Theses hasce de renum vesicaeque calculo

Moreover, among both simple and compound medicines, those are most suitable which can perform this without excessive heat. Nevertheless, those that are manifestly hot are also of no small benefit.

Topical remedies applied externally are not to be neglected, such as oils, ointments, poultices, and baths, of which there is a vast sea among the authors.

An established bladder stone growing to an excessive size must be removed by surgery, which Paul has described best of all in chapter 60 of his Surgery.

Sometimes symptoms cause more trouble for the physician than the disease itself, so that not infrequently the true cure must be suspended for a time.

For he who seeks after method too stubbornly in all things for the most part destroys the man along with the disease.

Moreover, since the pain in this condition is most violent, its relief indicates medicines that mitigate, relax, and soften the pain, some of which are taken internally, while others are applied externally to the kidneys.

Taken by mouth are Philonium, fresh theriac with wine, likewise powders, and certain narcotic electuaries.

Applied externally are oils such as of chamomile and dill, and the ointment of dialthaea. Fomentations of mallow, chamomile, melilot, fenugreek seed, and linseed: after these, the use of cupping glasses (if there be need) must not be neglected.

If the kidneys are excessively hot, a thin plate of lead should be applied to the loins and to the kidneys themselves.

Roughness, erosion, and ulceration, if any has occurred in the kidneys and urinary passages, are treated with ass's milk with sugar, diatragacanth, and likewise with distilled waters of chicory and endive, and sweet almond oil.