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Rosa Anglica (Author: [unknown])

section 37

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Item if the urine be of the colour called cyanose,419 which is a composite colour of white, black, and red along


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with fatty corpuscles, that signifies an ulcer in the bladder arising from an imposthume therein. If there be red sand in it, that shows the kidneys420 are not sound; sometimes this sand comes from the burning of sanguine humour in the veins, and then the urine is high-coloured: if it come from the kidneys it is not high-coloured, but whitish, being drawn from them before it is digested: in this way the sand results from the burning of blood,421 and is soft; at other times it signifies a stone in the kidneys, and is not soft, but hard, as is generally clear in the matter of stone.