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PAine of ye stone is one of ye most enormous paines that the bodye of man is vexed with, for by it ma∣ny times ye natural ver∣tues are distroied, womē lose their fruit afore ye time, cruel & pe∣rillous accidentes cōmōly do encrease, yea & oftētimes death without remedy.
Wherfore it shalbe expedient to the comfort of the poore folkes, and other that be greued, to write some good and holsome medicines for auoydynge of the stone,
¶And seeyng that all authours doe affyrme the stone to bee engendred by reason of the great heat that is about the reines, streitnes of the condites, & aboundaunce of grosse & slimy fleume, or of brent choler, whiche by the sayde excesse of heate, is as one woulde saye, baken or dryed as claye is in the fur∣neis, and so at last becommeth an hard stone, therefore it is chiefly to be noted that without amendyng of the forsaid causes, all that ye dooe minister for to breake the stone is eyther hurtefull to the pacient, or els of smal effecte. For the whiche cause it is very necessarye that the pacient kepe a sober dyet.
And for the better vnderstandyng, ye shal know, that all wynes (whether they be swete or sharpe, grosse or sub∣tyl, white or redde) are in this case vt∣terly
re••ected.
Pulses also of what kinde soeuer they be, as pease beanes, and such, and al grosse fleshe, and water foules, and foules of greate bodies, as bustardes, cranes, and suche lyke, are in this case very daungerous and noysome.
Also ye may eat no kynd of fruites, except it be a few melons, ripe prunes in smal quantitie, and pomegranades, with a litle suger and coriandres.
Of herbes, ye maye eat borage, bu∣glosse, percely, lettuse, mintes▪ spinach and succorye in broth of veale, or of a yonge chicken. Nepes also and rapes and radyshe, in a smal quantitye, maye be wel inough permitted.
Potched egges are verye good in this case, with a litle vergeous, but in anye wyse beware of hard chese for that is oftentimes the onely cause of the sayd stone. All shell fishes are to be auoided excepte it be a creuyshe, or a shrympe, measurably taken.
Ye muste, also take hede that ye eat no
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pepper nor hote spices▪ nor no meates that are salte, soure or heauye of dy∣gestion, and that ye lye not on youre backe on nightes when ye are aslepe. And ye ought to kepe your raines cold and moyst, and to let youre backe bee vntrussed in the sommer.
After ye haue vsed this regiment or dyet by a certain season, it shalbe good for you to take an ounce of cassia new∣lye drawen out of the cane, and eate it with a litle suger in the morning.
This ye muste vse euery seconde weke, til in time your reines be mete∣ly wel cleansed of the same, and euerie daye eate a litle cassia, vpon a knifes poynte, to kepe your bellye moyst: for that is one of the thynges that are moste required in the sayd cure.
And at diuers other times when ye be disposed, ye may take a litle of this receite hereafter, whiche hathe greate vertue to mundifye the raines, and to bring the humours to equalitye, with releasyng of the payne, and bringynge
out the grauell.
¶A goodly sirupe to mundi∣fie the reynes. Take the broth of a yonge chicken sodden tyl the bones fal a sondre, thre pounde, melon seedes a litle brused an ounce, percelye rootes, and alisaundre rotes .iii. ounces, damaske prunes, sepesten, of eche .vi. in nombre, greate raysyns halfe an ounce, cleane licorice x. drāmes, waters of borage, endiue, and hoppes, of eche .iii. drammes, and wyth sufficient white suger, boyle thē al vnto the consumpcion of the halfe and more, and afterwarde streine thē, and make a goodly sirupe.
This is a thyng of excellent opera∣tion, and an hye secrete in mundifying of the reines, if ye kepe the diete as is afore described. The dose of it is one cyath or a lytle cupful in the morning earlye, and slepe after it a lytle. If ye wold haue the forsayd sirupe to purge more choler, then put in it a dramme of fyne reubarbe, with a lytle cassia.
¶Hereafter foloweth a pouder of excellent operacion in brea∣kynge of the stone▪ TAke the kernels that are within sloes, & drye thē on a tyle stone, then make of them a pouder by it selfe: after that take the rotes of alisāder, percely, parietarie, and holli∣hocke, of euerye one a like moch, and seeth thē al in whyte wyne or els in ye broth of a yonge chicken, then streine them out into a cleane vessel, and whē ye drynke of it, adde as moch of the said pouder as ye thynke conuenyent, halfe a syluer spoonefull or more, for wythout doute it hath great effecte in bryngyng out the grauell.
¶An other experte medicine for them that haue the stone. There groweth in the galles of some oxen, a certayne yelowe stone, some tymes in bygnesse of a walnut, some∣what longe & bryttle. Yf ye take that stone & make of it a pouder, & eate it in your pottage, the weyght of one scru∣pule
or more accordīg to your strēgth, it is a singuler medicine to them yt can not pisse for stopping of ye conduites.
¶An other singuler medicine. for the stone. Take the seedes of smallache, percely, louage, and saxifrage, the rotes of phi∣lipendula, chery stones, gromell seede, and brome seede, of euerye one a lyke moche, make them in fine pouder, and when ye be diseased with ye stone, eate of this pouder a sponefull at ones in pottage, or in brothe of a chycken, and eate nothyng after .ii. or .iii. houres.