Taking The Piss

Before relating my own experiences with urinetherapy, it is advisable to quote some opinions derived from both ancient and modern sources as to the value of urine as a curative agent.

Towards the beginning of last century, a book entitled One Tho,v ""d Notable Things was published sim'ataneously in , -,' Scotland and Ireland.

In this book
appeared the toliowiiig quaint citation:

" An universal and excellent remedy for all distempers inward and outward-Drink you own water in the morning nine days together and it cures the scurvy, makes the body lightsome and cheerful.

" It is good against the dropsy and jaundice, drun.,
as before (stated).

" Wash your ears with it warm and it is good against deafness, noises and most other ailments in the ears."

" Wash your eyes with your own water and it cures sore eyes and clears and strengthens the sight."

" Wash and rub your hands with it and it takes away numbness, chaps and sores and makes the joints limber."

"Wash any green wound with it and it is an extraoidinary good thing."

" Wash any part that itches and it takes it (the itch) away."

" Wash the fundament and it is good against Files and. other sores."

Here is another quaintly expressed extract from an old. book called Salmon's English Physician, publis'led
in 1695, which I will quote in part:

"Urine is taken from human kind and most fourfooted animals ; but the former is that which is chiefly uses: in Physick and Chemistry. It is the serum or watery part of the blood, which being diverted by the emulgent arteries to the reins is there separated, and by the ferment of the parts, converted into urine ....

Man's or woman's urine is hot, dry (?), dissolving,cleansing, discussing, resists putrefaction ; used inwardly
against obstructions of the liver, spleen, gall, as also against the Dropsie, Jaundice, Stoppage of the tens in women, the Plague and all manner of malign fevers."

" Outwardly (applied) it cleanses the skin and softens
Before relating my own experiences with urinetherapy, it is advisable to quote some opinions derived
from both ancient and modern sources as to the value of urine as a curative agent."