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A18089	A briefe treatise published by Walter Cary 1587, and now the fift time 1609. newly imprinted ; wherein are to be found diuers good and speciall helpes for many diseases ; and for any thing herein mentioned, as heretofore I referred the patientes to M. Gray, so now (he being dead) I referre them to M. Clapham ...	Cary, Walter.	1609 (1609)	STC 4731.7; ESTC S1221	32,591	94

and cleanseth the Body of such corrupt humours as gather therein from time to time It is a very good preseruatiue against the Plague and may be taken from the quantitie of halfe a pint or better at one time vnto the quantitie of a quarter of a pint or lesse it is good to fast one houre after it and to vse it onely in the morning which being obserued I restraine you from no further libertie Maister Clapham the Apothecarie hath direction for the making hereof The 3. Chapter OUr Fathers long since were wont to vse a very sleight kind of Bathing Now and then they boyled Hearbes in water and therewith did bath and rubbe their bodyes towardes bed which now is greatly neglected It is a farre greater meane to preserue our health then that we should so lightly esteeme thereof For it taketh away such corruption as Nature casteth out by the pores which otherwise would happily cause Scabs Itches or such like and keepeth the body sweete from all rancke sauors of sweate Wherefore I prescribe one generall Bath in this sort and to that effect Take Rosemarie Balme Isop and Mallowes of each two handfuls boile these in foure gallons of Spring water vntill there be a third part consumed then straine and put thereto one gallon of new Milke bathe your body herewith warme by the fire● side two or three houres after supper It is very good to vse it foure times in the yeare at the least and in the Sommer once or twice euery month The 4. Chapter AFter your Bathing rub your body very dry with a Linnen cloth and presently vpon annoint it ouer very lightly with this Oyntment yet vse no more but that you may easily dry in Take Balme greene in the beginning of Iune or in May when you shall find it in chiefest strength and chop it very small take further very sweete Oyle and the fact of a Bucke killed in the chiefe of Sommer or that which is better the fatte of a Stagge in equall quantitie let these stand in a very gentle heate together eight or tenne houres then straine and keepe the Oyntment in some clea●e vessell It keepeth the Ioyntes souple making the Sinewes nimble and plain● also it cureth the drinesse of the Skinne They which vse it after Bathing as before shall find themselues the stronger and more lustie For it defendeth the body from coldnesse of the ayre and thereupon auoydeth Aches of the Ioyntes and Sinewes FINIS The Hammer for the Stone So named for that it sheweth the most excellent remedie that euer was knowne for the same Imprinted at London by W. White for the companie of Stationers 1609. 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 vsuall meanes in this our time and of long time haue had and also hearing it diuers times obiected that the most learned Physitiā can neither preuent the Stone in those who naturally are inclined thervnto neither cure it in those in whom it is ingendred I did indeauour my selfe with all studie and diligence to finde out some speciall thing which might farre excell the remedies now daily vsed for the cure of that grieuous disease Whereupon taking mine inuention frō Etius who vsed very much the powder of Goates blood for cure of the same also being further perswaded thereunto by authoritie of diuers writing of the nature of Goates blood I did draw a pure cleere liquor out of the blood of the male Goate which I haue thought good to name the Quintessence for the Stone And hauing made experience thereof now two yeares and better with diuers I thought good to publish the same to the reliefe of many which are grieued with that infirmitie and that in such sort as it shal appeare vnto the world that I rather seeke herein to benefit my Country then any priuate gaine to my selfe For wheras no man troubled with that disease can haue the helpe of the Physitian without his great charge I haue deuised that meane that any man so diseased may haue such ease with very small charge as I dare boldly auouch can not be had by any vsuall meanes But● for the commendation hereof I leaue it rather to be commended by the helpe ease of those who feare feele the passions of that most terrible disease then vse any long rethorical perswasiōs knowing that the good Wine needeth no Garland and that the fairest Garland can be no long credit to sower Wine And now that this my Quintessence may take the better effect I thinke it very necessarie to signifie vnto such as are inclined to the Stone and to those that are already troubled with the same First the causes of the Stone and whereof it is ingendered Secondly the difference of Stones ingendred in mans body Thirdly the vsuall way both to preuent cure the Stone And fourthly the way or meane now late deuised for preuenting and curing of the same Wherein being somewhat instructed they shall be the better able to gouerne themselues in auoyding and curing the disease as not needing the Physitians continuall counsell but being Physitians to themselues Yet I would not haue any man think that I minde to make any long or curious discourse of the Stone touching all the deepest poynts of the same as indeauouring to make the readers perfect Physitians herein but onely to shew them a superficiall knowledge sufficient to direct them in the taking of my Quintessence And thus gentle Reader haue I deuided that whereof I minde to write into foure partes wherein I will not indeuour my selfe to speake whatsoeuer may conueniently be spokē but rather to speake nothing that may conueniently be le●t out W. C. The Author to those that are vexed with the Stone in verse as followeth 1 THy Siluer Gold thy pretious Stone Thy Mucke thy worldly wealth Nought helpeth now thy greeuous grone No ease it giues to Health Now doest thou lie 2 Amidst thy friendes a prisoner a peece of pining Clay Thy hope for want of heartes desire Doth fayle and vade away Thou seek'st to die 3 Thy friends eye-teares thy hearts drops blood Thy limmes and ioyntes doe quake Thy stomach vomites that is good Whose force makes bedstead shake An endlesse woe 4 Thy dolefull life is but a death And death were life to thee For paine deth cease with thy last breath But life heapes miserie Come death why so 5 What what sendes God a maladie And not a meane for ease No Physicke good No remedie This raging griefe t' appease Though Physicke faile 6 Behold a faythfull friend vnknowne To doe his Countrie good Will ease this griefe and heauie grone With water of Goates blood Then doe not quaile 7 Though dreadfull Death an actien brought This Goate thy bale will bee And though the cause be slily wrought The verdict goes with thee Lift vp thy heart 8 His harme thy hope his woe thy wealth His heart

receiues the knife He yeeldes his blood to bring thee health His death shall be thy life And end thy smart Loe thus the Author greetes thee well Thy friend without desart He craues but thankes and so doth sell A salue for wounded heart He seekes good will giues ease of paine Good wordes for ware an easie gaine Vale. The causes of the Stone and how it is ingendred in mans body The first Chapter IT is not vnknowne vnto such as haue bestowed any time in the studie of Physicke that as well the old as the new Writers with one consent agree that there are two causes of the Stone the one materiall the other formall The materiall cause is an earthy grosse thicke and slimie humour the formall cause is the heate of mans body digesting or baking the sayd humour vntill it be hard which then remayneth in the nature of a Stone this will I make more manifest to you by a familiar example Clay of it selfe is an earthy and slimie substance which I will compare vnto the humor whereof the Stone is ingendered Also the Fire I wil compare vnto the heat of mans body whereby you may see how the Stone in ingendred For this Clay being baked in the Fire is made a Stone and looseth his nature of Clay Here also I thinke it good to note that Nature requireth alway a fit matter to worke vpon For one onely action of Nature at one time worketh diuers and very contrary effects which happeneth because of contrarietie of the matters wherevpon she worketh and not by any diuersity of her action For as by Fire Clay is made a Stone so Chalke being a Stone by Fire is conuerted into powder And as Clay by Fire is made a cast 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 fit to be dissolued in Water because of the discontinuitie or separation of his partes Whereby you may gather that this slimie humour being in mans body hath a nature very apt to be turned into a Stone and yeeldeth it selfe to the speedie generation thereof wherevnto it is naturally inclined which otherwise by so small heate could hardly bee And therefore I would wish euery man to haue a speciall care in refusing Mea●es and other things which are apt to breed the Stone and in vsing the contrary which hereafter in place conuenient touching the preuenting of the Stone I will not omit The difference of Stones ingendred in mans body The second Chapter I Haue according to my promise briefly spoken of two causes of the Stone Now with like breuitie I will speake of the difference of Stones ingendred in mans body which I find by experience to differ in place colour forme quantitie and hardnesse 1 As touching the first there are two vsuall places where the Stone is ingendered the Kidnies and the Bladder Unto the stone of the Kidnies the middle-aged and they that somewhat decline are most subiect And these Stones of the Kidnies are also of two sortes For they are either ingendred in the hollow vessels of the Kidnies or in the substance or fleshie partes But vnto the Stone of the Bladder Children are most inclined which hapneth for that all Children for the most part first eate often ere that which they eate before be digested Next after they haue eaten they vse violent exercise and motion of their bodyes continually whereby they force a thicker and more grosse iuice or nutriment from the stomach into the body then Nature requireth and that grosse substaunce setling in the bottome of the Bladder by the temperate heate of the child is conuerted into a Stone As in the making of the artificiall Wmes if you let them passe through the strayner gently of their owne accord they come cleare but if hastily you force them by wringing they come thicke and being setled will be full of Groundes in the bottome 2 Secondly for colour there are some Stones white some blacke others yellow some red some of ash-colour some mixt of diuers colours Which diuersitie happeneth chiefly by difference of the matter whereof the Stones were ingendred and somewhat by digestion of the Stones either by smaller or greater heat with either longer or shorter time 3 The third difference of Stones is in forme or fashion For some are round as a Ball some like an Egge some like a Pease some like a Barlie corne some sharpe some piked of diuers sundry other formes wherof I need not to speake 4 The fourth difference is in quantitie for the Stone differeth in quantitie from the bignesse of a pins head or lesse vnto the quantitie of an Egge or greater And the smaller sort of Stones are for the most part ingendred in the Kidnies and that either in the hollow vessels of the Kidnies as I sayd before which being but small the Stone cannot exceed the bignesse thereof and therefore must be small also Or else in the substaunce or fleshie partes of the Kidnies here and there dispearsed which also are seldome found to be great But the greater sort of Stones are alwayes ingendered in the Bladder for that the vessels being great will also admit the generation of a great Stone 5 The fift difference is in hardnesse For there are some as I haue often seene scant congealed or baked so that one may breake them to grite with this finger his thumbe Others somewhat harder and not easie to be broken And others so hard as they will not easily yeeld to the Hammer The Stone that breaketh gently is for the most part red or yellow The middle sort is of diuers colours The hardest white There is also a mixt kind of Stone compact of hard stones lightly knit togeather by soft Grauell and this kind is most dangerous and painefull in voyding The vsuall way how to preuent and cure the Stone The third Chapter IN the two former Chapters I haue briefely touched the matter whereof the Stone is ingendered and the difference of Stones Now I will shew the vsuall meanes both to preuent and cure the Stone which amongst the Physitians of our time are now dayly practised The Stone in those who onely feare the Disease and are not yet troubled therewith is preuented by two speciall meanes The one is by abstinence from Meates and thinges which are apt to breed the Stone Which are of 2. sortes also For either they breede in the body of a fitte matter easie to be conuerted into a Stone as Ueale Pigge Lambe Ling Greene-fish Eeles Cheese Milke and generally all very grosse slimie sweete and fatte Meates Or else they cause an vnnaturall heate in the Body and inflame the Kidnies and other partes as heating the Backe at the Fire lying much vpon the Backe also great vse of Pepper Ginger and other Spices or any thing of like nature The other by purging that humour which being in the body is not yet