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

One should, however, on the advice of the physicians, ensure that grit, sand, and stone are not bred.

Yes / far / far more / than (about which a relation was given in the beginning) with the raw / merely poorly crushed / and strained through a coarse hair sieve; or powdered through a delicate cloth / like flour; or on a grinding stone; Item / through frequent rinsing with water / turned into subtle pulveres powders / stones; which / although they have been made as subtle as possible in this way / are nevertheless heavy, undissolved corporeal atomi terrestres terrestrial atoms / earthly little bodies / because when they are divided and mixed in wine or water / by grinding or shaking / they strike down again and fall gradually to the ground. If now the well-thought-of Spagyric præparation preparation had not been applied or used with the stones / then one would have accomplished as little with them now / as before with those nudè pulverisatis ac crudis nakedly powdered and raw / merely poorly powdered and raw ones: And those can by no means be compared with these said spagyrically prepared stones / much less be preferred to them; ratio est the reason is / for the reason that it is to be feared / because they can be melted or dissolved neither in wine / water / or other liqvore liquid / nor by the natural warmth of man / or the powers of nature / as little in the patient's weak stomach / as otherwise in other parts of the body; They strike themselves here and there in the limbs of the body / and therefore Tartarum tartar / and stone increase or multiply much sooner and more / than they diminish: