A Diuretic Oleose Draught.
Take French white (or Rhenish) Wine 4 ounces; Oil of sweet Almonds 1 ounce; Oil of Turpentine 20 drops; white Sugar half an ounces, mix.
It potently expels Urine and Gravel, and is most commodious, when the Reins, Ureters or Bladder are (not much inflam'd and hot, but yet) excoriated and ulcerated. As also in Fits of Gravel and Sand (but not of the Stone) where the Urine looks limpid of blackish, turbed or bloody, or where it is chylous or purulent.
Helmont, will by no means allow, that its in the power of Medicines to lubricate and relax the urinary Passages, because they would then do so first to the Stomach and Intestines; and so they do, I think, and therefore his Reasoning hath nothing in it.
Now there have been many odd Instances, to make one more than suspect, that tho' Anatomy hath not discovered any other way for the Urine, but through the Blood; yet there may be nearer cut from the Stomach and Intestines, by the convenience of which, Remedies may come entire, or but little alter'd, to the Reins and Ureters. Among many such, Hoechstetter, (dec.3. cas.4.) tells of one, that voided running Mercury with his Urine. And (to come to our very purpose) I my self was called to a Patient, where they shew'd me Oil of Almonds, which had been that day taken, and was brought off again by Urine. And when I doubted it might slip off the other way, the Party (who is one of great Veracity) assured me, and affirm'd positively, that there was no mistake, and that it came really and truly by way of Urine.
Thomas Fuller
Pharmacopeia Extemporanea 1710