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I Haue (according to my promise) brieflie spoken of the two causes of the stone. Now with like bre∣uitie I will speake of the difference of stones ingendered in mans bodie, which I find by experience to differ in * 1.1 place, colour, forme, quantitie, and hardnesse.
As touching the first, there are two
vsuall places where the stone is in∣gendered, the kidnies, and the blad∣der. Unto the stone of the kidnies, the middle aged, and they that somewhat decline, are most subiect. And these stones of the kidnies are also of two sorts. For they are either ingendered in the hollowe vessels of the kidnies: or in the substance or flechie parts.
But vnto the stone of the bladder, children are most inclined: which hap∣peneth, for that all children (for the most part) first eate often, before that which they eate before be digested. Next after they haue eaten, they vse violent exercise, & motion of their bo∣dies continuallie, wherby they force a thicker & more grosse iuice or nutri∣ment, from the stomach into the body, than nature requireth: and that grosse substance settling in the bottome of the bladder, by the temperate heate of the childe, is conuerted into a stone. As in the making of the artificiall wines, if you let them passe through the strainer gentlie, of their owne ac∣cord,
they come cleare: but if hastilie you force them by wringing, they come thicke, and being settled, will be full of grounds in the bottome.
Secondlie for colour, there are some stones white, some blacke, others yel∣lowe, some red, some ash colour, and some mixt of diuerse colours. Which diuersitie happeneth chieflie by diffe∣rence of the matter wherof the stones were ingendered: and somewhat by digestion of the stones, either by smal∣ler or greater heat, with either longer or shorter time.
The third difference of stones, is in forme or fashion. For some are round, as a ball: some like an egge, some like a pease, some like a barlie corne: some sharpe, some piked, and of diuerse and sundrie other formes, whereof I néede not speake.
The fourth difference is in quan∣titie. For the stone differeth in quan∣titie, from the bignesse of a pins head, or lesse, vnto the quantitie of an egge, or greater. And the smaller sort of
stones, are (for the most part) ingen∣dered in the kidnies, and that either in the hollowe vessels of the kidnies, as I said before: which being but small, the stone cannot excéed the big∣nesse thereof, and therefore must bée small also. Or else in the substance or fleshie parts of the kidnies, here and there dispersed, which also are neuer found to be great. But the greater sort of stones are alwaies ingendered in the bladder, for that the vessell be∣ing great, will also admit the genera∣tion of a great stone.
The fift difference is in hardnesse. For there are some (as I haue often séene) which are scant congealed or baked, so that one may breake them to grit with his finger & his thumbe. Others somewhat harder, and not easie to be broken. And others so hard as they will not easilie yéeld to the Hammer. The stone that breaketh gentlie, is (for the most part) red or yellowe. The middle sort is of diuerse colours. The hardest, white.
Fiue spe∣ciall diffe∣rences of the stone.