The skilful physician containing directions for the preservation of a healthful condition, and approved remedies for all diseases and infirmities (outward or inward) incident to the body of man ... whereunto is added experimented instructions for the compounding of perfumes, also for the chusing and ordering of all kinds of wines, both in preserving the sound, and rectifying those that are prick'd : never before imparted to publick view.

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The skilful physician containing directions for the preservation of a healthful condition, and approved remedies for all diseases and infirmities (outward or inward) incident to the body of man ... whereunto is added experimented instructions for the compounding of perfumes, also for the chusing and ordering of all kinds of wines, both in preserving the sound, and rectifying those that are prick'd : never before imparted to publick view.
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Bahia (Brazil : State). Secretaria das Minas e Energia. Diretoria de Distribuição.
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London :: Printed by Tho. Maxey for Nath. Ekins ...,
1656.
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Medicine -- Early works to 1800.
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"The skilful physician containing directions for the preservation of a healthful condition, and approved remedies for all diseases and infirmities (outward or inward) incident to the body of man ... whereunto is added experimented instructions for the compounding of perfumes, also for the chusing and ordering of all kinds of wines, both in preserving the sound, and rectifying those that are prick'd : never before imparted to publick view." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A35865.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 16, 2024.

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For the Stone in the Kidneyes.

There is great pain in the raines of the back, which draweth downwards; stir∣ring encreaseth the pain, they are much inclined to vomiting, the body is bound, Urine raw and watrish, often provoking to pisse, but not without pain, the U∣rine avoids with gravel, sand and slime, yea sometimes mixt with blood.

To know it from the Chollick, first its not so sharp as the paine of the Chol∣lick.

Secondly, The Chollick doth appear beneath on the right side, and stretcheth from thence upwards towards the left side, but the pain of the Kidneyes begins above, and stretcheth downwards, and a little more towards the back.

Thirdly, the pain is most of the Kid∣neyes fasting, the Chollick otherwise. All Saxifrage and other things good for the Stone, are good for the Kidnies,

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but not for the Chollick.

Lastly, there is found in the Urine gravel or sand, and not in the Cholick or pain of the guts.

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