1596 L. Keymis Relation 2nd Voy. Guiana sig. E3 To such as shall be willing to aduenture in search of them, I could propose some hope of gold mines, & certain assurance of peeces of made golde, of Spleen-stones, Kidney-stones, and others of better estimate.

1659 N. Culpeper & A. Cole tr. D. Sennert Thirteen Bks. Nat. Philos. v. iv. 151 Some few years since there hath been brought out of new Spain a Stone called Lapis Nephriticus, the Kidney-stone; which is justly counted as a kind of Jasper.

1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) III. 7 Jade..formerly possessed special repute for curing diseases of the kidneys, whence the mineralogical name nephrite.., and the popular name kidney-stone.

1923 D. A. Mackenzie Myths China & Japan (1994) xiii. 253 Among the Greeks jade was ‘the kidney stone’; it cured diseases of the kidneys.

2016 C. Jackson & J. Jackson Crystals Plain & Simple (new ed.) viii. 97 Nephrite has a number of names—axe stone, kidney stone, New Zealand greenstone, and Wyoming jade.

1662 W. Greenhill Expos. 19 Last Chapters Ezekiel (xxxvi. 26) 337 They could not change their own hearts, they were not able to get the stone out of them, nor the Prophets who were their spirituall Physitians: Kidney-stones, and Bladder-stones men may remove, heart-stones none can remove but God.

1738 D. Hartley 10 Cases Mrs. Stephens’s Med. for Stone 37 I digested a large Kidney-stone, Two Pieces that had been boiled in my alkaline Urine, and a round hard Stone in common Urine, which was a Mixture of different Urines.

1821 Medico-chirurg. Trans. 11 13 The kidney stones are some oxalate of lime, and others lithic acid.

1918 Surg. Clinics Chicago 2 455 Here, as in gall-stone disease, the trouble given by the presence of the kidney stone varies tremendously.

1992 Milwaukee Jrnl. c5/4 Despite feeling the effects of kidney stones, Jones attacked the Meadowbrook Country Club course like no other golfer in the field.

2022 Hartford Courant 10 Apr. iv. 9/4 Fortunately, effective strategies are available to prevent kidney stones.

1793 D. Ure Hist. Rutherglen v. 283 Nodules of iron-stone, irregularly shaped, are to be met with almost every where... They are known by different names, as Kidney-stone, Button-stone, &c. from their bearing a general resemblance to these bodies.

1851 Archæologia Cambrensis 2 293 A hollow space cleared out in the subjacent earth, and paved or pitched at the bottom with the round pebbles termed here ‘kidney stones’, in the old red sandstone; on these lay a skeleton at full length.

1861 H. W. Bristow Gloss. Mineral. Kidney-stones, a local name for small hard nodules..washed out of the cliffs on the north shore of Weymouth.

2003 D. McGrory Hist. Coventry iii. 95 The city gates would open with the ringing of the daybell at 5 a.m. and the streets, cobbled with kidney stones and river pebbles, would spring to life.