RENAL AND BILIARY CALCULI.—HUMAN BILE.
Calculi were used in the treatment of calculary troubles and in childbirth.—(Pliny, lib. xxvii. cap. 9. See also Galen.)
Prescribed for stone in the bladder or kidneys by Beckherius.—(“Med. Microcosmus,” pp. 167-170.)
Flemming advocates the same use of them.—(“De Remediis,” p. 23.)
“A man’s stone, drunk fasting, is most powerful of any to break the stone and expel it with the urine.”—(“The Poor Man’s Physician,” Moncrief, p. 131.)
Flemming also used biliary calculi in the cure of yellow jaundice.—(“De Remediis,” p. 14.)
Human bile was used internally in epilepsy, and externally in deafness and ulcerations of the ear.—(Idem.)