as for the order of the Complications CHAP. XXIII Of Medicines to prevent the Stone for avoiding of the Stone and of Medicaments for dressing those that are cut THough we promised to enquire into the Medicines that may prevent the Stone we must however confess that it is very difficult and perhaps impossible to determine precisely wherein they do consist because the most learned in natural Discoveries speak only in general of the Figures of Bodies and Microscopes have not been able to make known the particular Nature of every one nor yet of all their Pores Possibly we might succeed without observing all these Particularities for though Enquiries into Nature were pursued to that very point yet still there would be causes that did not depend on us and which might form the Stone the Bigness Figure Number and Motion of the Particles of Bodies of which we are composed and of those which serve us for Food are no ways in our power though these things be sufficient to produce in us the Maladies that we fear if the Secretions and Excretions be not performed according to the Course of Nature That we may reap Benefit from the Miseries of others it is to be considered that they who are most subject to the Gravel or Stone live after such a manner as may be avoided or at least corrected by other means and seeing we have spoken of fenny and marshy Places gross and thick Air calculous Food muddy Waters and of the Excesses that may much debilitate the Parts of the Body they are carefully to be avoided using moderately those things that are for our Nourishment following Exercises suitably to our strength without affecting too much Niceness and Delicacy It were better to use a little too much than not enough because Life consists in Action and men love themselves too well not to repose and take their Rest if we be not guilty of Excesses the Parts of our Body continue in good Health ready to resist all attacks Though few things contribute more to the forming of the Stone in the Bladder than continuing long without making of Water yet we must not at first give Diureticks but only gentle Purgatives to empty the Intestines and adjoyning Parts of that kind are Manna Cassia Catholicum duplex Lenitive Electuary Diaprunum simplex a day or two after Turpentine prepared in this fashion may be given in drink Take an Ounce or Six Drachms of the best Turpentine unwashed dissolve it in a Mortar with a little of the yelk of an Egg then add to it two or three ounces of the Water of Winter-Cherries Smallage Pelletory of the Wall or of some other Liquor according to the Nature of the Disease and the state of the Patient Stir all together that it may be exactly mixed and become of so white a Colour that it looks like Cream or coagulated Milk Bever C. XI of the Stone of the Kidneys and Bladder The Bath gives ease to those that are troubled with the Stone and contributes much to the bringing away of little stones that stop in the Kidneys and Bladder The use of the following Ptisanne or Barley-water is very good against the same Distempers It is made with an Ounce of Linseed and the Roots of Mallows and Marshmallows of each two Ounces put into five quarts of water boyled away to four into three Ounces of this Ptisanne may be dropped four or five Drops of the Spirit of Sulphur and it may be made stronger by augmenting the Dose of the Ingredients in the same quantity of water It is approved of for making one void Water mitigating Pain and bringing away Stones The two following Receipts were given me by Monsieur Jonnot the first of which he told me hath often to his Experience been successful in easing Nephritick Pains and those who are subject to void small Stones and that the second never failed him provided the Stone be of a Bigness fit to come out of the Pelvis or Bason of the Kidneys The first Medicine is to be taken in the Spring and Fall every Morning for three days together Take six Ounces of the Water of Pelletory of the Wall an Ounce of the Oyl of sweet Almonds and an Ounce and a Half of the Syrup of Limons in case of necessity it is taken at any time For the second Remedy the Patient must be once or twice blooded and twice purged with two or three Drachms of Sena infused overnight in the Decoction of Dogs-grass Roots of Marsh-mallows and a little bundle of Flax to the Colature of which must be added an Ounce of cleaned Cassia for every Dose The day after he is to make use of the following Limonade and is to continue it three days successively in the waning of the Moon fasting three or four Hours after Take of Argentine or Wild Tansey Water Lentils and Cresses of each one Handful let them boil half a quarter of an hour in a quart of water when it is taken off the Fire add to it the Juice and Rind of three or four Limons let all infuse together for the Space of four Hours then strain it and add thereunto three Ounces of the Powder of Sugar-Candy and twenty Grains of the Spirit of Salt Keep it for the Use aforesaid The Garden-flags or blew Flower-de-luce that grows upon Walls infused cold into what quantity one pleases of White-wine and an Ounce of the Infusion taken for the first time by Children of ten or twelve Years of Age brings away the Stone The Dose is to be increased or diminished according to the Age of the Patient and its Operation giving always too little rather than too much for fear of drawing the Stones in too great abundance towards the Sphincter of the Bladder which would cause a suppression of Urine One may renew it two or three days after and Purge by the Advice of a Physician The use of White-wine Raddish-water and Wine made of the Fruit of Eglantine or Sweet Briar taken now and then is good Paracelsus in the end of the Preface to his second Treatise of his great Chirurgery prescribes for remedying the suppression of Urine the use of the stones that are found in the Heads of Crabs beat into a subtil Powder drank in the Juice or Water of Raddishes and if the Patients do not thereby make water to make a little bag of Saffron and lay it upon the Kidneys or the Belly towards the passage of the Ureters and upon the Perinaeum Or to make a Powder of dried Acorns and give it to be drank in the Water or Juice of Raddishes in what quantity the Physician shall judge fit The two following Medicines are approved of for bringing away of Sand and small Stones In the wain of the Moon the Patient being Purged let him take in the Morning the bigness of a Nut of fresh Butter and swallow it down like a Pill then let him take a four Limon and squeeze out the Juice of it into four Ounces of White-wine
let him drink that Potion a quarter of an hour after that he hath swallowed the Butter This may be reiterated two or three days after according to its effect and then Purge again For the same effect take a little white Onion cut it into small pieces infuse them over Night upon hot Embers in four Ounces of White-wine and strain it having taken the same quantity of fresh Butter in the manner above directed a quarter of an hour after drink of this Infusion it is more violent than the former The Butter is taken first that the Stomack may not be stung or too much pricked by the Wine the Limon-juice or the Onion And it is to be observed that if the Patient should but once take a greater quantity than these Doses prescribed instead of giving ease it would expose him to a suppression again because these Medicines are very Diuretick and carry rapidly along with them what they meet with in their way They say that Jet hath so much Vertue that it is enough to hang it about the Arm or to carry it in ones Pocket to obtain ease of Nephritick pains and to bring away the Gravel and Stone The cold infusion of Nephritick Wood is Excellent put what quantity of that Wood you please into water to which it will give a Tincture take of it two Glasses in the Morning and one at Night or at any other hour of the day if the Stomack be empty this Medicine asswages the pain and brings away Sand. Pareus Book 17. Chap. 37. describes the following Broth and says that he hath by Experience found it to be of marvellous Essicacy for hindring the forming and confirming of the Stone Take a Cock and a Knuckle of Veal boyl them in water with a handful of Barley Parsley-Roots Sorrel Fennel Sichory Butchers-broom of each an Ounce the four cold Seeds bruised of each half an Ounce towards the end add Sorrel leaves Purslain Lettice Mallowtops and March Violets of each half a handful and then keep the Broth of which the Patient for four Mornings together fasting shall take about half a Pint with a little of the Juice of a Limon making it boyl one turn over the fire every time before it be taken you will quickly see says he a wonderful Operation and it is a Medicamental Aliment In the same place he gives the Receipt of a rare Powder against the Stone â„ž Nucleorum mespil Unc. 1. Pul. elect Diatrag. frigidi Dracn 2. Quatuor seminum frig majorum mundatorum glycyrisae rasae ana drac 1. Sem. Saxif dr 2. Seminum milii solis genistae pimpinellae brusci asparagi ana Scrup. 1. Seminis Altheae dr 1. semis Sacchari albissimi Vnc. 6. fiat pulvis This Powder is to be taken the first days of the New Moon and First Quarter of the Full Moon and Last Quarter and so for all the Months after to the quantity of a Spoonful in the Morning three hours before eating For the same Effect he prescribes the following Powder â„ž Coriand praep scrup 4. Anisi Marathri granor Alkekengi Milii solis ana drach 2. Zinzib Cinnamomi ana scrup 2. Turbith Elect. drach 1. Carvi scrup 2. Galang Nucis moschatae lapid Judaici ana scrup 1. Foliorum Senae mundatorum ad duplum omnium Diagredii dr 2. Semiss misce fiat pulvis Dosis erit ad drach 1. Cum vino albo Capiat ager tribus horis ante prandium Glysters for asswaging Nephritick pains are to be made of the Decoction of Lettice Scariole Purslain the Flowers of Violets and Nenuphur Melilot Camomile Dill the leaves of Mallows Marsh-mallows Bran and Linseed and in the Colature is to be dissolved cleaned Cassia a little Sugar yolks of Eggs and Turpentine which is a Soveraign Remedy Beverovicius speaks of a great many Medicines but seeing he may be consulted we shall here wave the Description of them and speak only of Medicines that are used after the Operation and for Remedying the Symptoms They have nothing that is particular but that they ought to be more moistning and humectant than for the other parts Every Chirurgeon makes his Astringent Powders and other Medicines to resist Putrifaction and breeding of new Flesh Sometimes the Rumps of Pullets are dryed with a little Rock Allom Calcined and scraped Lint or else there is added to it the Powder of Burnt Lead malaxated with a very little Diapalma or de minio A very good Epulotick is made with an Ounce of Pompholix half an Ounce of the Plaister de minio two Drams of Rock Allom Calcined all incorporate together In like manner a very good Desiccative may be made of Bole Armoniack and the Litharge of Gold of each an Ounce the Salt of Saturn and Crollius his Medicamental Stone of each a Dram all being reduced into a Powder they are to be made into an Unguent with a sufficient quantity of the Oyl of Roses To remove the Callosity of Fistula's one may make use of the Powder which is found at the bottom of Sphagedenick Water You may take what quantity you please of that Powder let it dry in the shade and then grind it upon Porphyry-stone or Marble add thereto a little Water in which Gum Arabick hath been dissolved and make it up into long and small Trochisks of divers shapes A more violent and efficacious Catheretick for the same purpose may be made of equal parts of Corrosive Sublimate and Rock Allom Calcined a little Opium and Saffron all must be pounded together and to give it a Body add as much Gummed water as is necessary and make it into Trochisks according to Art We ought not to forget the Description of the Liniment of Arceus which in Dressing serves for a Digestive Thus it is doscribed â„ž Gummi Elemni terebinthinae abietinae ana Vnc. 1. Sem. saevi castrati antiqui liquefacti Vnc. 2. Pinguedinis Porcinae Vnc. 1. Misce ad ignem Linimentum facito Arceus in his first Book of the good Method of Curing Diseases says that this Medicine is of so great Vertue that with half an Ounce of it one may Cure the greatest Wounds provided no Accident supervene sometimes they add to it as much of the Oyl of St. Johns-wort as is thought convenient according to the intention that is had in using it Pareus gives the Description of the Oyl of Eggs pag. 752. Take the Yolks of hard Eggs rub them betwixt your Hands and fry them in a Frying-pan over a gentle fire stir them with a spoon until they become red or tauny and the Oyl come from them then put them into a Hair-cloath and press out the Oyl as that of Almonds and keep it for Use Here we may subjoyn the Description of Harts-horn Jelly which is Excellent against the Looseness that happens to those that are cut of the Stone it is made of two Ounces of the shavings of Harts-horn and as much of Ivory which are to be boyled in a quart
of Water untill the Juice of them be Extracted Then the Decoction is to be strained through a Cloath and the Colature clarified with the white of an Egg adding thereto a little of the Juice of Limon white Sugar and Cinnamon the Colature is to be set over the fire again and when it begins to boyl a white scum will rise then a little White-wine is to be put into it to settle the scum and a little after when the scum rises again some more White-wine is to be put into it the Humidity is to be let evaporate until one perceive that the Liquor becomes Glewy then it is to be taken off and quickly strained through a clean Linnen Cloath and put into Vessels to be kept for Occasion A spoonful or two of it is now and then to be given to the Patient to stop his Looseness FINIS Some Books Printed for William Cademan at the Popes Head in the Lower-walk of the New-Exchange in the Strand Folio AN Institution of General History or the History of the World By William Howel L. L. D. in Two Volumes Historical Collections or an Exact Account of the Proceedings of the Parliaments in Queen Elizabeth's Reign A Journey into Greece by George Wheeler Esq in Company of Dr. Spon of Lyons In Six Books Containing 1. A Voyage from Venice to Constantinople 2. An Account of Constantinople and the Adjacent Places 3. A Voyage through the Lesser Asia 4. A Voyage from Zant through several Parts of Greece to Athens 5. An Account of Athens 6. Several Journeys from Athens into Attica Corinth Boeotia c. With variety of Sculptures Pharamond Compleat in English an Excellent Romance Clelia a Romance in English Parthenissa Compleat in English An Historical Heroick Poem on the Life of the Right Honourable Thomas Earl of Ossory with his Picture neatly engraven on a Copper-Plate Written by Elkanah Settle A Protestant Plot no Paradox or Phanaticks under that Name Plotting against the King and Government The English Jeroboam or the Protestant Reforming Magistrate and what the Church of England may expect from such a one Considerations Offered to all the Corporations of England containing Seasonable Advice to them in their Future Elections of Burgesses to serve in Parliament Quarto An Historical Relation of the First Discovery of the Isle of Madera The Protestant Religion is a Sure Foundation c. By the Right Honourable Charles Earl of Derby The Jesuits Policy to Suppress Monarchy By a Person of Honour A Warning Piece for the Unruly in Two Visitation Sermons by Seth Bushel D. D. The Great Efficacy and Necessity of Good Example especially in the Clergy in a Visitation Sermon at Guilford by Thomas Duncomb D. D. A Sermon Preached before the King by Miles Barn Chaplain in Ordinary to His Majesty A Sermon Preached at the Assizes at Lancaster by Henry Piggot B. D. Praise and Adoration a Sermon on Trinity Sunday before the Vniversity at Oxford 1681. by Thomas Manningham M. A. late Fellow of New-Colledge in Oxford A New-years-gift for the Anti-prerogative Men or a Lawyers Opinion in Defence of His Majesties Power-Royal of Granting Pardons as he pleases wherein is more particularly discussed the Validity of the Earl of Danby's Pardon Octavo The Spanish History or the Differences that happened in the Court of Spain between Don John of Austria and Cardinal Nitard with all the Letters and Politick Discourses relating to those Affairs Rapin's Reflexions on Ancient and Modern Philosophy The English Princess or the Dutchess Queen a pleasant Novel Court Songs and Poems being an exact Collection The Temple of Death with other Poems By a Person of Honour Hogan Moganides or the Dutch Hudibras Liquor Alchahest or the Immortal Dissolvent of Paracelsus and Helmont c. A Philosophical Essay or the History of Petrification by Dr. Sherly Gulielmus Ferrarius de bello Batavico Westminster Quibbles very Pleasant Zaide or the Spanish History a Pleasant Romance Memoirs of the Dutchess of Mazarine Anima Mundi an Historical Narration of the Opinion of the Ancients concerning Mans Soul after this Life according to unenlightened Nature Clarks Manual a Book of Presidents Saunders his Astrological Physick A Copy of the Two Journal Books of the House of Commons in which is the whole History of the late horrid Popish Plot. The Wits Paraphras'd or Paraphrase upon Paraphrase In a Burlesque on the late several Translations of Ovid's Epistles Two Discourses the First shewing how the Chief Criterions of Philosophical Truth invented by Speculative Men more eminently serve Divine Revelation than either Philosophy or Natural Religion The Second manifesting how all the Foundations of the Intellectual World viz. Reason Morality Civil Government and Religion have been undermined by Popish Doctrines and Policies By Thomas Manningham M. A. Fellow of New-Colledge in Oxford and Rector of East Tysted in Hantshire Machiavel Redivivus being an Exact Discovery or Narrative of the Principles and Politicks of our Bejesuited Modern Phanaticks The Present State of Geneva with a brief Description of that City and the several Changes and Alterations it hath been subject to from the First Foundation thereof Amarillis to Tityrus being the First Heroick Harangue of the Excellent Pen of Monsieur Scudery a Witty and Pleasant Novel Englished by a Person of Honour Twelves The Amours of the Count Du Noy a Witty Novel The Penitent Hermit or the Fruits of Jealousie a Novel The English Monsieur a Comical Novel History of the Pallas Royal or the Amours of the French King and Mademoiselle de la Valiere The Amours of Madam and the Count de Guiche The Novels of Queen Elzabeth in Two Parts