Propositiones de lithiasi tōn nephrōn

XXXIV.
Whoever has nephritic issues is not cured after forty years of age. Nephritic pains and those that occur around the bladder are cured with difficulty in old men, and indeed they die with these sufferings. Hippocrates, Aphorisms, book 6, aphorism 6.

XXXV.
In whomever bubbles or blisters float on the urine, it signifies that there will be a nephritic and long sickness, book 7, aphorism 34.

XXXVI.
The cure is to be instituted by a certain method: diet, surgery, and medicines.

XXXVII.
Diet consists in the right administration of the six non-natural things.

XXXIIX.
Air, therefore, should not be thick, not cloudy, not rainy, but pure and temperate.

XXXIX.
Food should be of good juice, easy of digestion, and by no means thick or sticky, or salty. Drink should be thin, white wine: he should avoid stagnant and very cold waters. Hippocrates, On Diseases, book 6, comm. 3, text 15; Aetius, book 11, chapter 6.

XL.
Idleness is to be avoided: walking and moderate exercises are suitable, which are able to exercise the body according to the reason of the age, habit, and strength of the sick person. Hippocrates, On Diseases, book 6, comm. 1.

XLI.
Sleep should be induced, as far as can be done, a little longer than usual, on account of digestion, so that crudities indigestion are avoided.