The workes of that famous chirurgion Ambrose Parey translated out of Latin and compared with the French. by Tho: Johnson. Whereunto are added three tractates our of Adrianus Spigelius of the veines, arteries, & nerves, with large figures. Also a table of the bookes and chapters.

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

IN curing the suppression of the urine, the indication must be taken from the nature of the disease, and cause thereof, if it be yet present or not. But the diversitie of the parts,* 1.1 by which being hurt, the Ischuria happens, intimates the variety of medicines, neither must we pre∣sently run to diureticks, and things breaking the stone, which many Empericks do.* 1.2 For hence grievous and malign symptoms often arise, especially if this suppression proceed from an acrid humor, or blood pressed out by a bruise, immoderate venerie, and also more vehement exer∣cise, a hot and acrid potion, as of Cantharides, by too long abstaining from makeing water, by a Phlegmon, or ulcer of the urinarie parts. For thus the pain and inflammation are increased, whence follows a gangrene, and at length death. Wherefore attempt nothing in this case without the advice of a Physician, no not when you must come to Surgerie.* 1.3 For diureticks can scarce have place in another case, then when the urinarie passages are obstructed by gravel, or a gross and viscid humor, or else in some cold countrie, or in the application of Narcoticks to the loins, although we must not here use these before we have first made use of general medicines: now diu∣reticks may be administred sundrie waies, as hereafter shall appear.

℞. agrimon. urtic. parietar. surculos rubros habentis, an. m i. rad. asparag. mundat. ℥iiii. gran. alkekengi, ••n. ••x. sem. malvae ℥ ss. rad. acor. ℥i. bulliant omnia simul in sex libris aquae dulcis ad tertias, deinde coletur. Let the patient take ℥iiii. hereof with ℥i. of sugar candie, and drink it warm fasting in a morning, three hours before meat. Thirty or forty lvie-berries beaten in white wine, and given the pati∣ent to drink some two hours before meat, are good for the same purpose. Also ʒi. of nettle-seeds made into fine powder, and drunk in chicken-broth, is good for the same purpose. A decoction also of grummel, Goats-saxifrage, pellitory of the wall, white saxifrage, the roots of parslie, aspa∣ragus, acorus, bruscus, and ortis drunk in the quantity of some three or four ounces; is profitable al∣so for the same purpose. Yet this following water is commended above the rest to provoke urine, and open the passages thereof, from what cause soever the stopping thereof proceeds.* 1.4 ℞. rad. osmund regal. cyp. bismal. gram. petrosel. foenic. an ℥ii. raph. crassior. in taleol. ℥iiii. macerentur per noctem in aceto alb•• ace••••imo•• bulliant postea in aquae fluvialis lb. x saxifrag. crist. marin. rub. tinct. millii solis, summitat. malvae bismal an p. ii. berul. cicer. rub. an p. i. sem. melon, citrul an. ℥ii. ss. alkekengi, gra. xx. glycerhiz. ℥. i. bulliant om••ia simul ad tertias: in colaterâ infunde per noctem fol. ser. oriental. lb. ss. fiat iterum parva ebul∣litio-in expressione colatâ infunde cinam. elect. ʒ vi. colentur▪ iterum colatura injiciatur in alembicum vitre∣•••• postea tereb. venet. luc. lb. ii. aq. vitae ℥vi. agitentur omnia simul diligentissime. Lutetur alembicum luto sapientiae: fiat distillatio lento ignae in balneo mariae. Use it after the following manner: ℞. aq. stillati∣tiae prescriptae ℥ii. aut. iii. According to the operation which it shall perform, let the patient take it four hours before meat. Also radish-water distilled in balneo mariae is given in the quantity

of ℥iiii. with sugar, and that with good success. Baths and sem. cupia, or halt baths are artificially made,* 1.5 relax, soften, dilate, and open all the body; therefore the prescribed diureticks mixed wtih half a dram of treacle may be fitly given at the going forth of the bath. These medicines follow∣ing are judged fit to cleanse the ulcers of the kidnies and bladder. Syrup of maiden-hair, of ••o∣ses, taken in quantity of ℥i. with hydromel, or barlie-water: Asses or Goats-milk are also much commended in this affect, because they cleanse the ulcers by their serous or whayish portion, and agglutinate by their chees-life. They must be taken warm from the dug, with hony of roses or a little salt, least they corrupt in the stomach; and that to the quantity of four ounces, drink∣ing or eating nothing presently upon it. The following Trochises are also good for the same purpose.* 1.6 ℞. quatuor sem. frigid. major. seminis papaveris albi, portul••cae-plantag. cydon, myrtil. gum. tragacanth. & arab. pinear. glycyrrhi. mund. hordei mund. mucilag. psilii, amygdal. dulcium, an. ℥. i. b•••• armen. sanguin. dracon. spodii, rosar. mastich. terrae, sigil myrrhae, an. ℥ii. cum oxymelite, conficiantur secundum artem trochisci. Let the patient take ʒ ss. dissolved in whay, ptisan, barlie-water, and the like; they may also be profitably dissolved in plantain-water, and injected into the bladder. Let the patient abstain from wine, and instead thereof let him use barlie-water, or hydromel, or a ptisan made of an ounce of raisins of the Sun,* 1.7 stoned and boiled in five pints of fair water, in an earthen pipkin well leaded, or in a glass, untill one pint be consumed, adding thereto of liquorice scraped and beaten ℥i. of the cold seeds likewise beaten two drams. Let it, after it hath boiled a little more, be strained through an hypocras bag, with a quartern of sugar, and two drams of choice cinnamon added thereto, and so let it be kept for usual drink.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Scopes of cure-ring
• * 1.2

  To what sup∣pression of the urine diure∣ticks must not be used.
• * 1.3

  To which, and when to be used.
• * 1.4

  A diuretick water.
• * 1.5

  Why the use of diureticks is better after bathing.

  To cleanse the ulcers of the kidnies and bladder.
• * 1.6

  Trochisces to heal the ulcers of the kidnies
• * 1.7

  Drink instead of wine.