Various ironic and serious discourses on the subject of physick / [Anon].

  • De Coetlogon, Dennis, -1749
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1749
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    pecially where Nature is weak) that the faid Humour or fome Part thereof has by fuch means been changed, or been complicated with a cDrop[yy when the Patient was be¬ come greatly weakened. So on curing Stone and Gravel, as by the Ufe of Mrs, Stephens s Medicine, they have foon there¬ after died of Aflhma, which feems thus to be accounted for s that by fuch an exceffive Ufe of the like lubricating, diluting and diuretic Medicines, the common urinary Palfages have been thus fo dilated and wi¬ dened, as that this famzglaryyfiz,y Humour daily renewed in Old Age by Aliment, as well as lefs Exercife, it readily then flops or falls on fome other weak and narrow Farts and Faff ages, by which the Patient is brought to his final Exit. Now whether he might ftill have lived longer with that Malady, where Nature firft chofe to place fuch Humour, and by the Ufe of gentle Means ( only for Relief) there lies the Queilion.* Neverthelefs, it is but too plain, that Mankind feekfor the prefent Curey and are fill highly delighted with all daring Means, and particularly with all that fa¬ vours of Nofirum> or fuch like Methods of Practice. The famous Feminine FraSlice for the Stone and Gravel, that fo very noted Me¬ dicine of Mrs. Stephens, fo memorably fought