Calculos terit, teste Avicenna, cinis putaminum ovorum a quibus exclusi sunt pulli. Constantinus membranam interiorem nimirum ventriculi cum vino potam non frangere solum lapides scribit sed per urinam etiam eijcere. Nam nonnulli etiam, ut refert Alexander Benedictus inter calculi remedia eam membranam celebrant. Sed et ante Plinii tempora hac facultate pollere credebatur, ut diserte ipse testatur, inquiens[1]. Membrana<m> e ventriculo Gallinacei aridam, vel, si recens sit, tostam utiliter contra calculos bibi traditur. Fieri quidem potest, ut aliqui huic membranae vim calculos dissolvendi inesse sibi persuaserint ex eo quod Gallinae etiam lapillos concoquere vulgo credantur, ut Dioscorides[2] etiam credidit. Ego quia experientiam huius effectus hactenus nullam audivi, nec rationem aliquam, qua id effici possit video, {assertionem} <assensionem>[3] meam adhuc cohibeo. Alex. Benedictus inter calculorum remedia a recentioribus authoribus ovorum testas celebrari scribit: et Plinius[4] ex aliorum relatu calculos ovi candido pelli prodidit. Qui in vesicae dolore semunciam amyli cum ovo, et passi{s} tribus ovis (ea nimirum passi mensura, quantam tres ovorum testae caperent) suffervefacta<m> a balneo probat. Sed Dioscorides in vesicae rosionibus ovum {acrochilaron} <acrochliaron>[5], hoc est, leviter calefactum, sorptumque prodesse tradidit, et renum exulcerationibus, tanquam privatim de albumine: videtur tamen de toto ovo sorbili recte eadem vis praedicari posse.

As Avicenna testifies, ash of eggshells from which chicks are hatched is breaking the stones into fragments. Constantinus Africanus writes that the inner membrane, of gizzard of course, drunk with wine not only breaks up the stones but also causes them to pass out by urination. For, as Alessandro Benedetti reports, some praise also such a membrane among the remedies for stones. But even before the times of Pliny it was believed to excel for this property, as he clearly testifies in saying: They hand down that the dried membrane of a chicken’s gizzard is successfully drunk against stones, or roasted if fresh. In truth it can be that some people have come to believe that in this membrane is laying the property of dissolving stones since by common people the hens are thought able in digesting even pebbles, as Dioscorides also believed. Because until now I have not heard of any experience about this power nor I can see any reason why this can take place, for the moment I put the brakes on my agreement. Alessandro Benedetti writes that by more recent authors the eggshells are praised among remedies for stones: and Pliny, basing himself on what by others has been reported, handed down that stones are expelled by egg white. The latter praises a half-ounce [around 14 g] of starch with one egg and three eggs of raisin wine (obviously that amount of raisin wine which three eggshells could contain) nearly boiled in a bain-marie. But Dioscorides handed down that in case of bladder’s burning and of harsh kidneys’ pains an egg acrochlíaron is helpful, that is cooled, and sucked, as if it were specifically the albumen: nevertheless it seems that after due consideration the same effectiveness can be praised about the whole sucking egg.

Sunt qui guttur Gallinae combustum ieiuno in tepida <aqua> potum incontinentiae urinae mederi affirmant. Galenus[6] vero ad sistendam {exuperantiam} <exuberantiam> mictionis[7] hoc recenset remedium. Accipe pelliculas, quae sunt in ventre Gallinarum, ex quibus in Sole siccatis drachmam miscebis cum thure masculo, glande sicca, balaustiis, galla ana 3 iii. Trita omnia melle rosato excipies, et ex frigida propinabis ieiuno. Et rursum[8] ad involuntarium mictum in stratis: Galli guttur ustum lingulae mensura ieiuno ex aqua propinato. Et rursus[9]: Gallinae gulam pariter cum gutture ure, et tere diligentissime, ac ex vino vetere propina. Idem remedium Rasis e crista Gallinae[10] promittit, inquiens: Cristam Gallinae aridam da in cibo ei, qui mingit in lecto, nescienti, curabitur.

Some are affirming that burned hen’s crop drunk on empty stomach in lukewarm water recovers from urine incontinence. In truth to stop excessive urination Galen reports this remedy. Take the membranes of hens’ gizzard and after you dried them in the sun mix a drachma [3.41 g] of them with three drachms each of better incense, dry acorn, pomegranate flowers and gallnut. After all these ingredients have been crushed you will put them in rosy honey and give them on empty stomach in cold water. And moreover against involuntary bed wetting: give in water on empty stomach a spoon of burned rooster crop. And again: burn the throat jointly with the crop of a hen, and mince very carefully, and give with old wine. Razi assures the same remedy with a hen’s comb saying: Give as food to a without knowing bed-wetter the dried comb of a hen, and he will recover.

Galenus[11] rursum ad involuntarium urinae exitum in stratis, Galli testem unum edendum apponi iubet. Quod si vere lotium cum ardore exeat, eiusmodi ardores ova ex aceto decocta mirifice sanant. Sin urina elicienda est, ex ovo recente interiora nempe album, et vitellum effundas, et testam digitis in calicem vinum continentem confriato, et mox pariter ebibito, urina statim sequetur. Ornithologus[12] ex quodam obscuro. Sunt qui ad hoc remedium testa ovi, ex quo pullus exclusus sit utantur. Suidas[13] adversus dysuriam eiusmodi carmen recitat{;}<:>

Gallus bibit, et non mingit, myxus[14] <non> bibit, et mingit.

Newly Galen against involuntary bed wetting prescribes to give a rooster’s testicle to be eaten. But if urine comes out giving burning, overcooked eggs in vinegar cure such burning in an extraordinary way. If on the contrary it is necessary to provoke that urine comes forth, pour out the content of a fresh egg, that is, white and yolk, and with fingers crumble the shell in a goblet containing wine and gulp down at once, and instantly the urine will gush out. The Ornithologist says this by drawing the information from an unknown author. <And he adds>: There are some that to make this remedy use the shell of an egg from which a chick hatched. The lexicon Suidas reports the following magic formula against the retention of urine:

The rooster drinks and doesn’t urinate, the lamprey - that is, the penis of the donkey - doesn't drink and urinates.

Sed huiusmodi cantilenae credere, quod nimirum contra eiusmodi malum valeat, superstitiosum est. Quare in eodem affectu Nicolaum Florentinum sequere, qui mirifice commendat corticem ovi, e quo pullus exclusus est, cuius a pellicula sua repurgati drachmam propinat. Quod remedium summum esse Gattinaria[15] proprio experimento refert: siquidem cum nobili cuidam faeminae id exhibuisset, duodecim vitrea (vasa) urina plena reiecisse asserit. Alii simpliciter testam ovi e vino propinant. Eosdem cortices, a quibus pullus exierit, et eodem pondere Leonellus cum aqua saxifragae bibi consulit ad provocandam urinam. Idem remedium bestiis etiam, et pecoribus prodesse reperio. Ornithologus autem in Germanico quodam codice manuscripto invenit ventriculi Gallinaceorum membranam[16] utiliter bibi contra stranguriam.

But it is superstitious to believe such a litany as effective against that illness. Hence in the same illness you have to follow Nicolaus Florentinus - alias Niccolò Falcucci, who exceedingly recommends the shell of an egg from which a chick hatched, and he gives one drachma [3.41 g] of it after has been cleaned from membranes. According to his own experiment Marco Gattinara reports that such a remedy is the maximum one: since he affirms that having given it to a noble lady, she sent out twelve glass containers (pots) brimful of urine. Others simply give eggshell with wine. Leonello Vittori thinks that these eggshells from which the chick came out and the same weight are to be drunk with saxifrage's water for provoking the urine to come out. I find written that the same remedy is also useful for animals and livestock. But the Ornithologist in a German manuscript codex has found that the membrane of chicken's gizzard is successfully drunk against strangury – to urinate drop by drop.

Si ramex in scrotum descenderit, sunt qui locum cinere e testis ovorum f{a}eliciter illini velint, mixto cum vino. Sic enim intestina in locum suum redire: ex quodam obscuro[17]. Anum (habet autem extalem[18]) nimis prominentem reprimit vitellus Gallinaceus, teste Marcello, si <coctus> integer ab ipso aegro illic calidus <assidue> contineatur. Et Plinius[19] ad cohibendas alvos lutea ovorum per se in aceto cocta, donec indurescant, iterumque cum trito pipere torreri tradit.

If a hernia went down in the scrotum, some are thinking that the area is successfully smeared with ash from eggshells mixed with wine. For in this way the bowel goes back to its place: the information comes from an unknown author. As Marcellus Empiricus testifies the hen’s egg yolk makes a too much prominent anus to retrogress (but he says rectum bowel) if, cooked intact, it is tenaciously held there warm by the patient himself. And Pliny to hold back the diarrhoea reports that egg yolks are useful if cooked in vinegar alone until they became hard and then to toast them with crushed pepper.

Et quamvis Avicenna inter caetera ova praecipue Passerum venerem promovere dicat, Rasis tamen aliique Gallinae, et Perdicum ova semen augere aiunt, et ad coitum homines stimulare. Gallinacei dexter testis, ut Plinius[20] author est, arietina pelle adalligatus, venerem concitat. Et alibi, Magi, inquit, tradunt inhiberi venerem pugnatoris Galli testiculis Anserino adipe illitis, adalligatisque pelle arietina. Item cuiuscunque Gallinacei si cum sanguine Gallinacei lecto subijciantur. Sed hic locus utpote superiori, ac ipsi vero contrarius ex Sexto ita corriges. Galli testiculi cum adipe Anserino in arietis pelle brachio suspensi concubitum excitant: suppositi lecto cum ipsius sanguine efficiunt ne concumba<n>t, qui iacent: At et postremum illud, nempe quod sanguis Gallinaceus concubitum inhibeat, ut Plinius, et Sextus volunt, vel proprietati cuidam occultae ascribendum est, vel alioquin negandum.

And although Avicenna among other things is saying that sparrows’ eggs chiefly stir up the libido, however Razi and others say that hen’s and partridges’ eggs increase the semen’s amount and excite human beings to coition. The right testicle of a rooster, as Pliny reports, bound up with the skin of a ram stirs up the libido. And in the following paragraph he says: The magi report that sexuality is inhibited by testicles of a fighting rooster smeared with goose fat and bound up with ram skin. The same is happening with those of whatever rooster if they are placed under the bed with the rooster's blood. But since this passage clashes with the previous one, you have to correct it according to Sextus Placitus Papyriensis as follows: Rooster testicles hung to an arm in a ram skin with goose fat stir up copulation: placed under the bed jointly with their blood they cause those are lying there to don’t fuck. But also that last thing, that is, that rooster's blood inhibits coition, as Pliny and Sextus are thinking, has to be ascribed either to some hidden power, or must be otherwise denied.