The workes of that famous chirurgion Ambrose Parey translated out of Latine and compared with the French. by Th: Johnson

CHAP. LV. What cure must be used in the suppression of the Urine.

IN curing the suppression of the urine, the indication must be taken from the nature of the disease, and cause thereof, if it bee yet present or not. * 1.1 But the diversity of the parts, by which being hurt, the Ischuria hap∣pens, intimates the variety of medicines, neither must we presently run to diuretickes, and things breaking the stone, which many Empericks doe. For hence grievous and maligne symptomes often arise, especially if this sup∣pression * 1.2 proceed from an acride humour, or blood pressed out by a bruise, immo∣derate venery, and all more vehement exercise, a hot and acride potion, as of Can∣tharides, by too long abstaining from making water, by a Phlegmon, or ulcer of the urenary parts. For thus the paine and inflammation are encreased, whence followes a gangrene, & at length death. Wherfore attempt nothing in this case without the ad∣vice of a Physitian, no not when you must come to Surgery. For ••iureticks can scarce have place in another case, than when the urenary passages are obstructed by gravell, * 1.3 or a grosse and viscide humour, or else in some cold countrey, or in the application of Narcoticks to the loines, although we must not here use these before we have first made use of generall medicines: now Diuretickes may be administred sundry waies, as hereafter shall appeare.

℞. agrimon. urtic. parietar. surculos rubros habentis, an. m. i. rad. asparag. mundat. ℥iiii. gran. alkekengi, nu. xx. sem. malvae ℥ss. rad. acor. ℥i. bulliant omnia simul in sex li∣bris aquae dulcis ad tertias, deinde coletur. Let the patient take ℥iiii. hereof with ℥i. of sugar candy, and drinke it warme fasting in a morning, three houres before meat. Thirty or forty Ivie berries beaten in white wine, and given the patient to drink some two houres before meate, are good for the same purpose. Also ʒi. of nettle seeds made into fine pouder and drunke in chicken broth, is good for the same purpose. A decoction also of Grummell, Goats saxifrage, pellitory of the wall, white saxifrage, the rootes of parsley, asparagus, acorus, bruscus, and orris drunke in the quantity of some three or foure ounces, is profitable also for the same purpose. Yet this follow∣ing water is commended above the rest to provoke urine, & open the passages there∣of, from what cause soever the stoppage thereof proceed. ℞. radic. osmund. regal. cyp. * 1.4 bismal. gram. petrosel. foenic. an. ℥ii. raph. crassior. intaleol. ℥iiii. macerentur per noctem in aceto albo acerrimo, bulliant postea in aquae fluvialis lb. x. saxifrag. crist. marin. rub. tinct. milii solis, summitat. malvae, bismal. an. p. ii. berul. cicer. rub. an. p. i. sem. melon. ci∣trul. an. ℥ii. ss. alkekengi, gra. xx. glycyrhiz. ℥i. bulliant omnia simul ad tertias: in cola∣tura infunde per noctem fol. sen. oriental. lb. ss. fiat iterum parva ebullitio, in expressio∣ne colata infunde cinam. elect. ʒvi. colentur; iterum colatura injiciatur in alembicum vitreum, postea tereb. venet. lucid. lb ii. aq. vitae ℥vi. agitentur omnia simul diligentissi∣me. Lutetur alembicum luto sapientiae, fiat destillatio lento igne in balneo mariae. Use it after the following manner. ℞. aq. stillatitiae prescriptae ℥ii. aut iii. Accor∣ding to the operation which it shall performe, let the patient take it foure houres be∣fore meat. Also raddish water destilled in balneo mariae is given in the quantity of ℥iiii. with sugar, and that with good successe. Bathes and semicupia, or halfe bathes artificially made, relaxe, soften, dilate, and open all the body; therefore the prescri∣bed * 1.5 diuretickes mixed with halfe a dram of Treacle may be fitly given at the going forth of the bath. These medicines following are judged fit to cleanse the ulcers of the kidneyes and bladder. Syrupe of maiden haire, of roses, taken in the quantity of ℥i. with hydromel, or barly water: Asses or Goats milke are also much commen∣ded in this affect, because they cleanse the ulcers by their ferous or whayish portion, and agglutinate by their cheeselike. They must bee taken warme from the dugge, with honey of roses or a little salt, lest they corrupt in the stomacke; and that to the quantity of foure ounces, drinking or eating nothing presently upon it. The fol∣lowing Trochisces are also good for the same purpose. ℞. quatuor sem. frigid. major. * 1.6 seminis papaveris albi, portulac. plantag. cydon, myrtil, gum. tragacanth. et arub. pinear.

glycyrrhi. mund. hordei mund. mucag. psilii, amygdal. dulcium, an. ℥i. boli armen. san∣guin. dracon. spodii, rosar. mastich. terra, sigil. myrrhae, an. ℥ii. cum oxymelite, confician∣tur secundum artem trochisci. Let the patient take ʒss. dissolved in whay, ptisan, bar∣ly water, and the like; they may also be profitably dissolved in plantaine water, and injected into the bladder. Let the patient abstaine from wine, and instead thereof let him use barly water, or hydromel, or a ptisan made of an ounce of raisins of the * 1.7 sun, stoned and boyled in five pints of faire water, in an earthen pipkin well leaded, or in a glasse, untill one pinte be consumed, adding thereto of liquorice scraped and beaten ℥i. of the cold seeds likewise beaten two drams. Let it, after it hath boyled a little more, be strayned through an hypocras bagge, with a quarterne of sugar, and two drams of choice cinamon added thereto, and so let it be kept for usuall drinke.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Scopes of cu∣ring.
• * 1.2

  To what sup∣pression of the urine diureticks must not be u∣sed.
• * 1.3

  To which and when to be u∣sed.
• * 1.4

  A diureticke water.
• * 1.5

  Why the use of diuretickes is better after bathing. To cleanse the ulcers of the kidneyes and bladder.
• * 1.6

  Trochisces to heale the ulcers of the kidneies.
• * 1.7

  Drinke in stead of wine.