Physico-Medical Treatise on the Thorough Cure of Tartar, Gravel, and Sand

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How, when
the subtle
and spiritual
Vehiculum carrier/medium
departs from the
human
body /
and leaves
the earthy
stone
powder
behind?

of the human / either in Rhenish or other
good wine / Malvasia / or pure brandy
(on account of the penetrating subtlety / to lead the medicine ad locum affectum to the affected location) or
also / of herbs / fruits and
seeds appropriated against grit / sand and stone (to expel and drive them out) / distilled waters / either mixed with them straight away / or left to stand in an infusione infusion / for a long or short time / before being administered / WHERE
ALSO OTHERWISE NOTHING ELSE
WANTS TO HEAL / are to be used most profitably.

Now it is indeed certainly the case that not
only Curationes Tartari, mucilaginisvè tartareæ Cures of Tartar, or of tartaric slime, of the
earthy, solidified, coarse, viscous slime or salted
liqvoris liquid/humor, from which (when the same is coagulirt coagulated or hardened)
STONE becomes; grit / sand and stone of the
kidneys / and (however difficult it seems to be in humans /
Yet with GOD nothing is impossible Matth:
19. v. 26. Mark: 10. v. 28. Luke: 1. v. 37.) of the bladder / but
alongside this also others of the nearly countless morborum
tartareorum fixorum fixed tartaric diseases, That is / from tartaro tartar, which is generated from both
viscous coarse and also thin slime mixed with earthy impurity /
as with a terra maledicta & damnata cursed and damned earth / sometimes also very
sharply salted slime / or water and fluxes / or opens itself;
from this arise long-lasting constant
diseases / such as Ischiadis sciatica/hip-pain, hip and loin