Propositiones de lithiasi tōn nephrōn

XLII.
Passions of the mind should be moderate: yet anger is allowed by some.

XLIII.
The bowels should be lubricated and respond daily, and where they have failed, they should be promoted by art.

XLIV.
With natural things thus constituted, one must proceed to evacuation: which will be completed by bloodletting, unless there is something that prevents it, and this is so that inflammation is not excited on account of pain, or that it is not increased if it has already occurred. Hippocrates, On Diseases, book 6, comm. 1, text 5; Aetius, book 11, chapter 5.

XLV.
Some cut the vein of the elbow, as Aetius does in the cited place: others rather cut the ham popliteal vein or the ankles, as Hippocrates does, On Diseases, book 6.

XLVI.
Galen reconciles these diverse opinions in his book On the Diagnosis and Cure of Affections of the Kidneys when he says that for those with strong forces, the vein of the ham or the ankles should be opened; for those who are weak, the vein of the elbow.

XLVII.
We, in incipient and forming inflammation, will cut the vein of the elbow, but in established inflammation, rather the ham, with Galen, On the Method of Curing through Phlebotomy, chapter 18.

XLIX.
If bloodletting is prevented on account of languid strength, then in its place, scarified cupping glasses are to be applied to the lower parts.

XLIX.
They are sometimes applied for the sake of drawing out a stone stuck in the kidneys, but without scarification: first above the kidney, so that some agitation is made, then descending more and more, following