Propositiones de lithiasi tōn nephrōn

Very strong ones, however, are by no means to be given or continued, Galen, On the Preservation of Health, book 6, chapter 11, ordering this so that by chance we do not increase the hot intemperance of the kidneys.

LVII.
We will use attenuants (especially in the obese, who have narrower veins) and incisives without great heat, as Galen teaches, book 5, On the Faculties of Simple Medicines, chapter 12.

LIX.
Furthermore, tepid water can be conveniently offered before eating. For this renders the kidneys empty of excrement and corrects their intemperance.

LIX.
If a cold intemperance of the stomach or a hot intemperance of the liver is present, or any other sunaitios co-cause/contributing cause, the contrary intemperances are to be induced, and other things that foster the disease must first be diligently and cautiously removed.

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Prophylaxis Preventative medicine.

LX.
Prophylaxis will consist mostly in four things. For in the right instituted administration of the non-natural things in general, we will studiously avoid everything that can increase the material of the stone or the heat of the kidneys, such as thick, salty, and hot foods.

LXI.
We will lead the generated thick humors to the intestines with purgatives, lest by chance they be carried to the kidneys.

LXII.
If the same perchance stick in the kidneys, we will expel them with diuretics, lest in the progress of time they turn to stone in them. Where there is an abundance of blood, it must be evacuated through repeated bloodletting.