CHAP. XXXVII. What cure is to be used when we fear the Stone.
DIet must first be appointed, which by the convenient use of the six things not natural (as they term them) may heap up small store of gross,* 1.1 tough and viscid humors in our bodies. Therefore cold and cloudie air is to be shunned. They must abstain from fish, beef, pork, water-foul, puls, chees, milk-meats, fried and hard eggs, rice, cakes and all pastrie, unleavened bread, and lastly, all manner of obstruct∣ing meats. Also garlick, onions, leeks, mustard, spices, and lastly, all things which over-heat the blood and humors must be shunned, especially if you fear that the stone is concrete by the heat of the reins. Standing and muddy waters, thick and troubled wines, beer, and such kind of liquors must be eschewed. Satiety in meats and drinks is to be shunned, as that which breeds crudities. Also long watching and continual la∣bor because they inflame the blood, cause crudities and preternatural heat, must careful∣ly be eschewed, as also more vehement passions of the minde. If the body be plethorick, then it must be evacuated by phlebotomie, purging and vomiting, which is accounted for a singular remedie for the prevention of this disease. For the performance of all which things a Physitian shall be consulted with. But because Physitians are not in every place and alwaies at hand, I have thought good to set down these following medicins; yet we must first remember this counsel of Galen; the use of diureticks, and strong purging medi∣cines is hurtfull,* 1.2 as often as there is inflammation in the reins and bladder, for so the conflux of the humors to the affected parts is the greater, whence the inflammation and pain are increased.
Wherefore first useing relaxing medicines, as six drams of Cassia newly drawn, with ℈iv. of Rubarb in powder mixed therewith, then lenitive and refrigerating medicins shall be inwardly and outwardly used, such as is this following syrrupe. ℞. summitatum malv. bismal. & violar. an. m. ss. rad. alth. ℥ j. glycyr. ℥ ss. 4. sem. frigid. major. an. ℥i. fiat decoctio.* 1.3 ℞. praedict. decoctionis lb ss. in colatur à dissolve sacc. albiss. ℥ii. mellis albi ℥i ss. fiat syrupus secund. ar∣tem; let the patient use this often. This following apozeme is also very effectual for the same purpose. ℞. rad aspar. gramin. polyp. quercini•• passul mund. an. ℥ ss. betonic. herniar. aegri••••••. omnium capill. & pimpinel. an. m. ss. 4. sem. frigid. major. & sem. foenic. an. ʒi. folior. ser. ʒvi. fiat de∣coct. ad lb. ss. in colatur â dissolve syrupi de Althaea & de herniar. an. ℥i ss.* 1.4 Make a clear apozeme and let it be aromatized with a little cinnamon, for two doses; let him take the first dosis in the morning two hours before meat, and the other at four of the clock in the afternoon. Moreover this following broth hath an excellent and certain power to prevent the stone ℞. hordei integr. p. i. radic▪ petroselini,* 1.5 acetos. foenic. cichor. brusci an ʒi. 4 sem. frigidorum conquassato∣rum an ℥ ss. fol. acetos. portul. lactucae, summitatum malvae, & violar an. m. ss. hulliant in aqua flu∣viatili cum gallo gallinaceo & crure vitulino; let the broth be kept, and let the patient take thereof six ounces for four daies; in the morning two hours before meat, with an ounce of the juice of Citrons gently warmed with the same broth at the taking thereof: for thus, much urine will be made in a short while after, full of a sandy sediment and a gross viscid humor. Whereby you may certainly gather, that this kinde of broth is very effectual to cleans the passages of the urine, neither in the interim, doth it any harm to the stomack and other parts by which it passeth: so that it may be rightly termed a medicinal nourishment. You may also profitably use this following powder. ℞. nucleorum mespilarum ℥i. pul. elect. diamarg. frig. ʒii. 4. sem frig. majorum mund. glycyrhizae razae,* 1.6 ʒi. sem. saxifrag. ss ʒii sem. milii s••lis. genisi. pimpin brusci & asparag an. ℈i. sem altheae, ʒ. ss. sacch. albiss. ℥vi. fiat pulvis; let him take a spoon∣ful in the morning three hours before meat.* 1.7 Also some think that lee made of the stalks and husks of beans is a good preservative against this disease. Besides the use of this following glyster hath done good to many. ℞. fol. lactuc. scari••l. portul. an. m. i. flor. viol. & nenuph. an. p. i. fiat decoctic. ad. lib. i. in colaturâ dissolve cassie fistulae ℥i. mellis viol. & sacc. rub. an. ℥i ss olei viol. ℥iiii fiat clyster. This which followeth is the fitter to asswage the pain. ℞. flor. cham. melil. summitat. aneth. berul an▪ p. ii. fiat decoctio in lacte vaccino; in colaturâ dissolve cassiae fi∣stul. & saccar. alb. an. ℥i vitelios ovorum num. ii. olei anethini, & chamaem. an. ʒii fiat clyster. In the interim let the kidnies be anointed on the outside with unguentum rosatum, refrigerans Galen and populeon used severally, or mixed together, laying a double linnen cloth dipped in oxy∣crate.* 1.8 But if rhe concretion of the stone be of a cold cause, the remedies must be varied, as follows: ℞. terebeinth venet. ʒi. cort. citri. ʒii. aquae coct. ʒii. fiat potio. Or else, ℞. cassiae recent. extract. ʒ vi. benedict. lax. ʒiii. aq. faenic. ℥ii. aq. asparag. ℥i. fiat potio; let him take it three hours before dinner: this following apozeme is also good. ℞. rad. cepet. bardan. & gram. an. ʒiii. bis∣mal, cum toto, beton. an m. ss sem milii solis bard. utrio. an. ʒii. sem melon. glycyrhiz. ras. an. ʒii ss. fi∣cus num. 4. fiat decoct. ad quart. iii in expressà collaturà, dissolve sirup. de raphan. & oxymelitis sci∣litici