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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18092	The hammer for the stone so named, for that it sheweth the most excellent remedie that euer was knowne for the same. Latelie deuised by Walter Carie Maister of Art, and student in physicke.	Cary, Walter.	1580 (1580)	STC 4733; ESTC S118340	6,429	24

THE Hammer for the stone So named for that it sheweth the most excellent remedie that euer was knowne for the same Latelie deuised by Walter Carie Maister of Art and student in Physicke ¶ Imprinted at London by Henrie Denham dwelling in Pater noster Row at the signe of the Starre 1580. To the Reader COnsidering with my selfe gentle reader how common a disease the stone is and how little helpe the parties grieued haue by the vsvall means of Physicians in this our time and of long time haue had and also hearing it diuerse times obiected that the most learned Physician can neither preuent the stone in those who naturallie are inclined thervnto neither cure it in those in whom it is ingendered I did endeuor my selfe with all studie and diligence to find out somthing which might far excell the remedies now dailie vsed for the cure of the stone VVherevpon taking mine inuention from Etius who vsed very much the powder of Goats bloud for cure of the same also being further persuaded therevnto by authoritie of diuerse writing of the nature of goats bloud I did with my great charge attempt to draw a pure and cleare liquor out of the bloud of the male goat which with the patience of the Physicians I will be bold to call a Quintessence And hauing made experience therof now two yeares and better with diuerse I thought good to publish the same to the reliefe of many which are grieued with that disease and that in such sort as it shall appeare vnto the world that I rather seeke herein to benefite my Countrie than anie priuate gaine to my selfe For whereas no man troubled with that disease can haue the helpe of the Physician without his great charge I haue deuised that meane that anie man so diseased may haue such ease with verie small charge as I dare boldlie auouch cannot be had by anie vsuall meanes But for the commendation hereof I leaue it rather to be commended by the helpe and ease of those who feele the passions of that most terrible disease than vse anie long Rhetoricall persuasions knowing that good wine needs no garland that the fairest garland can be no long credite to sowre wine But for better performance of my promise I thinke it verie necessarie to signifie vnto such as are inclined to the stone and to those that are alreadie troubled with the same First the causes of the stone and whereof it is ingendered Secondlie the difference of stones ingendered in mans bodie Thirdlie the vsuall way both to preuent and cure the stone And fourthlie the way or meane now late deuised for preuenting and curing of the same VVherin being somwhat instructed they shalbe the better able to gouerne themselues in auoiding and curing the disease as not needing the Physicians continuall counsell but being Physicians to themselues Yet I would not haue anie man think that I mind to make any long or curious discourse of the stone touching all the deepest pointes of the same as endeuoring to make the Readers perfect Physicians herein but onelie to shewe them a superficiall knowledge sufficient to direct them in the taking of my Quintessence both for the preuenting and curing of the stone And thus gentle Reader haue I diuided that wherof I mind to write into foure partes wherein I will not endeuor my selfe to speake whatsoeuer may conuenientlie be spoken but rather to speake nothing that maie conuenientlie be left out W. C. The Author to those that are vexed with the stone in verse as followeth THy siluer gold thy precious stone Thy mucke thy worldlie wealth Nought helpeth now thy grieuous grone No ease it giues no health Now dost thou lie Amidst thy friends a prisoner A péece of pining claie Thy hope for want of hearts desire Doth faile and vade awaie Thou seek'st to die Thy friends eie tears thy hart drops blood Thy lims and ioints do quake Thy stomach vomits that is good whose force makes bedsted shake An endlesse wo. Thy dolefull life to thée is death And death were life to thée For paine doth cease with thy last breath But life heapes miserie Come death why so what what sends God a maladie and not a meane for ease No Physicke good no remedie This raging griefe t'appease Though Physicke faile Behold a faithfull friend vnknowne To do his Countrie good will ease this griefe and heauie grone with water of Goates blood Then do not quaile Though dredfull death an action brought This Goat thy baile will be And though the cause be slilie wrought The verdict goes with thée Lift vp thy hart His harme thy hope his wo thy wealth His heart receiues the knife He yéeldes his bloud to bring thée health His death shall be thy life And end thy smart Lo thus the Authour gréetes thée well Thy friend without desart He craues but thanks and so doth sell A salue for wounded hart He séekes good will giues ease of paine Good wordes for ware an easie gaine Vale. The causes of the stone and how it is ingendered in mans bodie The first Chapter IT is not vnknown vnto such as haue bestowed any time in the studie of physicke that as well the old as new writers with one consent do all agrée that there are two causes of the stone the one materiall the other formall The materiall cause is an earthlie grosse thicke and slimie humour the formall cause is the heate of mans bodie digesting or baking the said humour vntill it be hard which then remaineth in the nature of a stone This will I make more manifest vnto you by a familiar example Claie of it selfe is an earthlie and slimie substance which I will compare vnto the humour whereof the stone is ingendered Also the fire I will compare vnto the heate of mans bodie whereby you may sée how the stone is ingendered For this claie being baked in the fire is made a stone and looseth his nature of claie Here also I thinke it good to note that nature requireth alwaies a fit matter to worke vpon For one onelie action of nature at one time worketh diuerse and verie contrarie effectes which happeneth bicause of the contrarietie of the matters whervpon she worketh and not by anie diuersitie of hir action For as by fire claie is made a stone so chalke being a stone by fire is conuerted into powder And as claie by fire is made a fast and firme substance which before was soft and easie to be dissolued in water so chalke being before a fast and sound lumpe is by the same fire made fit to be dissolued in water because of the discontinuitie or separation of his parts Whereby you may gather that this slimie humour being in mans bodie hath a nature verie apt to be turned into a stone which otherwise by so small heate could hardlie be And therefore I would wish euerie man to haue a speciall care in refusing meats and other things which are apt to bréede the stone