CHAP. XV. Of the Voiding of earthy Bodies.
THe earthy Bodies that grow in Man, are Sand or Mud, Stones hard and soft, and they are preternatural, as also their Voiding. They come from divers parts of the Body which shall be mentioned, from some often from o∣ther parts seldom, or very rarely.
Many piss Sand or Gravel, * 1.1 with and without another Disease.
Also Stones are pissed forth forcibly, and this follows the pain in the Kidneys in the Cure of which these were mentio∣ned. Somtimes Blood or stoppage of U∣rin went afore, or burning of Urin, or slimy Matter: As was shewed in those Excretions. Somtimes there is a muddy white matter with the Urin with signs of the stone in the Bladder. * 1.2 There is often in the Corners of the Eyes and in the Eye-brows a sandie, rough Mat∣ter, brittle and yellow, which sticks to the Hair in the night, when the Eyes are shut, so that the Eyes are hard to be closed: as we shewed in the Diseases of the Eyes.
Somtimes a stone as big as a pease hath been blown out at the Nose, * 1.3 white and brittle, which we keep in the trea∣sury of our Physical Rarities.
Not only I, * 1.4 but others have known stones to be hawked forth with a cough some white, some brittle, and hard, round, long, or broad, equal, and unequal. And a great difficulty of breathing hath gone before, in which Disease as was shewed, Stones are oftner kept then voided. I keep by me some such that were voided by a comely wid∣dow, that was marryed to one in a Consumption, that in∣fected her: Of which I spake, she voided them with great pain and coughing.
Somtimes other Stones have come from the Mouth, * 1.5 as from a swelling un∣der the Tongue, called the Frog, or from a swelling in the Jawes.
I keep at home a stone that was voi∣ded by stool; and another that came forth of a Horse that dunged.
A famous Physitian of our time, * 1.6 saith publickly in writing, and told me that a Woman was delivered of a Child hard as a Stone.
Somtimes they grow in the Pores of the skin, and are taken out, * 1.7 as in the Face: I keep one by me that was taken out of the Sole of the Foot.
One had a little Stone taken out of the white of his Eye with a Needle, * 1.8 and he brought it to me.
There are often scales which co∣ver the Teeth, * 1.9 and they are chiefly a∣bout the Roots.
As we shewed in the Gout, * 1.10 stones are often taken out of the Nodes thereof.
Stones are cut out of the Bladder by a Wound made in the Perinae∣um. * 1.11
From a Wound in the Groyne, * 1.12 when a fleshy Rupture was cut, which turned into a Fistula, there came, as I shewed Sand and Stones with the Urin a long time.
VVe shewed in the Pain of the Reins from the Stone that Sand and Gravel and Stones came from a earthy Matter and Flegm, especially that which is mixed with water fastned in dry parts. And when other earthy Mat∣ter is gathered and fixed in certain Excrements or parts, it may do the same, because we find by Experience that wood and bones out of the Body may be turned to stones, and such are found in the Body. And we shall now shew how they breed in divers parts of the Body.
As we shewed in the Causes of the Stone, * 1.13 there comes sand and stones by urin from the Kidneys, ra∣ther then other parts, and they are from an earthy Matter fastned to them. And they fall from thence into the Bladder by the Ureters, and if they stay there, as great stones do, and in∣crease by the earthy part of the urin, * 1.14 there is the stone of the Bladder. If they go farther, they are pissed forth: Otherwise they must be cut forth. Which we shewed was done by chance, from a wound in the Groine.
VVe shewed in Diseases of the Li∣ver, that Gravel might grow there, * 1.15 by reason of the Serum that pierced into the Vessels, from which it might pass with the Urin to the Reins, and so to the Bladder, but stones cannot pass that way.
Also Gravel is bred in the Eyes, * 1.16 from water that continually moist∣neth them: Or it is brought thither with tears, if they be hot and sharp, or