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fluviatilis putamina river-shell fragments, crab shells; concharum, limacum, ostrearum, & testudinum, testæ shells of mussels, snails, oysters, and tortoises; ovorum cortices ex quibus pulli exierint hatched chicken eggshells; lapillus duritiesve lapillo similis in apri jecore inventa the stone or hard substance like a stone, found in a wild boar's liver; Lapilli in bovis ventriculo mense Majo reperti the little stones that one finds in the stomach of an ox in the month of May; Lapillus, etiam in mense Majo in vesica fellis Tauri inventus the stone, which one also finds in the month of May in the gall bladder of a bull; Lapilli in callarię piscis, quem Belgæ Schelfisch vocant, capite reperti the little stones found in the head of the Dutch fish called haddock; Cerasorum & persicorum nuclei cherry and peach pits; Creta chalk; calx viva quicklime or bitter lime; Fex urinæ in matulis crusted tartar or urine stone in urinals; Tartarus vini wine tartar &c. and other such stones/ and earthy bodies more/ which all also under TARTAR properly and essentially are counted and belong; Since their materials or bodily substance and coagulations or hardnesses are TARTAREOUS, that is/ are not or are earthy.
Since, however, from manifold medical practice one has learned, observed and noticeably found, that in the cure of Tartar, grit / sand and stone &c. with the mentioned