.
I
dare
say
,
that
the
good
Gentlewoman
is
very
confident
that
I
determined
her
to
be
with
childe
by
the
sight
of
her
Vrine
onely
,
because
I
did
not
intimate
any
thing
to
the
contrary
:
Neither
is
she
to
be
so
much
blamed
for
her
credulity
,
as
I
for
my
jugling
.
But
to
make
her
and
other
good
women
amends
(
whom
I
have
thus
beguil'd
)
I
have
in
this
ensuing
Tract
set
downe
the
fallacies
,
by
which
I
judged
her
,
and
every
other
Physician
doth
judge
every
other
woman
to
be
with
childe
;
as
also
,
by
which
we
give
judgement
of
the
Disease
,
Sex
,
and
the
like
,
seeming
to
doe
it
onely
by
the
Vrine
:
which
have
not
heretofore
beene
published
(
though
too
much
practized
of
most
)
by
any
man
in
the
English
tongue
.
Doctour
Hart
(
in
his
Booke
intituled
The
Anatomie
of
Urines
)
hath
by
sufficient
argument
and
demonstration
,
confuted
the
Pisse-Canons
,
or
Conjectures
of
Vrines
,
taken
from
the
severall
accidents
of
the
same
(
as
the
severall
colours
,
parts
,
contents
,
substance
,
quantity
,
smell
)
and
shewed
their
falshood
in
all
these
,
and
the
many
absurdities
that
have
been
committed
by
pretending
knowledge
of
Diseases
by
all
these
;
I
thought
it
likewise
fit
to
set
downe
the
fallacies
;
by
which
judgement
of
Diseases
is
given
by
the
Vrine
,
to
the
end
that
the
writings
of
other
men
(
who
have
written
against
this
base
custome
of
Water-prophesying
)
may
gaine
the
more
credit
,
and
for
the
further
satisfaction
of
such
as
yet
remaine
doubtfull
whether
there
be
any
judgment
to
be
taken
from
the
Vrine
sufficient
to
determine
the
disease
.
To
this
end
therefore
I
have
set
downe
the
fallacies
which
have
upheld
this
custome
of
prating
,
and
predicating
strange
things
by
the
Vrine
:
And
I
have
pen'd
them
in
the
English
tongue
,
because
that
meere
Englishmen
(
I
meane
the
common
people
)
who
understand
English
only
,
are
and
ever
have
ben
most
subject
to
be
deceived
〈◊〉
deluded
.
I
hope
therefore
that
no
Artist
will
be
offended
hereat
,
for
I
dare
say
that
there
is
no
ingenuous
man
,
but
is
of
mine
opinion
,
and
would
as
gladly
(
as
I
my selfe
)
that
this
base
custome
,
of
Lecturing
upon
the
Vrine
,
were
overthrowne
and
abrogated
.
What
I
have
therefore
done
to
this
purpose
,
I
intreat
the
courteous
Reader
to
accept
in
as
good
part
,
as
I
have
been
willing
to
impart
the
same
:
And
for
as
much
as
I
have
been
guilty
of
this
fraud
,
though
I
have
not
long
used
it
,
let
it
suffice
that
it
repenteth
me
of
the
same
,
for
I
meane
never
hereafter
to
shew
my
cunning
,
or
rather
cozening
,
upon
the
water
,
and
hope
that
other
men
will
helpe
to
beate
down
this
custome
,
or
else
all
that
I
have
written
will
be
to
little
purpose
.
However
it
will
some
thing
delight
the
understanding
and
impartiall
Reader
,
and
might
profit
the
ignorant
,
if
they
●ould
make
use
of
it
to
that
end
for
which
it
〈◊〉
penn'd
.
As
for
the
stile
,
and
method
of
〈◊〉
it
is
poore
and
meane
;
but
such
as
best
〈◊〉
with
such
a
poore
,
base
,
and
stinking
〈◊〉
I
have
been
enforced
a
little
beyond
my
〈◊〉
nature
,
and
disposition
,
to
bee
somewhat
〈…〉
in
lecturing
upon
the
Vrine
,
for
which
cause
I
may
incurre
censure
of
the
graver
and
more
modest
people
:
If
I
have
herein
offended
,
I
crave
their
pardon
,
for
I
could
not
well
avoid
it
:
And
let
them
not
taxe
me
of
levity
,
or
lasciviousnesse
,
for
my
life
and
conversation
hath
,
and
shall
for
ever
testifie
the
contrary
.
Howbeit
I
can
claime
no
priviledge
from
backbiters
,
nor
immunity
from
malignant
tongues
;
I
refuse
to
be
tryed
by
a
prejudicate
opinion
,
or
the
malignant
spirit
of
contradiction
;
and
appeale
unto
the
learned
,
judicious
,
and
impartiall
Reader
,
to
whom
(
if
I
have
erred
)
for
it
is
Humanum
errare
)
I
submit
for
censure
;
if
need
be
,
for
correction
.
And
for
as
much
as
(
I
feare
)
that
the
greatest
detractours
that
I
shall
finde
(
though
it
be
an
old
saying
that
the
Arts
,
Nullum
habent
inimicum
praeter
ignorantem
,
have
no
enemy
but
the
ignorant
man
)
are
offenders
in
this
kinde
;
I
admonish
you
(
brother
Pisse-Prophet
)
that
you
be
not
too
busie
in
playing
the
Criticke
upon
mee
,
because
I
have
(
in
confessing
mine
owne
folly
)
reproved
your
wickednesse
,
which
you
will
hardly
forsake
.
As
for
the
censure
of
the
ignorant
(
whom
you
help
to
retain
in
this
prejudicate
opinion
)
I
regard
it
not
.
Hos
oblatrantes
caniculos
cum
contemptu
,
〈…〉
I
psse
by
these
barking
Curres
(
as
the
lion
doth
)
with
〈◊〉
But
if
you
〈◊〉
(
whose
gall'd
back
i
have
rub'd
,
and
whose
sore
I
have
lanced
)
who
are
conscious
to
your selfe
of
your
owne
guiltinesse
herein
,
I
shall
rub
harder
and
lance
deeper
:
and
yet
(
if
you
kick
over-much
)
I
shall
finde
a
Lash
to
quiet
you
.
I
pray
therefore
let
me
have
your
good
word
,
lest
you
need
mine
.
And
so
in
hope
that
the
learned
,
judicious
,
and
impartiall
Reader
will
pardon
my
errours
,
and
that
the
ignorant
Reader
will
become
wiser
,
and
that
the
delinquent
Reader
will
become
honester
,
I
rest
▪
Yours
,
T.
B.
The
Pisse-prophet
.
CHAP.
I.
Wherein
is
shew'd
the
errour
of
the
common
people
(
who
thinke
that
Diseases
are
to
be
discerned
by
the
Vrine
)
and
the
fallacies
of
the
Physician
,
who
intimate
the
same
unto
them
:
As
also
,
what
is
to
be
considered
of
the
Physician
before
he
pronounce
his
judgement
of
an
Vrine
.
THE
vulgar
sort
are
so
strongly
prepossest
(
by
reason
of
their
ignorance
)
that
Physicians
can
discern
(
by
the
Vrine
)
the
Disease
,
the
conception
,
the
sexe
,
the
parties
age
,
with
many
other
such
absurdities
,
that
I
feare
it
will
bee
an
hard
matter
to
dispossesse
them
of
that
opinion
.
And
Physicians
(
the
more
too
blame
they
)
have
intimated
and
pretended
this
knowledge
unto
them
so
farre
,
as
that
they
will
hardly
acknowledge
their
errours
,
and
relinquish
this
basery
:
But
when
it
shall
appeare
that
the
Vrine
is
altogether
〈…〉
shall
be
shewed
and
set
forth
by
me
in
this
ensuing
Discourse
:
Let
the
ignorant
choose
whether
he
will
believe
his
lying
oracle
or
no
,
and
let
the
Physician
choose
whether
hee
will
be
honester
than
to
use
such
deceit
.
Yet
(
I
hope
)
the
one
will
blush
to
have
been
so
deluded
,
and
the
other
to
have
his
conjecturing
discovered
.
And
now
mee
thinks
you
long
to
heare
how
it
is
(
the
Urine
giving
no
certaine
knowledge
of
any
Disease
in
the
world
)
that
Pisse
mongers
(
for
they
deserve
not
the
name
of
a
Physician
that
pretend
knowledge
of
Diseases
by
it
)
doe
give
judgement
of
it
,
and
make
thee
beleeve
that
they
discerne
Diseases
by
it
,
than
the
which
nothing
in
the
world
is
more
false
.
But
would
you
so
faine
know
how
this
can
be
?
Why
thus
it
is
,
for
I
will
now
hold
you
no
longer
in
expectation
;
I
must
therefore
give
unto
your
speciall
consideration
two
things
,
(
and
then
I
will
descend
to
all
the
particular
Quillets
and
fallacies
that
deceive
the
ignorant
)
used
in
the
contemplation
and
beholding
of
an
Urine
,
which
make
a
man
presume
to
give
judgement
of
Diseases
by
it
.
Observe
now
with
me
,
that
the
two
things
to
be
considered
are
these
;
namely
,
that
Diseases
are
either
acute
,
Or
else
diseases
:
they
are
〈…〉
:
(
that
is
of
continuance
)
〈…〉
such
as
proceed
from
the
ill
temperature
of
the
humours
and
disposition
of
the
constitution
of
the
body
,
such
as
are
the
Consumption
,
Dropsie
,
Melancholy
.
〈◊〉
Palsie
.
Falling
Sicknesse
,
Chachexia
(
which
is
a
depravation
of
the
humours
of
the
body
,
where
by
it
taketh
away
,
in
man
or
woman
,
the
appear
from
meat
makes
the
body
unfit
for
exercise
,
and
marres
the
livelinesse
of
the
spirit
and
countenance
)
and
this
disease
in
women
is
commonly
called
the
Greene
Sicknesse
,
and
it
makes
both
men
and
women
Greene
indeed
.
But
(
to
omit
all
circumstances
that
may
be
)
the
Physician
alwayes
beares
these
two
considerations
in
m●●de
.
namely
,
that
diseases
are
either
Acute
,
Sharpe
,
and
Violent
,
or
Chronicall
,
and
of
continuance
,
and
more
gentle
,
as
aforesaid
,
&c.
Now
,
for
the
most
part
,
the
common
sort
of
people
come
〈◊〉
send
their
Waters
unto
Physicians
for
Acute
,
Sharpe
,
and
Violent
diseases
:
as
the
Countrey-man
or
Handycrafts-man
(
who
use
to
labour
)
for
some
Surfet
(
as
they
call
it
)
taken
by
carching
cold
(
as
they
thinke
)
after
sweating
at
their
severall
labours
,
and
your
better
sort
of
people
(
as
they
thinke
themselves
,
because
they
use
no
labour
)
for
a
Surfet
taken
by
idlenesse
,
as
sitting
in
the
Sunne
,
walking
,
sporting
,
drinking
of
Wine
,
eating
over
much
or
such
meat
as
their
stomach
hath
not
well
digested
,
and
the
like
.
You
must
likewise
note
,
that
every
sharpe
disease
hath
an
hot
and
burning
Fever
joyned
with
it
,
and
that
the
Urine
(
for
the
most
part
)
in
a
burning
Fever
is
of
an
intense
high
red
colour
;
and
this
colour
;
amongst
all
the
other
uncertaine
signes
of
Urine
(
which
seeme
to
shew
a
disease
,
to
put
a
difference
betweene
sharpe
and
Chronicall
diseases
,
and
to
discover
a
Fever
only
)
is
the
most
certaine
of
all
other
,
and
yet
uncertaine
in
it selfe
.
Such
a
Urine
being
brought
unto
a
Physician
to
cast
(
as
they
call
it
)
and
being
of
a
red
high
colour
(
as
I
said
before
)
he
presently
conceives
it
to
be
a
sharpe
and
violent
disease
,
CHAP.
II.
What
manner
of
persons
your
Pisse-messengers
are
,
how
they
are
handled
,
deluded
,
and
made
to
shew
how
the
sicke
partie
is
affected
,
and
yet
to
beleeve
that
the
Doctour
perceiveth
the
Disease
by
the
Vrine
.
I
Have
here
already
such
a
Messenger
(
attending
my
leisure
to
give
my
judgement
upon
such
a
Urine
)
who
,
being
conducted
to
my
presence
,
salues
my
worship
with
good
morrow
Master
Doctour
,
and
indeed
the
morning
is
the
most
usuall
and
fit
time
for
the
viewing
of
Urines
:
The
Queane
at
Darkin
hath
gotten
that
Art
,
that
she
would
not
prophesie
thereof
after
eleven
of
the
clocke
:
And
having
thus
saluted
me
,
presents
me
the
Urine
,
saying
,
Sir
I
desire
your
opinion
of
this
water
,
and
to
tell
me
(
though
the
sick
partie
know
that
too
too
well
already
)
what
the
partie
ayleth
,
and
what
the
Disease
is
;
the
messenger
(
whether
man
or
woman
)
you
must
note
,
is
one
who
is
,
as
it
were
,
made
out
of
waxe
,
whom
a
Physician
cannot
deceive
(
neither
would
hee
if
he
could
)
nor
yet
learne
any
thing
out
of
him
touching
the
Disease
,
unlesse
hee
himselfe
first
have
named
it
,
and
yet
hee
will
make
a
shift
to
mould
him
into
any
form●
that
shall
fit
his
purpose
best
,
and
make
him
by
impertinent
questions
(
as
he
shall
thinke
)
to
tell
him
any
thing
,
concerning
the
sicke
partie
,
that
hee
shall
desire
to
know
,
and
yet
(
like
Hocus
Pocus
who
makes
his
ignorant
spectatours
to
thinke
that
the
Balls
are
under
the
Cups
,
though
hee
have
conveyed
them
away
by
sleight
of
hand
,
and
when
they
see
that
,
to
deeme
him
a
Conjurer
)
to
thinke
that
he
hath
discovered
nothing
,
and
me
to
be
a
skilfull
Physitian
and
an
honest
man
,
when
as
indeed
there
is
no
such
matter
;
for
neither
is
Hocus
Pocus
a
Conjurer
,
though
by
his
nimble
conveyance
he
have
deluded
his
silly
beholder
,
or
so
much
a
knave
as
they
thinke
him
,
because
he
hath
not
done
it
by
any
unlawfull
assistance
;
neither
am
I
so
skilfull
a
Physitian
,
though
I
have
made
the
messenger
beleeve
that
I
perceive
strange
things
by
the
Water
,
because
I
doe
but
deceive
the
messenger
;
nor
so
honest
a
man
as
I
am
esteemed
,
though
I
carry
the
matter
very
faire
,
because
I
doe
not
ingenuously
confesse
to
the
messenger
,
and
so
to
every
body
else
when
I
shall
have
occasion
to
discourse
about
it
,
that
there
is
no
certaine
judgement
of
any
disease
by
the
Urine
,
but
out
of
pride
pretend
knowledge
of
diseases
by
it
,
and
to
backe
this
knowledge
blush
not
to
use
such
deceit
and
fallacies
as
hereafter
follow
.
But
now
to
returne
to
the
Urine
from
the
Physician
and
the
fool
,
This
Vrine
,
if
brought
out
of
the
Countrie
,
is
for
the
most
part
in
a
glasse-bottle
,
but
(
if
ones
in
the
Citie
)
it
is
brought
in
an
Urinall
;
it
is
likewise
red
and
high
of
colour
,
and
that
(
for
the
most
part
)
be
tokeneth
a
Fever
.
I
now
therefore
(
before
that
ever
I
can
poure
the
water
out
of
the
bottle
,
or
take
the
Urinall
out
of
the
Case
)
rip
up
all
the
Symptomes
of
a
Fever
,
and
say
,
This
partie
hath
a
great
oppression
of
stomach
and
no
appetite
to
meat
,
a
great
oppilation
and
obstruction
of
the
Liver
and
Spleene
,
is
very
hot
and
dry
,
desireth
much
to
drinke
,
hath
a
great
paine
in
the
head
and
can
take
no
rest
,
and
was
taken
in
the
manner
of
an
Ague
with
a
grooving
in
the
backe
and
paine
in
the
head
,
first
cold
and
then
hot
,
reckning
up
all
these
things
(
as
if
I
saw
them
there
so
soone
as
ever
I
looke
into
the
water
)
so
fast
as
ever
I
can
make
my
tongue
belie
my
heart
.
And
with
this
description
I
have
made
the
messenger
admire
my
readinesse
and
skill
in
judging
of
Urines
,
and
he
verily
beleeves
that
I
have
espied
these
things
in
the
water
;
but
it
is
farre
otherwise
;
for
these
things
(
that
I
have
reckoned
up
)
are
but
the
usuall
Symptomes
and
companions
of
a
Fever
,
and
the
most
of
them
are
joyned
with
every
Fever
,
and
all
of
them
and
many
moe
at
once
are
complicate
with
many
a
Fever
.
These
things
being
so
,
I
cannot
but
have
hit
the
nayle
on
the
head
,
for
some
of
those
Symptomes
that
I
have
reckoned
up
,
must
needs
accompany
the
disease
;
and
when
I
have
once
named
them
,
the
messenger
presently
answers
,
that
the
partie
is
just
so
affected
as
I
have
said
:
But
(
as
yet
)
I
have
not
named
the
disease
,
and
perhaps
omitted
something
which
is
expected
that
I
should
have
named
:
and
the
messenger
is
as
ready
then
to
aske
me
if
I
perceive
nothing
else
by
the
water
,
as
I
was
to
pronounce
my
judgment
of
it
before
:
To
whom
I
answere
,
yes
if
you
will
give
me
leave
to
tell
you
;
and
then
perchance
askes
me
if
I
doe
not
perceive
a
stitch
,
and
whether
the
party
have
not
a
Plurisie
,
I
answer
(
looking
upon
the
water
as
if
it
were
there
to
be
perceived
)
yes
I
well
perceive
the
stitch
,
and
some
cough
too
;
and
I
say
,
that
when
the
cough
takes
the
partie
,
the
partie
is
much
pained
in
the
side
;
and
for
as
much
as
I
did
not
name
the
stitch
at
first
,
I
tell
the
messenger
that
we
use
first
to
declare
the
cause
of
the
disease
before
we
come
to
every
passion
or
affect
of
the
disease
,
or
before
we
name
it
:
I
further
adde
that
I
was
not
yet
come
to
speake
of
the
stitch
(
no
nor
should
never
have
found
it
out
of
the
water
,
had
not
the
messenger
bolted
it
out
)
because
I
had
named
the
cause
therof
,
namely
,
the
oppression
of
the
stomach
and
obstruction
of
the
Spleene
,
and
mesentery
,
and
that
the
stitch
was
nothing
else
but
a
flatuous
and
windie
humour
proceeding
from
thence
to
the
place
affected
;
so
now
I
determine
the
disease
to
be
(
as
they
suppose
)
a
Plurisie
;
And
indeed
they
can
better
define
their
owne
diseases
by
the
Symptomes
and
passions
that
they
suffer
,
than
any
Physician
can
doe
by
the
water
onely
.
But
now
as
I
have
been
happy
in
my
predictions
of
the
disease
,
and
rightly
determined
it
to
be
(
as
it
is
indeed
)
a
Plurisie
;
so
now
I
must
proceed
to
the
prescription
(
as
it
is
required
)
of
such
remedies
as
may
cure
this
Plurisie
:
And
now
I
am
here
as
farre
to
seeke
(
though
I
know
the
disease
to
be
a
Plurisie
)
as
if
I
knew
not
the
disease
at
all
,
nor
had
seen
the
Urine
,
because
I
doe
not
therein
perceive
the
scope
and
grounds
of
prescribing
fit
remedies
(
according
to
the
rules
of
Art
)
in
every
respect
proper
to
the
disease
;
The
which
scope
and
grounds
are
these
(
namely
)
the
parties
age
,
the
sexe
,
the
constitution
of
the
body
,
and
the
strength
of
it
at
this
time
,
with
divers
other
accidents
,
as
whether
the
party
be
bound
in
his
body
,
or
have
a
flux
and
scouring
,
or
the
like
:
All
the
which
nor
any
one
of
them
can
be
discerned
by
the
Urine
,
&
yet
I
must
finde
them
there
if
the
messenger
refuse
to
tell
me
(
but
that
they
seldome
refuse
to
doe
after
that
I
have
given
them
a
description
of
the
disease
,
and
shewed
them
in
some
part
how
the
partie
is
affected
)
or
else
I
must
needs
erre
in
my
prescription
;
for
if
I
should
prescribe
(
not
knowing
the
age
of
the
partie
)
such
a
quantitie
of
blood
to
be
taken
away
from
a
young
youth
(
suppose
ten
or
twelve
ounces
)
in
a
Pluresie
,
which
is
the
disease
in
hand
,
as
should
be
taken
from
a
man
in
his
full
strength
,
the
partie
might
perish
thereby
;
or
if
I
should
take
but
foure
or
five
ounces
of
bloud
from
a
lusty
young
man
(
in
this
disease
)
at
his
full
strength
,
I
should
doe
him
no
good
,
and
so
he
might
perish
on
the
other
side
:
I
might
likewise
erre
in
the
dose
,
if
(
not
knowing
the
parties
age
)
I
should
prescribe
more
or
lesse
than
were
proportionable
to
the
parties
age
in
prescribing
purging
Potions
or
Clysters
in
this
case
;
I
might
likewise
commit
no
lesse
errour
if
(
not
knowing
the
sexe
)
I
should
in
the
forenamed
disease
prescribe
blood-letting
to
a
woman
,
her
naturall
courses
being
broke
forth
upon
her
;
for
I
might
by
that
accident
expect
a
solution
of
the
disease
without
blood-letting
.
I
might
likewise
erre
,
if
(
knowing
the
sexe
)
I
should
prescribe
purging
Physicke
for
a
woman
in
this
case
(
not
knowing
whether
she
be
with
child
or
no
)
of
such
a
quality
as
might
cause
her
to
miscarry
:
I
might
erre
concerning
the
constitution
of
the
body
if
I
should
(
not
knowing
the
same
)
prescribe
that
for
a
weakly
constitution
of
body
which
were
fitter
for
a
robustuous
and
strong
constitution
:
and
so
on
the
contrary
.
I
might
likewise
erre
if
I
should
(
not
knowing
the
strength
of
the
body
at
this
time
)
prescribe
too
strong
a
Potion
,
or
too
much
blood
to
be
taken
away
,
when
the
disease
hath
overcome
the
strength
and
the
partie
is
too
much
debilitated
,
or
if
I
should
prescribe
too
gentle
a
potion
,
or
too
little
blood
to
be
taken
away
when
the
strength
is
not
yet
dejected
,
but
stands
in
equall
contestation
with
the
disease
.
I
could
shew
a
thousand
wayes
more
how
I
could
erre
,
and
how
most
Physitians
doe
erre
that
prescribe
Physicke
by
the
sight
of
the
Urine
only
:
But
my
intent
is
to
shew
how
many
thousand
wayes
I
could
deceive
thee
and
make
thee
beleeve
that
I
discerne
all
these
things
by
the
Urine
(
as
thou
thinkst
I
do
)
namely
the
disease
,
the
parties
age
,
sexe
,
strength
,
constitution
of
body
,
and
the
like
:
I
have
therfore
digressed
herein
from
my
purpose
(
since
my
intent
was
not
to
shew
the
errors
that
are
committed
by
such
as
pretend
knowledge
of
diseases
by
the
Urine
,
but
to
shew
the
fallacies
and
jugling
that
they
use
in
giving
judgment
of
it
)
and
so
frustrated
thy
expectation
of
this
dainty
Art
;
but
I
hope
it
shall
be
to
thy
profit
,
for
thou
shalt
hereby
be
the
better
able
to
give
thy
Physitian
such
instructions
as
he
shall
require
,
and
shalt
perceive
the
danger
of
taking
Physick
prescribed
by
the
sight
of
the
Urine
only
:
And
now
to
the
purpose
indeed
;
but
first
imagine
with
me
,
that
the
last
messenger
,
having
received
good
satisfaction
by
the
description
of
the
parties
disease
for
whom
he
came
,
was
ready
to
certifie
me
of
all
the
forenamed
circumstances
that
were
requisite
for
me
to
inquire
of
,
as
the
parties
age
,
sexe
,
constitution
of
body
,
present
strength
,
how
long
the
partie
had
been
sicke
,
&c.
And
I
have
sent
him
away
with
such
remedies
as
were
most
proper
for
his
Pleurisie
,
directions
for
blood-letting
to
mitigate
his
Fever
,
some
pectorall
Physick
to
ease
his
cough
,
with
a
Liniment
to
mollifie
,
and
to
dispell
wind
,
to
anoynt
his
side
withall
for
his
stitch
,
and
wish
him
to
repaire
unto
me
again
within
a
day
or
two
to
certifie
me
of
the
successe
of
the
Physicke
,
and
how
the
partie
stands
now
affected
,
that
if
need
require
,
I
may
supply
him
with
further
advise
.
Now
in
all
this
(
I
hope
)
I
have
not
erred
,
save
only
that
I
forgot
to
tell
the
messenger
that
the
partie
was
very
dangerously
sicke
,
and
would
hardly
recover
,
but
yet
I
have
prescribed
him
the
best
meanes
that
can
,
by
the
art
of
man
,
be
for
his
recoverie
,
and
I
pray
God
to
give
his
blessing
,
and
so
I
have
quite
dispatched
this
messenger
.
And
now
whether
the
partie
live
or
dye
I
shall
be
sure
to
be
magnified
for
my
skill
;
if
he
die
,
for
that
my
predictions
prove
true
;
and
if
he
live
,
for
that
I
recovered
him
of
so
dangerous
a
disease
.
And
now
I
am
ready
to
encounter
with
the
next
messenger
,
who
likewise
brings
me
another
Urine
of
an
high
red
colour
,
in
giving
judgement
upon
which
I
will
plainely
shew
how
a
man
may
give
judgement
of
all
other
sharpe
and
violent
diseases
by
the
water
(
though
it
doe
not
certainely
shew
any
Symptomes
of
any
disease
,
which
determine
the
same
)
and
how
thou
shalt
get
out
of
the
messenger
every
circumstance
necessary
to
the
judging
and
determining
of
a
disease
,
as
the
age
,
sexe
,
and
strength
of
the
partie
,
and
to
the
guiding
of
a
man
in
prescribing
of
fit
remedies
,
and
yet
he
shall
not
perceive
but
that
thou
findest
them
in
the
Urine
;
Sed
hoc
est
decipere
,
non
judicare
;
but
this
is
to
juggle
,
and
not
to
judge
.
CHAP.
III.
The
craftiest
messengers
must
be
the
more
craftily
handled
:
the
action
and
gesture
of
the
Physician
in
giving
judgement
of
an
Vrine
:
that
we
come
to
the
knowledge
of
the
disease
,
and
sex
by
impertinent
questions
(
as
they
thinke
)
〈◊〉
to
the
messengers
,
and
not
by
the
Vrine
:
the
cunning
tricks
that
Physicians
have
to
make
the
messengers
confident
of
their
(
falsly
)
pretended
skill
;
and
the
flammes
that
they
have
to
evade
censure
,
if
they
chance
to
erre
in
the
pronouncing
of
their
judgement
.
SUppose
this
next
messenger
to
be
some
Nurse
or
tender
of
sick
persons
,
who
is
commonly
versed
,
and
accustomed
in
carrying
sick
folks
Urines
unto
Physicians
;
and
she
salute
me
,
with
Master
Doctor
,
I
have
brought
you
a
Water
,
and
desire
your
opinion
of
it
:
and
now
I
am
like
to
have
a
hard
taske
of
it
,
and
to
be
so
put
to
my
trumps
,
that
(
if
I
play
not
my
cards
sure
)
I
shall
lose
the
set
,
miscarry
in
my
judgement
,
be
accounted
a
dunce
,
and
lose
my
patient
for
ever
;
but
I
will
be
aware
of
that
,
I
warrant
you
.
I
now
therefore
take
this
carfty
wench
to
doe
,
I
take
the
Vrinall
of
her
,
and
bid
her
come
from
the
doore
of
my
Parlour
,
Study
,
or
Chamber
(
where
they
commonly
stand
,
)
unto
the
window
,
or
light
,
where
I
commonly
give
my
oracle
;
and
indeed
,
a
man
had
need
of
a
good
light
,
and
a
better
sight
,
that
shall
perceive
all
these
things
that
I
must
find
out
of
this
Urine
.
Being
come
to
the
light
(
as
I
am
uncafing
the
Urinall
to
looke
upon
it
,
)
I
aske
the
Nurse
a
question
,
not
whose
water
it
is
(
for
that
she
is
enjoyned
,
any
conjured
,
not
to
tell
me
,
especially
if
it
be
a
womans
,
nor
any
thing
else
,
unlesse
I
first
find
it
out
of
the
water
)
but
my
question
is
;
How
long
the
party
hath
beene
sick
;
And
she
out
of
modesty
and
good
manners
,
can
doe
no
lesse
but
answer
me
to
this
question
,
for
she
thinkes
this
question
to
be
but
words
of
course
,
and
that
I
can
gather
nothing
from
hence
touching
the
parties
disease
;
and
so
she
answeres
me
a
weeke
,
a
forthnight
,
two
or
three
dayes
,
or
more
or
lesse
.
But
from
hence
I
collect
and
have
strong
presumptions
that
it
is
an
acute
disease
;
and
if
she
say
,
A
forthnight
,
I
shall
thinke
it
to
be
only
an
acute
disease
and
of
the
lesse
danger
,
unlesse
there
have
another
Physician
beene
imployed
already
,
the
which
I
shall
be
sure
to
know
,
and
if
there
have
,
I
shall
go
neere
to
strike
his
nose
out
of
joynt
,
and
gaine
the
patient
to
my selfe
,
and
then
(
if
I
recover
him
)
I
shall
get
immortall
fame
;
but
if
he
chance
to
die
,
I
will
make
a
shift
to
shuffle
off
the
disgrace
upon
my
brother
Doctor
,
for
that
(
as
I
will
say
)
such
and
such
meanes
were
not
used
at
the
first
,
though
haply
he
have
used
as
good
a
thode
as
my selfe
could
have
done
:
But
if
she
say
that
the
party
hath
beene
sick
a
weeke
,
I
shall
thinke
it
is
a
more
acute
disease
,
whether
there
have
another
Physician
beene
imployed
or
no.
But
if
she
say
three
or
foure
dayes
,
I
then
presume
that
it
is
a
most
sharpe
disease
,
and
now
I
will
so
plant
and
interest
my selfe
in
the
party
,
as
that
I
will
prevent
anothers
comming
there
,
unlesse
it
be
to
a
person
of
quality
,
and
then
I
will
be
as
ready
to
desire
another
Physician
to
be
called
,
as
the
sick
party
shall
be
to
request
it
,
not
so
much
that
I
desire
his
aide
,
or
would
have
him
partake
with
me
in
the
booty
,
as
in
the
disgrace
,
if
the
party
should
chance
to
die
.
And
now
I
know
(
by
this
question
,
as
also
the
Water
,
being
high
and
red
,
witnessing
the
same
)
that
it
is
an
Acute
disease
:
And
now
I
take
the
Urinall
in
my
hand
,
and
hold
it
up
to
the
light
,
and
(
looking
very
little
upon
it
)
I
shake
it
together
,
and
set
it
downe
very
artificially
in
the
window
asloop
,
as
if
I
meant
to
inquire
further
of
it
anone
,
and
that
it
must
stand
so
a
while
;
and
indeed
it
must
stand
so
a
while
,
and
I
must
looke
but
lightly
upon
it
at
first
,
or
else
I
shall
not
have
so
good
an
evasion
if
I
erre
never
so
litle
,
nor
so
fit
an
opportunity
to
propound
another
question
to
the
setting
me
forward
in
the
pronoucing
of
my
opinion
,
or
to
the
inquiry
of
some
other
circumstance
(
necessary
to
the
guiding
me
in
prescribing
fit
remedies
)
as
the
parties
Age
,
Sexe
,
Strength
,
and
the
like
,
for
this
wench
will
be
sure
to
hold
me
to
my
text
.
And
now
go
along
with
me
still
,
and
conceive
with
me
that
it
is
asharp
disease
(
as
appeareth
by
her
answer
)
and
that
I
have
no
sooner
asked
her
how
long
the
party
hath
beene
sick
,
and
set
downe
the
Urinall
in
the
window
(
as
I
said
before
)
but
that
I
presently
say
,
This
party
hath
a
great
oppression
of
Stomach
,
no
appetite
to
meate
,
with
a
great
oppilation
of
the
Liver
and
Spleene
,
is
very
hot
,
desireth
much
to
drinke
,
hath
a
great
paine
in
the
head
,
and
can
take
no
rest
,
and
was
taken
in
the
manner
of
an
Ague
(
as
they
call
it
)
with
a
grooving
in
the
backe
,
and
paine
in
the
head
,
first
cold
and
then
hot
,
as
I
said
in
giving
my
judgement
upon
the
last
Urine
;
and
indeed
this
description
will
serve
for
any
acute
disease
,
whether
it
be
the
Pleurisie
,
the
small
Pox
or
Maisels
,
a
fit
of
the
stone
in
the
Kidneis
,
the
Squinancy
,
Phrensie
,
Iliaca
Passio
,
the
Arthritis
,
or
what
other
sharp
disease
soever
,
now
my
description
was
this
;
that
the
party
had
a
great
oppression
of
stomach
and
no
appetite
to
meate
,
a
great
oppilation
of
the
Liver
and
Spleene
,
was
very
hot
,
desired
much
to
drinke
,
had
a
great
paine
in
the
head
,
and
could
take
no
rest
,
and
was
taken
in
the
manner
of
an
Ague
with
a
paine
in
the
head
,
and
grooving
in
the
backe
,
first
cold
and
then
hot
,
the
which
description
may
serve
for
any
sharpe
disease
in
giving
judgement
of
a
water
;
yet
I
doe
not
affirme
,
that
in
every
sharpe
disease
the
party
is
just
thus
affected
in
every
respect
,
but
for
the
most
part
,
for
if
it
chance
to
faile
and
be
excepted
against
,
I
have
shewed
,
how
to
make
it
good
to
the
messenger
,
and
to
serve
the
turne
to
satisfie
him
,
and
not
the
Physician
and
practicant
in
Physicke
.
Marke
further
,
that
in
describing
the
disease
,
and
shewing
how
the
party
is
affected
,
I
doe
not
yet
define
,
determine
,
or
name
the
disease
,
till
I
have
expostulated
with
the
messenger
so
farre
,
that
I
perceive
the
disease
from
thence
,
and
have
sounded
enough
out
of
him
,
to
tell
him
any
thing
that
he
shall
desire
to
know
of
me
;
and
then
I
determine
the
disease
to
be
(
as
the
symptomes
,
when
I
have
strictly
examined
them
,
shall
agree
with
the
messengers
relation
.
)
A
Fever
,
the
small
Pox
,
or
Maisels
,
a
Pleurisie
,
or
the
like
,
looking
still
upon
the
Urine
,
as
if
I
found
it
there
,
whereas
I
hope
you
well
perceive
my
fetches
,
which
helpe
me
out
,
or
else
Dun
might
have
stucke
full
fast
in
the
mire
.
I
hope
also
,
that
you
perceive
how
easily
a
man
may
give
his
judgement
of
any
other
acute
disease
by
the
water
,
though
it
doe
not
shew
it
;
and
now
a
word
or
two
with
this
other
messenger
,
and
then
I
shall
have
done
with
acute
,
sharpe
,
and
violent
diseases
.
CHAP.
IV.
The
rude
simplicity
of
such
as
send
their
Vrine
unto
a
Physician
without
any
instructions
how
the
party
is
affected
:
And
the
desperate
hazzard
,
that
they
put
their
lives
in
,
who
adventure
to
take
Physicke
prescribed
only
by
the
sight
of
the
Vrine
.
NOw
this
messenger
is
as
rough-hewed
as
he
that
sent
him
and
is
a
very
plain
fellow
in
his
holy-day
Jacket
and
his
busking
Hose
;
he
was
call'd
from
making
of
Faggots
,
or
from
thrashing
,
to
goe
to
the
Doctour
and
carry
this
Pisse
that
is
put
up
in
the
Vinegar
bottle
,
and
brought
to
me
to
judge
of
;
and
it
is
a
very
turbid
water
of
a
very
high
,
darke
,
red
colour
,
by
which
as
also
by
the
messenger
,
(
for
I
can
better
tell
,
by
the
messenger
,
his
gesture
,
time
of
comming
,
haste
to
be
gone
,
and
other
circumstances
,
what
the
partie
ayleth
,
how
long
he
hath
beene
sicke
,
and
whether
it
be
a
mans
or
womans
water
,
than
I
or
any
Physician
can
doe
by
the
Urine
,
especially
if
I
lived
in
a
Towne
or
Citie
where
I
had
much
Country
practice
)
I
conceive
it
to
be
some
Countrie
Farmers
,
his
sonnes
,
or
mans
,
his
Hubber
de
hoy
which
is
his
man-boy
,
or
halfe
a
man
and
halfe
a
boy
:
But
which
of
them
soever
it
be
,
hee
hath
borne
it
out
with
head
and
shoulders
(
for
so
your
Country
people
use
to
doe
before
they
send
to
a
Doctour
)
and
wrastled
so
long
with
the
disease
,
and
been
so
often
foyled
out
,
for
they
doe
not
observe
the
orders
in
Moore
or
Lincolns-Inne
fields
,
where
if
a
man
be
three
times
foyled
out
,
it
is
to
stand
for
a
fall
,
and
he
is
to
wrastle
no
more
for
that
time
,
as
that
he
can
no
longer
stand
,
and
yet
he
is
to
have
one
bout
more
with
the
disease
who
hath
a
cruell
second
in
this
Duell
,
even
death
it selfe
:
And
now
(
if
nature
be
not
assisted
by
Art
)
this
fellow
,
whose
second
I
must
be
,
is
like
to
be
put
to
the
worst
,
and
the
disease
is
like
to
give
him
a
flat
fall
upon
his
backe
in
his
Grave
,
never
to
rise
againe
untill
the
resurrection
.
Therefore
if
I
have
any
skill
,
I
must
shew
it
now
or
never
:
I
now
therefore
take
the
water
to
examine
it
,
and
thinke
to
question
with
this
messenger
(
as
with
the
former
)
How
long
the
partie
hath
been
sicke
,
whose
water
it
was
,
and
to
put
him
such
other
questions
as
might
shew
me
such
other
circumstances
which
might
shew
mee
the
disease
,
and
guide
me
in
the
prescribing
fit
remedies
for
the
same
;
but
he
cannot
answer
mee
one
question
,
not
whose
water
it
is
,
nor
how
long
the
party
hath
been
sicke
,
no
nor
whether
it
be
a
mans
or
a
womans
water
;
much
lesse
the
constitution
of
the
body
,
the
present
strength
of
it
at
this
time
,
or
whether
the
partie
be
bound
or
loose
in
his
body
,
with
divers
other
such
circumstances
,
all
the
which
are
so
necessary
for
me
to
know
,
as
that
without
the
knowledge
thereof
I
cannot
safely
prescribe
any
Physicke
,
and
yet
this
fellow
cannot
tell
me
one
word
,
for
he
saith
that
he
was
not
told
,
but
was
onely
hired
to
bring
me
the
water
,
and
to
bid
me
send
something
to
help
the
partie
,
and
hath
brought
eighteene
pence
or
two
shillings
with
him
to
pay
for
that
which
I
shall
prescribe
or
send
;
and
all
that
he
can
say
,
is
,
that
such
a
mans
servant
came
to
him
to
get
him
to
come
,
but
did
not
tell
him
whose
water
it
was
,
nor
how
long
the
partie
had
beene
sicke
.
And
now
what
,
on
Gods
Name
,
shall
I
doe
in
this
case
,
for
it
is
presumed
that
I
know
the
disease
by
the
water
,
and
all
other
circumstances
belonging
to
the
same
,
which
are
requisite
for
to
guide
me
in
the
prescribing
of
fit
remedies
,
and
I
have
pretended
as
much
,
and
holpen
to
nurse
up
folkes
in
this
folly
,
(
as
other
Physicians
have
done
before
mee
)
by
giving
my
judgement
of
diseases
by
the
sight
of
the
Urine
,
and
backing
my
pretended
knowledge
by
such
fallacies
as
I
have
spoken
of
,
without
the
which
neither
I
nor
any
Physician
in
the
world
can
give
any
judgement
of
a
disease
,
nor
come
to
the
knowledge
of
such
circumstances
(
unlesse
the
messenger
,
that
brings
it
,
tell
us
)
as
may
guide
us
in
the
prescribing
of
safe
medicines
every
way
proper
unto
the
disease
.
I
must
tell
you
therefore
(
for
mine
own
part
)
that
I
have
already
,
and
doe
for
ever
hereafter
meane
to
steere
a
new
course
;
yet
I
must
,
for
this
one
time
,
prescribe
for
this
fellow
,
who
(
being
all
this
while
out
of
breath
with
his
last
Arthleticke
combate
,
and
having
caught
such
a
wrinch
,
(
though
he
played
strong
play
,
as
that
he
will
goe
neere
to
fall
the
next
bout
)
is
expected
to
enter
the
sands
,
to
revive
the
quarrell
,
and
to
undertake
the
last
encounter
.
I
now
therefore
take
the
Urinall
(
since
the
messenger
can
tell
me
nothing
)
and
looke
better
upon
the
water
,
as
if
I
could
tell
miracles
by
it
,
for
I
must
now
make
all
the
haste
that
may
be
to
set
him
on
foot
,
upon
the
water
,
I
perceive
it
to
be
very
crasse
,
thicke
,
and
turbid
,
in
all
places
alike
,
of
an
intense
,
high
,
darke
,
red
colour
;
and
from
thence
I
conceive
,
that
according
to
the
fopperous
Pisse-maximes
,
and
rules
of
our
great
Pisse-prognosticatours
,
there
is
a
great
commixture
of
superabundant
humours
,
which
the
substance
of
it
(
as
they
say
)
being
crasse
,
thicke
,
and
turbid
,
sheweth
;
and
that
nature
is
not
yet
able
to
concoct
these
humours
,
for
then
there
would
be
some
separation
in
the
Urine
,
and
it
would
not
be
in
all
places
alike
,
but
would
have
sediment
in
the
bottome
,
and
be
transparent
in
the
upper
part
;
I
conceive
also
that
he
hath
a
great
Fever
,
for
that
the
colour
sheweth
,
being
red
and
high
,
and
that
there
is
great
danger
,
for
it
is
of
an
high
darke
red
colour
,
tending
to
blacknesse
.
But
yet
I
cannot
tell
what
manner
of
Fever
it
is
,
for
I
cannot
discerne
by
the
Urine
(
as
common
people
suppose
)
the
passions
and
affects
of
the
sicke
party
,
that
determine
the
disease
,
and
should
guide
me
in
the
prescribing
fit
remedies
,
and
therefore
I
cannot
tell
whether
it
be
best
to
let
him
blood
,
to
give
hive
him
a
purging
potion
,
or
Clyster
,
or
whether
his
body
would
now
beare
any
of
these
,
or
whether
I
were
best
to
give
him
something
to
make
him
sleepe
,
or
some
cooling
Juleb
,
or
some
Cordiall
Antidote
to
expell
noxious
humours
from
the
vitall
parts
;
now
which
of
these
methods
I
shall
best
use
(
for
the
messenger
can
tell
me
nothing
)
I
know
not
,
but
however
the
matter
is
not
great
,
for
the
party
ventureth
but
his
life
,
and
why
shuld
not
I
adventure
my
skill
against
it
?
I
now
therefore
pronounce
the
party
to
be
sicke
of
a
bastard
Pleurisie
(
for
,
it
is
no
matter
what
I
say
to
this
messenger
,
)
or
a
Fever
,
and
that
the
party
would
hardly
recover
,
further
adding
,
that
hee
should
have
beene
let
blood
a
weeke
agoe
,
and
that
I
feared
it
would
now
be
too
late
,
but
yet
I
wish
it
to
be
done
,
for
if
any
thing
in
the
world
recover
him
,
it
must
be
that
;
and
if
that
do
it
,
it
is
but
Hab
,
Nab
,
but
yet
however
,
I
must
put
it
in
practice
;
so
now
I
hast
away
the
messenger
to
get
a
Chirurgion
to
let
him
blood
;
and
tell
him
where
,
and
in
what
quantity
it
must
be
done
,
and
now
it
is
a
question
whether
the
disease
,
or
the
life
be
let
out
by
this
blood-letting
:
if
blood
offending
in
quantity
,
or
corrupt
blood
(
offending
in
quality
)
putrified
by
choller
in
the
lesser
veines
,
be
let
out
,
the
disease
may
chance
to
be
let
out
with
it
,
and
so
Mors
or
Death
may
tarry
for
a
sacrifice
,
till
some
other
sicknesse
take
him
upon
more
advantage
.
But
if
the
good
blood
,
seeming
to
be
inflamed
,
be
let
out
,
when
this
Fever
proceedeth
from
choller
in
the
greater
veins
,
or
from
Flegme
,
or
other
mixt
humours
in
the
stomach
,
Spleene
,
or
Mesentery
,
which
ought
to
be
purged
,
the
life
(
insteed
of
the
disease
)
may
be
let
out
,
by
losse
whereof
the
debt
to
God
and
Nature
would
be
paid
.
But
haply
(
insteed
of
blood-letting
,
I
prescribe
at
randome
,
(
for
so
I
must
doe
in
either
)
some
purging
Potion
,
and
so
set
the
disease
and
a
medicine
together
by
the
eares
&
leave
the
successe
to
fortune
.
And
now
whether
the
party
live
or
die
,
I
care
not
:
for
if
he
die
,
I
have
taught
them
to
blame
their
owne
negligence
,
in
not
sending
any
sooner
;
but
if
Nature
be
of
such
for●e
,
that
she
be
able
to
withstand
the
conflict
betweene
the
disease
and
the
Antidote
,
and
start
up
,
and
take
part
with
the
Medicine
,
so
that
the
party
recover
,
I
shall
have
more
attributed
unto
me
,
(
as
the
onely
cause
of
his
recovery
)
than
I
have
deserved
,
or
than
to
God
,
who
in
his
providence
,
had
beene
pleased
(
by
the
worke
of
Nature
,
more
than
by
any
skill
of
mine
)
to
spare
and
recover
him
:
and
thus
you
use
to
over-value
the
meanes
,
whereby
(
as
you
suppose
)
you
have
beene
recovered
,
although
used
so
desperatly
(
as
I
have
prescribed
for
this
fellow
)
by
a
methodicall
Physician
,
professing
knowledge
of
diseases
by
the
Urine
,
or
used
quite
contrary
to
the
rules
of
Art
,
by
some
rude
Empiricke
and
Quack-salving
knave
,
especially
,
if
you
chance
to
recover
;
and
to
under-value
the
best
meanes
in
the
world
,
used
by
the
most
grave
and
learned
Physician
,
if
the
party
chance
to
die
:
never
satisfying
your selves
,
when
things
are
so
come
to
passe
,
that
it
was
Gods
providence
,
saying
,
(
sic
placuit
Domino
,
)
it
was
Gods
will
it
should
be
so
,
and
so
resting
your selves
contented
,
but
still
tormenting
your selves
further
,
in
thinking
that
this
child
,
that
friend
,
this
brother
,
or
that
sister
might
have
beene
recovered
,
if
the
best
meanes
had
beene
used
,
as
if
God
would
not
have
directed
thee
unto
that
meanes
,
had
it
not
beene
his
will
now
to
take
this
party
unto
himselfe
.
And
now
,
I
hope
that
you
perceive
by
these
few
instances
,
how
a
man
may
deceive
the
wisest
messenger
that
you
can
send
unto
a
Physician
with
a
water
,
and
shew
you
the
disease
by
the
same
,
although
it
be
not
there
to
be
found
,
and
how
great
danger
they
put
their
lives
in
,
that
adventure
to
take
Physicke
prescribed
by
the
sight
of
the
Urine
only
:
and
so
I
have
done
with
all
sharp
and
violent
diseases
,
and
am
now
comming
to
speake
of
Chronicall
,
lingring
,
and
diseases
of
continuance
,
wherein
I
meane
to
shew
you
how
to
give
judgement
of
them
by
the
water
,
though
in
those
diseases
,
it
shew
lesse
than
in
sharpe
and
violent
diseases
.
CHAP.
V.
A
Recapitulation
of
those
things
which
have
beene
spoken
,
touching
the
giving
of
judgement
of
the
Vrine
in
Acute
and
Violent
diseases
:
and
a
Praecapitulation
of
some
things
necessary
to
be
premised
touching
Chronicall
and
diseases
of
continuance
,
before
we
come
to
the
examination
of
the
Pisse-messengers
,
as
we
have
done
in
Sharpe
and
Violent
diseases
.
AND
now
,
whereas
I
shew'd
you
(
before
that
I
came
to
instance
and
shew
my
cunning
in
giving
judgement
upon
Urines
in
violent
diseases
)
that
diseases
are
either
sharpe
and
violent
,
(
the
which
I
have
spoke
of
)
or
Chronicall
and
of
continuance
,
such
as
I
am
now
to
speake
of
next
;
and
that
,
in
sharp
diseases
,
the
Urine
is
for
the
most
part
of
an
high
red
colour
,
and
that
there
is
a
Fever
alwayes
joyned
with
every
sharpe
disease
;
so
I
shewed
you
that
one
may
give
a
description
how
any
sicke
party
is
affected
in
any
violent
disease
,
by
rekoning
up
the
common
Symptomes
and
companions
of
a
Fever
(
which
are
oppression
of
stomach
,
want
of
appetite
,
Heate
,
Thirst
,
Paine
in
the
head
,
want
of
sleep
,
&c.
)
and
make
the
messenger
believe
that
I
perceive
the
disease
by
the
water
,
because
I
shew
how
the
party
is
in
some
kind
affected
,
the
which
neither
I
,
nor
any
Physician
in
the
world
can
perceive
in
,
or
by
water
,
but
gather
by
consequence
,
when
we
once
conceive
that
it
is
a
violent
disease
;
for
then
we
know
that
there
is
a
Fever
joyned
,
and
that
there
are
some
of
those
Symptomes
(
that
I
named
)
joyned
with
it
,
but
yet
I
doe
not
know
what
kind
of
Fever
it
is
,
nor
what
violent
disease
it
is
(
and
therefore
I
doe
not
name
or
determine
it
)
untill
I
have
expostulated
with
the
messenger
,
in
such
manner
as
I
have
already
shew'd
,
and
thereby
come
to
the
knowledge
of
some
specificall
note
,
or
difference
,
which
determine
the
same
.
I
must
now
likewise
give
you
to
understand
(
before
that
I
come
to
examine
some
few
Urines
,
to
shew
you
how
I
give
my
judgement
of
Chronicall
diseases
)
that
in
Chronicall
diseases
(
such
as
are
the
Drop●e
,
Gout
,
Palsey
,
Falling
sicknesse
,
Scurvey
,
French
Pox
,
Green
sicknesse
,
Malacie
,
which
is
the
disease
of
women
newly
conceived
with
childe
,
Cough
,
Head-ach
,
Mother
,
and
such
like
)
the
Urine
is
no
way
faulty
,
but
representeth
the
Urine
of
healthfull
;
nay
,
oftentimes
the
most
healthfull
men
in
the
world
:
And
yet
the
Physician
(
such
a
Urine
being
brought
unto
him
)
must
sentence
the
partie
that
made
it
,
to
be
sicke
,
upon
no
other
proofe
but
onely
this
lying
strumpet
,
and
false
witnesse
(
the
Urine
)
suborned
by
the
beguiled
and
so
selfe-conceited
vulgar
,
and
connived
at
by
the
Pisse-Justice
or
Judge
,
before
whom
shee
is
brought
,
who
is
corrupted
for
a
testar
,
sometimes
for
more
and
sometimes
for
lesse
,
and
is
contented
to
accept
of
her
evidence
for
truth
,
when
he
knowes
it
to
be
a
palpable
lye
that
shee
comes
to
affirme
.
She
is
indeed
the
dumbe
messenger
betweene
the
Doctour
and
his
Patient
,
who
(
instead
of
passing
the
relation
of
his
disease
in
writing
,
or
by
some
discreet
messenger
)
pisseth
his
minde
in
his
water
,
and
expecteth
an
answer
;
but
if
I
should
write
him
an
answer
in
a
letter
written
in
the
same
language
,
I
doubt
he
would
scarce
read
it
.
How
then
shall
I
doe
,
who
must
answer
his
expectation
,
since
the
Urine
in
this
case
sheweth
no
disease
at
all
?
Or
what
oracle
shall
I
give
?
Shall
I
say
(
such
a
water
being
brought
unto
me
)
I
doe
not
perceive
by
this
water
that
the
partie
that
made
it
is
sicke
,
or
ayleth
any
thing
:
farre
be
it
from
me
for
thinking
so
:
If
I
should
returne
such
an
honest
plaine-dealing
answer
,
both
the
messenger
and
he
that
sent
him
would
perceive
me
to
be
diseased
in
my
braine
,
without
the
casting
of
my
water
,
and
would
presently
say
that
I
were
troubled
with
the
simples
:
For
why
(
would
they
say
)
have
I
sent
or
brought
this
Urine
if
the
partie
be
not
sicke
?
Is
not
this
a
wise
Doctour
that
cannot
tell
the
Disease
by
the
water
?
This
Doctour
shall
give
me
no
Physicke
,
for
I
have
gone
to
such
a
Doctour
(
Rogue
or
Knave
you
might
call
him
)
that
hath
told
me
my
disease
directly
by
the
water
,
and
he
shall
be
my
Doctour
;
and
(
for
me
)
so
let
him
:
And
thus
you
grumble
at
your
Doctour
,
if
he
honestly
tell
you
that
the
Urine
doth
not
certainly
shew
any
disease
,
and
begin
to
examine
whose
water
it
is
,
and
how
the
partie
is
affected
,
as
also
the
age
,
sexe
,
constitution
of
body
,
the
present
strength
of
it
,
and
such
other
circumstances
as
should
shew
him
(
he
not
seeing
the
partie
)
the
disease
,
and
guide
him
in
the
prescribing
fit
remedies
,
you
presently
suspect
him
of
ignorance
,
and
thinke
that
he
should
tell
you
these
things
by
the
Urine
.
And
thus
was
I
lately
taxed
by
a
Gossip
at
East
Greensted
in
Sussex
(
where
I
lived
and
began
my
practice
)
because
I
was
strict
in
examining
the
state
of
her
bodie
that
I
might
not
erre
in
prescribing
her
something
to
give
her
ease
of
that
which
shee
complained
of
;
for
it
was
very
suspitious
that
shee
was
with
child
,
and
she
pretended
that
she
desired
to
take
something
by
my
prescription
,
but
because
I
asked
her
so
many
questions
(
the
which
shee
thought
I
should
have
resolved
my selfe
by
the
water
)
she
would
none
of
mine
advise
,
but
reported
that
I
had
no
skill
in
waters
,
and
said
,
I
asked
her
many
questions
,
but
could
tell
her
nothing
from
the
water
.
I
spare
to
name
her
,
yet
I
wish
that
she
may
chance
to
read
this
Story
,
wherein
she
may
perceive
that
I
could
have
cozen'd
her
,
that
she
may
blush
to
thinke
that
she
was
so
much
a
foole
,
and
thanke
me
that
I
have
canonized
her
for
a
foole-Saint
,
by
no
other
name
,
but
the
name
of
a
Gosssip
and
so
let
her
know
that
I
wanted
not
wit
to
have
deceived
her
,
had
not
my
will
beene
restrained
by
a
better
resolution
than
to
use
such
base
deceipt
(
to
fit
the
humours
of
my
Patients
)
as
is
used
to
delude
the
vulgar
,
who
think
that
there
is
no
disease
nor
symptome
thereof
,
belonging
to
the
body
of
man
or
woman
,
but
that
it
may
be
discerned
in
the
Urine
:
Yet
it
is
farre
otherwise
,
for
in
these
Chronicall
diseases
(
for
the
most
part
)
the
water
seemeth
not
to
import
any
disease
at
all
,
and
yet
the
partie
is
irrecoverably
sicke
:
So
likewise
the
Urine
is
oftentimes
of
an
high
red
colour
,
and
seemeth
to
import
a
violent
Fever
when
the
partie
is
not
sicke
at
all
:
It
may
be
also
of
so
good
a
colour
and
consistence
,
in
a
violent
disease
,
as
importeth
no
disease
at
all
,
and
yet
the
partie
sicke
unto
death
:
for
confirmation
whereof
,
I
will
give
you
two
or
three
instances
out
of
mine
owne
experience
,
and
referre
you
to
Doctour
Hari
for
further
satisfaction
,
who
in
his
Booke
intituled
,
The
Anatomy
of
Vrines
,
hath
set
downe
many
examples
out
of
his
owne
observation
,
as
also
out
of
the
most
ancient
and
authenticke
Writers
,
which
confirme
the
same
which
I
affirme
:
First
,
therefore
to
confirme
this
point
,
That
the
sicke
partie
is
often
irrecoverably
sick
of
a
most
Acute
and
violent
disease
,
when
his
water
seemeth
not
to
import
any
disease
at
all
;
I
had
a
Urine
brought
me
(
when
I
lived
at
East-Greensted
in
Sussex
,
where
I
was
then
a
young
practicant
in
Physicke
)
which
did
not
seeme
to
import
any
disease
,
but
was
of
a
better
colour
and
consistence
than
mine
owne
,
who
was
in
perfect
health
,
in
so
much
that
I
could
not
discerne
thereby
that
the
partie
was
sicke
;
much
lesse
that
he
was
sicke
unto
death
of
a
violent
disease
:
But
I
did
not
tell
the
messenger
that
brought
it
,
that
I
did
not
perceive
by
the
water
,
that
the
partie
was
sicke
,
for
then
I
might
have
shew'd
my selfe
to
have
beene
a
foole
,
and
to
have
had
no
skill
in
waters
,
as
that
Gossip
thought
me
that
I
last
spake
of
:
But
thus
I
handled
the
messenger
;
I
asked
him
how
long
the
partie
had
been
sicke
,
and
he
answered
me
,
a
weeke
;
from
whence
I
knew
that
it
was
a
violent
disease
,
for
else
I
should
(
if
I
had
not
put
him
that
question
)
have
thought
it
to
have
been
a
Chronicall
disease
,
and
so
should
have
given
a
wrong
description
of
the
same
,
because
the
water
seemed
to
import
no
disease
at
all
:
So
when
I
had
gathered
,
by
his
answer
to
that
question
that
it
was
a
violent
disease
,
I
likewise
knew
that
there
was
a
Fever
joyned
,
and
gave
him
but
the
description
of
a
Fever
,
to
shew
him
how
the
partie
was
affected
,
and
he
was
very
well
satisfied
therewith
,
and
thought
I
perceived
the
disease
in
the
water
.
Now
having
given
this
description
how
the
partie
was
affected
,
and
that
he
had
a
Fever
(
and
indeed
a
man
needs
not
to
say
any
more
,
what
kind
of
Fever
soever
it
be
)
I
fell
to
some
conference
neerer
to
the
matter
(
with
the
Messenger
)
whereby
I
came
to
understand
the
disease
better
than
by
the
Urine
;
and
now
I
begin
to
tell
him
the
danger
that
the
partie
was
in
.
and
he
desires
me
(
for
the
messenger
was
kinsman
unto
to
the
sicke
partie
)
that
I
would
be
pleased
out
of
charitie
(
for
the
sicke
man
was
poore
,
by
profession
a
Shooe-maker
,
by
name
John
Lintell
)
to
goe
along
with
him
,
and
to
see
him
;
the
which
I
granted
,
and
went
along
with
the
messenger
to
see
this
sicke
partie
,
whom
I
found
,
lying
in
his
bed
not
able
to
stirre
himselfe
,
sick
of
a
peripneumoniacall
Fever
(
which
is
the
Apost●mation
and
inflamation
of
the
lungs
)
with
all
the
signes
of
death
in
his
face
,
upon
the
eighth
day
of
his
sicknesse
,
with
sharp
nose
,
hollow
eyes
red
cheeks
,
a
great
paine
in
his
backe
betweene
his
shoulders
,
and
a
great
oppression
of
his
stomach
and
pectorall
parts
,
in
so
much
that
he
could
scarce
breathe
or
speake
,
but
with
ratling
in
the
throat
;
all
the
which
when
I
had
well
observed
,
I
put
him
in
mind
of
his
mortality
and
present
imminent
danger
,
gave
him
the
best
instructions
that
I
could
to
prepare
himselfe
for
that
sodaine
change
of
this
life
for
another
that
was
like
to
be
,
and
so
tooke
my
leave
of
him
:
But
before
I
could
get
away
,
I
was
desired
by
some
of
his
friends
that
were
about
him
,
to
tell
them
(
for
they
thinke
that
wee
can
surely
tell
,
or
else
that
we
are
not
our
crafts-masters
)
whether
hee
would
dye
,
or
no
;
and
I
tooke
upon
me
to
determine
his
death
before
eight
of
the
clocke
the
next
night
,
within
halfe
an
houre
of
which
time
he
dyed
.
But
(
before
I
could
get
out
of
the
chamber
)
they
began
to
whisper
,
as
the
manner
is
and
to
scoffe
me
to
my
face
,
saying
amongst
themselves
,
that
they
did
nor
perceive
but
that
he
might
live
as
long
as
I
;
but
my
predictions
proved
so
true
,
and
were
so
soone
accomplished
,
that
I
came
off
from
that
their
censure
with
more
than
ordinary
credit
,
for
as
much
as
I
had
prefixed
so
short
a
time
of
his
life
,
and
the
event
(
death
)
following
now
so
neere
the
utmost
bounds
and
limits
of
the
time
.
Yet
I
confesse
ingenuously
,
that
I
was
too
peremptory
in
determining
his
death
within
so
short
a
time
,
or
by
such
an
houre
,
for
I
had
told
them
▪
that
hee
could
not
live
untill
such
an
houre
(
which
was
●ight
of
the
clocke
)
and
that
,
if
he
should
escape
that
houre
,
he
would
recover
;
but
yet
both
of
these
predictions
might
have
proved
false
,
for
he
might
both
escape
that
houre
,
and
yet
might
not
recover
(
though
I
said
he
would
,
if
he
passed
that
houre
)
but
dye
within
a
few
dayes
or
houres
after
.
Neither
did
I
pronounce
my
judgment
from
any
grounds
of
Art
,
that
did
determine
his
death
within
such
an
houre
,
but
onely
by
conjecturall
probabilitie
;
for
your
cunning
men
,
or
Conjurers
,
nay
the
Devill
himselfe
,
cannot
otherwise
than
upon
conjecture
,
determine
a
sicke
mans
life
unto
an
houre
,
unlesse
you
make
him
one
of
the
Almighties
scoret
counsell
.
Nay
I
dare
affirme
,
that
the
Devils
may
,
and
often
are
deceived
in
their
conjectures
and
calculations
touching
the
life
and
death
of
men
,
and
yet
their
naturall
knowledge
is
farre
more
than
mens
,
for
they
are
spirits
;
and
their
acquired
knowledge
is
as
much
beyond
mens
,
because
they
are
ancienter
than
men
(
even
from
the
beginning
of
the
world
)
&
are
not
subject
to
the
same
mortality
that
man
is
,
who
(
before
he
come
to
begin
to
have
understanding
)
is
in
his
Grave
.
I
say
therefore
,
that
no
Physician
,
nay
the
Devills
(
who
are
ancienter
than
Aesculapius
or
Hippocrates
,
or
any
of
that
race
)
cannot
determine
the
life
and
death
of
a
man
,
but
upon
conjecture
,
and
may
be
deceived
;
but
yet
you
looke
that
a
Physician
should
be
able
to
doe
it
,
and
not
to
erre
,
because
such
an
event
doth
oftentimes
accidentally
follow
such
a
peremptory
conclusion
as
this
of
mine
was
,
that
this
partie
would
dye
within
such
an
houre
.
It
is
true
indeed
,
and
I
might
truely
say
(
the
nature
of
the
disease
,
and
the
strength
of
the
body
,
with
all
other
signes
of
death
being
well
considered
)
that
I
thought
the
partie
would
scarce
live
untill
such
an
houre
:
but
if
I
should
say
(
without
any
qualification
of
the
sense
)
that
the
partie
would
not
live
untill
such
an
houre
,
and
that
he
would
recover
if
he
should
passe
that
houre
,
you
might
thinke
that
I
spake
without
my
booke
,
for
I
could
not
say
so
,
but
that
I
must
speake
more
than
I
know
,
and
so
derogate
from
the
providence
of
God
,
in
assuming
that
knowledge
unto
my selfe
that
belongs
onely
to
him
.
I
was
likewise
called
to
another
lustie
yong
man
(
one
John
Duffield
by
name
)
in
the
very
same
Towne
,
very
shortly
after
,
who
was
sicke
of
the
very
same
disease
,
in
the
same
manner
,
whose
friends
were
very
importunate
at
me
to
be
tampering
with
him
,
and
to
use
my
best
skill
to
recover
him
,
but
I
perceived
that
there
had
another
Quack
been
tampering
with
him
before
,
who
had
omitted
the
opportunity
of
letting
him
blood
,
and
found
him
so
far
and
in
such
case
debilitated
that
now
there
was
no
place
for
bleeding
unlesse
I
had
beene
contented
to
have
undergone
the
scandall
that
would
have
soone
ensued
;
so
I
wished
them
to
send
for
the
Physician
of
the
soule
,
and
told
them
there
was
no
place
for
my
Art
:
For
,
had
I
caused
him
to
have
been
let
blood
,
he
would
have
gone
neere
to
have
dyed
under
the
Chirurgians
hands
,
and
then
they
would
not
have
stuck
to
have
said
that
I
had
kil'd
him
;
for
it
was
afternoon
,
and
almost
night
when
I
was
called
unto
him
,
and
he
dyed
before
the
next
morning
:
Yet
(
as
I
said
before
of
the
incertaine
judgment
of
diseases
by
the
water
)
his
water
was
of
as
good
a
colour
and
consistence
every
way
as
any
healthfull
mans
,
yet
notwithstanding
I
gave
my
judgement
so
upon
this
Urine
,
as
that
I
satisfied
the
messenger
;
for
I
asked
the
messenger
,
how
long
the
partie
had
been
sicke
,
who
answered
almost
a
weeke
;
from
whence
I
gathered
that
it
was
a
violent
disease
although
the
water
did
not
witnesse
the
same
,
and
so
gave
the
description
of
a
Fever
which
shewed
how
the
partie
was
affected
,
and
made
the
messenger
thinke
that
I
perceived
his
disease
in
the
water
;
but
you
(
I
hope
)
well
perceive
how
I
did
it
,
and
how
a
man
may
be
sicke
unto
death
,
his
Urine
shewing
no
disease
at
all
,
and
if
a
Physician
can
satisfie
the
messenger
and
seeme
to
describe
the
disease
by
the
Urine
,
notwithstanding
.
So
now
I
proceed
to
sit
in
judicature
upon
this
modest
harlot
(
the
Urine
)
who
in
Chronicall
diseases
seemeth
to
import
no
disease
at
all
,
and
yet
she
is
caught
ipso
facto
in
her
close
tricks
,
for
which
she
is
come
to
publike
censure
:
But
first
,
before
I
come
to
examine
this
strumpet
,
I
must
further
shew
you
how
I
come
to
know
certainely
whether
it
be
a
Chronicall
disease
or
no
,
since
she
is
(
namely
the
Urine
)
so
perfidious
as
that
there
is
no
credit
to
be
given
to
any
thing
that
she
comes
to
give
in
evidence
concerning
the
state
of
any
sick
or
well
bodies
water
whomsoever
:
Now
that
I
discern
(
namely
whether
it
be
a
Chronicall
disease
or
no
)
by
the
same
question
that
I
propounded
in
giving
my
judgement
upon
Urines
in
violent
diseases
;
and
that
question
was
this
;
I
onely
asked
the
messenger
how
long
the
partie
had
been
sicke
,
by
answer
whereunto
I
am
certified
,
or
at
least
have
strong
presumption
,
whether
it
be
a
Chronicall
or
violent
disease
;
for
if
the
Pisse
Post
say
a
weeke
or
lesse
,
I
then
presume
that
it
is
a
violent
disease
:
But
if
the
Pisse-bearer
say
that
the
partie
hath
not
beene
very
well
a
good
while
(
which
is
their
answer
commonly
in
a
Chronicall
disease
,
when
we
aske
how
long
the
partie
hath
been
sicke
,
for
indeed
they
are
not
sicke
in
most
Chronicall
diseases
,
but
are
illish
or
not
well
)
I
dare
say
then
that
it
is
a
Chronicall
disease
;
and
when
I
have
once
received
this
answer
to
the
forenamed
question
,
(
let
the
water
be
of
what
colour
soever
it
will
,
or
whether
I
〈◊〉
or
no
,
I
care
not
)
I
know
how
to
give
an
answer
that
shall
please
the
messenger
,
and
fill
his
bagge
,
but
put
nothing
in
it
;
and
though
the
water
shew
no
disease
at
all
,
(
for
so
it
falleth
out
for
the
most
part
,
as
I
have
already
told
you
,
in
these
Chronicall
diseases
,
that
I
am
now
to
speake
of
next
;
)
yet
I
will
finde
the
disease
(
for
which
the
party
sent
it
)
out
of
it
:
nay
,
(
if
the
party
should
have
no
disease
at
all
,
but
send
his
Urine
to
see
if
he
be
not
inclining
unto
some
such
hereditary
disease
as
his
Parents
have
dyed
of
,
or
beene
subject
unto
,
as
the
Gout
,
Stone
,
Consumption
or
the
like
)
I
will
shake
it
into
the
danger
of
falling
into
the
same
,
or
some
other
disease
of
no
lesse
danger
,
for
that
they
alwayes
feare
,
and
love
to
be
warned
of
,
though
they
have
obtained
such
a
constitution
of
body
as
is
not
obnoxious
unto
their
Parents
diseases
;
and
thus
I
must
doe
,
if
an
Urine
be
sent
,
though
the
party
be
well
,
or
but
a
little
out
of
tune
,
by
reason
of
the
least
distemper
that
may
be
▪
for
there
is
no
such
constitution
of
body
,
but
that
it
hath
its
proper
infirmities
,
the
which
must
be
discerned
(
since
there
is
such
a
custome
)
by
the
Urine
;
and
I
will
find
them
out
,
and
more
than
there
are
,
by
it
,
if
once
I
come
to
lecture
upon
it
,
or
else
let
them
blame
my
judgement
;
so
then
(
I
trow
)
there
will
be
worke
for
the
Tinker
to
prevent
an
hole
in
Nature
,
where
there
was
never
like
to
be
a
breach
.
But
(
I
pray
)
may
not
this
Physick-tinker
(
who
pretending
such
knowledge
by
the
Urine
,
is
constrained
to
backe
his
pretended
knowledge
by
such
base
fallacies
)
may
not
(
I
say
)
nay
,
will
he
not
,
thinke
you
(
under
pretence
of
fortifying
that
place
where
you
feare
a
breach
)
grate
an
hole
in
another
to
let
in
diseases
,
to
make
himselfe
continuall
worke
,
the
which
(
at
last
)
will
let
out
that
precious
liquor
of
thy
life
,
that
thou
wouldst
be
loath
to
lose
?
But
I
leave
that
to
thine
owne
charity
to
judge
of
;
and
so
betake
my selfe
to
my
Study
,
to
come
forth
from
thence
in
my
gowne
and
my
cap
,
to
entertaine
the
next
Pisse-bearers
,
who
now
begin
to
come
thicke
and
threefold
;
I
must
therefore
be
gone
to
my
Study
,
from
whence
you
shall
see
me
come
forth
presently
,
and
heare
me
pronounce
true
judgement
,
upon
the
false
evidence
of
the
suborned
witnesse
(
the
Urine
)
on
the
delinquent
(
the
sicke
party
)
though
he
be
absent
,
and
not
here
to
speake
for
himselfe
.
CHAP.
VI.
After
what
manner
(
if
divers
Pisse-messengers
come
together
)
they
must
be
examined
:
How
to
shew
(
by
the
Vrine
)
the
Sexe
,
whether
a
woman
be
with
child
or
no
,
how
long
it
is
since
she
conceived
of
it
,
and
whether
she
s●all
bring
forth
a
boy
,
or
a
girle
,
although
the
Vrine
shew
none
of
all
these
.
AND
now
I
am
in
my
Study
indeed
,
and
you
thinke
(
I
suppose
)
at
my
booke
in
earnest
consultation
with
Hippocrates
,
or
Galen
,
or
some
other
learned
Physicke
Authour
;
but
,
if
I
be
looking
upon
any
booke
at
all
,
it
shall
rather
be
Gordo●ius
his
tractate
of
the
Cautions
of
Urines
,
wherein
hee
teacheth
a
Physician
,
(
though
I
thinke
his
intention
was
to
teach
him
not
to
be
deceived
by
the
Urine
)
to
deceive
the
people
by
the
same
:
otherwise
I
am
meditating
how
to
handle
every
Pisse-pot-bearer
upon
any
occasion
whatsoever
:
and
my
minde
being
now
set
more
upon
the
benefit
that
comes
to
my selfe
by
the
Pisse-pot
,
than
to
others
by
my
study
,
I
minde
my
gate
or
doore
more
than
my
booke
,
though
I
am
in
my
Study
(
where
haply
,
my
name
being
up
,
I
have
a
bed
and
am
lying
upon
it
,
and
should
have
laine
there
till
noone
,
had
I
not
been
interrupted
)
and
heare
a
great
knocking
at
my
gate
,
and
must
my selfe
(
in
my
mans
absence
)
be
faine
to
goe
see
what
the
matter
is
:
so
to
my
gate
I
trudge
,
in
all
precipitious
hast
,
with
a
quicke
pace
and
a
sharpe
looke
,
importing
greater
busines
than
to
examine
a
Pisse-pot
,
where
I
finde
three
or
foure
Pisse-messengers
at
once
,
(
with
their
Urinals
under
their
aprons
)
whom
I
usher
into
my
Hall
,
and
there
begin
(
before
I
take
them
aside
,
apart
,
to
Lecture
upon
their
waters
)
to
looke
very
sternely
upon
them
,
and
aske
them
very
hastily
,
(
to
the
end
that
I
may
dash
them
so
farre
out
of
countenance
,
that
they
may
not
be
capable
of
conceiving
whether
I
erre
or
no
in
giving
my
judgement
on
their
waters
,
and
to
make
them
the
more
ready
to
tell
me
whatsoever
I
shall
demand
of
them
)
what
they
would
with
me
,
where
they
live
,
whose
water
it
is
for
whom
they
come
,
&c.
And
they
are
all
ready
to
present
me
their
waters
,
looking
who
shall
be
dispatched
first
:
but
before
I
take
any
of
their
Urinals
of
them
,
I
sound
them
how
farre
I
shall
be
puzled
with
them
,
dispatching
them
first
,
that
I
shall
be
least
troubled
withall
.
To
the
first
therefore
I
say
,
where
live
you
?
and
she
answers
,
at
such
a
place
,
naming
it
:
I
further
aske
her
whose
water
it
is
?
and
she
saith
her
Mistresses
:
I
aske
her
also
who
is
her
Mistresse
,
to
which
she
answeres
me
very
orderly
,
and
is
now
ready
to
put
foorth
her
Urinall
unto
me
,
but
I
doe
not
yet
take
it
,
nor
I
aske
her
no
more
questions
,
for
she
will
be
ready
to
tell
me
whatsoever
I
shall
demand
:
I
come
therefore
to
a
second
,
and
aske
her
where
she
dwells
,
and
(
she
having
told
me
)
I
likewise
aske
her
whose
water
it
is
that
she
hath
brought
,
and
she
saith
a
Gentlewomans
,
who
desired
her
to
bring
it
unto
me
,
and
she
is
ready
to
give
me
her
Urinall
,
but
I
refuse
it
:
I
goe
now
to
a
third
,
and
aske
her
(
for
they
are
for
the
most
part
,
She-pisse-bearers
in
a
great
Towne
or
City
)
where
she
dwells
,
and
that
she
is
contented
to
tell
me
:
but
when
I
aske
her
whose
water
it
is
,
shee
pauseth
here
,
and
begins
to
make
a
doubt
whether
she
were
best
to
tell
me
that
,
or
no
;
and
therefore
answers
,
that
it
is
a
friends
of
hers
:
I
then
aske
her
what
friends
it
is
,
and
whether
it
be
a
mans
or
a
womans
water
;
and
she
tells
me
,
that
I
shall
perceive
that
by
the
water
,
(
thinking
that
I
can
or
ought
to
do
so
indeed
)
when
I
looke
upon
it
,
and
holds
forth
her
Urinall
unto
me
,
in
hope
that
I
will
dispatch
her
first
,
but
I
refuse
to
take
it
,
for
I
am
like
to
be
puzled
with
her
,
and
it
will
require
more
time
and
Art
to
answer
her
than
both
the
other
,
and
therefore
shee
shall
tarry
to
be
the
last
answered
for
that
tricke
.
I
now
therefore
take
the
Urinall
of
her
that
told
me
that
it
was
her
Mistresse
water
,
and
single
her
out
from
her
fellowes
,
and
bid
her
follow
me
into
another
roome
(
for
I
must
not
let
severall
messengers
heare
what
I
say
to
each
other
)
because
I
may
chance
to
stop
two
gaps
with
one
bush
,
and
to
give
the
same
answer
and
description
of
the
disease
to
them
all
three
,
(
and
indeed
one
description
will
as
well
serve
for
all
Chronicall
diseases
,
as
the
description
of
a
Fever
for
all
violent
diseases
,
as
I
have
shewed
you
)
and
then
they
would
thinke
that
I
puld
the
bush
out
of
one
gap
to
put
it
into
another
,
and
that
I
could
say
nothing
else
.
I
having
therefore
tooke
the
maid
into
another
roome
,
bid
her
come
to
the
light
,
and
as
I
am
taking
the
Urinall
out
of
the
case
(
perceiving
it
to
be
of
a
subcitrine
or
pale
colour
,
which
seeme
not
to
import
any
disease
)
I
presently
say
;
maid
,
thy
Mistresse
goes
up
and
downe
:
and
she
answers
,
yes
forsooth
;
and
imagines
no
lesse
now
,
but
that
I
perceive
the
Idea
or
shape
of
her
Mistresse
in
the
water
,
and
thinks
that
I
can
tell
any
thing
else
by
the
same
,
so
that
I
shall
not
now
need
to
trouble
my selfe
in
asking
her
any
more
questions
,
for
she
tells
me
that
her
Mistresse
goes
up
and
downe
indeed
,
and
that
I
had
said
very
right
,
and
tells
me
that
her
Mistresse
desired
that
I
would
certifie
her
whether
she
were
with
child
,
or
no
;
so
I
now
set
downe
the
Urinall
in
the
window
,
and
tell
her
that
it
must
stand
so
a
little
while
,
and
settle
,
and
then
I
will
tell
her
presently
.
In
the
meane
time
,
I
fall
to
parley
with
the
maid
,
and
aske
her
whether
her
Mistresse
have
had
any
child
or
no
,
and
how
long
(
if
she
have
)
it
is
since
she
had
one
;
and
she
saith
,
a
yeere
,
a
yeere
and
an
halfe
,
or
almost
two
yeeres
:
and
(
indeed
)
most
childing
women
goe
a
yeere
,
or
neere
upon
,
and
many
a
yeere
and
halfe
,
and
some
two
yeeres
before
they
conceive
with
child
againe
,
especially
if
they
nurse
their
children
themselves
.
I
aske
her
likewise
,
if
she
can
tell
whether
her
Mistresse
have
her
naturall
courses
monthly
or
no
,
or
when
she
had
them
;
to
which
〈◊〉
answers
,
that
her
Mistresse
bid
her
tell
me
,
that
shee
hath
not
had
them
this
tenne
weekes
,
and
therefore
tells
me
that
shee
thinks
she
is
with
child
,
but
would
desire
me
to
resolve
her
:
And
I
may
quickly
doe
it
without
any
more
looking
upon
the
water
,
for
the
tale
(
that
this
wench
hath
told
)
shewes
plainly
that
she
is
with
child
,
and
the
sodaine
stopping
of
the
courses
in
a
marryed
woman
(
that
enjoyed
them
monthly
before
)
is
the
most
certaine
token
in
the
world
,
that
I
know
,
that
a
woman
is
with
child
:
it
is
likewise
the
aptest
time
for
a
woman
to
conceive
immediatly
after
she
hath
had
them
,
neither
can
I
nor
any
other
Physician
tell
,
but
by
this
token
,
(
which
is
the
most
certaine
of
all
the
rest
)
agreeing
with
other
signes
of
conception
,
which
the
water
shewes
not
,
whether
a
woman
be
with
child
or
no
,
and
yet
for
fashion
sake
,
I
take
the
Urinall
in
my
hand
againe
,
and
fall
to
peering
into
it
(
as
though
I
looked
for
some
little
child
there
)
And
say
now
to
the
maid
that
her
Mistresse
is
not
very
well
in
her
stomach
,
I
further
say
,
that
shee
is
with
child
of
a
boy
,
and
to
say
so
,
is
an
even
lay
;
yet
,
lest
it
should
prove
false
,
CHAP.
VII
.
That
Physicians
are
often
faine
to
reckon
up
most
of
the
Symptomes
that
accompany
all
the
Chronicall
diseases
of
all
the
parts
of
the
body
(
from
head
to
heele
)
untill
they
hit
upon
that
which
the
messenger
looketh
for
,
because
the
Vrine
(
for
the
most
part
)
in
a
Chronicall
sicknesse
,
seemeth
not
to
importan●
disease
at
all
:
and
that
a
Physician
(
if
hee
give
a
false
description
of
the
disease
,
so
that
he
be
taken
up
by
the
messenger
for
the
same
)
must
make
it
good
however
.
I
Am
now
come
forth
with
the
maid
whom
I
have
dispatched
,
and
bid
the
second
messenger
follow
me
into
the
same
roome
where
I
gave
my
oracle
unto
the
maid
:
where
being
come
,
I
say
,
come
(
good
woman
)
give
me
thy
Urinall
,
and
tell
her
(
the
Urine
being
of
such
a
colour
,
as
importeth
not
an
Acute
disease
,
that
is
of
a
high
red
colour
)
that
this
Gentlewoman
walkes
up
and
downe
,
hath
a
crude
stomach
,
no
appetite
to
meate
,
and
is
(
if
she
feed
liberally
)
ill
after
it
,
and
by
reson
of
the
ill
disposition
of
her
stomach
,
is
often
pained
in
the
head
:
and
here
she
stops
me
before
I
runne
any
further
(
for
else
I
might
chance
to
reckon
up
most
of
the
Symptomes
that
accompany
Chronicall
diseases
,
till
I
hit
upon
that
which
the
messenger
looked
for
)
and
so
takes
me
off
,
and
saith
she
is
troubled
with
a
great
paine
in
the
head
indeed
,
but
doth
not
complaine
much
of
her
stomach
:
and
then
I
reply
that
the
paine
in
the
head
proceeded
from
the
stomach
and
parts
thereunto
adjoyning
,
and
that
the
stomach
is
alwayes
accessary
to
the
diseases
of
the
head
,
and
that
I
named
the
ilnesse
of
her
stomach
,
first
,
because
it
was
the
cause
of
her
disease
:
and
having
once
given
a
description
of
a
disease
I
must
be
sure
to
make
it
good
,
whether
it
be
true
or
false
;
for
if
I
had
(
for
a
description
of
a
disease
)
said
that
she
had
been
troubled
with
an
oppilation
of
the
Liver
,
and
paine
in
the
head
(
the
messenger
answering
,
no
Master
Doctour
,
shee
is
troubled
with
an
ilnesse
,
and
paine
in
the
stomach
)
I
would
have
said
,
it
is
very
true
indeed
,
and
I
should
have
told
you
so
,
had
you
not
interrupted
●he
,
but
yet
I
would
maintaine
it
very
confidently
,
that
it
came
from
the
head
(
for
the
stomach
and
head
doe
mutually
offend
each
other
)
and
what
could
shee
have
said
to
the
contrary
?
or
if
,
when
I
had
given
a
description
of
the
disease
,
she
had
said
,
Master
Doctour
,
she
is
much
as
you
have
said
,
but
doe
not
you
perceive
that
she
hath
a
very
weake
backe
?
to
which
I
answer
,
yes
marry
hath
she
(
for
else
why
should
she
aske
me
?
)
and
something
else
too
,
which
I
shall
tell
you
presently
;
and
then
I
take
the
Urine
and
looke
upon
it
and
shake
it
together
and
set
it
downe
in
the
window
to
settle
,
pretending
that
it
will
shew
me
something
else
anone
:
In
the
meane
time
I
gather
by
conference
with
the
messenger
,
whether
it
be
a
married
womans
or
a
maidens
water
,
and
the●
I
take
the
Urinall
and
say
,
(
if
it
be
a
married
womans
)
that
she
hath
a
very
weake
back
indeed
and
that
she
is
troubled
with
the
Whites
,
which
is
a
disease
that
very
many
women
are
trouble
withall
,
that
complaine
of
weake
backs
:
so
no●
I
have
made
amends
for
not
naming
it
at
the
first
amongst
the
other
Symptomes
:
and
now
she●
thinks
that
I
have
found
it
out
by
the
water
,
never
dreaming
that
I
conclude
,
that
shee
hath
weake
back
,
from
her
question
,
and
adde
,
that
she●
hath
the
Whites
,
as
a
disease
that
followes
the
weakenesse
of
backe
,
but
thinks
(
because
I
look●
in
the
water
)
that
I
find
it
there
:
but
if
this
water
chance
to
be
a
maiden-Gentlewomans
,
who●●
either
troubled
with
a
paine
or
heate
in
her
back
and
the
messenger
aske
me
if
she
be
not
troubled
with
one
of
them
,
I
presently
conjure
them
bo●●
into
the
water
(
for
they
commonly
goe
both
together
)
by
shaking
and
looking
into
it
,
as
also
〈◊〉
setting
it
downe
a
little
to
settle
,
and
taking
it
〈◊〉
againe
straight-wayes
(
for
it
is
quickly
found
)
and
then
I
say
,
that
she
hath
a
great
paine
and
heate
in
her
backe
too
,
and
(
according
to
her
ripenesse
,
and
readinesse
for
the
man
)
that
shee
would
have
the
Stone
,
or
rather
the
Stones
,
if
she
could
tell
how
to
get
them
:
I
further
adde
(
naming
the
disease
for
which
shee
hath
sent
her
water
,
though
she
ayle
nothing
save
only
that
Cupid
hath
hit
her
with
his
golden
arrow
)
that
this
Gentlewoman
wanteth
a
good
husband
,
and
that
she
dreameth
often
of
her
sweet-heart
;
&
bid
the
woman
bid
her
be
of
good
cheere
,
&
tell
her
that
her
sweet-heart
will
come
very
shortly
;
and
with
this
message
she
is
so
delighted
,
that
she
is
more
than
halfe
well
againe
,
and
thinks
to
her selfe
(
though
she
say
nothing
to
her
that
brought
me
her
Urine
)
that
I
am
a
very
cunning
man
,
and
that
I
can
as
well
tell
,
whether
she
shall
enjoy
him
whom
she
is
taken
withall
,
as
I
have
guest
by
her
yeers
&
constitution
of
body
(
but
shee
thinks
I
have
done
it
by
her
Urine
)
that
she
is
in
love
,
and
that
I
can
helpe
her
to
something
to
make
her
sweet-heart
as
farre
in
love
with
her
,
and
meanes
to
trie
me
for
some
Love
powder
,
or
some
other
devise
to
catch
her
Lover
in
a
Cleft
sticke
;
for
shee
hath
heard
of
such
tricks
,
and
some
that
have
professed
Physicke
,
have
taught
that
Art
,
and
divers
both
men
and
women
have
repaired
unto
such
Knaves
,
(
and
by
practizing
such
wicked
meanes
as
hath
beene
taught
them
)
have
obtained
their
Lovers
;
but
yet
if
she
repaire
unto
me
againe
for
this
purpose
(
though
I
have
beene
very
youthfull
in
descanting
upon
her
water
)
I
will
read
her
a
graver
Lecture
,
for
I
disclaime
such
knowledge
(
though
haply
I
know
more
than
such
a
Rogue
as
shall
practice
it
)
and
detest
such
wickednesse
at
mine
heart
.
But
now
this
long
Parenthesis
,
or
discourse
concerning
this
maiden-Gentlewoman
,
may
seeme
to
have
hindred
the
dispatch
of
the
woman
that
came
for
the
married
Gentlewoman
:
yet
if
you
doe
suppose
that
she
came
in
but
now
and
that
I
have
but
now
taken
her
to
doe
,
and
have
gathered
(
after
that
I
have
once
pronounced
a
description
of
the
disease
)
by
parly
with
her
,
that
the
Gentlewoman
is
married
,
and
such
other
circumstances
as
I
would
know
,
you
shall
not
perceive
but
that
I
presently
dispatch
her
;
taking
the
Urinall
in
my
hand
and
from
the
water
(
though
she
have
told
me
all
)
pronounce
the
disease
,
and
say
,
that
the
Gentlewoman
hath
a
very
weake
back
,
is
troubled
with
the
Whites
,
&
that
this
disease
had
hindred
(
for
you
must
conceive
that
the
woman
told
me
that
this
Gentlewoman
hath
not
had
any
child
,
this
three
or
foure
yeeres
)
her
conceiving
with
child
,
and
that
she
would
have
no
more
children
,
unlesse
she
were
freed
of
them
;
and
now
I
must
think
upon
something
(
against
she
send
)
to
cure
this
Gentlewoman
,
for
I
am
sure
she
'll
to
't
againe
for
the
t'other
boy
:
and
now
I
am
ready
for
the
third
messenger
,
that
said
shee
came
for
a
friend
of
hers
.
CHAP.
VIII
.
How
to
correct
the
perverse
disposition
of
crosse
messengers
:
and
afterwards
to
make
the
messenger
believe
that
thou
canst
conjure
,
by
shewing
the
disease
by
the
Vrinall
case
.
How
men
will
serve
their
wives
(
who
would
faine
be
rid
of
them
)
and
women
their
husbands
,
when
they
have
been
with
a
Physician
(
for
advice
)
the
one
for
the
other
.
The
notable
imposture
of
a
Butter-box
about
this
Towne
,
who
pretendeth
great
skill
(
above
other
men
)
in
giving
judgement
of
diseases
by
the
Vrine
.
I
Have
made
this
Gossip
tarrie
till
the
last
for
her
oracle
,
because
I
feared
by
her
answer
(
when
I
asked
her
whose
water
it
was
that
she
had
brought
)
that
shee
would
prove
a
crosse
peece
of
flesh
to
deale
withall
:
I
must
therefore
handle
her
gently
,
for
the
wildest
colts
are
oftner
tamed
by
gentle
meanes
,
as
by
letting
them
have
the
raines
lie
still
in
their
necks
,
and
giving
them
their
owne
play
,
than
by
curbing
them
in
too
straightly
,
or
by
labouring
to
quiet
them
by
switch
and
spurre
,
or
the
lash
:
I
therefore
suffer
this
colt
to
play
in
her
owne
halter
▪
till
shee
have
so
tired
or
hampered
her selfe
,
that
I
may
doe
what
I
will
with
her
:
I
doe
in
no
wise
handle
her
roughly
,
or
speake
harshly
unto
her
,
and
say
,
come
you
with
your
friends
water
,
and
let
me
see
it
,
and
(
when
I
have
taken
it
of
her
)
aske
her
whether
it
be
a
mans
or
a
womans
water
,
for
it
seemeth
by
her
other
answer
,
that
shee
will
not
tell
me
that
,
and
then
say
(
she
denying
to
tell
me
)
come
,
come
,
a
Pox
on
't
,
tell
me
whose
water
it
is
,
for
I
have
not
time
to
stand
peering
into
it
,
for
every
thing
that
I
must
tell
you
,
though
I
could
find
it
there
,
if
I
had
not
other
fish
to
seeth
:
and
indeed
their
foolish
peevishnesse
had
(
oftentimes
)
need
to
be
so
met
withall
,
and
some
Physicians
have
gone
that
straine
,
and
by
that
humour
have
gotten
more
fame
,
than
their
transcendent
skill
in
Physicke
or
learning
,
above
other
men
hath
deserved
:
but
I
am
not
of
that
humour
,
no
,
I
say
,
come
good
woman
(
who
stinkes
as
much
of
goodnesse
,
as
a
Poult-cat
of
muske
)
I
have
made
you
tarry
,
but
you
shall
not
altogether
lose
your
labour
;
I
pray
follow
me
;
and
so
I
conduct
her
into
my
Parlour
,
where
I
have
now
my
man
waiting
for
me
with
a
cup
of
Ale
,
with
a
Nut-browne
tost
in
it
,
or
else
a
cup
of
good
English
Beere
of
sixteene
at
the
least
,
with
Nutmeg
and
Sugar
in
it
for
my
mornings
draught
,
and
sit
me
downe
in
my
chaire
,
and
say
,
here
good
woman
I
drinks
to
you
,
and
so
fetch
off
a
bowle
of
almost
a
pinte
,
and
bid
my
man
fill
the
good
woman
a
cup
and
put
in
some
more
Nutmeg
and
Sugar
and
bid
her
to
drinke
an
hearty
draught
:
and
when
she
hath
drunke
,
I
bid
my
man
fill
me
another
cup
,
that
I
may
wash
both
mine
eyes
,
so
that
I
may
see
the
better
to
dispatch
this
woman
quickly
:
and
when
I
have
drunke
that
off
,
I
bid
my
man
fill
the
good
woman
another
cup
,
and
bid
her
mend
her
draught
,
and
tell
her
that
to
drinke
Nutmeg
and
Sugar
in
her
Beere
in
a
morning
will
make
her
water
sweet
.
And
thus
are
the
perverse
dispositions
of
crosse
messengers
better
corrected
,
than
the
malignity
of
Scammony
,
with
Anise-seed
,
Rubarbe
with
Spike
,
Agricke
and
Turbitch
,
with
Sal-gemme
,
Ginger
,
or
Galingall
,
Senna
,
with
Ginger
,
or
Cinamon
,
blacke
Hellebore
with
Masticke
,
or
Cinamon
,
or
La●is
Armenius
,
with
twenty
times
washing
in
Rose-water
:
but
now
to
returne
to
the
matter
,
I
have
washed
away
all
the
ill
quality
of
this
womans
nature
with
the
cuppe
of
Beere
that
I
gave
her
,
and
wrought
her
to
so
good
a
temper
with
my
loving
speeches
,
that
I
need
not
feare
,
but
that
she
will
tell
me
any
thing
that
I
shall
aske
her
:
however
I
have
now
drunke
my
mornings
draught
and
shall
be
able
to
see
the
clearer
,
if
I
must
find
it
all
out
of
the
water
,
that
I
must
shew
.
I
therefore
now
say
,
come
good
woman
(
it
is
a
great
chance
but
that
I
lie
;
)
how
long
hath
your
friend
beene
sicke
?
and
shee
cannot
answer
me
to
this
question
without
shewing
me
the
sexe
,
(
that
is
,
whether
it
be
a
mans
or
a
womans
water
)
for
the
party
is
not
sicke
;
for
then
she
might
answer
me
directly
without
giving
me
any
knowledge
thereof
,
and
might
say
,
a
weeke
,
a
forthnight
,
or
more
,
or
lesse
,
but
she
must
needs
say
,
He
,
or
She
(
but
yet
she
will
scarce
remember
that
she
said
,
He
or
She
,
anone
when
I
shall
shew
my
skill
upon
the
water
,
and
determine
the
Sexe
)
hath
not
beene
very
well
a
good
while
,
and
so
offers
me
her
Urinall
with
the
water
in
it
,
as
it
is
in
the
Case
,
but
I
refuse
to
take
it
,
and
say
unto
her
as
followeth
.
Good
woman
,
because
I
have
made
you
to
stay
so
long
,
I
will
shew
you
your
friends
disease
by
the
Urinall
Case
,
and
never
looke
upon
the
water
at
all
:
give
me
therefore
the
Urinall
Case
,
and
do
you
keepe
the
water
to
your selfe
,
so
that
I
doe
not
see
it
at
all
,
and
yet
I
will
tell
you
your
friends
disease
,
as
well
as
he
that
should
pore
and
peepe
,
or
gaze
into
the
water
this
month
:
and
now
the
woman
thinkes
that
I
can
surely
conjure
.
I
now
therefore
take
the
Urinall
Case
of
her
,
and
looke
as
wistly
upon
it
,
as
if
it
were
the
Urinall
with
the
water
in
it
,
and
presently
pronounce
(
looking
upon
the
Case
,
)
That
this
party
goes
up
and
downe
,
is
not
heart-sicke
,
but
is
faint
in
the
body
,
hath
but
a
bad
stomach
,
doth
linger
and
pine
as
it
were
,
is
joylesse
and
melancholike
and
takes
no
pleasure
in
any
thing
,
which
shall
be
the
description
of
this
disease
:
and
now
the
woman
she
wonders
to
heare
me
say
,
by
looking
only
upon
the
Urinall
Case
,
that
the
party
is
so
affected
,
as
I
have
said
;
and
yet
it
is
true
,
that
the
party
is
so
affected
,
&
it
is
as
true
that
the
Urinall
Case
doth
shew
it
as
certainly
as
the
Urine
it selfe
.
For
the
water
might
be
of
such
a
laudable
colour
and
consistence
as
might
seeme
not
to
import
any
disease
at
all
,
and
yet
the
partie
might
be
sick
unto
death
:
It
might
likewise
be
of
such
a
colour
and
consistence
as
might
seem
to
import
a
violent
disease
when
the
partie
is
not
sicke
at
all
:
I
wish
therefore
that
any
Physician
would
set
pen
to
paper
to
disprove
me
,
or
to
shew
that
there
is
any
certaine
judgement
of
any
disease
,
by
the
water
;
and
yet
forsooth
this
base
custome
,
of
divining
by
it
,
must
be
continued
:
But
how
then
,
will
you
say
,
can
a
Physician
conclude
,
that
a
partie
is
thus
or
thus
affected
,
from
it
?
Why
thus
you
may
doe
it
:
namely
,
by
putting
a
question
;
For
(
as
Fernelius
saith
)
Interrogatiuncula
cautè
praemittenda
quampridem
morbus
invasit
:
A
question
is
to
be
propounded
(
craftily
)
to
the
messenger
(
as
I
have
done
to
this
woman
)
how
long
the
partie
hath
beene
sicke
:
Then
pronounce
a
description
of
the
disease
,
and
fall
to
parly
with
the
messenger
,
and
thou
shalt
quickly
find
what
the
disease
is
;
for
the
same
Author
saith
,
Verborum
circuitu
stultorum
mens
facile
irretitur
,
by
exchange
of
words
the
foole
messenger
is
soone
caught
:
And
thus
have
I
caught
this
woman
,
whom
(
though
she
be
an
old
bird
)
I
have
caught
with
chaffe
;
for
I
asked
her
,
before
I
tooke
the
Urinall
case
of
her
(
by
which
I
have
undertaken
to
divine
)
how
long
her
friend
had
been
sicke
,
and
she
answered
mee
,
that
he
(
but
hath
forgot
that
she
said
he
)
had
not
been
very
well
a
good
while
,
from
which
answer
I
shall
shew
both
the
sexe
and
the
disease
;
for
this
word
(
He
)
sheweth
me
the
sexe
,
and
these
words
,
Hath
not
beene
very
well
a
good
while
,
shew
me
that
it
is
a
Chronicall
disease
,
and
how
the
partie
is
affected
:
The
latter
part
of
her
answer
,
namely
,
A
good
while
,
shew
that
it
is
a
Chronicall
disease
;
and
the
former
part
of
the
words
,
namely
,
Hath
not
been
very
well
,
doe
implie
that
the
partie
lyeth
not
by
it
,
and
that
therefore
he
goeth
up
and
downe
,
hath
no
appetite
to
meat
,
is
faint
in
his
body
,
doth
linger
and
pine
as
it
were
,
is
joylesse
and
melancholicke
,
and
takes
no
pleasure
in
any
thing
(
as
I
told
her
before
)
and
so
are
all
they
that
have
not
beene
very
well
a
good
while
:
But
the
woman
never
dreames
that
I
gather
all
this
from
her
answer
,
because
I
looke
upon
the
Urinall-case
,
but
rather
thinke
that
the
Urinall
infected
the
case
,
or
else
that
I
can
conjure
:
But
let
her
thinke
what
she
will
,
so
that
I
conserve
that
fame
which
I
have
got
in
the
Pisse-pot
Science
,
I
care
not
:
Yet
this
I
am
sure
,
that
she
will
thinke
never
the
worse
of
mee
for
being
a
conjurer
.
Imagine
with
me
,
that
shee
came
but
now
in
,
and
that
(
after
my
courteous
entertainment
of
her
)
I
have
but
now
taken
the
Urinall
case
of
her
,
asked
how
long
her
friend
hath
been
●●cke
,
and
received
her
answer
,
but
that
I
presently
pronounce
the
same
description
of
her
friends
disease
that
I
have
already
shewed
you
;
at
which
shee
wonders
not
a
little
;
but
I
shall
make
her
wonder
more
anon
:
And
now
I
adde
,
that
it
is
a
mans
water
,
to
which
she
answers
,
that
it
is
indeed
.
I
further
aske
her
how
old
the
partie
is
,
and
according
to
her
answer
,
as
the
parties
age
shall
agree
with
hers
,
I
say
that
it
is
her
husbands
,
at
which
she
mervailes
more
than
at
all
the
rest
,
and
saith
that
it
is
indeed
:
And
now
she
is
ready
to
put
finger
in
the
eye
,
and
askes
me
if
he
be
not
in
a
Consumption
,
and
tells
mee
(
for
I
did
not
name
it
)
that
he
hath
a
very
great
cough
:
Shee
askes
me
likewise
if
I
doe
not
perceive
it
;
and
I
answer
,
yes
I
doe
perceive
it
,
or
else
befoole
mee
while
you
will
,
and
I
will
never
be
angry
:
And
then
I
tell
her
that
this
cough
proceeded
from
his
ill
stomach
(
which
I
had
named
)
that
sent
a
theume
unto
his
head
,
which
distilled
down
from
thence
upon
his
lungs
and
caused
the
same
.
I
now
come
neerer
to
the
matter
,
and
tell
her
that
her
husband
is
inclining
(
and
perhaps
further
entred
than
ever
I
shall
be
able
to
recover
him
)
into
a
Consumption
:
But
yet
I
tell
her
that
I
hope
he
may
be
recovered
as
yet
,
and
that
I
will
use
the
best
meanes
▪
that
may
be
,
to
restore
him
:
I
also
aske
her
why
she
so
long
deferred
comming
to
a
Physician
,
and
shee
saith
,
that
her
husband
had
thought
to
have
worne
it
out
,
as
they
all
think
to
doe
:
I
now
tell
her
that
I
feare
there
will
bee
some
danger
,
yet
I
will
doe
what
can
be
done
on
my
behalfe
,
and
that
shee
must
now
deferre
no
longer
time
,
if
she
love
her
husbands
life
:
And
now
if
she
be
not
provided
of
another
husband
already
,
and
so
come
more
to
know
how
long
she
shall
be
troubled
with
him
,
and
to
excuse
her
selfe
(
if
he
should
chance
to
dye
)
than
for
any
thing
to
cure
him
,
I
must
bethinke
my selfe
of
some
Aurum
potabile
,
some
Liquor
of
life
of
a
great
price
,
some
Consumption
pouder
of
twenty
or
thirty
shillings
an
ounce
,
or
some
such
receipt
which
no
body
hath
but
my selfe
)
than
the
which
non
datur
majus
secretum
,
there
is
not
a
greater
secret
in
the
world
:
And
now
if
I
recover
the
man
,
he
will
think
his
purse
to
be
in
a
Consumption
,
but
I
cannot
cure
it
there
.
But
if
this
woman
would
have
him
dye
,
she
'l
goe
home
and
tell
him
that
he
is
in
a
Consumption
indeed
,
and
will
scarce
recover
:
So
now
whereas
he
went
up
and
downe
before
,
walked
abroad
,
and
was
sicke
but
a
little
in
jest
,
he
feeles
himselfe
iller
already
with
this
message
,
and
meanes
to
dye
in
good
earnest
;
and
so
betakes
himselfe
to
his
chamber
,
with
a
resolution
to
save
his
purse
,
out
of
which
hee
never
comes
till
he
be
brought
with
his
heels
forward
:
And
thus
was
I
cruelly
haunted
(
at
Canterbury
)
by
a
man
to
put
him
in
comfort
of
his
wives
more
sodaine
departure
than
God
had
decreed
,
but
she
is
yet
living
,
and
(
for
ought
that
I
know
)
may
live
to
eate
of
that
Goose
that
may
graze
upon
his
Grave
.
I
dare
say
that
women
come
not
short
of
that
man
▪
yet
I
did
never
perceive
that
any
woman
ever
brought
me
her
husbands
Urine
for
that
purpose
;
I
will
not
therefore
belye
them
,
to
make
them
worse
than
they
are
,
for
they
are
(
God
amend
them
)
bad
enough
of
themselves
already
.
I
have
therefore
done
with
this
woman
(
for
I
suspect
,
for
all
her
fained
teares
,
that
she
came
to
to
that
purpose
)
and
have
given
her
her
errand
,
and
sent
her
away
,
and
she
(
by
this
time
)
hath
given
her
husband
his
errand
,
and
sent
him
the
way
of
all
flesh
,
(
who
had
he
not
trusted
to
his
wife
,
and
relied
upon
the
sending
of
his
Pisse
in
stead
of
sending
for
my selfe
or
some
other
learned
Physician
)
might
have
been
a
live
man
and
have
lived
many
a
faire
yeere
:
But
you
see
what
is
become
of
him
,
and
(
I
hope
)
conceive
what
danger
you
put
your
lives
in
that
adventure
to
take
Physicke
prescribed
by
the
sight
of
the
Urine
onely
:
I
hope
likewise
that
you
conceive
by
these
few
instances
that
I
have
already
set
downe
,
how
a
Physician
(
if
I
may
so
call
him
that
useth
such
base
fallacies
to
backe
his
pretended
knowledge
)
may
give
judgement
of
Urines
both
in
Acute
and
Violent
,
or
Chronicall
and
lingring
diseases
,
and
how
handsomely
your
Pisse-messengers
are
fob'd
over
:
for
I
protest
before
God
,
that
by
these
fallacies
,
this
deceitfull
jugling
,
and
farre
worse
shifts
than
any
I
have
here
set
downe
,
hath
this
base
custome
of
giving
judgement
of
diseases
by
the
sight
of
the
Urine
,
beene
underpropped
and
supported
,
or
else
it
had
long
agoe
been
abrogated
,
and
fallen
to
the
ground
:
For
there
is
no
knowledge
of
any
disease
to
be
gathered
by
the
Urine
,
sufficient
to
guide
a
Physician
in
the
prescribing
of
medicines
to
cure
the
same
:
(
And
yet
(
forsooth
)
such
a
base
custome
hath
beene
upholden
by
most
of
our
best
Physicians
,
that
(
you
bringing
us
your
Pisse
)
we
must
tell
you
(
though
we
do
it
meerly
by
such
fallacies
as
I
have
shewed
you
,
or
the
like
)
what
is
the
disease
by
it
,
and
whether
it
be
a
mans
or
a
womans
water
;
as
also
,
if
it
be
the
water
of
a
woman-kinde
,
whether
it
be
a
married
womans
or
a
Maidens
;
and
,
if
a
married
womans
,
whether
she
be
with
childe
or
no
;
and
,
if
with
child
,
whether
she
shall
bring
forth
a
boy
or
a
girle
,
and
when
she
conceived
of
it
;
and
(
I
think
too
)
whether
she
shall
bring
forth
a
man
or
a
monster
:
I
can
tell
you
one
thing
more
(
as
well
as
any
man
in
the
world
can
tell
you
any
of
these
that
I
have
named
)
by
the
water
,
if
you
bee
as
much
desirous
to
know
,
as
you
are
farre
to
seeke
sometimes
,
and
that
is
this
,
namely
who
begot
this
child
,
whether
your
owne
husband
or
what
other
man
.
But
if
women
did
beleeve
as
much
(
which
they
may
as
well
as
any
of
the
other
)
we
should
as
often
have
halfe
a
piece
,
for
being
sent
for
to
the
women
kinde
,
as
have
halfe
a
shilling
sent
us
for
casting
their
water
.
Nay
the
Maid
(
that
I
spoke
of
)
may
chance
to
be
but
a
crackt
vessell
and
a
supposed
Virgin
,
and
hath
been
toying
with
some
fellow
or
other
,
so
farre
that
she
knew
not
how
to
backe
his
putting
forward
,
but
hath
(
she
thinkes
but
in
jest
)
taken
such
earnest
for
her
Virginitie
,
as
hath
confirmed
the
sale
of
her
chastitie
:
Upon
consideration
whereof
,
shee
now
begins
to
grow
male-content
,
is
queasie
stomached
,
troubled
with
a
paine
and
swelling
in
her
belly
,
and
her
ancles
are
swolne
towards
night
;
for
which
cause
,
her
friends
feare
the
Dropsie
,
or
some
ill
disease
,
and
so
send
their
Daughters
water
to
a
Doctour
to
cast
,
to
know
what
she
ayleth
;
and
if
they
have
any
jealousie
of
their
Daughter
,
that
she
hath
plaid
at
fast
and
loose
,
and
plaid
loose
when
she
should
have
kept
fast
,
they
thinke
that
a
Doctour
can
tell
how
the
knot
slipt
,
and
easily
resolve
them
of
that
doubt
:
But
if
we
suspect
and
conceive
it
to
be
so
indeed
by
the
tale
of
the
messenger
that
brings
this
water
,
yet
wee
dare
not
say
that
this
Maid
is
with
childe
,
for
wee
know
not
the
trouble
and
stirre
that
might
come
of
it
;
but
happily
we
say
,
Is
this
a
Maids
water
?
and
then
we
say
(
if
it
be
)
that
she
hath
a
Tympanie
(
which
is
a
Dropsie
as
her
Parents
feared
)
meaning
with
two
legges
,
which
proves
too
true
,
and
makes
the
messenger
to
call
to
minde
(
when
this
Tympanie
hath
more
plainly
discovered
it selfe
)
that
the
Doctour
asked
her
if
this
were
a
Maids
water
;
and
then
they
surely
thinke
that
we
could
tell
by
the
water
;
but
yet
we
can
tell
no
otherwise
,
than
as
I
have
shewed
you
before
in
giving
judgement
of
womens
Urines
,
and
how
we
judge
them
to
be
with
childe
by
their
water
;
the
which
,
women
themselves
might
doe
(
if
they
would
apply
their
hearts
unto
that
wisedome
that
most
properly
concerned
them
)
by
conferring
with
discreet
women
,
or
Midwives
,
who
(
if
they
could
not
better
tell
by
that
secret
examination
of
their
bodies
which
they
might
make
,
and
by
other
observations
,
whether
a
women
were
with
child
or
no
,
than
any
Physician
can
doe
by
the
Urine
,
)
were
not
worthy
to
exercise
that
function
;
So
they
should
not
need
to
trouble
a
Physician
(
for
that
matter
)
but
that
they
love
rather
to
be
tampering
with
a
man
than
with
their
owne
sexe
,
and
so
might
save
that
groat
(
sent
for
casting
their
water
to
know
whether
they
be
with
childe
or
〈◊〉
)
to
buy
them
a
pound
of
Sope
to
make
their
Limon
white
:
But
the
woman
is
,
so
addicted
to
the
man
,
that
Midwives
(
I
thinke
)
ere
long
will
be
quite
out
of
request
,
so
that
if
some
more
of
us
Physicians
(
who
are
the
most
proper
and
handsome
handed
men
amongst
us
)
doe
not
tur●●
women-deliverers
,
our
brothers
will
be
ouer-wrought
;
Sed
〈…〉
targere
:
But
I
will
not
now
rub
any
more
upon
this
sore
,
for
I
have
not
now
time
to
search
it
to
the
bottome
,
and
therefore
I
will
let
it
a
one
untill
I
may
chance
to
ranke
it
with
the
other
monopolized
secrets
of
the
met
hodicall
Abusers
of
the
noble
Profession
of
Physicke
.
And
thus
have
I
shewed
the
fallacies
and
knavery
(
of
all
those
,
whether
Physicians
or
Quacks
and
Empiricks
;
who
pretend
knowledge
of
diseases
by
the
same
)
used
in
the
giving
judgement
of
an
Urine
:
The
which
I
have
so
plainly
shewed
that
the
most
ignorant
people
may
perceive
how
finely
they
are
flamm'd
over
,
when
they
send
their
Pisse
to
a
Doctour
to
cast
,
and
may
collect
(
for
it
is
very
true
)
that
there
is
no
certaine
knowledge
of
any
disease
to
be
gathered
from
the
Urine
;
but
yet
the
nature
of
men
is
such
that
(
being
setled
in
an
opinion
,
though
grounded
meerly
upon
errours
and
〈◊〉
they
will
hardly
be
bearen
from
it
by
sound
arguments
and
solid
reasons
and
will
rather
imbrace
and
maintain
falsehood
(
instead
of
truth
)
than
be
thought
so
weake
as
to
have
beene
possibly
deluded
:
I
know
for
certaine
that
it
will
hardly
sinke
into
many
of
your
heads
,
which
I
have
written
;
because
many
Physicians
,
some
Divines
,
and
other
silenced
Ministers
who
have
turned
Physicians
(
whose
tender
consciences
would
not
serve
them
to
subscribe
to
the
decent
ceremonies
of
the
Church
)
have
practized
these
base
fallacies
,
in
giving
judgment
of
Waters
being
brought
unto
them
:
But
(
I
hope
)
some
of
their
waters
will
bee
better
looked
into
,
than
to
be
suffered
to
exercise
two
callings
of
such
weight
as
are
Divinitie
and
Physicke
:
And
(
for
mine
owne
part
)
scare
not
though
I
be
censured
for
going
about
to
overthrow
this
custome
of
giving
judgment
of
diseases
by
the
Urine
,
the
which
I
know
I
shall
be
;
for
I
have
already
ejaculated
something
to
this
purpose
,
and
I
finde
men
so
prepossessed
with
an
opinion
that
the
Urine
is
sufficient
to
shew
a
Physician
the
disease
,
sexe
,
and
conception
,
and
the
like
,
so
that
very
mechanicks
tell
me
that
they
have
sent
their
waters
unto
such
and
such
Doctours
,
who
have
thereby
told
them
their
diseases
directly
:
I
(
saith
one
)
have
sent
my
Wives
water
by
my
Maid
(
who
is
a
cunning
wench
,
and
would
not
be
deceived
)
to
a
young
Dutch
man
a
Doctour
,
who
(
they
say
)
is
the
most
expert
man
,
for
his
judgment
in
waters
,
in
all
the
Towne
;
and
he
hath
told
the
Maid
(
by
the
water
)
how
her
Mistresse
hath
beene
affected
in
every
respect
,
and
that
she
was
with
childe
,
which
proved
true
.
To
which
I
answer
,
that
if
the
Maid
had
no
more
wit
than
her
Master
,
I
could
as
easily
cozen
her
as
the
Dutch-man
did
;
and
I
doe
further
affirme
that
the
Dutch-man
is
an
Asse
,
the
French-man
a
Foole
,
and
the
English-man
a
Knave
,
who
pretendeth
knowledge
of
diseases
by
the
Urine
.
I
have
likewise
had
some
conference
with
some
of
better
breeding
,
and
more
knowing
men
,
who
(
because
they
have
been
thus
deluded
by
their
Physicians
)
doe
likewise
beleeve
that
the
Urine
doth
shew
the
disease
sufficiently
of
it self
:
And
(
to
this
purpose
)
saith
one
,
I
have
sent
my
water
unto
such
a
Doctour
with
a
Latine
Epistle
of
two
or
three
lines
(
not
writing
how
I
was
in
any
kind
affected
)
and
he
hath
returned
me
an
answer
in
very
terse
Latine
,
and
shewed
me
truely
how
I
was
affected
,
and
what
was
the
cause
of
my
disease
;
and
therefore
certainly
(
saith
hee
)
the
Urine
doth
shew
the
disease
:
To
whom
I
answer
,
that
he
could
pen
no
Epistle
(
though
he
doe
not
write
therein
how
he
is
affected
)
from
whence
a
Physician
cannot
collect
something
which
shewes
how
hee
is
affected
,
more
than
the
Vrine
:
and
yet
when
hee
returnes
his
answer
,
hee
will
therein
implie
that
hee
perceiveth
it
by
the
Urine
.
For
examples
sake
I
have
here
framed
an
Epistle
from
this
Academian
;
〈…〉
in
such
terse
Latine
as
hee
wrote
)
unto
his
Physician
,
for
his
judgement
of
his
disease
by
his
Vrine
:
I
have
likewise
set
downe
the
Physicians
Oracle
or
answer
in
some
of
the
very
same
words
which
this
Gentleman
said
,
that
his
Doctour
wrote
unto
him
:
From
whence
you
shall
perceive
that
there
is
nothing
but
fallacie
in
giving
judgement
of
diseases
by
the
Urine
onely
.
CHAP.
IX
.
That
the
〈◊〉
Clerks
are
not
the
〈…〉
and
〈…〉
long
judgement
of
diseases
(
by
the
Vrine
)
〈…〉
,
or
meere
jugling
.
VRinam
hanc
nostram
(
egregie
Domine
Doctor
)
morborum
quam
vocant
indicem
,
per
hunc
bafulum
cum
hisce
meis
literis
,
inspic●endam
ad
te
misi
.
Quid
mali
m●natur
,
vel
quodram
morbi
genus
significare
videtur
,
ex
tuis
literis
rescriptis
scire
gest●●
:
Inspice
igitur
,
&
rescribe
sententiam
tuam
tantum
quae
sit
,
de
urina
,
quem
morbum
indicat
presentem
,
vel
futurum
prognosticat
:
Déque
cura
ejus
,
&
consilij
genere
quod
erit
ei
accommodatissimum
,
sum
post
hac
consulturus
quum
te
certiorem
fecerim
(
ex
ore
meo
)
quid
mali
,
potissimum
affligit
,
&
,
quae
sit
ejus
causa
(
si
forte
caelarae
eam
Vrina
)
ostenderim
:
Vale
interim
,
&
ut
valeas
cura
,
ut
&
me
valere
facias
,
&
valentem
conserves
.
Amicus
tuus
tui
amantissimus
.
R.
K.
Englished
thus
.
WOrthy
Master
Doctour
,
I
have
sent
you
by
this
bearer
,
with
these
my
Letters
,
my
water
to
view
,
which
men
call
the
discovere●
of
diseases
:
I
desire
to
understand
by
your
letters
,
what
evill
it
threatens
,
and
what
kind
of
disease
it
seemeth
to
betoken
:
view
it
therefore
;
and
returne
me
your
opinion
of
it
in
writing●
and
what
present
infirmity
or
imminent
danger
it
doth
foretell
:
as
for
the
cure
of
it
,
I
shall
take
your
advice
;
concerning
that
counsell
which
shall
be
most
convenient
for
it
,
when
I
have
certified
you
(
from
mine
owne
mouth
)
what
malady
most
afflicts
me
,
and
have
shewd
you
(
if
my
Urine
should
conceale
it
)
what
is
the
cause
of
it
.
In
the
meane
time
have
a
care
of
your
owne
wel
-
〈◊〉
,
that
you
may
make
me
well
,
and
preserve
my
welfare
also
.
And
so
fare-you-well
.
Your
most
loving
friend
,
R.
K.
I
confesse
that
this
Epistle
doth
give
a
Physician
very
little
light
of
the
disease
,
towards
the
pronouncing
judgement
of
the
same
,
yet
not
so
little
as
the
Urine
.
I
can
draw
no
conclusion
from
the
words
thereof
,
because
I
penned
them
my selfe
.
But
from
the
circumstance
of
the
words
I
gather
these
particulars
.
First
that
there
was
acquaintance
betweene
you
and
your
Doctour
,
and
that
thereby
he
knew
the
complexion
and
constitution
of
your
body
,
which
conferred
much
to
the
giving
judgement
of
your
Urine
:
otherwise
(
if
there
had
beene
no
acquaintance
betweene
you
)
you
would
not
have
written
unto
him
so
familiarly
;
secondly
,
you
did
but
leviter
●●rotare
,
were
but
a
little
sickish
or
ill
at
ease
;
or
else
you
would
not
have
beene
able
to
have
written
your selfe
for
in
a
Violent
disease
(
for
the
most
part
)
men
are
in
two
or
three
dayes
so
debilitated
in
their
bodyes
,
and
disturbed
in
their
senses
,
that
they
cannot
write
:
Thirdly
,
from
the
Urine
ariseth
this
circumstance
,
that
(
as
the
water
seemed
not
to
import
a
violent
disease
)
it
did
not
seeme
to
import
any
disease
at
all
,
save
onely
that
it
was
sent
with
your
letters
,
to
witnesse
that
you
were
not
well
.
Fourthly
,
I
presume
,
that
the
messenger
,
whom
you
sent
with
your
Pisse
,
could
tell
your
Doctour
(
for
I
am
sure
he
would
demand
that
)
that
you
walked
up
and
downe
,
but
were
not
very
well
:
all
which
circumstances
being
well
considered
and
layd
together
,
were
light
enough
for
your
Physician
to
shew
how
you
were
affected
.
I
doubt
not
,
but
that
your
Doctour
knew
well
how
to
make
use
of
all
such
advantages
,
for
else
hee
would
have
beene
as
lightly
esteemed
of
all
men
,
as
you
would
have
esteemed
him
,
if
hee
had
not
told
you
(
as
you
thinke
)
your
disease
by
your
water
.
I
will
now
pen
his
answer
unto
your
letters
,
and
then
I
will
shew
you
the
fallacies
of
them
;
wherein
you
shall
perceive
,
that
the
learnedst
Clerks
are
not
the
wisest
men
,
nor
the
craftiest
Pisse-prophets
so
honest
as
they
should
be
.
DIfficilis
admodùm
(
Domine
doctissime
)
morborum
,
ex
Vrinae
solius
inspectione
,
cognitio
&
investigatio
:
Quae
verò
inde
noverim
,
ut
me
velis
reforibere
,
ea
recenseo
laboras
(
ut
opinor
)
a
pituit
â
è
stomacho
in
caput
elevatâ
,
&
rursus
è
capite
in
subjacentes
partes
distillante
:
quam
verò
partem
opprimit
,
quamque
viam
affectat
nescio
:
At
m●hi
suspicio
orta
est
,
ventriculum
eandem
praecipuè
tenere
,
&
nauseam
tibi
cum
sibi
fastidio
adesse
,
unde
nec
cibum
appetis
nec
estum
digeris
:
Li●n
praeterea
,
prae
stomachi
impuritate
,
vitio
inquinatur
,
&
inde
cor
tetro
vapore
feritur
&
caput
:
unde
tristaris
,
&
somni
ca●entia
,
vel
saltem
tibi
adsunt
somni
turbulenti
.
Venter
cum
hypochondrijs
flatibus
cruciatur
.
Videris
etiam
aliquantulum
febricitare
.
Si
quid
omisi
quod
ex
Vrinâ
noverim
,
vel
quod
eadem
non
indicaverit
,
fac
me
ut
sciam
,
&
id
tibi
consilij
genus
(
quod
,
ad
morbum
profligandum
&
ad
pristinam
sanitatem
inducèndam
erit
aptissimum
)
suppedit
avero
.
Vale
,
&
ut
valeas
curo
&
cupio
.
Sanitatis
tuae
studiosissimus
.
H.
C.
Englished
thus
.
THE
discerning
and
finding-out
(
most
learned
Sir
)
of
diseases
,
by
the
sight
of
the
Urine
only
,
is
a
matter
of
great
difficulty
:
yet
(
as
you
desire
me
)
I
have
written
unto
you
what
I
discerne
by
your
Urine
.
You
are
(
as
I
conceive
)
troubled
with
Rhume
arising
from
your
stomach
unto
your
head
,
and
from
thence
,
distilling
againe
upon
the
lower
parts
:
but
what
part
it
most
oppresseth
,
or
what
place
it
affects
,
I
cannot
well
tell
;
yet
I
have
great
suspition
that
it
chiefly
possesseth
your
stomach
,
and
that
your
stomach
is
nauseous
and
Ioaths
your
meat
,
insomuch
that
you
neither
desire
meat
nor
can
digest
it
when
you
have
eaten
it
.
Furthermore
,
your
Spleen
is
ill
affected
by
reason
of
the
impurity
of
your
stomach
;
whereupon
your
heart
and
head
are
assaulted
with
a
tetrous
vapour
,
so
that
you
are
melancholicke
,
and
cannot
take
your
rest
,
or
at
least
have
very
troublesome
sleeps
:
your
belly
and
hypochondres
are
oppressed
with
wind
:
you
seeme
also
to
be
somewhat
feverish
.
If
I
have
omitted
any
thing
that
I
discerne
by
your
Urine
,
or
that
your
Urine
doth
not
shew
,
let
me
but
know
it
,
and
I
will
supply
you
with
that
advice
which
shall
be
most
convenient
to
profligate
your
disease
,
and
to
reduce
you
to
your
former
health
.
I
desire
and
study
your
wel-fare
,
so
fare-well
.
The
most
earnest
Wisher
of
your
health
.
H.
C.
This
Epistle
(
Master
Doctour
)
hath
pleased
your
Patient
,
and
you
thereby
have
purchased
a
great
deale
of
honour
:
your
Latine
he
understands
well
enough
,
but
the
implied
sense
and
meaning
thereof
he
is
not
aware
of
,
because
he
is
not
acquainted
with
the
mystery
of
giving
judgement
of
a
Pisse-pot
:
I
will
therefore
be
so
bold
as
to
comment
upon
your
Epistle
,
the
better
to
helpe
his
understanding
,
and
then
I
leave
him
to
his
owne
Genius
to
retaine
or
reject
his
old
opinion
concerning
judgement
of
diseases
by
the
sight
of
the
Urine
.
And
now
(
Master
Doctour
for
your
Epistle
)
you
begin
it
thus
,
first
you
write
,
That
the
discerning
and
finding
out
of
diseases
by
the
sight
of
the
Urine
onely
,
is
a
very
difficult
matter
.
It
is
very
true
,
Master
Doctour
,
that
you
have
said
;
it
is
a
very
difficult
matter
(
indeed
)
to
finde
out
diseases
by
the
sight
of
the
Urine
onely
,
but
these
your
words
implie
that
it
may
be
done
,
and
that
you
your selfe
have
arrived
at
the
Haven
of
this
knowledge
,
and
that
most
other
men
have
come
farre
short
of
it
.
Herein
,
Master
Doctour
,
that
which
you
implie
is
meerely
false
;
for
neither
Hippocrates
nor
Galen
,
nor
your selfe
(
who
think
not
your selfe
inferiour
unto
them
)
did
ever
attaine
unto
this
knowledge
:
but
however
you
will
not
be
ashamed
to
assume
and
arrogate
it
unto
your selfe
(
because
it
is
put
upon
you
,
and
you
can
make
a
shift
to
delude
such
Novices
,
)
and
to
derogate
what
you
can
from
other
men
:
and
this
is
very
common
to
you
with
most
other
men
of
our
Profession
.
If
you
had
written
thus
to
your
Patient
(
Sir
it
is
impossible
to
give
true
judgement
of
diseases
by
the
sight
of
the
Urine
only
,
which
is
but
one
of
the
many
signes
which
together
,
with
the
knowledge
of
divers
other
Symptoms
(
which
the
Urine
sheweth
not
,
do
determine
the
disease
)
you
had
said
but
truth
,
and
shewed
your selfe
to
have
beene
an
honest
man
.
But
hang
honesty
,
what
care
you
for
it
?
so
that
you
carry
the
matter
so
faire
,
that
you
be
not
caught
in
your
knavery
.
You
thinke
,
that
if
you
had
written
so
to
your
Patient
,
hee
would
have
suspected
your
skill
,
and
therefore
you
will
rather
smother
the
truth
to
maintaine
this
your
pretended
skill
(
though
you
be
conscious
to
your selfe
that
you
are
a
Knave
for
your
labour
)
than
you
will
have
your
skill
questioned
,
though
you
have
spoken
truth
,
and
therein
plaid
the
part
of
an
honest
man
:
for
then
you
thinke
you
should
likewise
lose
your
Patient
.
Secondly
,
you
say
,
That
you
have
according
to
your
Patients
desire
,
written
unto
him
what
you
descerne
by
his
Urine
.
To
which
I
answer
,
that
if
the
Urine
shew
you
any
thing
,
which
I
question
much
in
such
a
case
,
you
write
a
great
deale
more
than
you
perceive
in
the
water
,
and
that
(
if
you
will
be
an
honest
man
)
you
must
often
frustrate
the
desire
and
expectation
of
your
Patients
,
which
you
may
doe
,
and
yet
give
them
content
too
,
if
you
carry
the
matter
discreetly
.
Thirdly
,
Master
Doctour
,
you
write
,
That
your
Patient
(
as
you
conceive
)
is
troubled
with
Rhume
arising
from
the
stomach
unto
the
head
,
and
from
thence
distilling
againe
upon
the
lower
parts
;
but
what
part
it
most
oppresseth
,
or
what
place
it
affecteth
,
(
which
is
most
true
,
but
yet
there
will
be
no
notice
taken
of
these
words
)
you
know
not
.
I
answer
unto
this
,
that
you
doe
not
(
from
the
water
)
gather
this
,
but
from
his
complexion
and
constitution
of
body
which
you
know
and
are
acquainted
withall
:
for
neither
doth
any
Urine
so
certainely
betoken
either
Phlegme
,
Rhume
,
Choler
,
or
Melancholy
,
but
that
(
by
reason
of
the
divers
variations
that
it
is
subject
unto
)
it
may
(
falsly
)
pretend
any
of
these
humours
to
be
predominant
,
and
so
be
farre
distant
from
the
conjecturall
and
probable
Canons
of
the
Pisse-pot-science
:
but
admit
,
Master
Doctour
,
that
this
Urine
had
beene
brought
you
from
a
Stranger
,
whose
constitution
you
had
not
known
,
I
presume
that
you
would
have
enquired
very
narrowly
what
constitution
of
body
the
sicke
party
had
been
of
,
whether
a
leane
spare
,
a
grosse
and
fat
man
,
or
of
a
middle
temperature
and
habit
of
body
,
as
also
how
long
he
had
beene
sicke
,
and
whether
he
went
up
and
downe
or
no
,
before
you
pronounce
your
judgement
of
the
Urine
:
and
then
,
if
it
chance
to
be
true
that
you
speke
or
write
,
you
can
make
him
beleeve
,
that
you
perceive
it
by
the
Urine
;
but
if
it
be
false
,
that
you
have
said
,
you
can
make
it
good
.
Fourthly
,
Master
Doctour
,
you
write
,
That
you
have
a
great
suspicion
(
which
is
a
word
that
might
call
you
judgement
into
suspition
,
but
that
your
Patient
is
very
confident
of
your
skill
,
and
therefore
he
will
give
it
a
favorable
construction
)
that
this
Rhume
did
chiefly
possesse
his
stomach
,
and
that
his
stomach
was
now
become
nauseous
and
loathed
meat
,
and
did
not
digest
it
being
eaten
:
and
your
Patient
beleeves
that
you
perceive
his
stomach
is
possessed
with
this
humour
,
&
that
you
perceive
also
by
it
that
his
stomach
is
nauseous
,
desires
not
meat
,
nor
digests
it
being
eaten
:
but
here
,
Master
Doctour
,
you
are
too
cunning
for
him
;
he
writes
unto
you
for
your
judgement
of
his
Urine
,
and
you
are
afraid
,
that
if
you
doe
not
satisfie
his
desire
,
he
will
seeke
advice
somewhere
else
:
you
therefore
thinke
that
you
were
as
good
deceive
him
as
another
man
.
You
read
his
Letters
,
and
they
only
desire
your
judgement
of
his
Urine
,
but
doe
not
shew
you
any
thing
how
he
is
affected
:
you
looke
upon
his
water
,
and
that
importeth
no
disease
at
all
:
you
tell
the
messenger
looking
upon
the
water
(
as
if
you
there
perceived
it
)
that
he
goes
up
and
downe
,
and
the
messenger
answers
that
he
doth
.
You
likewise
know
his
constitution
to
be
spare
and
thin
,
and
what
humour
is
predominant
in
the
complexion
&
temperature
of
the
same
.
You
take
all
these
into
consideration
:
and
first
collect
that
he
is
not
very
well
,
because
he
hath
sent
unto
you
his
Urine
;
and
desires
your
advice
of
it
:
Secondly
,
you
conceive
that
he
is
not
very
ill
,
because
hee
walks
up
and
downe
,
and
his
Urine
doth
not
import
any
disease
at
all
.
Thirdly
,
you
know
his
complexion
to
be
(
for
so
I
suppose
it
)
Phlegmaticke
.
And
now
you
conclude
(
he
neither
being
sicke
nor
well
,
and
his
complexion
Phlegmaticke
)
that
he
cannot
have
a
good
stomach
to
his
meat
,
and
therefore
you
determine
the
cause
of
his
sicknesse
to
be
Phlegme
in
the
stomach
:
so
you
write
unto
him
that
he
is
troubled
with
Rhume
in
the
stomach
rising
from
thence
,
and
distilling
downe
thither
againe
,
caused
nauseousnesse
,
and
want
of
appetite
and
digestion
,
and
your
Patient
thinks
you
perceive
all
these
things
by
his
Urine
:
never
dreaming
that
you
collect
from
the
forenamed
circumstances
(
namely
his
complexion
,
his
going
up
and
downe
,
and
his
Urine
not
importing
any
disease
)
that
he
was
troubled
with
Rhume
in
the
stomch
;
nor
once
imagining
that
you
adde
the
nauseousnesse
of
his
stomach
,
want
of
appetite
and
digestion
,
as
consequent
effects
of
this
precedent
cause
(
Phlegme
in
the
stomach
)
but
thinkes
that
you
perceive
them
all
severally
in
the
water
:
whereas
indeed
,
you
perceive
none
of
them
at
all
▪
Fifthly
,
Master
Doctour
,
you
adde
,
That
your
Patients
Spleene
is
ill
affected
by
reason
of
the
impurity
of
his
stomach
:
and
he
thinks
likewise
that
you
perceive
this
in
his
water
:
if
his
Spleene
be
not
ill
affected
at
all
,
yet
he
will
thinke
it
to
be
,
because
you
say
so
:
and
if
it
be
ill
affected
,
it
is
not
to
be
discerned
in
the
Urine
,
but
is
(
you
well
know
)
Cacochymiae
soboles
,
the
off-spring
of
impurity
,
which
followeth
(
very
)
often
crudity
of
stomach
.
Sixthly
,
You
further
adde
,
that
his
head
and
vitall
parts
are
assaulted
with
a
noxious
vapour
proceeding
from
his
Spleem
,
which
makes
him
sad
,
and
that
hee
cannot
take
his
rest
,
or
at
least
that
his
sleeps
are
very
troublesome
,
hee
still
thinkes
that
his
water
shewes
all
this
,
not
knowing
that
these
are
necessary
consequences
of
a
crude
stomach
and
a
Rheumatick
constitution
:
he
never
considers
,
Master
Doctour
,
(
as
you
doe
)
that
those
that
are
on
the
sodaine
distempered
(
though
they
be
but
a
little
ill
)
doe
not
take
their
rest
,
or
at
lest
have
troublesome
sleep
:
but
thinks
that
the
Urine
(
according
to
the
severall
parts
of
it
)
doth
shew
the
disease
of
the
severall
parts
of
the
body
:
he
therefore
thinks
,
that
the
Circle
shews
the
discases
of
the
head
,
the
Center
of
the
truncke
or
middle
part
of
the
body
,
and
the
lower
part
the
diseases
of
the
lower
parts
of
the
body
:
and
so
by
consequence
the
disease
of
the
Toe
is
to
be
found
in
the
very
lowest
part
of
the
Urine
;
but
the
paines
in
the
head
or
Toes
,
are
neither
to
be
perceived
by
the
upper-most
or
lower-most
part
of
the
Urine
nor
by
any
other
part
of
it
.
Yet
a
silenced
Minister
in
Kent
,
who
was
become
an
Aesculapius
,
being
asked
by
a
friend
of
mine
(
when
he
had
,
by
this
fallacious
way
of
giving
judgement
upon
an
Vrine
,
reckoned
up
a
Paine
in
the
head
,
amongst
other
Symptomes
)
whether
hee
perceived
by
the
Vrine
,
that
the
party
had
a
paine
in
the
head
,
he
answered
,
yes
:
looke
you
here
(
quoth
he
)
this
Circle
or
Ring
,
by
some
marks
that
I
perceive
in
it
,
doth
shew
me
that
the
party
hath
a
paine
in
the
head
.
He
might
as
well
have
worne
the
Surplice
,
and
baptized
with
the
Crosse
,
against
his
conscience
,
as
to
make
a
common
practice
of
lying
against
his
conscience
wilfully
.
Seventhly
,
You
adde
that
he
is
troubled
with
wind
in
the
belly
&
Hypochondres
;
which
is
like-wise
incident
to
Phlegmatick
constitutions
,
but
is
not
(
as
he
supposeth
)
to
be
perceived
in
the
Urine
.
Eightly
,
You
adde
that
he
seemeth
to
be
somewhat
feverish
:
you
doe
not
perceive
this
in
the
water
neither
,
yet
you
know
that
whosoever
is
not
well
doth
(
vel
febre
laborare
,
vel
sebricitare
)
labour
either
of
a
Fever
,
or
is
feverish
;
and
therefore
you
have
added
this
to
helpe
at
a
pinch
,
for
you
know
not
certainely
,
but
that
his
feverishnesse
may
be
greater
than
you
suspect
:
his
heat
may
be
such
,
as
that
he
may
expect
that
you
speake
something
of
his
Liver
,
for
hee
thinkes
that
it
is
over-hot
;
but
you
can
tell
him
that
hee
cannot
have
a
Fever
,
but
that
his
Liver
must
be
inflamed
.
In
fine
(
Master
Doctour
)
whether
he
he
have
a
Fever
or
no
Fever
,
you
have
hit
the
nayle
on
the
head
,
and
he
believes
that
you
have
written
nothing
but
what
you
perceived
in
the
water
;
but
if
it
please
him
to
read
an
exposition
upon
your
Letters
,
hee
shall
perceive
your
cunning
to
be
(
vix
frans
honesta
)
scarce
honest
cozening
.
You
determined
his
disease
(
as
he
told
me
)
to
be
Flatus
Hypochandriacus
,
when
you
saw
him
,
that
is
,
wind
in
those
parts
called
the
Hypochondres
:
but
it
was
(
as
he
confessed
to
me
)
Flatus
Hypochondrunckicus
,
or
(
as
I
thinke
I
may
fitly
call
it
)
the
druncken
Hiquet
,
ex
crapulâ
contractus
,
taken
by
a
drunken
surfeite
.
It
skills
not
what
his
disease
was
,
nor
how
he
tooke
it
;
I
doe
not
meane
to
scandall
him
for
it
,
since
he
is
recovered
of
it
;
I
rather
bestow
this
Recipe
upon
him
,
by
the
way
of
prevention
,
(
Noli
tu
peccare
ampli●ùs
,
ne
Pejus
tibi
contingat
)
that
he
fall
not
into
the
like
infirmity
:
and
wish
withall
my
heart
,
ut
valeat
&
resipiscat
,
that
hee
may
enjoy
his
health
with
that
greater
happinesse
of
that
wisedome
,
whereby
hee
may
rectum
distinguere
falso
,
discerne
truth
from
falshood
.
CHAP.
X.
I
have
here
inserted
another
Epistle
(
out
not
in
Latine
)
from
a
Reveal'd
Divine
,
unto
his
cunning
Ae●culapius
,
for
his
judgement
of
his
wives
Vrine
,
to
know
whether
she
were
with
child
or
no
:
I
have
likewise
set
downe
the
Doctours
answer
,
with
an
explication
of
the
Aenigmatized
fallacies
,
therein
contained
,
darking
the
judgement
of
the
learned
,
and
making
a
specious
shew
of
a
falsely
assumed
knowledge
.
WOrthy
Master
Doctour
,
my
kind
love
salutes
you
&c.
My
wife
being
neither
sicke
nor
well
,
goes
up
and
down
the
house
,
but
is
very
puling
:
she
hath
a
very
,
nauseous
stomach
,
loaths
meat
,
and
if
she
eate
any
thing
(
which
is
very
little
,
or
of
some
very
strange
dish
)
she
is
ready
to
vomit
it
up
againe
:
she
hath
now
twice
missed
(
which
she
orderly
enjoyed
before
)
the
naturall
benefit
of
her
monthly
evacuation
:
ever
since
which
time
,
that
shee
had
them
last
,
she
hath
been
thus
ill
:
and
for
the
same
cause
,
that
shee
hath
missed
them
,
shee
suspects
that
she
may
be
with
child
,
or
else
is
thus
ill
for
want
of
them
:
I
have
here
sent
you
her
Urine
,
and
desire
you
to
vouchsafe
to
looke
upon
it
,
and
to
resolve
us
whether
she
be
with
child
,
or
what
other
infirmity
she
doth
labour
of
,
that
we
may
(
if
shee
●e
not
with
childe
)
prevent
a
worse
danger
in
●●me
;
I
pr●y
returne
your
answer
in
writing
;
and
●o
with
my
best
wishes
for
your
owne
wel-fare
,
that
others
may
fare
the
better
for
you
,
I
bid
you
fare-well
,
and
rest
.
Your
wel-wishing
friend
,
J.
H.
REverend
Sir
,
my
best
respects
to
your selfe
and
your
wife
,
do
kindly
resalute
you
both
:
your
wife
(
you
write
)
is
neither
sick
nor
well
;
you
may
then
shife
your
hands
of
her
,
if
you
doe
not
like
sir
,
and
tell
her
that
you
promised
only
to
keepe
her
in
sicknesse
and
in
health
:
but
however
(
good
Sir
)
I
am
sorie
,
as
she
is
not
sicke
,
that
she
is
not
well
,
but
not
so
much
as
otherwise
I
should
be
,
because
your
kindnesse
hath
caused
this
neutrality
of
being
neither
sicke
nor
well
.
Her
nauseousnesse
of
stomach
,
loathing
of
meat
,
and
vomitting
after
,
it
will
●●ortly
cease
,
and
the
disease
(
which
now
troubles
her
stomach
)
will
some
seven
moneths
hence
,
be
gotten
into
her
armes
.
In
the
meane
time
it
were
not
amisse
for
her
to
take
something
to
corroborate
her
stomach
,
which
she
may
very
safely
doe
,
I
have
viewed
her
water
,
and
can
say
no
more
than
have
done
,
unlesse
to
speak
more
plainely
.
I
say
with
an
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
she
is
with
child
,
and
that
almost
a
quarter
gone
,
God
send
her
a
happy
deliverance
,
when
the
time
shall
come
,
and
(
till
then
,
and
ever
)
health
,
and
so
prayes
,
Your
assured
loving
friend
,
H.
P.
This
good
Divine
(
as
most
of
them
are
)
is
one
who
is
possessed
with
this
opinion
,
that
the
Urine
doth
shew
the
disease
,
〈◊〉
conception
,
and
the
like
:
yet
haply
hath
heard
that
Vrina
〈◊〉
meratrix
,
the
Water
is
a
lying
Harlot
,
but
yet
hee
thinks
that
a
Physician
(
if
he
be
his
crafts
master
)
can
tell
whether
a
woman
be
with
child
or
no●
because
hee
heareth
women
clatter
such
things
who
have
beene
thus
deluded
.
He
never
stands
to
examine
the
truth
of
such
predictions
by
the
Urine
,
but
supposeth
that
men
are
or
should
be
honest
in
their
callings
.
This
I
am
sure
of
,
that
he
is
a
loving
man
to
his
wife
,
for
which
I
thinke
him
to
be
the
honester
man
.
Hee
hath
sent
her
Vrine
to
a
Doctour
,
and
desireth
him
to
resolve
him
from
thence
whether
she
be
with
child
or
no●
or
what
other
danger
may
be
imminent
.
He
writeth
likewise
,
very
punctuall
and
carefully
,
how
she
is
affected
:
namely
,
that
she
hath
a
nauseous
stomach
,
loathes
meat
,
longs
after
trifles
,
and
is
apt
to
vomit
after
she
hath
eaten
:
now
all
these
are
evident
signes
of
Conception
,
if
she
be
a
childing-woman
,
and
they
doe
agree
with
other
signes
also
,
and
if
she
find
any
such
alteration
in
her
body
▪
as
that
she
suspect
the
same
:
he
likewise
adds
,
that
she
hath
not
had
her
monthly
benefit
of
nature
,
now
this
two
months
,
which
she
enjoyed
orderly
before
:
&
this
witnesseth
very
strongly
to
the
former
signes
that
she
is
with
child
,
and
shewes
how
long
it
is
since
she
conceived
of
it
:
but
the
goodman
(
though
he
have
read
this
in
Aristotle
,
and
Albertus
)
〈◊〉
think
that
this
is
all
the
ground
we
have
to
conclude
woman
to
be
with
child
,
but
thinks
that
Hippocrates
and
Galen
,
and
the
common
practice
of
viewing
of
waters
,
have
taught
us
otherwise
to
distinguish
the
Sexe
,
as
also
whether
a
woman
be
with
child
or
no
,
by
her
water
:
but
(
good
man
)
he
is
deceived
;
and
which
is
worst
of
all
,
he
hath
partly
deceived
himselfe
,
for
he
hath
written
that
unto
his
Doctour
(
though
hee
doe
not
know
it
)
that
shewes
his
wife
to
be
with
child
,
and
yet
he
desireth
to
be
resolved
from
the
water
;
and
so
his
Doctour
hath
done
:
hee
hath
read
his
Letters
,
and
therein
finds
enough
to
his
purpose
,
and
a
great
deale
more
than
the
Urine
sheweth
,
from
whence
he
may
boldly
pronounce
her
to
be
with
child
,
though
he
never
looke
upon
the
water
at
all
:
yet
(
having
read
the
Letters
)
hee
taketh
the
Vrine
,
and
before
the
messenger
that
brought
it
)
falls
to
peering
into
it
,
to
seeme
to
find
that
there
,
for
which
he
hath
brought
it
:
and
so
he
betakes
him
to
his
pen
and
inke
,
to
answer
these
Letters
,
and
(
having
descanted
upon
the
former
part
of
the
Divines
Letters
,
in
such
manner
as
you
see
in
his
answer
,
which
shewed
him
that
the
good
Gentlewoman
was
with
child
)
he
now
determines
her
to
be
with
child
,
and
that
almost
a
quarter
gone
:
which
prooving
true
,
as
it
is
very
probable
that
it
will
,
makes
them
the
more
admire
this
unsuspected
jugling
:
for
they
are
not
aware
that
the
sodaine
ceasing
of
the
naturall
monthly
benefit
of
a
woman
,
together
with
nauseousnesse
of
stomach
,
longing
〈…〉
trifles
,
want
of
appetite
,
and
vomiting
after
meat
,
are
the
most
infallible
signes
of
Conception
by
which
we
judge
a
woman
to
be
with
child
,
as
indeed
they
are
neither
doe
they
observe
,
that
it
is
the
most
apt
time
for
a
woman
to
conceive
immediately
after
that
she
hath
enjoyed
that
naturall
benefit
,
as
their
Doctour
doth
:
nor
they
doe
not
conceive
that
the
Doctour
determines
her
to
be
a
quarter
gone
with
child
,
from
the
time
that
shee
enjoyed
her
naturall
benefit
last
,
which
(
as
her
husband
writeth
)
was
now
more
than
two
months
agoe
,
which
is
almost
a
quarter
,
for
two
months
is
almost
ten
weeks
,
and
ten
weekes
is
a
quarter
of
the
time
that
a
woman
goeth
with
child
from
her
conception
according
to
the
common
computation
of
a
womans
going
forty
weeks
with
child
but
they
good-man
and
good-woman
,
thinke
(
as
almost
all
the
world
beside
themselves
doth
)
that
the
Dr.
perceives
,
by
some
signes
in
the
Urine
,
the
conception
,
as
also
how
farre
a
woman
is
gone
with
child
:
and
the
Dr.
is
very
well
contented
that
they
should
thinke
so
:
but
whatsoever
they
think
you
see
what
they
are
but
fooles
)
for
their
labour
,
and
their
Dr.
but
a
Jugler
at
the
best
,
for
nursing
them
up
in
that
false
opinion
.
And
now
I
hope
that
you
conceive
that
there
is
no
certaine
knowledge
of
any
disease
in
the
world
by
the
Urine
,
much
lesse
of
the
〈◊〉
,
Conception
,
parties
age
,
and
the
like
:
you
perceive
likewise
the
fallacies
whereby
the
Water-Prophet
maketh
the
messenger
to
thinke
that
he
perceives
all
these
things
in
the
Urine
.
You
〈◊〉
also
that
not
only
the
rude
multitude
,
〈…〉
Clerks
have
been
made
both
Greeke
fooles
,
and
Hebrew
Asses
,
by
〈…〉
,
and
these
deceitfull
fallacies
which
I
have
shewed
:
yet
these
are
not
all
the
trickes
,
and
fallacies
that
Pisse-mongers
have
to
deceive
their
Patients
,
or
Pisse-messengers
withall
:
but
by
these
you
may
perceive
how
you
may
be
a
thousand
wayes
more
deceived
;
for
by
a
little
may
be
perceived
what
more
is
meant
,
and
according
to
the
old
Proverbe
,
Verbum
sapienti
sufficit
,
to
the
wise
few
words
suffice
.
Let
this
therefore
suffice
,
that
hath
beene
spoken
,
to
shew
you
how
you
are
cozened
,
when
you
bring
or
send
your
water
to
a
Doctour
to
cast
:
and
from
hence
learne
to
esteeme
an
honest
plaine-dealing
Physician
,
according
to
his
worth
,
who
tells
you
that
the
water
doth
not
shew
the
disease
,
as
you
suppose
,
and
the
common
Pisse-pot-casters
doe
make
you
believe
.
CHAP.
XI
.
Wherein
,
〈…〉
how
judgement
of
diseases
by
the
〈◊〉
of
the
Vrine
hath
beene
upheld
by
confederacie
,
and
other
such
like
cozening
tricks
.
AND
now
to
adde
more
credit
unto
that
which
hath
been
already
said
(
although
I
have
said
more
already
than
some
would
willingly
heare
,
though
no
more
than
truth
,
and
yet
so
much
as
might
satisfie
concerning
the
imposture
and
cozenage
used
in
giving
judgment
of
diseases
by
the
sight
of
Urine
onely
,
)
I
will
briefly
subjoyn
some
few
sleights
of
confederacie
,
and
other
cunning
trickes
,
whereby
imposturs
have
beguiled
the
common
people
,
and
gained
themselves
credit
,
in
maintaining
the
cozening
Trade
of
Water-prophesying
.
viz.
(
〈…〉
evites
)
not
to
cozen
,
〈…〉
avoid
the
cozener
.
And
so
I
will
now
proceed
to
shew
you
the
lawfull
use
of
the
Urine
.
CHAP.
XII
.
That
there
is
no
judgement
of
diseases
to
be
given
by
the
Vrine
alone
;
that
the
Physician
ought
not
to
give
judgement
of
the
Vrine
,
before
hee
have
strictly
examined
how
the
sicke
partie
is
affected
:
how
this
base
custome
came
up
.
YOu
will
now
aske
me
:
CHAP.
XIII
.
Errours
committed
in
the
choice
and
change
of
a
Physician
:
Directions
how
to
avoid
these
errours
:
Some
Rascalls
nominated
,
who
are
usurpers
upon
,
and
abusers
of
the
noble
profession
of
Physicke
,
and
the
honourable
Professors
thereof
.
THE
errors
that
you
commit
in
the
choice
of
a
Physician
,
are
these
:
Either
you
choose
an
insufficient
man
,
for
his
knowledge
in
Physick
;
or
else
one
,
who
(
though
he
be
sufficiently
qualified
for
his
knowledge
)
is
notwithstanding
no
fit
Physician
for
thee
.
For
the
first
,
you
are
in
the
time
of
your
sicknesse
led
either
by
your
owne
fancie
or
by
the
perswasion
of
some
friend
to
send
for
,
or
send
unto
such
a
man
,
who
hath
(
they
tell
you
)
cured
such
a
one
of
such
a
disease
,
when
all
other
Doctours
had
given
him
over
:
or
else
because
he
giveth
out
some
great
matters
of
himselfe
,
and
disableth
all
other
honest
learned
Physicians
,
as
doth
Trigge
,
alias
,
Markham
,
who
predicates
of
himselfe
to
ignorant
people
,
that
he
was
Batchelor
of
Arts
in
Clare
Hall
,
and
Pupill
and
kinsman
unto
Doctour
Butler
in
Cambridge
,
a
Master
of
Arts
of
Saint
Johns
in
Cambridge
,
a
Master
of
an
Hospitall
,
and
one
of
the
Fellowes
of
the
College
of
the
Physicians
in
London
,
and
all
these
lyes
:
for
hee
never
was
otherwise
than
a
Shooe-maker
,
bred
and
brought
up
,
save
onely
that
he
became
a
Last-maker
;
and
is
no
other
but
an
Asse
(
though
hee
pretendeth
great
learning
amongst
silly
people
)
who
understandeth
not
one
word
of
Latine
.
This
Trigge
lives
in
a
place
called
Captaine
Royden
his
lodgings
over-against
the
Custome-house
▪
Such
another
is
Butler
of
Puddle
Wharfe
,
a
Glover
,
Felmonger
,
or
Sheep-skin-dresser
,
who
should
therefore
be
the
better
acquainted
with
the
vertue
of
Aesipus
,
because
it
belongs
to
his
Trade
;
but
yet
I
dare
say
he
knowes
not
what
it
is
.
Such
another
is
little
Doctour
George
another
Shooe-maker
,
living
about
Westminster
.
And
one
Fashions
an
Horne-merchant
,
who
furnisheth
Apothecaries
with
Harts-hornes
,
and
Stagges
pis●es
,
and
professeth
great
skill
in
curing
Consumptions
.
To
whom
may
be
added
Donnigton
in
Moore-fields
,
who
drencheth
Asses
(
I
doe
not
meane
the
long
ear'd
ones
as
familiarly
as
he
was
wont
to
drench
Horses
,
and
burnes
children
behind
the
eares
for
the
Rickets
.
Unto
such
Knaves
,
or
else
to
Witches
and
Conjurers
(
whom
you
terme
Cunning
men
and
women
)
you
are
carried
(
though
they
are
the
most
vile
and
base
ignorant
Asses
in
the
world
)
with
more
confidence
than
to
the
most
learned
honest
Physician
that
can
be
.
And
then
if
you
chance
to
recover
,
you
impute
the
cause
thereof
to
such
a
Rascall
,
never
considering
that
it
was
Gods
providence
not
(
as
yet
)
to
take
this
partie
unto
himselfe
,
and
that
this
rascally
Quack
(
for
medicines
used
by
an
ignorant
Quacke
,
are
said
to
be
poysons
;
but
being
used
by
a
skilfull
Physician
,
they
are
said
to
be
Gods
owne
helping
hand
)
did
not
kill
this
partie
,
for
it
was
(
as
they
say
)
but
haphazard
.
But
if
it
happen
that
one
of
these
Rascals
kill
his
Patient
(
for
so
it
falleth
out
too
often
)
and
some
of
your
neighbors
or
friends
question
with
you
,
Why
you
made
use
of
such
a
Rogue
;
you
are
then
as
ready
(
to
excuse
your
owne
foolery
and
wickednesse
)
to
excuse
him
too
,
and
to
say
that
the
best
Doctours
cannot
save
a
mans
life
when
his
time
is
come
:
and
you
thinke
this
is
a
sufficient
plea
to
excuse
your selves
for
not
using
the
best
meanes
:
You
will
not
afford
an
honest
man
the
like
favour
,
who
hath
used
the
best
meanes
that
Art
could
lead
him
unto
,
if
his
patient
should
chance
to
dye
,
and
satisfie
yourselves
(
as
you
ought
to
doe
)
in
this
case
,
that
it
was
Gods
providence
,
but
prosecute
him
with
all
the
scandalls
,
and
slanders
that
you
can
,
questioning
withall
his
skill
,
the
which
you
are
no
more
able
to
judge
of
than
a
blinde
man
of
colours
.
So
much
shall
suffice
to
have
spoken
concerning
the
errours
you
commit
in
making
choice
of
such
a
one
,
for
your
Physician
,
who
hath
not
been
lawfully
called
thereunto
,
nor
is
sufficiently
qualified
with
that
knowledge
,
You
erre
likewise
,
when
(
being
destitute
of
acquaintance
with
some
able
and
convenient
Physician
for
you
)
you
make
choice
of
a
Physician
by
the
garbe
,
and
habit
where-with
he
is
accoutred
;
that
is
to
say
,
his
Beaver-Hat
,
his
Plush-suite
,
with
his
cloake
of
,
or
at
least
,
lined
through
with
the
same
,
his
silke
stockings
,
with
all
other
such
sutable
ornaments
to
decke
his
person
:
thinking
that
there
dwells
Art
alone
,
knowledge
,
and
the
Muses
,
because
he
is
mounted
upon
the
wings
of
Fame
,
which
is
no
lesse
mendacious
&
deceiptfull
than
an
Harlot
,
or
ther
Pisse-pot
;
the
one
whereof
faineth
diseases
,
the
other
modesty
.
You
erre
likewise
,
when
(
having
haply
made
choice
of
an
able
and
convenient
Physician
)
you
cast
him
off
,
because
you
doe
not
presently
obtaine
the
sodaine
effect
of
the
desired
successe
.
now
to
avoid
the
errours
of
making
choice
of
an
insufficient
,
or
inconvenient
Physician
;
Leave
Trigge
,
and
little
Doctour
George
to
their
A●le
,
and
(
Ne
sutor
ultra
crepidem
)
let
the
Shooe-maker
not
presume
to
goe
beyond
his
Last
;
Et
Artem
,
quam
quisque
●orit
exerceat
:
Let
every
other
man
exercise
that
Art
and
faculty
which
he
understands
,
and
hath
beene
bred
up
in
:
and
let
meane
people
,
let
Kings
and
Queenes
Physicians
alone
,
for
those
great
personages
whom
they
are
to
give
attendance
upon
,
and
listen
unto
me
a
little
,
in
directing
thee
in
the
choice
of
an
able
and
convenient
Physician
in
the
time
of
a
violent
and
dangerous
sicknesse
.
Take
therefore
,
(
and
that
in
time
)
such
a
Physician
as
is
authorized
and
allowed
,
either
by
the
Universities
,
or
by
the
learned
College
of
Physicians
of
London
:
In
the
choice
of
such
a
one
,
who
is
so
allowed
and
approved
of
,
have
some
respect
unto
his
dwelling
,
and
other
imployments
;
and
consider
with
thy selfe
whether
by
remotenesse
of
place
,
or
multitude
of
imploiments
,
he
can
give
that
attendance
,
that
thy
need
may
require
.
For
in
diseases
of
danger
,
it
were
very
convenient
that
the
Physician
did
see
his
Patient
,
(
if
it
were
possible
)
three
times
in
a
day
:
so
hee
should
often
observe
something
or
other
in
the
sicke
party
,
that
might
divert
him
from
his
intended
purpose
,
and
direct
him
a
safer
way
.
Wherefore
an
honest
neighbour
is
more
convenient
than
a
stranger
remote
,
especially
for
the
meaner
sort
of
people
,
and
those
who
are
so
poore
,
that
their
purses
will
not
reach
to
the
gratifying
of
a
Physician
for
comming
to
see
them
with
a
fee
:
and
let
no
man
shake
off
that
Physician
whom
he
hath
first
entertained
;
but
let
him
(
if
he
please
)
take
another
Physician
,
or
more
into
consultation
with
hi●
first
elected
Physician
,
retaining
him
still
.
Let
this
(
in
briefe
)
suffice
to
direct
in
the
choice
of
a
Physician
,
for
I
had
no
purpose
to
touch
upon
this
subject
,
but
only
to
shew
the
fallacies
and
jugling
,
that
is
used
in
giving
judgement
of
diseases
by
the
Urine
,
with
the
dangers
that
insuethe
prescribing
of
Physicke
by
the
sight
of
the
same
alone
.
If
I
have
not
therefore
satisfied
thee
in
this
latter
,
read
Doctour
Cotta
his
booke
,
called
,
A
short
discovery
of
the
unobserved
dangers
of
severall
sorts
of
ignorant
&
inconsiderate
practitioners
of
Physick
in
England
,
wherein
he
hath
(
at
the
latter
end
)
very
learnedly
set
downe
a
description
of
the
true
Artist
,
with
directions
for
the
Election
of
him
in
the
time
of
sicknesse
.
FINIS
.
IStum
tuum
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
tractatum
non
oscitanter
percurri
.
De
●o
siquaeras
quid
sentiam●
Eum
&
doctrina
&
facetijs
refertum
esse
existim●
.
Nec
arbitror
in
eo
quidquam
contineri
,
quod
possit
bonorum
aures
offendere
.
Si
quis
sit
quìsecus
à
me
sentiet
,
ego
illum
habebo
aut
pro
impostore
,
aut
pro
impostorum
fautore
.
Quamobrem
sim
ego
tibi
Au●or
eum
publicandi
.
Nam
hinc
,
&
inibis
apud
omnes
bonos
gratiam
,
&
perennem
nominis
famam
tibimet
comparabis
.
Neque
est
quod
vereare
,
ne
forte
ex
ejus
evulgatione
labes
medicinae
aspergatur
.
Honestae
ejus
praxi
nullum
hinc
poter●t
detrimentum
accedere
;
non
magis
quàm
civitati
illi
dedecus
in
qua
mercirices
aut
vapulant
,
aut
exulant
.
Ex
musaeolo
meo
ipsis
Idibus
Martijs
anniab
exhibito
in
carne
Messia
supra
millesimum
sexcentesimum
tricesimi
sexti
.
Tui
si
quis
alius
Studiosus
,
Alexander
Read
,
M.
D.
atque
ex
numero
soctorum
Collegij
Medici
Londinensis
.
Impr.
Tho.
Weekes
.
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