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Credit: The lesser writings of John Arderne / by D'Arcy Power. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![remedy: ' R Blak sope & stere it strongly in a boxe & after putte it in the schale of a walnote & leye it uppone the navele & bynde it wele therto & it schalle make a manne pysse lyghtly & anon in almanere of with- holdynge of uryne & this the seyde M. W. provyd of a kynge & ii bys- schoppys by-yende the see. Nota that this medicine schalbe made warme whane it is putte uppone the syke.' The symptoms of stone in the bladder are given graphically and clearly from observation, and they are dis- tinguished from stone in the kidney. The treatment of calculi impacted in the urethra. A stone impacted in the urethra ' causeth the pacient to suffre ryght grete peyne & intolerable i.e. unsuf- ferable sorowe. To the weche avayleth hyghly Siringa, that is to seye ane instrument that schalbe made of sylvere or of latone in the manere as it is here fygured (a straight rod like a probe with a knob at either end). & it may be made alwey in every good toune of Craftymene that maken pynnys for wommens hedys, or at the Goldsmythes & it behoveth to be lenger thane it is here fyguryd but not gretter. With this instrument thou mayest putte awey the stone in the bladdere & the sorowe schall anone cese & the uryne schall come oute. Many oone have I so holpen . . . I have seye yonge mene & olde in the weche the stonys have bene as grete as a bene that have ben entryd into the yerde, that myghte nether come out by the yze (eye) of the yerde, ne be putte a-bakke ayene, but alwey abydeth in the myddyll of the yerde by the weche mene I curyd lyghtly & sone with cuttynge in this manere. Ffurste I tooke the pacient & leyd hyme grovelynge & thanne I bonde the yerde one bothe sydys of the stone with lynnene swathelys so that the stone myghte nowher flee awey and with a litell cuttynge uppone the stone with a launcette or with a rasour I hadde out the stone & after that I sowyd the utter skyne uppone the hole with ane nedle & threde & thane I leyde therone a strictorye of the whyte of ane eye (egg) medlyd with smal whete mele. And aftir the furste puttynge anon there-after I putte uppone the wounde of the poudir of Sangdragone [the resin of Calamus draco. It'was used as an astringent] & of boly [Bolus armeniacus, a yellow earth containing oxide of iron] with cotone, & uppone thys poudre I wrappyd the yerde with smale lynnen clothes that were wele usyd & small, the weche were furste anoyntyd in the forseyd stryctorye & so I lete it be in thees by the space of iii dayes. And at another mevynge (dressing) I loosyd the thredys & the bondys & with the forseyde poudir that I leyde therone ayene & with ungucntum album or arabicum withinne xv dayes I curyd it pcrfytly. And lete hyme not be aferde though the uryne come not outc in iii or iiii da)^es for he schalbe curyd wele ynough pro certo.' Strangury. The next chapter deals with the treatment of strangury and incontinence of urine, and in this connexion he quotes the linos of Egidius, beginning: 'Ex vitio jecoris trahitur minatura cruoris,' &c, and ending, ' Et sanguis purus manat foment a daturas.' The quotation is interesting because the Hunterian Library at Glasgow contains a com- mentary on this poem which is attributed to Arderne. 1 have had the manuscript copied. Its contents are uninteresting and not at all in the style of Ardernc's other writings. Hcematuria. A treatise on hematuria follows in which a sudden](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21463724_0012.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
